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CURRENT: A Recurrent Neural Network for Concurrent Spatial and Temporal Super-Resolution of 4D Flow MRI
2026-11-10 13:25:28Luuk Jacobs, Pietro Dirix, Sebastian KozerkeAbstract
Objective: To improve the spatial and temporal resolution of aortic 4D flow MRI through a unified deep learning framework for post-acquisition super-resolution (SR) of reconstructed velocity vector fields. Methods: We propose CURRENT, a recurrent neural network that performs spatial and temporal SR with a single network architecture. Supervised training was conducted using paired low- and high-resolution datasets generated by embedding computational fluid dynamics simulations of aortic flow into in vivo thoracic MRI backgrounds, followed by controlled spatial and temporal downsampling. CURRENT was evaluated for two-fold spatial and temporal SR against 4DFlowNet and for two-fold spatiotemporal SR against sequential spatial and temporal SR pipelines based on 4DFlowNet. Image-based and k-space-based quantitative metrics were considered and conventional interpolation were used as baselines. In addition, the impact of CURRENT's spatiotemporal SR on physics-informed relative pressure estimation was assessed. Finally, the ability of CURRENT to generalize from synthetic training data to in vivo acquisitions was investigated. Results: CURRENT achieved superior spatial SR performance and comparable temporal SR performance to dedicated 4DFlowNet models while providing a unified solution for both tasks. Simultaneous spatiotemporal SR using CURRENT yielded more accurate relative pressure estimates than either spatial or temporal SR alone and outperformed sequential 4DFlowNet-based spatial and temporal SR approaches. Furthermore, the proposed model demonstrated promising generalization to in vivo 4D flow MRI data despite being trained exclusively on synthetic datasets. Conclusion: CURRENT provides a unified framework for spatial and temporal SR of 4D flow MRI. The proposed approach has the potential to enhance physics-based analysis and broaden the applicability of accelerated 4D flow MRI.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14058
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RedirectMimic: Local Motion Content Redaction for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
2026-11-10 13:15:54Zepeng Wang, Xiaochuan ShiAbstract
Humanoid motion interfaces should accommodate application-specific movement constraints while retaining useful reference behavior. Local content redaction requires a controller to replace selected movements even when it continues to receive the original reference. Removing the tracking incentive for those movements leaves their replacement unspecified. We introduce RedirectMimic, which separates the reference observed by the actor from the target used to train its execution. A rule-generated edited reference guides tracking rewards during proximal policy optimization, while the deployed observation and action interfaces remain unchanged. We evaluate pose- and speed-defined arm editing in Unitree G1 simulation using a tracker pretrained on 7,509 motion clips. On the overhead-arm task, RedirectMimic reduces core-window content occurrence to 2.7%, compared with 58.9% for reward zeroing and 32.8% for anti-tracking. It achieves 94.2% core-window joint success, combining content suppression, fall-free execution, and local retention. On the speed-defined task, fast outward arm movements occurred at similarly low rates under all three local editing methods. Across both tasks, RedirectMimic achieved the lowest replacement error among these methods and tracked unedited motions with accuracy comparable to that of the pretrained controller. Project page: this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14049
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LaST0.5: A Generalist World Action Model with Interaction-Centric Latent Reasoning
2026-11-10 13:15:11Xuheng Zhang, Yiming Zhang, Jialin Gao, Hao Chen, Jiaming Liu, Ji Li, Runzhong Huang, Yinxi Wang, Chenyang Gu, Zihan Yang, Yaowei Liu, Zhonghao Yan, Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang, Peng Jia, Pheng-Ann Heng, Shanghang ZhangAbstract
World Action Models (WAMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation, endowing policies with strong capabilities for modeling temporal and physical dynamics. Existing WAMs, encompassing both video-first action prediction and joint video-action modeling, directly transfer global physical representations from world models to action generation. However, global scene representations may underemphasize local robot-object interactions, creating a mismatch between representations optimized for world evolution and those required for manipulation. To bridge this gap, we propose LaST0.5, a novel WAM that introduces an interaction-centric physical representation between world modeling and action generation. Specifically, LaST0.5 learns a compact interaction-centric latent space under the supervision of visual interaction cues between the robot and the environment. This