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2502.05638
ELMTEX: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Structured Clinical Information Extraction. A Case Study on Clinical Reports
cs.CL cs.AI
Europe's healthcare systems require enhanced interoperability and digitalization, driving a demand for innovative solutions to process legacy clinical data. This paper presents the results of our project, which aims to leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract structured information from unstructured clinical ...
2502.05640
ETHEREAL: Energy-efficient and High-throughput Inference using Compressed Tsetlin Machine
cs.LG
The Tsetlin Machine (TM) is a novel alternative to deep neural networks (DNNs). Unlike DNNs, which rely on multi-path arithmetic operations, a TM learns propositional logic patterns from data literals using Tsetlin automata. This fundamental shift from arithmetic to logic underpinning makes TM suitable for empowering...
2502.05641
Generating Physically Realistic and Directable Human Motions from Multi-Modal Inputs
cs.RO cs.AI
This work focuses on generating realistic, physically-based human behaviors from multi-modal inputs, which may only partially specify the desired motion. For example, the input may come from a VR controller providing arm motion and body velocity, partial key-point animation, computer vision applied to videos, or even...
2502.05643
Design of optimal repetitive control based on EID estimator with adaptive periodic event-triggered mechanism for linear systems subjected to exogenous disturbances
eess.SY cs.SY
The periodic signal tracking and the unknown disturbance rejection under limited communication resources are main important issues in many physical systems and practical applications. The control of such systems has some challenges such as time-varying delay, unknown external disturbances, structure uncertainty, and ...
2502.05649
Gender Bias in Instruction-Guided Speech Synthesis Models
cs.CL cs.LG eess.AS
Recent advancements in controllable expressive speech synthesis, especially in text-to-speech (TTS) models, have allowed for the generation of speech with specific styles guided by textual descriptions, known as style prompts. While this development enhances the flexibility and naturalness of synthesized speech, ther...
2502.05650
Incongruence Identification in Eyewitness Testimony
cs.CL
Incongruence detection in eyewitness narratives is critical for understanding the reliability of testimonies, yet traditional approaches often fail to address the nuanced inconsistencies inherent in such accounts. In this paper, we introduce a novel task of incongruence detection in eyewitness testimonies. Given a pa...
2502.05651
KMI: A Dataset of Korean Motivational Interviewing Dialogues for Psychotherapy
cs.CL cs.AI
The increasing demand for mental health services has led to the rise of AI-driven mental health chatbots, though challenges related to privacy, data collection, and expertise persist. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is gaining attention as a theoretical basis for boosting expertise in the development of these chatbots...
2502.05652
An inpainting approach to manipulate asymmetry in pre-operative breast images
cs.CV
One of the most frequent modalities of breast cancer treatment is surgery. Breast surgery can cause visual alterations to the breasts, due to scars and asymmetries. To enable an informed choice of treatment, the patient must be adequately informed of the aesthetic outcomes of each treatment plan. In this work, we pro...
2502.05654
Evaluating the Techno-Economic Viability of a Solar PV-Wind Turbine Hybrid System with Battery Storage for an Electric Vehicle Charging Station in Khobar, Saudi Arabia
eess.SY cs.SY
The main aim of this investigation is to replicate and enhance a sustainable hybrid energy structure that combines solar photovoltaic, wind turbines, battery storage. The study employs the Homer simulation model to evaluate the scaling, cost, and control strategy of this hybrid power system. This work primarily focus...
2502.05656
Flowing Through Layers: A Continuous Dynamical Systems Perspective on Transformers
cs.LG math.DS
We show that the standard discrete update rule of transformer layers can be naturally interpreted as a forward Euler discretization of a continuous dynamical system. Our Transformer Flow Approximation Theorem demonstrates that, under standard Lipschitz continuity assumptions, token representations converge uniformly ...
2502.05660
Evaluating Vision-Language Models for Emotion Recognition
cs.CV cs.CL
Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved unprecedented success in several objective multimodal reasoning tasks. However, to further enhance their capabilities of empathetic and effective communication with humans, improving how VLMs process and understand emotions is crucial. Despite significant research att...
2502.05664
CODESIM: Multi-Agent Code Generation and Problem Solving through Simulation-Driven Planning and Debugging
cs.CL cs.AI
Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in code generation and problem solving. Current approaches employ external tool-based iterative debuggers that use compiler or other tool-based runtime feedback to refine coarse programs generated by various methods. However, the effectiveness of these approa...
