47 accepted papers
Recent progress in LLM reasoning has increasingly shifted from single-pass generation to explicit search over intermediate reasoning states. Tree-of-Thoughts (ToT) organizes inference to tree-structured search with branching and backtracking, but it substantially amplifies the key--value (KV) cache:…
The inherent sequential modeling capabilities of autoregressive models make them a formidable baseline for end-to-end planning in autonomous driving. Nevertheless, their performance is constrained by a spatio-temporal misalignment, as the planner must condition future actions on past sensory data. T…
Generating trajectories from high-level commands is critical for autonomous driving, but prevailing methods suffer from a flaw we term semantic misalignment. By associating long trajectories with a single, static meta-action (e.g., “lane change”), these methods corrupt training data during maneuver
D-peptide binders targeting L-proteins have promising therapeutic potential. Despite rapid advances in machine learning-based target-conditioned peptide design, generating D-peptide binders remains largely unexplored. In this work, we show that by injecting axial features to E(3)-equivariant (polar)…
Large Multimodal Models encode extensive factual knowledge in their pre-trained weights. However, its knowledge remains static and limited, unable to keep pace with real-world developments, which hinders continuous knowledge acquisition. Effective knowledge injection thus becomes critical, involving…
Solving large-scale Generalized Eigenvalue Problems (GEPs) is a fundamental yet computationally prohibitive task in science and engineering. As a promising direction, contour integral (CI) methods offer an efficient and parallelizable framework. However, their performance is critically dependent on …
The reliability of medical LLM evaluation is critically undermined by data contamination and knowledge obsolescence, leading to inflated scores on static benchmarks. To address these challenges, we introduce LiveClin, a live benchmark designed for the approximating real-world clinical practice. Buil…
Tropical cyclone (TC) forecasting is critical for disaster warning and emergency response. Deep learning methods address computational challenges but often neglect physical relationships between TC attributes, resulting in predictions lacking physical consistency. To address this, we propose Phys-Di…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge, where the LLM
Multimodal autoregressive (AR) models, based on next-token prediction and transformer architecture, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various multimodal tasks including text-to-image (T2I) generation. Despite their strong performance in general T2I tasks, our research reveals that these m
Multi-UAV cooperative coverage missions across geographically separated regions face significant challenges due to potential UAV failures during mission execution. To address the challenges of efficient multi-region coverage and dynamic failure handling, this paper presents a novel real-time path-re
跨越地理分离的多无人机协作覆盖任务 各地区因潜在无人机故障面临重大挑战 在执行任务时。解决效率挑战 本文介绍了多区域覆盖与动态失效处理 一种新型实时路径可重构覆盖规划算法 跨越地理区域的多无人机覆盖路径规划 具备实时路径重配置功能。拟议 方法，GRIT-M（贪婪修复初始化多重的禁忌搜索） 扩展了GRIT算法，以高效处理初始 无人机在任务中故障时的规划和在线路径修复 执行。与现有方法不同，这些方法要么只专注于单一区域 无论覆盖率或缺失，GRIT-M都包含了故障处理机制 通过三项关键创新实现区域特定知识：（1） a 优化区域间的复合过渡成本函数 运动，（2ᦀ
Using Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) to optimize Large Language Models (LLMs) can be conceptualized as progressively editing a query's 'Reasoning Tree'. This process involves exploring nodes (tokens) and dynamically modifying the model's policy at each node. When combined with…
Offline-to-online reinforcement learning (O2O RL) aims to improve the performance of offline pretrained agents through online fine-tuning. Existing O2O RL methods have achieved advances in mitigating the overestimation of Q-value biases (i.e., biases of cumulative rewards), improving the performance…
The foundation of reproducible science lies in protocols that are precise, logically ordered, and executable. The autonomous generation of these protocols through natural language queries could greatly improve the efficiency of the reproduction process. However, current leading large language models…
Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) store vast amounts of pretrained knowledge but struggle to remain aligned with real-world updates, making it difficult to avoid capability degradation when acquiring evolving knowledge. Furthermore, most current work focuses on exploring static textual knowledge inject…
Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled significant progress in photorealistic novel view synthesis. However, traditional 3DGS relies on a slow, iterative optimization process, which limits its use in scenarios demanding real-time results. To overcome this bottleneck, recent fee
Cyclic peptides exhibit better binding affinity and proteolytic stability compared to their linear counterparts. However, the development of cyclic peptide design models is hindered by the scarcity of data. To address this, we introduce **CPSea**(**C**yclic **P**eptide **Sea**), a dataset of 2.71 mi…
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have begun to demonstrate robust reasoning capabilities on general tasks, yet their application in the medical domain remains in its early stages. Constructing chain-of-thought (CoT) training data is essential for bolstering the reasoning abilities of medical…
Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has attracted significant attention due to its broad applications in autonomous driving and robotics. Although significant performance improvements have been achieved by learning the relative distance of objects with the introduction of Self Query Layer (SQ
Trustworthy multi-modal learning integrates multiple sources of data reliably. However, the current methods still focus on performance improvement by developing deep multi-modal networks. These approaches frequently encounter challenges due to the inherent non-convex nature of deep neural networks a…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered considerable attention as a potential alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Recent studies have highlighted SNNs' potential on large-scale datasets. For SNN training, two main approaches exist: direct training and ANN-to-SNN (ANN2SNN) conversi…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are emerging as a brain-inspired alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), prized for their potential energy efficiency on neuromorphic hardware. Despite this, SNNs often suffer from accuracy degradation compared to ANNs and face deployment challeng…