reasoning space is instantiated as a latent expert that bridges the world expert and the action expert within a Mixture-of-Transformers architecture. Furthermore, LaST0.5 performs adaptive world-to-action transfer by jointly predicting future representations and progress values, using progress consistency to adjust action execution and trigger future resampling. Finally, we pretrain LaST0.5 on a large-scale robotic data corpus comprising over 14k hours of data, establishing interaction-centric physical reasoning as a scalable and effective paradigm. LaST0.5 achieves 99.5% on LIBERO, surpasses the previous state of the art on ten evaluated RLBench tasks, and demonstrates robust long-horizon execution and precise dexterous manipulation in real-world experiments.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14048
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Structured Confidence Perturbation via Fisher Geometry for Adversarial Training
2026-11-10 13:13:30Chenlong Wei, Hanling Wang, Chong Zhang, Qinkai Yu, Fangyu Wu, Xiaobo JinAbstract
Adversarial training is often plagued by "pseudo-attacks", perturbations that significantly increase the loss value but fail to truly alter the model's confidence structure. To address this, we propose two complementary approaches to directly attack and defend against confidence structure deformation. First, building upon the traditional loss maximization perspective, we introduce a hybrid objective that integrates cross-entropy and KL divergence, encouraging adversarial examples to simultaneously disrupt prediction accuracy and distribution consistency. Second, we geometrically reconstruct adversarial training by generating perturbations that maximize the distribution distance on the confidence manifold. Theoretical analysis shows that the optimal perturbation direction aligns with the principal eigenvectors of the Fisher information matrix. We also propose an efficient algorithm to avoid high-dimensional matrix computations. Experiments on multiple datasets and model architectures demonstrate that our method outperforms existing methods in adversarial robustness and robust transferability, particularly excelling in structural perturbations within high-confidence regions.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14046
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Thermodynamics of words
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We introduce the word thermalization hypothesis according to which in a literary work there are effective interactions between words that drive them to thermalization where their word frequency distribution is the same as for the phenomenon of Rayleigh-Jeans (RJ) thermalization and condensation. In this concept, the different words play a role of classical oscillators (particles) and their word frequencies, or related tokens, are analogous to certain filling factors over energy state levels. The thermalization process is characterized by the conservation of total system energy, or total number of words/tokens, and total probability norm, or total number of different words. We apply this approach to analyze 16 literary works, including Bible, complete works of Shakespeare, and data from American National Corpus. We show that for these cases the effective system energy is very low and thus there is the RJ condensation phenomenon with a big fraction of total probability concentrated at the lowest energy states corresponding to a big fraction of rare words appearing only once or twice in the whole text. Such a RJ condensation is observed for light propagation in multimode optical fibers and other physical systems. We relate the thermalization of words to the recently proposed wealth thermalization for households in world countries. The economy concepts of Lorenz and Pareto curves, and also Zipf curves, are applied to the word frequency distributions of the selected 16 cases and it is shown that the thermalization theory gives a strikingly good description of real data.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14039
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Program-Aided Patchable Skill Evolution
2026-11-10 12:53:12Jiahao Wang, Yuqi Xiong, Qing Yang, Zhipeng Xu, Zhenghao Liu, Zulong Chen, Yubin BaoAbstract
Agent skills have emerged as an effective means of enabling LLM agents to solve complex, interactive tasks by encoding reusable knowledge without modifying model parameters. Recent approaches further improve skill adaptation by distilling reusable experience from agent execution trajectories and evolving skills based on downstream task feedback. However, existing methods primarily represent skills as natural language documents, intertwining procedural logic with descriptive knowledge and making skills difficult to maintain and evolve. To address this limitation, we propose PASE (Program-Aided Patchable Skill Evolution), a program-aided framework that iteratively evolves skills by associating them with executable programs. Unlike prior approaches that encode trajectory-derived experience primarily in natural language, PASE separates reusable procedural logic into editable programs, enabling targeted updates to executable components while reducing the need to repeatedly revise natural language skills. Extensive experiments across diverse models and benchmarks demonstrate that PASE consistently outperforms all baselines, by achieving over 2.8% improvements. Further analyses show that PASE exhibits greater evolutionary stability and generalisation capability, highlighting the critical role of programmatic knowledge in skill evolution. We will release all data and code via GitHub.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14019