2502.05667
Online Controller Synthesis for Robot Collision Avoidance: A Case Study
cs.RO cs.SY eess.SY
The inherent uncertainty of dynamic environments poses significant challenges for modeling robot behavior, particularly in tasks such as collision avoidance. This paper presents an online controller synthesis framework tailored for robots equipped with deep learning-based perception components, with a focus on addres...
2502.05668
The late-stage training dynamics of (stochastic) subgradient descent on homogeneous neural networks
cs.LG cs.NE math.OC stat.ML
We analyze the implicit bias of constant step stochastic subgradient descent (SGD). We consider the setting of binary classification with homogeneous neural networks - a large class of deep neural networks with ReLU-type activation functions such as MLPs and CNNs without biases. We interpret the dynamics of normalize...
2502.05669
Rigid Body Adversarial Attacks
cs.CV cs.GR
Due to their performance and simplicity, rigid body simulators are often used in applications where the objects of interest can considered very stiff. However, no material has infinite stiffness, which means there are potentially cases where the non-zero compliance of the seemingly rigid object can cause a significan...
2502.05670
Language Models Largely Exhibit Human-like Constituent Ordering Preferences
cs.CL cs.AI
Though English sentences are typically inflexible vis-\`a-vis word order, constituents often show far more variability in ordering. One prominent theory presents the notion that constituent ordering is directly correlated with constituent weight: a measure of the constituent's length or complexity. Such theories are ...
2502.05672
On the Convergence and Stability of Upside-Down Reinforcement Learning, Goal-Conditioned Supervised Learning, and Online Decision Transformers
stat.ML cs.AI cs.LG cs.NE cs.SY eess.SY
This article provides a rigorous analysis of convergence and stability of Episodic Upside-Down Reinforcement Learning, Goal-Conditioned Supervised Learning and Online Decision Transformers. These algorithms performed competitively across various benchmarks, from games to robotic tasks, but their theoretical understan...
2502.05673
The Evolution of Dataset Distillation: Toward Scalable and Generalizable Solutions
cs.CV
Dataset distillation, which condenses large-scale datasets into compact synthetic representations, has emerged as a critical solution for training modern deep learning models efficiently. While prior surveys focus on developments before 2023, this work comprehensively reviews recent advances, emphasizing scalability ...
2502.05675
Investigating the Shortcomings of LLMs in Step-by-Step Legal Reasoning
cs.CL
Reasoning abilities of LLMs have been a key focus in recent years. One challenging reasoning domain with interesting nuances is legal reasoning, which requires careful application of rules, and precedents while balancing deductive and analogical reasoning, and conflicts between rules. Although there have been a few w...
2502.05676
Generalized Venn and Venn-Abers Calibration with Applications in Conformal Prediction
stat.ML cs.LG stat.ME
Ensuring model calibration is critical for reliable predictions, yet popular distribution-free methods, such as histogram binning and isotonic regression, provide only asymptotic guarantees. We introduce a unified framework for Venn and Venn-Abers calibration, generalizing Vovk's binary classification approach to arb...
2502.05677
Surprise Potential as a Measure of Interactivity in Driving Scenarios
cs.RO cs.LG
Validating the safety and performance of an autonomous vehicle (AV) requires benchmarking on real-world driving logs. However, typical driving logs contain mostly uneventful scenarios with minimal interactions between road users. Identifying interactive scenarios in real-world driving logs enables the curation of dat...
2502.05679
Federated Learning with Reservoir State Analysis for Time Series Anomaly Detection
cs.LG
With a growing data privacy concern, federated learning has emerged as a promising framework to train machine learning models without sharing locally distributed data. In federated learning, local model training by multiple clients and model integration by a server are repeated only through model parameter sharing. M...
2502.05684
Machine Unlearning via Information Theoretic Regularization
cs.LG cs.AI cs.IT math.IT stat.ML
How can we effectively remove or "unlearn" undesirable information, such as specific features or individual data points, from a learning outcome while minimizing utility loss and ensuring rigorous guarantees? We introduce a mathematical framework based on information-theoretic regularization to address both feature a...
2502.05685
Mobile Application Threats and Security
cs.CR cs.AI
The movement to mobile computing solutions provides flexibility to different users whether it is a business user, a student, or even providing entertainment to children and adults of all ages. Due to these emerging technologies mobile users are unable to safeguard private information in a very effective way and cyber...
2502.05690
Managing Geological Uncertainty in Critical Mineral Supply Chains: A POMDP Approach with Application to U.S. Lithium Resources
cs.AI econ.GN q-fin.EC
The world is entering an unprecedented period of critical mineral demand, driven by the global transition to renewable energy technologies and electric vehicles. This transition presents unique challenges in mineral resource development, particularly due to geological uncertainty-a key characteristic that traditional...
