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Tianyi Wang

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Beyond Coherence: Benchmarking Professional Editing-Technique Execution in Multi-Shot Audio-Video Generation

Recent multi-shot audio-video generators can produce increasingly coherent and cinematic outputs, but coherence does not imply the ability to execute editing techniques. Professional editing depends on shot structure, transition grammar, audio-video cut relations, and montage, yet existing benchmarks largely rely on proxies such as content quality, synchronization, or physical plausibility, systematically missing whether such editing instructions are actually executed. We introduce CutCraft, the first benchmark for editing-technique execution in multi-shot audio-video generation. CutCraft extends structured multi-shot prompts with explicit editing specifications and is paired with a hierarchical hybrid evaluation framework that combines shot-structure alignment, expert-model metrics, tool-grounded multimodal judgment, and rubric-based question answering. Beyond evaluation, we design an agentic editing baseline that decomposes generation into planning, shot-level synthesis, and post-hoc composition, explicitly realizing editing semantics such as J-cuts, L-cuts, and transition timing. Across 13 state-of-the-art closed- and open-source models, CutCraft reveals a consistent gap between coherence and editing-technique execution: current systems often produce plausible multi-shot videos yet fail to execute editorial instructions reliably. We find unstable shot structures, weak control of transition execution, and sharp degradation on higher-order montage, while aesthetic quality is only weakly correlated with editing-technique compliance. The benchmark and metrics, and the editing agent baseline are available at https://github.com/AlibabaResearch/cut-craft-bench.

cs.AI

RoboPhys-3D: A Comprehensive Embodied World Model Evaluation via 3D Reconstruction

Video world models increasingly serve as data engines, action planners, and simulators for embodied AI, but conventional embodied world model (EWM) benchmarks lack a unified 3D-grounded protocol for establishing whether generated rollouts preserve the underlying 3D scene state or translate into executable actions. We introduce RoboPhys-3D, a 3D-grounded EWM benchmark built on RoboTwin 2.0, covering 50 manipulation tasks across four regimes, with 5,000 episodes and 25,000 multi-view ground-truth videos. A defining feature of RoboPhys-3D is that generated and ground-truth videos are processed through the same 3D reconstruction pipeline, enabling reconstruction-induced error to be distinguished from generation-induced error. The RoboPhys-3D benchmark organizes 50 complementary metrics into 18 sub-dimensions across four levels: pixel-level fidelity, 3D geometry consistency, state-level understanding, and task-level completeness. We further introduce Average Full Score, a hierarchical score averaging all 50 metrics for comprehensive evaluation, and RoboPhyscore, a compact task-aligned score averaging the metrics most strongly correlated with task success. Among the four representative video world models, Cosmos 3 achieves the highest RoboPhyscore (0.6330, 92.7% of ground truth), while state- and execution-grounded metrics reveal substantial failures that perceptual and vision-language model-based judgments fail to capture. RoboPhyscore further exhibits strong agreement with human evaluation (Pearson r = 0.9761 and Spearman \r{ho} = 0.8962), demonstrating the importance of grounded, execution-aware evaluation for EWM capability.

cs.RO

WeMM-Embedding: WeChat Multi-Modal Embedding Technical Report

Universal multimodal embeddings are becoming a core component of modern AI systems, enabling heterogeneous content to be represented in a shared space for applications such as retrieval, recommendation, classification, and agentic systems. In this report, we present WeMM-Embedding, a family of universal multimodal embedding models supporting text, images, videos, visual documents, and arbitrarily interleaved multimodal inputs with flexible output dimensions. The family comprises 2B, 4B, and 9B variants and is trained in two stages: a large-scale multimodal alignment stage, followed by a refinement stage using curated data, fine-grained relevance supervision, and cross-scale knowledge transfer. Across extensive evaluations, WeMM-Embedding achieves leading performance on multiple public benchmarks. Notably, the 2B variant already surpasses the previously leading 8B open-source baseline on MMEB-v2, while the 9B variant further achieves a new state-of-the-art overall score of 80.6. WeMM-Embedding also demonstrates strong practical performance across WeChat applications, with substantial gains on a 26-task in-house benchmark and consistent improvements across 14 online A/B tests. It has been deployed at scale across recommendation and search applications, including WeChat Channels, Official Accounts, Moments, and e-commerce services. We have released the model weights and code to facilitate future research at https://github.com/Tencent/WeMM-Embedding.

