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Yuxuan Chen

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Exponential mixing for the randomly forced NLS equation

This paper investigates exponential mixing of the invariant measure for randomly forced nonlinear Schrödinger equation, with damping and random noise localized in space. Our study emphasizes the crucial role of exponential asymptotic compactness and control properties in establishing the ergodic properties of random dynamical systems. This work extends the series [16, 47] on the statistical behavior of randomly forced dispersive equations.

math.AP↗

Layer-Hybridized Wigner Crystals in MoSe2/WS2 Moiré Superlattice

Transition metal dichalcogenide moiré heterobilayers with type-II band alignment provide a versatile platform for layer-polarized generalized Wigner crystals, in which strong Coulomb interactions drive charge ordering at fractional lattice fillings. With a finite interlayer band offset, an out-of-plane electric field can tune layer-resolved moiré bands through resonance and enable controllable interlayer hybridization. Although hybridized Mott insulators have been previously demonstrated, whether fractional charge-ordered states can survive such hybridization remains elusive. Here we drive an H-stacked MoSe2/WS2 moiré heterobilayer through a type-I-to-type-II band-alignment transition and realize layer-hybridized Mott insulator and generalized Wigner crystals. For fillings below one electron per moiré cell, tunneling delocalizes electrons and modifies Wigner crystallization. However, above one electron per cell, Coulomb repulsion overcomes tunneling and favors layer-separated occupation, stabilizing stronger charge-ordered states. These results establish electrically tunable hybridized moiré heterobilayers as a powerful platform for engineering correlated charge order and exploring fractional Chern phases and emergent magnetism.

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Exponential mixing for Korteweg-de Vries equation with localized noise

We establish exponential mixing for the randomly forced and weakly damped KdV equation in $L^2(\mathbb{T})$. The noise is bounded, localized, and degenerate in high frequencies. Our proof relies on a general probabilistic framework in [11,33], nonlinear smoothing for KdV and its linearization via normal form transformation, and stabilization of the system by localized force. This paper continues a series of works connecting asymptotic compactness, control theory, and ergodicity and mixing for randomly forced dispersive PDEs.

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Prompt Reinjection: Alleviating Prompt Forgetting in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Generation

Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiTs) for text-to-image generation maintain separate text and image branches, with bidirectional information flow between text tokens and visual latents throughout denoising. In this setting, we observe a prompt forgetting phenomenon: the semantics of the prompt representation in the text branch is progressively forgotten as depth increases. We further verify this effect on three representative MMDiTs--SD3, SD3.5, and FLUX.1 by probing linguistic attributes of the representations over the layers in the text branch. Motivated by these findings, we introduce a training-free approach, prompt reinjection, which reinjects prompt representations from early layers into later layers to alleviate this forgetting. Experiments on GenEval, DPG, and T2I-CompBench++ show consistent gains in instruction-following capability, along with improvements on metrics capturing preference, aesthetics, and overall text--image generation quality.

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Dynamic Execution Commitment of Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly adopt action chunking, i.e., predicting and committing to a short horizon of consecutive low-level actions in a single forward pass, to amortize the inference cost of large-scale backbones and reduce per-step latency. However, committing these multi-step predictions to real-world execution requires balancing success rate against inference efficiency, a decision typically governed by fixed execution horizons tuned per task. Such heuristics ignore the state-dependent nature of predictive reliability, leading to brittle performance in dynamic or out-of-distribution settings. In this paper, we introduce A3, an Adaptive Action Acceptance mechanism that reframes dynamic execution commitment as a self-speculative prefix verification problem. A3 first computes a trajectory-wise consensus score of actions via group sampling, then selects a representative draft and prioritizes downstream verification. Specifically, it enforces: (1) consensus-ordered conditional invariance, which validates low-consensus actions by judging whether they remain consistent when re-decoded conditioned on high-consensus actions; and (2) prefix-closed sequential consistency, which guarantees physical rollout integrity by accepting only the longest continuous sequence of verified actions starting from the beginning. Consequently, the execution horizon emerges as the longest verifiable prefix satisfying both internal model logic and sequential execution constraints. Experiments across diverse VLA models and benchmarks demonstrate that A3 eliminates the need for manual horizon tuning while achieving a superior trade-off between execution robustness and inference throughput.

