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2502.09082
CoSER: Coordinating LLM-Based Persona Simulation of Established Roles
cs.CL cs.AI
Role-playing language agents (RPLAs) have emerged as promising applications of large language models (LLMs). However, simulating established characters presents a challenging task for RPLAs, due to the lack of authentic character datasets and nuanced evaluation methods using such data. In this paper, we present CoSER...
2502.09083
Show Me the Work: Fact-Checkers' Requirements for Explainable Automated Fact-Checking
cs.HC cs.AI cs.CL
The pervasiveness of large language models and generative AI in online media has amplified the need for effective automated fact-checking to assist fact-checkers in tackling the increasing volume and sophistication of misinformation. The complex nature of fact-checking demands that automated fact-checking systems pro...
2502.09084
Application of Tabular Transformer Architectures for Operating System Fingerprinting
cs.CR cs.LG cs.NI
Operating System (OS) fingerprinting is essential for network management and cybersecurity, enabling accurate device identification based on network traffic analysis. Traditional rule-based tools such as Nmap and p0f face challenges in dynamic environments due to frequent OS updates and obfuscation techniques. While ...
2502.09085
Multi-user Visible Light Communications with Probabilistic Constellation Shaping and Precoding
eess.SY cs.SY
This paper proposes a joint design of probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS) and precoding to enhance the sum-rate performance of multi-user visible light communications (VLC) broadcast channels subject to signal amplitude constraint. In the proposed design, the transmission probabilities of bipolar $M$-pulse ampl...
2502.09086
A Hybrid Model for Few-Shot Text Classification Using Transfer and Meta-Learning
cs.CL
With the continuous development of natural language processing (NLP) technology, text classification tasks have been widely used in multiple application fields. However, obtaining labeled data is often expensive and difficult, especially in few-shot learning scenarios. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a few...
2502.09088
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection on Implicit Shape representations for Sarcopenia Detection
cs.CV cs.LG
Sarcopenia is an age-related progressive loss of muscle mass and strength that significantly impacts daily life. A commonly studied criterion for characterizing the muscle mass has been the combination of 3D imaging and manual segmentations. In this paper, we instead study the muscles' shape. We rely on an implicit n...
2502.09089
Semantic Ads Retrieval at Walmart eCommerce with Language Models Progressively Trained on Multiple Knowledge Domains
cs.IR
Sponsored search in e-commerce poses several unique and complex challenges. These challenges stem from factors such as the asymmetric language structure between search queries and product names, the inherent ambiguity in user search intent, and the vast volume of sparse and imbalanced search corpus data. The role of ...
2502.09093
From Visuals to Vocabulary: Establishing Equivalence Between Image and Text Token Through Autoregressive Pre-training in MLLMs
cs.CV
While MLLMs perform well on perceptual tasks, they lack precise multimodal alignment, limiting performance. To address this challenge, we propose Vision Dynamic Embedding-Guided Pretraining (VDEP), a hybrid autoregressive training paradigm for MLLMs. Utilizing dynamic embeddings from the MLP following the visual enco...
2502.09097
A Hybrid Transformer Model for Fake News Detection: Leveraging Bayesian Optimization and Bidirectional Recurrent Unit
cs.CL
In this paper, we propose an optimized Transformer model that integrates Bayesian algorithms with a Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU), and apply it to fake news classification for the first time. First, we employ the TF-IDF method to extract features from news texts and transform them into numeric representa...
2502.09100
Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Survey
cs.AI cs.CL
With the emergence of advanced reasoning models like OpenAI o3 and DeepSeek-R1, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities. However, their ability to perform rigorous logical reasoning remains an open question. This survey synthesizes recent advancements in logical reasoning with...
2502.09104
One-shot Federated Learning Methods: A Practical Guide
cs.LG cs.AI
One-shot Federated Learning (OFL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that constrains client-server communication to a single round, addressing privacy and communication overhead issues associated with multiple rounds of data exchange in traditional Federated Learning (FL). OFL demonstrates the practical poten...
2502.09106
Scaling Law for Stochastic Gradient Descent in Quadratically Parameterized Linear Regression
cs.LG
In machine learning, the scaling law describes how the model performance improves with the model and data size scaling up. From a learning theory perspective, this class of results establishes upper and lower generalization bounds for a specific learning algorithm. Here, the exact algorithm running using a specific m...
