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FastVID: Dynamic Density Pruning for Fast Video Large Language Models

Leqi Shen (Tsinghua University), Guiguang Ding (Tsinghua University)

CodeCompressionComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelVideoBenchmark

🎯 What it does: A fast video large language model (FastVID) framework based on dynamic density pruning is proposed, focusing on spatiotemporal redundancy compression during the inference phase, significantly improving the inference speed of video LLMs and reducing computational costs.

Feasibility-Aware Decision-Focused Learning for Predicting Parameters in the Constraints

Jayanta Mandi (KU Leuven), Tias Guns (KU Leuven)

CodeOptimizationTabularOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: The ODECE framework is proposed, which utilizes decision-focused learning to simultaneously predict constraint parameters in prediction-optimization problems, balancing feasibility and suboptimality through adjustable weights.

FEAT: Free energy Estimators with Adaptive Transport

Yuanqi Du (Cornell University), Eric Vanden-Eijnden (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)

CodeOptimizationComputational EfficiencyReinforcement LearningTabularPhysics Related

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the FEAT framework to estimate free energy differences through learning adaptive transport, utilizing the non-equilibrium Jarzynski equality and Crooks theorem.

Federated Dialogue-Semantic Diffusion for Emotion Recognition under Incomplete Modalities

Xihang Qiu (Shenzhen MSU-BIT University), Chun Li (Shenzhen MSU-BIT University)

CodeRecognitionFederated LearningGraph Neural NetworkDiffusion modelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: The FedDISC framework is proposed, which combines federated learning with diffusion model-based modality recovery techniques to address the issue of missing modalities in multimodal emotion recognition.

FedFACT: A Provable Framework for Controllable Group-Fairness Calibration in Federated Learning

Li Zhang (Zhejiang University), Chaochao Chen (Hangzhou Dianzi University)

CodeOptimizationFederated LearningTabular

🎯 What it does: The FedFACT framework is proposed to achieve a controllable balance between global and local group fairness in federated learning.

FedGPS: Statistical Rectification Against Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning

Zhiqin Yang (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Yixuan Yuan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

CodeFederated LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkGaussian SplattingImage

🎯 What it does: This paper conducts large-scale experiments on various heterogeneous scenarios of federated learning, finding that existing methods lack robustness, and proposes the FedGPS framework, which integrates collaborative corrections of statistical distribution layers and gradient layers to enhance model performance.

FedIGL: Federated Invariant Graph Learning for Non-IID Graphs

Lingren Wang (Hainan University), Jingxin Liu (Hainan University)

CodeFederated LearningGraph Neural NetworkReinforcement LearningGraph

🎯 What it does: Proposes the FedIGL framework, which identifies and separates irrelevant subgraphs shared by clients and client-specific subgraphs through invariant learning methods in federated graph learning, enhancing graph classification and clustering performance.

FedMGP: Personalized Federated Learning with Multi-Group Text-Visual Prompts

Weihao Bo (Nanjing University of Science and Technology), Zechao Li (Baidu VIS)

CodeFederated LearningSafty and PrivacyPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelImageMultimodality

🎯 What it does: In the context of federated learning, a personalized adaptation method for visual-text models called FedMGP is proposed, which achieves the dual goals of local personalization and global generalization while maintaining privacy.

FedQS: Optimizing Gradient and Model Aggregation for Semi-Asynchronous Federated Learning

Yunbo Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Yue Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeOptimizationFederated LearningTabular

🎯 What it does: Proposes the FedQS framework, which simultaneously optimizes gradient aggregation and model aggregation in semi-asynchronous federated learning (SAFL).

FedRAM: Federated Reweighting and Aggregation for Multi-Task Learning

Fan Wu (Nanyang Technological University), Wei Yang Bryan Lim (Nanyang Technological University)

CodeFederated LearningComputational EfficiencyTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: The FedRAM framework is proposed in federated multi-task learning, achieving task and client weighted adaptation through a three-step training process (reference model, proxy model, proxy model), enhancing both local and global performance.

FedRTS: Federated Robust Pruning via Combinatorial Thompson Sampling

Hong Huang (City University of Hong Kong), Dapeng Wu (City University of Hong Kong)

CodeFederated LearningImageText

🎯 What it does: A robust pruning framework FedRTS based on combinatorial Thompson sampling is proposed in federated learning, which achieves adaptive adjustment of sparse network topology through the TSAdj module;

FedSVD: Adaptive Orthogonalization for Private Federated Learning with LoRA

Seanie Lee (KAIST), Sung Ju Hwang (KAIST)

CodeOptimizationFederated LearningSafty and PrivacyTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: LoRA is introduced for pre-trained language models in federated learning, and the FedSVD method is designed to reparameterize B·A through singular value decomposition (SVD) after each round of aggregation, thereby avoiding the amplification of DP-SGD noise in matrix multiplication while allowing the A matrix to adapt over time.

