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Zhuo Li

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Psyche-R1: Towards Reliable Psychological LLMs through Unified Empathy, Expertise, and Reasoning

Amidst a shortage of qualified mental health professionals, the integration of large language models (LLMs) into psychological applications offers a promising way to alleviate the growing burden of mental health disorders. Recent reasoning-augmented LLMs have achieved remarkable performance in mathematics and programming, while research in the psychological domain has predominantly emphasized emotional support and empathetic dialogue, with limited attention to reasoning mechanisms that are beneficial to generating accurate responses. Therefore, in this paper, we propose \logopsyche\textit{Psyche-R1}, the first Chinese psychological LLM that jointly integrates empathy, psychological expertise, and reasoning, built upon a novel data curation pipeline. Specifically, we design a comprehensive data synthesis pipeline that produces over 75k high-quality psychological questions paired with detailed rationales, generated through an iterative prompt-rationale optimization procedure, along with 73k empathetic dialogues. Subsequently, we employ a hybrid training strategy wherein challenging samples are identified through a multi-LLM cross-selection strategy for group relative policy optimization (GRPO) to improve reasoning ability, while the remaining data are used for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to enhance empathetic response generation and psychological domain knowledge. Extensive experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of \textit{Psyche-R1} across several psychological benchmarks, where our 7B \textit{Psyche-R1} achieves comparable results to 671B \texttt{DeepSeek-R1}.

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A Survey of Mobile Edge Computing in the Industrial Internet

With the advent of a new round of the Industrial Revolution, the Industrial Internet will carry the convergence of heterogeneous network and the dynamic reconfiguration of industrial equipment. In order to further provide higher performance of network capabilities, the Industrial Internet has experienced unprecedented growth while facing enormous challenges from the actual needs of industrial networks. The typical scenarios in industrial applications, combined with the technical advantages of mobile edge computing, are described in view of the low latency, high bandwidth and high reliability demanded by the Industrial Internet in the new era. The key technologies of mobile edge computing for the Industrial Internet have been outlined in this treatise, whose feasibility and importance are demonstrated by typical industrial applications that have been deployed. As combined with the development trend of the Industrial Internet, this paper summarizes the existing work and discusses the future research direction of key technologies of mobile edge computing for the Industrial Internet.

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SDN Controller Load Balancing Based on Reinforcement Learning

Aiming at the local overload of multi-controller deployment in software-defined networks, a load balancing mechanism of SDN controller based on reinforcement learning is designed. The initial paired migrate-out domain and migrate-in domain are obtained by calculating the load ratio deviation between the controllers, a preliminary migration triplet, contains migration domain mentioned above and a group of switches which are subordinated to the migrate-out domain, makes the migration efficiency reach the local optimum. Under the constraint of the best efficiency of migration in the whole and without migration conflict, selecting multiple sets of triples based on reinforcement learning, as the final migration of this round to attain the global optimal controller load balancing with minimum cost. The experimental results illustrate that the mechanism can make full use of the controllers' resources, quickly balance the load between controllers, reduce unnecessary migration overhead and get a faster response rate of the packet-in request.

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A Computation Offloading Model over Collaborative Cloud-Edge Networks with Optimal Transport Theory

As novel applications spring up in future network scenarios, the requirements on network service capabilities for differentiated services or burst services are diverse. Aiming at the research of collaborative computing and resource allocation in edge scenarios, migrating computing tasks to the edge and cloud for computing requires a comprehensive consideration of energy consumption, bandwidth, and delay. Our paper proposes a collaboration mechanism based on computation offloading, which is flexible and customizable to meet the diversified requirements of differentiated networks. This mechanism handles the terminal's differentiated computing tasks by establishing a collaborative computation offloading model between the cloud server and edge server. Experiments show that our method has more significant improvements over regular optimization algorithms, including reducing the execution time of computing tasks, improving the utilization of server resources, and decreasing the terminal's energy consumption.