cs.CV↗

PROVE: A Perceptual RemOVal cohErence Benchmark for Visual Media

Evaluating object removal in images and videos remains challenging because the task is inherently one-to-many, yet existing metrics frequently disagree with human perception. Full-reference metrics reward copy-paste behaviors over genuine erasure; no-reference metrics suffer from systematic biases such as favoring blurry results; and global temporal metrics are insensitive to localized artifacts within edited regions. To address these limitations, we propose RC (Removal Coherence), a pair of perception-aligned metrics: RC-S, which measures spatial coherence via sliding-window feature comparison between masked and background regions, and RC-T, which measures temporal consistency via distribution tracking within shared restored regions across adjacent frames. To validate RC and support community benchmarking, we further introduce PROVE-Bench, a two-tier real-world benchmark comprising PROVE-M, an 80-video paired dataset with motion augmentation, and PROVE-H, a 100-video challenging subset without ground truth. Together, RC metrics and PROVE-Bench form the PROVE (Perceptual RemOVal cohErence) evaluation framework for visual media. Experiments across diverse image and video benchmarks demonstrate that RC achieves substantially stronger alignment with human judgments than existing evaluation protocols. Project page: https://xiaomi-research.github.io/prove/.

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Joint Transmit and Receive Antenna Orientation Design for Secure MIMO Communications

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising paradigm for safeguarding 6G wireless networks by exploiting the inherent characteristics of wireless channels. However, the efficiency of conventional PLS is often limited by fixed orientation antennas. This paper investigates a rotatable antenna (RA)-aided secure multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system, where both the transmitter and the receiver are equipped with RAs in the presence of an eavesdropper. By dynamically optimizing the orientations of RAs, we can proactively reshape the effective MIMO channels to enhance legitimate transmission while simultaneously suppressing information leakage to the eavesdropper. We formulate a secrecy rate maximization problem by jointly optimizing the transmit beamforming, artificial noise (AN) covariance matrix, and the transmit/receive RA orientations, subject to the transmit power budget and antenna orientation constraints. To tackle the resulting highly coupled and non-convex problem, we first study a simplified single-input single-output (SISO) case to reveal the structure of the optimal RA orientation. For the general MIMO case, we develop an alternating optimization algorithm by reformulating the original problem through the minimum mean-square error framework. In particular, the transmit beamforming and AN covariance matrix are derived in semi-closed forms, while the RA orientations are updated via the Riemannian Frank-Wolfe method. The proposed design is further extended to the multi-receiver secure transmission scenario. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme converges rapidly and achieves significant secrecy rate gains over the conventional fixed-orientation scheme.

cs.IT↗

Mi-Memory: A Lifecycle Memory Framework for Personal AI

Personal AI is moving beyond chat-only interaction toward continuous services that span phones, cars, homes, wearables, cameras, and tools. In this setting, memory cannot remain a cache of prior conversations. It should serve as a continuity and governance substrate: preserving durable user state, grounding answers in multimodal and device evidence, supporting correction and forgetting, bounding policy evolution, and remaining deployable under latency, cost, privacy, and edge-cloud constraints. This technical report presents Mi-Memory, a lifecycle memory framework for Personal AI organized around four roles: Structure, Expansion, Evolution, and Deployment. A shared audit contract links these roles through four recurring artifact families: typed evidence payloads preserve source identity and provenance, diagnostic traces localize evidence loss across the serving pipeline, strategy artifacts make memory-policy changes explicit, and gate/rollback records bound accepted evolution. MiMemory instantiates the roles through MemStack, MemSense/MemFuse, D$^{2}$ACCI/E$^{2}$MEND, and LiteMem. In controlled-reference Structure evaluations, MemStack reaches 93.59%, 57.24%, and 87.47% on LoCoMo, PersonaMem-V2, and LongMemEval, respectively; other tracks report module-level, preliminary/internal, transfer-feasibility, or design-only evidence with explicit boundaries. MiMemory is a step toward auditable, evidence-gated, and deployment-aware memory systems for Personal AI. Project homepage: https://darwin-agent.github.io/Mi-Memory/ .

