Pixel-space diffusion has recently re-emerged as a strong alternative to latent diffusion, enabling high-quality generation without pretrained autoencoders. However, standard pixel-space diffusion models receive relatively weak semantic supervision and are not explicitly designed to capture high-level visual structure. Recent representation-alignment methods (e.g., REPA) suggest that pretrained visual features can substantially improve diffusion training, and visual co-denoising has emerged as a promising direction for incorporating such features into the generative process. However, existing co-denoising approaches often entangle multiple design choices, making it unclear which are truly essential. We therefore present V-Co, a systematic study of visual co-denoising in a unified JiT-based framework. This controlled setting allows us to isolate the ingredients that make visual co-denoising effective. Our study reveals two main ingredients. First, co-denoising benefits from preserving feature-specific computation while enabling flexible cross-stream interaction, which leads to a fully dual-stream architecture together with a structurally defined unconditional prediction for classifier-free guidance. Second, it requires both stronger semantic supervision and proper cross-stream calibration, which we realize through a perceptual-drifting hybrid loss and RMS-based feature rescaling. Together, these findings yield a simple recipe for visual co-denoising. Experiments on ImageNet-256 show that, at comparable model sizes, V-Co outperforms the underlying pixel-space diffusion baseline and strong prior pixel-diffusion methods while using fewer training epochs, offering practical guidance for future representation-aligned generative models.
Error Span Detection (ESD) is a crucial subtask in Machine Translation (MT) evaluation, aiming to identify the location and severity of translation errors. While fine-tuning models on human-annotated data improves ESD performance, acquiring such data is expensive and prone to inconsistencies among annotators. To address this, we propose a novel self-evolution framework based on Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding, named Iterative MBR Distillation for ESD, which eliminates the reliance on human annotations by leveraging an off-the-shelf LLM to generate pseudo-labels. Extensive experiments on the WMT Metrics Shared Task datasets demonstrate that models trained solely on these self-generated pseudo-labels outperform both unadapted base model and supervised baselines trained on human annotations at the system and span levels, while maintaining competitive sentence-level performance.
Retrosynthesis prediction aims to identify reactants that can synthesize a given product molecule. Although molecular large language models (LLMs) have recently shown promising results, most existing methods either generate reactants directly or provide only generic product-level analysis, without explicitly reasoning about bond-disconnection strategies that justify specific reactant choices. This paper proposes RetroReasoner, a retrosynthetic reasoning model that captures chemists' strategic disconnection-based thinking. RetroReasoner is trained with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. For supervised fine-tuning, SyntheticRetro generates structured disconnection rationales paired with reactant predictions. For reinforcement learning, a round-trip reward evaluates predicted reactants by passing them through a forward synthesis model and rewarding predictions that reconstruct the original product. RetroReasoner can also be applied to multi-step retrosynthetic planning by incorporating it into a parallelized Monte Carlo tree search framework, reducing search time while increasing the number and diversity of valid synthetic pathways. Experimental results show that RetroReasoner outperforms prior baselines, including not only molecular LLMs but also retrosynthesis-specific expert models, and generates a broader range of feasible reactant proposals, especially for challenging reaction instances. The code is available at https://github.com/KU-AGI/RetroReasoner.
Hanbum Ko, Chanhui Lee, Ye Rin Kim et al.· 0 citations
The adaptation of large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) to downstream tasks with limited labeled data remains a significant challenge. While parameter-efficient prompt learning methods offer a promising path, they often suffer from catastrophic forgetting of pre-trained knowledge. Toward addressing this limitation, our work is grounded in the insight that governing the evolutionary path of prompts is essential for forgetting-free adaptation. To this end, we propose EvoPrompt, a novel framework designed to explicitly steer the prompt trajectory for knowledge-preserving fine-tuning. Specifically, our approach employs a Modality-Shared Prompt Projector (MPP) to generate hierarchical prompts from a unified embedding space. Critically, an evolutionary training strategy decouples low-rank updates into directional and magnitude components, preserving early-learned semantic directions while only adapting their magnitude, thus enabling prompts to evolve without discarding foundational knowledge. Extensive experiments demonstrate that EvoPrompt achieves state-of-the-art performance in few-shot learning while robustly preserving the original zero-shot capabilities of pre-trained VLMs.
