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JoDiffusion: Jointly Diffusing Image with Pixel-Level Annotations for Semantic Segmentation Promotion

Haoyu Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Chen Ding (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

CodeSegmentationGenerationVision Language ModelDiffusion modelAuto EncoderImageText

🎯 What it does: Proposes JoDiffusion, a joint diffusion model capable of simultaneously generating images and corresponding pixel-level segmentation annotations.

Joint Evaluation of Answer and Reasoning Consistency for Hallucination Detection in Large Reasoning Models

Changyue Wang (Tsinghua University), Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University)

CodeAnomaly DetectionExplainability and InterpretabilityComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelTextChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Proposed a black-box hallucination detection framework named RACE, specifically designed for large reasoning models (LRM), which detects factual hallucinations by jointly evaluating the consistency between the model's reasoning trajectory and the final answer.

Joint-GCG: Unified Gradient-Based Poisoning Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Haowei Wang (State Key Laboratory of Complex System Modeling and Simulation Technology), Qing Wang (State Key Laboratory of Complex System Modeling and Simulation Technology)

CodeRetrievalAdversarial AttackTransformerTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Propose the Joint-GCG framework to perform poisoning attacks on RAG systems by jointly manipulating gradients of the retriever and generator.

JRDB-Reasoning: A Difficulty-Graded Benchmark for Visual Reasoning in Robotics

Simindokht Jahangard (Monash University), Hamid Rezatofighi (Sharif University of Technology)

CodeRobotic IntelligenceGraph Neural NetworkVision Language ModelVision-Language-Action ModelImageVideoBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose the JRDB-Reasoning benchmark and adaptive query engine to enable vision reasoning tasks with adjustable difficulty levels.

Judge Q: Trainable Queries for Optimized Information Retention in KV Cache Eviction

Yijun Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Wanxiang Che (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CodeOptimizationComputational EfficiencyLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Propose Judge Q, which inserts learnable soft tokens during the pre-filling phase and only fine-tunes the embedding layer, allowing these soft tokens to fit the attention maps of real decoding tokens, thereby better capturing global information during KV cache pruning;

Jump-teaching: Combating Sample Selection Bias via Temporal Disagreement

Kangye Ji (Xidian University), Bohu Huang (Xidian University)

CodeClassificationData-Centric LearningImage

🎯 What it does: Propose an efficient sample selection framework named Jump-teaching, which eliminates sample selection bias by leveraging temporal differences of a single network across different training iterations, and achieves finer-grained sample screening through single-sample loss splitting.

Jupiter: Enhancing LLM Data Analysis Capabilities via Notebook and Inference-Time Value-Guided Search

Shuocheng Li (Peking University), Dongmei Zhang (Microsoft)

CodeAI Code AssistantTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningTextTabular

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the NbQA dataset and the JUPITER framework, aiming to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) in multi-step data analysis tasks.

K-12EduBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models’ Knowledge, Problem-Solving, and Educational Goal Cognition in K-12 Education

Yuqing Ye (Northeast Normal University), Dongdai Zhou (Cornell University)

CodeLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose the K-12EduBench benchmark to evaluate three core capabilities of LLMs in K-12 education: knowledge mastery, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and educational goal cognition;

K-ProtoDiff: Key Prototypes-Guided Diffusion for Time Series Generation

Yuhang Duan (Dalian University of Technology), Xiaoshuai Wu (Dalian University of Technology)

CodeGenerationTransformerDiffusion modelTime Series

🎯 What it does: Propose a diffusion model based on key prototypes (K-ProtoDiff) for time series generation, which can maintain the global distribution while significantly preserving local key patterns.

KALL-E: Autoregressive Speech Synthesis with Next-Distribution Prediction

Kangxiang Xia (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Lei Xie (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerFlow-based ModelAuto EncoderAudio

🎯 What it does: Propose KALL-E, an autoregressive text-to-speech model based on Flow-VAE continuous latent representations, directly predicting the next-frame speech distribution.

KCLNet: Electrically Equivalence-Oriented Graph Representation Learning for Analog Circuits

Peng Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Bei Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

CodeClassificationObject DetectionRepresentation LearningGraph Neural NetworkContrastive LearningGraphPhysics Related

🎯 What it does: Proposes the KCLNet framework, which utilizes the current equivalence principle based on KCL and asynchronous current-oriented GNN to perform graph representation learning on analog circuits;

KeenKT: Knowledge Mastery-State Disambiguation for Knowledge Tracing

Zhifei Li (Hubei University), Bing Yang (Hubei University)

CodeRepresentation LearningTransformerDiffusion modelContrastive LearningSequential

🎯 What it does: Propose the KeenKT model, which represents students' knowledge states as Normal-Inverse-Gaussian (NIG) distributions, enabling the capture of fluctuations in learning behaviors during each interaction and achieving distributed representation of states.

KeepKV: Achieving Periodic Lossless KV Cache Compression for Efficient LLM Inference

Yuxuan Tian (Peking University), Tong Yang (ByteDance)

CodeCompressionComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language Model

🎯 What it does: Proposes the KeepKV method, which periodically compresses the KV cache of LLMs without sacrificing generation quality, addressing the attention inconsistency problem caused by traditional merging.

