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2502.00472
Binned Spectral Power Loss for Improved Prediction of Chaotic Systems
cs.LG math.DS physics.flu-dyn
Forecasting multiscale chaotic dynamical systems with deep learning remains a formidable challenge due to the spectral bias of neural networks, which hinders the accurate representation of fine-scale structures in long-term predictions. This issue is exacerbated when models are deployed autoregressively, leading to c...
2502.00473
Weak-to-Strong Diffusion with Reflection
cs.LG cs.CV
The goal of diffusion generative models is to align the learned distribution with the real data distribution through gradient score matching. However, inherent limitations in training data quality, modeling strategies, and architectural design lead to inevitable gap between generated outputs and real data. To reduce ...
2502.00474
A framework for river connectivity classification using temporal image processing and attention based neural networks
cs.CV cs.LG eess.IV
Measuring the connectivity of water in rivers and streams is essential for effective water resource management. Increased extreme weather events associated with climate change can result in alterations to river and stream connectivity. While traditional stream flow gauges are costly to deploy and limited to large riv...
2502.00476
Offshore wind farm layout optimization using mathematical programming techniques
cs.CE
Offshore wind power is a renewable energy of growing relevance in current electric energy systems, presenting favorable wind conditions in comparison with the sites on land. However, the higher energy yield has to compensate the increment in installation and maintenance costs, thus the importance of optimizing resour...
2502.00486
Mixed extreme wave climate model for reanalysis databases
cs.CE
Hindcast or wave reanalysis databases (WRDB) constitute a powerful source with respect to instrumental records in the design of offshore and coastal structures, since they offer important advantages for the statistical characterization of wave climate variables, such as continuous long time records of significant wav...
2502.00488
Learn Sharp Interface Solution by Homotopy Dynamics
cs.LG cs.NA math.NA
Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using neural networks has become a central focus in scientific machine learning. Training neural networks for sharp interface problems is particularly challenging due to certain parameters in the PDEs that introduce near-singularities in the loss function. In this study, ...
2502.00490
Oscillations Make Neural Networks Robust to Quantization
cs.LG
We challenge the prevailing view that oscillations in Quantization Aware Training (QAT) are merely undesirable artifacts caused by the Straight-Through Estimator (STE). Through theoretical analysis of QAT in linear models, we demonstrate that the gradient of the loss function can be decomposed into two terms: the ori...
2502.00494
Data Overvaluation Attack and Truthful Data Valuation
cs.CR cs.AI cs.LG
In collaborative machine learning, data valuation, i.e., evaluating the contribution of each client' data to the machine learning model, has become a critical task for incentivizing and selecting positive data contributions. However, existing studies often assume that clients engage in data valuation truthfully, over...
2502.00495
Looking into the Future of Health-Care Services: Can Life-Like Agents Change the Future of Health-Care Services?
cs.CY cs.AI
Time constraints on doctor patient interaction and restricted access to specialists under the managed care system led to increasingly referring to computers as a medical information source and a self-health-care management tool. However, research show that less than 40% of information seekers indicated that online in...
2502.00497
Convolutional Fourier Analysis Network (CFAN): A Unified Time-Frequency Approach for ECG Classification
cs.LG eess.SP
Machine learning has transformed the classification of biomedical signals such as electrocardiograms (ECGs). Advances in deep learning, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), enable automatic feature extraction, raising the question: Can combining time- and frequency-domain attributes enhance classificati...
2502.00498
MetaOpenFOAM 2.0: Large Language Model Driven Chain of Thought for Automating CFD Simulation and Post-Processing
cs.AI physics.comp-ph
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is widely used in aerospace, energy, and biology to model fluid flow, heat transfer, and chemical reactions. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed various domains, their application in CFD remains limited, particularly for complex tasks like post-processing. To bridge ...
2502.00499
Discovering Directly-Follows Graph Model for Acyclic Processes
cs.AI
Process mining is the common name for a range of methods and approaches aimed at analysing and improving processes. Specifically, methods that aim to derive process models from event logs fall under the category of process discovery. Within the range of processes, acyclic processes form a distinct category. In such p...
2502.00500
Video Latent Flow Matching: Optimal Polynomial Projections for Video Interpolation and Extrapolation
cs.CV cs.AI cs.LG
This paper considers an efficient video modeling process called Video Latent Flow Matching (VLFM). Unlike prior works, which randomly sampled latent patches for video generation, our method relies on current strong pre-trained image generation models, modeling a certain caption-guided flow of latent patches that can ...
