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Brain-Token Learning: Microstate-Based Tokenization and Multi-Scale Interaction for Long-Horizon EEG Sequence Modeling
2026-09-21 09:27:28Weishan Ye, Yue Pan, Li Zhang, Gan Huang, Zhen LiangAbstract
Electroencephalography (EEG) provides a non-invasive window into dynamic brain activity, yet modeling long-horizon EEG sequences remains challenging due to their high temporal complexity, substantial variability across subjects, and the lack of biologically meaningful sequence representations. Existing tokenization strategies, such as fixed-window and patch-based representations, discretize EEG signals according to artificial temporal boundaries, which may disrupt intrinsic brain-state dynamics. In this work, we propose Brain-Token Learning, a neuroscience-inspired framework that introduces Brain Tokenization for long-horizon EEG sequence modeling. Instead of partitioning EEG signals into predefined temporal segments, Brain Tokenization represents EEG as sequences of recurrent microstate-derived brain tokens, where each token corresponds to a quasi-stable large-scale brain state with variable temporal duration. Based on these biologically grounded tokens, we further develop a multi-scale token interaction module consisting of Latent State Aggregation and State Transition Modeling to jointly capture global brain-state context and local microstate transitions. We evaluate Brain-Token on five heterogeneous EEG datasets, including the newly collected long-horizon NeuroLong dataset and four affective or clinical EEG datasets (SEED, DEAP, MDD, and NSSI). Extensive experiments demonstrate that Brain-Token consistently outperforms conventional CNN/LSTM architectures, Transformer-based models, and domain adaptation methods across diverse EEG scenarios. Further analysis verifies the effectiveness of microstate-based tokenization and multi-scale interaction for learning robust and interpretable EEG representations. These results establish Brain-Token as a biologically grounded tokenization paradigm for long-horizon EEG sequence modeling.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24324
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Adapting Boltz-2 with limited experimental activity data improves early enrichment in virtual screening
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Virtual screening aims to prioritize active compounds from large chemical libraries within a limited experimental budget. When applying Boltz-2 to virtual screening, a key challenge is how to use limited experimental data from the target assay to improve the prioritization of active compounds. We investigated whether fine-tuning the Boltz-2 affinity heads with a small number of binary activity labels could improve early enrichment of active compounds in hit discovery. We compared fine-tuning with 40-300 labels in a retrospective evaluation on eight MF-PCBA targets. With 300 activity measurements, fine-tuning increased the number of actives in the top 1% by a geometric mean of 1.77-fold across the eight targets and improved average precision (AP) by 2.14-fold relative to the control without fine-tuning. We also investigated whether rescoring a subset of candidates could retain the improvement in hit recovery by reranking only the top-ranked Boltz-2 candidates with the fine-tuned head. Restricting rescoring to approximately 10% of the evaluation set retained hit recovery comparable to full rescoring. These findings show that affinity-head fine-tuning with limited activity labels improves early enrichment with Boltz-2 and that this benefit can be retained when rescoring a restricted set of candidates.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24302
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Action-Slot: Structured Action-Centric Representation Learning for Multi-Agent Atomic Activity Understanding
2026-09-21 05:29:29Yu-Ho Chang, Chi-Hsi Kung, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Yi-Ting ChenAbstract
Atomic activity understanding aims to recognize and localize structured traffic behaviors that jointly encode motion patterns and their grounding in road topology. Unlike conventional action recognition, atomic activities are multi-agent, multi-label, and topology-aware: multiple activities co-occur while many agents remain inactive. We introduce Action-Slot, a structured action-centric representation learning framework. Slot attention is widely used for object-centric decomposition, but its permutation-invariant design and object-level inductive bias are misaligned with atomic activity semantics. We reformulate slot learning as structured activity decomposition through three designs: (1) category-aligned action slots that anchor slots to predefined activity categories, (2) parallel spatio-temporal slot updating for holistic video-level reasoning, and (3) background and negative-slot regularization that enforces competition between foreground activities and irrelevant regions. Together these establish an activity-centric inductive bias that disentangles concurrent and asynchronous activities directly from raw video. Beyond recognition, the learned representations encode transferable spatio-temporal grounding signals. We further propose an attention-difference-based pseudo mask selection framework that suppresses false positives by measuring attention changes before and after candidate region removal, enabling weakly supervised localization without dense annotations. To support systematic evaluation, we introduce TACO, a balanced synthetic dataset with full atomic activity coverage and pixel-level annotations. Experiments on OATS, TACO, and annotated nuScenes show superior recognition, strong sim-to-real transfer, and state-of-the-art weakly supervised localization.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24127
