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Teamwise: Exploring Virtually Embodied Ai Facilitation For Video-Based Team Onboarding, Venkata Akhila Rani Obilisetty, Mikkeline Elleby, Anthony Tang, April Yi Wang Apr 2026

Teamwise: Exploring Virtually Embodied Ai Facilitation For Video-Based Team Onboarding, Venkata Akhila Rani Obilisetty, Mikkeline Elleby, Anthony Tang, April Yi Wang

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AI-mediated facilitation has emerged as a scalable approach to supporting onboarding and coordination in newly formed remote teams, yet existing systems are predominantly text-based. To explore how video-based, virtually embodied AI facilitators shape team experiences, we present TeamWise, which joins video-based onboarding meetings as an on-screen avatar. TeamWise guides teams through a structured facilitation flow of low-stakes activities to foster rapport, mutual awareness, and shared identity. While the overall sequence of activities and facilitation goals is predefined, the facilitator’s turn-by-turn utterances are generated dynamically by an LLM in response to participant input. We conducted a formative study of TeamWise to …


Who You Explain To Matters: Learning By Explaining To Conversational Agents With Different Pedagogical Roles, Zhengtao Xu, Junti Zhang, Anthony Tang, Yi-Chieh Lee Apr 2026

Who You Explain To Matters: Learning By Explaining To Conversational Agents With Different Pedagogical Roles, Zhengtao Xu, Junti Zhang, Anthony Tang, Yi-Chieh Lee

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Conversational agents are increasingly used in education for learning support. An application is “learning by explaining”, where learners explain their understanding to an agent. However, existing research focuses on single roles, leaving it unclear how different pedagogical roles influence learners’ interaction patterns, learning outcomes and experiences. We conducted a between-subjects study (N=96) comparing agents with three pedagogical roles (Tutee, Peer, Challenger) and a control condition while learning an economics concept. We found that different pedagogical roles shaped learning dynamics, including interaction patterns and experiences. Specifically, the Tutee agent elicited the most cognitive investment but led to high pressure. The Peer …


Challenges In Synchronous And Remote Collaboration Around Visualization, Matthew Brehmer, Maxime Cordeil, Christophe Hurter, Takayuki Itoh, Wolfgang Büschel, Mahmood Jasim, Arnaud Prouzeau, David Saffo, Lyn Bartram, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chen Zhu-Tian, Andrew Cunningham, Anthony Tang, Samuel Huron, Masahiko Itoh, Arpit Joshi, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Bongshin Lee, Guillermo Molina León Apr 2026

Challenges In Synchronous And Remote Collaboration Around Visualization, Matthew Brehmer, Maxime Cordeil, Christophe Hurter, Takayuki Itoh, Wolfgang Büschel, Mahmood Jasim, Arnaud Prouzeau, David Saffo, Lyn Bartram, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chen Zhu-Tian, Andrew Cunningham, Anthony Tang, Samuel Huron, Masahiko Itoh, Arpit Joshi, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Bongshin Lee, Guillermo Molina León

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We characterize 16 challenges faced by those investigating and developing remote and synchronous collaborative experiences around visualization. Our work reflects the perspectives and prior research efforts of an international group of 29 experts from across human-computer interaction and visualization sub-communities. The challenges are anchored around five collaborative activities that exhibit a centrality of visualization and multimodal communication. These activities include exploratory data analysis, creative ideation, visualization-rich presentations, joint decision making grounded in data, and real-time data monitoring. The challenges also reflect the changing dynamics of these activities in the face of recent advances in extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence …


Reasoning On Time-Series For Financial Technical Analysis, Kelvin J. L. Koa, Jan Chen, Yunshan Ma, Huanhuan Zheng, Tat-Seng Chua Apr 2026

Reasoning On Time-Series For Financial Technical Analysis, Kelvin J. L. Koa, Jan Chen, Yunshan Ma, Huanhuan Zheng, Tat-Seng Chua