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DROID-ANCHOR: Odometry-Anchored Recurrent Metric Depth Estimation

Precise metric depth estimation is fundamental for autonomous robot navigation, yet monocular systems inherently suffer from scale ambiguity and scale drift. While recent recurrent flow-based SLAM systems have demonstrated state-of-the-art robustness, they remain scale-ambiguous. In this paper, we propose Metric-DROID, an end-to-end recurrent architecture that anchors visual SLAM to physical reality by integrating proprioceptive odometry. Our framework introduces the following innovations: (1) A LSTM Update Operator that encodes high-frequency odometry sequences into spatial feature maps, providing a persistent metric bias for iterative refinement. (2) An Uncertainty-Aware Metric Backend ($BA_{odom}$) that treats odometry as a geometric anchor with learned heteroscedastic covariance. By regressing a time-varying metric uncertainty $Σ_{o}$, our system intelligently balances visual re-projection and metric translation residuals, effectively mitigating the impact of wheel-slip and sensor noise. (3) We further propose a selective residual fine-tuning strategy to preserve pre-trained geometric priors while enabling zero-shot metric alignment.

cs.RO↗

CTC: The Composite Task Challenge for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

The critical role of division of labor (DOL) in enhancing cooperation is well-recognized in real-world applications. Consequently, many cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods have incorporated DOL mechanisms to improve cooperation among agents. However, the lack of benchmark tasks specifically designed to evaluate and promote DOL and cooperation has limited the effective development and deployment of such mechanisms in cooperative MARL. This gap between current cooperative MARL methods and practical applications underscores the need for evaluation tasks that explicitly require DOL and cooperation. To address this gap, we propose the Composite Tasks Challenge (CTC), a suite of tasks explicitly designed to require both DOL and cooperation for successful task completion. The CTC tasks are constructed based on two core design principles: 1) DOL is a necessary condition for task success; 2) Failure in any atomic subtask results in failure of the overall task. The first principle emphasizes the necessity of DOL, while the second enforces the importance of cooperation, making both components essential for success in CTC tasks. We evaluate nine representative cooperative MARL methods on the proposed CTC tasks. Experimental results show that all methods consistently achieve zero test winning rates across all CTC tasks, highlighting the challenge of CTC tasks and the limitations of current methods. To facilitate future research, we also introduce a guiding solution that achieves non-zero test winning rates on all tasks, thereby demonstrating the solvability of the CTC tasks. However, the performance of this guiding solution remains suboptimal, further underscoring the value of CTC tasks as a challenging and meaningful testbed for advancing cooperative MARL research.

cs.LG↗

From Similarity to Feasibility: Diffusion-Refined Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Distribution Network Optimization

Rapidly shifting operational scenarios driven by uncertain Distributed Energy Resource (DER) profiles render conventional distribution network optimization methods either computationally expensive or poorly generalizable. This paper introduces GridRAG, a pioneering retrieval-augmented framework that transforms optimization into a ``retrieve-and-refine'' paradigm. GridRAG first embeds scenario features and optimal solutions into a joint representation space to ensure semantic consistency. Based on the hybrid semantic information, the similar historical scenarios are then retrieved from a pre-constructed database. Then an SDEdit-style diffusion module is integrated to refine retrieved solutions by modeling the conditional distribution over near-feasible manifolds. This process effectively pulls retrieved solutions into near-optimal attraction basins, providing a high-quality warm-start for the final solver. Validated on three optimization tasks across four standard topologies, GridRAG demonstrates superior cross-scenario generalization and a multi-fold speedup in solution time compared to existing learning-based and model-based baselines. Our code is available at https://github.com/YuxuanCEE/GridRAG.

