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Ziyang Zhang

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Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Fast Multilayer Spectral Inversion of Hα 6562.8 A and Ca II 8542.1 A Spectra

Strong chromospheric absorption lines such as H$α$ 6562.8 A and Ca II 8542.1 A provide vital diagnostics of plasma dynamics and thermal structure in the solar chromosphere. Multilayer spectral inversion (MLSI) offers a physically interpretable framework for modeling these lines using a finite number of radiative-transfer layers, but conventional MLSI relies on pixel-by-pixel nonlinear least-squares fitting, making it computationally expensive for large imaging spectroscopic data sets. Here, we introduce a physics-informed neural-network (PINN) framework to accelerate MLSI while preserving its analytic radiative-transfer formulation. The network predicts MLSI parameters directly from observed line profiles and passes them through a differentiable MLSI forward model to synthesize spectra. Training follows a two-stage approach: an initial stage optimized solely via spectral reconstruction loss, followed by fine-tuning that combines spectral consistency with parameter-space supervision from conventional MLSI results on a single reference image. This strategy eliminates the need for large precomputed training sets while maintaining physical interpretability. Applied to Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) observations from the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) targeting both quiet-Sun and active-region regions, MLSI-PINN parameter maps reproduce the primary spatial structures of direct inversions, achieving an arithmetic mean pixel-wise Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.933 across all evaluated parameters. The reconstructed spectra closely match both observed profiles and conventional MLSI fits. Post-training, MLSI-PINN processes a raster in approximately 5-15 seconds compared to 3-5 minutes for conventional MLSI, delivering an inference speedup of about 12-60 times without substantial loss in reconstruction quality, enabling efficient MLSI analysis on large chromospheric data sets.

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Enhancing Event Candidate Acquisition for Event Linking

Event linking associates event mentions in text with entries in a knowledge base (KB), or identifies them as out-of-KB events. Although existing methods use different architectures, candidate event acquisition can still be weakened by short ambiguous mentions, noisy arguments, and evidence that is unevenly useful for retrieval. We present MACE, a Multi-Agent Candidate Event acquisition method that refines event structure before linking. MACE uses evidence-specialized LLM agents to acquire time, location, participant, and event-type evidence, exposes intermediate queries to candidate-event lookup tools, and lets a coordinator revise the evidence set before final candidate construction. Experiments on two event linking benchmarks show that adding MACE to different event linking models consistently improves accuracy. These results show that MACE improves event linking through better candidate event acquisition without modifying the event linking model.

cs.AI

EpiQAL: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Epidemiological Question Answering and Reasoning

Reliable epidemiological reasoning requires synthesizing study evidence to infer disease burden, transmission dynamics, and intervention effects at the population level. Existing medical question answering benchmarks primarily emphasize clinical knowledge or patient-level reasoning, yet few systematically evaluate evidence-grounded epidemiological inference. We present EpiQAL, to our knowledge the first diagnostic benchmark for epidemiological question answering over research literature, comprising three subsets built from open-access articles across diverse diseases. The three subsets progressively test factual recall, multi-step inference, and conclusion reconstruction under incomplete information, and are constructed through a quality-controlled pipeline combining taxonomy guidance, multi-model verification, and difficulty screening. Experiments on fifteen models spanning open-source and proprietary systems reveal that current LLMs show limited performance on epidemiological reasoning, with multi-step inference posing the greatest challenge. Model rankings shift across subsets, and scale alone does not predict success. Chain-of-Thought prompting benefits multi-step inference but yields mixed results elsewhere. EpiQAL provides fine-grained diagnostic signals for evidence-grounding, inferential reasoning, and conclusion reconstruction.

