We introduce a new tool, Express, for converting a non-causal attention approximation into a causal approximation with matching approximation guarantees. When combined with the state-of-the-art Thinformer approximation, Express improves upon the best known causal attention guarantees, delivering $\log^{3/2}(n)/s$ approximation error with only $O(s)$ memory and $O(s^2 \log^2(n))$ compression overhead for a sequence of length $n$. We pair these developments with an efficient I/O-aware Triton implementation, demonstrate substantial speedups over FlashAttention 2, and use Express to overcome four resource bottlenecks in the language modeling pipeline: long-context prefill, KV cache compression, long-form memory-constrained decoding, and long-form compute-constrained decoding.
Learning high quality latent actions from large-scale unlabeled videos, coupled with limited real-world interaction data for training an action decoder, has emerged as a promising paradigm for scalable latent policy learning. However, existing approaches typically rely on behavior cloning, which tends to collapse inherently multimodal action distributions into unimodal ones, thereby degrading the pretrained latent action structure. While flow matching provides a potential alternative, directly applying it leads to a misalignment between latent actions and physical actions during action decoder training, due to the stochastic nature of the learned policy. To address these, we propose Latent Action Flow Policy (LAFP), which leverages flow matching for latent policy learning and introduces an inference-time interpolation mechanism to mitigate stochasticity-induced misalignment. Experimental results demonstrate that LAFP consistently outperforms prior methods on most downstream imitation learning tasks, achieving an 8.2\% improvement in average success rate while incurring less than 1x additional inference overhead.
High-Dimensional Low-Sample Size (HDLSS) tabular domains (e.g., omics) are characterized by $n \ll m$, where $n$ = number of samples, and $m$ = number of features. Such domains often exhibit strong local correlation groups, sparse cross-group dependencies, heavy-tailed non-Gaussian marginals, heteroscedastic noise, and structured missingness, making direct density learning in $\mathbb{R}^m$ ill-conditioned since $n \ll m$. We propose BSTabDiff, a block-subunit generative framework that partitions the $m$ observed features into $M$ latent blocks ($M \ll m$) and generates each block via a shared low-dimensional subunit variable, concentrating global dependence learning in the compact block-latent space $\mathbb{R}^M$ while decoding to the full feature space with copula-driven dependence, flexible per-feature marginals, and explicit missingness mechanisms. BSTabDiff can induce a data-driven feature ordering and block construction before latent partitioning, allowing the model to better align with local dependency structure when such organization is beneficial. BSTabDiff supports modern deep priors on block latents, including diffusion and normalizing flows, enabling stable synthesis and controllable benchmark generation in the HDLSS regime. Empirically, BSTabDiff produces more realistic and more stable high-dimensional synthetic data when compared with unstructured tabular generators on HDLSS data.
Chinese discriminatory-language detection is challenging because harmful intent is often implicit and context-dependent. We propose MAAM (Myopia--Astigmatism Anchor Mechanism), a lightweight, model-agnostic framework inspired by functional visual blur: rather than preserving every token equally, MAAM retains discrimination-relevant semantic anchors and calibrates them with C--I--S contextual priors (Contextual Tone, Group Identity, and Stance Polarity). We also introduce ChLGBT, to our knowledge the first Chinese LGBT-focused discriminatory-language dataset, with 8,120 manually annotated samples and three ordinal labels: explicit bias, implicit bias, and emotional intensity. Across strong encoder baselines, MAAM improves all three prediction dimensions, with consistent gains in accuracy, F1, Brier score, and expected calibration error. Compared with frontier LLM baselines under zero-shot and few-shot prompting protocols, MAAM remains competitive while offering stronger compactness and stability. These results suggest that interpretable anchor preservation and contextual calibration provide a practical alternative to heavier model scaling for Chinese discriminatory-language assessment.