Key Decision-Makers in Multi-Agent Debates: Who Holds the Power?

Qian Zhang (Tianjin University), Lanjun Wang (Tianjin University)

CodeLarge Language ModelAgentic AITextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper systematically investigates the impact of role allocation strategies in multi-agent debate (MAD) on reasoning task performance, and proposes the MADC consistency ranking strategy based on path consistency without requiring prior knowledge of the truth.

Khan-GCL: Kolmogorov–Arnold Network Based Graph Contrastive Learning with Hard Negatives

Zihu Wang (University of California Santa Barbara), Peng Li (University of California Santa Barbara)

CodeRepresentation LearningDrug DiscoveryGraph Neural NetworkContrastive LearningGraph

🎯 What it does: Designed a graph contrastive learning framework called Khan-GCL based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN), and proposed a method for critical feature identification and hard negative sample generation using KAN coefficients

KNNDA: A New Perspective of Alignment Recovery for Partially View-Aligned Clustering

Liang Zhao (Dalian University of Technology), Bo Xu (Dalian University of Technology)

CodeRepresentation LearningAuto EncoderContrastive LearningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a direct alignment recovery method based on k-nearest neighbors (KNNDA), which simultaneously accomplishes alignment recovery and consistent representation learning in partially viewed multi-view clustering (PVC) without requiring pre-training.

Knowledge Completes the Vision: A Multimodal Entity-aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for News Image Captioning

Xiaoxing You (Hangzhou Dianzi University), Jun Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen))

CodeGenerationRetrievalGraph Neural NetworkTransformerPrompt EngineeringMultimodalityRetrieval-Augmented GenerationChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Proposed and implemented a multi-modal retrieval-enhanced generation framework named MERGE for news image captioning.

Knowledge Graph Guided Heterogeneity-Informed Diffusion Model for Spatio-Temporal Generation

Zi'ang Wang, Yu Zhao (Beihang University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisMixture of ExpertsDiffusion modelGraphTime Series

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a knowledge graph-based heterogeneous-aware diffusion model (KGDiff) for generating urban spatiotemporal data with spatial structure and temporal heterogeneity.

Knowledge-Enhanced Explainable Prompting for Vision-Language Models

Yequan Bie (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Hao Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelContrastive LearningMultimodalityBiomedical DataRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Designed and implemented a framework called KEEP to enhance prompt learning of visual-language models (e.g., CLIP) with fine-grained domain knowledge, providing both visual and textual interpretability.

Kronos: A Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets

Yu Shi (Tsinghua University), Jian Li (Tsinghua University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelTime SeriesSequentialFinance Related

🎯 What it does: A two-stage pre-training framework named Kronos is constructed specifically for financial K-line sequences.

KSS-MoE: Knowledge Space Synergy Framework in Mixture of Experts for Continual Visual Instruction Tuning

Lingyun Song (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Xuequn Shang (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

CodeMixture of ExpertsMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Studied a novel knowledge space collaborative framework KSS-MoE, using Mixture of Experts in continuous visual instruction tuning to alleviate catastrophic forgetting.

KTV: Keyframes and Key Tokens Selection for Efficient Training-Free Video LLMs

Baiyang Song (Xiamen University), Jianyuan Guo (Xiamen University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningTransformerVision Language ModelContrastive LearningVideoTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Designed and implemented the KTV framework, which leverages an untrained vision-language model for video understanding. It first selects keyframes through clustering, then extracts key visual tokens from each frame to reduce spatiotemporal redundancy and improve inference efficiency.

KVmix: Gradient-Based Layer Importance-Aware Mixed-Precision Quantization for KV Cache

Fei Li (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Jinyu Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: To address the excessive memory consumption of KV cache in large language models, the KVmix method is proposed, which leverages gradient importance analysis to achieve hierarchical mixed-precision quantization, combined with dynamic critical context selection and efficient CUDA kernel fusion, significantly compressing the KV cache and enhancing inference throughput.

LaF-GRPO: In-Situ Navigation Instruction Generation for the Visually Impaired via GRPO with LLM-as-Follower Reward

Yi Zhao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Jing Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

CodeAutonomous DrivingReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningVision-Language-Action ModelImageTextMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the LaF-GRPO framework, which utilizes LLM to simulate responses of visually impaired users as a reward for post-training Vision-Language Models, generating precise, context-aware step-by-step navigation instructions, and constructing the NIG4VI dataset with 27k samples.

LAMDA: Two-Phase HPO via Learning Prior from Low-Fidelity Data

Fan Li, Ke Li (Central South University)

CodeOptimizationHyperparameter SearchTabularBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose the Lambda two-phase HPO framework, which first learns a reliable prior in low-fidelity (LF) tasks and then uses this prior to guide high-fidelity (HF) search.

LAMDAS: LLM as an Implicit Classifier for Domain-specific Data Selection

Jian Wu (Ant Group), Yue Zhang (Westlake University)

CodeClassificationComputational EfficiencyData-Centric LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes the LAMDAS method, which utilizes a pre-trained LLM as an implicit classifier to select domain-specific data, addressing the challenges of scarce high-quality data and noise in large volumes of unverified data.