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PARAGraph: Pathology-Anatomy-Aware Hierarchical Graph for Diabetic Retinopathy Grading

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) remains a leading cause of vision loss among working-age adults worldwide, making reliable severity grading clinically important. Despite strong performance, most deep models formulate DR grading as image-level classification and do not explicitly model clinically grounded evidence, such as lesion types and spatial relations. In this paper, we propose PARAGraph, a Pathology-Anatomy-Aware Hierarchical Graph framework for DR grading. PARAGraph represents each image as a three-level hierarchical graph with lesion-level nodes, intermediate category and region nodes, and global anatomical and semantic nodes. To incorporate medical priors into nodes, we construct an optic disc-fovea-anchored coordinate frame that provides a scale- and rotation-normalized retinal reference system. Within this frame, lesion nodes are encoded with category, normalized area, and anatomical coordinates. To mitigate noisy lesion segmentation, PARAGraph uses a dual-fusion strategy that introduces global visual context into a graph semantic node and a decision-level prediction branch, improving robustness when lesion evidence is unreliable. Extensive experiments on Messidor-2, APTOS, and DDR show that PARAGraph achieves consistent DR grading performance over state-of-the-art methods. Interpretability and robustness analyses further demonstrate that its predictions are clinically grounded, closely associated with lesion evidence and robust to lesion segmentation noise.

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OmniInfer: System-Wide Acceleration Techniques for Optimizing LLM Serving Throughput and Latency

Large Language Models drive a wide range of modern AI applications but impose substantial challenges on large-scale serving systems due to intensive computation, strict latency constraints, and throughput bottlenecks. We introduce OmniInfer, a unified system-level acceleration framework designed to maximize end-to-end serving efficiency through fine-grained optimization of expert placement, cache compression, and scheduling. OmniInfer integrates three complementary components: OmniPlacement for load-aware Mixture-of-Experts scheduling, OmniAttn for sparse attention acceleration, and OmniProxy for disaggregation-aware request scheduling. Built atop vLLM, OmniInfer delivers system-wide performance gains through adaptive resource disaggregation, efficient sparsity exploitation, and global coordination across prefill and decode phases. Evaluated on DeepSeek-R1 within a 10-node Ascend 910C cluster, OmniInfer achieves 616 QPM, where the unified framework reduces TPOT by 36\%, and the superimposition of OmniProxy further slashes TTFT by 38\%. The project is open-sourced at [this https URL](https://gitee.com/omniai/omniinfer).

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Life 2.0: A Scalable Distributed Space-Telescope Array for Biosignature Spectroscopy

Answering the question "Are we alone?" requires atmospheric spectroscopy of nearby terrestrial planets. For an Earth--Sun analog, even the strongest transmission signals are expected to be of order 1 part per million (ppm). Unlike short-period planets, Earth 2.0 planets transit only about once per year, so single-transit sensitivity, rather than stacking repeated observations, is the fundamental design driver. Life 2.0 is a scalable space-mission concept linking Earth 2.0 candidates discovered by PLATO and the Earth 2.0 (ET) mission with atmospheric characterization and biosignature assessment. The baseline architecture comprises 900 one-meter space telescopes, each equipped with a high-throughput Waveguide Integrated Miniature Spectrograph and an ultra-low-read-noise CMOS detector. After independent calibration, spectra acquired simultaneously during a transit are combined, providing the photon-collecting capability of an approximately 30-m aperture at the selected spectral resolution while retaining a modular architecture. The baseline 0.2--1.05 $μ$m range covers O$_3$, O$_2$, H$_2$O, Rayleigh scattering, and other diagnostics, with extension into the infrared as detector technologies mature. Prototype Waveguide Spectral Lens devices have demonstrated 40--66\% throughput at resolving powers from $R \sim 200$ to $R \sim 20{,}000$. Lightweight silicon-carbide mirrors and sub-electron-noise CMOS detectors support replicated production. Life 2.0 must address detector systematics, instrument stability, and stellar variability; rather than assuming these limitations disappear, it builds on calibration, detector-characterization, and data-analysis techniques advanced during the JWST era. The concept offers a scalable alternative to a monolithic 30-m-class space telescope and a staged pathway toward biosignature spectroscopy of nearby Earth-like planets.

