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Xin Jin

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Empirical Scaling Laws of Quantum Vision Transformers

Quantum machine learning (QML) is a promising application of quantum computing, yet when and how practical learning models can achieve quantum advantage remains poorly understood. Even a polynomial improvement in the resources needed to attain a given predictive performance would be significant. In this work, we investigate empirical scaling laws of quantum vision transformers (QViTs), which connect QML to the transformer architecture underlying modern large language models. We ask whether QViTs exhibit scaling behavior analogous to classical models and how this behavior changes when qubit number is included alongside dataset size and model parameters. The validation losses in our numerical image-classification experiments are well described by a joint shifted power-law model in qubit number, transformer depth, and training dataset size. Expressing this fit in terms of the classical encoder parameter budget identifies a regime in which increasing the number of qubits can compensate for fewer classical encoder parameters at comparable predicted performance. This finding is consistent with earlier observations of parameter efficiency in quantum learning models and suggests a direction for exploring possible resource savings in QML.

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Four Generations of Quantum Biomedical Sensors

Quantum sensing technologies offer transformative potential for ultra-sensitive biomedical sensing, yet their clinical translation remains constrained by classical noise limits and a reliance on macroscopic ensembles. We propose a unifying generational framework to organize the evolving landscape of quantum biosensors based on their utilization of quantum resources. First-generation devices utilize discrete energy levels for signal transduction but follow classical scaling laws. Second-generation sensors exploit quantum coherence, extending precision with the coherence time up to the standard quantum limit, while third-generation architectures employ entanglement and spin squeezing to approach Heisenberg-limited precision. We define an emerging fourth generation characterized by the end-to-end integration of quantum sensing with quantum learning and variational circuits, enabling adaptive inference directly within the quantum domain. By introducing a bandwidth-matching analysis pairing the neural signal hierarchy with platform response bandwidths, classifying deployed clinical devices by precision-scaling class and sensor-tissue proximity, and outlining a staged physical-milestone roadmap toward learning-integrated sensor networks, we identify key technological bottlenecks and chart the transition from measuring physical observables to extracting structured biological information with quantum-enhanced intelligence.

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GTA: Advancing Image-to-3D World Generation via Geometry Then Appearance Video Diffusion

Recent developments in generative models and large-scale datasets have substantially advanced 3D world generation, facilitating a broad range of domains including spatial intelligence, embodied intelligence, and autonomous driving. While achieving remarkable progress, existing approaches to 3D world generation typically prioritize appearance prediction with limited modeling of the underlying geometry, leading to issues such as unreliable scene structure estimation and degraded cross-view consistency. To address these limitations, motivated by the coarse-to-fine nature of human visual perception, we propose GTA, a novel image-to-3D world generation method following a Geometry-Then-Appearance paradigm. Specifically, given a single input image, to improve the structural fidelity of synthesized 3D scenes, GTA adopts a two-stage framework with two dedicated video diffusion models, which first generate coarse geometric structure from novel viewpoints and then synthesize fine-grained appearance conditioned on the predicted geometry. To further enhance cross-view appearance consistency, we introduce a random latent shuffle strategy during the training process, along with a test-time scaling scheme that improves perceptual quality without compromising quantitative performance. Extensive experiments have demonstrated that our proposed method consistently outperforms existing approaches in terms of fidelity, visual quality, and geometric accuracy. Moreover, GTA is shown to be effective as a general enhancement module that further improves the generation quality of existing image-to-3D world pipelines, as well as supporting multiple downstream applications and exhibiting favorable data efficiency during model training, highlighting its versatility and broad applicability. Project page: https://hanxinzhu-lab.github.io/GTA/.