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Personalized Memory Rubrics: Learning What to Remember per User via Rubric-Guided Credit Assignment
2026-11-10 12:52:13Yupeng Han, Kai Zhang, Shuochen Liu, Ze Liu, Xianquan Wang, Zhihong Pan, Xiangyu Zhao, Qi Liu, Enhong ChenAbstract
Long-horizon personalized agents maintain an evolving memory by continuously deciding what to add, modify, or discard. However, learning an optimal update policy remains challenging. Conventional training relies solely on terminal question-answering accuracy, yielding a coarse feedback signal that treats all intermediate updates identically. Furthermore, update utility is inherently user-specific, as identical memory actions may yield opposite effects across different user personas. Existing methods fail to address this heterogeneity, relying on globally shared evaluation standards with at most a single scalar intermediate reward. To address these challenges, we propose \textbf{Personalized Memory Rubrics} (\textbf{PMR}), a framework that translates terminal feedback into fine-grained, per-step, and per-user credit assignment. PMR decomposes evaluation into a universal layer capturing cross-persona failure patterns and a per-user adaptive layer modeling individual traits as a specialized delta over the universal baseline. Through \textbf{Rubric-Guided Credit Assignment}, PMR redistributes credit at the token level, selectively amplifying validated decisions on successful trajectories while falling back to standard policy optimization on failed ones to avoid unreliable attribution. The rubric and memory policy \textbf{co-evolve} in a closed loop with anti-circularity guarantees. Crucially, PMR incurs zero inference overhead, operating without any rubric or external judge during deployment. Extensive experiments across four benchmarks demonstrate consistent gains over strong memory-augmented baselines.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14017
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One Sequence Is Enough: Fingerprinting Language Models from Fixed-Length Integer Sequences
2026-11-10 12:50:33Fantong Meng, Chengjie Sun, Shuangjia Yang, Zhiyuan Zhao, Yansheng Pei, Xinyang LiAbstract
Users of model APIs and third-party platforms often rely on the declared model name to identify the model responding to their requests. However, the actual model may differ from the declared one, motivating identity verification based on observable outputs. Previous studies have shown that preferences in simple numerical-choice tasks can serve as model fingerprints. We investigate whether a single fixed-length integer sequence can combine multiple numerical observations to identify its source model. For this task, we introduce NumPrint, a benchmark of 5,036 answers from 51 models, collected using Chinese, Japanese, and English prompts that request 294 integers between 1 and 355 in one response. We propose the Shallow MLP and Causal Transformer (SMCT) to capture aggregate numerical preferences and behavioral patterns in generated sequences. In 51-class closed-set evaluation, SMCT achieves 92.72% accuracy from a single sequence, outperforming all methods compared in this study. Using two and four answers increases accuracy to 96.06% and 97.12%, respectively. These results show that a single integer sequence contains useful model fingerprints and that additional answers further improve identification.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14010
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Spatio-Temporal Calibration of a Vehicle-Mounted Microphone Array for Autonomous Driving
2026-11-10 12:44:52Marvin Seegert, Richard Taupitz, Korbinian Moller, Johannes BetzAbstract
Microphones let an autonomous vehicle sense into areas its cameras and LiDAR cannot see, by picking up the sound that other traffic participants emit. Locating those sources and fusing them with the visual perception requires the microphone array to be calibrated and registered relative to the vehicle's other sensors. Existing calibration methods assume small, unobstructed indoor rigs, whereas a vehicle body casts an acoustic shadow that straight-line propagation cannot represent, and to our knowledge no calibration of an array distributed around a vehicle has been reported. We propose a pipeline that uses a balloon burst as a single cross-modal target, which the LiDAR locates in metric coordinates, every microphone hears as a sharp onset and a camera times. Each observation is weighted by its own timing variance, which discounts shadowed arrivals instead of discarding them and needs no model of the vehicle. On a full-size vehicle with eight microphones over a 4.9 m aperture, the held-out range residual of 6.37 cm approaches the 6.07 cm floor set by the onset timing noise, and the calibrated array tracks a moving source to within a few degrees of the vehicle's own LiDAR. A dozen bursts spread around the vehicle suffice, and spreading them matters more than adding more.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14003