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While Large Language Models have been used to produce interpretable stock forecasts, they mainly focus on analyzing textual reports but not historical price data, also known as Technical Analysis. This task is challenging as it switches between domains: the stock price inputs and outputs lie in the time-series domain, while the reasoning step should be in natural language. In this work, we introduce Verbal Technical Analysis (VTA), a novel framework that combine verbal and latent reasoning to produce stock time-series forecasts that are both accurate and interpretable. To reason over time-series, we convert stock price data into textual annotations and …


Visual Loop: Bridging The Cognitive Gap In Software Development Through Visual-Ai Collaboration, Luis Filipe Fernandes Gomes, Xin Zhou, David Lo, Rui Abreu Apr 2026

Visual Loop: Bridging The Cognitive Gap In Software Development Through Visual-Ai Collaboration, Luis Filipe Fernandes Gomes, Xin Zhou, David Lo, Rui Abreu

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Software development remains predominantly text-centric, despite decades of evidence showing that developers think and communicate visually. While sketches and diagrams externalize developers’ mental models, they remain disconnected from source code and quickly become outdated. Recent advances in foundation models, capable of both code and visual reasoning, create an opportunity to unify these representations. In this vision paper, we introduce Visual Loop, a continuous visual development environment that keeps code and informal sketches in bidirectional synchronization. Our prototype connects a code editor with a tablet-based visualization workspace, allowing developers to explore, annotate, and modify systems through freehand sketches interpreted by multimodal …


Understanding Codebase Like A Professional! Human-Ai Collaboration For Code Comprehension, Jie Gao, Yue Xue, Xiaofei Xie, Junming Cao, Soemin Thant, Erika Lee, Bowen Xu Apr 2026

Understanding Codebase Like A Professional! Human-Ai Collaboration For Code Comprehension, Jie Gao, Yue Xue, Xiaofei Xie, Junming Cao, Soemin Thant, Erika Lee, Bowen Xu

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Understanding an unfamiliar codebase is an essential task for developers in various scenarios, such as during the onboarding process. Especially when the codebase is large and time is limited, achieving a decent level of comprehension remains challenging for both experienced and novice developers, even with the assistance of large language models (LLMs). Existing studies have shown that LLMs often fail to support users in understanding code structures or to provide user-centered, adaptive, and dynamic assistance in real-world settings.To address this, we propose learning from the perspective of a unique role, code auditors, whose work often requires them to quickly familiarize …


Autobackdoor: Automating Backdoor Attacks Via Llm Agents, Yige Li, Zhe Li, Wei Zhao, Nay Myat Min, Hanxun Huang, Xingjun Ma, Jun Sun Apr 2026

Autobackdoor: Automating Backdoor Attacks Via Llm Agents, Yige Li, Zhe Li, Wei Zhao, Nay Myat Min, Hanxun Huang, Xingjun Ma, Jun Sun

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Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to the secure deployment of large language models (LLMs), enabling adversaries to implant hidden behaviors triggered by specific inputs. However, existing methods often rely on manually crafted triggers and static data pipelines, which are rigid, labor-intensive, and inadequate for systematically evaluating modern defense robustness. As AI agents become increasingly capable, there is a growing need for more rigorous, diverse, and scalable \textit{red-teaming frameworks} that can realistically simulate backdoor threats and assess model resilience under adversarial conditions. In this work, we introduce \textsc{AutoBackdoor}, a general framework for automating backdoor injection, encompassing trigger generation, poisoned data …


Codeultrafeedback: An Llm-As-A-Judge Dataset For Aligning Large Language Models To Coding Preferences, Martin Weyssow, Aton Kamanda, Xin Zhou, Houari Sahraoui Mar 2026

Codeultrafeedback: An Llm-As-A-Judge Dataset For Aligning Large Language Models To Coding Preferences, Martin Weyssow, Aton Kamanda, Xin Zhou, Houari Sahraoui

