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Yuxin Hu

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PriSAR: 3D Geometric-Prior-Guided Diffusion for Parameter-Controlled SAR Image Generation

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image generation can mitigate data scarcity, but controllablegeneration under sparse observation angles remains difficult. Recent SAR generative studies im-prove texture realism, yet explicit geometry-aware control is still limited. This paper studiesthe focused and verifiable setting of intermediate-azimuth completion: 3D-model-derived geo-metric priors guide a diffusion model to synthesize the views missing from sparse-angle trainingdata. GeoDiff-SAR constructs a lightweight multi-bounce ray-tracing prior, encodes the result-ing point cloud, and fuses it with text conditioning while adapting Stable Diffusion 3.5 Mediumthrough low-rank adaptation. On a real four-category aircraft dataset, GeoDiff-SAR reaches anSSIM of 0.812 and azimuth consistency of 0.940, compared with 0.738 and 0.782 for the text-conditioned SD3.5 Medium baseline. The same sparse-angle protocol on five MSTAR vehicleclasses yields an SSIM of 0.878 and azimuth consistency of 0.917. These results support theconclusion that a lightweight 3D geometric prior improves viewpoint adherence for controllableSAR generation; it is intended as generation guidance rather than high-fidelity electromagneticreconstruction.

eess.IV

UASPL: Uncertainty-Aware Self-Paced Learning with Evidential Neural Networks

Self-paced learning (SPL) is an effective learning paradigm that simulates the human learning process by progressing from easy to difficult samples based on the value of the loss function during the learning process. It has shown great potential in improving model performance and training efficiency. However, the prediction results of samples with smaller loss values are not necessarily reliable, indicating that such samples are not always simple samples for the model. Hence, this article proposes an uncertainty-aware self-paced learning based on evidential neural networks, termed UASPL, which integrates predictive reliability into sample selection through a general loss function within the Subjective Logic framework. This loss function incorporates uncertainty estimation and can be extended to different variants of SPL. Moreover, this loss function couples a sample selection preference, thereby ensuring the interpretability of the sample selection process. Finally, the experimental results on multiple datasets show that UASPL outperforms other SPL methods in terms of classification performance, interpretability, and generality. The source code is available at: https://github.com/treelife979/UASPL.

cs.LG

Beyond Compliance: A Resistance-Informed Motivation Reasoning Framework for Challenging Psychological Client Simulation

Psychological client simulators have emerged as a scalable solution for training and evaluating counselor trainees and psychological LLMs. Yet existing simulators exhibit unrealistic over-compliance, leaving counselors underprepared for the challenging behaviors common in real-world practice. To bridge this gap, we present ResistClient, which systematically models challenging client behaviors grounded in Client Resistance Theory by integrating external behaviors with underlying motivational mechanisms. To this end, we propose Resistance-Informed Motivation Reasoning (RIMR), a two-stage training framework. First, RIMR mitigates compliance bias via supervised fine-tuning on RPC, a large-scale resistance-oriented psychological conversation dataset covering diverse client profiles. Second, beyond surface-level response imitation, RIMR models psychologically coherent motivation reasoning before response generation, jointly optimizing motivation authenticity and response consistency via process-supervised reinforcement learning. Extensive automatic and expert evaluations show that ResistClient substantially outperforms existing simulators in challenge fidelity, behavioral plausibility, and reasoning coherence. Moreover, ResistClient facilities evaluation of psychological LLMs under challenging conditions, offering new optimization directions for mental health dialogue systems.

cs.AI

Deep-Reporter: Deep Research for Grounded Multimodal Long-Form Generation

Recent agentic search frameworks enable deep research via iterative planning and retrieval, reducing hallucinations and enhancing factual grounding. However, they remain text-centric, overlooking the multimodal evidence that characterizes real-world expert reports. We introduce a pressing task: multimodal long-form generation. Accordingly, we propose Deep-Reporter, a unified agentic framework for grounded multimodal long-form generation. It orchestrates: (i) Agentic Multimodal Search and Filtering to retrieve and filter textual passages and information-dense visuals; (ii) Checklist-Guided Incremental Synthesis to ensure coherent image-text integration and optimal citation placement; and (iii) Recurrent Context Management to balance long-range coherence with local fluency. We develop a rigorous curation pipeline producing 8K high-quality agentic traces for model optimization. We further introduce M2LongBench, a comprehensive testbed comprising 247 research tasks across 9 domains and a stable multimodal sandbox. Extensive experiments demonstrate that long-form multimodal generation is a challenging task, especially in multimodal selection and integration, and effective post-training can bridge the gap.