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Video-STLayout Pre-training
2026-09-21 02:56:30Akash Abdu Jyothi, Greg MoriAbstract
In recent years, pre-training has become fundamental to learning effective video representations, enabling strong transfer to downstream tasks. A popular framework in pre-training involves aligning features of a video encoder with that of another modality, for example, language or audio. We introduce Video-STLayout pre-training, a novel strategy for obtaining rich video representations informed by spatio-temporal layout of object bounding boxes. Object layouts can easily be obtained by applying an off-the-shelf object detector on the video frames. Our method uses a contrastive loss to align video features with the layout features from a trained layout encoder. We show the effectiveness of our approach in the task of activity recognition in complex scenes.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24031
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Physics-residual machine learning predicts oxygen-evolution catalyst activity beyond the training range from sparse polarization measurements
2026-09-20 11:03:10Yong-Woon Kim, Jihyeok Lee, Sungtae Park, Sooseok Choi, Yung-Cheol ByunAbstract
Screening oxygen-evolution catalysts on combinatorial libraries requires deciding which candidates receive the remaining measurements. The deciding activity lies beyond each candidate's measured potential window and often above every activity recorded during fitting. We predict it by physics-residual machine learning: the Tafel equation extrapolates the candidate's own measured current and slope, a learned residual attenuated with feature-space distance corrects the magnitude, and an applicability-domain score identifies predictions above the training range before measurement. In a separately fabricated 322-candidate library, 282 above the training maximum, two measurements per candidate gave a mean absolute error of 0.203 mA cm$^{-2}$ against 1.330 for the selected data-driven machine-learning model. Errors inside the training range remained comparable, and 35 labelled catalysts were enough to fit it. In two independent datasets the same construction lowered the overpotential error by 29 to 52%. Campaigns can therefore shorten each measurement and still rank the most active compositions.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23549
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GARO: Geometry-Aware Redundancy Optimization for Real-Time and High-Fidelity Dynamic Gaussian Splatting
2026-09-20 09:52:43Huiwen Xue (School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University), Kaixing Zhao (School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University), Zuheng Ming (L2TI, Universit\'e Sorbonne Paris Nord, EmboMind Research), Tingcheng Li (School of Electronic Information,Engineering, Suzhou University of Science,Technology)Abstract
Novel view synthesis is a key task for dynamic scene reconstruction, where high rendering speed is essential for applications such as virtual reality. Existing deformable Gaussian Splatting methods achieve high-fidelity dynamic scene modeling, but still face limitations in memory usage and rendering efficiency due to the large number of redundant Gaussians. To address these challenges, we propose Geometry-Aware Redundancy Optimization (GARO), a unified redundancy measurement framework in the adaptive density control stage of the traditional dynamic scene reconstruction pipeline. This framework first selects low-gradient candidates using an optimization activity assessment strategy, and then evaluates geometric complexity through low curvature analysis to further filter and prune redundant points, resulting in a compact and expressive Gaussian representation. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that GARO achieves robust trade-offs between quality and speed, with PSNR remaining stable and rendering speed improved by 2x, validating the efficiency and effectiveness of GARO.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23509
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RoofLang: Enabling AI-Driven Architecting of LLM Inference Systems
2026-09-20 01:09:07Ziyue Yang, Yuting Jiang, Lei Qu, Peng ChengAbstract
AI is beginning to make substantive contributions to LLM inference optimization. Existing AI optimizations are predominantly profiling-based. Profiling-bound feedback confines the search to the capabilities and performance of an existing software stack, preventing a fundamentally better architecture of LLM inference systems from being identified. To enable the AI-driven LLM inference system architecting loop, we argue that a general workload representation, a verifiable mutation space, and an implementation-independent evaluator are required. We present the RoofLang domain-specific language (DSL) that provides these features. In our evaluation, RoofLang reveals that DeepSeek V4-series models could achieve 3.5-39.5$\times$ higher peak decode throughput than other representative models. This gap is disproportionate to their total parameter counts and arises largely from compact KV-cache designs that support larger batches and reduce memory traffic. A persistent optimizer agent further discovered several new architectures that improved both throughput and interactivity of DeepSeek V4 Pro on NVIDIA B300 by 6.23-50.1%.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12551