LAMIC: Layout-Aware Multi-Image Composition via Scalability of Multimodal Diffusion Transformer

Yuzhuo Chen, Weiming Zhang (University Of Science And Technology Of China)

CodeGenerationTransformerVision Language ModelDiffusion modelAuto EncoderImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a zero-training multi-graph layout-aware synthesis framework named LAMIC, achieving joint generation of multiple reference images and spatial layouts.

LampQ: Towards Accurate Layer-wise Mixed Precision Quantization for Vision Transformers

Minjun Kim (Seoul National University), U Kang (Seoul National University)

CodeClassificationObject DetectionSegmentationTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: Propose a visual Transformer PTQ method based on hierarchical mixed-precision quantization (LAMPQ), which can assign different bit-widths to each layer, significantly improving the accuracy of low-precision models

Landsat30-AU: A Vision-Language Dataset for Australian Landsat Imagery

Sai Ma (Australian National University), John A. Taylor (Australian National University)

CodeLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodalityBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Constructed the Landsat30-AU audio-visual language dataset (with two subsets: CAP and VQA), covering four satellites (Landsat 5/7/8/9), spanning 36 years, and with 30-meter resolution, and conducted benchmark evaluations on existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs).

LangGPS: Language Separability Guided Data Pre-Selection for Joint Multilingual Instruction Tuning

Yangfan Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology), Bing Qin (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CodeData-Centric LearningText

🎯 What it does: Propose a two-stage lightweight data pre-selection framework called LangGPS, which uses language separability as a guidance signal to filter multilingual instruction-tuning data;

Language Drift in Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Characterization and Decoding-Time Mitigation

Bo Li (Hebei University of Technology), Rui Xie (Hebei University of Technology)

CodeGenerationRetrievalTransformerTextBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented GenerationChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Investigated the language drift phenomenon in multilingual retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and proposed a lightweight decoding control method called Soft Constrained Decoding (SCD) to alleviate drift.

Large Connectome Model: An fMRI Foundation Model of Brain Connectomes Empowered by Brain-Environment Interaction in Multitask Learning Landscape

Ziquan Wei (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Guorong Wu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

CodeClassificationRecognitionTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningBiomedical DataMagnetic Resonance ImagingAlzheimer's Disease

🎯 What it does: Proposed a Large-Scale Brain Connectivity Model (LCM) using a decoder-only Transformer architecture, pre-trained on a large number of functional connectivity matrices (fMRI) through multi-task learning, and fine-tuned semi-supervisedly to achieve various clinical and behavioral prediction tasks.

Large Language Models Meet Extreme Multi-label Classification: Scaling and Multi-modal Framework

Diego Ortego (NielsenIQ), Juan C. SanMiguel (NielsenIQ)

CodeClassificationTransformerLarge Language ModelContrastive LearningTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: In the extreme multi-label classification (XMC) task, this paper investigates how to effectively utilize large decoder language models and visual metadata, and proposes a multimodal framework called ViXML;

LAS: Loss-less ANN-SNN Conversion for Fully Spike-Driven Large Language Models

Long Chen (Sichuan University), Yanan Sun (Sichuan University)

CodeComputational EfficiencySpiking Neural NetworkTransformerLarge Language ModelTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the LAS framework, which losslessly converts pre-trained large language models into fully spiking neural networks, achieving inference with lower energy consumption.

Latent Self-Consistency for Reliable Majority-Set Selection in Short- and Long-Answer Reasoning

Jungsuk Oh (Seoul National University), Jay-Yoon Lee (Seoul National University)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose the Latent Self-Consistency (LSC) method, which appends learnable summary tokens after generation by large language models, utilizing contrastive learning to obtain semantic embeddings, thereby achieving unified consistency selection for both short and long answers.

LatentLLM: Activation-Aware Transform to Multi-Head Latent Attention

Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories), Matthew Brand

CodeCompressionTransformerTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Perform training-free compression on pre-trained large language models and multi-modal models, converting them into a low-dimensional multi-head latent attention (MLA) structure.

LaTeX2Layout: High-Fidelity, Scalable Document Layout Annotation Pipeline for Layout Detection

Feijiang Han (University of Pennsylvania), Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania)

CodeObject DetectionData SynthesisSupervised Fine-TuningVision Language ModelImage

🎯 What it does: Built a pipeline that directly generates pixel-level layout annotations using a LaTeX compiler, and fine-tuned a general-purpose vision-language model by programatically generating synthetic data to accomplish document layout parsing.

LayerEdit: Disentangled Multi-Object Editing via Conflict-Aware Multi-Layer Learning

Fengyi Fu (University Of Science And Technology Of China), Zhendong Mao (University Of Science And Technology Of China)

CodeImage HarmonizationTransformerDiffusion modelImageBenchmark

🎯 What it does: LayerEdit achieves untrained multi-object text-driven image editing through multi-layer decomposition, conflict-aware editing, and transparency-guided fusion.

