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Wenwen Zeng

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GMENet: Generative Mixture of Experts Network for Multi-Center Glioma Diagnosis with Incomplete Imaging Sequences

Contemporary glioma diagnosis integrates molecular features with histopathology to guide clinical decision-making. However, in clinical settings, divergent imaging protocols result in incomplete MRI sequences, leading to two primary challenges: forcing existing frameworks to discard a large portion of clinical data during training and consequently limiting their clinical applicability. To address these limitations, we propose GMENet, a Generative Mixture of Experts Network for multi-center glioma diagnosis with incomplete imaging sequences. Firstly, we design a Cross-attention-based Gated Generation Module that synthesizes missing sequence features from available sequences via cross-attention and dynamic gating mechanisms, incorporating a cycle-consistency loss to preserve semantic integrity. Secondly, we introduce a Dynamically Weighted Experts Fusion Module that performs mixture-of-experts interaction and confidence-aware fusion over original and synthesized dual-sequence features for multi-task prediction. We evaluate GMENet on a multi-center cohort of 1,241 subjects from four in-house datasets and two public repositories. Experiments show that GMENet expands clinically usable training data by 97\%, relative to complete-sequence-only data. Furthermore, it consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods trained on complete data, demonstrating improved robustness under cross-center distribution shifts.

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RecRM-Bench: Benchmarking Multidimensional Reward Modeling for Agentic Recommender Systems

The integration of Large Language Model (LLM) agents is transforming recommender systems from simple query-item matching towards deeply personalized and interactive recommendations. Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides an essential framework for the optimization of these agents in recommendation tasks. However, current methodologies remain limited by a reliance on single dimensional outcome-based rewards that focus exclusively on final user interactions, overlooking critical intermediate capabilities, such as instruction following and complex intent understanding. Despite the necessity for designing multi-dimensional reward, the field lacks a standardized benchmark to facilitate this development. To bridge this gap, we introduce RecRM-Bench, the largest and most comprehensive benchmark to date for agentic recommender systems. It comprises over 1 million structured entries across four core evaluation dimensions: instruction following, factual consistency, query-item relevance, and fine-grained user behavior prediction. By supporting comprehensive assessment from syntactic compliance to complex intent grounding and preference modeling, RecRM-Bench provides a foundational dataset for training sophisticated reward models. Furthermore, we propose a systematic framework for the construction of multi-dimensional reward models and the integration of a hybrid reward function, establishing a robust foundation for developing reliable and highly capable agentic recommender systems. The complete RecRM-Bench dataset is publicly available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/wwzeng/RecRM-Bench.

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Prompt Group-Aware Training for Robust Text-Guided Nuclei Segmentation

Foundation models such as Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) enable flexible text-guided medical image segmentation, yet their predictions remain highly sensitive to prompt formulation. Even semantically equivalent descriptions can yield inconsistent masks, limiting reliability in clinical and pathology workflows. We reformulate prompt sensitivity as a group-wise consistency problem. Semantically related prompts are organized into \emph{prompt groups} sharing the same ground-truth mask, and a prompt group-aware training framework is introduced for robust text-guided nuclei segmentation. The approach combines (i) a quality-guided group regularization that leverages segmentation loss as an implicit ranking signal, and (ii) a logit-level consistency constraint with a stop-gradient strategy to align predictions within each group. The method requires no architectural modification and leaves inference unchanged. Extensive experiments on multi-dataset nuclei benchmarks show consistent gains under textual prompting and markedly reduced performance variance across prompt quality levels. On six zero-shot cross-dataset tasks, our method improves Dice by an average of 2.16 points. These results demonstrate improved robustness and generalization for vision-language segmentation in computational pathology.

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SAMPO-Path: Segmentation Intent-Aligned Preference Optimization for Pathology Foundation Model Segmentation

Foundation models have shown strong performance in multi-object segmentation with visual prompts, yet histopathology images remain challenging due to high cellular density, heterogeneity, and the gap between pixel-level supervision and clinical segmentation intent (e.g., selectively segmenting nuclei of a specific type). In practice, such intents are expressed through diverse and noisy prompts, causing prompt-intent misalignment and inconsistent predictions. We introduce SAMPO (Segmentation Anything Model with Preference Optimization), a preference-aligned fine-tuning framework that explicitly aligns pathology foundation models with clinical segmentation intent. SAMPO is the first to adapt Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to pure vision foundation models, enabling accurate segmentation from minimal and imperfect prompts. The framework features three key components: (1) online prompt-centric preference mining to synthesize preference pairs across prompt qualities; (2) multi-mask preference learning to leverage output ambiguity for fine-grained ranking supervision; and (3) a hybrid loss combining preference optimization with pixel-level supervision for stable training. Trained on two datasets covering four tasks and evaluated on corresponding test sets and 12 external validation datasets, SAMPO consistently improves segmentation accuracy, robustness to prompt variations, and clinical intent adherence in dense histopathology images.

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MindShot: Multi-Shot Video Reconstruction from fMRI with LLM Decoding

Reconstructing dynamic videos from fMRI is important for understanding visual cognition and enabling vivid brain-computer interfaces. However, current methods are critically limited to single-shot clips, failing to address the multi-shot nature of real-world experiences. Multi-shot reconstruction faces fundamental challenges: fMRI signal mixing across shots, the temporal resolution mismatch between fMRI and video obscuring rapid scene changes, and the lack of dedicated multi-shot fMRI-video datasets. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel divide-and-decode framework for multi-shot fMRI video reconstruction. Our core innovations are: (1) A shot boundary predictor module explicitly decomposing mixed fMRI signals into shot-specific segments. (2) Generative keyframe captioning using LLMs, which decodes robust textual descriptions from each segment, overcoming temporal blur by leveraging high-level semantics. (3) Novel large-scale data synthesis (20k samples) from existing datasets. Experimental results demonstrate our framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods in multi-shot reconstruction fidelity. Ablation studies confirm the critical role of fMRI decomposition and semantic captioning, with decomposition significantly improving decoded caption CLIP similarity by 71.8%. This work establishes a new paradigm for multi-shot fMRI reconstruction, enabling accurate recovery of complex visual narratives through explicit decomposition and semantic prompting.

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A Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network Fusing Functional and Structural Connectivity for MCI Diagnosis

Brain connectivity alternations associated with brain disorders have been widely reported in resting-state functional imaging (rs-fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). While many dual-modal fusion methods based on graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed, they generally follow homogenous fusion ways ignoring rich heterogeneity of dual-modal information. To address this issue, we propose a novel method that integrates functional and structural connectivity based on heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) to better leverage the rich heterogeneity in dual-modal images. We firstly use blood oxygen level dependency and whiter matter structure information provided by rs-fMRI and DTI to establish homo-meta-path, capturing node relationships within the same modality. At the same time, we propose to establish hetero-meta-path based on structure-function coupling and brain community searching to capture relations among cross-modal nodes. Secondly, we further introduce a heterogeneous graph pooling strategy that automatically balances homo- and hetero-meta-path, effectively leveraging heterogeneous information and preventing feature confusion after pooling. Thirdly, based on the flexibility of heterogeneous graphs, we propose a heterogeneous graph data augmentation approach that can conveniently address the sample imbalance issue commonly seen in clinical diagnosis. We evaluate our method on ADNI-3 dataset for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) diagnosis. Experimental results indicate the proposed method is effective and superior to other algorithms, with a mean classification accuracy of 93.3%.

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