The post-ChatGPT surge has rapidly reframed IS research and practice. As organizations and society grapple with GenAI adoption, a body of secondary studies and research agendas has emerged to synthesize early evidence and chart directions for future inquiry. This study reviews secondary and roadmap papers to synthesize the state of knowledge on GenAI's benefits and challenges in IS, and to identify future research directions. We performed a systematic search across Scopus, WoS, and eAIS for publications from 2023 onwards. Following a rigorous, multi-stage screening process, we selected a final set of 28 papers for analysis using bibliometric mapping and thematic analysis. We also conducted a quality assessment of all sources to gauge confidence in each source's contribution to the findings. GenAI offers transformative potential to drive productivity, accelerate innovation, personalize services, and democratize access to expertise. However, its adoption is constrained by interrelated challenges: technical unreliability, societal-ethical risks, and a governance vacuum. Interpreted through a socio-technical lens, our findings reveal a persistent misalignment between GenAI's fast-evolving technical subsystem and the slower-adapting social subsystem, positioning IS research as critical for achieving joint optimization. To bridge this gap, we propose a research agenda that reorients IS scholarship from analyzing impacts toward actively shaping the co-evolution of technical capabilities with organizational routines, societal values, and regulatory institutions: emphasizing hybrid human-AI ensembles, situated validation, design principles for probabilistic systems, and adaptive governance. For practitioners and policymakers, responsible adoption requires balancing automation with human augmentation alongside transparent governance and adaptive regulations to ensure broadly shared benefits.
Aleksander Jarz\k{e}bowicz, Adam Przyby{\l}ek, Jacinto Estima et al.· 0 citations
Unsupervised Camouflaged Object Detection (UCOD) remains a challenging task due to the high intrinsic similarity between target objects and their surroundings, as well as the reliance on noisy pseudo-labels that hinder fine-grained texture learning. While existing refinement strategies aim to alleviate label noise, they often overlook intrinsic perceptual cues, leading to boundary overflow and structural ambiguity. In contrast, learning without pseudo-label guidance yields coarse features with significant detail loss. To address these issues, we propose a unified UCOD framework that enhances both the reliability of pseudo-labels and the fidelity of features. Our approach introduces the Multi-Cue Native Perception module, which extracts intrinsic visual priors by integrating low-level texture cues with mid-level semantics, enabling precise alignment between masks and native object information. Additionally, Pseudo-Label Evolution Fusion intelligently refines labels through teacher-student interaction and utilizes depthwise separable convolution for efficient semantic denoising. It also incorporates Spectral Tensor Attention Fusion to effectively balance semantic and structural information through compact spectral aggregation across multi-layer attention maps. Finally, Local Pseudo-Label Refinement plays a pivotal role in local detail optimization by leveraging attention diversity to restore fine textures and enhance boundary fidelity. Extensive experiments on multiple UCOD datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, characterized by superior detail perception, robust boundary alignment, and strong generalization under complex camouflage scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/JSLiam94/EReCu.
Shuo Jiang, Gaojia Zhang, Min Tan et al.· 0 citations
Recently, visual localization has become an important supplement to improve localization reliability, and cross-view approaches can greatly enhance coverage and adaptability. Meanwhile, future 6G will enable a globally covered mobile communication system, with a space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) serving as key supporting architecture. Inspired by this, we explore an integration of cross-view localization (CVL) with 6G SAGIN, thereby enhancing its performance in latency, energy consumption, and privacy protection. First, we provide a comprehensive review of CVL and SAGIN, highlighting their capabilities, integration opportunities, and potential applications. Benefiting from the fast and extensive image collection and transmission capabilities of the 6G SAGIN architecture, CVL achieves higher localization accuracy and faster processing speed. Then, we propose a split-inference framework for implementing CVL, which fully leverages the distributed communication and computing resources of the 6G SAGIN architecture. Subsequently, we conduct joint optimization of communication, computation, and confidentiality within the proposed split-inference framework, aiming to provide a paradigm and a direction for making CVL efficient. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework and provide solutions to the optimization problem. Finally, we discuss potential research directions for 6G SAGIN-enabled CVL.
Min Hao, Yanbing Xu, Maoqiang Wu et al.· 0 citations
Existing LLM safety evaluations rely on binary attack-success rates and domain-agnostic taxonomies, leaving regulated Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) deployments exposed to failures elicited through legally or professionally plausible framing. We introduce RAHS (Risk-Adjusted Harm Score), a risk-sensitive metric jointly capturing disclosure severity, disclaimer mitigation, and inter-judge agreement, and FinRedTeamBench, a 989-prompt benchmark spanning seven BFSI risk areas and 34 sub-categories mapped to regulatory frameworks. Evaluation uses an ensemble of three heterogeneous LLM judges, validated against human experts, and an adaptive multi-turn red-teaming pipeline. On nine open-weight models, RAHS preserves separation under near-ceiling ASR, ranking is stable under hyperparameter sweeps, and multi-turn pressure drives not only more jailbreaks but more operationally severe disclosures, exposing failure modes that single-turn, domain-agnostic evaluations cannot reveal.