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VGA-BenchV2: An Expanded Unified Benchmark and Multi-Model Framework for Evaluating Video Aesthetics and Generation Quality

We introduce VGA-BenchV2, an extended human-aligned benchmark and optimization framework for jointly evaluating and improving video generation quality and aesthetic value. Built upon VGA-Bench, VGA-BenchV2 preserves the original fine-grained taxonomy with two primary dimensions-Aesthetic and Generation-and 52 sub-dimensions. Guided by this taxonomy, we curate 1,016 diverse prompts and collect over 60,000 videos generated by 12 mainstream video generation models. More importantly, VGA-BenchV2 substantially expands human-labeled supervision by adding 36,000 task-level annotations, including 16,200 for aesthetic quality, 13,200 for aesthetic tagging, and 6,600 for generation quality, corresponding to 13.46x, 11.15x, and 1.55x scale-ups over VGA-Bench, respectively. Leveraging this enlarged annotation corpus, we develop a hybrid evaluator architecture consisting of VAQA-Net for continuous aesthetic scoring and two Qwen-based Large Vision-Language Model evaluators, VTag-Net and VGQA-Net, for aesthetic tagging and generation quality assessment. Extensive experiments demonstrate strong alignment with human judgments across diverse generation models. Beyond evaluation, VGA-BenchV2 further introduces an evaluation-to-optimization pipeline, where the learned aesthetic evaluator serves as a reward model for reinforcement learning-based generator fine-tuning. This closes the loop from benchmark construction and human supervision to automated evaluation and model optimization, enabling video generators to improve not only in realism but also in aesthetic quality and human preference alignment. Resources are available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/BestiVictoryLab/VGA-Bench.

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Dissonance Spectrum explicitly models perceptual frequency interactions for better music understanding

Conventional music representations describe acoustic energy over time and frequency but do not explicitly expose relations among simultaneous frequency components. We introduce the \emph{Dissonance Spectrum} (DS), a nonnegative time--frequency representation that applies a tolerance-based rational pitch-relation kernel with logarithmic harmonic distance to a constant-Q spectrum and attributes aggregate pairwise interactions back to individual frequency bins. Controlled music-theory tests show strong ordinal agreement for intervals, harmonic-function connections, and church modes, and weaker but significant agreement across diverse chord voicings. DS is then encoded by a lightweight parallel branch whose zero-initialized residual projection preserves the baseline function at initialization. Across six paired training seeds in open-ended music question answering and categorical and dimensional music emotion recognition, DS obtains the highest mean on every reported endpoint relative to the unchanged baseline, a parameter-matched Gaussian-input branch, and an architecture-matched magnitude-CQT branch. These results support DS as an interpretable, complementary representation, while listener-specific perception and broader task coverage remain open problems.

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Twinning for Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Networks: Beyond Conventional Digital Twin Towards Goal-Oriented Semantic Twin

A space-air-ground-sea integrated network (SAGSIN) has emerged as a cornerstone of 6G systems, establishing a unified global architecture by integrating multi-domain network resources. Motivated by the demand for real-time situational awareness and intelligent operational maintenance, digital twin (DT) technology was initially regarded as a promising solution, owing to its capability to create virtual replicas and emulate physical system behaviors. However, in the context of SAGSIN, the high-fidelity, full-scale modeling paradigm inherent to conventional DTs encounters fundamental limitations, including prohibitive computational overhead, delayed model synchronization, and cross-system semantic gaps. To address these limitations, this survey paper proposes a novel twinning framework: goal-oriented semantic twin (GOST). Unlike DTs that pursue physical mirroring, GOST prioritizes ``utility'' over ``fidelity,'' leveraging semantic technologies and goal-oriented principles to construct lightweight, task-specific representations. This paper systematically articulates the GOST framework through three layers: knowledge-based semantics, data-driven semantics, and goal-oriented principles. Furthermore, we provide a comprehensive tutorial on constructing GOST by detailing its core enabling technologies and introduce a multidimensional evaluation framework for GOST. We present a case study targeting collaborative tracking tasks in remote satellite-UAV networks, demonstrating that GOST significantly outperforms conventional DTs in timeliness of perceptual data and collaborative tracking. Finally, we outline research directions, establishing GOST as a transformative twinning paradigm to guide the development of SAGSIN.