2502.09110
Pulling Back the Curtain: Unsupervised Adversarial Detection via Contrastive Auxiliary Networks
cs.CV
Deep learning models are widely employed in safety-critical applications yet remain susceptible to adversarial attacks -- imperceptible perturbations that can significantly degrade model performance. Conventional defense mechanisms predominantly focus on either enhancing model robustness or detecting adversarial inpu...
2502.09111
DenseSplat: Densifying Gaussian Splatting SLAM with Neural Radiance Prior
cs.CV
Gaussian SLAM systems excel in real-time rendering and fine-grained reconstruction compared to NeRF-based systems. However, their reliance on extensive keyframes is impractical for deployment in real-world robotic systems, which typically operate under sparse-view conditions that can result in substantial holes in th...
2502.09120
The influence of visual and linguistic cues on ignorance inference in Vision-Language Models
cs.CL
This study explored how Vision-Language Models (VLMs) process ignorance implicatures with visual and linguistic cues. Particularly, we focused on the effects of contexts (precise and approximate contexts) and modifier types (bare numerals, superlative, and comparative modifiers), which were considered pragmatic and s...
2502.09122
Improving Deep Regression with Tightness
cs.LG cs.AI cs.CV
For deep regression, preserving the ordinality of the targets with respect to the feature representation improves performance across various tasks. However, a theoretical explanation for the benefits of ordinality is still lacking. This work reveals that preserving ordinality reduces the conditional entropy $H(Z|Y)$ ...
2502.09125
Automatic Pruning via Structured Lasso with Class-wise Information
cs.CV cs.AI
Most pruning methods concentrate on unimportant filters of neural networks. However, they face the loss of statistical information due to a lack of consideration for class-wise data. In this paper, from the perspective of leveraging precise class-wise information for model pruning, we utilize structured lasso with gu...
2502.09128
A Novel Dialect-Aware Framework for the Classification of Arabic Dialects and Emotions
cs.CL cs.LG
Arabic is one of the oldest languages still in use today. As a result, several Arabic-speaking regions have developed dialects that are unique to them. Dialect and emotion recognition have various uses in Arabic text analysis, such as determining an online customer's origin based on their comments. Furthermore, intel...
2502.09130
Finite-Time Analysis of Discrete-Time Stochastic Interpolants
cs.LG
The stochastic interpolant framework offers a powerful approach for constructing generative models based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) or stochastic differential equations (SDEs) to transform arbitrary data distributions. However, prior analyses of this framework have primarily focused on the continuous-t...
2502.09131
A Stochastic Fundamental Lemma with Reduced Disturbance Data Requirements
eess.SY cs.SY math.OC
Recently, the fundamental lemma by Willems et. al has been extended towards stochastic LTI systems subject to process disturbances. Using this lemma requires previously recorded data of inputs, outputs, and disturbances. In this paper, we exploit causality concepts of stochastic control to propose a variant of the st...
2502.09135
Interpreting and Steering Protein Language Models through Sparse Autoencoders
cs.LG q-bio.BM
The rapid advancements in transformer-based language models have revolutionized natural language processing, yet understanding the internal mechanisms of these models remains a significant challenge. This paper explores the application of sparse autoencoders (SAE) to interpret the internal representations of protein ...
2502.09137
Trust Me, I Know the Way: Predictive Uncertainty in the Presence of Shortcut Learning
cs.LG
The correct way to quantify predictive uncertainty in neural networks remains a topic of active discussion. In particular, it is unclear whether the state-of-the art entropy decomposition leads to a meaningful representation of model, or epistemic, uncertainty (EU) in the light of a debate that pits ignorance against...
2502.09140
Replay-free Online Continual Learning with Self-Supervised MultiPatches
cs.LG cs.CV
Online Continual Learning (OCL) methods train a model on a non-stationary data stream where only a few examples are available at a time, often leveraging replay strategies. However, usage of replay is sometimes forbidden, especially in applications with strict privacy regulations. Therefore, we propose Continual Mult...
2502.09142
LLM-Driven Augmented Reality Puppeteer: Controller-Free Voice-Commanded Robot Teleoperation
cs.HC cs.RO
The integration of robotics and augmented reality (AR) presents transformative opportunities for advancing human-robot interaction (HRI) by improving usability, intuitiveness, and accessibility. This work introduces a controller-free, LLM-driven voice-commanded AR puppeteering system, enabling users to teleoperate a ...
2502.09143
Feature-based Graph Attention Networks Improve Online Continual Learning
cs.CV cs.LG
Online continual learning for image classification is crucial for models to adapt to new data while retaining knowledge of previously learned tasks. This capability is essential to address real-world challenges involving dynamic environments and evolving data distributions. Traditional approaches predominantly employ...