2502.05691
Consistent sampling of Paley-Wiener functions on graphons
eess.SP cs.IT math.CO math.IT
We study sampling methods for Paley-Wiener functions on graphons, thereby adapting and generalizing methods initially developed for graphs to the graphon setting. We then derive conditions under which such a sampling estimate is consistent with graphon convergence.
2502.05692
Variational integrators for optimal control of foldable drones
math.OC cs.NA cs.SY eess.SY math.NA
Numerical methods that preserves geometric invariants of the system such as energy, momentum and symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. These include variational integrators as an important subclass of geometric integrators. The general idea for those variational integrators is to discretize Hamilton's pr...
2502.05693
Vertical Vibratory Transport of Grasped Parts Using Impacts
cs.RO
In this paper, we use impact-induced acceleration in conjunction with periodic stick-slip to successfully and quickly transport parts vertically against gravity. We show analytically that vertical vibratory transport is more difficult than its horizontal counterpart, and provide guidelines for achieving optimal verti...
2502.05694
Zero-Shot End-to-End Relation Extraction in Chinese: A Comparative Study of Gemini, LLaMA and ChatGPT
cs.CL cs.AI cs.LG
This study investigates the performance of various large language models (LLMs) on zero-shot end-to-end relation extraction (RE) in Chinese, a task that integrates entity recognition and relation extraction without requiring annotated data. While LLMs show promise for RE, most prior work focuses on English or assumes...
2502.05695
Semantic-Aware Adaptive Video Streaming Using Latent Diffusion Models for Wireless Networks
cs.MM cs.AI cs.CV cs.LG eess.IV
This paper proposes a novel framework for real-time adaptive-bitrate video streaming by integrating latent diffusion models (LDMs) within the FFmpeg techniques. This solution addresses the challenges of high bandwidth usage, storage inefficiencies, and quality of experience (QoE) degradation associated with tradition...
2502.05696
Implicit Physics-aware Policy for Dynamic Manipulation of Rigid Objects via Soft Body Tools
cs.RO
Recent advancements in robot tool use have unlocked their usage for novel tasks, yet the predominant focus is on rigid-body tools, while the investigation of soft-body tools and their dynamic interaction with rigid bodies remains unexplored. This paper takes a pioneering step towards dynamic one-shot soft tool use fo...
2502.05699
Context information can be more important than reasoning for time series forecasting with a large language model
cs.LG cs.AI
With the evolution of large language models (LLMs), there is growing interest in leveraging LLMs for time series tasks. In this paper, we explore the characteristics of LLMs for time series forecasting by considering various existing and proposed prompting techniques. Forecasting for both short and long time series w...
2502.05701
TOKON: TOKenization-Optimized Normalization for time series analysis with a large language model
cs.LG
While large language models have rapidly evolved towards general artificial intelligence, their versatility in analyzing time series data remains limited. To address this limitation, we propose a novel normalization technique that considers the inherent nature of tokenization. The proposed Tokenization-Optimized Norm...
2502.05702
Graph Neural Networks for Efficient AC Power Flow Prediction in Power Grids
eess.SY cs.SY
This paper proposes a novel approach using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to solve the AC Power Flow problem in power grids. AC OPF is essential for minimizing generation costs while meeting the operational constraints of the grid. Traditional solvers struggle with scalability, especially in large systems with renewabl...
2502.05704
Rethinking Word Similarity: Semantic Similarity through Classification Confusion
cs.CL cs.AI
Word similarity has many applications to social science and cultural analytics tasks like measuring meaning change over time and making sense of contested terms. Yet traditional similarity methods based on cosine similarity between word embeddings cannot capture the context-dependent, asymmetrical, polysemous nature ...
2502.05706
TD(0) Learning converges for Polynomial mixing and non-linear functions
stat.ML cs.LG
Theoretical work on Temporal Difference (TD) learning has provided finite-sample and high-probability guarantees for data generated from Markov chains. However, these bounds typically require linear function approximation, instance-dependent step sizes, algorithmic modifications, and restrictive mixing rates. We pres...
2502.05708
GWRF: A Generalizable Wireless Radiance Field for Wireless Signal Propagation Modeling
cs.NI cs.LG
We present Generalizable Wireless Radiance Fields (GWRF), a framework for modeling wireless signal propagation at arbitrary 3D transmitter and receiver positions. Unlike previous methods that adapt vanilla Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) from the optical to the wireless signal domain, requiring extensive per-scene trai...