FedWMSAM: Fast and Flat Federated Learning via Weighted Momentum and Sharpness-Aware Minimization

Tianle Li (Shenzhen University), Kaishun Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CodeOptimizationFederated LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes FedWMSAM, a federated learning framework that combines weighted momentum with Sharpness-Aware Minimization, aimed at addressing two major issues: local-global curvature mismatch and momentum echo oscillation in non-IID environments.

FEEDBACK FRICTION: LLMs Struggle to Fully Incorporate External Feedback

Dongwei Jiang (Johns Hopkins University), Daniel Khashabi (Johns Hopkins University)

CodeReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: This paper systematically evaluates the limits of self-improvement of large models after receiving high-quality external feedback within a controlled experimental framework, and finds that even with nearly perfect feedback, the model still experiences 'feedback friction', making it difficult to fully absorb the feedback.

Feedback Guidance of Diffusion Models

Felix Koulischer (Ghent University), Luca Ambrogioni (Radboud University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisDiffusion modelImageText

🎯 What it does: A dynamic guidance mechanism based on state feedback (FeedBack Guidance, FBG) is proposed, which adaptively adjusts the guidance scale during the inference process of the diffusion model based on the posterior estimation of the current trajectory, thereby improving sample quality while maintaining diversity.

FerretNet: Efficient Synthetic Image Detection via Local Pixel Dependencies

Shuqiao Liang (Jinan University), Quanlong Guan (Jinan University)

CodeClassificationAnomaly DetectionConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: This paper presents FerretNet, a lightweight synthetic image detection model that utilizes local pixel dependency (LPD) features to identify texture and edge anomalies in generative models.

Few-Shot Knowledge Distillation of LLMs With Counterfactual Explanations

Faisal Hamman (University of Maryland), Sanghamitra Dutta (University of Maryland)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityKnowledge DistillationTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: A few-shot task-aware knowledge distillation framework COD is proposed, which expands the training set by generating and utilizing minimally perturbed counterfactual explanations (CFE) for the teacher model, thereby helping the student model to more accurately approach the decision boundary of the teacher.

Few-Shot Learning from Gigapixel Images via Hierarchical Vision-Language Alignment and Modeling

Bryan Wong (KAIST), Mun Yong Yi (KAIST)

CodeClassificationGraph Neural NetworkPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelImageMultimodalityBiomedical DataMagnetic Resonance Imaging

🎯 What it does: A hierarchical audiovisual multimodal multiple instance learning framework HiVE-MIL is proposed for few-shot whole slide image classification.

FIGRDock: Fast Interaction-Guided Regression for Flexible Docking

Shikun Feng (Tsinghua University), Yanyan Lan (Tsinghua University)

CodeDrug DiscoveryProtein Structure PredictionTabular

🎯 What it does: This paper presents FIGRDock, an interactive-guided regression-based flexible docking framework;

Filter Like You Test: Data-Driven Data Filtering for CLIP Pretraining

Mikey Shechter (Tel Aviv University), Yair Carmon (Tel Aviv University)

CodeData-Centric LearningContrastive LearningImageText

🎯 What it does: The FLYT algorithm is proposed, which evaluates the value of CLIP pre-training data by training a scoring model and utilizing downstream task gradients; M-FLYT is implemented to mix various scoring methods into a learnable linear model; a Soft Cap Sampling (SCS) strategy is designed to reduce the repetition of high-scoring samples and generate a high-quality filtered dataset.

Final-Model-Only Data Attribution with a Unifying View of Gradient-Based Methods

Dennis Wei (IBM Research), Maria Chang (IBM Research)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityData-Centric LearningImageTextTabular

🎯 What it does: For scenarios where only the final model is available, a FiMO setting for training data attribution is proposed, which is reconstructed as a measurement of the model's sensitivity to training instances.

Finding and Reactivating Post-Trained LLMs' Hidden Safety Mechanisms

Mingjie Li (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Yisen Wang (Peking University)

CodeOptimizationSafty and PrivacyRepresentation LearningAdversarial AttackTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningTextFinance Related

🎯 What it does: This paper investigates the reasons for the decline in safety performance of post-trained LLMs (especially large inference models) and proposes a lightweight method called SafeReAct to reactivate hidden safety mechanisms, thereby enhancing the model's safety under harmful prompts without significantly reducing its performance on specialized tasks.

Fine-grained List-wise Alignment for Generative Medication Recommendation

Chenxiao Fan (University of Science and Technology of China), Fuli Feng (University of Science and Technology of China)

CodeRecommendation SystemDrug DiscoveryTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningBiomedical DataElectronic Health Records

🎯 What it does: A fine-grained list-based drug recommendation framework FLAME is constructed based on large language models, achieving safer and more accurate prescription generation through drug-by-drug decision-making and the integration of multi-source medical knowledge.

Fine-Tuning Discrete Diffusion Models with Policy Gradient Methods

Oussama Zekri (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Nicolas Boulle

CodeGenerationOptimizationReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackReinforcement LearningDiffusion modelTextSequentialBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: This paper studies a fine-tuning method for discrete diffusion models, utilizing policy gradients from reinforcement learning to directly optimize non-differentiable rewards.