2502.09148
Multimodal HIE Lesion Segmentation in Neonates: A Comparative Study of Loss Functions
cs.CV
Segmentation of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) lesions in neonatal MRI is a crucial but challenging task due to diffuse multifocal lesions with varying volumes and the limited availability of annotated HIE lesion datasets. Using the BONBID-HIE dataset, we implemented a 3D U-Net with optimized preprocessing, au...
2502.09150
Shortcut Learning Susceptibility in Vision Classifiers
cs.LG cs.CV
Shortcut learning, where machine learning models exploit spurious correlations in data instead of capturing meaningful features, poses a significant challenge to building robust and generalizable models. This phenomenon is prevalent across various machine learning applications, including vision, natural language proc...
2502.09151
Regularization can make diffusion models more efficient
cs.LG math.ST stat.ML stat.TH
Diffusion models are one of the key architectures of generative AI. Their main drawback, however, is the computational costs. This study indicates that the concept of sparsity, well known especially in statistics, can provide a pathway to more efficient diffusion pipelines. Our mathematical guarantees prove that spar...
2502.09152
Vertical Federated Continual Learning via Evolving Prototype Knowledge
cs.LG cs.NE
Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has garnered significant attention as a privacy-preserving machine learning framework for sample-aligned feature federation. However, traditional VFL approaches do not address the challenges of class and feature continual learning, resulting in catastrophic forgetting of knowledge fr...
2502.09155
Use of Air Quality Sensor Network Data for Real-time Pollution-Aware POI Suggestion
cs.IR
This demo paper presents AirSense-R, a privacy-preserving mobile application that provides real-time, pollution-aware recommendations for points of interest (POIs) in urban environments. By combining real-time air quality monitoring data with user preferences, the proposed system aims to help users make health-consci...
2502.09156
Improving TCM Question Answering through Tree-Organized Self-Reflective Retrieval with LLMs
cs.CL
Objectives: Large language models (LLMs) can harness medical knowledge for intelligent question answering (Q&A), promising support for auxiliary diagnosis and medical talent cultivation. However, there is a deficiency of highly efficient retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks within the domain of Traditional...
2502.09164
E-MD3C: Taming Masked Diffusion Transformers for Efficient Zero-Shot Object Customization
cs.CV cs.LG
We propose E-MD3C ($\underline{E}$fficient $\underline{M}$asked $\underline{D}$iffusion Transformer with Disentangled $\underline{C}$onditions and $\underline{C}$ompact $\underline{C}$ollector), a highly efficient framework for zero-shot object image customization. Unlike prior works reliant on resource-intensive Une...
2502.09166
Integrated Sensing and Communication with Distributed Rate-Limited Helpers
cs.IT math.IT
This paper studies integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with two rate-limited helpers who observe the channel state sequence and the feedback sequence, respectively. Depending on the timing of compressing and using the state information, our proposed coding scheme gives an inner bound of the capacity-c...
2502.09168
Musical Heritage Historical Entity Linking
cs.CL
Linking named entities occurring in text to their corresponding entity in a Knowledge Base (KB) is challenging, especially when dealing with historical texts. In this work, we introduce Musical Heritage named Entities Recognition, Classification and Linking (MHERCL), a novel benchmark consisting of manually annotated...
2502.09170
LimSim Series: An Autonomous Driving Simulation Platform for Validation and Enhancement
cs.RO
Closed-loop simulation environments play a crucial role in the validation and enhancement of autonomous driving systems (ADS). However, certain challenges warrant significant attention, including balancing simulation accuracy with duration, reconciling functionality with practicality, and establishing comprehensive e...
2502.09172
LOB-Bench: Benchmarking Generative AI for Finance -- an Application to Limit Order Book Data
cs.LG cs.CE q-fin.CP q-fin.TR
While financial data presents one of the most challenging and interesting sequence modelling tasks due to high noise, heavy tails, and strategic interactions, progress in this area has been hindered by the lack of consensus on quantitative evaluation paradigms. To address this, we present LOB-Bench, a benchmark, impl...
2502.09173
Two-Stage Representation Learning for Analyzing Movement Behavior Dynamics in People Living with Dementia
cs.LG cs.AI
In remote healthcare monitoring, time series representation learning reveals critical patient behavior patterns from high-frequency data. This study analyzes home activity data from individuals living with dementia by proposing a two-stage, self-supervised learning approach tailored to uncover low-rank structures. Th...