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Pulse or Provenance? What rPPG-Based Deepfake Detectors Learn
2026-11-10 12:36:56Othmane Harraq, Tamer AldwairiAbstract
Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) has been proposed as a physiological cue for deepfake detection, based on the premise that synthesized faces lack a genuine cardiac signal. We examine what rPPG-style detectors learn on Celeb-DF++ (22 forgery methods) and FaceForensics++ (FF++), using one identically sampled window per real and fake video. On talking-face forgeries, simple chrominance traces reach an AUC of 0.998, exceeding a dedicated rPPG extractor (0.87). Controlled experiments indicate that this signal is not physiological in origin. On fully synthesized forgeries, it is equally discriminative when extracted from background regions or from full frames without face detection, and it is concentrated above the 0.7 to 4 Hz heart-rate band. It is largely removed by shuffling frame order but persists after normalizing resolution, frame rate and encoding, and an independent reimplementation reproduces these findings. Removing high-frequency content makes most synthesized videos appear real, adding it makes real videos appear fake, and injecting a synthetic pulse has little effect. In controlled self-reenactment experiments with two generators, animating a face from a single frame introduces the same high-frequency signal, whereas reconstructing each frame from its own source does not. Face-based chrominance detectors trained on Celeb-DF++ classify over 99% of real FF++ videos as fake, indicating that they largely encode video source rather than manipulation, and a CLIP-based detector exhibits the same behavior. A frozen CLIP backbone matches or exceeds fusions of CLIP with rPPG and frequency features. Finally, we show that the official Celeb-DF and Celeb-DF++ splits share identities and source-video content between training and test, and that custom protocols reusing test videos and identities in training inflate weaker detectors by up to 0.30 AUC.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13992
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DORIS: Polarization Aware Multimodal Degradation Perception for Underwater Image Restoration
2026-11-10 12:33:35Wenshuo Zhang, Xiangyue Zhang, Junlin Li, Wenjie Tian, Yubo Zheng, Zhixin Dong, Hongli Xu, Jingyu Ru, Xinde LiAbstract
Recovering high-quality images from degraded underwater observations is crucial for underwater exploration. Polarization observations show promise as an effective source of complementary physical cues for recovering target radiance under clear-water conditions. However, existing methods have yet to jointly model raw intensity information and polarization cues to enable image restoration driven by an understanding of mixed underwater degradations. To overcome these limitations, we propose DORIS, a unified multimodal language-driven framework that jointly uses polarization and RGB information to generate textual descriptions of degradation types and severity levels through structured semantic instructions and enhances joint restoration representations under the guidance of degradation-aware semantic features to improve restoration robustness under mixed degradations. We further construct a new benchmark named MixPolar, which contains underwater images exhibiting real degradations and the corresponding annotations. It supports systematic evaluation of degradation perception, image restoration, and downstream task performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method effectively integrates polarization and RGB information, achieving competitive performance in degradation perception and image restoration.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.17991
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Counterfactual Analysis of Extent Leakage from Annotation-Derived Prompts in Vision-Language Medical Image Segmentation
2026-11-10 12:07:24Niran Nataraj, Ankita Das, C. Krishna Mohan, Kenji KawashimaAbstract
