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HetGPS: Scalable Graph Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Physics-Anchored Adaptive Safety for EV Charging

Safety interventions for large populations of network-coupled agents must protect shared constraints without unnecessarily overriding task-oriented policy decisions. We present HetGPS, a hybrid graph-control framework synergizing learned graph risk with physics-anchored correction by separating intervention magnitude from corrective direction. An action-conditioned graph residual model schedules state-dependent intervention authority, while a physics model determines its direction. For electric vehicle (EV) charging, we couple this filter with a parameter-shared heterogeneous graph soft actor-critic policy, enabling topology-aware coordination with a learned model size independent of fleet size. Across five nested distribution networks with 200--3,218 EVs and 100 evaluation days, Adaptive Authority reduces bus--step voltage violations from 3.93--7.74\% without filtering to 0.52--3.44\%, while maintaining 99.06--100\% departure success. Relative to the same physics-directed projection with fixed authority, it improves mean reward on all five networks and lowers the mean safety score on four. The deployed policy-and-risk model contains 383,702 learned parameters at every scale; at 3,218 EVs, a matched centralized SAC actor is about $170\times$ larger. A policy trained on the eight-transformer system transfers zero-shot to the 16- and 32-transformer systems, attaining 0.57--0.75\% violation rates and at least 99.99\% departure success. These results show that learned graph risk can allocate intervention authority at scale while feeder physics anchors corrective action.

cs.AI

Cosmological Collider Signals at Strong Mixing

We study cosmological collider signatures in a two-field inflationary system with constant-turn derivative mixing between the canonically normalized curvature fluctuation and a massive isocurvature field. Building on recently derived exact hypergeometric solutions that treat the quadratic mixing nonperturbatively, we construct the mixed propagators constituting the cosmological correlators. A Mellin-Barnes approach helps isolate the pair of nonanalytic late-time branches carried by a heavy field. For a cubic isocurvature self-interaction, these branches contribute towards a squeezed bispectrum with a power-law envelope and logarithmic oscillations. The oscillation frequency encodes the heavy mass, while the amplitude and phase retain the full mixing dependence rather than a perturbative expansion. We perform the squeezed limit integral analytically and compare it with numerical results across representative masses and mixing strengths. At fixed mixing we derive the large-mass JWKB expansion of the squeezed correlator and its phase. We also give integral representations for the isocurvature Wightman function. The research idea was suggested by ARC, the calculation was performed by GPT, and the results were checked by the authors.

hep-th

On Cosmological Correlators with Boundary Contributions

Cosmological correlators receive contributions from both field interactions in the bulk of quasi-de Sitter (dS) spacetime and boundary terms at the end of inflation. While most of the research efforts focus on the former, boundary contributions are normally believed to be negligible or related to field redefinitions that are associated with redundancies of the bulk Lagrangian. In this paper, we revisit this topic in the light of the cosmological bootstrap. We first establish the correspondence between boundary terms and field redefinitions for cosmological correlators. This result provides a set of criteria for determining when boundary terms lead to non-vanishing contributions to cosmological observables. Next, we apply this general understanding to concrete examples of correlators from massive-exchange diagrams, in both dS-invariant and boost-breaking scenarios. For theories with dS isometries, both IBP and field redefinitions are used to relate derivative and non-derivative exchange diagrams, from which the leading boundary contributions and IR-divergent pieces are extracted; we also derive recursion relations among higher-derivative exchange correlators. For theories with broken dS boosts, we use IBP and EoM to reduce exchange diagrams to a basis of independent templates, and then present a classification of the boundary contributions in the general effective field theory framework. These results pave the way for a more systematic investigation on the boundary physics of the inflationary spacetime.

gr-qc

MSRAMIE: Multimodal Structured Reasoning Agent for Multi-instruction Image Editing

Existing instruction-based image editing models perform well with simple, single-step instructions but degrade in realistic scenarios that involve multiple, lengthy, and interdependent directives. A main cause is the scarcity of training data with complex multi-instruction annotations. However, it is costly to collect such data and retrain these models. To address this challenge, we propose MSRAMIE, a training-free agent framework built on Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM). MSRAMIE takes existing editing models as plug-in components and handle multi-instruction tasks via structured multimodal reasoning. It orchestrates iterative interactions between an MLLM-based Instructor and an image editing Actor, introducing a novel reasoning topology that comprises the proposed Tree-of-States and Graph-of-References. During inference, complex instructions are decomposed into multiple editing steps which enable state transitions, cross-step information aggregation, and original input recall, which enables systematic exploration of the image editing space and flexible progressive output refinement. The visualizable inference topology further provides interpretable and controllable decision pathways. Experiments show that as the instruction complexity increases, MSRAMIE can improve instruction following over 15% and increases the probability of finishing all modifications in a single run over 100%, while preserving perceptual quality and maintaining visual consistency.