2502.09175
FLAME: Flexible LLM-Assisted Moderation Engine
cs.CR cs.AI cs.CL
The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has introduced significant challenges in moderating user-model interactions. While LLMs demonstrate remarkable capabilities, they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, particularly ``jailbreaking'' techniques that bypass content safety measures. Current conten...
2502.09180
A Machine Learning Approach to Sensor Substitution for Non-Prehensile Manipulation
cs.RO
Mobile manipulators are increasingly deployed in complex environments, requiring diverse sensors to perceive and interact with their surroundings. However, equipping every robot with every possible sensor is often impractical due to cost and physical constraints. A critical challenge arises when robots with differing...
2502.09183
RefineCoder: Iterative Improving of Large Language Models via Adaptive Critique Refinement for Code Generation
cs.CL cs.AI
Code generation has attracted increasing attention with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs). Many studies have developed powerful code LLMs by synthesizing code-related instruction data and applying supervised fine-tuning. However, these methods are limited by teacher model distillation and ignore the potential ...
2502.09184
Array-Fed RIS: Validation of Friis-Based Modeling Using Full-Wave Simulations
eess.SP cs.SY eess.SY
Space-fed large antenna arrays offer superior efficiency, simplicity, and reductions in size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) compared to constrained-feed systems. Historically, horn antennas have been used for space feeding, but they suffer from limitations such as bulky designs, low aperture efficiency ($\approx 5...
2502.09188
Matina: A Large-Scale 73B Token Persian Text Corpus
cs.CL cs.AI
Text corpora are essential for training models used in tasks like summarization, translation, and large language models (LLMs). While various efforts have been made to collect monolingual and multilingual datasets in many languages, Persian has often been underrepresented due to limited resources for data collection ...
2502.09192
Thinking beyond the anthropomorphic paradigm benefits LLM research
cs.CL
Anthropomorphism, or the attribution of human traits to technology, is an automatic and unconscious response that occurs even in those with advanced technical expertise. In this position paper, we analyze hundreds of thousands of computer science research articles from the past decade and present empirical evidence o...
2502.09193
Generalizability through Explainability: Countering Overfitting with Counterfactual Examples
cs.LG
Overfitting is a well-known issue in machine learning that occurs when a model struggles to generalize its predictions to new, unseen data beyond the scope of its training set. Traditional techniques to mitigate overfitting include early stopping, data augmentation, and regularization. In this work, we demonstrate th...
2502.09194
XAInomaly: Explainable and Interpretable Deep Contractive Autoencoder for O-RAN Traffic Anomaly Detection
cs.IT math.IT
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have become integral part in advancing next generation wireless communication systems by enabling sophisticated data modeling and feature extraction for enhanced network performance. In the realm of open radio access networks (O-RAN), characterized by their disaggreg...
2502.09198
Understanding High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization
cs.LG
Recent work reported that simple Bayesian optimization methods perform well for high-dimensional real-world tasks, seemingly contradicting prior work and tribal knowledge. This paper investigates the 'why'. We identify fundamental challenges that arise in high-dimensional Bayesian optimization and explain why recent ...
2502.09202
Faster than real-time detection of shot boundaries, sampling structure and dynamic keyframes in video
cs.CV
The detection of shot boundaries (hardcuts and short dissolves), sampling structure (progressive / interlaced / pulldown) and dynamic keyframes in a video are fundamental video analysis tasks which have to be done before any further high-level analysis tasks. We present a novel algorithm which does all these analysis...
2502.09203
Revisiting Euclidean Alignment for Transfer Learning in EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces
cs.HC cs.LG
Due to the non-stationarity and large individual differences of EEG signals, EEG-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) usually need subject-specific calibration to tailor the decoding algorithm for each new subject, which is time-consuming and user-unfriendly, hindering their real-world applications. Transfer learni...
2502.09204
Logical Lease Litigation: Prolog and LLMs for Rental Law Compliance in New York
cs.AI cs.LO
Legal cases require careful logical reasoning following the laws, whereas interactions with non-technical users must be in natural language. As an application combining logical reasoning using Prolog and natural language processing using large language models (LLMs), this paper presents a novel approach and system, L...
2502.09205
Counterfactual Explanations as Plans
cs.AI cs.LO
There has been considerable recent interest in explainability in AI, especially with black-box machine learning models. As correctly observed by the planning community, when the application at hand is not a single-shot decision or prediction, but a sequence of actions that depend on observations, a richer notion of e...