Laytrol: Preserving Pretrained Knowledge in Layout Control for Multimodal Diffusion Transformers

Sida Huang (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Hongyuan Zhang (University Of Hong Kong)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelDiffusion modelImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Laytrol network for layout-to-image generation, leveraging parameter copying to retain pre-trained knowledge, constructed the LaySyn dataset, and designed specialized initialization, object-level RoPE, and random prompt dropping mechanisms.

Learn from Global Correlations: Enhancing Evolutionary Algorithm via Spectral GNN

Kaichen Ouyang, Dayu Hu (Sun Yat-sen University)

CodeOptimizationGraph Neural NetworkBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed a evolutionary algorithm framework GNE based on spectral graph neural networks, modeling the population as a graph and utilizing spectral filtering to update individuals, thereby achieving global information learning.

Learner-Tailored Program Repair: A Solution Generator with Iterative Edit-Driven Retrieval Enhancement

Zhenlong Dai (Zhejiang University), Jingyuan Chen (Zhejiang University)

CodeAI Code AssistantTransformerLarge Language ModelTextSequentialBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Learner-Customized Program Repair Task (LPR) and designed the LSGEN framework, which generates repair code and corresponding bug descriptions by leveraging retrieval databases, edit-based retrieval, differential analysis, and iterative retrieval enhancement;

Learning Adaptive and Expandable Mixture Model for Continual Learning

Fei Ye (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), ShiJie Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

CodeClassificationDomain AdaptationTransformerMixture of ExpertsImageBenchmark

🎯 What it does: In the multi-domain task incremental learning scenario, we propose a continuous learning framework based on pre-trained models, which includes dual representation backbone networks, an expandable mixture of experts module, and an adaptive fusion with dynamic knowledge calibration mechanism.

Learning Beyond Domains: Misleading Prompts and Pseudo-Label Contrast for Text Domain Generalization

Qizhi Li (Sichuan University), Xu Wang (Sichuan University)

CodeClassificationDomain AdaptationTransformerPrompt EngineeringContrastive LearningText

🎯 What it does: Achieve text domain generalization through prompting and pseudo-label contrastive learning, proposing the GenPromptCL framework;

Learning Beyond Vision: Vision-Language Distillation and Edge-Aware Mix Diffusion in Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Rui Yang (Shanghai University), Shaorong Xie (Shanghai University)

CodeSegmentationKnowledge DistillationTransformerPrompt EngineeringDiffusion modelImageText

🎯 What it does: In semi-supervised semantic segmentation, a pseudo-label refinement framework called ViLaDiff is constructed by generating image descriptions, fusing them with visual features, and introducing mixed noise diffusion in the label space.

Learning Branching Policies for MILPs with Proximal Policy Optimization

Abdelouahed Ben Mhamed (University Mohammed VI Polytechnic), Amal Seghrouchni (Sorbonne University)

CodeOptimizationTransformerReinforcement LearningTabular

🎯 What it does: Proposes the Tree-Gate branching strategy TGPPO based on PPO, which directly learns variable selection during the Branch-and-Bound process.

Learning Cell-Aware Hierarchical Multi-Modal Representations for Robust Molecular Modeling

Mengran Li (Sun Yat-sen University), Stan Z. Li (Sun Yat-sen University)

CodeRepresentation LearningDrug DiscoveryGraph Neural NetworkContrastive LearningMultimodalityBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Propose a multi-modal representation framework (CHMR) that jointly models molecular structure, cell phenotypes, and gene expression to address missing cell modalities and hierarchical dependency issues.

Learning Compact Latent Space for Representing Neural Signed Distance Functions with High-fidelity Geometry Details

Qiang Bai, Zhizhong Han (Wayne State University)

CodeGenerationRepresentation LearningPoint CloudMesh

🎯 What it does: Investigated a dual-branch neural SDF network that utilizes a shared compact latent space and spatial voxel grid features, enabling the representation of multiple 3D shapes on a single latent code, while enhancing high-frequency detail reconstruction through a balanced sampling strategy.

Learning Conjugate Direction Fields for Planar Quadrilateral Mesh Generation

Jiong Tao (University of Bath), Bailin Deng (Cardiff University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisGraph Neural NetworkMesh

🎯 What it does: Utilizes deep learning to predict conjugate direction fields (CDF) on freeform surfaces and directly generates initial layouts suitable for constructing planar quadrilateral meshes, avoiding the traditional costly nonlinear optimization process.

Learning DFAs from Positive Examples Only via Word Counting

Benjamin Bordais (TU Dortmund University), Daniel Neider (TU Dortmund University)

CodeOptimizationComputational EfficiencyTextSequential

🎯 What it does: This study proposes a new perspective based on word counting for learning deterministic finite automata (DFA) using only positive examples, and provides the corresponding NP-completeness proof; meanwhile, it designs an integer linear programming (ILP) solver and a heuristic preprocessing algorithm;

Learning Dynamics as Feedback: An Adaptive Entropy Flow Dynamics Framework for Long-tailed Human Action Recognition

Yuan Dong (University of Science and Technology of China), Pengkun Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)

CodeClassificationRecognitionGraph Neural NetworkVideo

🎯 What it does: Proposed a closed-loop self-regulating framework AEED, which uses entropy flow to monitor learning progress and dynamically adjust class weights, thereby improving the performance of long-tailed action recognition.

