School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
Abstract:Continuous multimodal sensing now allows human physiology to be observed throughout daily life rather than only during occasional clinical visits. However, most health artificial intelligence systems are designed to recognize current states, estimate risks or analyse individual biomarkers. They do not directly model how physiological states change in response to real-world events, behaviours, contexts and interventions. Here we propose the Physiological World Model (PWM), an event-conditioned framework for learning these changes at the level of the whole person. We introduce the HumanState Transition Token, a structured, quality-scored unit that connects the physiological state before an event with the event or action, relevant context and intervention information, the physiological trajectory after the event, observed outcomes and data quality. We describe four capability levels, from state representation to bounded intervention planning, together with four data acquisition and validation protocols. We also propose six benchmark tasks covering HumanState representation, forecasting across multiple timescales, individualized response prediction, simulation of alternative interventions, bounded planning and reliability under distribution shift. Together, this framework provides a practical path towards personalized health management, behavioural intervention design and clinician-supervised decision support, while clearly separating prediction from causal inference and making uncertainty, safety, governance and limits of use explicit.
Abstract:In organic chemistry papers and patents, molecular structures, reaction schemes, and experimental conditions are often presented as molecular structure depictions, reaction diagrams, and complex tables or figures. Such information is difficult for general-purpose document parsing systems to directly convert into machine-readable data. This limits data production for organic chemistry knowledge base construction and for AI for Chemistry tasks such as reaction prediction, retrosynthesis, condition recommendation, molecular property prediction, and drug molecule design. This report introduces MinerU-Chem, a document parsing system for organic chemistry literature integrated into the MinerU online platform. Built on top of MinerU's general document parsing pipeline, MinerU-Chem adds five chemistry-specific modules: chemistry relevance filtering, molecular structure detection, molecule identifier extraction, molecular structure recognition, and reaction scheme parsing. Together, these modules convert organic-chemistry-related image regions in documents into a Molecule Summary List and a Reaction Summary List. For molecular structure recognition, MinerU-Chem uses CARBON (Complex Atomic Representation and Bonding Object Notation) as its core representation. CARBON enables recognition results to preserve both the visual layout of the original image and complex chemical semantics, while supporting the export of standard downstream formats such as MolFile and SMILES. On the SMILES-evaluable subset of MolRecBench-Wild (N=2,392), MinerU-Chem's molecular structure recognition module achieves a SMILES exact-match accuracy of 93.02%, outperforming the best evaluated comparison system, GPT-5.6-Sol (74.87%), by 18.15 percentage points. The system has been integrated into the MinerU online platform and is available at https://mineru.net/OpenSourceTools/Extractor .
Abstract:Memory is essential as language agents move from isolated tasks to long-horizon, stateful workflows, yet existing evaluations often reduce it to retrieval or question answering. We introduce ContextWeave, a longitudinal benchmark that evaluates whether recalled experience improves downstream agent performance in realistic office-work streams. ContextWeave reconstructs privacy-preserved, multi-month workflows of 14 participants into 1,005 executable tasks, including 568 core evaluation tasks, with instructions, containerized environments, trajectories, and task-specific rubrics. It measures workspace quality and alignment with participant-specific preferences, complemented by diagnostics of relevance, continuity, solvability, and robustness to misleading recall. Across six memory components under a fixed model, the strongest configuration raises Workspace Score from 68.08 to 78.20 and Preference Score from 41.50 to 70.60. With a fixed memory component, recall improves both outcomes for all five tested base models, although gains vary substantially. Our analysis shows that actionable, experience-rich memory supports workflow continuation and reduces redundant exploration more effectively than compact summaries, while it can also be more susceptible to misleading recall. These findings motivate memory systems that optimize not only retrieval relevance but also reliable use during execution.