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SALMONN-2: Advancing General-Purpose Hearing Abilities with Self-Supervised Representations

Recent audio large language models (ALLMs) are typically built upon audio encoders trained with large amounts of supervised data. Since self-supervised learning (SSL) audio encoder models are known to learn general-purpose and transferable representations, we investigate whether general-purpose SSL audio representations can serve as an effective foundation for ALLMs. We present SALMONN-2, an ALLM built upon a unified SSL encoder. To better exploit the hierarchical representations learned by SSL encoders, we propose a multi-layer feature fusion (MLF) adapter that aggregates information from all encoder layers before projecting them into the language model. Beyond conventional audio understanding tasks, we further explore multimodal in-context learning (MICL) in ALLMs and study how this capability can be acquired through contextual biasing training. Experimental results show that a general-purpose SSL encoder achieves performance comparable to, or better than, specialised supervised audio encoders while providing a more balanced capability across speech, audio, music and paralinguistic tasks. SALMONN-2 further achieves state-of-the-art performance among comparable-scale open-weight models on ALLM understanding benchmarks, obtaining the best results on MMAU-Pro, MMAR and MMSU. We also show that MICL does not emerge naturally in ALLMs, but can be effectively acquired through targeted contextual biasing training.

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Large Language Models Versus Physicians in Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Real-World Clinical Case Evaluation

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being explored for clinical applications, yet their assessment for real-world traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practice remains limited We constructed a clinical case library comprising 349 de-identified outpatient cases from 62 hospitals and evaluated 16 LLMs and a comparator cohort of 60 practicing TCM physicians using 60 representative cases selected from this library. Model outputs and physician reports were anonymized and scored by five senior TCM experts across nine diagnostic and therapeutic dimensions. Cutting-edge general-purpose LLMs achieved higher expert scores than the physician comparators, particularly for medical advice, treatment principles and selected diagnostic tasks. However, prescription-level analyses revealed discrepancies in herb selection, dosage, and treatment strategy, and qualitative safety review identified hallucinations and undesirable template-driven outputs. These findings highlight the potential of LLMs for TCM decision support while underscoring the need for physician oversight, safety constraints and prospective clinical evaluation.

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MonkeyOCRv2: A Visual-Text Foundation Model for Document AI

Mainstream visual encoders are pretrained on natural images and cannot be effectively applied to document images without document-oriented adaptation, as dense text and fine-grained character strokes demand character-level visual perception. We present MonkeyOCRv2, a visual-text pretrained model for document AI. First, we construct MonkeyDoc v2, to our knowledge the largest document-image pretraining corpus, comprising 113 million images spanning 17 languages. Second, we propose a pretraining strategy that jointly learns image-to-text generation and pixel-level document reconstruction: the former aligns visual representations with textual content, while the latter preserves character strokes and layout details. Extensive experiments are conducted on five representative document analysis tasks, including text recognition, formula recognition, text detection, document tampering detection, and overlapping text segmentation. Replacing the original encoders with MonkeyOCRv2 consistently improves performance across all five tasks. Finally, we validate its effectiveness as the vision encoder of multimodal large language models on the more challenging tasks of document parsing and document understanding. Kept frozen and paired with a lightweight language model, it yields a 0.7B document parsing model that sets a new open-source state-of-the-art on MDPBench, a recent benchmark spanning digital-born and photographed documents across 17 languages, surpassing the previous best 3B dots.mocr by 2.8% absolute with a vision encoder roughly 11$\times$ smaller. The frozen encoder also powers a document understanding model that outperforms counterparts built on CLIP, DINO, and SAM across eight benchmarks under identical training settings. These results suggest that document-oriented visual pretraining can serve as a foundation for document intelligence in its own right.

cs.CV

AutoPath: Learning Transferable Goal-Conditioned Stochastic Path Prior for Safe Navigation Without Human Demonstrations

Real-time navigation in cluttered and dynamic environments requires collision-free and dynamically feasible motion under limited perception. However, feasible navigation behaviors are inherently multimodal because multiple paths may exist around obstacles. In this paper, we formulate navigation as learning a transferable goal-conditioned stochastic path prior that models a reusable distribution over goal-aligned geometry-consistent local paths conditioned on local observations. This formulation enables structured sampling of navigation candidates, allowing multiple feasible paths to be explored through sampling without relying on robot-specific motion constraints. To this end, we introduce a goal-aligned canonical state representation that removes in-plane rotational ambiguity and normalizes local geometry with respect to the goal, enabling rotation-invariant path distribution learning. We further develop a structured prior learning framework that parameterizes local paths using a geometry-aware polar action manifold and incorporates risk-sensitive utility shaping with multi-goal distributional rollouts for stable and safety-aware planning. Extensive experiments in dense static environments and dynamic pedestrian scenarios demonstrate that the proposed method achieves consistently high success rates with competitive efficiency while enabling cross-platform transfer of a single path prior learned on differential-drive robots to quadruped platforms without retraining.