2502.00501
Optimizing Feature Selection in Causal Inference: A Three-Stage Computational Framework for Unbiased Estimation
stat.ME cs.AI cs.LG stat.ML
Feature selection is an important but challenging task in causal inference for obtaining unbiased estimates of causal quantities. Properly selected features in causal inference not only significantly reduce the time required to implement a matching algorithm but, more importantly, can also reduce the bias and varianc...
2502.00507
A statistically consistent measure of Semantic Variability using Language Models
cs.CL cs.AI
To address the issue of variability in the output generated by a language model, we present a measure of semantic variability that is statistically consistent under mild assumptions. This measure, denoted as semantic spectral entropy, is a easy to implement algorithm that requires just off the shelf language models. ...
2502.00510
Who's the MVP? A Game-Theoretic Evaluation Benchmark for Modular Attribution in LLM Agents
cs.AI cs.CL
Large Language Model (LLM) agents frameworks often employ modular architectures, incorporating components such as planning, reasoning, action execution, and reflection to tackle complex tasks. However, quantifying the contribution of each module to overall system performance remains a significant challenge, impeding ...
2502.00511
Bridging Internal Probability and Self-Consistency for Effective and Efficient LLM Reasoning
cs.LG cs.AI cs.CL
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities. However, single-shot inference often yields unreliable results for complex reasoning tasks, leading researchers to explore multiple reasoning paths through methods such as perplexity and self-consistency. In this ...
2502.00513
Covariance Analysis of Attitude and Angular Rate Estimation using Accelerometers
eess.SY cs.SY
In this work a method for using accelerometers for the determination of angular velocity and acceleration is presented. Minimum sensor requirements and insights into how an array of accelerometers can be configured to maximize estimator performance are considered. The framework presented utilizes linear least squares...
2502.00519
CoDocBench: A Dataset for Code-Documentation Alignment in Software Maintenance
cs.SE cs.LG
One of the central tasks in software maintenance is being able to understand and develop code changes. Thus, given a natural language description of the desired new operation of a function, an agent (human or AI) might be asked to generate the set of edits to that function to implement the desired new operation; like...
2502.00520
Variance Reduction via Resampling and Experience Replay
stat.ML cs.LG
Experience replay is a foundational technique in reinforcement learning that enhances learning stability by storing past experiences in a replay buffer and reusing them during training. Despite its practical success, its theoretical properties remain underexplored. In this paper, we present a theoretical framework th...
2502.00527
PolarQuant: Leveraging Polar Transformation for Efficient Key Cache Quantization and Decoding Acceleration
cs.LG cs.CL
The KV cache in large language models is a dominant factor in memory usage, limiting their broader applicability. Quantizing the cache to lower bit widths is an effective way to reduce computational costs; however, previous methods struggle with quantizing key vectors due to outliers, resulting in excessive overhead....
2502.00528
Vision-Language Modeling in PET/CT for Visual Grounding of Positive Findings
cs.CV cs.CL
Vision-language models can connect the text description of an object to its specific location in an image through visual grounding. This has potential applications in enhanced radiology reporting. However, these models require large annotated image-text datasets, which are lacking for PET/CT. We developed an automate...
2502.00529
Graph Data Management and Graph Machine Learning: Synergies and Opportunities
cs.DB
The ubiquity of machine learning, particularly deep learning, applied to graphs is evident in applications ranging from cheminformatics (drug discovery) and bioinformatics (protein interaction prediction) to knowledge graph-based query answering, fraud detection, and social network analysis. Concurrently, graph data ...
2502.00530
Generic Multimodal Spatially Graph Network for Spatially Embedded Network Representation Learning
cs.LG cs.AI cs.SI
Spatially embedded networks (SENs) represent a special type of complex graph, whose topologies are constrained by the networks' embedded spatial environments. The graph representation of such networks is thereby influenced by the embedded spatial features of both nodes and edges. Accurate network representation of th...
2502.00532
Enhancing Field-Oriented Control of Electric Drives with Tiny Neural Network Optimized for Micro-controllers
cs.LG cs.SY eess.SY
The deployment of neural networks on resource-constrained micro-controllers has gained momentum, driving many advancements in Tiny Neural Networks. This paper introduces a tiny feed-forward neural network, TinyFC, integrated into the Field-Oriented Control (FOC) of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs). Proport...