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Evaluating the alignment of large language models (LLMs) with user-defined coding preferences is a challenging endeavor that requires a deep assessment of LLMs' outputs. Existing methods and benchmarks rely primarily on automated metrics and static analysis tools, which often fail to capture the nuances of user instructions and LLM outputs. To address this gap, we introduce the LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation framework and present CodeUltraFeedback, a comprehensive dataset for assessing and improving LLM alignment with coding preferences. CodeUltraFeedback consists of 10,000 coding instructions, each annotated with four responses generated from a diverse pool of 14 LLMs. These responses are annotated using GPT-3.5 …


Plm-Effector: Unleashing The Potential Of Protein Language Models For Bacterial Secreted Protein Prediction, Dandan Zheng, Lihong Chen, Guansong Pang, Jian Yang Mar 2026

Plm-Effector: Unleashing The Potential Of Protein Language Models For Bacterial Secreted Protein Prediction, Dandan Zheng, Lihong Chen, Guansong Pang, Jian Yang

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Bacterial secreted proteins, particularly effectors delivered by specialized secretion systems, are key mediators of virulence and host-pathogen interactions. However, accurate computational identification remains challenging, as many existing methods rely heavily on sequence similarity or handcrafted features, and often focus on a single secretion system. Recent studies have reported that some bacterial effectors may be associated with more than one secretion system, highlighting the complexity of secretion system annotation and motivating the development of system-aware computational prediction approaches. Here, we present PLM-Effector, a hybrid deep learning framework that integrates modern protein language models (PLMs) with multiple neural architectures via a two-layer …


Navigation Beyond Wayfinding: Robots Collaborating With Visually Impaired Users For Environmental Interactions, Shaojun Cai, Nuwan Janaka, Ashwin Ram, Janidu Shehan, Yingjia Wan, Kotaro Hara, David Hsu Mar 2026

Navigation Beyond Wayfinding: Robots Collaborating With Visually Impaired Users For Environmental Interactions, Shaojun Cai, Nuwan Janaka, Ashwin Ram, Janidu Shehan, Yingjia Wan, Kotaro Hara, David Hsu

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Robotic guidance systems have shown promise in supporting blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals with wayfinding and obstacle avoidance. However, most existing systems assume a clear path and do not support a critical aspect of navigation—environmental interactions that require manipulating objects to enable movement. These interactions are challenging for a human–robot pair because they demand (i) precise localization and manipulation of interaction targets (e.g., pressing elevator buttons) and (ii) dynamic coordination between the user’s and robot’s movements (e.g., pulling out a chair to sit). We present a collaborative human–robot approach that combines our robotic guide dog’s precise sensing and localization …


Private Set Intersection: A Systematic Review, Yunbo Yang, Defan Zhu, Jianting Ning, Qi Feng, Xiaoguo Li, Yuejia Cheng, Guomin Yang, Kui Ren Mar 2026

Private Set Intersection: A Systematic Review, Yunbo Yang, Defan Zhu, Jianting Ning, Qi Feng, Xiaoguo Li, Yuejia Cheng, Guomin Yang, Kui Ren

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Various services, such as search engines, are increasingly deployed in cloud-based and distributed systems. However, data are typically managed by trusted servers, making user privacy and data security critical concerns. Private set intersection (PSI) is a powerful cryptographic primitive that enables multiple parties to compute the intersection of their datasets without revealing private inputs. It has been extensively studied over the past two decades, leading to significant gains in computational and communication efficiency. Yet, in many real-world scenarios, revealing the raw intersection may still leak sensitive information. To address this, numerous PSI variants have been developed to meet different application …


Identifying And Mitigating Api Misuse In Large Language Models, Terry Yue Zhuo, Junda He, Jiamou Sun, Zhenchang Xing, David Lo, John Grundy, Xiaoning Du Mar 2026

