MFVLR: Multi-domain Fine-grained Vision-Language Reconstruction for Generalizable Diffusion Face Forgery Detection and Localization

The swift advancement in photo-realistic face generation technology has sparked considerable concerns across society and academia, emphasizing the requirement of generalizable face forgery detection and localization methods. Prior works tend to capture face forgery patterns across multiple domains using image modality, other modalities like fine-grained texts are not comprehensively investigated, which restricts the generalization capability of models. Besides, they usually analyze facial images created by GAN, but struggle to identify and localize those synthesized by diffusion. To solve the problems, in this paper, we devise a novel multi-domain fine-grained vision-language reconstruction (MFVLR) model, which explores comprehensive and diverse visual forgery traces via language-guided face forgery representation learning, to achieve generalizable diffusion-synthesized face forgery detection and localization (DFFDL). Specifically, we devise a fine-grained language transformer that studies general fine-grained language embeddings using language reconstruction. We propose a multi-domain vision encoder to capture general and complementary visual forgery patterns across the image and residual domains. A vision decoder is designed to reconstruct image appearance and achieve forgery localization. Besides, we propose an innovative plug-and-play vision injection module to enhance the interaction between the vision and language embeddings. Extensive experiments and visualizations demonstrate that our network outperforms the state of the art on different settings like cross-generator, cross-forgery, and cross-dataset evaluations.

Preserving Long-Tailed Expert Information in Mixture-of-Experts Tuning

Despite MoE models leading many benchmarks, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) for the MoE architectures remains difficult because its router layers are fragile. Methods such as DenseMixer and ESFT mitigate router collapse with dense mixing or auxiliary load-balancing losses, but these introduce noisy gradients that often degrade performance. In preliminary experiments, we systematically pruned experts and observed that while certain super experts are activated far more frequently, discarding less used experts still leads to notable performance degradation. This suggests that even rarely activated experts encode non-trivial knowledge useful for downstream tasks. Motivated by this, we propose an auxiliary-loss-free MoE SFT framework that combines bias-driven sparsification with always-active gated condenser experts. Rather than enforcing balanced activation across all experts, our method encourages task-relevant experts to remain active while pushing long-tailed experts toward inactivity. The condenser experts provide a persistent, learnable pathway that alleviates gradient starvation and facilitates consolidation of information that would otherwise remain fragmented across sparsely activated experts. Analysis further suggest that this design better preserves long-tailed expert information under sparse routing. Experiments on large-scale MoE models demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art SFT baselines such as DenseMixer and ESFT, achieving average gain of 2.5%+ on both mathematical reasoning and commonsenseQA benchmarks.

MV3DIS: Multi-View Mask Matching via 3D Guides for Zero-Shot 3D Instance Segmentation

Conventional 3D instance segmentation methods rely on labor-intensive 3D annotations for supervised training, which limits their scalability and generalization to novel objects. Recent approaches leverage multi-view 2D masks from the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to guide the merging of 3D geometric primitives, thereby enabling zero-shot 3D instance segmentation. However, these methods typically process each frame independently and rely solely on 2D metrics, such as SAM prediction scores, to produce segmentation maps. This design overlooks multi-view correlations and inherent 3D priors, leading to inconsistent 2D masks across views and ultimately fragmented 3D segmentation. In this paper, we propose MV3DIS, a coarse-to-fine framework for zero-shot 3D instance segmentation that explicitly incorporates 3D priors. Specifically, we introduce a 3D-guided mask matching strategy that uses coarse 3D segments as a common reference to match 2D masks across views and consolidates multi-view mask consistency via 3D coverage distributions. Guided by these view-consistent 2D masks, the coarse 3D segments are further refined into precise 3D instances. Additionally, we introduce a depth consistency weighting scheme that quantifies projection reliability to suppress ambiguities from inter-object occlusions, thereby improving the robustness of 3D-to-2D correspondence. Extensive experiments on the ScanNetV2, ScanNet200, ScanNet++, Replica, and Matterport3D datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of MV3DIS, which achieves superior performance over previous methods

OS-Themis: A Scalable Critic Framework for Generalist GUI Rewards

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to improve the robustness of GUI agents in stochastic environments, yet training is highly sensitive to the quality of the reward function. Existing reward approaches struggle to achieve both scalability and performance. To address this, we propose OS-Themis, a scalable and accurate multi-agent critic framework. Unlike a single judge, OS-Themis decomposes trajectories into verifiable milestones to isolate critical evidence for decision making and employs a review mechanism to strictly audit the evidence chain before making the final verdict. To facilitate evaluation, we further introduce OmniGUIRewardBench (OGRBench), a holistic cross-platform benchmark for GUI outcome rewards, where all evaluated models achieve their best performance under OS-Themis. Extensive experiments on AndroidWorld show that OS-Themis yields a 10.3% improvement when used to support online RL training, and a 6.9% gain when used for trajectory validation and filtering in the self-training loop, highlighting its potential to drive agent evolution.

RATE: Reviewer Profiling and Annotation-free Training for Expertise Ranking in Peer Review Systems

Reviewer assignment is increasingly critical yet challenging in the LLM era, where rapid topic shifts render many pre-2023 benchmarks outdated and where proxy signals poorly reflect true reviewer familiarity. We address this evaluation bottleneck by introducing LR-bench, a high-fidelity, up-to-date benchmark curated from 2024-2025 AI/NLP manuscripts with five-level self-assessed familiarity ratings collected via a large-scale email survey, yielding 1055 expert-annotated paper-reviewer-score annotations. We further propose RATE, a reviewer-centric ranking framework that distills each reviewer's recent publications into compact keyword-based profiles and fine-tunes an embedding model with weak preference supervision constructed from heuristic retrieval signals, enabling matching each manuscript against a reviewer profile directly. Across LR-bench and the CMU gold-standard dataset, our approach consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming strong embedding baselines by a clear margin. We release LR-bench at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Gnociew/LR-bench, and a GitHub repository at https://github.com/Gnociew/RATE-Reviewer-Assign.