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Unusually high phonon thermal conductivity in the Weyl semimetal TaP: A comparative study with TaAs

In many metals, thermal transport is often dominated by electrons, although the lattice contribution can remain appreciable depending on the material. Here, through rigorous first-principles calculations, we uncover a phonon-dominated thermal transport regime in the Weyl semimetals TaAs and TaP. Remarkably, despite its metallic character, TaP exhibits an exceptionally high phonon thermal conductivity ($κ_{\rm ph}$) of 162 Wm$^{-1}$K$^{-1}$ at room temperature, surpassing its electronic counterpart by nearly an order of magnitude. This anomalously high $κ_{\rm ph}$ arises from the combined effects of Weyl electronic structure, acoustic phonon bunching, and a large low-high frequency phonon gap, which together suppress phonon-electron and three-phonon scattering. The linearly dispersing bands near the Fermi level yield a low electronic density of states, limiting both electrical conductivity and electronic thermal transport in these compounds. By further surveying a broad range of topological semimetals, we show that the prominence of phonon thermal transport is a universal characteristic of this material class. Our work provides deeper insight into thermal transport mechanisms in topological semimetals and broadens the scope for discovering metals with high thermal conductivity.

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Inter-X++: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Human-Human Interaction Analysis

The capability to perceive and synthesize human-human interactions is fundamental to developing intelligent digital human systems. However, existing datasets and modeling approaches are fundamentally constrained by low-fidelity kinematics, the omission of dexterous hand gestures and a severe lack of rich multimodal annotations. Furthermore, fragmented interaction representations and inconsistent evaluation protocols also impede fair and rigorous benchmarking. To systematically address these bottlenecks, we present Inter-X++, a comprehensive and large-scale benchmark designed to empower versatile HHI analysis. Captured via a novel hybrid motion capture system, Inter-X++ provides 11,388 high-fidelity interaction sequences and over 8.1M frames, featuring precise whole-body movements and detailed finger articulations. Meanwhile, we enrich the data foundation with multifaceted annotations, including hierarchical fine-grained textual descriptions, interaction categories, causal interaction orders, the relationship and personality of the subjects, as well as vertex-level contact maps and physically regularized constraints. Leveraging these elaborate annotations, we formulate a unified testing ground comprising four categories of downstream tasks that symmetrically span both generative and perceptive paradigms. To eliminate benchmarking ambiguities, we systematically standardize the interaction representations and evaluation protocols. Finally, we go beyond dataset construction to propose OpenHHI, a single and unified HHI representation and modeling framework that jointly optimizes interaction reconstruction and semantic understanding. Extensive experiments reveal that OpenHHI achieves state-of-the-art performance on both generation and perception tasks. This definitively proves that our unified representation successfully bridges interaction understanding and generation simultaneously.

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ORV: 4D Occupancy-centric Robot Video Generation

Recent embodied intelligence suffers from data scarcity, while conventional simulators lack visual realism. Controllable video generation is emerging as a promising data engine, yet current action-conditioned methods still fall short: generated videos are limited in fidelity and temporal consistency, poorly aligned with controls, and often constrained to singleview settings. We attribute these issues to the representational gap between sparse control inputs and dense pixel outputs. Thus, we introduce ORV, a 4D occupancy-centric framework for robot video generation that couples action priors with occupancy-derived visual priors. Concretely, we align chunked 7-DoF actions with video latents via an Action-Expert AdaLN modulation, and inject 2D renderings of 4D semantic occupancy into the generation process as soft guidance. Meanwhile, a central obstacle is the lack of occupancy data for embodied scenarios; we therefore curate ORV-Data, a large-scale, high-quality 4D semantic occupancy dataset of robot manipulation. Across BridgeV2, DROID, and RT-1, ORV improves video generation quality and controllability, achieving 18.8% lower FVD than state of the art, +3.5% success rate on visual planning, and +6.4% success rate on policy learning. Beyond singleview generation, ORV natively supports multiview consistent synthesis and enables simulation-to-real transfer despite significant domain gaps. Code, models, and data are at: https://orangesodahub.github.io/ORV

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Dual Distribution Estimation for Zero-shot Noisy Test-Time Adaptation with VLMs