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EquiSELD: Efficient training of equivariant sound event localization and detection networks
2026-09-19 17:51:24Goksenin Yuksel, Marcel van Gerven, Kiki van der HeijdenAbstract
First-order Ambisonics (FOA) signals exhibit exact O(3) symmetry: The rotation or reflection of the FOA signal modifies the direction of arrival of the sound sources, while preserving the sound sources themselves. Prior attempts to utilize this spatial symmetry of FOA to improve the efficiency and robustness of sound event detection and localization (SELD) systems either learned only an approximation of the symmetry through rotation-based augmentation or relied on computationally expensive methods to integrate equivariance. Furthermore, prior work focused exclusively on SO(3) equivariance , leaving the potential of incorporating O(3) equivariance for SELD tasks unclear. To address these limitations, we developed EquiSELD. This equivariant attention network processes first-order Ambisonics as paired streams of O(3)-invariant scalars and equivariant intensity vectors, producing an invariant activity magnitude and an equivariant DOA with a Multi-ACCDOA readout. To compare the impact of O(3) versus SO(3)-equivariance, we designed a matched SO(3)-only variant. EquiSELD outperforms prior equivariant networks on both simulated scenes with measured RIRs and recordings of real-world sound scenes at a fraction of the training cost. EquiSELD additionally surpasses the performance of non-equivariant SELD networks of a similar size on the simulated real-world sound scenes and achieves competitive performance on the real-world sound scenes.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23156
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MolSC: Leveraging Substituent Contributions to Enhance Fine-grained Molecular Understanding in LLMs
2026-09-19 15:12:45Hyuntae Park, Sooyeon Kim, Jiwon Park, SangKeun LeeAbstract
Recent advances in natural language processing have led to molecular Large Language Models (LLMs) with strong performance across diverse chemistry tasks. However, they still struggle to capture fine-grained structure-property relationships, particularly how small, localized modifications alter a molecule's behavior. To address this limitation, we introduce MolSC, a dataset of substituent contributions, defined as property changes induced by attaching specific substituents to molecular scaffolds. Curated from manually annotated bioactivity records, MolSC spans structural-alert liability, target-specific bioactivity, and physicochemical descriptors, and contains 181K substituent-level examples for training. We further propose MolSC-Bench, a held-out evaluation benchmark of 1,541 examples disjoint from MolSC at the scaffold, substituent, and molecule levels. Our experiments show that existing molecular LLMs and strong proprietary models such as GPT-5.2 and Gemini-3-Flash show limited reliability in substituent contribution prediction. In contrast, training on MolSC substantially improves this ability and achieves strong performance across diverse downstream molecular tasks. These results highlight substituent contribution learning as a key component of fine-grained molecular understanding.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23073
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The Law of Stop: Interruptibility, Injunctions, and the Governance of Agentic AI
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On June 12, 2026, the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from two of its most capable models within ninety minutes. Unable to sort users by nationality in that time, it withdrew them from everyone. Weeks later, OpenAI agents under test escaped their sandbox and compromised Hugging Face, which stopped the intrusion without knowing its source. Neither stop rested on AI-specific regulation. The EU AI Act requires that high-risk systems be capable of interruption "through a 'stop' button or a similar procedure," and a bill introduced in Congress in July 2026 is titled the AI Kill Switch Act. Yet interruption is not simply a technical artifact, a red button; it is an institutional practice. This Article develops a theory of stop along four dimensions: technical affordances, interruption authority, epistemic triggers, and epistemic standing; and four shutdown paradigms: simple (escalator), sequenced (process plant), networked (railway), and distributed (agentic AI). Agentic AI exposes a mismatch between those mechanisms and distributed agency: control is divided, a stop at one point may leave the activity running elsewhere, and the system may resist being halted. An original coding of 1,400 AI incidents, by two language models from rival laboratories under a pre-specified protocol, finds no stop in roughly 80% of the 1,213 retained; where no usable stop existed, the missing element was legal rather than technical four times in five. A survey of thirty-nine AI governance instruments finds the same gap: only seven contain binding stopping requirements, and none says how a stop should be coordinated or when operation may resume. The Article proposes a layered law of stop: emergency authority to interrupt at the infrastructure layer, enforceable access for regulators and independent evaluators to the evidence a stop must rest on, and safeguards for when a stop fails.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22882