Finite Sample Analysis of Linear Temporal Difference Learning with Arbitrary Features

Zixuan Xie (University of Virginia), Shangtong Zhang (University of Virginia)

CodeReinforcement Learning

🎯 What it does: A finite sample convergence rate analysis of linear TD(λ) under arbitrary features is proposed, providing the convergence speed in L2 norm;

Fira: Can We Achieve Full-rank Training of LLMs Under Low-rank Constraint?

Xi Chen (Beijing Institute of Technology), Guoren Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: The Fira framework is proposed, achieving full-rank training while maintaining low-rank constraints.

First SFT, Second RL, Third UPT: Continual Improving Multi-Modal LLM Reasoning via Unsupervised Post-Training

Lai Wei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Lichao Sun (Lehigh University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an MM-UPT framework that achieves unsupervised post-training of multimodal large language models, enhancing reasoning capabilities through a self-reward mechanism based on majority voting within the GRPO algorithm.

Flash Invariant Point Attention

Andrew Liu (Flagship Pioneering), Olivia Viessmann (Flagship Pioneering)

CodeProtein Structure PredictionTransformerReinforcement LearningGraphBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Improved IPA by rewriting it into a linear attention form compatible with FlashAttention, achieving linear memory and time complexity on GPUs, supporting structural modeling of thousands of residues.

FlashBias: Fast Computation of Attention with Bias

Haixu Wu (Tsinghua University), Mingsheng Long (Tsinghua University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyProtein Structure PredictionTransformerLarge Language ModelImageText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes FlashBias, an efficient computation method for the attention plus bias module using low-rank decomposition.

FlashMoE: Fast Distributed MoE in a Single Kernel

Osayamen Jonathan Aimuyo (Cornell University), Rachee Singh (Cornell University)

CodeOptimizationComputational EfficiencyTransformerMixture of Experts

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes FlashMoE, a method that fully integrates distributed Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) operations into a single persistent GPU kernel, addressing the low utilization and high latency issues caused by CPU scheduling, synchronous AlltoAll communication, and frequent kernel launches in traditional implementations.

Flat Channels to Infinity in Neural Loss Landscapes

Flavio Martinelli (Γ‰cole Polytechnique FΓ©dΓ©rale de Lausanne), Johanni Brea (Γ‰cole Polytechnique FΓ©dΓ©rale de Lausanne)

CodeOptimizationTabularOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: This paper systematically studies the loss landscape of neural networks and identifies and describes a special structure called 'channels to infinity', which is formed by at least two neurons whose output weights tend to infinity while their input weights approach equality.

Flatness is Necessary, Neural Collapse is Not: Rethinking Generalization via Grokking

Ting Han (Lamarr Institute), Michael Kamp (Lamarr Institute)

CodeClassificationTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningImageText

🎯 What it does: This paper utilizes the grooksing training framework to separate the memory phase and the generalization phase of the network, systematically evaluating the occurrence timing and impact of neural collapse (NC) and the relative flatness (RF) of the loss landscape across different models.

Flatten Graphs as Sequences: Transformers are Scalable Graph Generators

Dexiong Chen (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry), Karsten Borgwardt (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisDrug DiscoveryTransformerLarge Language ModelPoint CloudGraphSequential

🎯 What it does: This paper presents AUTOGRAPH, a Transformer-based autoregressive graph generation framework that transforms graphs into sequences through a reversible Segmented Eulerian Neighborhood Trail (SENT), allowing for direct graph generation using large language models.

FlexAC: Towards Flexible Control of Associative Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

Shengming Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Lianli Gao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

CodeLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes FlexAC, a method for controlling the intensity of multimodal large language model associative reasoning that is training-free and lightweight.

Flexible MOF Generation with Torsion-Aware Flow Matching

Nayoung Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Sungsoo Ahn (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisOptimizationTransformerFlow-based ModelGraph

🎯 What it does: A two-stage MOF generation framework called MOFFLOW-2 is proposed, which first generates metal clusters and organic ligands using SMILES, and then predicts their 3D structures (translation, rotation, torsion angles, and lattice parameters) through a flow matching model.

Flexible Realignment of Language Models

Wenhong Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Rui Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyKnowledge DistillationReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningText

🎯 What it does: A flexible alignment framework is proposed, which includes training-time alignment (TrRa) and inference-time alignment (InRa), achieving efficient and controllable alignment for large language models.

FlexWorld: Progressively Expanding 3D Scenes for Flexible-View Exploration

Luxi Chen (Renmin University of China), Chongxuan Li (Renmin University of China)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisDepth EstimationOptimizationDiffusion modelGaussian SplattingImageVideo

🎯 What it does: Achieving the generation of 3D scenes with flexible viewpoints through the gradual expansion and optimization of 3D Gaussian splatting based on a single image, utilizing a video-to-video diffusion model (V2V) to complete new viewpoint synthesis and geometrically integrate the generated content into the scene;

Flick: Empowering Federated Learning with Commonsense Knowledge

Ran Zhu (Delft University of Technology), Qing Wang (Delft University of Technology)

CodeData SynthesisFederated LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelDiffusion modelImageText

🎯 What it does: The Flick framework is designed and implemented, which generates synthetic data by combining server-side common knowledge from large language models (LLMs) with low-sensitivity cross-client local summaries to alleviate data heterogeneity (label imbalance and domain shift) in federated learning.