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PolyInterview: An LLM-based Platform for Immersive Mock Interview Practice with Comprehensive Multimodal Assessment

Preparing for job interviews is important for securing desired positions, yet realistic practice remains difficult to access: real interviews are infrequent, expert mock coaching is costly, and self-practice offers neither adaptive dialogue nor structured assessment. Existing systems typically address only parts of this need through fixed question sequences, limited communication channels, or feedback with little supporting evidence. We present PolyInterview, an LLM-based platform for immersive mock interview practice with comprehensive multimodal assessment. PolyInterview uses the target job description and CV to generate questions tailored to the role and candidate, conducts multi-turn spoken interviews with a lip-synced digital human interviewer that asks answer-aware follow-up questions, and evaluates response content, vocal delivery, and non-verbal behavior. Four parallel evaluators produce 13 behavior-level features that are aggregated into 10 assessment aspects and two competency tracks. Guided by the KSA and STAR frameworks, the report links each score to behavioral evidence and actionable recommendations. PolyInterview is publicly accessible. Its current all-account snapshot contains 101 accounts, 1,564 interview sessions, 7,665 generated questions, and 1,422 five-stage question sets. Generated questions are more closely aligned with their matched job description than with cross-role job descriptions in 93.7% of sessions. An evaluation by ten experts found strong question plans and actionable feedback.

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X-rays breaking out of pre-explosion ejecta mark a supernova's first light

Massive stars die as core-collapse supernovae, whose optical light emerges days after the implosion. Theory predicts that the initial collapse-driven shock, upon breaking through the star and dense circumstellar medium, emits a brief thermal flash of soft X-rays and ultraviolet. Yet these elusive first signals have remained largely undetected, owing to limited wide-field soft X-ray monitoring. Here we report the discovery of a soft X-ray flash, EP260321a, followed days later by a broad-lined supernova from an envelope-stripped progenitor. Its X-ray spectrum, best modeled with blackbody, establishes it as the long-sought archetypal shock breakout. The burst's duration and energetics place the breakout at a radius of 300 solar radii, tracing a dense surrounding shell and revealing abrupt mass ejection within the final month before collapse.

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DMSC: Dynamic Multi-Scale Coordination Framework for Time Series Forecasting

Time Series Forecasting (TSF) faces persistent challenges in modeling intricate temporal dependencies across different scales. Despite recent advances leveraging different decomposition operations and novel architectures based on CNN, MLP or Transformer, existing methods still struggle with static decomposition strategies, fragmented dependency modeling, and inflexible fusion mechanisms, limiting their ability to model intricate temporal dependencies. To explicitly solve the mentioned three problems respectively, we propose a novel Dynamic Multi-Scale Coordination Framework (DMSC) with Multi-Scale Patch Decomposition block (EMPD), Triad Interaction Block (TIB) and Adaptive Scale Routing MoE block (ASR-MoE). Specifically, EMPD is designed as a built-in component to dynamically segment sequences into hierarchical patches with exponentially scaled granularities, eliminating predefined scale constraints through input-adaptive patch adjustment. TIB then jointly models intra-patch, inter-patch, and cross-variable dependencies within each layer's decomposed representations. EMPD and TIB are jointly integrated into layers forming a multi-layer progressive cascade architecture, where coarse-grained representations from earlier layers adaptively guide fine-grained feature extraction in subsequent layers via gated pathways. And ASR-MoE dynamically fuses multi-scale predictions by leveraging specialized global and local experts with temporal-aware weighting. Comprehensive experiments on thirteen real-world benchmarks demonstrate that DMSC consistently maintains state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance and superior computational efficiency for TSF tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/1327679995/DMSC.

