F2LLM-v2: Inclusive, Performant, and Efficient Embeddings for a Multilingual World

We present F2LLM-v2, a new family of general-purpose, multilingual embedding models in 8 distinct sizes ranging from 80M to 14B. Trained on a newly curated composite of 60 million publicly available high-quality data samples, F2LLM-v2 supports more than 200 languages, with a particular emphasis on previously underserved mid- and low-resource languages. By integrating a two-stage LLM-based embedding training pipeline with matryoshka learning, model pruning, and knowledge distillation techniques, we present models that are far more efficient than previous LLM-based embedding models while retaining competitive performances. Extensive evaluations confirm that F2LLM-v2-14B ranks first on 11 MTEB benchmarks, while the smaller models in the family also set a new state of the art for resource-constrained applications. To facilitate open-source embedding model research, we release all models, data, code, and intermediate checkpoints.

BoundAD: Boundary-Aware Negative Generation for Time Series Anomaly Detection

Contrastive learning methods for time series anomaly detection (TSAD) heavily depend on the quality of negative sample construction. However, existing strategies based on random perturbations or pseudo-anomaly injection often struggle to simultaneously preserve temporal semantic consistency and provide effective decision-boundary supervision. Most existing methods rely on prior anomaly injection, while overlooking the potential of generating hard negatives near the data manifold boundary directly from normal samples themselves. To address this issue, we propose a reconstruction-driven boundary negative generation framework that automatically constructs hard negatives through the reconstruction process of normal samples. Specifically, the method first employs a reconstruction network to capture normal temporal patterns, and then introduces a reinforcement learning strategy to adaptively adjust the optimization update magnitude according to the current reconstruction state. In this way, boundary-shifted samples close to the normal data manifold can be induced along the reconstruction trajectory and further used for subsequent contrastive representation learning. Unlike existing methods that depend on explicit anomaly injection, the proposed framework does not require predefined anomaly patterns, but instead mines more challenging boundary negatives from the model's own learning dynamics. Experimental results show that the proposed method effectively improves anomaly representation learning and achieves competitive detection performance on the current dataset.

Loc3R-VLM: Language-based Localization and 3D Reasoning with Vision-Language Models

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made impressive progress in connecting vision and language, but they still struggle with spatial understanding and viewpoint-aware reasoning. Recent efforts aim to augment the input representations with geometric cues rather than explicitly teaching models to reason in 3D space. We introduce Loc3R-VLM, a framework that equips 2D Vision-Language Models with advanced 3D understanding capabilities from monocular video input. Inspired by human spatial cognition, Loc3R-VLM relies on two joint objectives: global layout reconstruction to build a holistic representation of the scene structure, and explicit situation modeling to anchor egocentric perspective. These objectives provide direct spatial supervision that grounds both perception and language in a 3D context. To ensure geometric consistency and metric-scale alignment, we leverage lightweight camera pose priors extracted from a pre-trained 3D foundation model. Loc3R-VLM achieves state-of-the-art performance in language-based localization and outperforms existing 2D- and video-based approaches on situated and general 3D question-answering benchmarks, demonstrating that our spatial supervision framework enables strong 3D understanding. Project page: https://kevinqu7.github.io/loc3r-vlm

WiSLAT: A Simultaneous Device Localization and Target Tracking Method for Wi-Fi Systems

It has been shown that the channel state information (CSI) of a Wi-Fi system can be exploited to localize Wi-Fi devices or track trajectory of a moving target. In the existing literature, both sensing tasks are treated separately and some prior information is usually requested, including the signal fingerprints, the locations of some anchor devices in the Wi-Fi system, and etc. In the proposed WiSLAT method, however, it is shown that both sensing tasks can assist each other, such that the request on prior system information can be eliminated. Particularly, in a Wi-Fi system with an access point (AP) and at least three stations, where the locations of the stations are unknown, the WiSLAT is designed to detect the Doppler frequencies of the downlink CSI at the stations, such that their locations and the trajectory of the target with respect to the AP can be inferred. The joint detection can be conducted by searching the optimal stations' locations and target's trajectory, such that their corresponding Doppler frequencies fit the observed ones best. Due to the tremendous non-convex search space, a low-complexity sub-optimal algorithm integrating alternate optimization, extended Kalman filter and density-based clustering is proposed in WiSLAT. Experiments conducted in indoor environments demonstrate the effectiveness of WiSLAT, achieving a median trajectory-tracking error of 0.68 m.