Flow based approach for Dynamic Temporal Causal models with non-Gaussian or Heteroscedastic Noises

Abdellah Rahmani (Ecole Polytechnique FΓ©dΓ©rale de Lausanne), Pascal Frossard (Ecole Polytechnique FΓ©dΓ©rale de Lausanne)

CodeGraph Neural NetworkFlow-based ModelTime SeriesSequential

🎯 What it does: Proposes the FANTOM framework, which jointly infers multi-interval causal graphs and interval boundaries under multi-period non-Gaussian or heteroscedastic noise.

Flow Equivariant Recurrent Neural Networks

T. Anderson Keller (Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence Harvard University)

CodeRecurrent Neural NetworkFlow-based ModelSequential

🎯 What it does: A flow equivariant recurrent neural network (FERNN) is proposed, enabling sequence models to maintain equivariance to time-parameterized symmetric transformations.

Flow Matching Neural Processes

Hussen Abu Hamad (University of Haifa), Dan Rosenbaum (University of Haifa)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerFlow-based ModelImageTime SeriesOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: A neural process model based on flow matching (FlowNP) is proposed, which can directly generate or estimate the conditional distribution of any target point given context points;

Flow Matching-Based Autonomous Driving Planning with Advanced Interactive Behavior Modeling

Tianyi Tan (Institute for AI Industry Research), Jingjing Liu (Institute for AI Industry Research)

CodeAutonomous DrivingTransformerFlow-based ModelMultimodalityOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: A flow matching-based autonomous driving planning framework called Flow Planner is proposed, focusing on interactive behavior modeling.

Flow-GRPO: Training Flow Matching Models via Online RL

Jie Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Wanli Ouyang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

CodeGenerationReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackReinforcement LearningFlow-based ModelImageTextStochastic Differential EquationOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: The Flow-GRPO method is proposed, integrating online policy gradient reinforcement learning into the flow matching model to enhance performance in text-to-image tasks.

FlowCut: Rethinking Redundancy via Information Flow for Efficient Vision-Language Models

Jintao Tong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Ruixuan Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

CodeOptimizationComputational EfficiencyTransformerVision Language ModelImageVideoMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposes the FlowCut framework, which cuts visual tokens of LVLM from the perspective of information flow, significantly reducing computational and memory burdens.

FlowDAS: A Stochastic Interpolant-based Framework for Data Assimilation

Siyi Chen (University of Michigan), Jeffrey A Fessler

CodeGenerationData SynthesisOptimizationTime SeriesPhysics RelatedStochastic Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: A generative data assimilation framework based on stochastic interpolation, FlowDAS, is proposed for estimating the state of PDE control systems under noise and sparse observations.

FlowFeat: Pixel-Dense Embedding of Motion Profiles

Nikita Araslanov (Technical University of Munich), Daniel Cremers (Technical University of Munich)

CodeSegmentationDepth EstimationOptical FlowVideo

🎯 What it does: A pixel-level high-resolution feature representation called FlowFeat is trained using optical flow and video data through a self-supervised approach.

FLOWING: Implicit Neural Flows for Structure-Preserving Morphing

Arthur Bizzi (University of Buenos Aires), Tiago Novello (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco)

CodeImage TranslationGenerationFlow-based ModelGaussian SplattingImagePoint CloudOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: We propose FLOWINGβ€”a morphology transformation framework based on flow-based implicit neural representations (INR), which utilizes reversible flow models (NODE and NCF) to achieve structure-preserving, continuous, and reversible deformations between 2D images and 3D Gaussian splatting.

FlowMoE: A Scalable Pipeline Scheduling Framework for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training

Yunqi Gao (Zhejiang University), Merouane Abdelkader DEBBAH

CodeOptimizationComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelMixture of ExpertsText

🎯 What it does: FlowMoE is proposed, a scalable pipeline scheduling framework for distributed Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training; it unifies the scheduling of multiple types of tasks (MHA computation, gating, expert computation, A2A communication), and overlaps tensor block priority scheduling with all-reduce communication, while using Bayesian optimization to automatically tune block sizes.

FlowRefiner: A Robust Traffic Classification Framework against Label Noise

Mingwei Zhan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Ke Xu (Tsinghua University)

CodeClassificationAnomaly DetectionAuto EncoderTime Series

🎯 What it does: Proposes the FLOWREFINER framework for classifying network traffic in label noise environments.

FlyLoRA: Boosting Task Decoupling and Parameter Efficiency via Implicit Rank-Wise Mixture-of-Experts

Heming Zou (Tsinghua University), Xiangyang Ji (Tsinghua University)

CodeLarge Language ModelMixture of ExpertsText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes FlyLoRA, an implicit MoE LoRA variant inspired by the olfactory circuits of moths, which uses frozen sparse random projections as built-in routers to achieve more efficient parameter tuning and multi-task integration.

