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Wasserstein-Aligned Hyperbolic Multi-View Clustering

Rui Wang (Jiangnan University), Ziheng Chen (University of Trento)

CodeRepresentation LearningContrastive LearningMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes WAH-MVC, a multi-view clustering method that employs Wasserstein-aligned hyperbolic encoding on the Lorentz manifold.

Wavefront-Constrained Passive Obscured Object Detection

Zhiwen Zheng (Hangzhou Dianzi University), Xingru Huang (Hangzhou Dianzi University)

CodeObject DetectionSegmentationConvolutional Neural NetworkImagePhysics Related

🎯 What it does: A physics-driven WavePCNet network is studied for detecting and segmenting occluded objects in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenes using sparse light spot images without active illumination.

Wavelet Enhanced Adaptive Frequency Filter for Sequential Recommendation

Huayang Xu (Soochow University), Pengpeng Zhao (Soochow University)

CodeRecommendation SystemTransformerSequential

🎯 What it does: Proposes a sequence recommendation model called WEARec that integrates dynamic frequency domain filtering with wavelet enhancement

WDT-MD: Wavelet Diffusion Transformers for Microaneurysm Detection in Fundus Images

Yifei Sun (Zhejiang University), Hongxia Xu (Zhejiang University)

CodeClassificationAnomaly DetectionTransformerDiffusion modelImageBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Proposed a diffusion transformer framework based on wavelet decomposition for detecting retinal microaneurysms.

WeatherEdit: Controllable Weather Editing with 4D Gaussian Field

Chenghao Qian (University of Leeds), Gustav Markkula (University of Leeds)

CodeImage TranslationGenerationData SynthesisAutonomous DrivingDiffusion modelNeural Radiance FieldImageVideo

🎯 What it does: Achieve 3D editing of controllable intensity multi-weather (rain, snow, fog) from ordinary scenes by fusing multi-weather style diffusion models and combining with 4D Gaussian fields;

WeightFlow: Learning Stochastic Dynamics via Evolving Weight of Neural Network

Ruikun Li (Tsinghua University), Yong Li (Tsinghua University)

CodeGraph Neural NetworkTransformerAuto EncoderBiomedical DataStochastic Differential EquationOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: Proposed the WeightFlow framework, which directly captures the probability density evolution of stochastic dynamics by modeling probability distributions in the neural network weight space and learning the continuous evolution of weight graphs;

WenetSpeech-Yue: A Large-Scale Cantonese Speech Corpus with Multi-dimensional Annotation

Longhao Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Lei Xie (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CodeData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningMultimodalityBenchmarkAudio

🎯 What it does: Built the WenetSpeech-Pipe data processing pipeline, and used this pipeline to collect and annotate 21,800 hours of Cantonese speech data, generating the WenetSpeech-Yue large-scale corpus, while releasing the WSYue-eval benchmark set covering ASR and TTS evaluations.

What Makes a Good Speech Tokenizer for LLM-Centric Speech Generation? A Systematic Study

Xiaoran Fan (Fudan University), Tao Gui (Fudan University)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningTextAudio

🎯 What it does: Systematically investigates the impact of speech tokenizer design in LLM-centric speech generation on cross-modal alignment and speech quality, and proposes a multi-word prediction (MTP) and speaker-aware generation scheme.

What to Ask Next? Probing the Imaginative Reasoning of LLMs with TurtleSoup Puzzles

Mengtao Zhou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Bang Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

CodeLarge Language ModelTextBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: This study proposes an interactive benchmark called TurtleSoup-Bench centered on turtle soup riddles, and constructs a multi-stage Mosaic-Agent model to evaluate the imaginative reasoning capabilities of large language models in information-scarce environments.

When Eyes and Ears Disagree: Can MLLMs Discern Audio-Visual Confusion?

Qilang Ye (Nankai University), Yu Zhou (Nankai University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningVision Language ModelVideoMultimodalityBenchmarkAudio

🎯 What it does: Proposed the AVConfuseBench audio-visual confusion benchmark and designed the RL-CoMM method to enhance the reasoning and answer accuracy of multi-modal large language models in scenarios where audio is missing or tampered with.

