HyperCEUNet: Parameter-Aware Hypernetwork-Driven UNet for Channel Estimation

Deep learning-based channel estimation has been recognized as a promising technique for sixth-generation wireless systems. However, most existing approaches rely solely on least-squares estimates obtained from demodulation reference signals, which fail to explicitly exploit channel time-frequency correlation parameters. Inspired by the independent channel parameter estimation enabled by semi-static reference signals in modern wireless systems, this letter presents a parameter-aware deep learning-based channel estimation framework termed HyperCEUNet. Specifically, the proposed hypernetwork generates an adaptive front-end convolutional layer based on estimated channel parameters, serving as a pre-filtering stage before the UNet-based estimator. In addition, the Wiener-filtered channel estimates are adopted to provide a correlation-aware initialization for data resources. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed HyperCEUNet effectively improves channel estimation accuracy compared with its conventional counterparts.

Seedance 2.0: Advancing Video Generation for World Complexity

Seedance 2.0 is a new native multi-modal audio-video generation model, officially released in China in early February 2026. Compared with its predecessors, Seedance 1.0 and 1.5 Pro, Seedance 2.0 adopts a unified, highly efficient, and large-scale architecture for multi-modal audio-video joint generation. This allows it to support four input modalities: text, image, audio, and video, by integrating one of the most comprehensive suites of multi-modal content reference and editing capabilities available in the industry to date. It delivers substantial, well-rounded improvements across all key sub-dimensions of video and audio generation. In both expert evaluations and public user tests, the model has demonstrated performance on par with the leading levels in the field. Seedance 2.0 supports direct generation of audio-video content with durations ranging from 4 to 15 seconds, with native output resolutions of 480p and 720p. For multi-modal inputs as reference, its current open platform supports up to 3 video clips, 9 images, and 3 audio clips. In addition, we provide Seedance 2.0 Fast version, an accelerated variant of Seedance 2.0 designed to boost generation speed for low-latency scenarios. Seedance 2.0 has delivered significant improvements to its foundational generation capabilities and multi-modal generation performance, bringing an enhanced creative experience for end users.

SecureAFL: Secure Asynchronous Federated Learning

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model via a server without sharing their private training data. In traditional FL, the system follows a synchronous approach, where the server waits for model updates from numerous clients before aggregating them to update the global model. However, synchronous FL is hindered by the straggler problem. To address this, the asynchronous FL architecture allows the server to update the global model immediately upon receiving any client's local model update. Despite its advantages, the decentralized nature of asynchronous FL makes it vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Several defenses tailored for asynchronous FL have been proposed, but these mechanisms remain susceptible to advanced attacks or rely on unrealistic server assumptions. In this paper, we introduce SecureAFL, an innovative framework designed to secure asynchronous FL against poisoning attacks. SecureAFL improves the robustness of asynchronous FL by detecting and discarding anomalous updates while estimating the contributions of missing clients. Additionally, it utilizes Byzantine-robust aggregation techniques, such as coordinate-wise median, to integrate the received and estimated updates. Extensive experiments on various real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of SecureAFL.

VANGUARD: Vehicle-Anchored Ground Sample Distance Estimation for UAVs in GPS-Denied Environments

Autonomous aerial robots operating in GPS-denied or communication-degraded environments frequently lose access to camera metadata and telemetry, leaving onboard perception systems unable to recover the absolute metric scale of the scene. As LLM/VLM-based planners are increasingly adopted as high-level agents for embodied systems, their ability to reason about physical dimensions becomes safety-critical -- yet our experiments show that five state-of-the-art VLMs suffer from spatial scale hallucinations, with median area estimation errors exceeding 50%. We propose VANGUARD, a lightweight, deterministic Geometric Perception Skill designed as a callable tool that any LLM-based agent can invoke to recover Ground Sample Distance (GSD) from ubiquitous environmental anchors: small vehicles detected via oriented bounding boxes, whose modal pixel length is robustly estimated through kernel density estimation and converted to GSD using a pre-calibrated reference length. The tool returns both a GSD estimate and a composite confidence score, enabling the calling agent to autonomously decide whether to trust the measurement or fall back to alternative strategies. On the DOTA~v1.5 benchmark, VANGUARD achieves 6.87% median GSD error on 306~images. Integrated with SAM-based segmentation for downstream area measurement, the pipeline yields 19.7% median error on a 100-entry benchmark -- with 2.6x lower category dependence and 4x fewer catastrophic failures than the best VLM baseline -- demonstrating that equipping agents with deterministic geometric tools is essential for safe autonomous spatial reasoning.