FNOPE: Simulation-based inference on function spaces with Fourier Neural Operators

Guy Moss (University of TΓΌbingen), Cornelius SchrΓΆder (University of TΓΌbingen)

CodeFlow-based ModelTime Series

🎯 What it does: A simulation inference method based on the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) called FNOPE is proposed for inferring the posterior distribution of function value parameters.

Focus-Then-Reuse: Fast Adaptation in Visual Perturbation Environments

Jiahui Wang (Nanjing University), Yang Yu (Nanjing University)

CodeDomain AdaptationRobotic IntelligenceReinforcement LearningVision Language ModelVideo

🎯 What it does: The Focus-Then-Reuse (FTR) method is proposed, which utilizes object-level filters to quickly deploy existing visual reinforcement learning strategies in visually disturbed environments.

Follow the Energy, Find the Path: Riemannian Metrics from Energy-Based Models

Louis BΓ©thune, Victor Boutin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisAuto EncoderImage

🎯 What it does: A method is proposed to directly derive Riemannian metrics from pre-trained energy-based models (EBMs) to calculate the shortest paths between data points in high-dimensional space.

For Better or for Worse, Transformers Seek Patterns for Memorization

Madhur Panwar (Γ‰cole Polytechnique FΓ©dΓ©rale de Lausanne), Antoine Bosselut (Γ‰cole Polytechnique FΓ©dΓ©rale de Lausanne)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: This study investigates how memorization occurs during the training process of Transformer language models by tracking the dynamics of memorization across different datasets and model sizes.

ForceFM: Enhancing Protein-Ligand Predictions through Force-Guided Flow Matching

Huanlei Guo (Southern University of Science and Technology), Bingyi Jing (Southern University of Science and Technology)

CodeDrug DiscoveryFlow-based ModelBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: A molecular docking model based on force-guided flow matching, ForceFM, is proposed, which can use physical energy functions as a force field guide during the generation process to produce low-energy, physically reasonable ligand conformations.

Foresight: Adaptive Layer Reuse for Accelerated and High-Quality Text-to-Video Generation

Muhammad Adnan (University of British Columbia), Prashant J. Nair (University of British Columbia)

CodeGenerationComputational EfficiencyTransformerDiffusion modelVideoText

🎯 What it does: A training-independent adaptive layer reuse method called Foresight is proposed for the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) model in text-to-video generation, which dynamically decides whether to reuse the outputs of each layer during inference to reduce redundant computations and accelerate generation.

ForgerySleuth: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models for Image Manipulation Detection

Zhihao Sun (Fudan University), Yu-Gang Jiang (Fudan University)

CodeSegmentationAnomaly DetectionTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningVision Language ModelImageMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposes the ForgerySleuth framework, utilizing multimodal large language models and low-level trace encoders to achieve image tampering detection and interpretation.

Forging Time Series with Language: A Large Language Model Approach to Synthetic Data Generation

CΓ©cile Rousseau (IBM Research Europe), Juan Bernabe Moreno (IBM Research Europe)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningTabularTime SeriesFinance Related

🎯 What it does: The SDForger framework is proposed, utilizing large language models to generate high-quality multivariate time series in low-sample environments.

FORLA: Federated Object-centric Representation Learning with Slot Attention

Guiqiu Liao (University of Pennsylvania), Daniel A Hashimoto

CodeFederated LearningRepresentation LearningContrastive LearningImageBiomedical DataMagnetic Resonance Imaging

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the FORLA framework, which utilizes lightweight feature adapters and Slot Attention in federated learning to achieve unsupervised object-level representation learning, avoiding the drawbacks of data sharing and model sharing.

Fourier Analysis Network

Yihong Dong (Peking University), Jingjing Xu (ByteDance)

CodeTextTime Series

🎯 What it does: A new neural network called FAN (Fourier Analysis Networks) is proposed to address the shortcomings of existing neural networks in modeling and reasoning about periodic phenomena.

Fourier Token Merging: Understanding and Capitalizing Frequency Domain for Efficient Image Generation

Jiesong Liu (North Carolina State University), Xipeng Shen (North Carolina State University)

CodeGenerationComputational EfficiencyDiffusion modelImage

🎯 What it does: A Token aggregation method based on Fourier transform is proposed to accelerate the generation process of diffusion models.

FP4 All the Way: Fully Quantized Training of Large Language Models

Brian Chmiel (Nvidia), Daniel Soudry (Intel)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningText

🎯 What it does: Achieved full precision FP4 training of large language models for the first time, covering weights, activations, and gradients;

FP64 is All You Need: Rethinking Failure Modes in Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Chenhui Xu (University at Buffalo), Jinjun Xiong (University at Buffalo)

CodeOptimizationComputational EfficiencyPhysics Related

🎯 What it does: This study investigates the 'failure modes' of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN) under low precision (FP32) training, addressing the issue by increasing the arithmetic precision to double precision (FP64) and proposing the Same-Basin hypothesis, which contradicts the traditional 'loss barrier' assumption.