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DynaFilter: Cloud-driven Dynamic Filtering for Satellite Edge Intelligence

Modern satellite edge systems, including those performing remote sensing tasks such object detection and tracking, are characterized by severely limited bandwidth and intermittent connections, making continuous data transmission to the cloud impractical. Existing edge-cloud systems, however, either require heavy pre-processing before analysis, for instance, full decompression of imagery data, or transmit all compressed data regardless of relevance. To address these challenges, we design DynaFilter, a dynamic filtering technique that enables satellite edge devices to perform selective region-of-interest (RoI) inference directly in the compressed-domain, without full decompression. Our key insight is that low-level compression syntax, specifically DC coefficients/AC energy in JPEG images and motion vectors in video streams, exhibits strong correlations with high-level semantic queries. By establishing a precise mapping between cloud query semantics and multimodal compressed-domain features, DynaFilter enables the edge to identify and transmit only relevant data associated to RoIs. Extensive evaluations show that DynaFilter reduces the total volume of pixel data for decoding and subsequent inference by 1.6x-7.1x for images, and achieves 92.0% bandwidth savings for video streams compared to state-of-the-art baselines. Furthermore, it decreases energy consumption by 43.1-88.6% on target devices and achieves a 1.6x-3.0x speedup in inference latency.

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Beyond Uniform Experts: Cost-Aware Expert Execution for Efficient Multi-Device MoE Inference

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures enable language models to achieve unprecedented scale via sparse activation. However, their inference performance is often limited by data movement bottlenecks. Two coupled challenges exacerbate this limtation: (1) Importance-Agnostic Cost: Low-contribution experts incur nearly uniform memory and transfer costs, resulting in a low cost-to-benefit ratio and wasting critical bandwidth; (2) System-Level Imbalance: Multi-device deployments are universally bottlenecked by the slowest device, meaning that local reductions on one device may yield no improvement in end-to-end latency. We propose Cost-Aware Expert Execution (CAEE), a hardware-guided runtime framework that jointly optimizes for token-level expert importance and system-level execution cost. CAEE uses lightweight, calibrated cost models to estimate hardware overhead, selectively prunes low-importance, high-cost experts, and redistributes their contributions via a low-overhead compensation mechanism, avoiding extra data movement. Evaluations on the 671B DeepSeek-R1 model show that CAEE can reduce end-to-end inference latency by 8\%-18\% across diverse deployment settings, including expert offloading and on-device execution on multi-device systems, while maintaining a model accuracy drop of less than 1\%.

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A Beamforming Microwave Interferometric Radiometer for High-resolution Passive Imaging: Concept, Modeling, and Preliminary Demonstration

High-resolution passive microwave imaging is important for numerical weather prediction, disaster monitoring, and oceanographic studies, but kilometer-level spatial resolution remains difficult to achieve because of aperture limitations and the high complexity of large interferometric arrays. This paper proposes a beamforming microwave interferometric radiometer (BF-MIR) for high-resolution passive microwave imaging. BF-MIR employs beamforming-capable antennas as interferometric elements in a large sparse array. The enlarged spatial-frequency sampling interval reduces the required number of elements and the cross-correlation burden, while a large aperture-to-sampling-interval ratio factor (ASRF) array design enables narrow-beam spatial filtering to suppress brightness temperature (TB) aliasing caused by spatial-frequency under sampling. In addition, beamforming enables dynamic beam steering across multiple pointing directions, thereby compensating for the limited instantaneous coverage of narrow beams. A beamforming interferometric imaging model is established, and the relationships among spatial resolution, radiometric sensitivity, and effective field of view are analyzed. An image-domain Shift-Accumulate method is further introduced to analyze aliasing, based on which an aliasing suppression strategy is developed. In addition, a three-element proof-of-concept prototype provides preliminary experimental validation of dynamic beam interferometric measurement and dynamic beam observation modes. These results indicate that BF-MIR is a promising architecture for further spaceborne high-resolution passive microwave imaging.