Identifying And Mitigating Api Misuse In Large Language Models, Terry Yue Zhuo, Junda He, Jiamou Sun, Zhenchang Xing, David Lo, John Grundy, Xiaoning Du

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API misuse in code generated by large language models (LLMs) presents a serious and growing challenge in software development. While LLMs demonstrate impressive code generation capabilities, their interactions with complex library APIs are often error-prone, potentially leading to software failures and vulnerabilities. In this paper, we conduct a large-scale study of API misuse patterns in LLM-generated code, analyzing both method selection and parameter usage across Python and Java, using three representative LLMs (StarCoder-7B, Qwen2.5-Coder-7B, and GitHub Copilot). Based on extensive manual annotation of 3,209 method-level and 3,492 parameter-level misuses, we identify and categorize four recurring misuse types by building on …


Deep Learning Approaches For Anti-Money Laundering On Mobile Transactions: Review, Framework, And Directions, Jiani Fan, Lwin Khin Shar, Ruichen Zhang, Ziyao Liu, Wenzhuo Yang, Dusit Niyato, Kwok-Yan Lam Mar 2026

Deep Learning Approaches For Anti-Money Laundering On Mobile Transactions: Review, Framework, And Directions, Jiani Fan, Lwin Khin Shar, Ruichen Zhang, Ziyao Liu, Wenzhuo Yang, Dusit Niyato, Kwok-Yan Lam

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Money laundering is a financial crime that obscures the origin of illicit funds, necessitating the development and enforcement of anti-money laundering (AML) policies by governments and organizations. The proliferation of mobile payment platforms and smart IoT devices has significantly complicated AML investigations. As payment networks become more interconnected, there is an increasing need for efficient real-time detection to process large volumes of transaction data on heterogeneous payment systems by different operators such as digital currencies, cryptocurrencies, and account-based payments. Most of these mobile payment networks are supported by connected devices, many of which are considered loT devices in the FinTech …


Invert Your Prompt: Editing-Aware Diffusion Inversion, Yangyang Xu, Wenqi Shao, Yong Du, Haiming Zhu, Yang Zhou, Jiayuan Xie, Ping Luo, Shengfeng He Mar 2026

Invert Your Prompt: Editing-Aware Diffusion Inversion, Yangyang Xu, Wenqi Shao, Yong Du, Haiming Zhu, Yang Zhou, Jiayuan Xie, Ping Luo, Shengfeng He

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Recent advancements in text-guided diffusion models have enabled powerful image manipulation capabilities. However, balancing reconstruction fidelity and editability for real images remains a significant challenge. In this work, we introduce Editing Inversion (EditInv), a novel framework that inverts and edits real images for specific editing tasks by optimizing specific prompt embeddings within the extended  space. By leveraging distinct embeddings across different U-Net layers and time steps, EditInv seamlessly integrates inversion and editing through reciprocal optimization, ensuring both high fidelity and precise editability. This hierarchical editing mechanism classifies tasks into structure, appearance, and global edits, optimizing only those embeddings that are …


Cylindformer: Image-To-Point Cloud Registration With Cylindrical Transformer, Jingtao Wang, Hao Tang, Yanpeng Sun, Shengfeng He, Zechao Li Mar 2026

Cylindformer: Image-To-Point Cloud Registration With Cylindrical Transformer, Jingtao Wang, Hao Tang, Yanpeng Sun, Shengfeng He, Zechao Li

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Accurate correspondence extraction between distinctive pixel-wise and point-wise features is critical for image-to-point cloud (I2P) registration. Recent efforts leveraging Transformers for I2P feature representation have demonstrated potential, primarily by first capturing intra-modality global contextual dependencies via self-attention, and then learning cross-modality correlations via cross-attention. The strength of vanilla Transformers lies in modeling cross-modality global feature correlations. However, such mechanisms often struggle with the structural disparity between dense image pixels and sparse 3D points, hindering the establishment of fine-grained correspondences. Moreover, global attention may introduce ambiguity, as interactions with many inconsistent regions of intra-modality may degrade feature distinctiveness. To address these …


