26 accepted papers
Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) plays a vital role in alleviating psychological stress and providing emotional value through dialogue. While recent studies have largely focused on data augmentation and synthetic corpus construction, they often overlook the deeper cognitive reasoning processes t…
Effective customer support requires not only accurate problem-solving but also structured and empathetic communication aligned with professional standards. However, existing dialogue datasets often lack strategic guidance, and real-world service data is difficult to access and annotate. To address t
This paper introduces \textbf{FinMCP-Bench}, a novel benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) in solving real-world financial problems through tool invocation of financial model context protocols. FinMCP-Bench contains 613 samples spanning 10 main scenarios and 33 sub-scenarios, featuri…
Process Reward Models (PRMs) supervise intermediate reasoning steps in large language models (LLMs), but existing PRMs are mainly trained on general-domain data and struggle with the structured, symbolic, and fact-sensitive nature of financial reasoning. Financial tasks require not only correct fina
Model fusion is a key strategy for robust recognition in unconstrained scenarios, as different models provide complementary strengths. This is especially important for whole-body human recognition, where biometric cues such as face, gait, and body shape vary across samples and are typically integrat
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks, but their inference remains computationally inefficient. We observe a common failure mode in many prevalent LLMs, overthinking, where models generate verbose and tangential reasoning traces even for simple quer…
Whole-body biometric recognition is a challenging multi-modal task that integrates various biometric modalities, including face, gait, and body. This integration is essential for overcoming the limitations of unimodal systems. Traditionally, whole-body recognition involves deploying different models…
Federated Semi-Supervised Learning (FSSL) has emerged as a crucial topic in medical image analysis, allowing multiple medical institutions to collaboratively train a global model using limited labeled data. However, existing FSSL methods focus solely on an effective combination of federated learning…
Leveraging multimodal brain signals, such as electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), for the objective detection of brain activity is regarded as a promising approach for affective brain-computer interface. Existing EEG-fNIRS bimodal methods primarily focus on d…
Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have led to the development of new benchmarks for evaluating their performance in the financial domain. However, current financial benchmarks often rely on news articles, earnings reports, or announcements, making it challenging to capture the rea…
Accurate drug-target affinity (DTA) prediction holds significant potential in the field of artificial intelligence (AI)-based drug discovery. However, existing methods primarily operate at a single scale, specifically at the macro (residue) scale for target proteins and the micro (atom) scale for dr…
Flare and glare are common nighttime artifacts that degrade image quality and hinder computer vision tasks. Existing synthetic datasets lack physical realism and diversity, while deep learning-based removal methods struggle in complex scenes, posing significant challenges. To address these issues, w…
Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) generates translations while receiving streaming source inputs. This requires the SiMT model to learn a read/write policy, deciding when to translate and when to wait for more source input. Numerous linguistic studies indicate that audiences in SiMT scenarios…
For time-frequency (TF) domain speech enhancement (SE) methods, the overlap-and-add operation in the inverse TF transformation inevitably leads to an algorithmic delay equal to the window size. However, typical causal SE systems fail to utilize the future speech information within this inherent dela…
Two-stage pipeline is popular in speech enhancement tasks due to its superiority over traditional single-stage methods. The current two-stage approaches usually enhance the magnitude spectrum in the first stage, and further modify the complex spectrum to suppress the residual noise and recover the s…
In light of recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) that have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), there is an urgent need for new benchmarks to keep pace with the fast development of LLMs. In this paper, we propose CFLUE, the Chinese Financial Language Understanding Evalua…
Modeling driver attention allocation by scanpath prediction plays a crucial role in advancing autonomous driving capabilities and enhancing accident anticipation. Existing studies primarily predict human scanpath for visual search, visual question answering, and free-viewing. Few studies have focuse…
Scanpath refers to the trajectory of eye fixations when humans perform visual reasoning. Most existing methods mainly focus on predicting static attention maps, which represent the probability that each pixel in the image is paid attention to by humans. However, human gaze behavior is purposeful and…
Text-to-image diffusion has attracted vast attention due to its impressive image-generation capabilities. However, when it comes to human-centric text-to-image generation, particularly in the context of faces and hands, the results often fall short of naturalness due to insufficient training priors.…
Micro-expression (ME) recognition is challenging due to the low-intensity facial motions. An idea to overcome this is learning assisted by macro-expressions (MaEs). However, the intensity gap between MaE and ME is so huge that related works fail to effectively leverage MaE’s assistance in overcoming…
Modern semantic segmentation methods devote much effect to adjusting image feature representations to improve the segmentation performance in various ways, such as architecture design, attention mechnism, etc. However, almost all those methods neglect the particularity of class weights (in the class…
Sound source localization is the problem of estimating the positions of one or several sound sources. In terms of binaural audio, localization is a paramount perceptual characteristic which can be assessed subjectively or objectively. For objective evaluation of binaural sound localization, typical…
Extracting discriminative local features has attracted many research focus in fine-grained image retrieval task. With attention mechanism and softmax-like loss functions, deep neural networks could locate and learn the representation of the most discriminative region of objects, however, which also…
Spherical microphone arrays with compact aperture and maximum directivity factor have been one of the popular research fields but are usually accompanied by the white noise amplification problem, which hinders them for practical applications. This paper presents two regularization methods to optimiz…
Video-based Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) detection is a challenge to most video classification networks due to the high degree of similarity between categories. Bilinear pooling is a second-order method, which is widely used in fine-grained visual recognition. However, the average summation in bil…
In this paper, our aim is to investigate the control of bias accumulation when estimating mutual information from nearest neighbors non-parametric approach with continuously distributed random data. Using a multidimensional Taylor series expansion, a general relationship between the estimation bias…