Alibaba Group
Abstract:Generative Agents, owing to their precise modeling and simulation capabilities of human behavior, have become a pivotal tool in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIEd) for uncovering complex cognitive processes of learners. However, existing educational agents predominantly rely on static personas to simulate student learning behaviors, neglecting the decisive role of deep cognitive capabilities in learning outcomes during practice interactions. Furthermore, they struggle to characterize the dynamic fluidity of knowledge internalization, transfer, and cognitive state transitions. To overcome this bottleneck, this paper proposes a human-like educational agent capable of simulating student cognitive evolution: CogEvolution. Specifically, we first construct a cognitive depth perceptron based on the Interactive, Constructive, Active, Passive (ICAP) taxonomy from cognitive psychology, achieving precise quantification of learner cognitive engagement. Subsequently, we propose a memory retrieval method based on Item Response Theory (IRT) to simulate the connection and assimilation of new and prior knowledge. Finally, we design a dynamic cognitive update mechanism based on evolutionary algorithms to simulate the real-time integration of student learning behaviors and cognitive evolution processes. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that CogEvolution not only significantly outperforms baseline models in behavioral fidelity and learning curve fitting but also uniquely reproduces plausible and robust cognitive evolutionary paths consistent with educational psychology expectations, providing a novel paradigm for constructing highly interpretable educational agents.
Abstract:Pansharpening aims to synthesize high-resolution multispectral (HR-MS) images by fusing the spatial textures of panchromatic (PAN) images with the spectral information of low-resolution multispectral (LR-MS) images. While recent deep learning paradigms, especially diffusion-based operators, have pushed the performance boundaries, they often encounter spectral-spatial blurring and prohibitive computational costs due to their stochastic nature and iterative sampling. In this paper, we propose the Euler-inspired Decoupling Neural Operator (EDNO), a physics-inspired framework that redefines pansharpening as a continuous functional mapping in the frequency domain. Departing from conventional Cartesian feature processing, our EDNO leverages Euler's formula to transform features into a polar coordinate system, enabling a novel explicit-implicit interaction mechanism. Specifically, we develop the Euler Feature Interaction Layer (EFIL), which decouples the fusion task into two specialized modules: 1) Explicit Feature Interaction Module, utilizing a linear weighting scheme to simulate phase rotation for adaptive geometric alignment; and 2) Implicit Feature Interaction Module, employing a feed-forward network to model spectral distributions for superior color consistency. By operating in the frequency domain, EDNO inherently captures global receptive fields while maintaining discretization-invariance. Experimental results on the three datasets demonstrate that EDNO offers a superior efficiency-performance balance compared to heavyweight architectures.
Abstract:Text-based web agents offer computational efficiency for autonomous web navigation, yet developing robust agents remains challenging due to the noisy and heterogeneous nature of real-world HTML. Standard Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) approaches fail in two critical dimensions: they lack discrimination capabilities to reject plausible but incorrect elements in densely populated pages, and exhibit limited generalization to unseen website layouts. To address these challenges, we introduce the Triton dataset (590k instances) and a progressive training curriculum. Triton is constructed via Structural-Semantic Hard Negative Mining, which explicitly mines topologically similar distractors, and a Dual-Agent Consensus pipeline that synthesizes diverse cross-domain tasks with strict verification. Building upon this foundation, our progressive curriculum produces three models: Triton-SFT-32B for basic imitation, Triton-ORPO-32B for robust discrimination via Odds Ratio Preference Optimization, and Triton-GRPO-32B for long-horizon consistency through Group Relative Policy Optimization. Empirical evaluation on Mind2Web demonstrates that Triton-GRPO-32B achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models with 58.7% Step Success Rate, surpassing GPT-4.5 (42.4%) and Claude-4.5 (41.4%) by over 16%, validating that specialized data curriculum outweighs raw parameter scale for web navigation.