Graph foundation models (GFMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for learning transferable knowledge across diverse graph-structured data. The inherent heterogeneity in features and graph structures poses significant challenges for building scalable and generalizable GFMs. Existing research has e…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) exhibit exceptional energy efficiency on neuromorphic hardware due to their sparse activation patterns. However, conventional training methods based on surrogate gradients and Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) not only lag behind Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in…
Accurate forecasting of tropical cyclone (TC) intensity is crucial for formulating disaster risk reduction strategies. Current methods predominantly rely on limited spatiotemporal information from ERA5 data and neglect the causal relationships between these physical variables, failing to fully captu…
Pixel grounding, encompassing tasks such as Referring Expression Segmentation (RES), has garnered considerable attention due to its potential for bridging the gap between vision and language modalities. However, advancements in this domain are currently constrained by limitations inherent in existin…
Soft robots, compared to regular rigid robots, as their multiple segments with soft materials bring flexibility and compliance, have the advantages of safe interaction and dexterous operation in the environment. However, due to its characteristics of high dimensional, nonlinearity, time-varying natu
Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a well-known FL variant that enables multiple parties to collaboratively train a model without sharing their raw data. Existing VFL approaches focus on overlapping samples among different parties, while their performance is constrained by the limited number of th…
Multi-view clustering can partition data samples into their categories by learning a consensus representation in an unsupervised way and has received more and more attention in recent years. However, there is an untrusted fusion problem. The reasons for this problem are as follows: 1) The current me…
Tropical cyclone (TC) intensity forecasting is crucial for early disaster warning and emergency decision-making. Numerous researchers have explored deep-learning methods to address computational and post-processing issues in operational forecasting. Regrettably, they exhibit subpar long-term forecas…
The multi-view hash method converts heterogeneous data from multiple views into binary hash codes, which is one of the critical technologies in multimedia retrieval. However, the current methods mainly explore the complementarity among multiple views while lacking confidence in learning and fusion.…
Recent insights have revealed that rate-coding is a primary form of information representation captured by surrogate-gradient-based Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) in training deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). Motivated by these findings, we propose rate-based backpropagation, a training stra…
Automatic Cued Speech Recognition (ACSR) provides an intelligent human-machine interface for visual communications, where the Cued Speech (CS) system utilizes lip movements and hand gestures to code spoken language for hearing-impaired people. Previous ACSR approaches often utilize direct feature co…
Federated learning (FL) is a prevalent distributed machine learning approach that enables collaborative training of a global model across multiple devices without sharing local data. However, the presence of long-tailed data can negatively deteriorate the model's performance in real-world FL applica…
Intelligent medical diagnosis has shown remarkable progress on the large-scale datasets with full annotations. However, very few labeled images are available due to significantly expensive annotations by experts. To efficiently leverage abundant unlabeled data, we propose a novel Spatio-Temporal Str…
Digital advertising constitutes one of the main revenue sources for online platforms. In recent years, some advertisers tend to adopt auto-bidding tools to facilitate advertising performance optimization, making the classical utility maximizer model in auction theory not fit well. Some recent studie…
RGBT tracking usually suffers from various challenge factors, such as fast motion, scale variation, illumination variation, thermal crossover and occlusion, to name a few. Existing works often study fusion models to solve all challenges simultaneously, and it requires fusion models complex enough an…
In many visual systems, visual tracking often bases on RGB image sequences, in which some targets are invalid in low-light conditions, and tracking performance is thus affected significantly. Introducing other modalities such as depth and infrared data is an effective way to handle imaging limitatio…
The industry practice for night video surveillance is to use auxiliary near-infrared (NIR) LED diodes, usually centered at 850nm or 940nm, for scene illumination. NIR LED diodes are used to save power consumption while hiding the surveillance coverage area from naked human eyes. The captured images…
Knowledge bases (KBs) and text often contain complementary knowledge: KBs store structured knowledge that can support long range reasoning, while text stores more comprehensive and timely knowledge in an unstructured way. Separately embedding the individual knowledge sources into vector spaces has d…
Partial-label learning (PLL) generally focuses on inducing a noise-tolerant multi-class classifier by training on overly-annotated samples, each of which is annotated with a set of labels, but only one is the valid label. A basic promise of existing PLL solutions is that there are sufficient partial…
With the development of Chinese medical insurance industry, the amount of claim cases is growing rapidly. Ultimately, more claims necessarily indicate that the insurance company has to spend much time assessing claims and decides how much compensation the claimant should receive, which is a highly p…
RGB and thermal source data suffer from both shared and specific challenges, and how to explore and exploit them plays a critical role to represent the target appearance in RGBT tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel challenge-aware neural network to handle the modality-shared challenges (e.g.,…
Accelerating deep convolutional neural networks has become an active topic and sparked an interest in academia and industry. In this paper, we propose an efficient low-precision quan-tized Winograd convolution algorithm, called LANCE, which combines the advantages of fast convolution and quantizatio…
This work addresses the problem of 3D human pose and shape estimation from a sequence of point clouds. Existing sequential 3D human shape estimation methods mainly focus on the template model fitting from a sequence of depth images or the parametric model regression from a sequence of RGB images. In…