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Ulugbek Shernazarov

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Disentangling Topology and Diversity in Multi-Agent LLMs for Multilingual Low-Resource Emotion Detection

Multi-agent LLM systems combine multiple inference calls, but prior work often confounds how calls are connected with how they are diversified. We study these factors independently: inference topology and source of inter-agent diversity. In a controlled $2 \times 3$ matrix, we cross parallel aggregation and sequential refinement with stochastic sampling, role prompting, and learned QLoRA specialization, under a fixed three-call budget and output protocol within each backbone. Using Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct and Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, we evaluate all six configurations on multilingual low-resource emotion detection across nine languages. Parallel learned specialization is strongest on Qwen at 52.83 Macro-F1 and reaches 52.94 on Llama. On Qwen it also exceeds same-backbone zero-shot, few-shot, CoT, and seven-call self-consistency baselines. The preferred topology depends on diversity source: sequential refinement helps stochastic and prompted settings, while the learned Width advantage shrinks from 2.83 points on Qwen to 0.17 on Llama. Depth-wise analysis suggests that later learned specialists can overwrite correct early predictions, although the aggregate effect is backbone-dependent. Overall, how agents are differentiated produces larger performance shifts than topology, which should be evaluated jointly with specialization.

cs.CL

Reverse Spatio-Temporal Disease Progression Modelling

Deep learning-based spatio-temporal disease progression models commonly overlook the incubation period of progressive diseases, limiting the use of those models in early interventions, which are vital for not easily reversible diseases such as Alzheimer's. This is because, the existing deep learning based longitudinal disease-progression models are almost always run forward: from an observed baseline they predict future decline. In many clinical settings, however, imaging begins only after pathology is suspected or already visible, the earlier, healthier patient-specific reference was never acquired. To address this, we propose to study reverse disease progression prediction: given later diseased anatomy, reconstruct the unobserved healthier anatomy that preceded it. We use a two-stage model in which a frozen 3D vector-quantised autoencoder defines a compact discrete latent space, while a Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) learns continuous-time dynamics in that space. A recurrent encoder reads late observations in reverse temporal order, initialises the latent state, and the ODE is integrated backwards across the trajectory. On a controlled Morpho-MNIST benchmark with a sinusoidal perturbation, our model successfully recovered the unseen previous states from later observations of the non-monotonic trajectory. On longitudinal brain MRIs from Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, at the task to recover the previous unseen trajectory towards healthy states of the patients from observed later diseased states, our model outperforms the baselines that uses copy-nearest and mean-observed, with positive disease-reversal scores in every diagnostic stratum. We hope that our work can provide insights and tools towards discovering the incubation periods from single-shot scans, and developing early interventions of diseases based on imaging.

cs.CV

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Medical Text Summarization: A Comparative Study of Lora, Prompt Tuning, and Full Fine-Tuning

Fine-tuning large language models for domain-specific tasks such as medical text summarization demands substantial computational resources. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods offer promising alternatives by updating only a small fraction of parameters. This paper compares three adaptation approaches-Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), Prompt Tuning, and Full Fine-Tuning-across the Flan-T5 model family on the PubMed medical summarization dataset. Through experiments with multiple random seeds, we demonstrate that LoRA consistently outperforms full fine-tuning, achieving 43.52 +/- 0.18 ROUGE-1 on Flan-T5-Large with only 0.6% trainable parameters compared to 40.67 +/- 0.21 for full fine-tuning. Sensitivity analyses examine the impact of LoRA rank and prompt token count. Our findings suggest the low-rank constraint provides beneficial regularization, challenging assumptions about the necessity of full parameter updates. Code is available at https://github.com/eracoding/llm-medical-summarization

cs.CL