Enming Zhang, Jiayang Li, Yanlong Wang et al.· 0 citations
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Neural audio codecs optimized for mel-spectrogram reconstruction often fail to preserve intelligibility. While semantic encoder distillation improves encoded representations, it does not guarantee content preservation in reconstructed speech. In this work, we demonstrate that self-supervised representation reconstruction (SSRR) loss fundamentally improves codec training and performance. First, SSRR significantly accelerates convergence, enabling competitive results after 300k training steps on a single H200 GPU. Second, it enhances intelligibility by reconstructing distilled self-supervised representations from codec outputs. Third, SSRR enables high intelligibility without additional lookahead in streaming Transformer-based codecs, allowing a zero-lookahead architecture for real-time deployment. On LibriSpeech test-clean, JHCodec achieves the best WER and CER among the evaluated codecs while maintaining zero lookahead and low end-to-end latency. We open-source the full implementation, training pipeline, and demo on GitHubh ttps://github.com/jhcodec843/jhcodec.
Junhyeok Lee, Xiluo He, Jihwan Lee et al.· 0 citations
General-purpose large language models (LLMs) that rely on in-context learning do not reliably deliver the scientific understanding and performance required for drug discovery tasks. Simply increasing model size or introducing reasoning tokens does not yield significant performance gains. To address this gap, we introduce the MMAI Gym for Science, a one-stop shop molecular data formats and modalities as well as task-specific reasoning, training, and benchmarking recipes designed to teach foundation models the 'language of molecules' in order to solve practical drug discovery problems. We use MMAI Gym to train an efficient Liquid Foundation Model (LFM) for these applications, demonstrating that smaller, purpose-trained foundation models can outperform substantially larger general-purpose or specialist models on molecular benchmarks. Across essential drug discovery tasks - including molecular optimization, ADMET property prediction, retrosynthesis, drug-target activity prediction, and functional group reasoning - the resulting model achieves near specialist-level performance and, in the majority of settings, surpasses larger models, while remaining more efficient and broadly applicable in the domain.
Maksim Kuznetsov, Zulfat Miftahutdinov, Rim Shayakhmetov et al.· 0 citations
\emph{Integrated communication and computation} (IC$^2$) has emerged as a new paradigm for enabling efficient edge inference in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the design of IC$^2$ technologies is hindered by the lack of a tractable theoretical framework for characterizing \emph{end-to-end} (E2E) inference performance. The metric is highly complicated as it needs to account for both channel distortion and artificial intelligence (AI) model architecture and computational complexity. In this work, we address this challenge by developing a tractable analytical model for E2E inference accuracy and leveraging it to design a \emph{channel-adaptive AI} algorithm that maximizes inference throughput, referred to as the edge processing rate (EPR), under latency and accuracy constraints. Specifically, we consider an edge inference system in which a server deploys a backbone model with early exit, which enables flexible computational complexity, to perform inference on data features transmitted by a mobile device. The proposed accuracy model characterizes high-dimensional feature distributions in the angular domain using a Mixture of von Mises (MvM) distribution. This leads to a desired closed-form expression for inference accuracy as a function of quantization bit-width and model traversal depth, which represents channel distortion and computational complexity, respectively. Building upon this accuracy model, we formulate and solve the EPR maximization problem under joint latency and accuracy constraints, leading to a channel-adaptive AI algorithm that achieves full IC$^2$ integration. The proposed algorithm jointly adapts transmit-side feature compression and receive-side model complexity according to channel conditions to maximize overall efficiency and inference throughput. Experimental results demonstrate its superior performance as compared with fixed-complexity counterparts.