2502.00534
Transition Transfer $Q$-Learning for Composite Markov Decision Processes
stat.ML cs.LG
To bridge the gap between empirical success and theoretical understanding in transfer reinforcement learning (RL), we study a principled approach with provable performance guarantees. We introduce a novel composite MDP framework where high-dimensional transition dynamics are modeled as the sum of a low-rank component...
2502.00535
Work-Efficient Parallel Non-Maximum Suppression Kernels
cs.CV cs.DC
In the context of object detection, sliding-window classifiers and single-shot Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) meta-architectures typically yield multiple overlapping candidate windows with similar high scores around the true location of a particular object. Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS) is the process of selectin...
2502.00536
CAD: Confidence-Aware Adaptive Displacement for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
cs.CV cs.LG
Semi-supervised medical image segmentation aims to leverage minimal expert annotations, yet remains confronted by challenges in maintaining high-quality consistency learning. Excessive perturbations can degrade alignment and hinder precise decision boundaries, especially in regions with uncertain predictions. In this...
2502.00537
Detecting Ambiguities to Guide Query Rewrite for Robust Conversations in Enterprise AI Assistants
cs.CL
Multi-turn conversations with an Enterprise AI Assistant can be challenging due to conversational dependencies in questions, leading to ambiguities and errors. To address this, we propose an NLU-NLG framework for ambiguity detection and resolution through reformulating query automatically and introduce a new task cal...
2502.00543
VertiFormer: A Data-Efficient Multi-Task Transformer for Off-Road Robot Mobility
cs.RO cs.CV cs.LG
Sophisticated learning architectures, e.g., Transformers, present a unique opportunity for robots to understand complex vehicle-terrain kinodynamic interactions for off-road mobility. While internet-scale data are available for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) tasks to train Transformers, re...
2502.00545
Integrating Frequency Guidance into Multi-source Domain Generalization for Bearing Fault Diagnosis
cs.LG cs.AI cs.CV
Recent generalizable fault diagnosis researches have effectively tackled the distributional shift between unseen working conditions. Most of them mainly focus on learning domain-invariant representation through feature-level methods. However, the increasing numbers of unseen domains may lead to domain-invariant featu...
2502.00547
Milmer: a Framework for Multiple Instance Learning based Multimodal Emotion Recognition
cs.CV cs.AI cs.HC
Emotions play a crucial role in human behavior and decision-making, making emotion recognition a key area of interest in human-computer interaction (HCI). This study addresses the challenges of emotion recognition by integrating facial expression analysis with electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, introducing a novel m...
2502.00550
Muti-Fidelity Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification with Laplace Neural Operators for Parametric Partial Differential Equations
cs.LG cs.NA math.NA physics.comp-ph
Laplace Neural Operators (LNOs) have recently emerged as a promising approach in scientific machine learning due to the ability to learn nonlinear maps between functional spaces. However, this framework often requires substantial amounts of high-fidelity (HF) training data, which is often prohibitively expensive to a...
2502.00552
Optimal Sensor Placement in Power Transformers Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks
cs.LG cs.SY eess.SY
Our work aims at simulating and predicting the temperature conditions inside a power transformer using Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). The predictions obtained are then used to determine the optimal placement for temperature sensors inside the transformer under the constraint of a limited number of sensors,...
2502.00557
Sampling Binary Data by Denoising through Score Functions
stat.ML cs.LG
Gaussian smoothing combined with a probabilistic framework for denoising via the empirical Bayes formalism, i.e., the Tweedie-Miyasawa formula (TMF), are the two key ingredients in the success of score-based generative models in Euclidean spaces. Smoothing holds the key for easing the problem of learning and sampling...
2502.00558
Asynchronous Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Limited Communication
cs.MA
We consider the problem setting in which multiple autonomous agents must cooperatively navigate and perform tasks in an unknown, communication-constrained environment. Traditional multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) approaches assume synchronous communications and perform poorly in such environments. We propose...
2502.00559
Deep learning model for ECG reconstruction reveals the information content of ECG leads
eess.SP cs.LG
This study introduces a deep learning model based on the U-net architecture to reconstruct missing leads in electrocardiograms (ECGs). Using publicly available datasets, the model was trained to regenerate 12-lead ECG data from reduced lead configurations, demonstrating high accuracy in lead reconstruction. The resul...
2502.00562
Assessment of ChatGPT for Engineering Statics Analysis
cs.CE
Large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT hold potential for automating engineering analysis, yet their reliability in solving multi-step statics problems remains uncertain. This study evaluates the performance of ChatGPT-4o and ChatGPT-o1-preview on foundational statics tasks, from simple calculations of...