We introduce Contrast Sensitive Flow (CSFlow), a weighting scheme that connects the human eye's Contrast Sensitivity Function (CSF) to the iterative denoising steps of flow matching. Because real-world images concentrate signal at low spatial frequencies, these components reach high signal-to-noise ratio earlier during continuous diffusion than high-frequency components. When generating images with diffusion or flow matching models, this induces a soft autoregressive structure in Fourier space, where coarse image content stabilizes before fine detail. Meanwhile, the human visual system is unequally sensitive to spatial frequencies: very low and very high frequencies require significantly higher contrast to be perceived. We for the first time merge these observations through two contributions: (1) a metric that estimates which frequencies are generated at each reverse flow interval and (2) timestep weights obtained by aligning the frequencies generated at each noise level with human contrast sensitivity. We validate our contributions experimentally showing that these weights can improve generative performance by lowering FID by up to 12.15%, increasing Inception Score by up to 3.2% and improving GenEval scores by up to 3.0% using inference-only timestep modification or short fine-tuning. Qualitatively, we find that our CSFlow weights lead to better visual realism and less cartoonish appearance of generated images. In a two-alternative forced-choice study, participants preferred CSFlow generations over the baseline in 65% of comparisons. Additional visualisations, code, models and the example CSFlow weights are available on our project website.
How much of a learned decoder can a simple readout preserve? On generated ELF and AURORA states, token-wise affine maps recover $97.17\%$ and $95.74\%$ of native lexical decisions. Contextual computation has already produced these states; only the terminal readout is simplified. The remaining disagreements matter beyond their count: equal-count rare-first and low-native-margin-first repairs have opposing pooled evaluator effects in both interfaces. On conditional summarization, rare-first improves reference similarity, while source consistency remains unresolved. Score accounting locates part of the benefit on unchanged text despite increased unigram cost, without identifying rarity as a cause. Repeatable repair effects do not ensure prediction transfer: a frozen predictor improves on two ELF checkpoints but fails on a distilled student. A separate task-fitted selector improves BERTScore over random selection by $0.261$ points on 256 fresh articles at a $50\%$ native-call budget; all-native decoding remains higher-scoring and acceleration is unestablished. Compressed and directional interface tests further distinguish fitting-state coverage, native decisions, and soft inputs. Together, the results motivate testing a simplification at three levels: preserved decisions, output consequences, and computational savings. Native decisions are fidelity targets, not semantic truth.
Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has advanced rapidly over the last decade, driven by the shift from handcrafted descriptors and shallow classifiers to deep convolutional, attention-based, vision-language, and foundation-model architectures, and by the parallel growth of large-scale in-the-wild benchmarks spanning categorical, dimensional, compound, micro-expression, Action Unit (AU), and intensity-estimation tasks. Yet the deep learning-based FER landscape has so far been reviewed only along narrow task-, architecture-, or application-specific axes, leaving a holistic, systematically organized account of its recent advances missing. This survey addresses that gap with a comprehensive review of recent deep learning-based FER, explicitly linked to the wider Facial Affect Recognition (FAR) domain. Its main contributions are: a) A description of FER's evolution into five distinct phases, from handcrafted features and classical machine learning to attention-based, vision-language, and foundation-model approaches, with the key milestone works of each, b) A multi-criteria taxonomy analyzing the literature along seven complementary axes: recognition task, input modality, face pre-processing pipeline, network architecture, learning strategy, acquisition setting, and application domain, c) A per-criterion comparative analysis, with critical insights into the strengths and limitations of each category under in-the-wild conditions, d) A task-organized review of public FER datasets, with their annotation schemes, modalities, and evaluation protocols, e) A compilation of performance metrics and a per-task quantitative comparison of representative state-of-the-art methods on widely adopted benchmarks, and f) A discussion of current challenges and promising future directions.
Transformer inference increasingly relies on specialized compiler and runtime support, while recent LLMs can generate nontrivial CUDA kernels. However, unconstrained generation guarantees neither correctness nor performance. We present \textsc{AgentCompile}, an LLM-guided CUDA inference compiler that combines two complementary uses of LLMs. First, the LLM provides advisory metadata for compiler-derived region summaries and bounded candidate spaces. The compiler then instantiates template-based CUDA candidates, validates correctness, selects implementations by measured latency, and falls back when specialization is unsupported or unprofitable. Second, under compiler-defined contracts, the LLM directly generates five classes of decode-critical kernels to accelerate inference, prompted by distilled optimization principles. \textsc{AgentCompile} integrates these kernels into a serving runtime with paged KV cache, continuous batching, preemption, chunked prefill, and bucketed full-step CUDA Graph replay. Across six evaluated model families, \textsc{AgentCompile} achieves speedups of \textbf{2.23--6.98$\times$} over PyTorch eager for single-request generation, and \textbf{1.04--1.16$\times$} over vLLM for both single-request generation and multi-request serving. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/veneno1213822/AgentCompile.