cs.CV

Dual-Isotope Sympathetic Cooling in a Long Ion Chain

Owing to their high controllability and connectivity, one-dimensional ion chains are attractive building blocks for near-term quantum computers. However, long ion chains are susceptible to motional heating caused by fluctuating external electric fields. To enable deep computations, this source of noise must be suppressed without inducing qubit decoherence or degrading qubit connectivity. We demonstrate steady-state mid-circuit sympathetic cooling of all computationally-relevant motional modes of a 23-ion chain consisting of \qubit qubit and \coolant coolant ions without using any qubit operations. In a room-temperature system, our cooling scheme preserves the mean phonon occupations of the long-wavelength axial and radial modes near their values following state preparation, while keeping the modes used to implement entangling gates near their ground states throughout a 56-ms circuit. Crucially, we show that our cooling sequence preserves qubit coherence, and evaluate its impact on single- and two-qubit gate operations. Additionally, we demonstrate a parallel qubit reset protocol leveraging the shared radial mode coupling between species. Our sympathetic cooling scheme represents a critical step toward reducing gate errors in individually-addressed long ion chains and establishes a versatile platform for simulating open quantum systems.

quant-ph

Season: Spectrum-Aware Orthogonal Gradient Refinement for Transfer-Based Adversarial Attacks

Transfer-based adversarial attacks often transfer poorly across heterogeneous architectures because CNNs favor local textures while Vision Transformers (ViTs) rely on global shapes. We propose Season, a spectrum-aware orthogonal gradient refinement framework for L-infinity transfer attacks against black-box target models on ImageNet, using a white-box surrogate. Season decomposes each update into a low-frequency branch capturing structural cues and a high-frequency branch capturing textures. A low-saliency guidance scheme reallocates high-frequency energy to background regions, preserving foreground structures that ViTs depend on. An orthogonal projection then forces the textural update to lie in the orthogonal complement of the structural direction, mitigating feature interference. As a training-free plug-and-play wrapper, Season enhances eight gradient-stabilization and input-enhancement attacks without modifying their cores. Across eight CNN, ViT, and MLP targets, Season improves transfer success rate by 6.6 percentage points on average and up to 16.0 points over strong baselines under a unified protocol.

cs.CV

Towards the Harness of Embodied Agents

The success of coding agents has established the harness as a paradigm: what an agent achieves depends not on the model alone, but on the infrastructure around it. We ask whether the same paradigm extends to embodied agents in the physical world. We present Thea, a harness in which an agentic loop orchestrates robot capabilities, each wrapped as a callable tool. It inherits the core components of coding agents, modified as the physical world requires. The world, however, withholds two abilities that software grants for free: reading the state of the world, and judging the outcome of an action. To bridge these gaps, Thea introduces Scene Graph as Context, a persistent, symbolic representation of the world, and Evaluation as Exit Codes, which detects when an action should terminate, judges whether it succeeded, and on failure diagnoses the cause. Together they close the loop between the agent and the physical world. Rich behaviors then emerge from the composition of tools, and the closed loop carries long-horizon tasks to completion in real environments.

cs.AI

Monolithic printed-circuit board RF-trap for electrons

Qubits encoded in the spin of trapped electrons have been proposed as a promising novel platform for quantum information processing. While trapping of electrons has been largely carried out in Penning traps for precision measurement purposes, it is desirable to use linear Paul traps instead, leaning on the successes of trapped ion quantum processors. Here we present a Paul trap for electrons made of a single printed circuit board. Our approach requires no assembly and the rigid design minimizes manufacturing intolerances. We characterize the trap performance and observe trapped electron lifetimes of 2.13 ms and secular frequencies of up to 90 MHz.

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Patient-Level Diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia via Deep Learning Analysis of Bone Marrow Smear

Bone marrow smear review remains important for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) assessment, but manual single-cell interpretation is labor-intensive and patient-level diagnosis requires aggregation of many cellular observations. We present a cell-to-patient deep learning pipeline for AML-assisted diagnosis from bone marrow smear images. The study included 258 patients from six anonymized centers, including a main cohort of 169 patients from Centers 1-3 and an external validation cohort of 89 patients from Centers 4-6. A 16-category cell annotation vocabulary was used to describe the global cellular composition, including granulocytic, monocytic, erythroid, lymphoid, eosinophilic, and other cells. Rather than identifying strict AML blasts or leukemic blasts, the model targets an expert-defined composite category termed Composite Blast-like Cells (CBLC), comprising N, N1, M, M1, R, R1, J, and J1 according to the project-wide morphological standard. A fixed YOLO-based segmentation module detected cells, predicted contours were matched to expert polygon annotations by contour IoU, and standardized single-cell crops were generated. An EfficientNet-B0 classifier was trained through a two-stage GT-to-YOLO and YOLO-to-YOLO strategy with class-imbalance correction, center-border regularization, and morphology-assisted supervision. Cell-level predictions were aggregated into patient-level CBLC ratios for AML-oriented diagnostic support. The pipeline achieved stable internal validation and maintained external generalization, with ensemble weighted F1-scores of 0.9076, 0.8696, and 0.9124 on Centers 4, 5, and 6, respectively.