cs.CL

MiroEval: Benchmarking Multimodal Deep Research Agents in Process and Outcome

Recent progress in deep research systems has been impressive, but evaluation still lags behind real user needs. Existing benchmarks predominantly assess final reports using fixed rubrics, failing to evaluate the underlying research process. Most also offer limited multimodal coverage, rely on synthetic tasks that do not reflect real-world query complexity, and cannot be refreshed as knowledge evolves. To address these gaps, we introduce MiroEval, a benchmark and evaluation framework for deep research systems. The benchmark comprises 100 tasks (70 text-only, 30 multimodal), all grounded in real user needs and constructed via a dual-path pipeline that supports periodic updates, enabling a live and evolving setting. The proposed evaluation suite assesses deep research systems along three complementary dimensions: adaptive synthesis quality evaluation with task-specific rubrics, agentic factuality verification via active retrieval and reasoning over both web sources and multimodal attachments, and process-centric evaluation audits how the system searches, reasons, and refines throughout its investigation. Evaluation across 13 systems yields three principal findings: the three evaluation dimensions capture complementary aspects of system capability, with each revealing distinct strengths and weaknesses across systems; process quality serves as a reliable predictor of overall outcome while revealing weaknesses invisible to output-level metrics; and multimodal tasks pose substantially greater challenges, with most systems declining by 3 to 10 points. The MiroThinker series achieves the most balanced performance, with MiroThinker-H1 ranking the highest overall in both settings. Human verification and robustness results confirm the reliability of the benchmark and evaluation framework. MiroEval provides a holistic diagnostic tool for the next generation of deep research agents.

cs.AI

Geometric-Topological Perception and Motion Prior for Real-Time Satellite Video Object Tracking

Satellite video object tracking (SVOT) remains fundamentally challenging due to texture scarcity, arbitrary rotation, aspect ratio changes, and severe occlusions. While recent state-of-the-art trackers excel in general scenarios, their reliance on rich appearance details or rigid spatial matching mechanisms leads to significant performance degradation in the satellite domain. To bridge this gap, we propose SiamGM, a real-time spatial-temporal unified tracking framework tailored for satellite videos. Instead of conventionally stacking modules, we synergize geometric-topological perception with temporal-kinematic prior, addressing the core limitations of SVOT. Spatially, we closely couple a Topological Attention Module (TAM) with a Geometry-Constrained Label Assignment (GCLA) method during the training phase, where a Local Graph Propagation (LGP) mechanism enforces neighborhood-consistent template-search correspondences. This joint paradigm establishes fine-grained structural correspondences and explicitly suppresses surrounding background noise. Temporally, rather than passively relying on visual cues, we propose an Online Motion Model Refinement (OMMR) strategy during the tracking phase. Gated by an online self-calibrated confidence indicator, OMMR adaptively fuse long-term stable and short-term instantaneous motion estimation for robust tracking. Evaluations on two challenging SatSOT and SV248S benchmarks confirm that SiamGM outperforms not only recent Siamese-based satellite trackers but also state-of-the-art Transformer trackers in both precision and success metrics. Notably, this highly unified architecture introduces only minor computational overhead, enabling real-time tracking at 130 frames per second (FPS).

cs.CV

GhostCite: A Large-Scale Analysis of Citation Validity in the Age of Large Language Models

Citations provide the basis for trusting scientific claims; when they are invalid or fabricated, this trust collapses. With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), this risk has intensified: LLMs are increasingly used for academic writing, but their tendency to fabricate citations (``ghost citations'') poses a systemic threat to citation validity. To quantify this threat, we develop \citeb, an open-source framework for large-scale citation verification, and conduct a comprehensive study of citation validity in the LLM era through three complementary experiments. First, we benchmark 13 LLMs on citation generation task in various research domains, finding that all models hallucinate citations at rate from 14.23\% to 94.93\%. Second, we analyze 2.2 million citations from 56,381 papers at AI/ML and Security venues (2020--2025), finding that 1.07\% of papers contain invalid citations, with an 80.9\% increase in 2025. Third, we survey 97 researchers, finding that 87.2\% use AI-powered tools in their workflows, 76.7\% of reviewers do not thoroughly check references, and 74.5\% view peer review as ineffective at catching citation errors. Based on these findings, we argue that ghost citations represent a systemic threat to academic integrity, and call for coordinated efforts from community to address this challenge.