FracFace: Breaking The Visual Cluesβ€”Fractal-Based Privacy-Preserving Face Recognition

Wanying Dai (Sichuan University), Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore)

CodeRecognitionSafty and PrivacyImage

🎯 What it does: A fractal-based frequency domain privacy-preserving face recognition framework, FracFace, is proposed, which can suppress reconstructable information while ensuring recognition accuracy.

Fractional Diffusion Bridge Models

Gabriel Nobis (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute), Wojciech Samek (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute)

CodeImage TranslationProtein Structure PredictionTransformerDiffusion modelImageBiomedical DataStochastic Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: Proposes Fractional Diffusion Bridge Models (FDBM), which approximates fractional Brownian motion (fBM) as a Markov process MA-fBM to generate noise for bridge creation, enabling diffusion bridge learning for paired and unpaired data.

Fractional Langevin Dynamics for Combinatorial Optimization via Polynomial-Time Escape

Shiyue Wang (East China Normal University), Junchi Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeOptimizationReinforcement LearningGraphStochastic Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: A combination optimization method based on Fractional Lagrangian Dynamics (FLD) is proposed and implemented within a sampling and data-driven framework to address the issue of traditional LD struggling to escape narrow local optima.

FRAM: Frobenius-Regularized Assignment Matching with Mixed-Precision Computing

Binrui Shen (Beijing Normal University), Shengxin Zhu (Beijing Normal University)

CodeOptimizationImageGraph

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a graph matching framework called FRAM based on Frobenius regularization linear assignment (FRA), which solves the quadratic assignment problem through continuous relaxation and controls the relaxation error with adjustable parameters.

FrameShield: Adversarially Robust Video Anomaly Detection

Mojtaba Nafez (Sharif University of Technology), Mohammad Hossein Rohban (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

CodeAnomaly DetectionGenerative Adversarial NetworkVideo

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes FrameShield, which addresses the adversarial robustness of weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) by employing frame-by-frame adversarial training with pseudo-labels and pseudo-anomaly generation, significantly enhancing the model's detection performance under attacks.

FRBNet: Revisiting Low-Light Vision through Frequency-Domain Radial Basis Network

Fangtong Sun (National University of Defense Technology), Yiying Li (National University of Defense Technology)

CodeObject DetectionSegmentationImage

🎯 What it does: A frequency domain-based plugin module FRBNet is proposed for feature enhancement in low-light vision tasks.

FrΓ©chet Geodesic Boosting

Yidong Zhou (University of California), Hans-Georg MΓΌller (University of California)

CodeTabular

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes Fréchet geodesic boosting (FGBoost), a regression framework for gradient boosting that can operate in any uniquely defined geodesic space.

FreqExit: Enabling Early-Exit Inference for Visual Autoregressive Models via Frequency-Aware Guidance

Ying Li (Westlake University), Huan Wang (Westlake University)

CodeGenerationComputational EfficiencyKnowledge DistillationImage

🎯 What it does: The FreqExit framework is proposed to achieve early exit inference for visual autoregressive models.

FreqPolicy: Frequency Autoregressive Visuomotor Policy with Continuous Tokens

Yiming Zhong (ShanghaiTech University), Yuexin Ma (ShanghaiTech University)

CodeRobotic IntelligenceReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackReinforcement LearningDiffusion modelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: The FreqPolicy proposes a frequency-domain visual-motor strategy that utilizes hierarchical frequency domain modeling and continuous tokens to achieve coarse-to-fine action generation.

Frequency-Aware Token Reduction for Efficient Vision Transformer

Dong-Jae Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Junmo Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

CodeComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: A frequency-aware Token reduction method is proposed to reduce the computational complexity of self-attention in Vision Transformers while avoiding rank collapse issues caused by excessive smoothing.

FRN: Fractal-Based Recursive Spectral Reconstruction Network

Ge Meng (Xiamen University), Xinghao Ding (Xiamen University)

CodeRestorationGenerationSuper ResolutionConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: A spectral reconstruction network based on fractal recursion (FRN) is proposed, which can recursively generate hyperspectral images from broadband to narrowband step by step.

From Bytes to Ideas: Language Modeling with Autoregressive U-Nets

Mathurin VIDEAU, David Lopez-Paz (Meta AI)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Proposes a self-regressive U-Net architecture that directly processes raw bytes and dynamically aggregates them at multiple levels to form word-level and multi-word-level embeddings, eliminating traditional fixed tokenizers and large-scale embedding tables;

From Counterfactuals to Trees: Competitive Analysis of Model Extraction Attacks

Awa Khouna (Polytechnique Montreal), Thibaut Vidal (Polytechnique Montreal)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityAdversarial AttackTabular

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a functional equivalence extraction attack (TRA) for decision trees and tree ensemble models using local optimal counterfactual explanations, and provides a theoretical analysis of its query complexity and competitive ratio.