2502.00563
Complex Wavelet Mutual Information Loss: A Multi-Scale Loss Function for Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV eess.IV
Recent advancements in deep neural networks have significantly enhanced the performance of semantic segmentation. However, class imbalance and instance imbalance remain persistent challenges, where smaller instances and thin boundaries are often overshadowed by larger structures. To address the multiscale nature of s...
2502.00567
Lessons for GenAI Literacy From a Field Study of Human-GenAI Augmentation in the Workplace
cs.CY cs.AI
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly becoming a part of work practices across the technology industry and being used across a range of industries. This has necessitated the need to better understand how GenAI is being used by professionals in the field so that we can better prepare students for ...
2502.00568
Generating crossmodal gene expression from cancer histopathology improves multimodal AI predictions
cs.CV cs.AI cs.LG
Emerging research has highlighted that artificial intelligence based multimodal fusion of digital pathology and transcriptomic features can improve cancer diagnosis (grading/subtyping) and prognosis (survival risk) prediction. However, such direct fusion for joint decision is impractical in real clinical settings, wh...
2502.00571
Contrastive Forward-Forward: A Training Algorithm of Vision Transformer
cs.CV cs.LG
Although backpropagation is widely accepted as a training algorithm for artificial neural networks, researchers are always looking for inspiration from the brain to find ways with potentially better performance. Forward-Forward is a new training algorithm that is more similar to what occurs in the brain, although the...
2502.00575
DeepUKF-VIN: Adaptively-tuned Deep Unscented Kalman Filter for 3D Visual-Inertial Navigation based on IMU-Vision-Net
cs.RO cs.SY eess.SY
This paper addresses the challenge of estimating the orientation, position, and velocity of a vehicle operating in three-dimensional (3D) space with six degrees of freedom (6-DoF). A Deep Learning-based Adaptation Mechanism (DLAM) is proposed to adaptively tune the noise covariance matrices of Kalman-type filters for...
2502.00577
Understanding Multimodal LLMs Under Distribution Shifts: An Information-Theoretic Approach
cs.AI cs.CL cs.LG
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promising capabilities but struggle under distribution shifts, where evaluation data differ from instruction tuning distributions. Although previous works have provided empirical evaluations, we argue that establishing a formal framework that can characterize and qu...
2502.00580
Defense Against the Dark Prompts: Mitigating Best-of-N Jailbreaking with Prompt Evaluation
cs.CR cs.AI cs.CL cs.CY
Recent work showed Best-of-N (BoN) jailbreaking using repeated use of random augmentations (such as capitalization, punctuation, etc) is effective against all major large language models (LLMs). We have found that $100\%$ of the BoN paper's successful jailbreaks (confidence interval $[99.65\%, 100.00\%]$) and $99.8\%...
2502.00581
Trajectory Planning and Control for Differentially Flat Fixed-Wing Aerial Systems
cs.RO
Efficient real-time trajectory planning and control for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles is challenging due to their non-holonomic nature, complex dynamics, and the additional uncertainties introduced by unknown aerodynamic effects. In this paper, we present a fast and efficient real-time trajectory planning and c...
2502.00582
Uniform-in-time weak propagation of chaos for consensus-based optimization
math.OC cs.LG math.PR
We study the uniform-in-time weak propagation of chaos for the consensus-based optimization (CBO) method on a bounded searching domain. We apply the methodology for studying long-time behaviors of interacting particle systems developed in the work of Delarue and Tse (ArXiv:2104.14973). Our work shows that the weak er...
2502.00583
Data-Driven Mispronunciation Pattern Discovery for Robust Speech Recognition
cs.CL cs.SD eess.AS
Recent advancements in machine learning have significantly improved speech recognition, but recognizing speech from non-fluent or accented speakers remains a challenge. Previous efforts, relying on rule-based pronunciation patterns, have struggled to fully capture non-native errors. We propose two data-driven approac...
2502.00585
Converting Transformers into DGNNs Form
cs.LG cs.CL
Recent advances in deep learning have established Transformer architectures as the predominant modeling paradigm. Central to the success of Transformers is the self-attention mechanism, which scores the similarity between query and key matrices to modulate a value matrix. This operation bears striking similarities to...
2502.00587
Robust Knowledge Distillation in Federated Learning: Counteracting Backdoor Attacks
cs.CR cs.AI
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple devices while preserving data privacy. However, it remains susceptible to backdoor attacks, where malicious participants can compromise the global model. Existing defence methods are limited by strict assumptions on data heterogeneity (Non-I...