Exploring Neural Network Structure Code Reuse In The Open-Source Community For Improving Maintenance, Xiaoning Ren, Yuekun Wang, Chongyang Liu, Yueming Wu, Qiang Hu, Lijun Zhang, Yinxing Xue Mar 2026

Exploring Neural Network Structure Code Reuse In The Open-Source Community For Improving Maintenance, Xiaoning Ren, Yuekun Wang, Chongyang Liu, Yueming Wu, Qiang Hu, Lijun Zhang, Yinxing Xue

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Neural networks (NNs) have rapidly advanced, demonstrating exceptional performance across various fields, leading to a surge in open-source NN projects. The complexity and rapid growth of these projects pose significant challenges for maintenance within the open-source community. Given that NN architecture code is the core asset of NN projects, understanding its reuse in the open-source community is essential for effective maintenance, such as reducing redundancy and identifying potential intellectual property violations. While prior studies have examined code reuse in open-source projects, they have two key limitations: They do not specifically address NN structure code, and they rely on manually selected …


Compositions Of Variant Experts For Integrating Short-Term And Long-Term Preferences, Dinh Hieu Do, Hady Wirawan Lauw Mar 2026

Compositions Of Variant Experts For Integrating Short-Term And Long-Term Preferences, Dinh Hieu Do, Hady Wirawan Lauw

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In the online digital realm, recommendation systems are ubiquitous and play a crucial role in enhancing user experience. These systems leverage user preferences to provide personalized recommendations, thereby helping users navigate through the paradox of choice. This work focuses on personalized sequential recommendation, where the system considers not only a user’s immediate, evolving session context, but also their cumulative historical behavior to provide highly relevant and timely recommendations. Through an empirical study conducted on diverse real-world datasets, we have observed and quantified the existence and impact of both short-term (immediate and transient) and long-term (enduring and stable) preferences on users’ …


A Novel Privacy-Preserving User Information Queries Scheme With Functional Policy, Yuhang Lei, Rui Shi, Yang Yang, Chunjie Cao, Huamin Feng Mar 2026

A Novel Privacy-Preserving User Information Queries Scheme With Functional Policy, Yuhang Lei, Rui Shi, Yang Yang, Chunjie Cao, Huamin Feng

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Privacy-preserving information queries enable a requester to obtain only the value f(x) computed over sensitive data x, while preventing disclosure of the underlying records. Existing approaches typically reveal full data, incur high on-chain overhead, or lack fair and verifiable delivery of function outputs. We propose a general-purpose, blockchain-compatible framework that ensures the requester learns only f(x) with no extra leakage and that the provider receives fair payment. The design integrates Adaptor Signatures (AS) for fair exchange and Inner-Product Functional Encryption (IPFE) for fine-grained function extraction. The framework is domain-agnostic and applicable to privacy-sensitive applications such as medical insurance and financial …


Efficient Active Training For Deep Lidar Odometry, Beibei Zhou, Zhiyuan Zhang, Zhenbo Song, Jianhui Guo, Hui Kong Mar 2026

Efficient Active Training For Deep Lidar Odometry, Beibei Zhou, Zhiyuan Zhang, Zhenbo Song, Jianhui Guo, Hui Kong

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Robust and efficient deep LiDAR odometry models are crucial for accurate localization and 3D reconstruction, but typically require extensive and diverse training data to adapt to diverse environments, leading to inefficiencies. To tackle this, we introduce an active training framework designed to selectively extract training data from diverse environments, thereby reducing the training load and enhancing model generalization. Our framework is based on two key strategies: Initial Training Set Selection (ITSS) and Active Incremental Selection (AIS). ITSS begins by breaking down motion sequences from general weather into nodes and edges for detailed trajectory analysis, prioritizing diverse sequences to form a …