2502.05709
Flow-based Conformal Prediction for Multi-dimensional Time Series
cs.LG stat.ML
Conformal prediction for time series presents two key challenges: (1) leveraging sequential correlations in features and non-conformity scores and (2) handling multi-dimensional outcomes. We propose a novel conformal prediction method to address these two key challenges by integrating Transformer and Normalizing Flow...
2502.05710
SSDD-GAN: Single-Step Denoising Diffusion GAN for Cochlear Implant Surgical Scene Completion
cs.CV
Recent deep learning-based image completion methods, including both inpainting and outpainting, have demonstrated promising results in restoring corrupted images by effectively filling various missing regions. Among these, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) hav...
2502.05713
4D VQ-GAN: Synthesising Medical Scans at Any Time Point for Personalised Disease Progression Modelling of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
eess.IV cs.AI cs.CV cs.LG
Understanding the progression trajectories of diseases is crucial for early diagnosis and effective treatment planning. This is especially vital for life-threatening conditions such as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), a chronic, progressive lung disease with a prognosis comparable to many cancers. Computed tomogr...
2502.05714
Proving the Coding Interview: A Benchmark for Formally Verified Code Generation
cs.SE cs.AI cs.LG cs.LO
We introduce the Formally Verified Automated Programming Progress Standards, or FVAPPS, a benchmark of 4715 samples for writing programs and proving their correctness, the largest formal verification benchmark, including 1083 curated and quality controlled samples. Previously, APPS provided a benchmark and dataset fo...
2502.05718
Using agent-based models and EXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) to simulate social behaviors and policy intervention scenarios: A case study of private well users in Ireland
cs.CY cs.LG
Around 50 percent of Irelands rural population relies on unregulated private wells vulnerable to agricultural runoff and untreated wastewater. High national rates of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and other waterborne illnesses have been linked to well water exposure. Periodic well testing is essential...
2502.05719
Extended Histogram-based Outlier Score (EHBOS)
cs.LG cs.AI stat.ML
Histogram-Based Outlier Score (HBOS) is a widely used outlier or anomaly detection method known for its computational efficiency and simplicity. However, its assumption of feature independence limits its ability to detect anomalies in datasets where interactions between features are critical. In this paper, we propos...
2502.05720
Pareto-Optimality, Smoothness, and Stochasticity in Learning-Augmented One-Max-Search
cs.DS cs.AI
One-max search is a classic problem in online decision-making, in which a trader acts on a sequence of revealed prices and accepts one of them irrevocably to maximise its profit. The problem has been studied both in probabilistic and in worst-case settings, notably through competitive analysis, and more recently in l...
2502.05722
Explainable and Class-Revealing Signal Feature Extraction via Scattering Transform and Constrained Zeroth-Order Optimization
cs.LG eess.SP math.OC stat.ML
We propose a new method to extract discriminant and explainable features from a particular machine learning model, i.e., a combination of the scattering transform and the multiclass logistic regression. Although this model is well-known for its ability to learn various signal classes with high classification rate, it...
2502.05724
Rethinking Link Prediction for Directed Graphs
cs.LG cs.AI
Link prediction for directed graphs is a crucial task with diverse real-world applications. Recent advances in embedding methods and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown promising improvements. However, these methods often lack a thorough analysis of embedding expressiveness and suffer from ineffective benchmarks ...
2502.05725
Predictive Coresets
stat.CO cs.LG
Modern data analysis often involves massive datasets with hundreds of thousands of observations, making traditional inference algorithms computationally prohibitive. Coresets are selection methods designed to choose a smaller subset of observations while maintaining similar learning performance. Conventional coreset ...
2502.05726
Improving Environment Novelty Quantification for Effective Unsupervised Environment Design
cs.LG stat.ML
Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) formalizes the problem of autocurricula through interactive training between a teacher agent and a student agent. The teacher generates new training environments with high learning potential, curating an adaptive curriculum that strengthens the student's ability to handle unseen ...
2502.05727
Impact of Data Poisoning Attacks on Feasibility and Optimality of Neural Power System Optimizers
cs.LG
The increased integration of clean yet stochastic energy resources and the growing number of extreme weather events are narrowing the decision-making window of power grid operators. This time constraint is fueling a plethora of research on Machine Learning-, or ML-, based optimization proxies. While finding a fast so...
2502.05728
Hierarchical Equivariant Policy via Frame Transfer
cs.RO
Recent advances in hierarchical policy learning highlight the advantages of decomposing systems into high-level and low-level agents, enabling efficient long-horizon reasoning and precise fine-grained control. However, the interface between these hierarchy levels remains underexplored, and existing hierarchical metho...