Abstract:Multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) determines whether each candidate span and entity-type hypothesis is supported by joint textual and visual evidence. Existing imagine-and-compare verifiers map each (span, type) pair to one predicted visual feature, compressing diverse visual realisations into a single prototype and providing a compatibility score without explicit probabilistic semantics. We introduce DiffImaginE, which formulates MNER type verification as conditional latent diffusion inference. Given span-localised visual evidence, a type-conditioned denoiser predicts noise injected into its standardised latent. The resulting denoising error provides an ELBO-consistent surrogate for type-conditional negative log-likelihood, allowing competing type hypotheses to be ranked by how well they explain the observation. DiffImaginE retains a standard multimodal encoder stack and replaces the deterministic verifier with a classifier-free-guided diffusion scorer trained using Min-SNR weighting. We directly supervise per-type diffusion scores as classification logits, learn aggregation across noise levels, and use antithetic sampling to reduce Monte Carlo comparison variance. Our analysis shows that classifier-free guidance sharpens the induced type posterior and characterises when antithetic pairing reduces variance at equal denoiser cost. Experiments on Twitter-2015 and Twitter-2017 show consistent gains over a matched deterministic ImaginE control under the same encoder, auxiliary objectives, and evaluation protocol, supported by ablations and paired significance tests.
Abstract:Assembly action understanding is a key enabler for effective human-robot collaborative assembly, yet it remains challenging due to subtle motions and fine-grained hand-object interactions. We adapt vision-language models (VLMs) to this challenging domain with Compositional Context Fine-Tuning (CCFT), a method that decomposes assembly actions into semantic elements (Verb, Object, Tool) and fine-tunes VLMs to recognize each action element using templated question-answering pairs. This approach ensures near-deterministic outputs. To enable efficient and effective multi-task learning under limited data, a Layer-Partitioned Alternating Training (LP-AT) method is presented, which assigns distinct model layers to recognize specific action elements through element-specific low-rank adapters. LP-AT alternates weight updates across element-specific adapters, reducing cross-task interference while enabling per-adapter hyperparameter optimization. Furthermore, we create HA-ViD-VQA and IKEA-ASM-VQA datasets from existing assembly video datasets. Extensive experiments on these datasets demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms strong action recognition baselines while providing interpretable element-level predictions that can support diverse downstream applications.
Abstract:Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have been recognized as a key component of future sixth-generation (6G) space-air-ground-sea integrated networks. Accurate characterization and modeling of air-to-ground (A2G) channels are essential for the design and optimization of low-altitude communication systems. This paper presents a wideband A2G channel measurement campaign in an urban environment at 2.85 and 4.6~GHz in FR1 and 7.25~GHz in the FR3 frequency band, each with a bandwidth of 250~MHz. To enable reliable line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) propagation state identification, a weakly supervised method is developed by fusing geometric priors, channel features, and spatial consistency constraints. Furthermore, based on the measured data, A2G channel characteristics are extracted and analyzed under LoS/NLoS conditions across different frequency bands, including path loss (PL), shadow fading (SF), power delay profile, root-mean-square delay spread (RMS-DS), and Rician $K$-factor. The results show that the close-in model fits the measured PL more accurately than the 3GPP reference model, and that NLoS propagation leads to larger path loss exponents and stronger SF than LoS propagation. For channel delay characteristics, higher-frequency channels exhibit fewer effective MPCs and weaker delay dispersion, indicating increased channel sparsity. Specifically, the mean RMS-DS under LoS conditions decreases from 93.11 to 46.84~ns, while the mean Rician $K$-factor increases from 9.16 to 12.88~dB. The statistical results further show that the RMS-DS and the Rician $K$-factor can be well characterized by lognormal and normal distributions, respectively. Moreover, the movement of the receiver in a complex scattering environment intensifies the spatial non-stationarity of the A2G channel.