2502.09206
Efficient OWL2QL Meta-reasoning Using ASP-based Hybrid Knowledge Bases
cs.LO cs.AI cs.SC
Metamodeling refers to scenarios in ontologies in which classes and roles can be members of classes or occur in roles. This is a desirable modelling feature in several applications, but allowing it without restrictions is problematic for several reasons, mainly because it causes undecidability. Therefore, practical l...
2502.09209
On LLM-generated Logic Programs and their Inference Execution Methods
cs.AI
Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on petabytes of data are highly compressed repositories of a significant proportion of the knowledge accumulated and distilled so far. In this paper we study techniques to elicit this knowledge in the form of several classes of logic programs, including propositional Horn clauses,...
2502.09211
Visual Graph Question Answering with ASP and LLMs for Language Parsing
cs.AI cs.CV cs.LO
Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging problem that requires to process multimodal input. Answer-Set Programming (ASP) has shown great potential in this regard to add interpretability and explainability to modular VQA architectures. In this work, we address the problem of how to integrate ASP with modules f...
2502.09212
LP-LM: No Hallucinations in Question Answering with Logic Programming
cs.AI cs.CL
Large language models (LLMs) are able to generate human-like responses to user queries. However, LLMs exhibit inherent limitations, especially because they hallucinate. This paper introduces LP-LM, a system that grounds answers to questions in known facts contained in a knowledge base (KB), facilitated through semant...
2502.09213
Neuro-Symbolic Contrastive Learning for Cross-domain Inference
cs.LG cs.CL
Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have made significant advances in natural language inference (NLI) tasks, however their sensitivity to textual perturbations and dependence on large datasets indicate an over-reliance on shallow heuristics. In contrast, inductive logic programming (ILP) excels at inferring logical r...
2502.09215
Architecture for Simulating Behavior Mode Changes in Norm-Aware Autonomous Agents
cs.LO cs.AI
This paper presents an architecture for simulating the actions of a norm-aware intelligent agent whose behavior with respect to norm compliance is set, and can later be changed, by a human controller. Updating an agent's behavior mode from a norm-abiding to a riskier one may be relevant when the agent is involved in ...
2502.09216
Mind the Gaps: Logical English, Prolog, and Multi-agent Systems for Autonomous Vehicles
cs.AI cs.CL cs.LO cs.MA
In this paper, we present a modular system for representing and reasoning with legal aspects of traffic rules for autonomous vehicles. We focus on a subset of the United Kingdom's Highway Code (HC) related to junctions. As human drivers and automated vehicles (AVs) will interact on the roads, especially in urban envi...
2502.09218
Data2Concept2Text: An Explainable Multilingual Framework for Data Analysis Narration
cs.LO cs.AI
This paper presents a complete explainable system that interprets a set of data, abstracts the underlying features and describes them in a natural language of choice. The system relies on two crucial stages: (i) identifying emerging properties from data and transforming them into abstract concepts, and (ii) convertin...
2502.09219
Abduction of Domain Relationships from Data for VQA
cs.LO cs.AI cs.LG
In this paper, we study the problem of visual question answering (VQA) where the image and query are represented by ASP programs that lack domain data. We provide an approach that is orthogonal and complementary to existing knowledge augmentation techniques where we abduce domain relationships of image constructs fro...
2502.09220
Graphical Conditions for the Existence, Unicity and Number of Regular Models
cs.LO cs.AI cs.DM
The regular models of a normal logic program are a particular type of partial (i.e. 3-valued) models which correspond to stable partial models with minimal undefinedness. In this paper, we explore graphical conditions on the dependency graph of a finite ground normal logic program to analyze the existence, unicity an...
2502.09221
Pearce's Characterisation in an Epistemic Domain
cs.AI cs.LO cs.PL
Answer-set programming (ASP) is a successful problem-solving approach in logic-based AI. In ASP, problems are represented as declarative logic programs, and solutions are identified through their answer sets. Equilibrium logic (EL) is a general-purpose nonmonotonic reasoning formalism, based on a monotonic logic call...
2502.09222
ASP-driven User-interaction with Clinguin
cs.AI cs.HC cs.LO cs.SE
We present clinguin, a system for ASP-driven user interface design. Clinguin streamlines the development of user interfaces for ASP developers by letting them build interactive prototypes directly in ASP, eliminating the need for separate frontend languages. To this end, clinguin uses a few dedicated predicates to de...