Opencil: Benchmarking Out-Of-Distribution Detection In Class Incremental Learning, Wenjun Miao, Guansong Pang, Trong-Tung Nguyen, Ruohuan Fang, Jin Zheng, Xiao Bai Mar 2026

Opencil: Benchmarking Out-Of-Distribution Detection In Class Incremental Learning, Wenjun Miao, Guansong Pang, Trong-Tung Nguyen, Ruohuan Fang, Jin Zheng, Xiao Bai

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Class incremental learning (CIL) aims to learn a model that can not only incrementally accommodate new classes, but also maintain the learned knowledge of old classes. Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection in CIL is to retain this incremental learning ability, while being able to reject unknown samples that are drawn from different distributions of the learned classes. This capability is crucial to the safety of deploying CIL models in open worlds. However, despite remarkable advancements in the respective CIL and OOD detection, there lacks a systematic and large-scale benchmark to assess the capability of advanced CIL models in detecting OOD samples. To …


Comprehensively Evaluating The Perception Systems Of Autonomous Vehicles Against Hazards, Xiaodong Zhang, Jie Bao, Jianlei Chi, Jun Sun, Zijiang Yang Mar 2026

Comprehensively Evaluating The Perception Systems Of Autonomous Vehicles Against Hazards, Xiaodong Zhang, Jie Bao, Jianlei Chi, Jun Sun, Zijiang Yang

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Perception systems are vital for the safety of autonomous driving. In complex autonomous driving scenarios, autonomous vehicles must overcome various natural hazards, such as heavy rain or raindrops on the camera lens. Therefore, it is essential to conduct comprehensive testing of the perception systems in autonomous vehicles against these hazards, as demanded by the regulatory agencies of many countries for human drivers. Since there are many hazard scenarios, each of which has multiple configurable parameters, the challenges are (1) how do we systematically and adequately test an autonomous vehicle against these hazard scenarios, with measurable outcome; and (2) how do …


Interpretable Machine Learning For Personalized Profiling Of Mild Cognitive Impairment From Daily Activities, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan, Kenneth Kwok, Iris Rawtaer Mar 2026

Interpretable Machine Learning For Personalized Profiling Of Mild Cognitive Impairment From Daily Activities, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan, Kenneth Kwok, Iris Rawtaer

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Continuous monitoring of individual daily activities is essential to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) wherein timely intervention can still be applied to prevent more severe mental decline. Recent approaches in predicting MCI are mostly considering digital biomarkers across individuals but often neglecting specific indicators from a single person over a long period of time. Making this personalized, dynamic, and highly noisy prediction model with irregular distribution of missing information to be explainable and actionable for clinical use, remains a challenge. This paper presents a study on a personalized MCI prediction and profiling from an in-home and mobile cognitive health monitoring …


Improving Credit Card Transaction Fraud Detection Using Cvqboosting, Bethel Hui Ting Loke, Nirvik Sahoo, Bingyan Guan, Minrui Xu, Dev Verma, Paul R. Griffin Mar 2026

Improving Credit Card Transaction Fraud Detection Using Cvqboosting, Bethel Hui Ting Loke, Nirvik Sahoo, Bingyan Guan, Minrui Xu, Dev Verma, Paul R. Griffin

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This paper introduces a novel hybrid quantum-classical approach to credit card fraud detection using CVQBoost, a hybrid quantum-classical boosting algorithm executed on the photonic Dirac-3 processor from Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi). By integrating a diverse set of weak classifiers, which includes K-nearest neighbours (KNN), linear discriminant analysis, logistic regression, and XGBoost, within a hybrid quantum-classical ensemble, the proposed method demonstrates significant improvements over the latest published classical benchmarks. Experiments on a Kaggle credit card fraud dataset show that the quantum-enhanced model achieves a mean AUC-PR score of over 0.8, corresponding to an approximately 9% relative improvement over the best published …