Text-guided segmentation models receive an image and a short caption about the lesion, and on public benchmarks the caption improves accuracy considerably. On colonoscopy and breast ultrasound, however, the size, count and location words of each caption were computed from the mask that later scores the prediction, and the chest X-ray captions were written by benchmark annotators. We tested what two published models take from them. On colonoscopy and chest X-ray, it is mostly the lesion's extent. Keeping only the size word or the lung-zone phrase recovers 84 to 98 percent of the improvement over an empty caption, and removing it loses 52 to 77 percent. The rest matters little, and a polyp called a rock is segmented just as well. We call this extent leakage. On breast ultrasound, nearly half the captions also name the diagnosis, which carries part of the benefit. Retraining on three datasets shows that models pick up this habit from their training captions, though only partly on breast ultrasound, and that it weakens their segmentation from the image alone. The leak can be measured without training a model, since caption words alone predict lesion area (coefficient of determination 0.54 to 0.77 on six of seven test sets). Without the test mask, the best method we tested, which estimates extent from the image, reaches 74.59 Dice on colonoscopy against the published 77.23. We propose an evaluation protocol that keeps what a caption says about the image apart from what it copies from the label.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13970
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TreeAgent: Structure-Aware Memory Agent for Processing Long Hierarchical Data
2026-11-10 11:33:05Wei Gu, Weiwei Qi, Jiajun Tang, Tianhang Zheng, Bo Chen, Zhibo Zhang, Jinfei Liu, Kui RenAbstract
Practical Web applications increasingly require agents to interpret long conversations or documents. For inputs exceeding the context windows of large language models (LLMs), memory agents process segments sequentially and retain past information in bounded memory. However, they typically divide inputs into flat token segments without preserving structure or hierarchy, causing three limitations for structured data such as API responses or HTML documents. First, fixed-length segmentation can split fields of the same record, breaking their relationships. Second, segments lack hierarchical information, obscuring their structural context and positions. Third, successive memory updates may discard details of earlier sibling records needed for reasoning on later segments. To address these limitations, we propose TreeAgent, a structure-aware agent that uses the input hierarchy to guide both segment-wise context processing and access to past information. Specifically, TreeAgent constructs segments from complete subtrees and groups of adjacent sibling subtrees to preserve local structural relationships. We provide theoretical guarantees on segment counts to guide token budget selection toward matching the segment count of fixed-length segmentation. We further attach structural paths to the segments for the agent to identify their ancestors and hierarchical positions. We also introduce residual memory links from the segments of low-level children to the segments of high-level parents, enabling direct information flows beyond successive memory updates. We evaluate TreeAgent with four representative memory agents on eight retrieval and aggregation tasks. The inputs are derived from real-world application data in JSON, HTML, YAML, and JavaScript and range from 8K to 1M tokens. TreeAgent improves the average score across the four datasets for all four agents, with 3.61% performance gain on average.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13946
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Chem World: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Physics-Aware Framework for Trustworthy Molecular Property Prediction
2026-11-10 11:30:39Tianyou Bai, Huan Wang, Mingchen Gao, Tongrui Yang, Fangyue Lin, Pinze Ren, Zhenlin Zhao, Siming DongAbstract
Molecular property prediction is fundamental to computational chemistry and drug formulation research, yet existing benchmarks remain fragmented across datasets, properties, and evaluation protocols, limiting systematic evaluation of model generalization. We introduce Chem World, a large-scale benchmark integrating 17 public datasets with over 800,000 molecular and chemical-system instances across 10 property tracks, covering single-molecule and multi-component systems, including drug solubility. Chem World provides a unified testbed for evaluating molecular representations and compositional modeling across diverse chemical properties. Building on the benchmark, we propose PACM (Physics-Aware Compositional Modeling), which combines molecular representations with composition-aware modeling and domain-specific physical constraints. Extensive experiments show that molecular language models provide strong and transferable representations, while PACM consistently improves prediction across diverse chemical systems. Chem World and our PACM-powered drug-property prediction Agent support generalizable chemical modeling and offer a foundation for AI-assisted biomedical research and drug formulation development.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13945
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FAIDER: Fairness-Aware Item-Level Decoding for Large Language Model Recommenders
2026-11-10 11:21:43Ziwei Wu, Jingrui HeAbstract
