Abstract:Previous detection studies have shown that LLMs cannot be effectively used as detectors, but these studies have not addressed modern Chinese poetry. Moreover, no relevant research has explored the performance of LLMs in detecting modern Chinese poetry. This paper evaluates and enhances the performance of LLMs as detectors for modern Chinese poetry, and proposes an image-semantic guided poetry detection method. Compared with traditional detection approaches, our method innovatively incorporates images that reflect the content of the poetry. Through example-driven approaches, our method effectively integrates information such as meaning, imagery, and feeling from the image, then forms a complementary judgment with the poem text. Experimental results demonstrate that the LLM detectors based on our method outperform baseline detectors based on plain text, and even surpass the best-performing traditional detector, RoBERTa. The Gemini detector using our method achieves a Macro-F1 score of 85.65%, reaching the state-of-the-art level. The performance improvements of different LLM detectors on multiple LLMs-generated data prove the effectiveness of our method.
Abstract:Recent diffusion models achieve strong photorealism and fluency in video generation, yet remain fragile under abstract, sparse or complex conditions, leading to poor performance in professional production workflows such as storyboard sketches and clay render conditions. Existing video generation models, either inject conditions through adapters or couple a generic vision-language model (VLM) within a diffusion backbone, leaving a capability gap and failing to produce the videos that align with the user's creative intent. We present CogOmniControl, a reasoning-driven framework that factorizes controllable video generation into creative intent cognition and generation. Specifically, we train a specialized CogVLM using authentic anime production data. Compared to generic VLMs, it generates more professional and clear outputs, accurately cognizing user creative intent from sparse and abstract conditions and tuning these cues into dense reasoning output. Besides, CogOmniDiT unifies the controls from various conditions through in-context generation and is aligned to the CogVLM reasoning outputs via reinforcement learning. Furthermore, leveraging CogVLM's robust capability in guiding video generation, we release its potential in planning specific evaluators and enable a Best-of-N selection for the generated videos. This integration transforms the entire framework into a closed-loop "harness-like" architecture. We further introduce CogReasonBench and CogControlBench, built from professional workflows data that carry genuine creative intent rather than simulated ones. Experiments on two benchmarks show that CogOmniControl surpassed the existing open-source models. The project website: https://um-lab.github.io/CogOmniControl/
Abstract:In this paper, we investigate a six dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) enable integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) network in low-altitude economy. The studied 6DMA can move in a three-dimensional space and rotate around its surface center, making full use of spatial freedom to adapt to the different location distributions of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) adjust channel conditions in time. However, since the rotation and location change of 6DMA requires the assistance of a physical device, it is unreasonable for 6DMA to change locations too frequently. Therefore, we propose a hierarchical deep reinforcement learning algorithm based on twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient. The first layer optimizes the rotation and location of 6DMA with infrequent updates, and the second layer optimizes the UAV flight direction and base station transmit beamforming matrix in each time slot. Under the condition of satisfying the sensing intensity of the sensing target, the total data transmission rate to the UAVs is maximized. The numerical results show that the proposed 6DMA-enable ISAC algorithm through joint optimization of multiple variables performs significantly better than the partially movable scheme and the fixed antenna position scheme.
Abstract:This paper considers multi-agent embodied question answering (MA-EQA), which aims to query robot teams on what they have seen over a long horizon. In contrast to existing edge resource management methods that emphasize sensing, communication, or computation performance metrics, MA-EQA emphasizes the memory qualities. To cope with this paradigm shift, we propose a quality of memory (QoM) model based on generative adversarial exam (GAE), which leverages forward simulation to assess memory retrieval and uses the resulting exam scores to compute QoM values. Then we propose memory centric power allocation (MCPA), which maximizes the QoM function under communication resource constraints. Through asymptotic analysis, it is found that the transmit powers are proportional to the GAE error probability, thus prioritizing towards high-QoM robots. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MCPA achieves significant improvements over extensive benchmarks in terms of diverse metrics in various scenarios.
Abstract:Large foundation models enable powerful reasoning for autonomous systems, but mapping semantic intent to reliable real-time control remains challenging. Existing approaches either (i) let Large Language Models (LLMs) generate trajectories directly - brittle, hard to verify, and latency-prone - or (ii) adjust Model Predictive Control (MPC) objectives online - mixing slow deliberation with fast control and blurring interfaces. We propose Agentic Fast-Slow Planning, a hierarchical framework that decouples perception, reasoning, planning, and control across natural timescales. The framework contains two bridges. Perception2Decision compresses scenes into ego-centric topologies using an on-vehicle Vision-Language Model (VLM) detector, then maps them to symbolic driving directives in the cloud with an LLM decision maker - reducing bandwidth and delay while preserving interpretability. Decision2Trajectory converts directives into executable paths: Semantic-Guided A* embeds language-derived soft costs into classical search to bias solutions toward feasible trajectories, while an Agentic Refinement Module adapts planner hyperparameters using feedback and memory. Finally, MPC tracks the trajectories in real time, with optional cloud-guided references for difficult cases. Experiments in CARLA show that Agentic Fast-Slow Planning improves robustness under perturbations, reducing lateral deviation by up to 45% and completion time by over 12% compared to pure MPC and an A*-guided MPC baseline. Code is available at https://github.com/cjychenjiayi/icra2026_AFSP.