cs.CV

Discovering Process-Outcome Credit in Multi-Step LLM Reasoning

Reinforcement Learning (RL) serves as a potent paradigm for enhancing reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), yet standard outcome-based approaches often suffer from reward sparsity and inefficient credit assignment. In this paper, we propose a novel framework designed to provide continuous reward signals, which introduces a Step-wise Marginal Information Gain (MIG) mechanism that quantifies the intrinsic value of reasoning steps against a Monotonic Historical Watermark, effectively filtering out training noise. To ensure disentangled credit distribution, we implement a Decoupled Masking Strategy, applying process-oriented rewards specifically to the chain-of-thought (CoT) and outcome-oriented rewards to the full completion. Additionally, we incorporate a Dual-Gated SFT objective to stabilize training with high-quality structural and factual signals. Extensive experiments across textual and multi-modal benchmarks (e.g., MATH, Super-CLEVR) demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms baselines such as GRPO in both sample efficiency and final accuracy. Furthermore, our model exhibits superior out-of-distribution robustness, demonstrating promising zero-shot transfer capabilities to unseen and challenging reasoning tasks.

cs.AI

Interact or Twist: Cosmological Correlators from Field Redefinitions Revisited

In cosmology, correlation functions on a late-time boundary can arise from both field redefinitions and bulk interactions, which are usually believed to generate distinct results. In this letter, we propose a counterexample showcasing that correlators from local field redefinitions can be identical to the ones from bulk interactions. In particular, we consider a two-field model in de Sitter space, where the field space gets twisted by field redefinitions to yield a nontrivial reheating surface. We then exploit conformal symmetry to compute the three-point function, and show that the result takes the form of contact correlators with a total-energy singularity. Our finding suggests that in the effective field theory, a class of lower-dimensional operators, which were overlooked previously, may lead to nontrivial signals in cosmological correlators. As an illustration, we apply our result to cosmic inflation and derive a possibly leading signature of the Higgs in the primordial bispectrum.

hep-th

Ultra Memory-Efficient On-FPGA Training of Transformers via Tensor-Compressed Optimization

Transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of machine learning tasks. There is growing interest in training transformers on resource-constrained edge devices due to considerations such as privacy, domain adaptation, and on-device scientific machine learning. However, the significant computational and memory demands required for transformer training often exceed the capabilities of an edge device. Leveraging low-rank tensor compression, this paper presents the first on-FPGA accelerator for end-to-end transformer training. On the algorithm side, we present a bi-directional contraction flow for tensorized transformer training, significantly reducing the computational FLOPS and intra-layer memory costs compared to existing tensor operations. On the hardware side, we store all highly compressed model parameters and gradient information on chip, creating an on-chip-memory-only framework for each stage in training. This reduces off-chip communication and minimizes latency and energy costs. Additionally, we implement custom computing kernels for each training stage and employ intra-layer parallelism and pipe-lining to further enhance run-time and memory efficiency. Through experiments on transformer models within $36.7$ to $93.5$ MB using FP-32 data formats on the ATIS dataset, our tensorized FPGA accelerator could conduct single-batch end-to-end training on the AMD Alevo U50 FPGA, with a memory budget of less than $6$-MB BRAM and $22.5$-MB URAM. Compared to uncompressed training on the NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU, our on-FPGA training achieves a memory reduction of $30\times$ to $51\times$. Our FPGA accelerator also achieves up to $3.6\times$ less energy cost per epoch compared with tensor Transformer training on an NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU.

cs.LG

VEC-Sim: A Simulation Platform for Evaluating Service Caching and Computation Offloading Policies in Vehicular Edge Networks

Computer simulation platforms offer an alternative solution by emulating complex systems in a controlled manner. However, existing Edge Computing (EC) simulators, as well as general-purpose vehicular network simulators, are not tailored for VEC and lack dedicated support for modeling the distinct access pattern, entity mobility trajectory and other unique characteristics of VEC networks. To fill this gap, this paper proposes VEC-Sim, a versatile simulation platform for in-depth evaluation and analysis of various service caching and computation offloading policies in VEC networks. VEC-Sim incorporates realistic mechanisms to replicate real-world access patterns, including service feature vector, vehicle mobility modeling, evolving service popularity, new service upload and user preference shifts, etc. Moreover, its modular architecture and extensive Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow seamless integration of customized scheduling policies and user-defined metrics. A comprehensive evaluation of VEC-Sim's capabilities is undertaken in comparison to real-world ground truths. Results prove it to be accurate in reproducing classical scheduling algorithms and extremely effective in conducting case studies.