Learning from Imperfect Data: Robust Inference of Dynamic Systems Using Simulation-Based Generative Model

Hyunwoo Cho (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Hyung Ju Hwang (Pohang University of Science and Technology)

CodeOptimizationData-Centric LearningGenerative Adversarial NetworkTime SeriesPhysics RelatedOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: Propose a SiGMoID framework based on HyperPINN and Wasserstein GAN for simultaneously estimating system parameters, quantifying noise, and reconstructing unobserved system states from noise-sparse, partially observable data.

Learning from Long-Term Engagement: Adaptive Tutoring Dialogue Planning for Personalized Education

Zhiang Dong (Zhejiang University), Jingyuan Chen (Zhejiang University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningText

🎯 What it does: Designed and implemented the LEAP system, which leverages students' long-term learning processes for adaptive tutoring planning, and constructed the LEAD dataset based on real student multi-round submissions.

Learning from Scoring Disagreements: Contrastive Error Mining for Efficient and Robust LLM-based Assessment

Lei Chen (Jinan University), Weiqi Luo (Jinan University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningContrastive LearningText

🎯 What it does: Propose the CEM-FT framework, which automatically identifies high-value hard samples where the score differences between fully fine-tuned models and few-shot models are significant, and applies lightweight LoRA fine-tuning on these samples to improve the accuracy and consistency of LLM automatic scoring.

Learning from the Undesirable: Robust Adaptation of Language Models Without Forgetting

Yunhun Nam (Korea University), Jongheon Jeong (Korea University)

CodeDomain AdaptationRepresentation LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Propose a regularization method called Learning-from-the-Undesirable (LfU) for supervised fine-tuning of large language models under limited data conditions, significantly reducing overfitting while retaining pre-trained knowledge.

Learning Heuristic Functions for HTN Planning

Daniel HΓΆller

CodeOptimizationGraph Neural NetworkGraphBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper first proposes a method to learn heuristic functions in hierarchical task network (HTN) planning.

Learning Heuristic Functions with Graph Neural Networks for Numeric Planning

Valerio Borelli (University of Brescia), Ivan Serina (University of Brescia)

CodeOptimizationGraph Neural NetworkGraphBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a heuristic function based on graph neural networks (GNN) for solving numerical planning problems, evaluated on multiple IPC 2023 numerical planning benchmarks.

Learning Latent Imaging Biomarkers for Interpretable Microvascular Invasion Prediction in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Ji Rao (Tongji University), Ye Luo (Tongji University)

CodeClassificationExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerContrastive LearningMultimodalityBiomedical DataMagnetic Resonance Imaging

🎯 What it does: Propose a two-stage interpretable framework IRCL, which first learns potential image features through dual-layer contrastive learning and clusters them to generate imaging biomarkers, then predicts microvascular invasion (MVI) by aligning these markers with patient features in the original images, and achieves spatial interpretation of image markers through a learnable mask.

Learning Network Dismantling Without Handcrafted Inputs

Haozhe Tian (Imperial College London), Homayoun Hamedmoghadam (RMIT University)

CodeGraph Neural NetworkReinforcement LearningGraph

🎯 What it does: Propose a network decomposition method called MIND based on graph neural networks and reinforcement learning, completely independent of manual features;

Learning Neural Operators from Partial Observations via Latent Autoregressive Modeling

Jingren Hou (Beijing Jiaotong University), Liping Jing (Beijing Jiaotong University)

CodeRestorationBenchmarkPhysics Related

🎯 What it does: Proposes a method for training neural operators under partially observed data, incorporating mask prediction training strategies and a physics-aware latent autoregressive propagation module.

Learning Personalised Human Internal Cognition from External Expressive Behaviours for Real Personality Recognition

Xiangyu Kong (University of Exeter), Siyang Song (University of Oxford)

CodeRecognitionGraph Neural NetworkTransformerDiffusion modelVideoMultimodalityAudio

🎯 What it does: Propose a real-time personality recognition framework based on audio-visual behavior simulation of individual internal cognition, achieving regression of real personality traits by analyzing cognitive graphs using a personalized network weight generator and 2D graph neural network.

Learning Procedural-Aware Video Representations Through State-Grounded Hierarchy Unfolding

Jinghan Zhao (Beihang University), Feng Lu (Beihang University)

CodeRepresentation LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkLarge Language ModelVideoTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a Task-Step-State (TSS) three-layer framework, integrating a visual state layer into the task-step hierarchy to address the semantic gap between abstract descriptions and visual data, and design a progressive pre-training strategy to gradually unfold this hierarchical structure;

Learning Protein–Ligand Binding in Hyperbolic Space

Jianhui Wang (Tsinghua University), Yanyan Lan (Tsinghua University)

CodeDrug DiscoveryGraph Neural NetworkTransformerContrastive LearningBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Propose HypSeek, a three-tower architecture that embeds ligands, protein pockets, and protein sequences into the hyperbolic space of the Lorentz model, to unify virtual screening and affinity ranking.