2502.05729
BnTTS: Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation in Low-Resource Setting
cs.CL
This paper introduces BnTTS (Bangla Text-To-Speech), the first framework for Bangla speaker adaptation-based TTS, designed to bridge the gap in Bangla speech synthesis using minimal training data. Building upon the XTTS architecture, our approach integrates Bangla into a multilingual TTS pipeline, with modifications ...
2502.05735
Towards Autonomous Experimentation: Bayesian Optimization over Problem Formulation Space for Accelerated Alloy Development
eess.SY cs.CE cs.LG cs.SY math.OC stat.ML
Accelerated discovery in materials science demands autonomous systems capable of dynamically formulating and solving design problems. In this work, we introduce a novel framework that leverages Bayesian optimization over a problem formulation space to identify optimal design formulations in line with decision-maker p...
2502.05738
Performance Analysis of Traditional VQA Models Under Limited Computational Resources
cs.CV
In real-world applications where computational resources are limited, effectively integrating visual and textual information for Visual Question Answering (VQA) presents significant challenges. This paper investigates the performance of traditional models under computational constraints, focusing on enhancing VQA per...
2502.05739
Mitigating Sensitive Information Leakage in LLMs4Code through Machine Unlearning
cs.CR cs.AI cs.SE
Large Language Models for Code (LLMs4Code) excel at code generation tasks, yielding promise to release developers from huge software development burdens. Nonetheless, these models have been shown to suffer from the significant privacy risks due to the potential leakage of sensitive information embedded during trainin...
2502.05740
RECOVER: Designing a Large Language Model-based Remote Patient Monitoring System for Postoperative Gastrointestinal Cancer Care
cs.HC cs.AI
Cancer surgery is a key treatment for gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, a group of cancers that account for more than 35% of cancer-related deaths worldwide, but postoperative complications are unpredictable and can be life-threatening. In this paper, we investigate how recent advancements in large language models (LLMs...
2502.05741
Linear Attention Modeling for Learned Image Compression
cs.CV
Recent years, learned image compression has made tremendous progress to achieve impressive coding efficiency. Its coding gain mainly comes from non-linear neural network-based transform and learnable entropy modeling. However, most of recent focuses have been solely on a strong backbone, and few studies consider the ...
2502.05742
An Evolutionary Game With the Game Transitions Based on the Markov Process
cs.SI physics.soc-ph
The psychology of the individual is continuously changing in nature, which has a significant influence on the evolutionary dynamics of populations. To study the influence of the continuously changing psychology of individuals on the behavior of populations, in this paper, we consider the game transitions of individua...
2502.05743
Understanding Representation Dynamics of Diffusion Models via Low-Dimensional Modeling
cs.LG cs.CV
This work addresses the critical question of why and when diffusion models, despite being designed for generative tasks, can excel at learning high-quality representations in a self-supervised manner. To address this, we develop a mathematical framework based on a low-dimensional data model and posterior estimation, ...
2502.05744
DISCD: Distributed Lossy Semantic Communication for Logical Deduction of Hypothesis
cs.IT math.IT
In this paper, we address hypothesis testing in a distributed network of nodes, where each node has only partial information about the State of the World (SotW) and is tasked with determining which hypothesis, among a given set, is most supported by the data available within the node. However, due to each node's limi...
2502.05749
UniDB: A Unified Diffusion Bridge Framework via Stochastic Optimal Control
cs.CV cs.AI cs.SY eess.SY
Recent advances in diffusion bridge models leverage Doob's $h$-transform to establish fixed endpoints between distributions, demonstrating promising results in image translation and restoration tasks. However, these approaches frequently produce blurred or excessively smoothed image details and lack a comprehensive t...
2502.05752
PINGS: Gaussian Splatting Meets Distance Fields within a Point-Based Implicit Neural Map
cs.RO cs.CV cs.GR
Robots require high-fidelity reconstructions of their environment for effective operation. Such scene representations should be both, geometrically accurate and photorealistic to support downstream tasks. While this can be achieved by building distance fields from range sensors and radiance fields from cameras, the s...
2502.05755
Filter, Obstruct and Dilute: Defending Against Backdoor Attacks on Semi-Supervised Learning
cs.LG
Recent studies have verified that semi-supervised learning (SSL) is vulnerable to data poisoning backdoor attacks. Even a tiny fraction of contaminated training data is sufficient for adversaries to manipulate up to 90\% of the test outputs in existing SSL methods. Given the emerging threat of backdoor attacks design...