cs.NI

Hierarchical Memory Pool Based Edge Semi-Supervised Continual Learning Method

The continuous changes in the world have resulted in the performance regression of neural networks. Therefore, continual learning (CL) area gradually attracts the attention of more researchers. For edge intelligence, the CL model not only needs to overcome catastrophic for-getting, but also needs to face the huge challenge of severely limited resources: the lack of labeled resources and powerful devices. However, the existing classic CL methods usually rely on a large number of labeled samples to maintain the plasticity and stability, and the semi-supervised learning methods often need to pay a large computational and memory overhead for higher accuracy. In response to these prob-lems, a low-cost semi-supervised CL method named Edge Hierarchical Memory Learner (EdgeHML) will be proposed. EdgeHML can effec-tively utilize a large number of unlabeled samples and a small number of labeled samples. It is based on a hierarchical memory pool, lever-age multi-level storage structure to store and replay samples. EdgeHML implements the interaction between different levels through a combination of online and offline strategies. In addition, in order to further reduce the computational overhead for unlabeled samples, EdgeHML leverages a progressive learning method. It reduces the computation cycles of unlabeled samples by controlling the learning process. The experimental results show that on three semi-supervised CL tasks, EdgeHML can improve the model accuracy by up to 16.35% compared with the classic CL method, and the training iterations time can be reduced by more than 50% compared with semi-supervised methods. EdgeHML achieves a semi-supervised CL process with high performance and low overhead for edge intelligence.

cs.LG

SoccerNet 2022 Challenges Results

The SoccerNet 2022 challenges were the second annual video understanding challenges organized by the SoccerNet team. In 2022, the challenges were composed of 6 vision-based tasks: (1) action spotting, focusing on retrieving action timestamps in long untrimmed videos, (2) replay grounding, focusing on retrieving the live moment of an action shown in a replay, (3) pitch localization, focusing on detecting line and goal part elements, (4) camera calibration, dedicated to retrieving the intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters, (5) player re-identification, focusing on retrieving the same players across multiple views, and (6) multiple object tracking, focusing on tracking players and the ball through unedited video streams. Compared to last year's challenges, tasks (1-2) had their evaluation metrics redefined to consider tighter temporal accuracies, and tasks (3-6) were novel, including their underlying data and annotations. More information on the tasks, challenges and leaderboards are available on https://www.soccer-net.org. Baselines and development kits are available on https://github.com/SoccerNet.

cs.CV

TartanAir: A Dataset to Push the Limits of Visual SLAM

We present a challenging dataset, the TartanAir, for robot navigation tasks and more. The data is collected in photo-realistic simulation environments with the presence of moving objects, changing light and various weather conditions. By collecting data in simulations, we are able to obtain multi-modal sensor data and precise ground truth labels such as the stereo RGB image, depth image, segmentation, optical flow, camera poses, and LiDAR point cloud. We set up large numbers of environments with various styles and scenes, covering challenging viewpoints and diverse motion patterns that are difficult to achieve by using physical data collection platforms. In order to enable data collection at such a large scale, we develop an automatic pipeline, including mapping, trajectory sampling, data processing, and data verification. We evaluate the impact of various factors on visual SLAM algorithms using our data. The results of state-of-the-art algorithms reveal that the visual SLAM problem is far from solved. Methods that show good performance on established datasets such as KITTI do not perform well in more difficult scenarios. Although we use the simulation, our goal is to push the limits of Visual SLAM algorithms in the real world by providing a challenging benchmark for testing new methods, while also using a large diverse training data for learning-based methods. Our dataset is available at \url{http://theairlab.org/tartanair-dataset}.

cs.RO

Novel View Synthesis for Large-scale Scene using Adversarial Loss

Novel view synthesis aims to synthesize new images from different viewpoints of given images. Most of previous works focus on generating novel views of certain objects with a fixed background. However, for some applications, such as virtual reality or robotic manipulations, large changes in background may occur due to the egomotion of the camera. Generated images of a large-scale environment from novel views may be distorted if the structure of the environment is not considered. In this work, we propose a novel fully convolutional network, that can take advantage of the structural information explicitly by incorporating the inverse depth features. The inverse depth features are obtained from CNNs trained with sparse labeled depth values. This framework can easily fuse multiple images from different viewpoints. To fill the missing textures in the generated image, adversarial loss is applied, which can also improve the overall image quality. Our method is evaluated on the KITTI dataset. The results show that our method can generate novel views of large-scale scene without distortion. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated through qualitative and quantitative evaluation.

cs.CV