Fold-CP: A Context Parallelism Framework for Biomolecular Modeling

Understanding cellular machinery requires atomic-scale reconstruction of large biomolecular assemblies. However, predicting the structures of these systems has been constrained by hardware memory requirements of models like AlphaFold 3, imposing a practical ceiling of a few thousand residues that can be processed on a single GPU. Here we present NVIDIA BioNeMo Fold-CP, a context parallelism framework that overcomes this barrier by distributing the inference and training pipelines of co-folding models across multiple GPUs. We use the Boltz models as open source reference architectures and implement custom multidimensional primitives that efficiently parallelize both the dense triangular updates and the irregular, data-dependent pattern of window-batched local attention. Our approach achieves efficient memory scaling; for an N-token input distributed across P GPUs, per-device memory scales as $O(N^2/P)$, enabling the structure prediction of assemblies exceeding 30,000 residues on 64 NVIDIA B300 GPUs. We demonstrate the scientific utility of this approach through successful developer use cases: Fold-CP enabled the scoring of over 90% of Comprehensive Resource of Mammalian protein complexes (CORUM) database, as well as folding of disease-relevant PI4KA lipid kinase complex bound to an intrinsically disordered region without cropping. By providing a scalable pathway for modeling massive systems with full global context, Fold-CP represents a significant step toward the realization of a virtual cell.

FlashMotion: Few-Step Controllable Video Generation with Trajectory Guidance

Recent advances in trajectory-controllable video generation have achieved remarkable progress. Previous methods mainly use adapter-based architectures for precise motion control along predefined trajectories. However, all these methods rely on a multi-step denoising process, leading to substantial time redundancy and computational overhead. While existing video distillation methods successfully distill multi-step generators into few-step, directly applying these approaches to trajectory-controllable video generation results in noticeable degradation in both video quality and trajectory accuracy. To bridge this gap, we introduce FlashMotion, a novel training framework designed for few-step trajectory-controllable video generation. We first train a trajectory adapter on a multi-step video generator for precise trajectory control. Then, we distill the generator into a few-step version to accelerate video generation. Finally, we finetune the adapter using a hybrid strategy that combines diffusion and adversarial objectives, aligning it with the few-step generator to produce high-quality, trajectory-accurate videos. For evaluation, we introduce FlashBench, a benchmark for long-sequence trajectory-controllable video generation that measures both video quality and trajectory accuracy across varying numbers of foreground objects. Experiments on two adapter architectures show that FlashMotion surpasses existing video distillation methods and previous multi-step models in both visual quality and trajectory consistency.

Chunk-Boundary Artifact in Action-Chunked Generative Policies: A Noise-Sensitive Failure Mechanism

Action chunking has become a central design choice for generative visuomotor policies, yet the execution discontinuities that arise at chunk boundaries remain poorly understood. In a frozen pretrained action-chunked policy, we identify chunk-boundary artifact as a noise-sensitive failure mechanism. First, artifact is strongly associated with task failure (p < 1e-4, permutation test) and emerges during the rollout rather than only as a post-hoc symptom. Second, under a fixed observation context, changing only latent noise systematically modulates artifact magnitude. Third, by identifying artifact-related directions in noise space and applying trajectory-level steering, we reliably alter artifact magnitude across all evaluated tasks. In hard-task settings with remaining outcome headroom, the success/failure distribution shifts accordingly; on near-ceiling tasks, positive gains are compressed by policy saturation, while the negative causal effect remains visible. Overall, we recast boundary discontinuity from an unavoidable execution nuisance into an analyzable, noise-dominated, and intervenable failure mechanism.

End-to-End Direction-Aware Keyword Spotting with Spatial Priors in Noisy Environments

Keyword spotting (KWS) is crucial for many speech-driven applications, but robust KWS in noisy environments remains challenging. Conventional systems often rely on single-channel inputs and a cascaded pipeline separating front-end enhancement from KWS. This precludes joint optimization, inherently limiting performance. We present an end-to-end multi-channel KWS framework that exploits spatial cues to improve noise robustness. A spatial encoder learns inter-channel features, while a spatial embedding injects directional priors; the fused representation is processed by a streaming backbone. Experiments in simulated noisy conditions across multiple signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) show that spatial modeling and directional priors each yield clear gains over baselines, with their combination achieving the best results. These findings validate end-to-end multi-channel spatial modeling, indicating strong potential for the target-speaker-aware detection in complex acoustic scenarios.

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.

Enhancing Spatial Understanding in Image Generation via Reward Modeling

Recent progress in text-to-image generation has greatly advanced visual fidelity and creativity, but it has also imposed higher demands on prompt complexity-particularly in encoding intricate spatial relationships. In such cases, achieving satisfactory results often requires multiple sampling attempts. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel method that strengthens the spatial understanding of current image generation models. We first construct the SpatialReward-Dataset with over 80k preference pairs. Building on this dataset, we build SpatialScore, a reward model designed to evaluate the accuracy of spatial relationships in text-to-image generation, achieving performance that even surpasses leading proprietary models on spatial evaluation. We further demonstrate that this reward model effectively enables online reinforcement learning for the complex spatial generation. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks show that our specialized reward model yields significant and consistent gains in spatial understanding for image generation.