Abstract:Adversarial examples present significant challenges to the security of Deep Neural Network (DNN) applications. Specifically, there are patch-based and texture-based attacks that are usually used to craft physical-world adversarial examples, posing real threats to security-critical applications such as person detection in surveillance and autonomous systems, because those attacks are physically realizable. Existing defense mechanisms face challenges in the adaptive attack setting, i.e., the attacks are specifically designed against them. In this paper, we propose Adversarial Spectrum Defense (ASD), a defense mechanism that leverages spectral decomposition via Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) to analyze adversarial patterns across multiple frequency scales. The multi-resolution and localization capability of DWT enables ASD to capture both high-frequency (fine-grained) and low-frequency (spatially pervasive) perturbations. By integrating this spectral analysis with the off-the-shelf Adversarial Training (AT) model, ASD provides a comprehensive defense strategy against both patch-based and texture-based adversarial attacks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ASD+AT achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance against various attacks, outperforming the APs of previous defense methods by 21.73%, in the face of strong adaptive adversaries specifically designed against ASD. Code available at https://github.com/weiz0823/adv-spectral-defense .
Abstract:The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has catalyzed automation in customer service, yet benchmarking their performance remains challenging. Existing benchmarks predominantly rely on static paradigms and single-dimensional metrics, failing to account for diverse user behaviors or the strict adherence to structured Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) required in real-world deployments. To bridge this gap, we propose SAGE (Service Agent Graph-guided Evaluation), a universal multi-agent benchmark for automated, dual-axis assessment. SAGE formalizes unstructured SOPs into Dynamic Dialogue Graphs, enabling precise verification of logical compliance and comprehensive path coverage. We introduce an Adversarial Intent Taxonomy and a modular Extension Mechanism, enabling low-cost deployment across domains and facilitating automated dialogue data synthesis. Evaluation is conducted via a framework where Judge Agents and a Rule Engine analyze interactions between User and Service Agents to generate deterministic ground truth. Extensive experiments on 27 LLMs across 6 industrial scenarios reveal a significant ``Execution Gap'' where models accurately classify intents but fail to derive correct subsequent actions. We also observe ``Empathy Resilience'', a phenomenon where models maintain polite conversational facades despite underlying logical failures under high adversarial intensity. Code and resources are available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/SAGE-Bench-4CD3/.
Abstract:RTK-SLAM systems integrate simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with real-time kinematic (RTK) GNSS positioning, promising both relative consistency and globally referenced coordinates for efficient georeferenced surveying. A critical and underappreciated issue is that the standard evaluation metric, Absolute Trajectory Error (ATE), first fits an optimal rigid-body transformation between the estimated trajectory and reference before computing errors. This so-called SE(3) alignment absorbs global drift and systematic errors, making trajectories appear more accurate than they are in practice, and is unsuitable for evaluating the global accuracy of RTK-SLAM. We present a geodetically referenced dataset and evaluation methodology that expose this gap. A key design principle is that the RTK receiver is used solely as a system input, while ground truth is established independently via a geodetic total station. This separation is absent from all existing datasets, where GNSS typically serves as (part of) the ground truth. The dataset is collected with a handheld RTK-SLAM device, comprising two scenes. We evaluate LiDAR-inertial, visual-inertial, and LiDAR-visual-inertial RTK-SLAM systems alongside standalone RTK, reporting direct global accuracy and SE(3)-aligned relative accuracy to make the gap explicit. Results show that SE(3) alignment can underestimate absolute positioning error by up to 76\%. RTK-SLAM achieves centimeter-level absolute accuracy in open-sky conditions and maintains decimeter-level global accuracy indoors, where standalone RTK degrades to tens of meters. The dataset, calibration files, and evaluation scripts are publicly available at https://rtk-slam-dataset.github.io/.