A Knowledge Transfer-Based Membrane Evolutionary Algorithm For Solving Large-Scale Sorted Waste Collection Problem With Timeliness, Wenxue Zhang, Boquan Gao, Aldy Gunawan, Yunyun Niu, Jianhua Xiao Mar 2026

A Knowledge Transfer-Based Membrane Evolutionary Algorithm For Solving Large-Scale Sorted Waste Collection Problem With Timeliness, Wenxue Zhang, Boquan Gao, Aldy Gunawan, Yunyun Niu, Jianhua Xiao

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The sorted collection of municipal solid waste has emerged as an effective waste management strategy due to varying timeliness requirements across different waste types, giving rise to the critical research challenge of timeliness-based waste collection. While existing algorithms primarily focus on small-scale versions of this problem, solving large-scale timeliness-based waste collection problems remains particularly challenging. To tackle this issue, this paper proposes a knowledge transfer-based membrane evolutionary algorithm. Specifically, the original problem and simplified problem are constructed in different membranes respectively, and the knowledge transfer learning mechanism is incorporated into the membrane evolutionary algorithm, enabling effective information exchange between the …


Learning To Search For Vehicle Routing With Multiple Time Windows, Kuan Xu, Zhiguang Cao, Chenlong Zheng, Lindong Liu Mar 2026

Learning To Search For Vehicle Routing With Multiple Time Windows, Kuan Xu, Zhiguang Cao, Chenlong Zheng, Lindong Liu

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In this study, we propose a reinforcement learning-based adaptive variable neighborhood search (RL-AVNS) method designed for effectively solving the Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Time Windows (VRPMTW). Unlike traditional adaptive approaches that rely solely on historical operator performance, our method integrates a reinforcement learning framework to dynamically select neighborhood operators based on real-time solution states and learned experience. We introduce a fitness metric that quantifies customers’ temporal flexibility to improve the shaking phase, and employ a transformer-based neural policy network to intelligently guide operator selection during the local search. Extensive computational experiments are conducted on realistic scenarios derived from the …


Addressing Graph Heterogeneity And Heterophily From A Spectral Perspective, Kangkang Lu, Yanhua Yu, Ruopei Guo, Nan Cheng, Zhiyong Huang, Yunshan Ma, Meiyu Liang, Yuling Wang, Xiting Qin, Yimeng Ren, Tat-Seng Chua Mar 2026

Addressing Graph Heterogeneity And Heterophily From A Spectral Perspective, Kangkang Lu, Yanhua Yu, Ruopei Guo, Nan Cheng, Zhiyong Huang, Yunshan Ma, Meiyu Liang, Yuling Wang, Xiting Qin, Yimeng Ren, Tat-Seng Chua

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) face two key challenges, heterogeneity and heterophily, which often degrade performance. Existing approaches either focus narrowly on specific meta-paths, limiting their expressiveness, or are expressive but cannot effectively leverage higher-order neighbors. In this paper, we propose the Heterogeneous Heterophilic Spectral Graph Neural Network (H2SGNN), which combines local independent filtering to adaptively handle meta-path subgraphs with varying homophily ratios, and global hybrid filtering to capture high-order neighbor interactions with linear computational complexity. On five heterogeneous graph benchmarks—DBLP, ACM, IMDB, AMiner, and Yelp—H2SGNN consistently outperforms strong baselines, for example, achieving +1.0% Macro-F1 and +1.3% Micro-F1 on IMDB. It …


Edgeclip: Injecting Edge-Awareness Into Visual-Language Models For Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation, Jiaxiang Fang, Shiqiang Ma, Guihua Duan, Fei Guo, Shengfeng He Mar 2026

Edgeclip: Injecting Edge-Awareness Into Visual-Language Models For Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation, Jiaxiang Fang, Shiqiang Ma, Guihua Duan, Fei Guo, Shengfeng He

