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Wei Wei

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UniTriGen: Unified Triplet Generation of Aligned Visible-Infrared-Label for Few-Shot RGB-T Semantic Segmentation

RGB-T semantic segmentation requires strictly aligned VIS-IR-Label triplets; however, such aligned triplet data are often scarce in real-world scenarios. Existing generative augmentation methods usually adopt cascaded generation paradigms, decomposing joint triplet generation into local conditional processes. As a result, consistency among VIS, IR, and Label in spatial structure, semantic content, and cross-modal details cannot be reliably maintained. To address this issue, we propose UniTriGen, a unified triplet generation framework that directly generates spatially aligned, semantically consistent, and modality complementary VIS-IR-Label triplets under the guidance of text prompts. UniTriGen first introduces a unified triplet generation mechanism, where VIS, IR, and Label are jointly encoded into a shared latent space and modeled with a diffusion process to enforce global cross-modal consistency. Lightweight modality-specific residual adapters are further integrated into this mechanism to accommodate modality-specific imaging characteristics and output formats. To mitigate generation bias caused by imbalanced scene and class distributions in limited paired triplets, UniTriGen also employs a scene-balanced and class-aware few-shot sampling strategy, which induces a more balanced sampling distribution and enhances the scene and class diversity of generated triplets. Experiments show that UniTriGen generates high-quality aligned triplets from limited real paired data, thereby achieving consistent performance improvements across various RGB-T semantic segmentation models.

cs.CV↗

Strikingness-Aware Evaluation for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (TKGR) aims at inferring missing (especially future) events from historical data. Current evaluation in TKGR uniformly weights all events, ignoring that most are trivial repetitions, which overestimate the true reasoning ability. Therefore, the rare outstanding events, whose prediction demands deeper reasoning, should be distinguished and emphasized. To this end, we propose a strikingness-aware evaluation framework, which introduces a rule-based strikingness measuring framework (RSMF) to quantify event strikingness by comparing its expected occurrence with peer events derived from temporal rules. Strikingness is then integrated as a weighting factor into metrics like weighted MRR and Hits@k. Experiments on four TKG benchmarks reveal: 1) All representative models perform worse as event strikingness increases, 2) Path-based methods excel on low-strikingness events and representation-based ones on high-strikingness events, 3) We design an ensemble method whose gains stem from fitting trivial events rather than reasoning improvement. Our framework provides a more rigorous evaluation, refocusing the field on predicting outstanding events.

cs.AI↗

Local Truncation Error-Guided Neural ODEs for Large Scale Traffic Forecasting

Spatiotemporal forecasting in physical systems, such as large-scale traffic networks, requires modeling a dual dynamic: continuous macroscopic rhythms and discrete, unpredictable microscopic shocks. While Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) excel at capturing smooth evolution, their inherent Lipschitz continuity constraints inevitably cause severe over-smoothing when confronting abrupt anomalies. Recent physics-informed methods attempt to bypass this by penalizing numerical integration errors to enforce manifold smoothness. However, we mathematically reveal that such rigid regularization inherently triggers gradient conflicts and ``attention collapse,'' stripping the model of its sensitivity to anomalies. To resolve this continuity-shock dilemma, we propose Local Truncation Error-Guided Neural ODEs (LTE-ODE). Rather than treating numerical error as a nuisance to be eliminated, we innovatively repurpose the Local Truncation Error (LTE) as an unsupervised forward inductive bias. By mapping the LTE into a dynamic spatial attention mask, our architecture gracefully preserves high-precision continuous ODE evolution in stable regions, while adaptively triggering a discrete compensation branch exclusively at shock points. Trained purely end-to-end without manifold penalties, LTE-ODE achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple large-scale benchmarks, exhibiting exceptional robustness against highly non-linear fluctuations. Furthermore, our ablation on integration steps demonstrates high deployment flexibility, allowing the model to seamlessly adapt to varying hardware memory constraints in real-world applications.

cs.LG↗

Development of a quadripartite wakefield structure as dechirper for free electron laser