cs.CV

Lensless wide-field 3D fiber endoscopy through scattering media using synthetic wavelength holography

Minimally invasive imaging with fiber optic endoscopes is crucial for in vivo visualization of tissue morphology, as it supports applications such as early detection of tumors. However, imaging performance of conventional fiber endoscopes is limited when scattering layers are present between target and the distal end of endoscope. This limitation is particularly relevant in biomedicine, where targets such as early stage lesions or blood clots can be obscured by scattering tissue. To address this challenge, we present a lensless endoscopic imaging approach based on synthetic wavelength holography (SWH). SWH is a computational imaging technique in which two optical fields acquired at closely spaced wavelengths are combined to synthesize a field at a longer synthetic wavelength. As the field at longer wavelengths is less sensitive to path length perturbations, this approach can enable endoscopic recovery of holographic information despite scattering in the intervening tissue. In addition, because the synthetic field is assembled from scattered optical fields with larger optical \'etendue, our approach can extend the field of view (FoV) beyond the numerical aperture of the fiber. In this paper, we present the first demonstration of an SWH-based lensless endoscope using a multicore multimode fiber. We experimentally recover three-dimensional images of objects hidden behind scattering layers and through real biological tissue, with a spatial resolution of $\approx 500~\mu m$. We further demonstrate recovery of object information over an extended FoV of 46{\deg} without any distal optics. These results suggest a practical path toward extending fiber endoscopy for wide-field, three-dimensional imaging through scattering media.

physics.optics

DBPnet: Damper Characteristics-Based Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Network for Wheel Load Estimation

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) play an important role in modern automotive intelligence, significantly enhancing vehicle safety and stability. The performance of ADAS critically relies on accurate and reliable vehicle state estimation, particularly from vehicle dynamic sensors. Among these signals, wheel load is a key variable for chassis control and safety-critical functions, yet it remains difficult to estimate robustly due to complex suspension geometry, nonlinear dynamics, and measurement noise. To address this issue, we propose DBPnet, a Bayesian physics-informed neural network (PINN) with a physics-aware embedding module inspired by damper characteristics. First, this paper presents a suspension linkage-level modeling (SLLM) approach that constructs a nonlinear instantaneous dynamic model by explicitly considering the complex geometric structure of the suspension. Building upon SLLM, Bayesian inference is integrated into the PINN to effectively cope with noise and uncertainty in the vehicle chassis system, thereby improving the model's robustness. Then, a physics-informed loss function is employed to ensure consistency with fundamental physical principles, while the damper characteristics-inspired embedding module extracts temporal variation features of input signals and incorporates them into each layer of the PINN, ensuring that physical observations guide the neural network without being constrained by fixed physical models. Extensive evaluations on high-fidelity simulations and real-world experiments demonstrate that our DBPnet consistently achieves lower RMSE and MaxError than baseline methods. These results highlight the potential of our DBPnet to advance wheel load estimation and contribute to the development of more reliable ADAS actuator functions.

eess.SY

Solar phased arrays-based wireless power transfer for commercial airlines can reduce energy costs and carbon emissions in the United States

Decarbonizing aviation remains challenging because energy-dense jet fuels dominate beyond short-range operations, while batteries impose severe range and payload penalties. Here we evaluate a new infrastructure pathway in which utility-scale solar farms equipped with solar phased arrays wirelessly beam microwave power to hybrid-electric aircraft during cruise. Integrating 143,152 U.S. flight trajectories, 5,712 solar farms and wireless power transfer models, we quantify the spatial, temporal, and operational potential of this concept at continental scale. We find that benefits are highly concentrated in solar-rich, traffic-dense states and are dominated by short- and medium-range flights, accounting for nearly all delivered energy and cost savings. Schedule optimization and higher cruise altitudes further increase value by improving alignment between aircraft demand and beaming availability. Market penetration analysis reveals non-linear scaling between solar farm and flight adoption. These results show that wireless power beaming is best understood as a corridor-specific strategy complementing other aviation decarbonization pathways.

eess.SY

PAVE: A Cognitive Architecture for Legitimate Violation in Generative Agent Societies