Long-horizon task planning for heterogeneous multi-robot systems is essential for deploying collaborative teams in real-world environments; yet, it remains challenging due to the large volume of perceptual information, much of which is irrelevant to task objectives and burdens planning. Traditional symbolic planners rely on manually constructed problem specifications, limiting scalability and adaptability, while recent large language model (LLM)-based approaches often suffer from hallucinations and weak grounding-i.e., poor alignment between generated plans and actual environmental objects and constraints-in object-rich settings. We present Scale-Plan, a scalable LLM-assisted framework that generates compact, task-relevant problem representations from natural language instructions. Given a PDDL domain specification, Scale-Plan constructs an action graph capturing domain structure and uses shallow LLM reasoning to guide a structured graph search that identifies a minimal subset of relevant actions and objects. By filtering irrelevant information prior to planning, Scale-Plan enables efficient decomposition, allocation, and long-horizon plan generation. We evaluate our approach on complex multi-agent tasks and introduce MAT2-THOR, a cleaned benchmark built on AI2-THOR for reliable evaluation of multi-robot planning systems. Scale-Plan outperforms pure LLM and hybrid LLM-PDDL baselines across all metrics, improving scalability and reliability. Project website: https://github.com/honda-research-institute/Scale_Plan
Piyush Gupta, Sangjae Bae, Jiachen Li et al.· 0 citations
Recent video diffusion models have achieved impressive capabilities as large-scale generative world models. However, these models often struggle with fine-grained physical consistency, exhibiting physically implausible dynamics over time. In this work, we present \textbf{Phys4D}, a pipeline for learning physics-consistent 4D world representations from video diffusion models. Phys4D adopts \textbf{a three-stage training paradigm} that progressively lifts appearance-driven video diffusion models into physics-consistent 4D world representations. We first bootstrap robust geometry and motion representations through large-scale pseudo-supervised pretraining, establishing a foundation for 4D scene modeling. We then perform physics-grounded supervised fine-tuning using simulation-generated data, enforcing temporally consistent 4D dynamics. Finally, we apply simulation-grounded reinforcement learning to correct residual physical violations that are difficult to capture through explicit supervision. To evaluate fine-grained physical consistency beyond appearance-based metrics, we introduce a set of \textbf{4D world consistency evaluation} that probe geometric coherence, motion stability, and long-horizon physical plausibility. Experimental results demonstrate that Phys4D substantially improves fine-grained spatiotemporal and physical consistency compared to appearance-driven baselines, while maintaining strong generative performance. Our project page is available at https://sensational-brioche-7657e7.netlify.app/
Haoran Lu, Shang Wu, Songling Liu et al.· 0 citations
Machine learning-based wildfire detection has advanced significantly using deep learning models trained on large wildfire image and video datasets. However, peatland fires exhibit distinct characteristics, including smoldering combustion, low flame intensity, persistent smoke, and subsurface burning, limiting the effectiveness of conventional wildfire detectors. To address these challenges, we propose an efficient deep learning framework for peatland fire detection based on a Walsh--Hadamard Transform enhanced ResNet-50 (WHT-ResNet-50), which improves feature representation while reducing model complexity. To enable efficient deployment, the training-time architecture is structurally reparameterized into an equivalent inference model without sacrificing detection performance. Furthermore, the proposed framework leverages wildfire-to-peatland domain adaptation through transfer learning and introduces a mixed-domain training strategy that produces a unified detector capable of recognizing both wildfire and peatland fire events. Experimental results demonstrate that transfer learning substantially improves peatland fire detection under limited-data conditions, while the proposed WHT-ResNet-50 achieves higher accuracy and F1-score than conventional architectures with fewer parameters. The structurally reparameterized model further reduces inference cost while preserving detection accuracy. Video-based evaluation demonstrates robust performance with low false alarm rates, achieving a 100\% event detection rate across all positive test videos. Overall, the proposed framework provides an accurate, efficient, and practical solution for early peatland fire detection.