Wakefield structures are critical for beam manipulation in free-electron lasers (FELs), particularly when serving as dechirpers, where beam-induced longitudinal wakefields compensate the energy chirp introduced during beam magnetic compression. However, conventional planar structures also generate time-dependent quadrupole wakefields due to their asymmetric geometry, which can cause beam mismatch and projected emittance growth. To address this limitation, we propose a quadripartite wakefield structure comprising four identical corrugated plates, able to fully suppress quadrupole wakefields while preserving strong longitudinal wakefields. To accurately evaluate its performance, we calculate wake potentials based on the Panofsky-Wenzel theorem using three-dimensional simulation software and extract the corresponding wake functions by deconvolution. We further adopt a particle-to-particle (P2P) tracking method incorporating these wake functions, which is capable of accounting for higher-order components and nonlinear effects that are typically neglected in standard tracking codes. Simulation results confirm that the quadripartite geometry offers significantly reduced projected emittance growth and a 25% shorter structure length compared with the planar design. The tracking method also reveals that the nonlinearities of three-dimensional wakefields induce noticeable slice emittance growth for large transverse beam sizes, which may in turn affect lasing performance. In addition, the tracking method enables analysis of various types of assembly error and indicates that misalignment along the direction of plate motion may severely degrade the emittance via dipole wakefields. Such misalignment can be mitigated through beam-based alignment and precise plate adjustment using high-resolution servo motors.

physics.acc-ph↗

SpaceDex: Generalizable Dexterous Grasping in Tiered Workspaces

Generalizable grasping with high-degree-of-freedom (DoF) dexterous hands remains challenging in tiered workspaces, where occlusion, narrow clearances, and height-dependent constraints are substantially stronger than in open tabletop scenes. Most existing methods are evaluated in relatively unoccluded settings and typically do not explicitly model the distinct control requirements of arm navigation and hand articulation under spatial constraints. We present SpaceDex, a hierarchical framework for dexterous manipulation in constrained 3D environments. At the high level, a Vision-Language Model (VLM) planner parses user intent, reasons about occlusion and height relations across multiple camera views, and generates target bounding boxes for zero-shot segmentation and mask tracking. This stage provides structured spatial guidance for downstream control instead of relying on single-view target selection. At the low level, we introduce an arm-hand Feature Separation Network that decouples global trajectory control for the arm from geometry-aware grasp mode selection for the hand, reducing feature interference between reaching and grasping objectives. The controller further integrates multi-view perception, fingertip tactile sensing, and a small set of recovery demonstrations to improve robustness to partial observability and off-nominal contacts. In 100 real-world trials involving over 30 unseen objects across four categories, SpaceDex achieves a 63.0\% success rate, compared with 39.0\% for a strong tabletop baseline. These results indicate that combining hierarchical spatial planning with arm-hand representation decoupling improves dexterous grasping performance in spatially constrained environments.

cs.RO↗

LR-Robot: An Human-in-the-Loop LLM Framework for Systematic Literature Reviews with Applications in Financial Research

The exponential growth of financial research has rendered traditional systematic literature reviews (SLRs) increasingly impractical, as manual screening and narrative synthesis struggle to keep pace with the scale and complexity of modern scholarship. While the existing artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) approaches often often produce outputs that are efficient but contextually limited, still requiring substantial expert oversight. To address these challenges, we propose LR-Robot, a novel framework in which domain experts define multidimensional classification taxonomies and prompt constraints that encode conceptual boundaries, large language models (LLMs) execute scalable classification across large corpora, and systematic human-in-the-loop evaluation ensures reliability before full-dataset deployment.The framework further leverages retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to support downstream analyses including temporal evolution tracking and label-enhanced citation networks. We demonstrate the framework on a corpus of 12,666 option pricing articles spanning 50 years, designing a four-dimensional taxonomy and systematically evaluating up to eleven mainstream LLMs across classification tasks of varying complexity. The results reveal the current capabilities of AI in understanding and synthesizing literature, uncover emerging trends, reveal structural research patterns, and highlight core research directions. By accelerating labor-intensive review stages while preserving interpretive accuracy, LR-Robot provides a practical, customizable, and high-quality approach for AI-assisted SLRs.

q-fin.CP↗

Optimizing Split Federated Learning with Unstable Client Participation

To enable training of large artificial intelligence (AI) models at the network edge, split federated learning (SFL) has emerged as a promising approach by distributing computation between edge devices and a server. However, while unstable network environments pose significant challenges to SFL, prior schemes often overlook such an effect by assuming perfect client participation, rendering them impractical for real-world scenarios. In this work, we develop an optimization framework for SFL with unstable client participation. We theoretically derive the first convergence upper bound for SFL with unstable client participation by considering activation uploading failures, gradient downloading failures, and model aggregation failures. Based on the theoretical results, we formulate a joint optimization problem for client sampling and model splitting to minimize the upper bound. We then develop an efficient solution approach to solve the problem optimally. Extensive simulations on EMNIST and CIFAR-10 demonstrate the superiority of our proposed framework compared to existing benchmarks.