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Ascend-RaBitQ: Heterogeneous NPU-CPU Acceleration of Billion-Scale Similarity Search with 1-bit Quantization

Vector similarity search is a critical component of modern AI systems, but traditional CPU-based implementations face fundamental scalability bottlenecks for billion-scale corpora due to prohibitive computational overhead and memory bandwidth limitations. While Neural Processing Units (NPUs) offer orders-of-magnitude higher compute density, existing CPU/GPU-optimized 1-bit RaBitQ quantization implementations cannot be directly ported to NPU architectures due to fundamental hardware mismatches, and homogeneous design paradigms struggle to simultaneously balance accuracy, memory footprint, and performance. This paper presents Ascend-RaBitQ, the first heterogeneous NPU-CPU optimized IVF-RaBitQ system for billion-scale vector search, built on the core insight that decoupling coarse ranking (NPU) from fine ranking (CPU) allows each stage to leverage its optimal hardware, breaking the long-standing accuracy-memory-performance trade-off. We propose a three-stage heterogeneous execution path comprising AI Core-accelerated coarse ranking on 1-bit quantized vectors, on-device AI CPU Top-k processing, and host CPU fine re-ranking on full-precision vectors. We introduce four NPU architecture-native optimizations: fused AIC-AIV operators for parallel distance computation, computation flow restructuring to exploit rotation orthogonality, fine-grained index block-level load balancing that breaks query boundaries, and intra-NPU pipeline parallelism between AI Core and AI CPU to mask Top-k latency. Evaluation on standard datasets shows that Ascend-RaBitQ achieves 3.0X to 62.8X faster index construction than the CPU baseline, up to 11.7X throughput improvement over the fastest CPU IVF-RaBitQ implementation, and over two orders of magnitude over the mathematically equivalent CPU baseline, while demonstrating encouraging scalability on distributed multi-NPU systems.

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Beyond Static Evaluation: Co-Evolutionary Mechanisms for LLM-Driven Strategy Evolution in Adversarial Games

Recent advances in LLM-driven code evolution have enabled automated discovery by iteratively generating and improving programs. However, applying these methods to adversarial multi-agent games introduces a fundamental challenge: the evaluation landscape shifts as strategies improve, causing fixed evaluators to become unreliable and evolution to stagnate. We propose three mechanisms to address this challenge: evaluator co-evolution, which incorporates discovered champions into the opponent pool; hierarchical deep evaluation, which replaces noisy few-game scores with statistically reliable assessments; and weakness pressure, which dynamically up-weights the most difficult opponents to break through plateaus. We implement these mechanisms within FAMOU, a framework built upon the same foundation-model code-evolution paradigm as OpenEvolve and ShinkaEvolve. On the MCTF 2026 3v3 maritime capture-the-flag task, FAMOU consistently outperforms both baselines under two backbone LLMs, achieving the highest combined score (0.526) and the best generalization to unseen opponents (61.7% win rate), while ablations confirm that each mechanism contributes to performance. Notably, the LLM mutation process generates tactical structures entirely absent from the seed strategies -- including lookahead search and adaptive interception -- demonstrating that code-level evolution can produce nontrivial algorithmic innovations in adversarial settings. The FAMOU-evolved strategy further achieved 1st place in the hardware round-robin and 3rd in simulation at the AAMAS 2026 MCTF Competition, validating its real-world transferability. The optimized implementation and corresponding evaluation codes developed through our evolutionary process are available at: https://github.com/1xiangliu1/FAMOU-CoEvo

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CANS: Accelerating Multiuser Collaborative Edge Inference via Cooperative Autodidactic NeuroSurgeon