2502.00592
M+: Extending MemoryLLM with Scalable Long-Term Memory
cs.CL
Equipping large language models (LLMs) with latent-space memory has attracted increasing attention as they can extend the context window of existing language models. However, retaining information from the distant past remains a challenge. For example, MemoryLLM (Wang et al., 2024a), as a representative work with lat...
2502.00593
Dominated Novelty Search: Rethinking Local Competition in Quality-Diversity
cs.NE cs.LG
Quality-Diversity is a family of evolutionary algorithms that generate diverse, high-performing solutions through local competition principles inspired by natural evolution. While research has focused on improving specific aspects of Quality-Diversity algorithms, surprisingly little attention has been paid to investi...
2502.00594
Fast Vision Mamba: Pooling Spatial Dimensions for Accelerated Processing
cs.CV cs.AI
State Space Models (SSMs) with selective scan (Mamba) have been adapted into efficient vision models. Mamba, unlike Vision Transformers, achieves linear complexity for token interactions through a recurrent hidden state process. This sequential processing is enhanced by a parallel scan algorithm, which reduces the co...
2502.00595
RPGBENCH: Evaluating Large Language Models as Role-Playing Game Engines
cs.CL cs.AI
We present RPGBench, the first benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) as text-based role-playing game (RPG) engines. RPGBench comprises two core tasks: Game Creation (GC) and Game Simulation (GS). In GC, an LLM must craft a valid and playable RPG world using a structured event-state representatio...
2502.00596
Rewinding the byte trail of the White Whale
cs.IT math.IT
Motivated by a popular code golf challenge, we review some key ideas from information theory and discuss how to efficiently compress a streaming file with an acceptable error rate.
2502.00601
Enhancing Offline Reinforcement Learning with Curriculum Learning-Based Trajectory Valuation
cs.LG
The success of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) relies on the availability and quality of training data, often requiring extensive interactions with specific environments. In many real-world scenarios, where data collection is costly and risky, offline reinforcement learning (RL) offers a solution by utilizing data ...
2502.00602
Mitigating Heterogeneous Token Overfitting in LLM Knowledge Editing
cs.CL cs.LG
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on various natural language tasks. However, they are trained on static corpora and their knowledge can become outdated quickly in the fast-changing world. This motivates the development of knowledge editing (KE) to update specific knowledge in LLMs wit...
2502.00604
Gradient Alignment in Physics-informed Neural Networks: A Second-Order Optimization Perspective
cs.LG cs.AI physics.comp-ph
Multi-task learning through composite loss functions is fundamental to modern deep learning, yet optimizing competing objectives remains challenging. We present new theoretical and practical approaches for addressing directional conflicts between loss terms, demonstrating their effectiveness in physics-informed neura...
2502.00605
The Query/Hit Model for Sequential Hypothesis Testing
cs.IT cs.LG eess.SP math.IT
This work introduces the Query/Hit (Q/H) learning model. The setup consists of two agents. One agent, Alice, has access to a streaming source, while the other, Bob, does not have direct access to the source. Communication occurs through sequential Q/H pairs: Bob sends a sequence of source symbols (queries), and Alice...
2502.00607
PAC Learning is just Bipartite Matching (Sort of)
cs.LG cs.DS stat.ML
The main goal of this article is to convince you, the reader, that supervised learning in the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) model is closely related to -- of all things -- bipartite matching! En-route from PAC learning to bipartite matching, I will overview a particular transductive model of learning, and asso...
2502.00611
Enhancing Code Consistency in AI Research with Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation
cs.SE cs.AI
Ensuring that code accurately reflects the algorithms and methods described in research papers is critical for maintaining credibility and fostering trust in AI research. This paper presents a novel system designed to verify code implementations against the algorithms and methodologies outlined in corresponding resea...
2502.00612
Using Causality for Enhanced Prediction of Web Traffic Time Series
cs.LG cs.NI
Predicting web service traffic has significant social value, as it can be applied to various practical scenarios, including but not limited to dynamic resource scaling, load balancing, system anomaly detection, service-level agreement compliance, and fraud detection. Web service traffic is characterized by frequent a...
2502.00617
Efficient Language Modeling for Low-Resource Settings with Hybrid RNN-Transformer Architectures
cs.CL
Transformer-based language models have recently been at the forefront of active research in text generation. However, these models' advances come at the price of prohibitive training costs, with parameter counts in the billions and compute requirements measured in petaflop/s-decades. In this paper, we investigate tra...