2502.09223
A Prolog Program for Bottom-up Evaluation
cs.PL cs.DB cs.LO
This short paper describes a simple and intuitive Prolog program, a metainterpreter, that computes the bottom up meaning of a simple positive Horn clause definition. It involves a simple transformation of the object program rules into metarules, which are then used by a metainterpreter to compute bottom up the model ...
2502.09224
Order-Sorted Intensional Logic: Expressing Subtyping Polymorphism with Typing Assertions and Quantification over Concepts
cs.AI cs.LO
Subtyping, also known as subtype polymorphism, is a concept extensively studied in programming language theory, delineating the substitutability relation among datatypes. This property ensures that programs designed for supertype objects remain compatible with their subtypes. In this paper, we explore the capabilit...
2502.09226
Generating Causally Compliant Counterfactual Explanations using ASP
cs.AI
This research is focused on generating achievable counterfactual explanations. Given a negative outcome computed by a machine learning model or a decision system, the novel CoGS approach generates (i) a counterfactual solution that represents a positive outcome and (ii) a path that will take us from the negative outc...
2502.09228
Computational methods for Dynamic Answer Set Programming
cs.AI cs.FL cs.LO
In our daily lives and industrial settings, we often encounter dynamic problems that require reasoning over time and metric constraints. These include tasks such as scheduling, routing, and production sequencing. Dynamic logics have traditionally addressed these needs but often lack the flexibility and integration re...
2502.09230
Relating Answer Set Programming and Many-sorted Logics for Formal Verification
cs.LO cs.AI cs.PL
Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an important logic programming paradigm within the field of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. As a concise, human-readable, declarative language, ASP is an excellent tool for developing trustworthy (especially, artificially intelligent) software systems. However, formally verifyi...
2502.09231
Answer Set Counting and its Applications
cs.CL cs.LO
We have focused on Answer Set Programming (ASP), more specifically, answer set counting, exploring both exact and approximate methodologies. We developed an exact ASP counter, sharpASP, which utilizes a compact encoding for propositional formulas, significantly enhancing efficiency compared to existing methods that o...
2502.09232
Logical foundations of Smart Contracts
cs.LO cs.AI
Nowadays, sophisticated domains are emerging which require appropriate formalisms to be specified accurately in order to reason about them. One such domain is constituted of smart contracts that have emerged in cyber physical systems as a way of enforcing formal agreements between components of these systems. Smart c...
2502.09233
Commonsense Reasoning-Aided Autonomous Vehicle Systems
cs.AI
Autonomous Vehicle (AV) systems have been developed with a strong reliance on machine learning techniques. While machine learning approaches, such as deep learning, are extremely effective at tasks that involve observation and classification, they struggle when it comes to performing higher level reasoning about situ...
2502.09235
Hybrid Answer Set Programming: Foundations and Applications
cs.AI cs.LO
Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful tool for solving real-world problems. However, many problems involve numeric values and complex constraints beyond the capabilities of standard ASP solvers. Hybrid solvers like CLINGCON and CLINGO[DL] address this by using specialized methods for specific constraints. Howeve...
2502.09237
Reliable Conversational Agents under ASP Control that Understand Natural Language
cs.LO cs.CL
Efforts have been made to make machines converse like humans in the past few decades. The recent techniques of Large Language Models (LLMs) make it possible to have human-like conversations with machines, but LLM's flaws of lacking understanding and reliability are well documented. We believe that the best way to eli...
2502.09238
OpenBench: A New Benchmark and Baseline for Semantic Navigation in Smart Logistics
cs.RO
The increasing demand for efficient last-mile delivery in smart logistics underscores the role of autonomous robots in enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs. Traditional navigation methods, which depend on high-precision maps, are resource-intensive, while learning-based approaches often struggle with g...
2502.09241
Safety Evaluation of Human Arm Operations Using IMU Sensors with a Spring-Damper-Mass Predictive Model
cs.RO
This paper presents a novel approach to real-time safety monitoring in human-robot collaborative manufacturing environments through a wrist-mounted Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) system integrated with a Predictive Safety Model (PSM). The proposed system extends previous PSM implementations through the adaptation of...
2502.09242
From large language models to multimodal AI: A scoping review on the potential of generative AI in medicine
cs.AI
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as diffusion models and OpenAI's ChatGPT, are transforming medicine by enhancing diagnostic accuracy and automating clinical workflows. The field has advanced rapidly, evolving from text-only large language models for tasks such as clinical documentation and decisi...