Large language model (LLM) recommenders can produce semantically different recommendations when a user's protected attribute changes, even if the interaction history remains fixed. Controlling this disparity is challenging when model weights and full-vocabulary logits are inaccessible. We propose FAIDER (Fairness-Aware Item-level DEcoding for Recommendation), which incorporates fairness into list construction by selecting complete item candidates rather than manipulating token-level logits or repeatedly repairing finished outputs. The central idea is to separate the operational criterion for a violation from how strongly generation is constrained. Conformal-inspired empirical calibration fixes a cross-group semantic-disparity threshold, while online decoding applies either hard filtering or a soft penalty adjusted through dual-inspired feedback to target a prescribed violation rate. Separately, we establish a pathwise guarantee: under a uniform enforceability assumption, the soft decoder's empirical violation rate exceeds its target by at most $O(1/T)$. Experiments across recommendation benchmarks and LLM backbones show that Soft FAIDER improves both measured semantic fairness and ranking quality over the evaluated prompt-repair baselines. It also generally achieves a more favorable fairness-utility balance than the hard variant, indicating that stricter per-recommendation constraints do not necessarily yield lower measured disparity.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.10285
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TAPCO-G: LLM-Guided Design-Adaptive Timing and Power Co-Optimization with Graph-Based Physical Priors
2026-11-10 11:19:50Wuqian Tang, Zixiao Wang, Che-Chien Lin, Fong-Hua Fu, Laura Ang\'elica Shion-Korsak, Xinyun Zhang, Bei Yu, Chun-Yao WangAbstract
Post-placement timing and power co-optimization is critical to meeting setup timing targets and reducing power within placement constraints. A cell replacement can improve timing along one path while increasing power or reducing slack on others. Conventional optimizers follow fixed rules for scheduling and accepting repairs, limiting their ability to address design-specific bottlenecks. A large language model (LLM) can propose changes to these rules, but on its own it cannot reliably estimate how a cell replacement affects endpoint slack and power. TAPCO-G combines LLM-guided optimizer adaptation with graph-based physical priors to evaluate candidate cell replacements. The outer loop tunes tool settings using physical-design feedback and revises executable repair policies when tuning stalls. The inner loop anchors delay estimates to static timing analysis snapshots, accounts for upstream driver-load changes, and propagates delay shifts to timing endpoints. It combines these estimates with coarse-to-fine power screening to prioritize candidates for physical trials. TAPCO-G produced placement-legal, logic-equivalent implementations and outscored CERBERUS on all eight ASAP7 benchmarks from the MLCAD 2026 Contest, with a mean quality score gain of 5.516 points, and scored 21.648 points higher than TAPCO on average. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed co-optimization framework.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13931
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Beyond Proxy Metrics: MLLMs as Human Surrogates for Explainable AI Evaluation
2026-11-10 11:15:28Eoin M. Kenny, Salim I. Amoukou, Tom BewleyAbstract
Explainable AI (XAI) has expanded into a broad and impactful research area, but the fundamental question of how best to evaluate explanation techniques has proven frustratingly elusive. Methodologies typically revolve around either proxy metrics which tell us little about the utility of an explanation, or human evaluation which---while generally considered the gold standard---is expensive, difficult to scale, and challenging to reproduce. In this paper, we investigate if Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can act as surrogate human participants to automate the evaluation of XAI. To do this, we first propose a ``purpose-grounded'' evaluation framework with metrics applicable to both MLLMs and human users alike. Then, we offer some conceptual insights as to why and when we can trust these models to automate this process. Lastly, we conduct extensive empirical testing across five purpose-grounded areas such as model improvement and fourteen popular MLLMs. Results indicate that all models trend positively, but OpenAI and Qwen models generally show higher alignment compared to other variants, which would be the recommended choices in practice. We expect our insights not to replace user testing, but rather to help XAI researchers complement their current evaluation methodologies and move the field away from heavy reliance on proxy metrics for measuring explanation utility.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13926
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MicroBT: Centroid-Guided Synergistic Learning for Multi-Modal Micro Brain Tumor Segmentation and Counting