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Partial-twuality polynomial interpolation for binary delta-matroids

Gross, Mansour and Tucker introduced the partial-twuality polynomials for ribbon graphs and investigated the interpolation property of these polynomials. The ribbon group generated by $δ$ and $τ$ acts on set systems as twist $\ast$ and loop complementation $\times$, yielding five nontrivial twuality operators: $ \{\ast,\times,\ast\times ,\times\ast ,\ast\times\ast \}.$ Yan and Jin extended partial-twuality polynomials to set systems, yielding partial-$\bullet$ polynomials with $\bullet\in\{\ast,\times,\ast\times ,\times\ast ,\ast\times\ast\}.$ For partial-$\ast$ polynomials, Zhao and Yan proved that this polynomial is either even, odd, or both even-interpolating and odd-interpolating for every binary delta-matroid. In this paper, we extend this interpolation property to all the remaining nontrivial partial-twualities of binary delta-matroids. Consequently, for every binary delta-matroid and every $\bullet\in\{\ast,\times,\ast \times ,\times\ast ,\ast \times \ast \}$, the partial-$\bullet$ polynomial is either even, odd, or both even-interpolating and odd-interpolating. We also provide examples to show that the binary assumption is essential.

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CloudCons: A Comprehensive End-to-End Benchmark for Cloud Resource Consolidation

Driven by conservative over-provisioning to guarantee service reliability, resource utilization in cloud data centers remains at low levels. To mitigate this, the forecast-then-optimize paradigm has emerged to optimize consolidation by anticipating future demands. While emerging time series foundation models promise to enhance this paradigm through zero-shot generalization, existing benchmarks focus solely on prediction error metrics. The actual decision utility of these advanced models remains unverified, rendering their practical value for downstream tasks uncertain. To bridge this gap, we propose CloudCons, a comprehensive end-to-end benchmark designed to evaluate forecasting models within the specific context of cloud resource consolidation. We build high-quality datasets that cover diverse workloads from Huawei Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Google Borg, capturing distinct service characteristics ranging from synchronized diurnal rhythms to stochastic, pulse-like bursts and high-frequency noise. We conduct an extensive evaluation of statistical, deep learning, and foundation models. Our experiments reveal a pivotal finding: while foundation models demonstrate superior zero-shot forecasting accuracy, this advantage does not inherently translate into better decision utility. Of practical significance, we systematically analyze how the selection of predictive quantiles acts as a critical lever. We provide actionable guidelines for calibrating these selections to balance the trade-off between resource efficiency and service reliability, offering vital insights for real-world deployment decisions.

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QoEReasoner: An Agentic Reasoning Framework for Automated and Explainable QoE Diagnosis in RANs

Diagnosing Quality-of-Experience (QoE) degradations in operational Radio Access Networks (RANs) is a critical but notoriously complex task, traditionally requiring labor-intensive expert analysis over high-dimensional, cross-layer telemetry. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer unprecedented reasoning capabilities, they are fundamentally unsuited for raw RANs troubleshooting: they fail at numeric time-series analysis, hallucinate protocol-violating causal links, and lack the stateful rigor required for multi-step fault localization. To bridge this gap, we present QoEReasoner, an end-to-end, LLM-driven agentic system designed for automated and explainable QoE diagnosis. QoEReasoner tames the inherent unpredictability of LLMs by grounding their reasoning in the physical realities of the network. It employs deterministic tools to reliably translate raw numeric KPIs into structured evidence, enforces protocol-consistent fault propagation through a domain-specific Knowledge Base, and leverages a Historical Bank of expert-validated cases to guide hypothesis generation. A stateful central planner orchestrates this closed-loop process across anomaly detection, causal tracing, and root-cause localization. Evaluations on real-world operational RANs datasets demonstrate that QoEReasoner outperforms strong baselines by 18\%-40\% in accuracy across multiple diagnostic tasks. Furthermore, it reduces diagnostic time from approximately 30 minutes of manual expert analysis to just 3 minutes per session, delivering highly interpretable, expert-grade reports while remaining robust across diverse LLM backbones.

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Mitigating Reward Hacking in RLHF via Bayesian Non-negative Reward Modeling

Reward models learned from human preferences are central to aligning large language models (LLMs) via reinforcement learning from human feedback, yet they are often vulnerable to reward hacking due to noisy annotations and systematic biases such as response length or style. We propose Bayesian Non-Negative Reward Model (BNRM), a principled reward modeling framework that integrates non-negative factor analysis into Bradley-Terry (BT) preference model. BNRM represents rewards through a sparse, non-negative latent factor generative process that operates at two complementary levels: instance-specific latent variables induce disentangled reward representations, while sparsity over global latent factors acts as an implicit debiasing mechanism that suppresses spurious correlations. Together, this disentanglement-then-debiasing structure enables robust uncertainty-aware reward learning. To scale BNRM to modern LLMs, we develop an amortized variational inference network conditioned on deep model representations, allowing efficient end-to-end training. Extensive empirical results demonstrate that BNRM substantially mitigates reward over-optimization, improves robustness under distribution shifts, and yields more interpretable reward decompositions than strong baselines.

