and Other Contributors
Abstract:Failure diagnosis in modern software systems requires iterative evidence acquisition and hypothesis reasoning guided by operational experience. Existing LLM-based methods improve diagnosis through agentic reasoning or knowledge augmentation, but they often lack a mechanism to coordinate the evolving diagnostic state with operational experience during iterative diagnosis. We propose OpsMem, a dual-memory framework that maintains a short-term memory for the current diagnostic state and a long-term memory for reusable operational experience. OpsMem uses cross-memory resonance to activate state-relevant long-term memory, conditions multi-agent diagnosis on the short-term and activated long-term memories, and consolidates reusable experience from solved incidents back into long-term memory. Experiments on a real-world Huawei microservice failure diagnosis dataset show that OpsMem outperforms representative agentic-reasoning and knowledge-augmented baselines, improving Match and Relevant by up to 46.88% and 18.39% over the strongest baseline, respectively.
Abstract:Researchers organize the papers they collect into personal folder hierarchies in reference managers, and route each new paper into the folder where it belongs. This task differs from standard hierarchical text classification. A user's folder hierarchy is not a fixed, shared taxonomy but a private and evolving folksonomy whose folder meanings may be topical, shorthand, venue-based, or process-oriented, and are often defined by the papers already stored inside them. We formalize this setting as personalized hierarchical paper routing (PHPR): assigning an incoming paper to folders in a user-specific hierarchy without per-user training. We propose PaperRouter-Agent, a training-free LLM agent that grounds routing decisions in folder members rather than folder names alone. The agent first narrows the candidate hierarchy, retrieves folder-specific evidence, verifies fit by inspecting member papers, and incorporates similarity-gated feedback from past user rejections. A formative study on real personal libraries shows that PaperRouter-Agent raises overall Recall@1 from 0.39 to 0.61 and Recall@3 from 0.57 to 0.83, with the largest gains on organizational folders defined by metadata such as venue or year, where single-shot methods collapses (Recall@1 0.09 to 0.50). On the public LaMP-2 benchmark, the same approach improves accuracy from 44.5% to 51.5% (+9.0 macro-F1) over a single-shot baseline, while remaining low-cost for practical use.
Abstract:Social intelligence is a core competency for language agents, yet current research primarily focuses on static capability evaluation rather than how these skills are continuously shaped and accumulated. This gap calls for a shift toward sustainable learning paradigms. Currently, two methodological pain points exist: social interaction trajectories lack unified structured representations to form iterable learning signals, and capability improvement and retention are typically studied in isolation, hindering the assessment of continuous evolution. To bridge this gap, we propose the Social World Model. We decompose social interaction into five dimensions (scene setting, observation, mental state, action, and dialogue) to build a closed-loop learning framework. In this setup, agents collect interaction experiences, convert them into preference signals for model updating, and redeploy the updated policy for continued learning. Additionally, we provide a reusable data synthesis mechanism and a lifelong learning benchmark, transforming social capabilities from an "object of evaluation" into an "object of sustainable training". Validating our framework on the ASCENT-Bench, the interactively trained Qwen2.5-7B model outperforms its baseline across all five core metrics. Notably, it matches the closed-source Gemini 3 Flash in completion rate, exceeds it in pass rate, and achieves zero forgetting across three difficulty levels. Unlike prior works that merely report static comparisons or capability decay, this end-to-end approach provides a trainable, verifiable, and retainable pathway, demonstrating that small open-source models can sustainably acquire competitive social coordination capabilities.