Unsupervised remote sensing change detection (UCD) aims to localise changes between two images of the same region without relying on labelled training data. Most recent approaches either use a frozen foundation model in a training-free manner or train with synthetic changes generated in pixel space. Both strategies inherently rely on predefined assumptions about change types, typically introduced through handcrafted rules, external datasets, or auxiliary generative models. Due to these assumptions, such methods fail to generalise beyond a few change types, limiting their real-world usage, especially in rare or complex scenarios. To address this, we propose MaSoN (Make Some Noise), an end-to-end UCD framework that synthesises diverse changes directly in the latent feature space during training. It generates changes dynamically estimated from feature statistics of the target data, enabling diverse yet data-driven variation aligned with the target domain. Since synthesis happens in latent space, it also easily extends to new modalities, such as SAR and multispectral data. MaSoN generalises strongly across diverse change types and improves the average F1 score across five benchmarks by 14.1 percentage points. Project page: https://blaz-r.github.io/mason_ucd/
Bla\v{z} Rolih, Matic Fu\v{c}ka, Filip Wolf et al.· 0 citations
Long-context LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation defer state tracking and evidence consolidation to query time, which is brittle when facts evolve and answers depend on latent states. We introduce Unified Memory Agent (UMA) for a one-to-many setting: query-agnostic external memory is constructed once from a stream and reused across multiple future QA sessions. A single policy maintains a structured Memory Bank through CRUD operations and answers using both the Memory Bank and raw context. Task-Stratified GRPO uses the mean reward of QA trajectories branching from each sampled memory state to supervise memory maintenance, while normalizing memory and per-question QA groups separately. We also introduce Ledger-QA, a diagnostic benchmark for long-horizon state tracking over accumulated updates. At the 16k budget, UMA-Generalist achieves the highest average score among compared methods across the test-time-learning and accurate-retrieval benchmarks and transfers to Ledger-QA without task-specific training; UMA-Specialist further improves long-horizon tracking after task adaptation. These results support learned proactive memory management for long-context reasoning.
Kehao Zhang, Shangtong Gui, Sheng Yang et al.· 0 citations
Persistent entropy is a scalar summary of persistence barcodes widely used to detect regime changes, yet there is no account of when a structural change in a barcode must produce a detectable change in entropy. We establish a model-agnostic theorem supplying such conditions. Treating persistence diagrams as random objects indexed by a control parameter, we identify a dispersion-condensation mechanism in the normalized persistence weights and derive an explicit lower bound on the entropy difference between the two regimes, valid with high probability at finite sample size and insensitive to the absolute scale of bar lifetimes. We also give a procedure for verifying the hypotheses on empirical barcodes. Applied to convolutional networks, the criterion shows that the circular organization of learned filters reported by Gabrielsson and Carlsson emerges through a sharp topological phase transition, and locates its onset: within a few hundred iterations on MNIST, but an order of magnitude later on CIFAR-10. The same criterion detects the Kuramoto synchronization and Vicsek order-disorder transitions.
Learning algorithmic computation often requires explicit relational intermediate states, yet many graph processors maintain their primary states on individual entities. We introduce \fnet and \textbf{Pivotal Attention} (PA), which maintain ordered pair states and update a target relation $(i,k)$ by attending over candidates formed from $(i,j)$ and $(j,k)$ for every pivot $j$. Motivated by the pair-and-pivot structure of Floyd--Warshall, PA learns relation composition and pivot weighting in parallel rather than executing its ordered min-plus recurrence. The \kfnet{k} framework extends this operation to ordered $k$-tuples, with Self-Attention and PA as its $k=1$ and $k=2$ cases at the attention-operation level. Under atomic tuple initialization and invariant readout, we show that \kfnet{k} is no more graph-discriminative than k-FWL; on BREC, each evaluated variant matches the success set of its corresponding WL reference. \fnet further achieves 96.64\% mean accuracy under the reported CLRS-30 protocol and a 99.8\% optimality rate with 10 samples on held-out non-metric TSP instances.
Memory management is vital for LLM agents in long-term and personalized interactions. Most previous work studies how to retrieve and use memory, but pays less attention to how memory is extracted. We find two main limitations in existing methods. First, extraction is "ahead-of-time": the agent saves information before it knows future tasks. A single summary prompt often mixes details, events, and relations, so useful information is lost. Second, extraction is usually one-off. Without verification, errors and hallucinations may stay in memory for a long time. To address these limitations, we propose ProMem, a proactive memory extraction framework. It separates details, events, and relations, and uses different extraction strategies for each type. It also checks completeness to recover missed events and verifies facts at the atomic level to reduce hallucinations. Experiments show that ProMem improves memory completeness and QA accuracy, while keeping a good balance between quality and token cost.
Chengyuan Yang, Zequn Sun, Wei Wei et al.· 0 citations