2502.09244
Memristor-Based Meta-Learning for Fast mmWave Beam Prediction in Non-Stationary Environments
cs.IT math.IT
Traditional machine learning techniques have achieved great success in improving data-rate performance and reducing latency in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. However, these methods still face two key challenges: (i) their reliance on large-scale paired data for model training and tuning which limits perform...
2502.09245
You Do Not Fully Utilize Transformer's Representation Capacity
cs.LG cs.CL
In contrast to RNNs, which compress previous tokens into a single hidden state, Transformers can attend to all previous tokens directly. However, standard Transformers only use representations from the immediately preceding layer. In this paper, we show that this design choice causes representation collapse and leads...
2502.09247
The Joint Entity-Relation Extraction Model Based on Span and Interactive Fusion Representation for Chinese Medical Texts with Complex Semantics
cs.CL cs.AI
Joint entity-relation extraction is a critical task in transforming unstructured or semi-structured text into triplets, facilitating the construction of large-scale knowledge graphs, and supporting various downstream applications. Despite its importance, research on Chinese text, particularly with complex semantics i...
2502.09252
On the Importance of Embedding Norms in Self-Supervised Learning
cs.LG
Self-supervised learning (SSL) allows training data representations without a supervised signal and has become an important paradigm in machine learning. Most SSL methods employ the cosine similarity between embedding vectors and hence effectively embed data on a hypersphere. While this seemingly implies that embeddi...
2502.09254
AnomalyGFM: Graph Foundation Model for Zero/Few-shot Anomaly Detection
cs.LG cs.AI
Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify abnormal nodes that differ from the majority of the nodes in a graph, which has been attracting significant attention in recent years. Existing generalist graph models have achieved remarkable success in different graph tasks but struggle to generalize to the GAD task. T...
2502.09256
DynSegNet:Dynamic Architecture Adjustment for Adversarial Learning in Segmenting Hemorrhagic Lesions from Fundus Images
cs.CV cs.AI
The hemorrhagic lesion segmentation plays a critical role in ophthalmic diagnosis, directly influencing early disease detection, treatment planning, and therapeutic efficacy evaluation. However, the task faces significant challenges due to lesion morphological variability, indistinct boundaries, and low contrast with...
2502.09257
Bandit Multiclass List Classification
cs.LG cs.AI stat.ML
We study the problem of multiclass list classification with (semi-)bandit feedback, where input examples are mapped into subsets of size $m$ of a collection of $K$ possible labels, and the feedback consists of the predicted labels which lie in the set of true labels of the given example. Our main result is for the $(...
2502.09263
Unlocking the Potential of Classic GNNs for Graph-level Tasks: Simple Architectures Meet Excellence
cs.LG
Message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are often criticized for their limited expressiveness, issues like over-smoothing and over-squashing, and challenges in capturing long-range dependencies, while Graph Transformers (GTs) are considered superior due to their global attention mechanisms. Literature frequently...
2502.09268
GEVRM: Goal-Expressive Video Generation Model For Robust Visual Manipulation
cs.RO cs.LG
With the rapid development of embodied artificial intelligence, significant progress has been made in vision-language-action (VLA) models for general robot decision-making. However, the majority of existing VLAs fail to account for the inevitable external perturbations encountered during deployment. These perturbatio...
2502.09269
Memory-based Ensemble Learning in CMR Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Existing models typically segment either the entire 3D frame or 2D slices independently to derive clinical functional metrics from ventricular segmentation in cardiac cine sequences. While performing well overall, they struggle at the end slices. To address this, we leverage spatial continuity to extract global uncer...
2502.09271
LiSA: Leveraging Link Recommender to Attack Graph Neural Networks via Subgraph Injection
cs.LG cs.AI
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in modeling data with graph structures, yet recent research reveals their susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Traditional attack methodologies, which rely on manipulating the original graph or adding links to artificially created nodes, often pr...
2502.09274
FLARES: Fast and Accurate LiDAR Multi-Range Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
3D scene understanding is a critical yet challenging task in autonomous driving, primarily due to the irregularity and sparsity of LiDAR data, as well as the computational demands of processing large-scale point clouds. Recent methods leverage the range-view representation to improve processing efficiency. To mitigat...
2502.09278
ConsistentDreamer: View-Consistent Meshes Through Balanced Multi-View Gaussian Optimization
cs.CV
Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved 3D generation, enabling the use of assets generated from an image for embodied AI simulations. However, the one-to-many nature of the image-to-3D problem limits their use due to inconsistent content and quality across views. Previous models optimize a 3D...