While test-time adaptation (TTA) empowers vision-language models to adapt without costly retraining, it remains highly vulnerable to out-of-distribution (OOD) outliers prevalent in real-world applications. This discrepancy motivates Noisy TTA (NTTA), an online task to filter noisy OOD samples on the fly while maximizing in-distribution (ID) classification accuracy. Existing zero-shot NTTA approaches typically rely on test-time discriminative training, leading to overconfident misclassifications and significantly degraded inference efficiency. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework named Dual Distribution Estimation (DDE), shifting the zero-shot NTTA paradigm from instance-level learning to training-free Gaussian distribution modeling. DDE incorporates two novel modules: Positive Feature Distribution Estimation (PFDE) and Negative Label Distribution Estimation (NLDE). PFDE explicitly models class-wise inclusion and exclusion Gaussian distributions to formulate a calibrated contrastive score, robustly enhancing ID accuracy. In parallel, NLDE improves OOD identification by explicitly modeling the negative label distribution to mine highly discriminative labels, effectively mitigating spurious correlations. Extensive experiments show that on the large-scale ImageNet benchmark, DDE achieves an improvement of 3.70\% in harmonic mean accuracy and reduces the FPR95 for OOD detection by 6.20\%, while ensuring highly scalable and efficient online inference. Furthermore, DDE is zero-shot and training-free, demonstrating remarkable robustness in data-scarce scenarios. Codes are available at https://github.com/ZhuWenjie98/DDE.

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ProTAGAD: A Foundation Model for TAG Anomaly Detection with Decoupled Topological and Textual Prototypes

Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs), endowed with abundant textual content along with topological structures, have emerged as a versatile backbone for real-world anomaly detection spanning large language model security, social network moderation, and cyber threat identification. Unlike conventional Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD), which relies primarily on structural irregularities, TAG anomaly detection must jointly leverage both topological patterns and fine-grained textual semantics to capture nuanced anomalous behaviors. The current GNN-based anomaly detectors adopt holistic message-passing schemes that indiscriminately fuse structural proximity and textual semantics during propagation, leading to deep cross-modality coupling. This entanglement acts as a noise amplifier, obscuring subtle anomalous signals and directly giving rise to the Blurred-Anomaly-Boundary (BAB) issue by rendering normal-anomalous decision boundaries poorly separable. This challenge is further amplified for graph foundation models that require robust cross-domain generalization. To bridge this gap, we introduce a novel foundation model for TAG anomaly detection featuring decoupled topological and textual prototypes. Our framework constructs dual prototype banks to independently model structural normality and semantic consistency, effectively isolating anomaly cues that are otherwise diluted during coupled aggregation. Extensive experiments across 14 diverse benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance in cross-domain settings. Notably, the ablation studies further corroborate the prevalence of the BAB issue in conventional coupled TAG anomaly detectors, and show that our decoupled prototype design effectively mitigates this challenge.

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Adaptive Demand-Driven Energy Management of PCM-Integrated District Heating Systems: Operational Flexibility and Techno-Economic Assessment

Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) using phase change materials (PCMs) is a promising solution to shifting heat supply and reducing peak demand in district heating (DH). However, the combined impacts of PCM thermophysical properties and practical control strategies on DH system-level operational and economic performance remain insufficiently understood. To bridge the research gap, this study investigates a PCM-integrated DH system with heat pump assisted waste heat recovery under an adaptive demand-driven (ADD) control strategy to enhance operational flexibility. A dynamic simulation model was developed and the system performance was evaluated against a baseline case and a rule-based control (RBC) approach based on peak-load reduction, operational cost, heat pump performance, and indoor thermal comfort. Furthermore, sensitivity analyses were conducted to examine the influence of PCM thermophysical properties on system performance. The results showed that the RBC can shift peak demand but tends to generate secondary peaks during charging periods. In contrast, the ADD strategy effectively smoothed the heat demand profile and achieved up to 5.3% peak-load reduction while maintaining thermal comfort. Sensitivity analysis revealed that a phase-change temperature of 80$^\circ$C and thermal conductivity above 2 W/(m$\cdot$K) achieved a higher peak-load reduction and improved economic performance. Despite the enhanced peak-shaving capability achieved by the proposed control strategy, the system exhibited a payback period of 25.3 years, indicating that further cost reductions and supportive market incentives are required. Nevertheless, the proposed approach provides significant potential for enhancing DH flexibility and supporting the transition toward future low-carbon energy systems.