Abstract:Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising generalization capabilities across robotic manipulation tasks, yet their real-world deployment remains limited by the lack of effective safety measures. Specifically, existing safety measures only prevent collisions caused by the robot's next action. In this paper, we propose a neuro-symbolic safety guidance mechanism for flow matching based VLAs that enables predictive collision avoidance. Flow matching based VLAs determine the next actions by predicting a trajectory (a sequence of actions) through an iterative neural flow matching process. Our method formulates safety enforcement as a minimum-norm constrained optimization problem that corrects safety violations during the denoising process of noisy intermediate trajectory predictions. By analyzing predicted trajectories and applying corrections during iterative denoising, our approach anticipates collisions before they become unavoidable. This interleaving of symbolic constraint satisfaction with neural trajectory generation enables predictive collision avoidance rather than reactive intervention. On the SafeLIBERO benchmark, our method achieves 82.8% collision avoidance and 81.6% task success, a 6.3% and 19.8% improvement respectively over single-step methods, with the largest gains on long-horizon tasks where compounding distribution shift is most pronounced. Video demonstrations of our approach are included on our project page at https://willenglish.tech/SafetyGuidedFlowMatching/.
Abstract:Dual-hand action segmentation, densely predicting actions for both hands from untrimmed videos, is essential for understanding complex bimanual activities. However, it poses several unique challenges: complex inter-hand dependencies, visual asymmetry between hands, representation conflicts where the dominant hand monopolizes gradients, and semantic ambiguity in fine-grained actions. We propose Polyphony, a three-stage method to address these challenges through: (1) an Alternating Dual-Hand Vision Transformer that alternates training between left- and right-hand mini-batches to ensure balanced gradient contributions from both hands while sharing a spatio-temporal encoder; (2) Semantic Feature Conditioning that aligns visual features with structured, compositional action descriptions to enhance discrimination of semantically similar actions; and (3) Diffusion-Based Segmentation with cross-hand feature fusion for inter-hand coordination and adaptive loss weighting for balancing performance. Polyphony achieves state-of-the-art on both dual-hand datasets (HA-ViD, ATTACH) with improvements up to 16.8 points, and on the single-stream Breakfast dataset (82.5%), outperforming the prior best method that uses a 12x larger backbone. Notably, our unified model with a single shared backbone surpasses baselines requiring separate per-hand models. Code is at https://github.com/x-labs-xyz/Polyphony-Dual-hand-Action-Segmentation.
Abstract:Finance LLM agents must simultaneously block prompt-induced unauthorized actions and approve legitimate multi-step business workflows. However, boundary filters often miss irreversible mid-trajectory tool calls, while post-hoc LLM judges perform auditing only after termination -- too late for intervention and at a computational cost that scales linearly with trace length. We present FinHarness, an inline safety harness that wraps a finance agent end-to-end with three components: a Query Monitor that fuses single-turn intent with cross-turn drift, a Tool Monitor that evaluates each prospective tool call, and a Cascade module that integrates per-step risk and adaptively routes verification between a lightweight and an advanced-tier LLM judge. Fired risk factors are re-injected into the agent input as ex-ante evidence, enabling the agent to refuse, re-plan, or approve on its own. On FinVault, routed FinHarness cuts ASR from 38.3% to 15.0% while largely preserving benign approval ($41.1\% \to 39.3\%$), and uses $4.7\times$ fewer advanced-judge calls than an always-advanced ablation.
Abstract:Existing Large Language Model (LLM) approaches to SystemVerilog Assertion (SVA) generation primarily focus on syntactic validity and formal verification outcomes, while semantic alignment between generated assertions and natural language specifications remains difficult to quantify. As a result, hallucinated or misaligned SVAs can reduce confidence and increase debugging efforts in the absence of golden RTL. This paper presents SpecAlign, a framework for semantic evaluation and refinement of LLM-generated SVAs. SpecAlign introduces two iterative alignment loops that assess both natural language properties and SVAs against the design specification using entailment-based classification. We improve alignment decisions by generating multiple reasoning paths using chain-of-thought prompting and aggregating them via a self-consistency voting mechanism. Misaligned assertions are analyzed to generate actionable feedback for refinement. We further define a quantitative alignment score to measure semantic consistency across iterations. Experimental results demonstrate that SpecAlign effectively detects semantic inconsistencies and improves assertion alignment without relying on golden RTL, providing a scalable complement to traditional formal verification evaluation metrics.