cs.NI↗

A Survey of Continual Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an important machine learning paradigm for solving sequential decision-making problems. Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in this field due to the rapid development of deep neural networks. However, the success of RL currently relies on extensive training data and computational resources. In addition, RL's limited ability to generalize across tasks restricts its applicability in dynamic and real-world environments. With the arisen of Continual Learning (CL), Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) has emerged as a promising research direction to address these limitations by enabling agents to learn continuously, adapt to new tasks, and retain previously acquired knowledge. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive examination of CRL, focusing on its core concepts, challenges, and methodologies. Firstly, we conduct a detailed review of existing works, organizing and analyzing their metrics, tasks, benchmarks, and scenario settings. Secondly, we propose a new taxonomy of CRL methods, categorizing them into four types from the perspective of knowledge storage and/or transfer. Finally, our analysis highlights the unique challenges of CRL and provides practical insights into future directions.

cs.LG↗

Curr-RLCER:Curriculum Reinforcement Learning For Coherence Explainable Recommendation

Explainable recommendation systems (RSs) are designed to explicitly uncover the rationale of each recommendation, thereby enhancing the transparency and credibility of RSs. Previous methods often jointly predicted ratings and generated explanations, but overlooked the incoherence of such two objectives. To address this issue, we propose Curr-RLCER, a reinforcement learning framework for explanation coherent recommendation with dynamic rating alignment. It employs curriculum learning, transitioning from basic predictions (i.e., click through rating-CTR, selection-based rating) to open-ended recommendation explanation generation. In particular, the rewards of each stage are designed for progressively enhancing the stability of RSs. Furthermore, a coherence-driven reward mechanism is also proposed to enforce the coherence between generated explanations and predicted ratings, supported by a specifically designed evaluation scheme. The extensive experimental results on three explainable recommendation datasets indicate that the proposed framework is effective. Codes and datasets are available at https://github.com/pxcstart/Curr-RLCER.

cs.IR↗

Solar-VLM: Multimodal Vision-Language Models for Augmented Solar Power Forecasting

Photovoltaic (PV) power forecasting plays a critical role in power system dispatch and market participation. Because PV generation is highly sensitive to weather conditions and cloud motion, accurate forecasting requires effective modeling of complex spatiotemporal dependencies across multiple information sources. Although recent studies have advanced AI-based forecasting methods, most fail to fuse temporal observations, satellite imagery, and textual weather information in a unified framework. This paper proposes Solar-VLM, a large-language-model-driven framework for multimodal PV power forecasting. First, modality-specific encoders are developed to extract complementary features from heterogeneous inputs. The time-series encoder adopts a patch-based design to capture temporal patterns from multivariate observations at each site. The visual encoder, built upon a Qwen-based vision backbone, extracts cloud-cover information from satellite images. The text encoder distills historical weather characteristics from textual descriptions. Second, to capture spatial dependencies across geographically distributed PV stations, a cross-site feature fusion mechanism is introduced. Specifically, a Graph Learner models inter-station correlations through a graph attention network constructed over a K-nearest-neighbor (KNN) graph, while a cross-site attention module further facilitates adaptive information exchange among sites. Finally, experiments conducted on data from eight PV stations in a northern province of China demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. Our proposed model is publicly available at https://github.com/rhp413/Solar-VLM.

cs.AI↗

Joint Behavior-guided and Modality-coherence Conditional Graph Diffusion Denoising for Multi Modal Recommendation

In recent years, multimodal recommendation has received significant attention and achieved remarkable success in GCN-based recommendation methods. However, there are two key challenges here: (1) There is a significant amount of redundant information in multimodal features that is unrelated to user preferences. Directly injecting multimodal features into the interaction graph can affect the collaborative feature learning between users and items. (2) There are false negative and false positive behaviors caused by system errors such as accidental clicks and non-exposure. This feedback bias can affect the ranking accuracy of training sample pairs, thereby reducing the recommendation accuracy of the model. To address these challenges, this work proposes a Joint Behavior-guided and Modal-consistent Conditional Graph Diffusion Model (JBM-Diff) for joint denoising of multimodal features and user feedback. We design a diffusion model conditioned on collaborative features for each modal feature to remove preference-irrelevant information, and enhance the alignment between collaborative features and modal semantic information through multi-view message propagation and feature fusion. Finally, we detect the partial order consistency of sample pairs from a behavioral perspective based on learned modal preferences, set the credibility for sample pairs, and achieve data augmentation. Extensive experiments on three public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of this work. Codes are available at https://github.com/pxcstart/JBMDiff.

cs.IR↗

MMP-Refer: Multimodal Path Retrieval-augmented LLMs For Explainable Recommendation