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SeFi-Image: A Text-to-Image Foundation Model with Semantic-First Diffusion

Training image generation foundation models consumes substantial resources. Previous methods have attempted to leverage semantic guidance to accelerate the training process, yet their experiments were only conducted on simple datasets such as ImageNet, at low resolutions, and with small-scale models. In this paper, we propose SeFi-Image, a text-to-image foundation model built upon semantic-first diffusion, a novel latent diffusion modeling paradigm. We instantiate SeFi-Image at three model scales, 1B, 2B, and 5B parameters, enabling systematic study of scaling behavior and flexible deployment under varying compute budgets. Notably, our largest 5B model was trained with merely 125K A800 GPU hours, corresponding to roughly 10-20% of the training compute used by Z-Image. However, it achieves results comparable to or even superior to Qwen-Image and Z-Image. Despite this modest training compute, SeFi-Image achieves strong performance on a wide range of benchmarks, including GenEval, DPG, LongTextBench, OneIG, and CVTG-2K. Moreover, we provide DMD2-distilled few-step turbo variants for each model scale to accommodate diverse hardware constraints and latency requirements. We publicly release our code, weights and hope this work offers the community useful insights into semantic-guided diffusion modeling for T2I generation, while also providing practical and readily deployable model options.

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AGVBench: A Reliability-Oriented Benchmark of Data Augmentation for Vein Recognition

Vein recognition is a secure biometric technology often constrained by limited annotated data and imaging variations. While data augmentation mitigates this, strategies designed for natural images may disrupt the fine-grained topology and textures essential for identity discrimination. We present AGVBench, which evaluates 30 representative augmentation strategies on five public palm- and finger-vein datasets with seven backbone architectures, covering classic CNNs, vision transformers, and vein-specific recognition models. Our results show that multi-image mixing methods (e.g., MixUp, PuzzleMix, StarMixup) generally provide the strongest recognition performance. However, they are often poorly calibrated and vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, revealing a clear inconsistency between clean accuracy and adversarial security. We also find that severe geometric transformations frequently degrade recognition, which is potentially due to feature misalignment or spatial cropping, and that augmentation effectiveness varies across palm and finger vein datasets. These findings prove that accuracy-centric evaluation is insufficient for biometric augmentation. AGVBench provides standardized protocols to support reproducible research and guide the design of reliable, secure, and robust vein recognition systems. Our codebase is available at https://github.com/Advance-VeinTech-Innovators/AGVBench.

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InteractComp: Evaluating Search Agents With Ambiguous Queries

Language agents have demonstrated remarkable potential in web search and information retrieval. However, many search-agent benchmarks assume that user queries are complete and unambiguous. This assumption leaves under-tested a practical failure mode: agents may face ambiguous requests where the intended target cannot be identified without clarification. Yet most agents lack interactive mechanisms during the search process, and existing benchmarks cannot assess this capability. To address this gap, we introduce InteractComp, a benchmark designed to evaluate whether search agents can recognize query ambiguity and actively interact to resolve it during search. Following the principle of easy to verify, interact to disambiguate, we construct 210 expert-curated questions across 9 domains through a target-distractor methodology that creates controlled ambiguity resolvable only through interaction. Evaluation of 17 models reveals striking failure: the best model achieves only 13.73% accuracy despite 71.50% with complete context, exposing systematic overconfidence rather than reasoning deficits. Forced interaction produces dramatic gains, demonstrating latent capability current strategies fail to engage. Longitudinal analysis shows interaction capabilities stagnated over 15 months while search performance improved seven-fold, revealing a critical blind spot. This stagnation, coupled with the immediate feedback inherent to search tasks, makes InteractComp a valuable resource for both evaluating and training interaction capabilities in search agents. The code is available at https://github.com/FoundationAgents/InteractComp.