cs.CR

GeoReason: Aligning Thinking And Answering In Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models Via Logical Consistency Reinforcement Learning

The evolution of Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models(RS-VLMs) emphasizes the importance of transitioning from perception-centric recognition toward high-level deductive reasoning to enhance cognitive reliability in complex spatial tasks. However, current models often suffer from logical hallucinations, where correct answers are derived from flawed reasoning chains or rely on positional shortcuts rather than spatial logic. This decoupling undermines reliability in strategic spatial decision-making. To address this, we present GeoReason, a framework designed to synchronize internal thinking with final decisions. We first construct GeoReason-Bench, a logic-driven dataset containing 4,000 reasoning trajectories synthesized from geometric primitives and expert knowledge. We then formulate a two-stage training strategy: (1) Supervised Knowledge Initialization to equip the model with reasoning syntax and domain expertise, and (2) Consistency-Aware Reinforcement Learning to refine deductive reliability. This second stage integrates a novel Logical Consistency Reward, which penalizes logical drift via an option permutation strategy to anchor decisions in verifiable reasoning traces. Experimental results demonstrate that our framework significantly enhances the cognitive reliability and interpretability of RS-VLMs, achieving state-of-the-art performance compared to other advanced methods.

cs.CV

GeoDiff-SAR: A Geometric Prior Guided Diffusion Model for SAR Image Generation

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image generation can mitigate data scarcity, but controllablegeneration under sparse observation angles remains difficult. Recent SAR generative studies im-prove texture realism, yet explicit geometry-aware control is still limited. This paper studiesthe focused and verifiable setting of intermediate-azimuth completion: 3D-model-derived geo-metric priors guide a diffusion model to synthesize the views missing from sparse-angle trainingdata. GeoDiff-SAR constructs a lightweight multi-bounce ray-tracing prior, encodes the result-ing point cloud, and fuses it with text conditioning while adapting Stable Diffusion 3.5 Mediumthrough low-rank adaptation. On a real four-category aircraft dataset, GeoDiff-SAR reaches anSSIM of 0.812 and azimuth consistency of 0.940, compared with 0.738 and 0.782 for the text-conditioned SD3.5 Medium baseline. The same sparse-angle protocol on five MSTAR vehicleclasses yields an SSIM of 0.878 and azimuth consistency of 0.917. These results support theconclusion that a lightweight 3D geometric prior improves viewpoint adherence for controllableSAR generation; it is intended as generation guidance rather than high-fidelity electromagneticreconstruction.

eess.IV

SLGNet: Synergizing Structural Priors and Language-Guided Modulation for Multimodal Object Detection

Multimodal object detection leveraging RGB and Infrared (IR) images is pivotal for robust perception in all-weather scenarios. While recent adapter-based approaches efficiently transfer RGB-pretrained foundation models to this task, they often prioritize model efficiency at the expense of cross-modal structural consistency. Consequently, critical structural cues are frequently lost when significant domain gaps arise, such as in high-contrast or nighttime environments. Moreover, conventional static multimodal fusion mechanisms typically lack environmental awareness, resulting in suboptimal adaptation and constrained detection performance under complex, dynamic scene variations. To address these limitations, we propose SLGNet, a parameter-efficient framework that synergizes hierarchical structural priors and language-guided modulation within a frozen Vision Transformer (ViT)-based foundation model. Specifically, we design a Structure-Aware Adapter to extract hierarchical structural representations from both modalities and dynamically inject them into the ViT to compensate for structural degradation inherent in ViT-based backbones. Furthermore, we propose a Language-Guided Modulation module that exploits VLM-driven structured captions to dynamically recalibrate visual features, thereby endowing the model with robust environmental awareness. Extensive experiments on the LLVIP, FLIR, KAIST, and DroneVehicle datasets demonstrate that SLGNet establishes new state-of-the-art performance. Notably, on the LLVIP benchmark, our method achieves an mAP of 66.1, while reducing trainable parameters by approximately 87% compared to traditional full fine-tuning. This confirms SLGNet as a robust and efficient solution for multimodal perception.