Generative agents based on large language models reproduce believable human behavior in cooperative settings, but how they should reason in situations where rule-breaking may be required, such as fire evacuation or authority-supervised emergency, remains poorly characterized. We propose PAVE (Perception, Assessment, Verdict, Emulation), a novel four-module cognitive architecture that addresses this gap end to end: (i) Perception extracts a structured context with explicit authority distance, peer behaviors, and severity-tagged situational cues; (ii) Assessment scores the context along five scalars including an explicit legitimacy judgment that checks necessity, proportionality, and absence of alternatives; (iii) Verdict decides to comply or violate under a hard legitimacy gate, with a per-agent threshold elicited from the persona; (iv) Emulation enacts the verdict and scopes the violation to the rule the trigger justifies. We instantiate PAVE in Voville, a tile-based traffic environment forked from Smallville, and evaluate across three scenarios, four LLM backbones, and a focused ablation. PAVE agents satisfy four properties simultaneously: legitimate violation (only when a trigger justifies it), authority deference (officer instructions override even high legitimacy), bounded scope (violations confined to the targeted rule), and recovery (baseline restored once the trigger ends). PAVE agents make more structured and interpretable decisions than vanilla across all four properties, and human evaluators rate them as more plausible. Ablating the legitimacy gate reproduces vanilla-like failures. We release Voville, the PAVE prompts and code, and the evaluation pipeline.

cs.MA

Stage-adaptive Token Selection for Efficient Omni-modal LLMs

Omni-modal large language models (om-LLMs) achieve unified audio-visual understanding by encoding video and audio into temporally aligned token sequences interleaved at the window level. However, processing these dense non-textual tokens throughout the LLM incurs substantial computational overhead. Although training-free token selection can reduce this cost, existing methods either focus on visual-only inputs or prune om-LLM tokens only before the LLM with fixed per-modality ratios, failing to capture how cross-modal token importance evolves across layers. To address this limitation, we first analyze the layer-wise token dependency of om-LLMs. We find that visual and audio dependencies follow a block-wise pattern and gradually weaken with depth, indicating that many late-layer non-textual tokens become redundant after cross-modal fusion. Motivated by this observation, we propose SEATS, a training-free, stage-adaptive token selection method for efficient om-LLM inference. Before the LLM, SEATS removes spatiotemporal redundancy via attention-weighted diversity selection. Inside the LLM, it progressively prunes tokens across blocks and dynamically allocates the retention budget from temporal windows to modalities using query relevance scores. In late layers, it removes all remaining non-textual tokens once cross-modal fusion is complete. Experiments on Qwen2.5-Omni and Qwen3-Omni demonstrate that SEATS effectively improves inference efficiency. Retaining only 10% of visual and audio tokens, it achieves a 9.3x FLOPs reduction and a 4.8x prefill speedup while preserving 96.3% of the original performance.

cs.CV

OmniPro: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Omni-Proactive Streaming Video Understanding

Omni-proactive streaming video understanding, i.e., autonomously deciding when to speak and what to say from continuous audio-visual streams, is an emerging capability of omni-modal large language models. Existing benchmarks fall short in three key aspects: they rely primarily on visual signals, adopt polling or fixed-timestamp protocols instead of true proactive evaluation, and cover only a limited range of tasks, preventing reliable assessment and differentiation of omni-proactive streaming models. We present OmniPro, the first benchmark to jointly evaluate omni-modal perception, proactive responding, and diverse video understanding tasks. It comprises 2,700 human-verified samples spanning 9 sub-tasks and 3 cognitive levels, covering 6 basic video understanding capabilities. Notably, 84% of samples require audio signals (speech or non-speech), and each sample is annotated with modality-isolation labels to enable fine-grained multimodal analysis. We further introduce a dual-mode evaluation protocol: Probe mode assesses content understanding by querying the model before and after each ground-truth trigger, while Online mode evaluates full proactive ability by requiring models to autonomously decide when to respond in streaming input. Evaluating 11 representative models reveals three key findings: (1) audio provides consistent gains but with highly variable utilization across models, (2) performance degrades significantly over time, indicating limited long-horizon robustness, and (3) non-speech audio perception remains the weakest dimension.

cs.CV

EgoTraj: Real-World Egocentric Human Trajectory Dataset for Multimodal Prediction