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ExpertPlex: A High-Goodput Disaggregated Serving System for MoE LLMs with Adaptive Persistent Kernels

LLMs scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) parameters for superior intelligence, but massive weights and dynamic computation impede efficient serving. Existing instance-level prefill-decode disaggregation isolates the phases on separate full-model replicas. As MoE weights grow, each instance may span tens to hundreds of GPUs, making resource allocation increasingly coarse. Configured prefill-to-decode ratios thus often mismatch demand, overprovisioning one phase while overloading the other. Prefill-decode colocation avoids this duplication, but existing Green Context solutions partition each GPU by phase and fix phase resources during a kernel. They cannot track resource changes across operations or layerwise variation in routed expert load, causing head-of-line blocking or idle reserved resources. Partitioning every GPU also leaves each phase with fewer local resources, forces wider parallelism and more communication, and lets prefill and decode traffic interfere on the shared network. We present ExpertPlex, which shares massive MoE experts across phases while disaggregating lightweight attention modules. Expert sharing eliminates over 95% of duplicate model weights and multiplexes dynamically sparse computation, while attention disaggregation reduces attention communication cost. ExpertPlex further uses (1) adaptive persistent kernels to schedule dynamic expert computation at tile granularity for efficient, isolated execution; (2) attention-initiated MoE communication to avoid network interference and enable cross-phase communication-computation overlap; and (3) a tile-to-cluster model to optimize these mechanisms for maximum goodput. Experiments serving MiniMax-M2.7 and GLM-5.1-FP8 show that ExpertPlex improves goodput by up to 2.01$\times$ over instance-level prefill-decode disaggregation and 1.66$\times$ over prefill-decode colocation.

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InstructMixup: Instruction-Guided Salient Patch Editing for Robust Data Augmentation

In image and video technologies, data augmentation is widely used to improve the generalization of deep visual models, and mixup-based strategies that interpolate between samples have become the dominant approach. However, computing informative mixing regions adds substantial overhead, and blending content across different images frequently disrupts the semantic integrity of the resulting sample. We propose \our{}, a data augmentation method that constructs challenging yet label-consistent training samples entirely within a single visual sample. \our{} first extracts multi-scale salient patches from the sample using a lightweight saliency detector, refines each patch with an instruction-guided generative model, and blends the edited patch back into the non-salient regions of the same sample; because the generative edits are computed once and cached offline, this step adds negligible training cost. To further diversify the learned representation, \our{} injects self-similar fractal structure into the same salient regions at an adaptive ratio, so each training sample carries both fractal and non-fractal structure. We derive a second-order approximation of the resulting vicinal risk, showing that the method simultaneously enforces invariance to the generative edit and suppresses curvature along the perturbed salient directions, and we verify both predictions empirically. We evaluate on small to large backbones for instance Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Vision-Language Foundational Models (VLMs) across seven benchmarks covering coarse- and fine-grained classification, robustness to corruption and occlusion, calibration, and transfer and self-supervised learning, InstructMixup outperforms nine competing augmentation methods, surpassing the strongest baseline across all benchmarks.

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Music-to-Dance Generation via Atomic Movements

Music-driven dance generation aims to produce human motion that is both rhythmically synchronized and semantically consistent with music. While recent neural approaches have achieved impressive visual realism, they typically model motion as a continuous signal and neglect its compositional nature, making generated dances structurally incoherent and difficult to control. In this work, we introduce a structure-aware framework that models choreography as a sequence of atomic movements-semantically interpretable motion events that serve as the building blocks of dance. To construct this atomic movement vocabulary, we first segment large-scale dance data and cluster them into atomic movement groups. We then employ a large language model to semantically relabel and refine the clusters, yielding a set of interpretable and reusable atomic movements. Based on these atomic movement annotations, we design a two-stage generation framework that mirrors the human choreography process. In the atomic movement planning stage, the model predicts the type, duration, and timing of atomic movements conditioned on the input music, forming a symbolic dance allocation. In the completion stage, a transition-aware generator synthesizes smooth and stylistically coherent motion conditioned on the planned structure. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method produces dances with significantly improved structural coherence, rhythmic alignment, and perceptual naturalness compared to existing baselines, while providing enhanced interpretability and controllable editing through explicit structural representation.

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