When Genes Speak: A Semantic-Guided Framework for Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Data Clustering

Jiangkai Long (China University of Geosciences), Xuesong Yan (China University of Geosciences)

CodeClassificationGraph Neural NetworkLarge Language ModelBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Propose the SemST framework, integrating the semantic embeddings of gene symbols with spatial graph neural networks to achieve clustering of spatial transcriptomic data.

When Natural Strategies Meet Fuzziness and Resource-Bounded Actions

Marco Aruta (University of Naples Federico II), Aniello Murano (University of Naples Federico II)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityReinforcement LearningTabular

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the HumanATL[F] logic, combining natural strategies with fuzzy semantics and consumable resource constraints to construct interpretable and budget-constrained multi-agent strategies.

When Smiley Turns Hostile: Interpreting How Emojis Trigger LLMs’ Toxicity

Shiyao Cui (Tsinghua University), Minlie Huang (Tsinghua University)

CodeSafty and PrivacyExplainability and InterpretabilityLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: This paper constructs emoji-containing prompts (rewriting AdvBench and adversarial prompts) to systematically evaluate the effectiveness of emojis in triggering toxic generation in LLMs across multi-lingual, multi-model, and multi-attack scenarios.

Where and What Matters: Sensitivity-Aware Task Vectors for Many-Shot Multimodal In-Context Learning

Ziyu Ma (Alibaba Group), Jianfei Cai (Monash University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningMeta LearningTransformerReinforcement LearningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a task vector insertion framework STV based on perceptual sensitivity to achieve multi-sample in-context learning for multimodal large models without increasing context length.

Where Norms and References Collide: Evaluating LLMs on Normative Reasoning

Mitchell Abrams (Tufts University), Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University)

CodeData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a diagnostic test set named SNIC to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in social norm-driven reference resolution; it is programmatically expanded from 51 human-validated scenarios to 9,000 instances, focusing on norms in physical environments (e.g., cleanliness, service, and use of clean items).

WhisperDiari: A Whisper-Based Speaker Diarization Framework in Token Space Leveraging Semantic and Speaker Information for Better Text Adaptability

Yongkang Yin (Peking University), Yuexian Zou (Peking University)

CodeRecognitionTransformerContrastive LearningTextAudio

🎯 What it does: Propose the WhisperDiari framework, achieving simultaneous speaker separation and ASR in the token space, supporting synchronized generation of speaker labels and text.

Whispering Agents: A Event-Driven Covert Communication Protocol for the Internet of Agents

Kaibo Huang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Linna Zhou (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

CodeSafty and PrivacyLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Proposed an event-driven covert communication protocol called Pi-CCAP for the Internet of Agents (IoA), and presented a unified covert event channel model (storage, timing, and behavior dimensions);

Who Is Helping Whom? Analyzing Inter-Dependencies to Evaluate Cooperation in Human-AI Teaming

Upasana Biswas (Arizona State University), Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University)

CodeReinforcement LearningAgentic AI

🎯 What it does: This work proposes a constructive mutual dependency metric to evaluate the collaboration of human-robot teams, and conducts user experiments with SOTA zero-shot cooperative agents in the Overcooked environment.

Who Should I Trust? Explicit Confidence-Focused Multimodal Intent Recognition

Yi Liu (Xinjiang University), Lanlan Lu (Xinjiang University)

CodeRecognitionExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerVideoTextPoint CloudAudio

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an explicit confidence attention-based multimodal intent recognition framework called ECFMIR, which uses CLens to estimate confidence for each modality and cross-modal features and then weight them for fusion.

Why Do Open-Source LLMs Struggle with Data Analysis? A Systematic Empirical Study

Yuqi Zhu (Zhejiang University), Huajun Chen (Zhejiang University)

CodeData SynthesisAI Code AssistantTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringTabularBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: This paper systematically evaluates the three core capabilities of open-source LLMs in data analysis tasks and proposes a data synthesis framework based on moderate-length dialogues, moderately difficult instances, and concise reasoning summaries to significantly enhance the model's analytical reasoning performance.

Wi-CBR: Salient-aware Adaptive WiFi Sensing for Cross-domain Behavior Recognition

Ruobei Zhang (Hefei University Of Technology), Jiabao Guo (Guizhou Normal University)

CodeRecognitionDomain AdaptationConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerContrastive LearningTime Series

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Wi-CBR framework, which fuses WiFi phase and DFS signals through dual-branch self-attention and salience-guided modules to achieve cross-domain behavior recognition.

WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World

Sikuang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Qi Tian (Huawei Inc)

CodeGenerationDiffusion modelMesh

🎯 What it does: Designed the WorldGrow framework to achieve block-level generation and expansion in an unbounded 3D world.

WorldRFT: Latent World Model Planning with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Autonomous Driving

Pengxuan Yang (State Key Laboratory Of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute Of Automation Chinese Academy Of Sciences), Qichao Zhang (Li Auto)

CodeAutonomous DrivingReinforcement LearningWorld ModelImagePoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposes WorldRFT, a planning-oriented potential world model framework that integrates spatial perception encoding, hierarchical planning refinement, and reinforcement learning fine-tuning to enhance the safety and accuracy of end-to-end autonomous driving.

WRitEer: A Multi-Objective, Preference-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Human-Like Advanced Text Generation

Junchuan Yu (Tianjin University), Yuyang Sun (Huazhong Agricultural University)

CodeGenerationOptimizationLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningAgentic AIPrompt EngineeringTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the WRitEer framework, enabling interactive iterative writing through three agents (Reader, Editor, Writer), enhancing text naturalness and emotional expression.

X-MoGen: Unified Motion Generation Across Humans and Animals

Xuan Wang (Zhejiang University), Gaoang Wang (Zhejiang University)

CodeGenerationGraph Neural NetworkTransformerDiffusion modelAuto EncoderMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a unified framework X-MoGen that can generate 3D motion sequences of both humans and animals from natural language text.

X-ReID: Multi-granularity Information Interaction for Video-Based Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

Chenyang Yu, Huchuan Lu (Dalian University Of Technology)

CodeRetrievalTransformerVision Language ModelContrastive LearningVideoMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Study visible-infrared person re-identification in videos, propose the X-ReID framework, and achieve new state-of-the-art results on two public datasets.

X-SAM: From Segment Anything to Any Segmentation

Hao Wang (Sun Yat-sen University), Xiaodan Liang (Sun Yat-sen University)

CodeSegmentationTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose the X-SAM framework, extending the Segment Anything Model into a unified 'from segment anything to any segmentation' model that supports dual queries of text and vision.

X2Edit: Revisiting Arbitrary-Instruction Image Editing Through Self-Constructed Data and Task-Aware Representation Learning

Jian Ma (OPPO AI Center), Haonan Lu (OPPO AI Center)

CodeGenerationTransformerMixture of ExpertsVision Language ModelDiffusion modelContrastive LearningImageMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Constructed the X2Edit dataset, which scales up to 3.7M and covers 14 editing tasks, and developed a lightweight, plug-and-play arbitrary instruction image editing model X2Edit based on FLUX.1.

XLinear: A Lightweight and Accurate MLP-Based Model for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting with Exogenous Inputs

Xinyang Chen (Huazhong Agricultural University), Zaiwen Feng (Huazhong Agricultural University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyTime SeriesBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose a lightweight MLP model called XLinear, which leverages learnable global tokens and time/variable gating mechanisms to integrate endogenous sequences with exogenous drivers for long-term forecasting.

xMHashSeg: Cross-modal Hash Learning for Training-free Unsupervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation

Jialong Zhang, Yanyun Qu (Xiamen University)

CodeSegmentationDepth EstimationDomain AdaptationAutonomous DrivingOptimizationTransformerContrastive LearningImageMultimodalityPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose a training-free cross-modal LiDAR semantic segmentation framework named xMHashSeg, which leverages a base model and non-parametric network to extract features from 2D images, depth maps, and 3D point clouds, and achieves unlabeled, no-additional-training point cloud semantic segmentation through hash learning for cross-modal feature fusion.

You Don’t Need Pre-Built Graphs for RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation with Adaptive Reasoning Structures

Shengyuan Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Xiao Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

CodeRetrievalComputational EfficiencyTransformerTextGraphRetrieval-Augmented GenerationChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Proposes the LogicRAG framework, which dynamically constructs a query-dependent directed acyclic graph (DAG) during inference and performs adaptive retrieval, eliminating the need for pre-built graphs.