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Effective segmentation of unseen categories in zero-shot semantic segmentation is hindered by models’ limited ability to interpret edges in unfamiliar contexts. In this paper, we propose EdgeCLIP, which addresses this by integrating CLIP with explicit edge-awareness. Based on the premise that edge variation patterns are similar across both seen and unseen class objects, EdgeCLIP introduces the Contextual Edge Sensing module. This module accurately discerns and utilizes edge information, which is crucial in complex border areas where conventional models struggle. Further, our Text-Guided Dense Feature Matching strategy precisely aligns text encodings with corresponding visual edge features, effectively distinguishing them from background …


The Feelit System: Application Content-Aware Perspectives And Challenges On Understanding User Likes In Social Network Posts, Konstantinos Theocharidis, Hady W. Lauw, Panagiotis Karras Feb 2026

The Feelit System: Application Content-Aware Perspectives And Challenges On Understanding User Likes In Social Network Posts, Konstantinos Theocharidis, Hady W. Lauw, Panagiotis Karras

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In a series of our prior works, we study influence and subscription maximization problems in social networks that are based on posts having influential content; as content we consider a set of features where each feature corresponds to a specific social network page, whereas influence and subscription relate to gaining the postlike and subscription-to-brand page of targeted users, respectively; subscription is conceptually achieved as repetitive influence on users. So, both influence and subscription depend on content that gains the likes of users; however, to be realistic, modeling and estimating such likes is a complex problem that has not been adequately …


Cellscout: Visual Analytics For Mining Biomarkers In Cell State Discovery, Rui Sheng, Zelin Zang, Jiachen Wang, Yan Luo, Zixin Chen, Yan Zhou, Shaolun Ruan, Huamin Qu Feb 2026

Cellscout: Visual Analytics For Mining Biomarkers In Cell State Discovery, Rui Sheng, Zelin Zang, Jiachen Wang, Yan Luo, Zixin Chen, Yan Zhou, Shaolun Ruan, Huamin Qu

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Cell state discovery is crucial for understanding biological systems and enhancing medical outcomes. A key aspect of this process is identifying distinct biomarkers that define specific cell states. However, difficulties arise from the co-discovery process of cell states and biomarkers: biologists often use dimensionality reduction to visualize cells in a two-dimensional space. Then they usually interpret visually clustered cells as distinct states, from which they seek to identify unique biomarkers. However, this assumption is often this assumption often fails to hold due to internal inconsistencies in a cluster, making the process trial-and-error and highly uncertain. Therefore, biologists urgently need effective …


Prisrv+: Privacy And Usability-Enhanced Wireless Service Discovery With Fast And Expressive Matchmaking Encryption, Yang Yang, Guomin Yang, Yingjiu Li, Pengfei Wu, Rui Shi, Minming Huang, Jian Weng, Hwee Hwa Pang, Deng, Robert H. Feb 2026

Prisrv+: Privacy And Usability-Enhanced Wireless Service Discovery With Fast And Expressive Matchmaking Encryption, Yang Yang, Guomin Yang, Yingjiu Li, Pengfei Wu, Rui Shi, Minming Huang, Jian Weng, Hwee Hwa Pang, Deng, Robert H.

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The evolution of decentralized identity (DID) and self-sovereign identity (SSI) frameworks, as endorsed by W3C Verifiable Credentials (VC) and eIDAS 2.0, underscores the need for secure, efficient, and privacy-preserving credential management. However, existing credential systems often depend on centralized issuers, lack efficient aggregation mechanisms, or fail to ensure unlinkability across authentication sessions. To address these challenges, we propose DISC (Decentralized Identity System with Self-Sovereign Credential Aggregation), a novel credential system that enables multi-authority credential issuance, user-controlled credential aggregation, and unlinkable authentication. DISC allows users to aggregate credentials from multiple issuers while maintaining constant-size authentication tokens and supporting batch verification for …