Abstract:The missing modality problem poses a fundamental challenge in multimodal sentiment analysis, significantly degrading model accuracy and generalization in real world scenarios. Existing approaches primarily improve robustness through prompt learning and pre trained models. However, two limitations remain. First, the necessity of generating missing modalities lacks rigorous evaluation. Second, the structural dependencies among multimodal prompts and their global coherence are insufficiently explored. To address these issues, a Prompt based Missing Modality Adaptation framework is proposed. A Missing Modality Evaluator is introduced at the input stage to dynamically assess the importance of missing modalities using pretrained models and pseudo labels, thereby avoiding low quality data imputation. Building on this, a Modality invariant Prompt Disentanglement module decomposes shared prompts into modality specific private prompts to capture intrinsic local correlations and improve representation quality. In addition, a Dynamic Prompt Weighting module computes mutual information based weights from cross attention outputs to adaptively suppress interference from missing modalities. To enhance global consistency, a Multi level Prompt Dynamic Connection module integrates shared prompts with self attention outputs through residual connections, leveraging global prompt priors to strengthen key guidance features. Extensive experiments on three public benchmarks, including CMU MOSI, CMU MOSEI, and CH SIMS, demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves state of the art performance and stable results under diverse missing modality settings. The implementation is available at https://github.com/rongfei-chen/ProMMA
Abstract:Evaluating GUI agents presents a distinct challenge: trajectories are long, visually grounded, and open-ended, yet evaluation must be both accurate and interpretable. Existing approaches typically apply a single holistic judgment over the entire action-observation sequence-a strategy that proves unreliable on long-horizon tasks and yields binary verdicts offering no insight into where or why an agent fails. This opacity limits the utility of evaluation as a diagnostic tool for agent development. We introduce GUIDE (GUI Understanding and Interpretable Diagnostic Evaluation), a framework that decomposes trajectory assessment into three sequential stages mirroring the compositional structure of GUI tasks. Trajectory Segmentation partitions the full trace into semantically coherent subtask units. Subtask Diagnosis evaluates each unit in context, assigning a completion verdict and generating a structured error analysis with corrective recommendations. Overall Summary aggregates per-subtask diagnoses into a task-level judgment. By operating on bounded subtask segments rather than full trajectories, GUIDE mitigates the context overload that degrades existing evaluators as task complexity grows. We validate GUIDE on three benchmarks: an industrial e-commerce dataset of 932 trajectories, AGENTREWARDBENCH spanning five web agent tasks with 1302 trajectories, and AndroidBench for mobile device control. Across all settings, GUIDE substantially outperforms existing evaluators-achieving up to 5.35 percentage points higher accuracy than the strongest baseline-while producing structured diagnostic reports that directly inform agent improvement.
Abstract:Video is a scalable observation of physical dynamics: it captures how objects move, how contact unfolds, and how scenes evolve under interaction -- all without requiring robot action labels. Yet translating this temporal structure into reliable robotic control remains an open challenge, because video lacks action supervision and differs from robot experience in embodiment, viewpoint, and physical constraints. This survey reviews methods that exploit non-action-annotated temporal video to learn control interfaces for robotic manipulation. We introduce an \emph{interface-centric taxonomy} organized by where the video-to-control interface is constructed and what control properties it enables, identifying three families: direct video--action policies, which keep the interface implicit; latent-action methods, which route temporal structure through a compact learned intermediate; and explicit visual interfaces, which predict interpretable targets for downstream control. For each family, we analyze control-integration properties -- how the loop is closed, what can be verified before execution, and where failures enter. A cross-family synthesis reveals that the most pressing open challenges center on the \emph{robotics integration layer} -- the mechanisms that connect video-derived predictions to dependable robot behavior -- and we outline research directions toward closing this gap.
Abstract:Current vision-language navigation methods face substantial bottlenecks regarding heterogeneous robot compatibility, real-time performance, and navigation safety. Furthermore, they struggle to support open-vocabulary semantic generalization and multimodal task inputs. To address these challenges, this paper proposes FSUNav: a Cerebrum-Cerebellum architecture for fast, safe, and universal zero-shot goal-oriented navigation, which innovatively integrates vision-language models (VLMs) with the proposed architecture. The cerebellum module, a high-frequency end-to-end module, develops a universal local planner based on deep reinforcement learning, enabling unified navigation across heterogeneous platforms (e.g., humanoid, quadruped, wheeled robots) to improve navigation efficiency while significantly reducing collision risk. The cerebrum module constructs a three-layer reasoning model and leverages VLMs to build an end-to-end detection and verification mechanism, enabling zero-shot open-vocabulary goal navigation without predefined IDs and improving task success rates in both simulation and real-world environments. Additionally, the framework supports multimodal inputs (e.g., text, target descriptions, and images), further enhancing generalization, real-time performance, safety, and robustness. Experimental results on MP3D, HM3D, and OVON benchmarks demonstrate that FSUNav achieves state-of-the-art performance on object, instance image, and task navigation, significantly outperforming existing methods. Real-world deployments on diverse robotic platforms further validate its robustness and practical applicability.