Learning Subgroups with Maximum Treatment Effects Without Causal Heuristics

Lincen Yang (Leiden University), Saber Salehkaleybar (Leiden University)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilitySupervised Fine-TuningTabular

🎯 What it does: Under the structural causal model framework, the problem of identifying subgroups with maximum average treatment effect is transformed into a standard supervised learning problem, and subgroup discovery is achieved through CART trees;

Learning Systems Expansion with Efficient Heterogeneity-aware Knowledge Transfer

Gaole Dai (Nanyang Technological University), Mo Li (Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology)

CodeOptimizationKnowledge DistillationTransformerMultimodalityBiomedical DataAlzheimer's DiseaseAudio

🎯 What it does: Investigate the problem of expanding learning systems, proposing the HaT framework to achieve efficient heterogeneous perception knowledge transfer.

Learning Time in Static Classifiers

Xi Ding (Griffith University), Yongsheng Gao (Griffith University)

CodeClassificationAnomaly DetectionTransformerImageVideoTime Series

🎯 What it does: Propose a SEQ learning framework that aligns predicted sequences with class-specific time prototypes using soft DTW, enabling a standard feedforward classifier to possess temporal reasoning capabilities.

Learning to Collaborate: An Orchestrated-Decentralized Framework for Peer-to-Peer LLM Federation

Inderjeet Singh (Fujitsu Research of Europe), Motoyoshi Sekiya (Fujitsu Research of Europe)

CodeFederated LearningSafty and PrivacyKnowledge DistillationTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Propose a decentralized LLM federated learning framework KNEXA-FL, which assigns optimal peer-to-peer knowledge distillation tasks to heterogeneous LLM agents through a centralized matcher, enabling multi-institutional data collaboration without sharing raw data.

Learning to Compress Graphs via Dual Agents for Consistent Topological Robustness Evaluation

Qisen Chai (Southwest University), Tao Jia (Southwest University)

CodeCompressionRecurrent Neural NetworkGraph Neural NetworkReinforcement LearningAgentic AIGraph

🎯 What it does: Proposes a dual-agent reinforcement learning framework called Cutter for compressing large-scale graph structures while preserving graph robustness features.

Learning to Compress: Unlocking the Potential of Large Language Models for Text Representation

Yeqin Zhang (Nanjing University), Cam-Tu Nguyen (Nanjing University)

CodeCompressionKnowledge DistillationRepresentation LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelContrastive LearningTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Explored using context compression as an unsupervised pre-training task to improve text representations in large language models.

Learning to Curate Context: Jointly Optimizing Retrieval and Prediction for Multimodal Social Media Popularity

Xovee Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Jingkuan Song (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

CodeRecommendation SystemOptimizationTransformerMultimodalityRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Proposes a framework named JRPP, achieving joint optimization of retrieval and multimodal social media popularity prediction.

Learning to Generate and Extract: A Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework for Zero-Shot Document-Level Event Arguments Extraction

Guangjun Zhang, Ru Li (Shanxi University)

CodeData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningAgentic AIText

🎯 What it does: Propose a multi-agent collaborative framework that iteratively generates high-quality synthetic document-level event argumentation data through the interaction between generation agents and evaluation agents, thereby improving the performance of zero-shot event argument extraction.

Learning to Tell Apart: Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection via Disentangled Semantic Alignment

Wenti Yin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Nong Sang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

CodeAnomaly DetectionGraph Neural NetworkTransformerVision Language ModelContrastive LearningVideo

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the DSANet framework, which performs coarse-to-fine granularity detection and classification of video anomalies in a weakly supervised manner;

Learning Topology-Aware Dynamic Associations for Robust Multi-Person Pose Estimation

Shengnan Hu (Central China Normal University), Yahong Chen (Central China Normal University)

CodePose EstimationTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: To address occlusion, scale variation, and complex interactions in multi-person human pose estimation, the authors propose the TopoDA framework.

Learning Topology-Driven Multi-Subspace Fusion for Grassmannian Deep Networks

Xuan Yu (Jiangnan University), Tianyang Xu (Jiangnan University)

CodeClassificationRecognitionVideoGraphBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Proposed a topology-driven multi-subspace fusion framework aimed at capturing complex geometric structures by dynamically selecting and weighting task-related subspaces.

Learning Underwater Image Enhancement Iteratively Without Reference Images

Yi Tang (Kitami Institute of Technology), Hiroshi Masui (Kitami Institute of Technology)

CodeRestorationTransformerVision Language ModelDiffusion modelImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an unsupervised iterative diffusion model framework for underwater image enhancement, decomposing the task into colorization and color compensation, and enhancing warm color information through a quantization mechanism.

Learning Vision-Based Neural Network Controllers with Semi-Probabilistic Safety Guarantees

Xinhang Ma (Washington University in St. Louis), Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Washington University in St. Louis)

CodeAutonomous DrivingSafty and PrivacyGenerative Adversarial NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: Proposes a semi-probabilistic safety verification framework (SPV) that combines reachability analysis with conditional generative networks and distribution-agnostic tail bounds to achieve scalable verification and training for visual controllers;

Learning with Preserving for Continual Multitask Learning

Hanchen David Wang (Vanderbilt University), Meiyi Ma (Vanderbilt University)

CodeKnowledge DistillationRepresentation LearningSupervised Fine-TuningImageTime SeriesBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes a buffer-free continual multi-task learning framework LwP, which avoids catastrophic forgetting by preserving the geometric structure of the shared feature space.