Explainable recommendations help improve the transparency and credibility of recommendation systems, and play an important role in personalized recommendation scenarios. At present, methods for explainable recommendation based on large language models(LLMs) often consider introducing collaborative information to enhance the personalization and accuracy of the model, but ignore the multimodal information in the recommendation dataset; In addition, collaborative information needs to be aligned with the semantic space of LLM. Introducing collaborative signals through retrieval paths is a good choice, but most of the existing retrieval path collection schemes use the existing Explainable GNN algorithms. Although these methods are effective, they are relatively unexplainable and not be suitable for the recommendation field. To address the above challenges, we propose MMP-Refer, a framework using \textbf{M}ulti\textbf{M}odal Retrieval \textbf{P}aths with \textbf{Re}trieval-augmented LLM \textbf{F}or \textbf{E}xplainable \textbf{R}ecommendation. We use a sequential recommendation model based on joint residual coding to obtain multimodal embeddings, and design a heuristic search algorithm to obtain retrieval paths by multimodal embeddings; In the generation phase, we integrated a trainable lightweight collaborative adapter to map the graph encoding of interaction subgraphs to the semantic space of the LLM, as soft prompts to enhance the understanding of interaction information by the LLM. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach. Codes and data are available at https://github.com/pxcstart/MMP-Refer.

cs.IR↗

User Simulator-Guided Multi-Turn Preference Optimization for Reasoning LLM-based Conversational Recommendation

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) leverage natural language interactions for personalized recommendation, yet information-scarce dialogue histories and single-turn recommendation paradigms may severely hinder accurate modeling of complex user preferences. To alleviate this issue, recent studies have introduced LLM-based user simulators, which generate natural language feedback and perform simulated multi-turn interactions to assist recommendation. Nevertheless, since simulators cannot access true user preference labels during inference, their feedback may deviate from actual user interests, causing errors to accumulate over multiple interactions and severely affecting the generalization of the recommender. Inspired by the multi-step reasoning capabilities of LLMs and the effectiveness of reinforcement learning in policy optimization, we propose SMTPO, a user simulator-guided multi-turn preference optimization conversational recommendation framework. To align simulator-generated feedback with true user preferences in the absence of explicit labels, we enhance feedback quality via multi-task supervised fine-tuning (SFT), enabling the simulator to better reflect users' complex and diverse needs. To address the challenge of biased feedback destabilizing multi-turn optimization, we first allow the reasoning LLM-based recommender to learn preference reasoning and recommendation patterns through SFT and then employ reinforcement learning with fine-grained reward design to progressively align with true user preferences, improving recommendation performance. Extensive experiments on public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and transferability of our method.

cs.IR↗

MultiGA: Leveraging Multi-Source Seeding in Genetic Algorithms

In this paper, we introduce, MultiGA, an optimization framework which applies genetic algorithm principles to address complex natural language tasks and reasoning problems by sampling from a diverse population of LLMs to initialize the population of candidate solutions. MultiGA generates a range of outputs from various parent LLMs and uses a neutral fitness function to evaluate them. Through an iterative recombination process, we mix and refine these generations until an optimal solution is achieved. Our results show that MultiGA produces high accuracy across multiple benchmarks, and these insights lay the foundation for future research looking closer at integrating multiple LLMs for unexplored tasks in which selecting only one pre-trained model is unclear or suboptimal.

cs.NE↗

Foundation Model-guided Iteratively Prompting and Pseudo-Labeling for Partially Labeled Medical Image Segmentation

Automated medical image segmentation has achieved remarkable progress with fully labeled data. However, site-specific clinical priorities and the high cost of manual annotation often yield scans with only a subset of organs labeled, leading to the partially labeled problem that degrades performance. To address this issue, we propose IPnP, an Iteratively Prompting and Pseudo-labeling framework, for partially labeled medical image segmentation. IPnP iteratively generates and refines pseudo-labels for unlabeled organs through collaboration between a trainable segmentation network (specialist) and a frozen foundation model (generalist), progressively recovering full-organ supervision. On the public dataset AMOS with the simulated partial-label setting, IPnP consistently improves segmentation performance over prior methods and approaches the performance of the fully labeled reference. We further evaluate on a private, partially labeled dataset of 210 head-and-neck cancer patients and demonstrate our effectiveness in real-world clinical settings.

cs.CV↗

A Yamabe problem for the quotient between the $Q$ curvature and the scalar curvature