2502.00618
DesCLIP: Robust Continual Adaptation via General Attribute Descriptions for Pretrained Vision-Language Models
cs.CV cs.AI
Continual adaptation of vision-language models (VLMs) focuses on leveraging cross-modal pretrained knowledge to incrementally adapt for expanding downstream tasks and datasets, while tackling the challenge of knowledge forgetting. Existing research often focuses on connecting visual features with specific class text ...
2502.00619
Distribution-aware Fairness Learning in Medical Image Segmentation From A Control-Theoretic Perspective
eess.IV cs.AI cs.CV
Ensuring fairness in medical image segmentation is critical due to biases in imbalanced clinical data acquisition caused by demographic attributes (e.g., age, sex, race) and clinical factors (e.g., disease severity). To address these challenges, we introduce Distribution-aware Mixture of Experts (dMoE), inspired by o...
2502.00620
Representations Shape Weak-to-Strong Generalization: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Predictions
cs.LG cs.AI
Weak-to-Strong Generalization (W2SG), where a weak model supervises a stronger one, serves as an important analogy for understanding how humans might guide superhuman intelligence in the future. Promising empirical results revealed that a strong model can surpass its weak supervisor. While recent work has offered the...
2502.00622
Strengthening Generative Robot Policies through Predictive World Modeling
cs.RO cs.CV cs.LG
We present generative predictive control (GPC), a learning control framework that (i) clones a generative diffusion-based policy from expert demonstrations, (ii) trains a predictive action-conditioned world model from both expert demonstrations and random explorations, and (iii) synthesizes an online planner that ran...
2502.00627
Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)
cs.SI cs.DB
Discord has evolved from a gaming-focused communication tool into a versatile platform supporting diverse online communities. Despite its large user base and active public servers, academic research on Discord remains limited due to data accessibility challenges. This paper introduces Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensiv...
2502.00629
Advanced Weakly-Supervised Formula Exploration for Neuro-Symbolic Mathematical Reasoning
cs.AI cs.LG
In recent years, neuro-symbolic methods have become a popular and powerful approach that augments artificial intelligence systems with the capability to perform abstract, logical, and quantitative deductions with enhanced precision and controllability. Recent studies successfully performed symbolic reasoning by lever...
2502.00630
Self-Prompt SAM: Medical Image Segmentation via Automatic Prompt SAM Adaptation
cs.CV
Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance and brought a range of unexplored capabilities to natural image segmentation tasks. However, as a very important branch of image segmentation, the performance of SAM remains uncertain when applied to medical image segmentation due to the s...
2502.00631
MedConv: Convolutions Beat Transformers on Long-Tailed Bone Density Prediction
cs.CV
Bone density prediction via CT scans to estimate T-scores is crucial, providing a more precise assessment of bone health compared to traditional methods like X-ray bone density tests, which lack spatial resolution and the ability to detect localized changes. However, CT-based prediction faces two major challenges: th...
2502.00633
Lipschitz Lifelong Monte Carlo Tree Search for Mastering Non-Stationary Tasks
cs.AI
Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has proven highly effective in solving complex planning tasks by balancing exploration and exploitation using Upper Confidence Bound for Trees (UCT). However, existing work have not considered MCTS-based lifelong planning, where an agent faces a non-stationary series of tasks -- e.g., w...
2502.00634
SimulPL: Aligning Human Preferences in Simultaneous Machine Translation
cs.CL cs.AI
Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) generates translations while receiving streaming source inputs. This requires the SiMT model to learn a read/write policy, deciding when to translate and when to wait for more source input. Numerous linguistic studies indicate that audiences in SiMT scenarios have distinct pref...
2502.00639
Zeroth-order Informed Fine-Tuning for Diffusion Model: A Recursive Likelihood Ratio Optimizer
cs.CV cs.AI cs.LG stat.ML
The probabilistic diffusion model (DM), generating content by inferencing through a recursive chain structure, has emerged as a powerful framework for visual generation. After pre-training on enormous unlabeled data, the model needs to be properly aligned to meet requirements for downstream applications. How to effic...
2502.00640
CollabLLM: From Passive Responders to Active Collaborators
cs.AI
Large Language Models are typically trained with next-turn rewards, limiting their ability to optimize for long-term interaction. As a result, they often respond passively to ambiguous or open-ended user requests, failing to help users reach their ultimate intents and leading to inefficient conversations. To address ...