eess.SY↗

Ultra-Low-Cost Hybrid Beamforming: A New Static-Connection Architecture with Sparse Phase-Shifter Sharing

Hybrid beamforming is a promising solution for high-frequency multi-antenna wireless systems, but its implementation is constrained by the cost and complexity of analog phase-shifter (PS) networks. Although sub-connected architectures simplify the analog network, their conventional realization still requires a dedicated PS for each antenna, causing considerable layout area, wiring, calibration, and control overheads. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel static-connection architecture with sparse PSs for ultra-low-cost sub-connected hybrid beamforming, where antennas within each sub-array share a PS through an optimized fixed PS-to-antenna connection matrix. The proposed architecture preserves static connections while enabling dynamic beam control via adaptive PS phase-shift adjustments and digital precoding. For the single-radio-frequency (RF)-chain scenario, the sparse-PS connection design is transformed into an antenna-grouping problem, with analytically characterized structural properties and an efficient algorithm. For the multi-RF-chain scenario, we develop a quality-of-service (QoS)-majorization-minimization (MM) algorithm to handle the mixed discrete-continuous optimization problem. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed architecture reduces the PS count while preserving most beamforming capability of the traditional full-PS sub-connected architecture. In particular, the proposed design achieves PS-count reductions of 37.5% and 62.5% in single-RF-chain and multi-RF-chain systems, respectively, while avoiding deep-null and grating-lobe degradations associated with deterministic connection schemes. These results provide engineering insights into static sparse-PS sharing: the key to hardware-efficient hybrid beamforming is not merely reducing the PS count, but also preserving essential analog-domain degrees of freedom through optimized PS connection topologies.

cs.IT↗

FlipGuard: Defending Large Language Models Against Quantization-Conditioned Backdoor Attacks

Model quantization is essential for the efficient deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs), but introduces a critical vulnerability: Quantization-Conditioned Backdoor (QCB) attacks. In these attacks, malicious behaviors remain dormant in full-precision models and activate only after specific quantization distortions, bypassing standard security audits. To mitigate this, we introduce FlipGuard, a proactive defense framework that selectively perturbs model weights prior to quantization. By breaking the adversary's precise alignment between weight patterns and quantization boundaries, FlipGuard suppresses backdoor activation without requiring access to training data or trigger samples. We further propose the Defense Effectiveness Ratio (DER), a unified metric to jointly evaluate security gains, utility preservation, and computational cost. Extensive experiments across seven LLMs (including StarCoder and LLaMA-family models) and three quantization schemes (INT8, FP4, NF4) demonstrate that FlipGuard effectively neutralizes QCBs across three scenarios, i.e., vulnerable code generation, content injection, and over-refusal, achieving high security with negligible performance degradation.

cs.CR↗

Beyond Information Redundancy: Expanding Cross-Modal Knowledge Representation for Power Load Time Series Forecasting

Load forecasting is pivotal for stable power systems. Conventional uni-modal methods suffer from representation drift under data scarcity. While recent multi-modal approaches attempt to alleviate this, they exhibit severe information redundancy, merely recycling time series data via superficial intra-modal transformations. In this paper, we argue that the essence of multi-modal time series learning should expand representation manifolds via complementary cross-modal knowledge enrichment rather than duplicating redundant information, especially for few-shot scenarios prevalent in power systems. To this end, we propose KEMM-Net, a Knowledge-Enriched Multi-Modal Network for power load forecasting. KEMM-Net first constructs textual and visual embeddings to strengthen load time series representations from different knowledge perspectives. It then introduces a Partial Information Decomposition (PID)-guided cross-modal contrastive learning mechanism to achieve cross-modal semantic alignment and balance redundant, synergistic, and unique information for forecasting. Extensive experiments on real-world public datasets demonstrate that KEMM-Net consistently outperforms strong deep learning and multi-modal baselines, particularly in few-shot settings. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/KEMM-Net-2898.