2026-11-10 11:04:43Zhenye Lou, Qing Xu, Stefanie Thust, Dorothee P. Auer, Zhen Chen, Wenting DuanAbstract
Multi-modal brain tumor segmentation is essential for clinical diagnosis, radiotherapy planning, and longitudinal monitoring. While recent studies have achieved remarkable overall segmentation performance, they rely on overlap-based objectives that inherently favor large regions, causing sub-3 mm micro-lesions to be systematically suppressed during training. Moreover, existing pixel-level segmentation frameworks lack explicit instance-level modeling, leading to unreliable lesion counting that directly impacts clinical staging and therapeutic decisions. To address these challenges, we propose MicroBT, a unified multi-modal framework for micro brain tumor segmentation and counting. Our core insight is that a fundamental geometric property is inherently scale-invariant: regardless of size, each lesion possesses a well-defined centroid. Leveraging this, we first devise a centroid-anchored synergistic paradigm that utilizes predicted centroids as shared anchors to simultaneously condition dense segmentation and instance-level localization. To counteract the tumor size imbalance, we further devise a Volume-Calibrated Loss (VC-Loss) that adaptively amplifies the gradient contribution of micro-lesions, alongside a Size-Aware Curriculum Optimization (SACO) that stabilizes multi-task training by establishing global representations before progressively unlocking fine-grained localization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MicroBT outperforms state-of-the-art methods, particularly on metastases, where micro-lesion ($\leq 3$ mm) localization precision improves by approximately 7% and counting estimation errors decrease by approximately 26%. The code is available at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13912
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DroneSegEdit: Adapting Pretrained Generative Editors for UAV Segmentation with Language-Grounded Verification
2026-11-10 10:50:35Dehua Chen, Long Xin, Jiangtao WeiAbstract
Recent work has shown that pretrained image generators can support diverse visual tasks. Yet directly applying them to language-guided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) segmentation exposes a key limitation: a plausible mask may correspond to the wrong instance among small and repeated objects. We call this mismatch between mask rendering and expression-level target selection the Grounding-Rendering Gap. We present DroneSegEdit, which combines RGB proposal rendering with language-grounded, proposal-constrained verification to select supported foreground while retaining rendered geometry. DroneSegEdit adapts the open-weight LongCat-Image-Edit model using task-specific LoRA and fixed color-to-label decoding. For referring segmentation, a Language-Grounded Spatial Verifier (LGSV) reads hierarchical states from the frozen multimodal large language model backbone to derive expression-conditioned spatial evidence, which is mapped back to the rendered proposal without introducing foreground outside it. On RIS-LAD, DroneSegEdit reaches a new state of the art at 52.78 mIoU, 7.16 points above the previous best. It remains competitive overall on UAVid-RIS and VDD-RIS, with its clearest class-wise gains on compact, application-relevant categories, notably vehicles and humans. A separate verifier-free experiment extends the RGB interface to full-scene parsing: a task-specific adapter jointly renders all classes from one task-level instruction without enumerating class names or palette colors.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13890
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Polarization Aware Deep Learning Framework for SAR Despeckling
2026-11-10 10:25:36Gianpaolo Passarello, Sergio Vitale, Hossein Aghababei, Giampaolo Ferraioli, Vito PascazioAbstract
Speckle is an inherent characteristic of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery that complicates image interpretation and the extraction of reliable information. Although deep-learning-based despeckling methods have demonstrated promising performance, their applicability across different polarimetric configurations is often limited by the need for specialized architectures or separate training procedures. This paper presents a unified deep-learning framework for despeckling single-, dual-, and full-polarization SAR data using a single trained convolutional neural network. The proposed approach adopts a common nine-channel representation of the polarimetric covariance matrix and a polarization-aware masking strategy to accommodate different configurations without modifying the network architecture. Qualitative and quantitative comparison on three different scenes from different sensors demonstrate competitive performance across the considered experiments and support the feasibility of a unified, polarization-flexible approach to SAR despeckling across different polarimetric configurations.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.10091
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