2502.00641
Evaluating Small Language Models for News Summarization: Implications and Factors Influencing Performance
cs.CL cs.AI
The increasing demand for efficient summarization tools in resource-constrained environments highlights the need for effective solutions. While large language models (LLMs) deliver superior summarization quality, their high computational resource requirements limit practical use applications. In contrast, small langu...
2502.00645
General Coded Computing in a Probabilistic Straggler Regime
cs.DC cs.LG
Coded computing has demonstrated promising results in addressing straggler resiliency in distributed computing systems. However, most coded computing schemes are designed for exact computation, requiring the number of responding servers to exceed a certain recovery threshold. Additionally, these schemes are tailored ...
2502.00646
TrojanTime: Backdoor Attacks on Time Series Classification
cs.CR cs.AI cs.LG
Time Series Classification (TSC) is highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing significant security threats. Existing methods primarily focus on data poisoning during the training phase, designing sophisticated triggers to improve stealthiness and attack success rate (ASR). However, in practical scenarios, attacke...
2502.00648
Agency in the Age of AI
cs.AI cs.MA
There is significant concern about the impact of generative AI on society. Modern AI tools are capable of generating ever more realistic text, images, and videos, and functional code, from minimal prompts. Accompanying this rise in ability and usability, there is increasing alarm about the misuses to which these tool...
2502.00652
Reformulation is All You Need: Addressing Malicious Text Features in DNNs
cs.LG cs.CL cs.CR
Human language encompasses a wide range of intricate and diverse implicit features, which attackers can exploit to launch adversarial or backdoor attacks, compromising DNN models for NLP tasks. Existing model-oriented defenses often require substantial computational resources as model size increases, whereas sample-o...
2502.00654
EmoTalkingGaussian: Continuous Emotion-conditioned Talking Head Synthesis
cs.CV
3D Gaussian splatting-based talking head synthesis has recently gained attention for its ability to render high-fidelity images with real-time inference speed. However, since it is typically trained on only a short video that lacks the diversity in facial emotions, the resultant talking heads struggle to represent a ...
2502.00657
LLM Safety Alignment is Divergence Estimation in Disguise
cs.LG cs.AI cs.CY stat.ML
We propose a theoretical framework demonstrating that popular Large Language Model (LLM) alignment methods, including Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and alternatives, fundamentally function as divergence estimators between aligned (preferred or safe) and unaligned (less-preferred or harmful) distri...
2502.00661
EKF-Based Radar-Inertial Odometry with Online Temporal Calibration
cs.RO
Accurate time synchronization between heterogeneous sensors is crucial for ensuring robust state estimation in multi-sensor fusion systems. Sensor delays often cause discrepancies between the actual time when the event was captured and the time of sensor measurement, leading to temporal misalignment (time offset) bet...
2502.00662
Mitigating the Modality Gap: Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection with Multi-modal Prototypes and Image Bias Estimation
cs.CV cs.CL cs.LG
Existing vision-language model (VLM)-based methods for out-of-distribution (OOD) detection typically rely on similarity scores between input images and in-distribution (ID) text prototypes. However, the modality gap between image and text often results in high false positive rates, as OOD samples can exhibit high sim...
2502.00663
Enhanced Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Image Classification
cs.CV cs.AI
Image classification is a fundamental task in computer vision with diverse applications, ranging from autonomous systems to medical imaging. The CIFAR-10 dataset is a widely used benchmark to evaluate the performance of classification models on small-scale, multi-class datasets. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) h...
2502.00665
Cross-Modal Synergies: Unveiling the Potential of Motion-Aware Fusion Networks in Handling Dynamic and Static ReID Scenarios
cs.CV
Navigating the complexities of person re-identification (ReID) in varied surveillance scenarios, particularly when occlusions occur, poses significant challenges. We introduce an innovative Motion-Aware Fusion (MOTAR-FUSE) network that utilizes motion cues derived from static imagery to significantly enhance ReID cap...
2502.00666
Avoiding $\mathbf{exp(R_{max})}$ scaling in RLHF through Preference-based Exploration
cs.LG cs.AI stat.ML
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a pivotal technique for large language model (LLM) alignment. This paper studies the setting of online RLHF and focus on improving sample efficiency. All existing algorithms in online RLHF, whether doing passive exploration or active exploration, suffer...