From Complex Dynamics to DynFormer: Rethinking Transformers for PDEs

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are fundamental for modeling complex physical systems, yet classical numerical solvers face prohibitive computational costs in high-dimensional and multi-scale regimes. While Transformer-based neural operators have emerged as powerful data-driven alternatives, they conventionally treat all discretized spatial points as uniform, independent tokens. This monolithic approach ignores the intrinsic scale separation of physical fields, applying computationally prohibitive global attention that redundantly mixes smooth large-scale dynamics with high-frequency fluctuations. Rethinking Transformers through the lens of complex dynamics, we propose DynFormer, a novel dynamics-informed neural operator. Rather than applying a uniform attention mechanism across all scales, DynFormer explicitly assigns specialized network modules to distinct physical scales. It leverages a Spectral Embedding to isolate low-frequency modes, enabling a Kronecker-structured attention mechanism to efficiently capture large-scale global interactions with reduced complexity. Concurrently, we introduce a Local-Global-Mixing transformation. This module utilizes nonlinear multiplicative frequency mixing to implicitly reconstruct the small-scale, fast-varying turbulent cascades that are slaved to the macroscopic state, without incurring the cost of global attention. Integrating these modules into a hybrid evolutionary architecture ensures robust long-term temporal stability. Extensive memory-aligned evaluations across four PDE benchmarks demonstrate that DynFormer achieves up to a 95% reduction in relative error compared to state-of-the-art baselines, while significantly reducing GPU memory consumption. Our results establish that embedding first-principles physical dynamics into Transformer architectures yields a highly scalable, theoretically grounded blueprint for PDE surrogate modeling.

GNN Based Joint Beamforming Design for Extremely Large-Scale RIS Assisted Near-Field ISAC Systems

This paper investigates an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) assisted near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously sends unicast data to multiple single-antenna communication users (CUs) and senses multiple targets (TGTs). The BS, CUs and TGTs are \emph{all} assumed to be located in the near-field region of the XL-RIS. We aim to maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) of all CUs, subject to the sensing beampattern gain constraint for each TGT, the transmit power constraint for the BS, and the unit modulus constraints on the XL-RIS phase shift. First, we develop a fractional programming (FP) based block coordinate descent (BCD) algorithm to obtain a locally optimal solution for such a non-convex joint design problem. Secondly, to address the high-dimensional spatial correlations and scalability of the XL-RIS near-field channels, we propose a customized graph neural network (GNN) scheme to generate the BS transmit beamforming variables and the XL-RIS reflecting coefficient vector for ISAC, where the near-field ISAC system is modeled as a heterogeneous graph comprising XL-RIS/CU/TGT nodes. The proposed GNN scheme can effectively learn the near-field channel state information (CSI) features, in which the message passing mechanism is employed to exchange CSI among these directly connected nodes in the graph. Furthermore, each XL-RIS/CU/TGT node maintains a feature vector for mapping to the BS transmit beamforming variables or the XL-RIS reflecting coefficient vector. Numerical results show that the proposed GNN-based beamforming design scheme achieves a better performance than the existing baselines, in terms of computational efficiency, feasibility, robustness, and the ability of generalization.