Abstract:Generating formal specifications for C programs remains a challenge in formal verification due to the manual effort, expertise, and semantic precision required. While recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) offer promise in automating specification synthesis, current approaches often lack semantic depth and produce unverifiable or incomplete contracts. To address these limitations, we introduce AutoACSL, a novel framework that integrates LLM prompting with semantic features extracted from Code Property Graphs (CPGs). AutoACSL performs static analyses to extract key semantic elements, including arithmetic operations, loop and recursion structures, and return value propagation, which are encoded into structured prompts. These prompts enable the LLM not only to generate normal behavioral specifications but also to include constraints that prevent inputs leading to runtime errors. AutoACSL employs a feedback-driven synthesis loop, where candidate specifications are verified using Frama-C/WP and refined iteratively until verification succeeds or a termination condition is met. Evaluated on 604 programs drawn from diverse datasets, AutoACSL achieves a 98% specification generation success ratio and a 96% full proof ratio when paired with Gemini-3. Compared to a code-only baseline, AutoACSL improves the full proof ratio by 24.7% to 51.7% across four LLMs (GPT-o4 Mini, GPT-5.2, Grok-4.1, and Gemini-3), demonstrating that integrating large language models with CPG-based static analysis substantially enhances both generation robustness and verification effectiveness for automated ACSL specification synthesis.
Abstract:Remote-sensing foundation models (RSFMs) benefit from pretraining on imagery from multiple sensors and ground sampling distances (GSDs), but such exposure alone does not resolve scale mismatch during downstream adaptation. A fixed token-grid offset can correspond to different ground distances across sensors, making grid-based positional priors physically inconsistent. Meanwhile, heterogeneous spatial granularity means that compact urban regions and homogeneous landscapes may require different positional sensitivities even under the same GSD. Therefore, we propose {GeoRoPE}, a ground-aware, RoPE-compatible, and parameter-efficient spatial adaptation method for RSFMs. GeoRoPE recalibrates token-level positional interactions from two complementary aspects. First, \textit{Geo-Coordinate Calibration (GCC)} rescales raw token-grid offsets according to the ground distance represented by one token-grid step, producing geo-calibrated relative coordinates across GSDs. Second, \textit{Geo-Frequency Calibration (GFC)} adjusts the native RoPE frequency with a relation-specific factor, enabling position sensitive adaptation to scene-dependent spatial granularity. GeoRoPE is injected into pretrained RSFMs through a lightweight adapter, preserving the frozen spatial prior while adding geo-aware positional corrections. Experiments across multiple RSFMs, sensors, resolutions, and downstream tasks demonstrate that GeoRoPE improves cross-resolution robustness and scale-sensitive representation learning.
Abstract:Unified audio-language modeling has emerged as a prominent trend in modern speech systems, promising to bring the reasoning capabilities of large language models to auditory tasks. However, existing unified foundations often struggle to match the depth of specialized systems across automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), and realtime spoken interaction. Bridging this gap remains an open challenge. This report presents StepAudio 2.5, a unified audio-language foundation model that matches or exceeds specialized systems across all three capabilities. Rather than treating these tasks as architecturally distinct, we operate on the premise that once text and audio share a multimodal representational space, task specialization becomes a matter of operational regimes: data construction, optimization targets, and decoding constraints. Guided by this insight, we advance the post-training paradigm from standard supervised learning to task-tailored Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), using it as the primary mechanism to define complex optimization targets. We leverage this RLHF-centric alignment, alongside specialized decoding, to shape a shared backbone into three distinct operational modes. Concretely, the ASR branch advances transcription efficiency via verifiable multi-token decoding; the TTS branch achieves controllable, expressive synthesis through preference-based RLHF and context-rich supervision; and the Realtime branch realizes low-latency, persona-consistent dialogue via generative reward modeling within an RLHF framework. On standard benchmarks, StepAudio 2.5 achieves state-of-the-art results across ASR, TTS, and Realtime, demonstrating that a singular audio-language foundation can successfully internalize the distinct deployment objectives of speech understanding, generation, and live interaction.
Abstract:Accurate crop yield prediction is crucial for sustainable agriculture and global food security. While existing methods are predominantly developed for single-crop prediction, they often struggle to generalize across diverse crop types, without addressing the unique crop phenological responses that are dynamically modulated by complex weather patterns. In this paper, we propose PhenoYieldNet, a multi-crop yield prediction framework that learns crop-specific phenology by explicitly modeling their responses with temporal drivers. Specifically, we develop a crop-aware temporal decoder consisting of a Crop Phenology Bank (CPB) and a Crop Phenology Attention (CPA) module. The CPB integrates a set of learnable embeddings, which leverage a query to guide the CPA module to learn the most relevant phenology patterns for the specific crop. And the CPA module explicitly captures multi-scale trend and variation components to construct temporal contexts, enabling the model to dynamically adjust the attention across different phenological stages. To learn robust and generalizable features for multi-crop prediction, the encoder is initialized with a pre-trained foundation model, and further adapted via a self-supervised Temporal Contrastive Adaptation strategy to align with agricultural temporal dynamics. Extensive experiments conducted on multi-crop datasets indicate that our proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, exhibiting strong generalization capabilities across different regions and crops.