PhyRPR: Training-Free Physics-Constrained Video Generation

Recent diffusion-based video generation models can synthesize visually plausible videos, yet they often struggle to satisfy physical constraints. A key reason is that most existing approaches remain single-stage: they entangle high-level physical understanding with low-level visual synthesis, making it hard to generate content that require explicit physical reasoning. To address this limitation, we propose a training-free three-stage pipeline,\textit{PhyRPR}:\textit{Phy\uline{R}eason}--\textit{Phy\uline{P}lan}--\textit{Phy\uline{R}efine}, which decouples physical understanding from visual synthesis. Specifically, \textit{PhyReason} uses a large multimodal model for physical state reasoning and an image generator for keyframe synthesis; \textit{PhyPlan} deterministically synthesizes a controllable coarse motion scaffold; and \textit{PhyRefine} injects this scaffold into diffusion sampling via a latent fusion strategy to refine appearance while preserving the planned dynamics. This staged design enables explicit physical control during generation. Extensive experiments under physics constraints show that our method consistently improves physical plausibility and motion controllability.

GRACE: Reinforcement Learning for Grounded Response and Abstention under Contextual Evidence

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) integrates external knowledge to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs), yet systems remain susceptible to two critical flaws: providing correct answers without explicit grounded evidence and producing fabricated responses when the retrieved context is insufficient. While prior research has addressed these issues independently, a unified framework that integrates evidence-based grounding and reliable abstention is currently lacking. In this paper, we propose GRACE, a reinforcement-learning framework that simultaneously mitigates both types of flaws. GRACE employs a data construction method that utilizes heterogeneous retrievers to generate diverse training samples without manual annotation. A multi-stage gated reward function is then employed to train the model to assess evidence sufficiency, extract key supporting evidence, and provide answers or explicitly abstain. Experimental results on two benchmarks demonstrate that GRACE achieves state-of-the-art overall accuracy and strikes a favorable balance between accurate response and rejection, while requiring only 10% of the annotation costs of prior methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/YiboZhao624/Grace..

APEX: Academic Poster Editing Agentic Expert

Designing academic posters is a labor-intensive process requiring the precise balance of high-density content and sophisticated layout. While existing paper-to-poster generation methods automate initial drafting, they are typically single-pass and non-interactive, often fail to align with complex, subjective user intent. To bridge this gap, we propose APEX (Academic Poster Editing agentic eXpert), the first agentic framework for interactive academic poster editing, supporting fine-grained control with robust multi-level API-based editing and a review-and-adjustment Mechanism. In addition, we introduce APEX-Bench, the first systematic benchmark comprising 514 academic poster editing instructions, categorized by a multi-dimensional taxonomy including operation type, difficulty, and abstraction level, constructed via reference-guided and reference-free strategies to ensure realism and diversity. We further establish a multi-dimensional VLM-as-a-judge evaluation protocol to assess instruction fulfillment, modification scope, and visual consistency & harmony. Experimental results demonstrate that APEX significantly outperforms baseline methods. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/Breesiu/APEX.

RAST-MoE-RL: A Regime-Aware Spatio-Temporal MoE Framework for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Ride-Hailing

Ride-hailing platforms face the challenge of balancing passenger waiting times with overall system efficiency under highly uncertain supply-demand conditions. Adaptive delayed matching creates a trade-off between matching and pickup delays by deciding whether to assign drivers immediately or batch requests. Since outcomes accumulate over long horizons with stochastic dynamics, reinforcement learning (RL) is a suitable framework. However, existing approaches often oversimplify traffic dynamics or use shallow encoders that miss complex spatiotemporal patterns. We introduce the Regime-Aware Spatio-Temporal Mixture-of-Experts (RAST-MoE), which formalizes adaptive delayed matching as a regime-aware MDP equipped with a self-attention MoE encoder. Unlike monolithic networks, our experts specialize automatically, improving representation capacity while maintaining computational efficiency. A physics-informed congestion surrogate preserves realistic density-speed feedback, enabling millions of efficient rollouts, while an adaptive reward scheme guards against pathological strategies. With only 12M parameters, our framework outperforms strong baselines. On real-world Uber trajectory data (San Francisco), it improves total reward by over 13%, reducing average matching and pickup delays by 10% and 15% respectively. It demonstrates robustness across unseen demand regimes and stable training. These findings highlight the potential of MoE-enhanced RL for large-scale decision-making with complex spatiotemporal dynamics.

E^2GraphRAG: Streamlining Graph-based RAG for High Efficiency and Effectiveness

Graph-based RAG methods like GraphRAG have shown promising global understanding of the knowledge base by constructing hierarchical entity graphs. However, they often suffer from inefficiency and rely on manually pre-defined query modes, limiting practical use. In this paper, we propose E^2GraphRAG, a streamlined graph-based RAG framework that improves both Efficiency and Effectiveness. During the indexing stage, E^2GraphRAG constructs a summary tree with large language models and an entity graph with SpaCy based on document chunks. We then construct bidirectional indexes between entities and chunks to capture their many-to-many relationships, enabling fast lookup during both local and global retrieval. For the retrieval stage, we design an adaptive retrieval strategy that leverages the graph structure to retrieve and select between local and global modes. Experiments show that E^2GraphRAG achieves up to 10 times faster indexing than GraphRAG and 100 times speedup over LightRAG in retrieval while maintaining competitive QA performance.