Length-Adaptive Interest Network for Balancing Long and Short Sequence Modeling in CTR Prediction

Zhicheng Zhang (Tsinghua University), Zhenhua Dong (Huawei)

CodeRecommendation SystemTransformerPrompt EngineeringSequential

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Length-Adaptive Interest Network (LAIN), which explicitly incorporates sequence length information into CTR prediction models to balance long- and short-sequence modeling, significantly enhancing CTR prediction performance.

LENS: Learning to Segment Anything with Unified Reinforced Reasoning

Lianghui Zhu (Huazhong University of Science & Technology), Xinggang Wang (vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd)

CodeSegmentationTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningVision Language ModelMultimodalityChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose the LENS framework to achieve segmentation tasks under text prompts, using a unified reinforcement learning strategy for chained reasoning and segmentation optimization during testing.

Less Is Better: Sparse Instance Learning for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection

Yali Huang (Zhengzhou University), Hichem Sahbi (Sorbonne University)

CodeObject DetectionDomain AdaptationMeta LearningTransformerContrastive LearningImage

🎯 What it does: Proposed the SI-ViTO framework to achieve sparse instance learning for cross-domain few-shot object detection tasks

Let the Model Learn to Feel: Mode-Guided Tonality Injection for Symbolic Music Emotion Recognition

Haiying Xia (Guangxi Normal University), Shuxiang Song (Guangxi Normal University)

CodeRecognitionTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningSequential

🎯 What it does: In symbolic music emotion recognition, this paper evaluates MIDIBERT's insufficient perception of musical modes (major/minor), proposes a mode-oriented diagnostic method MoGE, and designs the MoFi framework, which leverages FiLM to inject mode knowledge into the Transformer's lower layers to enhance emotion recognition performance.

Let’s Think with Images Efficiently! An Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Framework with Dynamic and Precise Visual Thoughts

Xu Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Libo Qin (Central South University)

CodeSegmentationComputational EfficiencyLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelMultimodalityChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose a new Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought framework called DAP-ICOT, which achieves more efficient multimodal reasoning through dynamic visual thinking integration and precise visual thinking guidance.

Leveraging Failed Samples: A Few-Shot and Training-Free Framework for Generalized Deepfake Detection

Shibo Yao (Beijing Jiaotong University), Chunjie Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeAnomaly DetectionTransformerVision Language ModelContrastive LearningImage

🎯 What it does: Propose FTNet, a training-free framework that achieves deepfake detection with only a minimal number of samples (just one synthetic sample), leveraging CLIP intermediate layer features to construct a Key-Value cache and discriminates test samples via nearest neighbor classification;

Leveraging Visual Blur Perception Characteristics for EEG Decoding

Wenchao Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Haifeng Li (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CodeRetrievalRepresentation LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkContrastive LearningMultimodalityBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Propose a visual decoding framework for EEG based on visual blur perception features, leveraging multi-level Gaussian blur and feature selection to construct personalized visual representations, and employing a forward-constrained spatial convolution EEG encoder with CLIP for contrastive learning.

LexChain: Modeling Legal Reasoning Chains for Chinese Tort Case Analysis

Huiyuan Xie (Tsinghua University), Zhiyuan Liu (Northeastern University)

CodeClassificationRecognitionTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the LexChain framework and evaluation benchmark to systematically model legal reasoning chains in Chinese civil tort cases, and evaluate and improve various large language models.

LexInstructEval: Lexical Instruction Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

Huimin Ren (Li Auto Inc.), Chen Wei (Li Auto Inc.)

CodeTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes LexInstructEval, a benchmark evaluation framework for fine-grained lexical instruction following in large language models.

Libra-MIL: Multimodal Prototypes Stereoscopic Infused with Task-specific Language Priors for Few-shot Whole Slide Image Classification

Zhenfeng Zhuang (Xiamen University), Liansheng Wang (Xiamen University)

CodeClassificationLarge Language ModelMultimodalityBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Propose Libra-MIL, a multi-instance learning framework integrating task-specific text priors, bimodal prototype learning, and 3D optimal transport for whole-slide image classification under few annotations.

LiDAR-GS++: Improving LiDAR Gaussian Reconstruction via Diffusion Priors

Qifeng Chen (Alibaba Group), Sheng Yang (Zhejiang University)

CodeData SynthesisAutonomous DrivingDiffusion modelAuto EncoderGaussian SplattingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose the LiDAR-GS++ method, which incorporates a diffusion prior into Gaussian Splatting to achieve real-time high-quality LiDAR relighting, particularly improving the synthesis effect of extrapolated viewpoints.