cs.CV

Optimal Embeddedness and Governance in Biotech Venture Capital Syndicates

The biotech venture market faces intense capital demands and regulatory scrutiny, yet academic research on VC networks remains rooted in software and consumer-tech contexts. This dissertation investigates how repeated co-investment ties and domain-expertise homophily influence a venture's exit likelihood, timing, and route amid the sector's pronounced technological and market uncertainty. Using a novel panel of 11,680 biotechnology start-ups from the United States, Canada, and Europe (2010-2024), we apply pooled logit, Cox proportional-hazards, multinomial logit, and Fine-Gray competing-risk models. Our findings show that both average prior co-investment and investor homophily exhibit robust inverted-U relationships with exit outcomes. Moderate familiarity and scientific overlap maximize exit probability, while either sparse or excessive embedding reduces success. Governance mechanisms also play a crucial role: participation of a pharmaceutical corporate VC or a highly independent board flattens the negative effects of over-embedding, enabling syndicates to sustain exit momentum at higher levels of familiarity or homogeneity. Furthermore, the optimal degree of embeddedness is route-specific: IPOs require deeper coordination than trade sales, while acquisitions peak earlier and are less sensitive to homophily. These findings refine network-embeddedness theory in the life-science context, identify governance contingencies, and offer practitioners quantitative metrics to balance trust, expertise, and oversight in biotech financing.

econ.EM

Context-Guided Decompilation: A Step Towards Re-executability

Binary decompilation plays an important role in software security analysis, reverse engineering, and malware understanding when source code is unavailable. However, existing decompilation techniques often fail to produce source code that can be successfully recompiled and re-executed, particularly for optimized binaries. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled neural approaches to decompilation, but the generated code is typically only semantically plausible rather than truly executable, limiting their practical reliability. These shortcomings arise from compiler optimizations and the loss of semantic cues in compiled code, which LLMs struggle to recover without contextual guidance. To address this challenge, we propose ICL4Decomp, a hybrid decompilation framework that leverages in-context learning (ICL) to guide LLMs toward generating re-executable source code. We evaluate our method across multiple datasets, optimization levels, and compilers, demonstrating around 40\% improvement in re-executability over state-of-the-art decompilation methods while maintaining robustness.

cs.SE

VLM-AD: End-to-End Autonomous Driving through Vision-Language Model Supervision

Human drivers rely on commonsense reasoning to navigate diverse and dynamic real-world scenarios. Existing end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving (AD) models are typically optimized to mimic driving patterns observed in data, without capturing the underlying reasoning processes. This limitation constrains their ability to handle challenging driving scenarios. To close this gap, we propose VLM-AD, a method that leverages vision-language models (VLMs) as teachers to enhance training by providing additional supervision that incorporates unstructured reasoning information and structured action labels. Such supervision enhances the model's ability to learn richer feature representations that capture the rationale behind driving patterns. Importantly, our method does not require a VLM during inference, making it practical for real-time deployment. When integrated with state-of-the-art methods, VLM-AD achieves significant improvements in planning accuracy and reduced collision rates on the nuScenes dataset. It further improves route completion and driving scores under closed-loop evaluation, demonstrating its effectiveness in long-horizon, interactive driving scenarios and its potential for safe and reliable real-world deployment.

cs.CV

Uncertainty-Guided Enhancement on Driving Perception System via Foundation Models

Multimodal foundation models offer promising advancements for enhancing driving perception systems, but their high computational and financial costs pose challenges. We develop a method that leverages foundation models to refine predictions from existing driving perception models -- such as enhancing object classification accuracy -- while minimizing the frequency of using these resource-intensive models. The method quantitatively characterizes uncertainties in the perception model's predictions and engages the foundation model only when these uncertainties exceed a pre-specified threshold. Specifically, it characterizes uncertainty by calibrating the perception model's confidence scores into theoretical lower bounds on the probability of correct predictions using conformal prediction. Then, it sends images to the foundation model and queries for refining the predictions only if the theoretical bound of the perception model's outcome is below the threshold. Additionally, we propose a temporal inference mechanism that enhances prediction accuracy by integrating historical predictions, leading to tighter theoretical bounds. The method demonstrates a 10 to 15 percent improvement in prediction accuracy and reduces the number of queries to the foundation model by 50 percent, based on quantitative evaluations from driving datasets.