2502.00669
Safety Alignment Depth in Large Language Models: A Markov Chain Perspective
cs.LG
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in high-stakes scenarios, yet their safety mechanisms often remain fragile. Simple jailbreak prompts or even benign fine-tuning can bypass these protocols, underscoring the need to understand where and how they fail. Recent findings suggest that vulnerabilities em...
2502.00672
Biogeochemistry-Informed Neural Network (BINN) for Improving Accuracy of Model Prediction and Scientific Understanding of Soil Organic Carbon
physics.geo-ph cs.AI
Big data and the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) provide unprecedented opportunities to enhance our understanding of the global carbon cycle and other biogeochemical processes. However, retrieving mechanistic knowledge from big data remains a challenge. Here, we develop a Biogeochemistry-Informed Ne...
2502.00673
Retracted Citations and Self-citations in Retracted Publications: A Comparative Study of Plagiarism and Fake Peer Review
cs.IR
Retracted citations remain a significant concern in academia as they perpetuate misinformation and compromise the integrity of scientific literature despite their invalidation. To analyze the impact of retracted citations, we focused on two retraction categories: plagiarism and fake peer review. The data set was sour...
2502.00674
Rethinking Mixture-of-Agents: Is Mixing Different Large Language Models Beneficial?
cs.CL cs.LG
Ensembling outputs from diverse sources is a straightforward yet effective approach to boost performance. Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) is one such popular ensemble method that aggregates outputs from multiple different Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper raises the question in the context of language models: is mixin...
2502.00675
ReFoRCE: A Text-to-SQL Agent with Self-Refinement, Format Restriction, and Column Exploration
cs.CL
Text-to-SQL systems have unlocked easier access to critical data insights by enabling natural language queries over structured databases. However, deploying such systems in enterprise environments remains challenging due to factors such as large, complex schemas (> 3000 columns), diverse SQL dialects (e.g., BigQuery,...
2502.00677
LLM-based event log analysis techniques: A survey
cs.AI cs.CR
Event log analysis is an important task that security professionals undertake. Event logs record key information on activities that occur on computing devices, and due to the substantial number of events generated, they consume a large amount of time and resources to analyse. This demanding and repetitive task is als...
2502.00678
How Contaminated Is Your Benchmark? Quantifying Dataset Leakage in Large Language Models with Kernel Divergence
cs.LG cs.AI cs.CL
Dataset contamination, where evaluation datasets overlap with pre-training corpora, inflates performance metrics and undermines the reliability of model evaluations. Quantifying dataset contamination thus becomes essential to ensure that performance evaluations genuinely reflect a model's ability to generalize to uns...
2502.00681
A Survey of Quantized Graph Representation Learning: Connecting Graph Structures with Large Language Models
cs.LG cs.AI cs.CL
Recent years have witnessed rapid advances in graph representation learning, with the continuous embedding approach emerging as the dominant paradigm. However, such methods encounter issues regarding parameter efficiency, interpretability, and robustness. Thus, Quantized Graph Representation (QGR) learning has recent...
2502.00682
Guidance Source Matters: How Guidance from AI, Expert, or a Group of Analysts Impacts Visual Data Preparation and Analysis
cs.HC cs.AI
The progress in generative AI has fueled AI-powered tools like co-pilots and assistants to provision better guidance, particularly during data analysis. However, research on guidance has not yet examined the perceived efficacy of the source from which guidance is offered and the impact of this source on the user's pe...
2502.00683
IEEEICM25: "Stability of Digital Robust Motion Control Systems with Disturbance Observer"
eess.SY cs.SY
In this paper, new stability analysis methods are proposed for digital robust motion control systems implemented using a disturbance observer.
2502.00684
Compositional Concept-Based Neuron-Level Interpretability for Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.LG cs.AI
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL), through learning policies or values represented by neural networks, has successfully addressed many complex control problems. However, the neural networks introduced by DRL lack interpretability and transparency. Current DRL interpretability methods largely treat neural networks as ...
2502.00685
IEEEICM25: "A High-Performance Disturbance Observer"
eess.SY cs.RO cs.SY
This paper proposes a novel Disturbance Observer, termed the High-Performance Disturbance Observer, which achieves more accurate disturbance estimation compared to the conventional disturbance observer, thereby delivering significant improvements in robustness and performance for motion control systems.
2502.00686
Improved Community Detection using Stochastic Block Models
cs.SI
Identifying edge-dense communities that are also well-connected is an important aspect of understanding community structure. Prior work has shown that community detection methods can produce poorly connected communities, and some can even produce internally disconnected communities. In this study we evaluate the conn...