Assessing built-environment interaction, such as wheelchair accessibility, is challenging because real-world mobility is shaped by context-dependent and temporary barriers that are difficult to capture at scale. This paper examines whether vision-language models (VLMs) can identify potential accessibility barriers from Google Street View (GSV) imagery. We propose an expert-guided retrieval-augmented framework that combines GSV imagery, ADA-informed guidance, and expert-derived rubrics to evaluate multiple accessibility dimensions. We collect a campus-scale dataset at the University of Florida, linking 407 unique GSV locations with GPS-derived wheelchair dwell behavior as a proxy for potential mobility friction. Results show that VLM ratings are negatively correlated with dwell time and exhibit distributional similarity, with the expert-guided configuration strengthening the correlation from $r=-0.40$ to $r=-0.54$ for the strongest model. Visual cue analysis further shows that features such as curb ramps and crosswalks are associated with higher VLM accessibility scores, while correspondence remains limited for subtle surface conditions, transient obstructions, and viewpoint-dependent barriers. Overall, our findings demonstrate the potential of expert-guided VLMs for scalable preliminary accessibility screening and prioritizing locations for further investigation.
We propose a label-free approach to adapt powerful but generic vision foundation models to specialized scientific domains. Standard supervised fine-tuning is often ill-suited to these settings: labels are scarce, and task-specific training can reduce the generality needed to cope with complex domain shifts. We instead leverage metadata to adapt representations to new domains in a weakly-supervised manner. Our method, FINO, combines a standard self-supervised objective with flexible metadata guidance that handles both highly granular discrete metadata and continuous metadata. It encourages the representation to preserve informative factors while suppressing spurious ones. Across subcellular fluorescence microscopy, Earth observation, wildlife monitoring, and medical imaging, FINO outperforms matched self-supervised and fully supervised adaptation baselines. Complete-adaptation repeats confirm consistent performance across domains. Without task labels for backbone adaptation, FINO also obtains higher reported scores than selected specialised systems on three domains and matches the fourth under differing cross-paper protocols. Code is available at github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3/tree/FINO.
Mobile agents are increasingly expected to operate everyday applications from screenshots and language goals, where reliable control requires reasoning over screen affordances, multi-step navigation, and future state changes. However, many agents externalize this computation as long textual chains of thought, which slows interaction, increases supervision cost, and complicates deployment. We introduce MIRAGE, a framework that learns continuous latent reasoning representations from visible textual reasoning traces. MIRAGE transfers explicit reasoning into compact hidden states, enabling the agent to reason internally without decoding long rationales. It also incorporates a generative world-model objective: latent reasoning vectors are aligned with future screenshots, encouraging the agent to anticipate upcoming interface states before acting. This turns hidden computation into both a compressed thought representation and a forward-looking model of environment dynamics. At inference time, MIRAGE reasons in continuous latent space, reducing token generation while improving execution efficiency. On AndroidWorld, MIRAGE matches explicit chain-of-thought supervised fine-tuning in the 4B ablation with a 3-5x lower decoded-token budget and improves a comparable instruction-tuned baseline by 10.2 points; on AndroidControl, it improves action grounding while generating over 75% fewer tokens.
Language agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to improve multi-step web automation across related tasks. A growing line of work studies online skill learning, where agents continually induce skills from previous task trajectories and reuse them in future tasks on the fly. However, existing methods mainly reuse skills at the task-level: a fixed set of skills is retrieved based on the initial task instruction and then held fixed throughout execution. This static strategy is misaligned with web execution, where the appropriate next action depends not only on the task goal but also on the current webpage state, which often transitions into situations that the initial skills fail to cover. To address this gap, we introduce SkillAny, an online skill learning framework that enables language agents to learn, retrieve, and invoke reusable skills at any intermediate state during task execution. Three components jointly enable this capability: sliding-window extraction turns completed trajectories into sub-procedures applicable beyond task boundaries, a dual text-code representation makes each skill both retrievable and executable, and step-level task-state retrieval selects skills that match the goal and the current webpage state as execution unfolds. Experiments on WebArena across five domains show that SkillAny consistently outperforms strong baselines, achieving average success rates of 37.5% with GPT-4.1 and 24.3% with Qwen3-4B, corresponding to relative gains of 10.6% and 10.0% over the strongest baseline, respectively. The code is available at https://github.com/plusnli/online-skill-learning.