Abstract:Existing precipitation nowcasting methods typically adopt an autoregressive formulation, where future states are predicted from previous outputs. However, such an approach accumulates errors over long rollouts, causing forecasts to drift away from physically plausible evolution trajectories. Although various studies have attempted to alleviate this problem by improving step-wise prediction accuracy, they largely neglect the global temporal evolution of meteorological systems and lack mechanisms to actively correct drift during rollouts. To address this issue, we propose McCast, a memory-guided latent drift correction method for precipitation nowcasting. Rather than treating memory as an unordered dictionary of latent states for passive conditioning, McCast leverages temporally organized memory to actively correct autoregressive latent evolution. Specifically, McCast introduces a Drift-Corrective Memory Bank (DCBank) that explicitly estimates the temporally consistent drift corrections to calibrate the divergent trajectory. DCBank performs drift correction in two stages: a Corrective Latent Extractor first predicts an initial correction from the current prediction and a reference latent state, and a Correction-Aware Memory Retrieval module then refines the initial correction using temporally organized historical memory. By explicitly correcting latent evolution, instead of improving step-wise prediction accuracy only, McCast produces more temporally coherent and reliable long-horizon forecasts. Experiments on two widely used benchmarks, SEVIR and MeteoNet, show that McCast achieves state-of-the-art performance, particularly in challenging long-horizon forecasting scenarios.
Abstract:Evaluating the writing capabilities of large language models (LLMs) remains a significant challenge due to the multidimensional nature of writing skills and the limitations of existing metrics. LLM's performance in thousand-words level and open-ended writing is inadequately assessed by traditional reference-based metrics or modern LLM-as-a-judge methods. We propose Tree-of-Writing (ToW), to resolve the implicit inconsistency often found when LLM-as-a-judge aggregates all sub-features in text evaluation. ToW incorporates a tree-structured workflow by explicitly modeling the aggregation weights of sub-features. We also present HowToBench, a large-scale Chinese writing benchmark encompassing 12 genres and 1302 instructions across three task categories: contextual completion, outline-guided writing, and open-ended generation. ToW successfully mitigates the biases, achieving a 0.93 Pearson correlation with human judgments. Furthermore, we detect that both overlap-based text generation metrics and popular LLM-as-a-judge practices are vulnerable to textual disturbances, while ToW is robust to them. We also uncover a negative correlation between input length and content-related scores in the Guide task, showcasing that it cannot be simply improved by input-side information piling.
Abstract:Large reasoning models (LRMs) have achieved strong performance enhancement through scaling test time computation, but due to the inherent limitations of the underlying language models, they still have shortcomings in tasks that require precise computation and extensive knowledge reserves. Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) has emerged as a promising paradigm that incorporates tool call and execution within the reasoning trajectory. Although recent works have released some powerful open-source TIR models, our analysis reveals that these models still suffer from critical deficiencies. We find that when the reasoning of the model conflicts with the tool results, the model tends to believe in its own reasoning. And there are cases where the tool results are correct but are ignored by the model, resulting in incorrect answers, which we define as "Tool Ignored''. This indicates that the model does not know when to trust or ignore the tool. To overcome these limitations, We introduce Adaptive Tool Trust Calibration (ATTC), a novel framework that guides the model to adaptively choose to trust or ignore the tool results based on the confidence score of generated code blocks. The experimental results from various open-source TIR models of different sizes and across multiple datasets demonstrate that ATTC effectively reduces the "Tool Ignored" issue, resulting in a performance increase of 4.1% to 7.5%.