LiDARCrafter: Dynamic 4D World Modeling from LiDAR Sequences

Alan Liang (National University of Singapore), Wei Tsang Ooi (National University of Singapore)

CodeGenerationAutonomous DrivingLarge Language ModelDiffusion modelPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposes LiDARCrafter, a controllable 4D LiDAR generation and editing framework capable of generating dynamic LiDAR sequences containing geometric, motion, and structural priors based on natural language instructions, while supporting scene editing.

Light but Sharp: SlimSTAD for Real-Time Action Detection from Sensor Data

Wei Cui (Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Bing Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

CodeObject DetectionComputational EfficiencyConvolutional Neural NetworkGraph Neural NetworkTime SeriesSequential

🎯 What it does: Proposes SlimSTAD, a lightweight framework specifically designed for sensor-based temporal action detection, enabling high-accuracy, low-latency real-time action localization and classification on edge devices.

Lightweight Adaptive Topological Layout and Semantic Mapping in Vision-and-Language Navigation on Websites

Pingrui Lai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Hua Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyConvolutional Neural NetworkGraph Neural NetworkTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningVision-Language-Action ModelMultimodalityGraph

🎯 What it does: Propose a lightweight framework ATLAS that dynamically constructs web topology graphs and unifies semantic representations for Vision-and-Language web navigation and question answering.

Lightweight Optimal-Transport Harmonization on Edge Devices

Maria Larchenko, Georgy Derevyanko (Glam AI)

CodeImage HarmonizationConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: Developed a lightweight color harmonization method called MKL-Harmonizer that can achieve real-time AR object color matching on edge devices.

LILAD: Learning In-context Lyapunov-stable Adaptive Dynamics Models

Amit Jena (Texas A&M University), Le Xie (Harvard University)

CodeOptimizationMeta LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSequentialBenchmarkPhysics Related

🎯 What it does: Proposed the LILAD framework, combining In-Context Learning (ICL) with Lyapunov stability to achieve adaptive and stable system identification.

Listening Between the Frames: Bridging Temporal Gaps in Large Audio-Language Models

Hualei Wang (Beijing Key Laboratory of Mobile Computing and Pervasive Device, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiangdong Wang (Beijing Key Laboratory of Mobile Computing and Pervasive Device, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelTextMultimodalityAudio

🎯 What it does: Propose TimeAudio, an improved large audio-language model focusing on fine-grained temporal localization and long audio understanding.

LiteGE: Lightweight Geodesic Embedding for Efficient Geodesics Computation and Non-Isometric Shape Correspondence

Yohanes Yudhi Adikusuma (University of Texas at Austin), Ying He (Nanyang Technological University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningPoint CloudMesh

🎯 What it does: Propose LiteGE, which uses PCA to compress the Unsigned Distance Field (UDF) and obtain a lightweight shape descriptor, directly predicting geodesic distances on 3D surfaces and achieving shape correspondence.

LiteLong: Resource-Efficient Long-Context Data Synthesis for LLMs

Junlong Jia (Beihang University), Binghui Guo (Xiaohongshu)

CodeData SynthesisComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelAgentic AITextBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Propose a resource-efficient long-text data synthesis framework called LiteLong, which utilizes the BISAC classification structure and a multi-agent debate mechanism to generate diverse topics, then retrieves and concatenates them into 128K-token training samples using BM25.

LiViBench: An Omnimodal Benchmark for Interactive Livestream Video Understanding

Xiaodong Wang (Peking University), Peixi Peng (Peking University)

CodeLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningAgentic AIVision Language ModelMultimodalityBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Proposed LiViBench, an interactive live video full-modal evaluation benchmark covering audio, speech, and real-time comments, constructed with 3,168 videos and 3,175 multiple-choice questions based on a semi-automated annotation workflow.

LLaVA-MS-PIT: Multi-Modal Schema-Guided Progressive Instruction Tuning for Multi-Modal Event Extraction

Hui Zhang (Central China Normal University), Wei Emma Zhang (University of Adelaide)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposes the LLaVA-MS-PIT framework, which achieves multimodal event extraction through progressively instruction-tuned multimodal event patterns.

LLaVA-UHD v2: Exploiting Hierarchical Vision Granularity in MLLMs via Inverse Semantic Pyramid

Yipeng Zhang (Tsinghua University), Maosong Sun (National University Of Singapore)

CodeTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningVision Language ModelMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose Hiwin Transformer for enhancing hierarchical visual feature representation in multimodal large language models, constructing an inverse semantic pyramid and compressing features using hierarchical window attention.

LLM-Aligned Geographic Item Tokenization for Local-Life Recommendation

Hao Jiang (Kuaishou Technology), Guorui Zhou (Independent Researcher)

CodeRecommendation SystemTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningPrompt EngineeringContrastive LearningTextTabularSequential

🎯 What it does: Proposed the LGSID framework, which first aligns the geographic knowledge of large language models (LLMs) through reinforcement learning, and then achieves hierarchical geographic project tokenization to enhance geographic perception and semantic representation in local life recommendations;

LLM-Free Image Captioning Evaluation in Reference-Flexible Settings

Shinnosuke Hirano (Keio University), Komei Sugiura (Keio University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningVision Language ModelMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed a LLM-free supervised image caption evaluation metric called Pearl, capable of unified assessment in both reference-based and reference-free settings.