2502.09280
Adaptive Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization for Capacity Planning of Hybrid Heat Sources in Electric-Heat Coupling Systems of Cold Regions
eess.SY cs.NE cs.SY
The traditional heat-load generation pattern of combined heat and power generators has become a problem leading to renewable energy source (RES) power curtailment in cold regions, motivating the proposal of a planning model for alternative heat sources. The model aims to identify non-dominant capacity allocation sche...
2502.09282
FE-LWS: Refined Image-Text Representations via Decoder Stacking and Fused Encodings for Remote Sensing Image Captioning
cs.CV cs.HC cs.LG
Remote sensing image captioning aims to generate descriptive text from remote sensing images, typically employing an encoder-decoder framework. In this setup, a convolutional neural network (CNN) extracts feature representations from the input image, which then guide the decoder in a sequence-to-sequence caption gene...
2502.09284
SparQLe: Speech Queries to Text Translation Through LLMs
cs.CL cs.AI
With the growing influence of Large Language Models (LLMs), there is increasing interest in integrating speech representations with them to enable more seamless multi-modal processing and speech understanding. This study introduces a novel approach that leverages self-supervised speech representations in combination ...
2502.09285
EmoAssist: Emotional Assistant for Visual Impairment Community
cs.CV cs.CY
The rapid advancement of large multi-modality models (LMMs) has significantly propelled the integration of artificial intelligence into practical applications. Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems, which can process multi-modal data including vision, text, and audio, hold great potential for assisting the Visual I...
2502.09287
An Uncertainty Principle for Linear Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.LG
We consider linear recurrent neural networks, which have become a key building block of sequence modeling due to their ability for stable and effective long-range modeling. In this paper, we aim at characterizing this ability on a simple but core copy task, whose goal is to build a linear filter of order $S$ that app...
2502.09290
Dynamic Rolling Horizon Optimization for Network-Constrained V2X Value Stacking of Electric Vehicles Under Uncertainties
math.OC cs.LG cs.SY eess.SY
Electric vehicle (EV) coordination can provide significant benefits through vehicle-to-everything (V2X) by interacting with the grid, buildings, and other EVs. This work aims to develop a V2X value-stacking framework, including vehicle-to-building (V2B), vehicle-to-grid (V2G), and energy trading, to maximize economic...
2502.09291
Joint Attention Mechanism Learning to Facilitate Opto-physiological Monitoring during Physical Activity
eess.SP cs.LG
Opto-physiological monitoring is a non-contact technique for measuring cardiac signals, i.e., photoplethysmography (PPG). Quality PPG signals directly lead to reliable physiological readings. However, PPG signal acquisition procedures are often accompanied by spurious motion artefacts (MAs), especially during low-to-...
2502.09294
Indeterminacy in Affective Computing: Considering Meaning and Context in Data Collection Practices
cs.AI
Automatic Affect Prediction (AAP) uses computational analysis of input data such as text, speech, images, and physiological signals to predict various affective phenomena (e.g., emotions or moods). These models are typically constructed using supervised machine-learning algorithms, which rely heavily on labeled train...
2502.09296
A Physics-Informed Deep Learning Model for MRI Brain Motion Correction
cs.CV physics.med-ph
Background: MRI is crucial for brain imaging but is highly susceptible to motion artifacts due to long acquisition times. This study introduces PI-MoCoNet, a physics-informed motion correction network that integrates spatial and k-space information to remove motion artifacts without explicit motion parameter estimati...
2502.09297
When do neural networks learn world models?
cs.LG
Humans develop world models that capture the underlying generation process of data. Whether neural networks can learn similar world models remains an open problem. In this work, we provide the first theoretical results for this problem, showing that in a multi-task setting, models with a low-degree bias provably reco...
2502.09298
Convex Is Back: Solving Belief MDPs With Convexity-Informed Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.LG
We present a novel method for Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), incorporating the convex property of the value function over the belief space in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs). We introduce hard- and soft-enforced convexity as two different approaches, and compare their performance against s...
2502.09299
Moving Matter: Efficient Reconfiguration of Tile Arrangements by a Single Active Robot
cs.CG cs.DS cs.RO
We consider the problem of reconfiguring a two-dimensional connected grid arrangement of passive building blocks from a start configuration to a goal configuration, using a single active robot that can move on the tiles, remove individual tiles from a given location and physically move them to a new position by walki...