2502.05756
Exploring Visual Embedding Spaces Induced by Vision Transformers for Online Auto Parts Marketplaces
cs.CV cs.LG
This study examines the capabilities of the Vision Transformer (ViT) model in generating visual embeddings for images of auto parts sourced from online marketplaces, such as Craigslist and OfferUp. By focusing exclusively on single-modality data, the analysis evaluates ViT's potential for detecting patterns indicativ...
2502.05759
Reinforced Lifelong Editing for Language Models
cs.CL
Large language models (LLMs) acquire information from pre-training corpora, but their stored knowledge can become inaccurate or outdated over time. Model editing addresses this challenge by modifying model parameters without retraining, and prevalent approaches leverage hypernetworks to generate these parameter updat...
2502.05761
3CAD: A Large-Scale Real-World 3C Product Dataset for Unsupervised Anomaly
cs.CV
Industrial anomaly detection achieves progress thanks to datasets such as MVTec-AD and VisA. However, they suffer from limitations in terms of the number of defect samples, types of defects, and availability of real-world scenes. These constraints inhibit researchers from further exploring the performance of industri...
2502.05765
Privacy-Preserving Dataset Combination
cs.LG cs.CR cs.CY
Access to diverse, high-quality datasets is crucial for machine learning model performance, yet data sharing remains limited by privacy concerns and competitive interests, particularly in regulated domains like healthcare. This dynamic especially disadvantages smaller organizations that lack resources to purchase dat...
2502.05768
Cooperative Optimization of Grid-Edge Cyber and Physical Resources for Resilient Power System Operation
eess.SY cs.SY
The cooperative operation of grid-edge power and energy resources is crucial to improving the resilience of power systems during contingencies. However, given the complex cyber-physical nature of power grids, it is hard to respond timely with limited costs for deploying additional cyber and/or phyiscal resources, suc...
2502.05769
Digital Twin Buildings: 3D Modeling, GIS Integration, and Visual Descriptions Using Gaussian Splatting, ChatGPT/Deepseek, and Google Maps Platform
cs.CV
Urban digital twins are virtual replicas of cities that use multi-source data and data analytics to optimize urban planning, infrastructure management, and decision-making. Towards this, we propose a framework focused on the single-building scale. By connecting to cloud mapping platforms such as Google Map Platforms ...
2502.05772
Effective Black-Box Multi-Faceted Attacks Breach Vision Large Language Model Guardrails
cs.CV cs.AI
Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) integrate visual data processing, expanding their real-world applications, but also increasing the risk of generating unsafe responses. In response, leading companies have implemented Multi-Layered safety defenses, including alignment training, safety system prompts, and content m...
2502.05773
PIPA: Preference Alignment as Prior-Informed Statistical Estimation
cs.LG cs.AI stat.ML
Offline preference alignment for language models such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is favored for its effectiveness and simplicity, eliminating the need for costly reinforcement learning. Various offline algorithms have been developed for different data settings, yet they lack a unified understanding. In...
2502.05775
Implicit Communication of Contextual Information in Human-Robot Collaboration
cs.RO cs.HC
Implicit communication is crucial in human-robot collaboration (HRC), where contextual information, such as intentions, is conveyed as implicatures, forming a natural part of human interaction. However, enabling robots to appropriately use implicit communication in cooperative tasks remains challenging. My research a...
2502.05776
Dynamic Pricing in the Linear Valuation Model using Shape Constraints
stat.ML cs.LG
We propose a shape-constrained approach to dynamic pricing for censored data in the linear valuation model that eliminates the need for tuning parameters commonly required in existing methods. Previous works have addressed the challenge of unknown market noise distribution F using strategies ranging from kernel metho...
2502.05777
Predictive Crash Analytics for Traffic Safety using Deep Learning
cs.LG cs.AI
Traditional automated crash analysis systems heavily rely on static statistical models and historical data, requiring significant manual interpretation and lacking real-time predictive capabilities. This research presents an innovative approach to traffic safety analysis through the integration of ensemble learning m...
2502.05779
A 3D Multimodal Feature for Infrastructure Anomaly Detection
cs.CV
Ageing structures require periodic inspections to identify structural defects. Previous work has used geometric distortions to locate cracks in synthetic masonry bridge point clouds but has struggled to detect small cracks. To address this limitation, this study proposes a novel 3D multimodal feature, 3DMulti-FPFHI, ...
2502.05780
GOLD: Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection via Implicit Adversarial Latent Generation
cs.LG
Despite graph neural networks' (GNNs) great success in modelling graph-structured data, out-of-distribution (OOD) test instances still pose a great challenge for current GNNs. One of the most effective techniques to detect OOD nodes is to expose the detector model with an additional OOD node-set, yet the extra OOD in...