Your AI-Generated Image Detector Can Secretly Achieve SOTA Accuracy, If Calibrated

Muli Yang (Institute for Infocomm Research), Hongyuan Zhu (Institute for Infocomm Research)

CodeClassificationDomain AdaptationAnomaly DetectionImageBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper investigates the issue of false image misjudgment caused by distribution drift in AI-generated image detection, proposing a post-scalar calibration method to dynamically adjust the decision threshold and restore detection capabilities for new generative models.

Zero-Reference Joint Low-Light Enhancement and Deblurring via Visual Autoregressive Modeling with VLM-Derived Modulation

Wei Dong (McMaster University), Jun Chen (McMaster University)

CodeRestorationVision Language ModelImage

🎯 What it does: Proposed a fully unsupervised generative framework called VAR-LIDE, which combines a visual autoregressive model with a visual language model (VLM) prior to achieve joint recovery of low-light enhancement and deblurring.

Zero-shot Implicit Neural Manifold Representation (INMR) for Ultra-high Temporal Resolution Dynamic MRI

Jie Feng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Hongjiang Wei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeRestorationBiomedical DataMagnetic Resonance Imaging

🎯 What it does: Proposed a zero-shot unsupervised implicit neural manifold representation (INMR) to achieve dynamic MRI reconstruction with extremely high spatiotemporal resolution.

Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Human Motion Grounding with Test-Time Training

Yunjiao Zhou (Nanyang Technological University), Jianfei Yang (Nanyang Technological University)

CodeSegmentationRetrievalLarge Language ModelVision-Language-Action ModelVideoText

🎯 What it does: Propose a zero-shot, annotation-free open-vocabulary human action segmentation framework called ZOMG, which leverages a large language model to split text sub-actions and achieves instance-level temporal segmentation on a pre-trained encoder through soft mask optimization.

Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation via 3D Gaussian Splatting-Enhanced Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zilong Xie (East China Normal University), Yuan Xie (East China Normal University)

CodeRetrievalRobotic IntelligenceTransformerVision-Language-Action ModelGaussian SplattingImageVideoTextMultimodalityRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Propose a zero-shot robotic manipulation framework RobMRAG based on multi-modal retrieval-augmented generation (MRAG), which leverages multi-source knowledge bases for retrieval and achieves precise pose alignment through 3D Gaussian Splatting.

Zero-to-Hero: Empowering Video Appearance Transfer with Zero-Shot Initialization and Holistic Restoration

Tongtong Su (Zhejiang University), Dongming Lu (Alibaba Cloud Computing)

CodeImage TranslationRestorationGenerationTransformerDiffusion modelImageVideo

🎯 What it does: Propose a two-stage reference-based video appearance editing framework called Zero-to-Hero: first, edit the anchor frame into a reference image using a zero-shot approach, then propagate the appearance consistently to all frames, and in the second stage, use a conditional generation model to restore distortions caused by the zero-shot propagation.

ZipLJP: Zipped Information Processor for Legal Judgment Prediction

Fanghao Lou (Nankai University), Huijia Li (Nankai University)

CodeClassificationTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningTextRetrieval-Augmented GenerationChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose a legal knowledge-based text compression method called ZipLJP for legal judgment prediction on LLMs.

Zooming In on Fakes: A Novel Dataset for Localized AI-Generated Image Detection with Forgery Amplification Approach

Lvpan Cai (Xiamen University), Xiaoshuai Sun (Tencent)

CodeSegmentationGenerationData SynthesisAnomaly DetectionTransformerPrompt EngineeringDiffusion modelGenerative Adversarial NetworkContrastive LearningImageMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed a large-scale local forgery image dataset named BR-Gen, and designed a noise-guided amplification attention visual Transformer named NFA-ViT for detecting and locating fine-grained forgeries.

Ξ”t-Mamba3D: A Time‑Aware Spatio‑Temporal State‑Space Model for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction

Zhengbo Zhou (University of Pittsburgh), Shandong Wu (University of Pittsburgh)

CodeClassificationConvolutional Neural NetworkImageTime SeriesSequential

🎯 What it does: Propose the Time-Aware βˆ†t-Mamba3D model for long-term breast cancer risk prediction using multi-timepoint breast X-ray images.