From Cradle to Cane: A Two-Pass Framework for High-Fidelity Lifespan Face Aging

Tao Liu (Nankai University), Yaxing Wang (Nankai University)

CodeImage TranslationGenerationDiffusion modelGenerative Adversarial NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: A two-stage facial age transformation framework called Cradle2Cane is proposed, utilizing a few-step text-image diffusion model to achieve high-fidelity facial aging across the entire life cycle.

From Dormant to Deleted: Tamper-Resistant Unlearning Through Weight-Space Regularization

Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui (University of Cambridge), Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind)

CodeClassificationData-Centric LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: This study investigates the anti-tampering capability of machine unlearning in visual classification models, finding that existing methods can restore the performance of forgotten samples by fine-tuning only on the retained set after refinement, and proposes a new unlearning method based on weight space regularization.

From Euler to AI: Unifying Formulas for Mathematical Constants

Tomer Raz (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Ido Kaminer (Technion Israel Institute of Technology)

CodeOptimizationTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextPhysics Related

🎯 What it does: A complete automation framework has been developed to extract, verify, and unify infinite series, continued fractions, and other formulas of Ο€ and other constants using large language models, constructing a unified Conservative Matrix Field (CMF) structure, and proving the equivalence of formulas through the UMAPS algorithm.

From Forecasting to Planning: Policy World Model for Collaborative State-Action Prediction

Zhida Zhao (Dalian University of Technology), Huchuan Lu (Dalian University of Technology)

CodeAutonomous DrivingOptimizationTransformerGenerative Adversarial NetworkWorld ModelVideoMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the Policy World Model (PWM), a unified driving world model that can perform action-independent video prediction of future states and directly plan trajectories based on the predicted future states.

From Indicators to Insights: Diversity-Optimized for Medical Series-Text Decoding via LLMs

Xiyuan Jin (Beijing Jiaotong University), Youfang Lin (Beijing Jiaotong University)

CodeClassificationRecognitionOptimizationTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextTime SeriesBiomedical DataElectrocardiogram

🎯 What it does: A multimodal text and time series joint decoding framework based on clinical decision indicators, InDiGO, is proposed, utilizing LLM for efficient analysis of medical time series.

From Pixels to Views: Learning Angular-Aware and Physics-Consistent Representations for Light Field Microscopy

Feng He (University of Science and Technology of China), Quan Wen (University of Science and Technology of China)

CodeRestorationRepresentation LearningTransformerImageBiomedical DataBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes XLFM-Former, a 3D reconstruction framework for light field microscopy based on Swin Transformer;

From Pose to Muscle: Multimodal Learning for Piano Hand Muscle Electromyography

RUOFAN LIU, Hideki Koike (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

CodeRecognitionPose EstimationTransformerContrastive LearningMultimodalityBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: This paper presents PianoKPM Netβ€”a multimodal network that infers hand electromyography (EMG) from hand posture and piano key strike actions, and releases the largest professional pianist EMG dataset, the PianoKPM Dataset.

From Sequence to Structure: Uncovering Substructure Reasoning in Transformers

Xinnan Dai (Michigan State University), Jiliang Tang (Michigan State University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextGraph

🎯 What it does: This paper studies how to enable a decoder-only Transformer to extract substructures in a graph structure through text sequences, and proposes the Induced Substructure Filtration (ISF) to explain the mechanism of hierarchical identification of substructures.

From Softmax to Score: Transformers Can Effectively Implement In-Context Denoising Steps

Paul Rosu (Duke University), Xiang Cheng (Duke University)

CodeRestorationOptimizationComputational EfficiencyTransformerDiffusion modelScore-based ModelImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes that the Transformer can implement various denoising algorithms during forward inference, including manifold-based Laplacian denoising, precise score-based diffusion denoising, and learnable anisotropic diffusion;

FSEO: Few-Shot Evolutionary Optimization via Meta-Learning for Expensive Multi-Objective Optimization

Xunzhao Yu (University of Warwick)

CodeOptimizationMeta LearningNeural Architecture SearchTransformerReinforcement LearningAuto EncoderTabular

🎯 What it does: A few-shot evolutionary optimization framework (FSEO) is proposed, combining meta-learning deep kernel Gaussian processes (MDKL) as a regression surrogate to address expensive multi-objective optimization problems with a limited number of samples.

FSNet: Feasibility-Seeking Neural Network for Constrained Optimization with Guarantees

Hoang T. Nguyen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Priya L. Donti (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

CodeOptimization

🎯 What it does: The FSNet framework is proposed, which directly embeds the feasibility finding step into the training and inference process of neural networks to solve constrained parametric optimization problems and ensure that the output meets the constraints.

Fully Spiking Neural Networks for Unified Frame-Event Object Tracking

Jingjun Yang (National University of Defense Technology), Dewen Hu (National University of Defense Technology)

CodeObject TrackingSpiking Neural NetworkTransformerImageVideoMultimodality

🎯 What it does: A fully spiking neural network called SpikeFET is proposed, specifically designed for unified frame-event visual object tracking, integrating convolutional local feature extraction with Transformer global modeling under the spiking paradigm. It also designs a Random Patch Module (RPM) and Spatiotemporal Regularization (STR) to enhance localization accuracy and energy efficiency.