Recall and personalization, enabled by memory, are pivotal to a lifelong conversational agent. However, simply expanding context windows with raw retrieval degrades reasoning quality, while training memory agents via standard reinforcement learning creates a severe credit assignment bottleneck in a multi stage pipeline. To solve this, we introduce SaliMory, a framework that learns to manage and utilize a cognitively structured memory spanning user facts, preferences, and working memory. By introducing novel stage wise process rewards and reward decomposed contrastive refinement, SaliMory provides isolated supervision for distinct memory operations (selective filtering, consolidation, and cue driven recall) end to end. Across four datasets, SALIMORY records the highest Good Personalization rate at 39.8% and the best QA accuracy at 72.9%, while consistently producing the least vague and most factual memories, keeping vagueness under 20% and factuality above 89%.
Organic crystal structure prediction (CSP) is a requirement for computational modelling of organic solids, but traditionally costs several CPU-years per molecule. Generative models such as OXtal dramatically reduce this cost by sampling stable organic crystal structures directly. However, OXtal forgoes explicit lattice parametrization in favour of modelling large crops of the bulk material with expensive triangle layers, which can incur a computational cost of minutes per molecule. In this paper, we reduce this to seconds with Clari, a large-scale flow matching model that generates redundancy-free unit cells and replaces triangle layers with pair-bias attention. Clari requires only atom types and bonds as input and does not need an RDKit-sanitizable input molecule, which expands its applicability to challenging chemistries such as fullerenes, metal complexes, and atom clusters. We further ablate key design choices such as auxiliary losses, timestep distributions, noise priors, and self-conditioning. On OXtal's test sets, we surpass OXtal's solve rate while obtaining a speedup of 15-30$\times$. Because Clari also models explicit hydrogens, it supports inference-time scaling via direct energy ranking, without any decoration or relaxation step. When generating 150 crystals and selecting the top-30 by energy, we further improve solve rate while maintaining a speedup of 5-8$\times$. We also introduce the CSD Teaching Subset as a new test split of diverse and complex molecules for future benchmarking. Our contributions enable CSP within seconds, making large-scale virtual screening of organic solids practical. Code is available at https://github.com/the-matter-lab/clari.
Vision-language models (VLMs) for radiology have emerged as a scalable paradigm by leveraging image-report pairs naturally produced in clinical workflows. However, this pairing reveals a mismatch in scale: each finding occupies only a small region of the image, yet supervision is provided only at the global image-report level. This poses a central challenge: prior approaches spread weight densely across all patches rather than concentrating on the sparse subset relevant to a given query. To address this, we present GLINT (Gated Language-Image alignmeNT), a framework that models this sparse correspondence. On the alignment side, we introduce Sparsely Gated Alignment, a novel architecture in which a sigmoid gate over a separate gate embedding space activates only the patches relevant to each textual query, yielding sparsity. On the representation side, we add Dense Feature Regularization, which anchors the trainable encoder's intermediate features to a frozen self-supervised learning (SSL) teacher, preserving the fine-grained patch features that the gate relies on. The same recipe applies to both 2D chest X-ray (CXR) and 3D chest computed tomography (CT), built with DINOv3 and V-JEPA 2.1, respectively. GLINT enables zero-shot classification, grounding, and segmentation from free-text queries, and to our knowledge is the first to demonstrate zero-shot segmentation on 3D CT volumes without mask supervision. Notably, the most pronounced gains arise on zero-shot grounding and segmentation, where sparse, query-specific localization is required, consistent with our design intent. In downstream evaluation, GLINT outperforms both SSL encoders and medical VLMs on classification, report generation, and segmentation. Code is available at https://github.com/deepnoid-ai/GLINT.
Large skill libraries are now standard equipment for LLM agents, and which subset reaches the prompt decides what the agent can do. Enumeration and top-$K$ embedding retrieval both treat skills as independent documents, assuming relevance is a property of one skill at a time. It is not: skills depend on, conflict with, specialize, and duplicate one another, so the closest match to a task can name it while omitting a prerequisite it needs. Graph retrieval encodes these relations but spends them in a fixed pipeline, handing the agent an opaque bundle. We present SkillDAG, which exposes a typed skill graph to the LLM as an agent-callable interface rather than consuming it for the agent: search returns vector matches, typed-edge neighbors, and conflict signals, and a propose-then-commit protocol lets it register execution-backed edges as it works. Across two benchmarks and three model families, SkillDAG outperforms full-library prompting, vector retrieval, and Graph-of-Skills, gaining +14.3 points of ALFWorld success and tying only at ceiling; its ranking holds flat across a $10\times$ pool expansion that degrades the fixed pipeline. Inter-skill structure, these results suggest, is worth more to an agent that can query and revise it than to a retriever that consumes it.
Recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased impressive reasoning capabilities, with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) being a promising enhancement strategy. However, existing reward mechanisms are constrained to the outcome-level correctness and lack explicit signals to guide the model to consider diverse solutions. In contrast, human problem solving typically involves evaluating multiple potential approaches and selecting the most reliable solution, a cognitive process that current RLVR frameworks do not explicitly incentivize. Inspired by this, we propose Hint-Guided Diversified Policy Optimization (HDPO), allowing the model to first list all potential candidate solution outlines as hints and then select the most reliable one for further reasoning. HDPO comprises two stages of Cold Start for Structured Reasoning and Hint-Guided Diversified Reinforcement Learning to incentivize the model to generate diverse and reliable solutions following the ``propose-select-think'' trajectory. Experimental results show that HDPO effectively boosts LLM reasoning and enhances the diversity of candidate solutions as well as the LLM's ability to identify reliable solutions.
Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) systems improve reasoning accuracy by routing each query to multiple expert LLMs and aggregating their outputs. Efficiently executing this workload on limited GPU resources has bottlenecks. Skill-based routing creates skewed expert demand, and combining instruction-tuned LLMs with long-reasoning models results in extreme variability in generation lengths. Consequently, traditional scheduling strategies suffer from significant GPU idling and throughput collapse due to load imbalances. We present MOSAIC, a scheduling framework for accelerating batch-oriented MoA workloads. MOSAIC uses two-stage workload-aware scheduling: an expert placement stage, where an integer linear program (ILP) decides expert placement, followed by a query-sequencing stage that schedules requests based on predicted output lengths. Additionally, MOSAIC uses confidence-aware adaptive aggregation, leveraging inter-expert agreement to bypass the heavy aggregator LLM for consensus queries. On a 4-GPU system, MOSAIC achieves 2.7-3.4x end-to-end speedups over round-robin scheduling and reduces the mean time-to-answer by 3.9-7.8x, while matching accuracy within +/-1pp.
Existing autonomous driving datasets have enabled major progress, but fall short in sensor fidelity, map completeness, or geographic diversity. We present KITScenes Multimodal, a European dataset built around high-fidelity sensors and maps. Our fully synchronized sensor suite combines high-resolution global-shutter cameras, long-range lidar beyond 400 m, 4D imaging radar, and redundant GNSS/INS localization. Our HD maps are, to our knowledge, the most complete of any sensor dataset, validated through autonomous driving trials on open-source software. For the first time in a public dataset, all driving-relevant traffic elements, such as traffic lights, are mapped in 3D to a reprojection-accurate level with full topological connectivity. Recorded in cities with irregular street layouts and mixed traffic modes, our dataset complements existing datasets by broadening the available geographic diversity. We also introduce four benchmarks, each advancing spatial learning for embodied AI: online HD map construction, long-range depth estimation, novel view synthesis, and end-to-end driving. Project page: https://kitscenes.com/multimodal/
Long-horizon video generation is a key capability of video world models, yet maintaining geometric consistency remains challenging. Memory-augmented generative models address this by retrieving historical frames, but their effectiveness depends on two key design choices: what 3D-geometric evidence should represent past observations, and how memory frames should be selected from this evidence. Pose-based field-of-view overlap provides lightweight but coarse geometric evidence, while explicit 3D scene memories offer finer spatial information at the cost of geometry estimation, alignment, and incremental updates over long rollouts. We propose Coverage-Maximizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (CovRAG), a depth-based memory retrieval framework that uses pretrained 3D priors to construct a target-view coverage map as lightweight 3D memory evidence. For frame selection, CovRAG maximizes residual coverage gain, iteratively retrieving frames that explain target-view regions not covered by the temporal context or previously selected memories. To improve scalability in long-video generation, we introduce sliding-window depth caching for efficient geometry estimation. Experiments on RealEstate10K and DL3DV10K show that CovRAG improves long-horizon geometric consistency over the evaluated memory-retrieval baselines while maintaining low retrieval latency.