2502.05783
WatchGuardian: Enabling User-Defined Personalized Just-in-Time Intervention on Smartwatch
cs.HC cs.AI cs.LG
While just-in-time interventions (JITIs) have effectively targeted common health behaviors, individuals often have unique needs to intervene in personal undesirable actions that can negatively affect physical, mental, and social well-being. We present WatchGuardian, a smartwatch-based JITI system that empowers users ...
2502.05784
Propagation of Chaos for Mean-Field Langevin Dynamics and its Application to Model Ensemble
stat.ML cs.LG
Mean-field Langevin dynamics (MFLD) is an optimization method derived by taking the mean-field limit of noisy gradient descent for two-layer neural networks in the mean-field regime. Recently, the propagation of chaos (PoC) for MFLD has gained attention as it provides a quantitative characterization of the optimizati...
2502.05788
EPBC-YOLOv8: An efficient and accurate improved YOLOv8 underwater detector based on an attention mechanism
cs.CV cs.AI
In this study, we enhance underwater target detection by integrating channel and spatial attention into YOLOv8's backbone, applying Pointwise Convolution in FasterNeXt for the FasterPW model, and leveraging Weighted Concat in a BiFPN-inspired WFPN structure for improved cross-scale connections and robustness. Utilizi...
2502.05790
I3S: Importance Sampling Subspace Selection for Low-Rank Optimization in LLM Pretraining
cs.LG
Low-rank optimization has emerged as a promising approach to enabling memory-efficient training of large language models (LLMs). Existing low-rank optimization methods typically project gradients onto a low-rank subspace, reducing the memory cost of storing optimizer states. A key challenge in these methods is identi...
2502.05792
AToM: Adaptive Theory-of-Mind-Based Human Motion Prediction in Long-Term Human-Robot Interactions
cs.RO
Humans learn from observations and experiences to adjust their behaviours towards better performance. Interacting with such dynamic humans is challenging, as the robot needs to predict the humans accurately for safe and efficient operations. Long-term interactions with dynamic humans have not been extensively studied...
2502.05793
On Reference (In-)Determinacy in Natural Language Inference
cs.CL
We revisit the reference determinacy (RD) assumption in the task of natural language inference (NLI), i.e., the premise and hypothesis are assumed to refer to the same context when human raters annotate a label. While RD is a practical assumption for constructing a new NLI dataset, we observe that current NLI models,...
2502.05794
Structural Perturbation in Large Language Model Representations through Recursive Symbolic Regeneration
cs.CL
Symbolic perturbations offer a novel approach for influencing neural representations without requiring direct modification of model parameters. The recursive regeneration of symbolic structures introduces structured variations in latent embeddings, leading to controlled shifts in attention dynamics and lexical divers...
2502.05795
The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models
cs.LG cs.AI
In this paper, we introduce the Curse of Depth, a concept that highlights, explains, and addresses the recent observation in modern Large Language Models(LLMs) where nearly half of the layers are less effective than expected. We first confirm the wide existence of this phenomenon across the most popular families of L...
2502.05800
MicroViT: A Vision Transformer with Low Complexity Self Attention for Edge Device
cs.CV
The Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various computer vision tasks, but its high computational demands make it impractical for edge devices with limited resources. This paper presents MicroViT, a lightweight Vision Transformer architecture optimized for edge devices by signifi...
2502.05802
Kalman Filter-Based Distributed Gaussian Process for Unknown Scalar Field Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
cs.MA cs.RO
In this letter, we propose an online scalar field estimation algorithm of unknown environments using a distributed Gaussian process (DGP) framework in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). While the kernel-based Gaussian process (GP) has been widely employed for estimating unknown scalar fields, its centralized nature is ...
2502.05803
FlashCheck: Exploration of Efficient Evidence Retrieval for Fast Fact-Checking
cs.IR
The advances in digital tools have led to the rampant spread of misinformation. While fact-checking aims to combat this, manual fact-checking is cumbersome and not scalable. It is essential for automated fact-checking to be efficient for aiding in combating misinformation in real-time and at the source. Fact-checking...
2502.05806
Divide-and-Conquer: Tree-structured Strategy with Answer Distribution Estimator for Goal-Oriented Visual Dialogue
cs.CV
Goal-oriented visual dialogue involves multi-round interaction between artificial agents, which has been of remarkable attention due to its wide applications. Given a visual scene, this task occurs when a Questioner asks an action-oriented question and an Answerer responds with the intent of letting the Questioner kn...