Accurately forecasting human trajectories from an egocentric perspective plays a central role in applications such as humanoid robotics, wearable sensing systems, and assistive navigation. However, progress in this direction remains limited due to the scarcity of egocentric trajectory datasets collected in real-world environments. Addressing this need, we introduce EgoTraj, an egocentric multimodal open dataset recorded using Meta Quest Pro (MQPro). EgoTraj contains 75 sequences of human navigation collected from multiple MQPro wearers in real-world urban environments. Each recording provides synchronized RGB video along with ground-truth data, including continuous time-synchronized 6-degree-of-freedom head poses, per-frame 3D eye gaze vectors, scene annotations. To the best of our knowledge, EgoTraj differs from typical egocentric trajectory datasets by capturing long-horizon, self-directed navigation across diverse urban routes with broad participant diversity. To demonstrate the potential of the dataset, we benchmark several state-of-the-art methods for egocentric trajectory prediction and conduct ablation studies to analyze the contributions of gaze, scene, and motion cues. The results highlight the utility of EgoTraj for AR-based perception, navigation, and assistive systems. The EgoTraj dataset, code, and EgoViz Dashboard are publicly available at https://github.com/yehiahmad/EgoTraj.

cs.CV

RNA-FM: Flow-Matching Generative Model for Genome-wide RNA-Seq Prediction

Histopathology whole-slide images (WSIs) are routinely acquired in clinical practice and contain rich tissue morphology but lack direct molecular architecture and functional programs defining pathological states, whereas RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) provides genome-wide transcriptional profiles at substantial cost, thereby motivating WSI-based genome-wide transcriptomic prediction. Existing approaches for predicting gene expression from WSIs predominantly rely on deterministic regression with one-to-one mapping, limiting their ability to capture biological heterogeneity and predictive uncertainty. We propose RNA-FM, a flow-matching generative framework for genome-wide bulk RNA-seq prediction from WSIs. RNA-FM formulates transcriptomic prediction as a continuous-time conditional transport problem, learning a velocity field that maps a simple prior to the target gene expression distribution conditioned on morphologies. By integrating pathway-level structure, RNA-FM enables scalable and biologically interpretable genome-wide gene expression imputation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that RNA-FM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches while maintaining biological meaningfulness. Code is available at https://github.com/YXSong000/RNA-FM.

cs.CV

MFVLR: Multi-domain Fine-grained Vision-Language Reconstruction for Generalizable Diffusion Face Forgery Detection and Localization

The swift advancement in photo-realistic face generation technology has sparked considerable concerns across society and academia, emphasizing the requirement of generalizable face forgery detection and localization methods. Prior works tend to capture face forgery patterns across multiple domains using image modality, other modalities like fine-grained texts are not comprehensively investigated, which restricts the generalization capability of models. Besides, they usually analyze facial images created by GAN, but struggle to identify and localize those synthesized by diffusion. To solve the problems, in this paper, we devise a novel multi-domain fine-grained vision-language reconstruction (MFVLR) model, which explores comprehensive and diverse visual forgery traces via language-guided face forgery representation learning, to achieve generalizable diffusion-synthesized face forgery detection and localization (DFFDL). Specifically, we devise a fine-grained language transformer that studies general fine-grained language embeddings using language reconstruction. We propose a multi-domain vision encoder to capture general and complementary visual forgery patterns across the image and residual domains. A vision decoder is designed to reconstruct image appearance and achieve forgery localization. Besides, we propose an innovative plug-and-play vision injection module to enhance the interaction between the vision and language embeddings. Extensive experiments and visualizations demonstrate that our network outperforms the state of the art on different settings like cross-generator, cross-forgery, and cross-dataset evaluations.

cs.CV

Detecting Deepfakes via Hamiltonian Dynamics

Driven by the rapid development of generative AI models, deepfake detectors are compelled to undergo periodic recalibration to capture newly developed synthetic artifacts. To break this cycle, we propose a new perspective on deepfake detection: moving from static pattern recognition to dynamical stability analysis. Specifically, our approach is motivated by physics-inspired priors: we hypothesize that natural images, as products of dissipative physical processes, tend to settle near stable, low-energy equilibria. In contrast, generative models optimize for statistical similarity to real images but do not explicitly enforce structural constraints such as geometric smoothness, leaving deepfakes more likely to occupy unstable, high-energy states. To operationalize this, we introduce Hamiltonian Action Anomaly Detection (HAAD), comprising three contributions: \textbf{i)} We model the image latent manifold as a potential energy surface. Under this hypothesis, real images are expected to produce basin-like low-energy responses, whereas fake images are more likely to induce high-potential, high-gradient responses. \textbf{ii)} We employ Hamiltonian-inspired dynamics as a stability probe. By releasing latent states from rest, samples near stable regions remain bounded, while high-gradient samples produce larger trajectory responses. \textbf{iii)} We quantify these dynamic behaviors through two trajectory statistics, \ie, Hamiltonian action and energy dissipation. Extensive experiments show that HAAD outperforms evaluated state-of-the-art baselines on challenging cross-dataset transfer benchmarks, supporting a physics-inspired stability prior for digital forensics.

cs.CV