eess.SP↗

Revealing Mammographic Phenotypes in Deep Learning Breast Cancer Risk Models

Mammogram-based deep learning models have improved breast cancer risk prediction, but the learned imaging patterns remain underexplored. Existing interpretability methods rely on single-image saliency maps, failing to identify recurring mammographic phenotypes across large patient cohorts. By clustering patch embeddings from a pre-trained model, Mirai, we isolate recurring phenotypes linked to 5-year cancer risk. Analyses show risk-increasing phenotypes capture complex structures (e.g., dense tissue, microcalcifications) and shortcut artifacts (e.g., clips). These phenotypes correlate strongly with older age and higher BI-RADS density. Our framework connects tissue patterns to AI risk scores, revealing clinical signatures and potential latent model confounders.

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AOHP: An Open-Source OS-Level Agent Harness for Personalized, Efficient and Secure Interaction

AI agents are driving a new software paradigm, with the ability to autonomously call tools, extract information, manage memory, and complete tasks that span applications and data sources. Most existing end-user operating systems, however, are designed for application-centric workflows and offer little native support for AI agents. This mismatch limits the wider adoption of agents and leads to execution overhead and safety risks when running agents on conventional systems. While the concept of agent-native operating systems is emerging, the research community lacks an open testbed to explore the architectural primitives desired for agent-mediated interaction. We present AOHP (Android Open Harness Project), an OS-level agent harness built on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The core design principle of AOHP is to treat agents as first-class OS actors, enabling adaptive user interfaces and agent-friendly runtime environments. AOHP preserves the mature Android software and hardware ecosystem while introducing three agent-oriented system mechanisms: personalized service composition, efficient agent interfaces, and secure information flow. Based on preliminary experiments on challenging tasks covering key capabilities of OS agents, AOHP shows clear advantages in task completion (+21.12% completion rate), execution cost (-51.55% token cost), and security-policy compliance.

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Mind the Intention: Task-Aware Backdoor Attacks for Forecast-Driven Distribution Network Operations

Accurate distributed energy resources (DERs) forecasting is critical for downstream optimal operations. However, such forecast-based operation can be highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. While existing research mainly focuses on adversarial attacks, we pivot to a more controllable and persistent threat: backdoor attacks. In time series forecasting, a backdoored model generates an attacker-specified target pattern whenever a trigger is embedded in historical inputs. This paradigm naturally fits the entire DER forecast-optimization-operation chain. In this paper, we investigate whether and how backdoor attacks can compromise distribution network operations and propose GridTroj, a unified backdoor framework tailored for this scenario. Unlike standard time series backdoor approaches that train a poisoned model to match a predefined target only in terms of forecasting error, GridTroj explicitly incorporates the attacker's intention and optimizes the attack toward operational disruption. Specifically, GridTroj coordinates two key modules. The Intention Planner designs operation-damaging targets and poisoning strategies, while the Backdoor Realizer constructs the corresponding network architecture and training strategy to learn the trigger-target association. Experiments on three downstream optimization tasks demonstrate that GridTroj can effectively compromise grid operations and outperforms existing baselines. Our code is available at https://github.com/YuxuanCEE/GridTroj.

cs.CR↗

RLRC: Reinforcement Learning-based Recovery for Compressed Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-Language-Action models (VLA) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities and strong potential in complex robotic manipulation. However, their large parameter sizes and high inference latency hinder real-world deployment, especially on resource-constrained platforms. To address this, we conduct a systematic empirical study of model compression for VLAs. Building on these insights, we present \textit{RLRC}, a three-stage compression and recovery pipeline consisting of structured pruning, performance recovery via SFT and RL, and subsequent quantization. The RL stage incorporates a critic warm-up strategy and BC loss regularization to stabilize training and preserve policy behavior. RLRC achieves up to an 8 times memory reduction and 2.3 times inference speedup while maintaining the original task success rate. Extensive experiments across multiple VLA backbones show that RLRC consistently outperforms existing compression baselines, highlighting its effectiveness for on-device deployment. Project website: https://rlrc-vla.github.io

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