cs.CV

Artificial Intelligence for Neuro MRI Acquisition: A Review

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has significantly benefited from the resurgence of artificial intelligence (AI). By leveraging AI's capabilities in large-scale optimization and pattern recognition, innovative methods are transforming the MRI acquisition workflow, including planning, sequence design, and correction of acquisition artifacts. These emerging algorithms demonstrate substantial potential in enhancing the efficiency and throughput of acquisition steps. This review discusses several pivotal AI-based methods in neuro MRI acquisition, focusing on their technological advances, impact on clinical practice, and potential risks.

eess.IV

Managing Demographic Transitions: A Comprehensive Analysis of China's Path to Economic Sustainability

This article presents an analysis of China's economic evolution amidst demographic changes from 1990 to 2050, offering valuable insights for academia and policymakers. It uniquely intertwines various economic theories with empirical data, examining the impact of an aging population, urbanization, and family dynamics on labor, demand, and productivity. The study's novelty lies in its integration of Classical, Neoclassical, and Endogenous Growth theories, alongside models like Barro and Sala-i-Martin, to contextualize China's economic trajectory. It provides a forward-looking perspective, utilizing econometric methods to predict future trends, and suggests practical policy implications. This comprehensive approach sheds light on managing demographic transitions in a global context, making it a significant contribution to the field of demographic economics.

econ.GN

Blip-Up Blip-Down Circular EPI (BUDA-cEPI) for Distortion-Free dMRI with Rapid Unrolled Deep Learning Reconstruction

Purpose: We implemented the blip-up, blip-down circular echo planar imaging (BUDA-cEPI) sequence with readout and phase partial Fourier to reduced off-resonance effect and T2* blurring. BUDA-cEPI reconstruction with S-based low-rank modeling of local k-space neighborhoods (S-LORAKS) is shown to be effective at reconstructing the highly under-sampled BUDA-cEPI data, but it is computationally intensive. Thus, we developed an ML-based reconstruction technique termed "BUDA-cEPI RUN-UP" to enable fast reconstruction. Methods: BUDA-cEPI RUN-UP - a model-based framework that incorporates off-resonance and eddy current effects was unrolled through an artificial neural network with only six gradient updates. The unrolled network alternates between data consistency (i.e., forward BUDA-cEPI and its adjoint) and regularization steps where U-Net plays a role as the regularizer. To handle the partial Fourier effect, the virtual coil concept was also incorporated into the reconstruction to effectively take advantage of the smooth phase prior, and trained to predict the ground-truth images obtained by BUDA-cEPI with S-LORAKS. Results: BUDA-cEPI with S-LORAKS reconstruction enabled the management of off-resonance, partial Fourier, and residual aliasing artifacts. However, the reconstruction time is approximately 225 seconds per slice, which may not be practical in a clinical setting. In contrast, the proposed BUDA-cEPI RUN-UP yielded similar results to BUDA-cEPI with S-LORAKS, with less than a 5% normalized root mean square error detected, while the reconstruction time is approximately 3 seconds. Conclusion: BUDA-cEPI RUN-UP was shown to reduce the reconstruction time by ~88x when compared to the state-of-the-art technique, while preserving imaging details as demonstrated through DTI application.

physics.med-ph

SRDTI: Deep learning-based super-resolution for diffusion tensor MRI

High-resolution diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is beneficial for probing tissue microstructure in fine neuroanatomical structures, but long scan times and limited signal-to-noise ratio pose significant barriers to acquiring DTI at sub-millimeter resolution. To address this challenge, we propose a deep learning-based super-resolution method entitled "SRDTI" to synthesize high-resolution diffusion-weighted images (DWIs) from low-resolution DWIs. SRDTI employs a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), residual learning and multi-contrast imaging, and generates high-quality results with rich textural details and microstructural information, which are more similar to high-resolution ground truth than those from trilinear and cubic spline interpolation.

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