Abstract:Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) requires navigating unknown environments to find a target object without task-specific training. Prior hierarchical training-free solutions invest in scene understanding (\textit{belief}) and high-level decision-making (\textit{policy}), yet overlook the design of \textit{option}, i.e., a subgoal candidate proposed from evolving belief and presented to policy for selection. In practice, options are reduced to isolated waypoints scored independently: single destinations hide the value gathered along the journey; an unstructured collection obscures the relationships among candidates. Our insight is that the option space should be a \textit{tree of paths}. Full paths expose en-route information gain that destination-only scoring systematically neglects; a tree of shared segments enables coarse-to-fine LLM reasoning that dismisses or pursues entire branches before examining individual leaves, compressing the combinatorial path space into an efficient hierarchy. We instantiate this insight in \textbf{REST} (Receding Horizon Explorative Steiner Tree), a training-free framework that (1) builds an explicit open-vocabulary 3D map from online RGB-D streams; (2) grows an agent-centric tree of safe and informative paths as the option space via sampling-based planning; and (3) textualizes each branch into a spatial narrative and selects the next-best path through chain-of-thought LLM reasoning. Across the Gibson, HM3D, and HSSD benchmarks, REST consistently ranks among the top methods in success rate while achieving the best or second-best path efficiency, demonstrating a favorable efficiency-success balance.
Abstract:Humans routinely leverage semantic hints provided by signage to navigate to destinations within novel Large-Scale Indoor (LSI) environments, such as hospitals and airport terminals. However, this capability remains underexplored within the field of embodied navigation. This paper introduces a novel embodied navigation task, SignNav, which requires the agent to interpret semantic hint from signage and reason about the subsequent action based on current observation. To facilitate research in this domain, we construct the LSI-Dataset for the training and evaluation of various SignNav agents. Dynamically changing semantic hints and sparse placement of signage in LSI environments present significant challenges to the SignNav task. To address these challenges, we propose the Spatial-Temporal Aware Transformer (START) model for end-to-end decision-making. The spatial-aware module grounds the semantic hint of signage into physical world, while the temporal-aware module captures long-range dependencies between historical states and current observation. Leveraging a two-stage training strategy with Dataset Aggregation (DAgger), our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance, recording an 80% Success Rate (SR) and 0.74 NDTW on val-unseen split. Real-world deployment further demonstrates the practicality of our method in physical environment without pre-built map.
Abstract:Navigation in cluttered environments often requires robots to tolerate contact with movable or deformable objects to maintain efficiency. Existing contact-tolerant motion planning (CTMP) methods rely on indirect spatial representations (e.g., prebuilt map, obstacle set), resulting in inaccuracies and a lack of adaptiveness to environmental uncertainties. To address this issue, we propose a direct contact-tolerant (DCT) planner, which integrates vision-language models (VLMs) into direct point perception and navigation, including two key components. The first one is VLM point cloud partitioner (VPP), which performs contact-tolerance reasoning in image space using VLM, caches inference masks, propagates them across frames using odometry, and projects them onto the current scan to generate a contact-aware point cloud. The second innovation is VPP guided navigation (VGN), which formulates CTMP as a perception-to-control optimization problem under direct contact-aware point cloud constraints, which is further solved by a specialized deep neural network (DNN). We implement DCT in Isaac Sim and a real car-like robot, demonstrating that DCT achieves robust and efficient navigation in cluttered environments with movable obstacles, outperforming representative baselines across diverse metrics. The code is available at: https://github.com/ChrisLeeUM/DCT.
Abstract:Failure is inevitable for embodied navigation in complex environments. To enhance the resilience, replanning (RP) is a viable option, where the robot is allowed to fail, but is capable of adjusting plan until success. However, existing RP approaches freeze the ego action model and miss the opportunities to explore better plans by upgrading the robot itself. To address this limitation, we propose Self-Evolutionary RePlanning, or SERP for short, which leads to a paradigm shift from frozen models towards evolving models by run-time learning from recent experiences. In contrast to existing model evolution approaches that often get stuck at predefined static parameters, we introduce agentic self-evolving action model that uses in-context learning with auto-differentiation (ILAD) for adaptive function adjustment and global parameter reset. To achieve token-efficient replanning for SERP, we also propose graph chain-of-thought (GCOT) replanning with large language model (LLM) inference over distilled graphs. Extensive simulation and real-world experiments demonstrate that SERP achieves higher success rate with lower token expenditure over various benchmarks, validating its superior robustness and efficiency across diverse environments.
Abstract:Deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-time systems remains challenging due to their substantial computational demands and privacy concerns. We propose Floe, a hybrid federated learning framework designed for latency-sensitive, resource-constrained environments. Floe combines a cloud-based black-box LLM with lightweight small language models (SLMs) on edge devices to enable low-latency, privacy-preserving inference. Personal data and fine-tuning remain on-device, while the cloud LLM contributes general knowledge without exposing proprietary weights. A heterogeneity-aware LoRA adaptation strategy enables efficient edge deployment across diverse hardware, and a logit-level fusion mechanism enables real-time coordination between edge and cloud models. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Floe enhances user privacy and personalization. Moreover, it significantly improves model performance and reduces inference latency on edge devices under real-time constraints compared with baseline approaches.