In this paper we introduce the following Yamabe problem for the quotient between the $Q$ curvature and the scalar curvature $R$: Find a conformal metric $g$ in a given conformal class $[g_0]$ with \[ Q_g/R_g=const. \] When the dimension $n\ge 5$, we first prove a new Sobolev inequality between the total $Q$-curvature and the total scalar curvature on $\mathbb{S}^n$ ($n\ge 5$), namely \[\frac{\int_{\mathbb{S}^n} Q_g d v_g}{\left(\int_{\mathbb{S}^n} R_g d v_g\right)^{\frac{n-4}{n-2}}} \geq \frac{\int_{\mathbb{S}^n} Q_{g_{\mathbb{S}^n}} d v\left(g_{\mathbb{S}^n}\right)}{\left(\int_{\mathbb{S}^n} R_{g_{\mathbb{S}^n}} d v\left(g_{\mathbb{S}^n}\right)\right)^{\frac{n-4}{n-2}}}\] for any $g$ in the conformal class of the round metric $g_{\mathbb{S}^n}$ with positive scalar curvature, with equality if and only if $g$ is also a metric with constant sectional curvature. With this inequality we introduce a new Yamabe constant $Y_{4,2}(M,[g_0])$ and prove the existence of the above problem provided that $Y_{4,2}(M,[g_0]) <Y_{4,2} (\mathbb{S}^n, [g_{\mathbb{S}^n}]).$ This strict inequality is proved if $(M,g)$ is not conformally equivalent to the round sphere. This follows from a crucial relation between $Y_{4,2}$ and the ordinary Yamabe constant $Y(M,[g_0])$, $Y_{4,2} (M, [g_0]) \le c(n) Y(M, [g_0])^{\frac n{n-2}}$ with equality if and only if $(M, g_0)$ is conformally equivalent to an Einstein manifold. Finally, we prove that on a closed $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(M,g_{0})$ with semi-positive $Q$-curvature and non-negative scalar curvature, the above Yamabe problem is solvable, thanks to the maximum principle of Gursky-Malchiodi [33]. The proof for $n=3$ and $n=4$ follows closely the methods developed by Hang-Yang in [40], Gursky-Malchiodi in [33], and Chang-Yang in [12].

math.DG↗

Privacy-Preserving Uncertainty Disclosure for Facilitating Enhanced Energy Storage Dispatch

This paper proposes a novel privacy-preserving uncertainty disclosure framework, enabling system operators to release marginal value function bounds to reduce the conservativeness of interval forecast and mitigate excessive withholding, thereby enhancing storage dispatch and social welfare. We develop a risk-averse storage arbitrage model based on stochastic dynamic programming, explicitly accounting for uncertainty intervals in value function training. Real-time marginal value function bounds are derived using a rolling-horizon chance-constrained economic dispatch formulation. We rigorously prove that the bounds reliably cap the true opportunity cost and dynamically converge to the hindsight value. We verify that both the marginal value function and its bounds monotonically decrease with the state of charge (SoC) and increase with uncertainty, providing a theoretical basis for risk-averse strategic behaviors and SoC-dependent designs. An adjusted storage dispatch algorithm is further designed using these bounds. We validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework via an agent-based simulation on the ISO-NE test system. Under 50% renewable capacity and 35% storage capacity, the proposed bounds enhance storage response by 38.91% and reduce the optimality gap to 3.91% through improved interval predictions. Additionally, by mitigating excessive withholding, the bounds yield an average system cost reduction of 0.23% and an average storage profit increase of 13.22%. These benefits further scale with higher prediction conservativeness, storage capacity, and system uncertainty.

eess.SY↗

Pauli-limited upper critical field and anisotropic depairing effect of La2.82Sr0.18Ni2O7 superconducting thin film

We investigate the upper critical field and superconducting anisotropy of epitaxial La2.82Sr0.18Ni2O7 thin films, which show a sharp superconducting transition at Tc=31.6 K. Near Tc, superconductivity exhibits thickness-limited two-dimensional characteristics. Upon cooling, the out-of-plane coherence length decreases below the sample thickness of 6 nm, corresponding to a 3-unit-cell film, indicating a crossover to intrinsic three-dimensional bulk superconductivity. High-field transport measurements reveal large upper critical fields with a small anisotropy ratio gama~1.34, comparable to bulk Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates. At low temperatures, the in-plane (ab) upper critical field Hc2(ab) is strongly suppressed by spin-paramagnetic pair breaking and approaches the Pauli limit (Hc2(Pauli)=58 T), while Hc2(c) remains largely unaffected. This anisotropic Pauli limitation accounts for the reduced upper critical field anisotropy and supports the conclusion that superconductivity in these films is fundamentally three-dimensional bulk like. Our results highlight the essential role of spin-paramagnetic effects in shaping the high-field superconducting phase diagram of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates.

cond-mat.supr-con↗