ViT-5: Vision Transformers for The Mid-2020s

This work presents a systematic investigation into modernizing Vision Transformer backbones by leveraging architectural advancements from the past five years. While preserving the canonical Attention-FFN structure, we conduct a component-wise refinement involving normalization, activation functions, positional encoding, gating mechanisms, and learnable tokens. These updates form a new generation of Vision Transformers, which we call ViT-5. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ViT-5 consistently outperforms state-of-the-art plain Vision Transformers across both understanding and generation benchmarks. On ImageNet-1k classification, ViT-5-Base reaches 84.2\% top-1 accuracy under comparable compute, exceeding DeiT-III-Base at 83.8\%. ViT-5 also serves as a stronger backbone for generative modeling: when plugged into an SiT diffusion framework, it achieves 1.84 FID versus 2.06 with a vanilla ViT backbone. Beyond headline metrics, ViT-5 exhibits improved representation learning and favorable spatial reasoning behavior, and transfers reliably across tasks. With a design aligned with contemporary foundation-model practices, ViT-5 offers a simple drop-in upgrade over vanilla ViT for mid-2020s vision backbones.

WorldEdit: Towards Open-World Image Editing with a Knowledge-Informed Benchmark

Recent advances in image editing models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in executing explicit instructions, such as attribute manipulation, style transfer, and pose synthesis. However, these models often face challenges when dealing with implicit editing instructions, which describe the cause of a visual change without explicitly detailing the resulting outcome. These limitations arise because existing models rely on uniform editing strategies that are not equipped to handle the complex world knowledge and reasoning required for implicit instructions. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{WorldEdit}, a dataset specifically designed to enable world-driven image editing. WorldEdit consists of high-quality editing samples, guided by paraphrased instructions that align with real-world causal logic. Furthermore, we provide \textbf{WorldEdit-Test} for evaluating the existing model's performance on causal editing scenarios. With WorldEdit, we use a two-stage training framework for fine-tuning models like Bagel, integrating with a causal verification reward. Our results show that the proposed dataset and methods significantly narrow the gap with GPT-4o and Nano-Banana, demonstrating competitive performance not only in instruction following but also in knowledge plausibility, where many open-source systems typically struggle.

CoPE: Clipped RoPE as A Scalable Free Lunch for Long Context LLMs

Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE) is a key component of context scaling in Large Language Models (LLMs). While various methods have been proposed to adapt RoPE to longer contexts, their guiding principles generally fall into two categories: (1) out-of-distribution (OOD) mitigation, which scales RoPE frequencies to accommodate unseen positions, and (2) Semantic Modeling, which posits that the attention scores computed with RoPE should always prioritize semantically similar tokens. In this work, we unify these seemingly distinct objectives through a minimalist intervention, namely CoPE: soft clipping lowfrequency components of RoPE. CoPE not only eliminates OOD outliers and refines semantic signals, but also prevents spectral leakage caused by hard clipping. Extensive experiments demonstrate that simply applying our soft clipping strategy to RoPE yields significant performance gains that scale up to 256k context length, validating our theoretical analysis and establishing CoPE as a new state-of-the-art for length generalization. Our code, data, and models are available at https://github.com/hrlics/CoPE.

Mitigating Hallucination in Financial Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Fine-Grained Knowledge Verification

In financial Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, models frequently rely on retrieved documents to generate accurate responses due to the time-sensitive nature of the financial domain. While retrieved documents help address knowledge gaps, model-generated responses still suffer from hallucinations that contradict the retrieved information. To mitigate this inconsistency, we propose a Reinforcement Learning framework enhanced with Fine-grained Knowledge Verification (RLFKV). Our method decomposes financial responses into atomic knowledge units and assesses the correctness of each unit to compute the fine-grained faithful reward. This reward offers more precise optimization signals, thereby improving alignment with the retrieved documents. Additionally, to prevent reward hacking (e.g., overly concise replies), we incorporate an informativeness reward that encourages the policy model to retain at least as many knowledge units as the base model. Experiments conducted on the public Financial Data Description (FDD) task and our newly proposed FDD-ANT dataset demonstrate consistent improvements, confirming the effectiveness of our approach.