Recently, mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled collaborative deep neural network (DNN) inference has emerged as a promising approach for delivering intelligent services to resource-constrained mobile devices. A representative scenario is multi-user collaborative edge inference, where distinct devices independently partition their DNN models and offload backend computation to a common edge server over wireless networks. However, determining the optimal DNN partition for each device is challenging due to unknown and time-varying system conditions, including fluctuating wireless links and diverse device capabilities. To address this problem, we propose Cooperative Autodidactic NeuroSurgeon (CANS), a collaborative edge inference framework that enables devices to adaptively learn optimal DNN partitions by sharing informative feedback during online inference. To handle the challenge of device heterogeneity and better leverage offline inference experience, we integrate a novel FedLinUCB-DW algorithm that groups devices of the same type and warm-starts online exploration using local offline early-exit inference experience. Furthermore, we provide theoretical guarantees for FedLinUCB-DW by deriving the regret upper bound. We also validate our method on both a simulated environment and a hardware prototype system. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that CANS achieves lower inference latency compared to state-of-the-art baselines. Especially, in prototype experiments on two edge devices, the proposed CANS reduced average inference latency by up to 50% compared to the non-cooperative baseline.

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Dexterity-BEV: Aligning 3D World and Actions for Generalizable Robot Policies Learning

End-to-end manipulation policies, combined with web-scale pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), show the promise for generalizable and dexterous robotic manipulation. However, they inherit two key limitations from 2D foundation models: 1) the reliance on 2D RGB inputs that ignores the intrinsically 3D nature of manipulation; and 2) the lack of spatial 3D alignment between input-output spaces as well as across diverse robot embodiments, camera setups, and trajectory datasets. In this paper, we present a series of contributions to address these issues. First, we introduce aligned vertex map and vertex spectrum -- a pixel-wise 3D representation that elevates 2D visual inputs to 3D, using camera calibration and optional depth. This novel input representation marries 3D awareness with the generalization of 2D large VLMs. Then, we propose to align the inputs and outputs of manipulation policies by expressing per-pixel 3D information of each camera view and robot actions to a shared coordinate. Based on this, we designate a canonical Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) alignment frame and innovatively propose to construct BEV images, producing a view-invariant representation robust to camera pose variations. To enable training and evaluation at scale, we develop a comprehensive data processing pipeline to perform such alignments; we also introduce a novel temporal alignment scheme for trajectories across diverse robots, human operators, and datasets. These contributions collectively mitigate input and output spatial-temporal misalignments, improving the consistency and generalization for real-world manipulation. Pretrained checkpoint, source code and data processing pipeline are available in https://hnuzhy.github.io/projects/Dex-BEV.

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Deterministic Inference across Tensor Parallel Sizes That Eliminates Training-Inference Mismatch

Deterministic inference is increasingly critical for large language model (LLM) applications such as LLM-as-a-judge evaluation, multi-agent systems, and Reinforcement Learning (RL). However, existing LLM serving frameworks exhibit non-deterministic behavior: identical inputs can yield different outputs when system configurations (e.g., tensor parallel (TP) size, batch size) vary, even under greedy decoding. This arises from the non-associativity of floating-point arithmetic and inconsistent reduction orders across GPUs. While prior work has addressed batch-size-related nondeterminism through batch-invariant kernels, determinism across different TP sizes remains an open problem, particularly in RL settings, where the training engine typically uses Fully Sharded Data Parallel (i.e., TP = 1) while the rollout engine relies on multi-GPU TP to maximize the inference throughput, creating a natural mismatch between the two. This precision mismatch problem may lead to suboptimal performance or even collapse for RL training. We identify and analyze the root causes of TP-induced inconsistency and propose Tree-Based Invariant Kernels (TBIK), a set of TP-invariant matrix multiplication and reduction primitives that guarantee bit-wise identical results regardless of TP size. Our key insight is to align intra- and inter-GPU reduction orders through a unified hierarchical binary tree structure. We implement these kernels in Triton and integrate them into vLLM and FSDP. Experiments confirm zero probability divergence and bit-wise reproducibility for deterministic inference across different TP sizes. Also, we achieve bit-wise identical results between vLLM and FSDP in RL training pipelines with different parallel strategy. Code is available at https://github.com/nanomaoli/llm_reproducibility.

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