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AnyMo: Scaling Any-Modality Conditional Motion Generation with Masked Modeling

Conditional human motion generation remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision and robotics. Despite significant progress, current methods are often constrained by fixed modality configurations and task-specific architectures, leaving cross-modal interactions and the scaling laws of multimodal-conditioned synthesis largely underexplored. A key bottleneck is the scarcity of large-scale modality-aligned motion data, limiting generalization across diverse control signals. In this work, we introduce OmniHuMo, a large-scale, high-quality dataset comprising over 5,000 hours of motion and 3.2 million sequences with precisely aligned multimodal annotations (e.g., text, speech, music, and trajectory). Leveraging OmniHuMo, we propose AnyMo, a unified multimodal framework combining a Residual FSQ-based motion tokenizer with a scalable masked modeling transformer, enabling high-quality motion synthesis under arbitrary modality combinations. Extensive experiments show that AnyMo achieves high-fidelity synthesis while offering flexible control over both spatial and stylistic attributes.

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TSFMAudit: Data Contamination Auditing in Forecasting Time Series Foundation Models

Time series foundation models (TSFMs) are increasingly pretrained on large corpora, raising concerns that evaluation datasets may have been exposed during pretraining and thus yield overly optimistic performance estimates. Auditing such contamination is challenging in time series because signals are continuous and heterogeneous, and often lack corpus documentation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to study pretraining contamination auditing for TSFMs. We formalize the problem of pretraining contamination auditing for TSFMs and propose TSFMAudit, a method based on probe adaptation dynamics. Our key intuition is that contamination manifests as unusually efficient adaptation: after a fine tuning probe, contaminated datasets tend to exhibit faster loss reduction with smaller backbone movement. We evaluate TSFMAudit on 6 TSFMs and 187 datasets using documented training source evidence as supervision, and compare against 10 competitive baselines adapted from the LLM literature.

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Skill Weaving: Efficient LLM Improvement via Modular Skillpacks

Large language models increasingly require specialization across diverse domains, yet existing approaches struggle to balance multi-domain capacities with strict memory and inference constraints. In this work, we introduce SkillWeave, a modular improvement framework that enables LLMs to specialize under fixed memory budgets. SkillWeave partitions full capabilities of a general-purpose model into skillpacks -- lightweight, domain-specific delta modules -- that reorganize and refine the model's internal knowledge. For efficient deployment, SkillWeave integrates SkillZip to compress skillpacks into compact and inference-ready format, enabling strong multi-domain performance with low-latency execution. On multi-task and agentic benchmarks, a 9B SkillWeave model outperforms several baselines and even surpasses a 32B monolithic LLM, while achieving up to 4x speedup.

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Eliminating Inductive Bias in Reward Models with Information-Theoretic Guidance

Reward models (RMs) are essential in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to align large language models (LLMs) with human values. However, RM training data is commonly recognized as low-quality, containing inductive biases that can easily lead to overfitting and reward hacking. For example, more detailed and comprehensive responses are usually human-preferred but with more words, leading response length to become one of the inevitable inductive biases. A limited number of prior RM debiasing approaches either target a single specific type of bias or model the problem with only simple linear correlations, \textit{e.g.}, Pearson coefficients. To mitigate more complex and diverse inductive biases in reward modeling, we introduce a novel information-theoretic debiasing method called \textbf{D}ebiasing via \textbf{I}nformation optimization for \textbf{R}M (DIR). Inspired by the information bottleneck (IB), we maximize the mutual information (MI) between RM scores and human preference pairs, while minimizing the MI between RM outputs and biased attributes of preference inputs. With theoretical justification from information theory, DIR can handle more sophisticated types of biases with non-linear correlations, broadly extending the real-world application scenarios for RM debiasing methods. In experiments, we verify the effectiveness of DIR with three types of inductive biases: \textit{response length}, \textit{sycophancy}, and \textit{format}. We discover that DIR not only effectively mitigates target inductive biases but also enhances RLHF performance across diverse benchmarks, yielding better generalization abilities. The code and training recipes are available at https://github.com/Qwen-Applications/DIR.