2502.05807
Devil is in the Details: Density Guidance for Detail-Aware Generation with Flow Models
cs.LG
Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models, capable of producing high-quality images by mapping noise to a data distribution. However, recent findings suggest that image likelihood does not align with perceptual quality: high-likelihood samples tend to be smooth, while lower-likelihood one...
2502.05812
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Wireless Distributed Networks for 6G
cs.IT cs.SY eess.SY math.IT
The introduction of intelligent interconnectivity between the physical and human worlds has attracted great attention for future sixth-generation (6G) networks, emphasizing massive capacity, ultra-low latency, and unparalleled reliability. Wireless distributed networks and multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), b...
2502.05815
Image-Based Alzheimer's Disease Detection Using Pretrained Convolutional Neural Network Models
eess.IV cs.CV cs.LG
Alzheimer's disease is an untreatable, progressive brain disorder that slowly robs people of their memory, thinking abilities, and ultimately their capacity to complete even the most basic tasks. Among older adults, it is the most frequent cause of dementia. Although there is presently no treatment for Alzheimer's di...
2502.05817
DreamFLEX: Learning Fault-Aware Quadrupedal Locomotion Controller for Anomaly Situation in Rough Terrains
cs.RO cs.SY eess.SY
Recent advances in quadrupedal robots have demonstrated impressive agility and the ability to traverse diverse terrains. However, hardware issues, such as motor overheating or joint locking, may occur during long-distance walking or traversing through rough terrains leading to locomotion failures. Although several st...
2502.05819
Stacked Intelligent Metasurface Enabled Near-Field Multiuser Beamfocusing in the Wave Domain
cs.IT eess.SP math.IT
Intelligent surfaces represent a breakthrough technology capable of customizing the wireless channel cost-effectively. However, the existing works generally focus on planar wavefront, neglecting near-field spherical wavefront characteristics caused by large array aperture and high operation frequencies in the teraher...
2502.05822
HCMRM: A High-Consistency Multimodal Relevance Model for Search Ads
cs.IR
Search advertising is essential for merchants to reach the target users on short video platforms. Short video ads aligned with user search intents are displayed through relevance matching and bid ranking mechanisms. This paper focuses on improving query-to-video relevance matching to enhance the effectiveness of rank...
2502.05824
Aerial Reliable Collaborative Communications for Terrestrial Mobile Users via Evolutionary Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.NE
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as the potential aerial base stations (BSs) to improve terrestrial communications. However, the limited onboard energy and antenna power of a UAV restrict its communication range and transmission capability. To address these limitations, this work employs collaborative bea...
2502.05825
Delta -- Contrastive Decoding Mitigates Text Hallucinations in Large Language Models
cs.CL cs.AI
Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities in natural language processing but remain prone to hallucinations, generating factually incorrect or fabricated content. This issue undermines their reliability, particularly in high-stakes domains such as healthcare and legal advisory. To address this chal...
2502.05826
MindCraft: Revolutionizing Education through AI-Powered Personalized Learning and Mentorship for Rural India
cs.CY cs.AI cs.ET
MindCraft is a modern platform designed to revolutionize education in rural India by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create personalized learning experiences, provide mentorship, and foster resource-sharing. In a country where access to quality education is deeply influenced by geography and socio economic...
2502.05827
HyGEN: Regularizing Negative Hyperedge Generation for Accurate Hyperedge Prediction
cs.SI cs.AI
Hyperedge prediction is a fundamental task to predict future high-order relations based on the observed network structure. Existing hyperedge prediction methods, however, suffer from the data sparsity problem. To alleviate this problem, negative sampling methods can be used, which leverage non-existing hyperedges as ...
2502.05832
Compressing Model with Few Class-Imbalance Samples: An Out-of-Distribution Expedition
cs.LG cs.AI cs.CV
In recent years, as a compromise between privacy and performance, few-sample model compression has been widely adopted to deal with limited data resulting from privacy and security concerns. However, when the number of available samples is extremely limited, class imbalance becomes a common and tricky problem. Achiev...
2502.05833
Machine learning-based hybrid dynamic modeling and economic predictive control of carbon capture process for ship decarbonization
eess.SY cs.SY
Implementing carbon capture technology on-board ships holds promise as a solution to facilitate the reduction of carbon intensity in international shipping, as mandated by the International Maritime Organization. In this work, we address the energy-efficient operation of shipboard carbon capture processes by proposin...
2502.05835
Contrastive Representation Distillation via Multi-Scale Feature Decoupling
cs.CV cs.AI
Knowledge distillation is a technique aimed at enhancing the performance of a smaller student network without increasing its parameter size by transferring knowledge from a larger, pre-trained teacher network. Previous approaches have predominantly focused on distilling global feature information while overlooking th...