Functional Complexity-adaptive Temporal Tensor Decomposition

Panqi Chen (Zhejiang University), Shikai Fang (Microsoft Research Asia)

CodeTime SeriesOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: A functionally adaptive complexity tensor decomposition model CATTE is proposed, which utilizes Fourier feature encoding for continuous indexing and learns factor trajectories through neural ODE, while applying a sparse prior on functional factor trajectories to achieve automatic tensor rank inference.

Fuse2Match: Training-Free Fusion of Flow, Diffusion, and Contrastive Models for Zero-Shot Semantic Matching

Jing Zuo (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Yi-Zhe Song (University of Surrey)

CodeRetrievalDiffusion modelContrastive LearningImage

🎯 What it does: A training-free multi-model feature fusion method called Fuse2Match is designed, utilizing Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3), the older version of Stable Diffusion (SD), and the contrastive learning model DINO to improve zero-shot semantic correspondence tasks.

Future-Aware End-to-End Driving: Bidirectional Modeling of Trajectory Planning and Scene Evolution

Bozhou Zhang (Fudan University), Li Zhang (Fudan University)

CodeAutonomous DrivingOptimizationTransformerReinforcement LearningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: The SeerDrive framework is proposed, which achieves end-to-end adaptive driving decision-making by predicting future Bird's Eye View (BEV) scenarios and interacting in a closed-loop with trajectory planning.

FutureSightDrive: Thinking Visually with Spatio-Temporal CoT for Autonomous Driving

Shuang Zeng (Xi'an Jiaotong University), Xing Wei (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

CodeAutonomous DrivingTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelImageMultimodalityChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: The FSDrive framework is proposed, allowing VLA models to think about the future and plan trajectories at the image level through visualized spatiotemporal Chain-of-Thought.

G-Memory: Tracing Hierarchical Memory for Multi-Agent Systems

Guibin Zhang (National University of Singapore), Shuicheng YAN

CodeGraph Neural NetworkLarge Language ModelAgentic AITextGraphBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes G-Memory, a three-layer graph structure (insight graph, query graph, interaction graph) for recording, retrieving, and updating the long-term collaboration history of multi-agent systems (MAS), supporting the self-evolution of agent teams.

G-Net: A Provably Easy Construction of High-Accuracy Random Binary Neural Networks

Alireza Aghasi (Oregon State University), Wyatt D. Whiting

CodeClassificationRecognitionOptimizationImage

🎯 What it does: A G-Net framework based on random binary embedding is proposed, which can directly map the trained floating-point neural network to a high-dimensional binary network while maintaining close prediction accuracy; it also provides theoretical guarantees and large-scale experimental validation.

Gains: Fine-grained Federated Domain Adaptation in Open Set

Zhengyi Zhong (National University of Defense Technology), Ju Ren (Tsinghua University)

CodeDomain AdaptationFederated LearningImage

🎯 What it does: Proposes the Gains framework to achieve fine-grained knowledge discovery and rapid balance of knowledge adaptation in open-set federated learning;

GAMMA: Gated Multi-hop Message Passing for Homophily-Agnostic Node Representation in GNNs

Amir Ghazizadeh Ahsaei, Hao Zheng (University of Central Florida)

CodeComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: Proposes GAMMA, a GNN for adaptive multi-hop information aggregation in heterophilic graphs;

GASP: Efficient Black-Box Generation of Adversarial Suffixes for Jailbreaking LLMs

Advik Raj Basani (Birla Institute of Technology and Science), Xiao Zhang (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)

CodeOptimizationAdversarial AttackTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Proposes the GASP framework, which efficiently generates readable malicious suffixes that can bypass security shields in a black-box environment, significantly improving the jailbreak success rate of LLMs.

Gated Integration of Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual Learning of Large Language Models

Yan-Shuo Liang (Nanjing University), Wu-Jun Li (Nanjing University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: The GainLoRA method is proposed, which integrates low-rank adaptation branches with a gating mechanism in continual learning to reduce forgetting.

GauSAM: Contour‑Guided 2D Gaussian Fields for Multi‑Scale Medical Image Segmentation with Segment Anything

Jinxuan Wu (Tongji University), Dongdong Zhang (Tongji University)

CodeSegmentationGaussian SplattingImageBiomedical DataMagnetic Resonance Imaging

🎯 What it does: A Contour-Guided Continuous Gaussian Field framework (GauSAM) based on SAM has been developed, capable of generating high-quality medical image segmentation masks at any resolution.

Gaussian Herding across Pens: An Optimal Transport Perspective on Global Gaussian Reduction for 3DGS

Tao Wang (Renmin University of China), Qiong Zhang (Renmin University of China)

CodeCompressionOptimizationGaussian SplattingPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a Gaussian Herder Across Pens (GHAP) framework based on optimal transport, which first compresses the geometric information of the 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) model using Gaussian Mixture Reduction (GMR), and then fine-tunes the color and opacity, achieving nearly lossless rendering quality while retaining only 10% of the Gaussian primitives.