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Towards Deploying VLA without Fine-Tuning: Plug-and-Play Inference-Time VLA Policy Steering via Embodied Evolutionary Diffusion

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant potential in real-world robotic manipulation. However, pre-trained VLA policies still suffer from substantial performance degradation during downstream deployment. Although fine-tuning can mitigate this issue, its reliance on costly demonstration collection and intensive computation makes it impractical in real-world settings. In this work, we introduce VLA-Pilot, a plug-and-play inference-time policy steering method for zero-shot deployment of pre-trained VLA without any additional fine-tuning or data collection. We evaluate VLA-Pilot on six real-world downstream manipulation tasks across two distinct robotic embodiments, encompassing both in-distribution and out-of-distribution scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that VLA-Pilot substantially boosts the success rates of off-the-shelf pre-trained VLA policies, enabling robust zero-shot generalization to diverse tasks and embodiments. Experimental videos and code are available at: https://rip4kobe.github.io/vla-pilot/.

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Particle Acceleration in Cassiopeia A Revealed by Broadband High-Energy Spectrum

Recently, the GeV--sub-PeV spectrum of supernova remnant (SNR) Cassiopeia A (Cas A), one of the youngest and most well-studied SNRs in our Galaxy, has been updated by observations of Fermi-LAT and LHAASO. We revisit Cas A with our previous shell-plus-jet asymmetric model and investigate its particle acceleration ability. The broadband fitting results suggest that the double-peaked gamma-ray spectrum can be well attributed to proton-proton (PP) collisions and inverse Compton scattering within the SNR shell, while the synchrotron emission from a jet component with velocity of $\sim0.1c$ can account for the hard X-ray emission up to 220 keV. Furthermore, the PP collisions in the jet can produce a sub-PeV emission, but constrained by the LHAASO-KM2A limit to a flux below $\sim 1\times10^{-14}\rm erg/(cm^2s)$ at 100 TeV. The energy of accelerated protons in the jet of Cas A could be up to $5\times10^{47}$ erg, which, assuming that the PeV cosmic ray distribution is clumpy in the Galaxy with the clump size comparable to the thickness of the Galactic plane, derives a proton flux consistent with the observed one at 1 PeV, implying that the Cas A-like SNRs can still be PeVatrons in the Galaxy. It is encouraging for LHAASO and future telescopes to detect or constrain Cas A spectrum above 100-TeV more precisely.

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Adapt as You Say: Online Interactive Bimanual Skill Adaptation via Human Language Feedback

Developing general-purpose robots capable of autonomously operating in human living environments requires the ability to adapt to continuously evolving task conditions. However, adapting high-dimensional coordinated bimanual skills to novel task variations at deployment remains a fundamental challenge. In this work, we present BiSAIL (Bimanual Skill Adaptation via Interactive Language), a novel framework that enables zero-shot online adaptation of offline-learned bimanual skills through interactive language feedback. The key idea of BiSAIL is to adopt a hierarchical reason-then-modulate paradigm, which first infers generalized adaptation objectives from multimodal task variations, and then adapts bimanual motions via diffusion modulation to achieve the inferred objectives. Extensive real-robot experiments across six bimanual tasks and two dual-arm platforms demonstrate that BiSAIL significantly outperforms existing methods in human-in-the-loop adaptability, task generalization and cross-embodiment scalability. This work enables the development of adaptive bimanual assistants that can be flexibly customized by non-expert users via intuitive verbal corrections. Experimental videos and code are available at https://rip4kobe.github.io/BiSAIL/.

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