Emadeldeen Hamdan, Ahmad Faiz Tharima, Mohd Zahirasri Mohd Tohir et al.· 0 citations
World models compress rich sensory streams into compact latent codes that anticipate future observations. We let separate agents acquire such models from distinct viewpoints of the same environment without any parameter sharing or coordination. After training, their internal representations exhibit a striking emergent property: the two latent spaces are related by an approximate linear isometry, enabling transparent translation between them. This geometric consensus survives large viewpoint shifts and scant overlap in raw pixels. Leveraging the learned alignment, a classifier trained on one agent can be ported to the other with no additional gradient steps, while distillation-like migration accelerates later learning and markedly reduces total compute. The findings reveal that predictive learning objectives impose strong regularities on representation geometry, suggesting a lightweight path to interoperability among decentralized vision systems. The code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/Social-JEPA-5C57.
Haoran Zhang, Youjin Wang, Yi Duan et al.· 0 citations
LLM-powered Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have emerged as an effective approach towards collaborative intelligence, and have attracted wide research interests. Among them, ``self-evolving'' MAS, treated as a more flexible and powerful technical route, can construct task-adaptive workflows or communication topologies, instead of relying on a predefined static structue template. Current self-evolving MAS mainly focus on Spatial Evolving or Temporal Evolving paradigm, which only considers the single dimension of evolution and does not fully incentivize LLMs' collaborative capability. In this work, we start from a novel Spatio-Temporal perspective by proposing ST-EVO, which supports dialogue-wise communication scheduling with a compact yet powerful flow-matching based Scheduler. To make precise Spatio-Temporal scheduling, ST-EVO can also perceive the uncertainty of MAS, and possesses self-feedback ability to learn from accumulated experience. Extensive experiments on nine benchmarks demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of ST-EVO, achieving about 5%--25% accuracy improvement.
Xingjian Wu, Xvyuan Liu, Junkai Lu et al.· 0 citations
Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a promising paradigm for complex tasks. However, existing works often rely on manual designs or "one-size-fits-all" automation and lack adaptability after deployment. We study in-context structural adaptation, where structured experience conditions both query-dependent system generation and execution-time reconfiguration without updating LLM parameters. We introduce MASFly, which realizes this adaptation through two complementary mechanisms. First, a retrieval-augmented SOP instantiation mechanism retrieves and adapts successful collaboration patterns to construct a query-specific MAS. Second, an experience-enhanced process supervision mechanism uses a dedicated Watcher agent to monitor execution against prior failure experience and reconfigure the system upon abnormal behavior. Experiments demonstrate that MASFly achieves state-ofthe-art performance, including a 61.7% success rate on TravelPlanner, with strong task adaptability and robustness.
Guangyi Liu, Haojun Lin, Huan Zeng et al.· 0 citations
Undersampled CT volumes minimize acquisition time and radiation exposure but introduce artifacts degrading image quality and diagnostic utility. Reducing these artifacts is critical for high-quality imaging. We propose a computationally efficient hybrid deep-learning framework that combines the strengths of 2D and 3D models. First, a 2D U-Net operates on individual slices of undersampled CT volumes to extract feature maps. These slice-wise feature maps are then stacked across the volume and used as input to a 3D decoder, which utilizes contextual information across slices to predict an artifact-free 3D CT volume. The proposed two-stage approach balances the computational efficiency of 2D processing with the volumetric consistency provided by 3D modeling. The results show substantial improvements in inter-slice consistency in coronal and sagittal direction with low computational overhead. This hybrid framework presents a robust and efficient solution for high-quality 3D CT image post-processing. The code of this project can be found on github: https://github.com/J-3TO/2D-3DCNN_sparseview/.
Johannes Thalhammer, Tina Dorosti, Sebastian Peterhansl et al.· 0 citations
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are now a core part of modern AI. Recent work proposed several visual jailbreak attacks using single/ holistic images. However, contemporary VLMs demonstrate strong robustness against such attacks due to extensive safety alignment through preference optimization, e.g., reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). In this work, we identify a new vulnerability: while VLM pretraining and instruction tuning generalize well to split-image inputs, safety alignment is typically performed only on holistic images and does not account for harmful semantics distributed across multiple image fragments. Consequently, VLMs often fail to detect and reject harmful split-image inputs, in which unsafe cues emerge only upon combining images. We introduce novel split-image visual jailbreak attacks (\textbf{SIVA}) that exploit this misalignment. Unlike prior optimization-based attacks, which exhibit poor black-box transferability due to architectural and prior mismatches across models, our attacks evolve in progressive phases from naive splitting to an adaptive white-box attack, culminating in a black-box transfer attack. Our strongest strategy leverages a novel adversarial knowledge distillation \textbf{(Adv-KD)} algorithm to substantially improve cross-model transferability. Evaluations on four state-of-the-art modern VLMs and three jailbreak datasets demonstrate that our strongest attack achieves up to 44% higher transfer success than existing baselines. Lastly, we propose efficient ways to address this critical vulnerability in the current VLM safety alignment.
Md Rafi Ur Rashid, MD Sadik Hossain Shanto, Vishnu Asutosh Dasu et al.· 0 citations