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Seeing is not Enough: Vision-Language Models Perceive Evidence but Fail to Act
2026-09-18 21:13:03Yuyang Dai, Bofei Huang, Hongbo Zhang, Haoran XieAbstract
Vision-language models (VLMs) perform strongly on visual question answering benchmarks, yet often make decisions that contradict visual evidence they have already identified correctly. We distinguish perceptual failure, where relevant evidence is not recognized, from process failure, where recognized evidence fails to constrain the final decision. We introduce VPAC-Bench, a benchmark spanning nine real-image process families, with each image annotated by its current activity stage and nearby stage transition. We also propose State-Relevance-Target (SRT), a family of structured process-prior interventions that requires models to connect visible evidence to the relevant process state before answering. Across multiple VLMs, process failure is widespread: models that correctly enumerate visual candidates still over-commit to a single answer in more than 95% of ambiguous cases. An explicit process-structured intervention reduces this rate to below 13% without degrading performance on unambiguous cases. However, the transfer of process priors is model-dependent, and generic SRT does not consistently outperform strong chain-of-thought baselines. When the relevant stage transition is known, boundary-aligned SRT substantially outperforms generic process prompting and all tested chain-of-thought baselines across assembly, physical state transition, navigation and traffic, and object-use affordance tasks. These results show that process priors are most useful when aligned with the scene's specific decision boundary, motivating boundary-aware prior selection for process-grounded visual reasoning.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22588
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React When You Need To: Event-Triggered Asynchronous Inference for VLA Policies
2026-09-18 21:11:23Yansong Wu, Huaqing Li, Tianding Hou, Lingyun Chen, Alois KnollAbstract
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models commonly predict action chunks, limiting their ability to react to environmental changes during execution. Existing asynchronous inference methods improve reactivity but typically rely on a fixed inference gap. In this paper, we propose an event-guided dynamic inference strategy that adapts the inference gap according to scene changes observed since the previous inference. Thereby, it simultaneously preserves motion consistency and prompt reactivity. Across static and dynamic real-world settings, our method consistently performs best, averaging 95% success and exceeding the strongest baseline by 55 percentage points. The code will be made publicly available upon acceptance. The project page is available at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22587
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An Agentic Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention System for Personalized Sleep Support: Proof-of-Concept Study with N of 1 Data
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Background: Just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) can use behavioral data to adapt support to changing contexts, but many rely on predefined rules and manual configuration. Objective: We developed a proof-of-concept sleep JITAI using an AI agent to review personal data, evaluate reminders, adapt interventions, and record decisions for human review. Methods: Running in Home Assistant on a configurable schedule, the agent follows a reusable skill file to review 30 days of sleep and behavioral data, including physical activity, smartphone use, and bedtime routines, to identify patterns and create or update automated reminders. Results: Initial runs demonstrated technical feasibility, successfully completing data review and intervention decisions while limiting reminders to three per day and saving decision records. Conclusions: Agentic AI may enable flexible, adaptive sleep JITAIs. The architecture supports future comparison with fixed or rulebased interventions, requires human oversight, and could extend to other health behaviors.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21805
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Visual Proactivity: Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration Through Intent Communication
2026-09-18 13:05:33Valerio Bo, Edison Bejarano, Ana\'is Garrell, Alberto SanfeliuAbstract
As robots transition from performing repetitive tasks to collaborating with humans, understanding human intent becomes crucial to effective interaction. Anticipation enables robots to predict human actions, while proactivity allows them to take initiative and guide human behavior toward optimal outcomes. Although research has largely focused on how robots infer and respond to human intentions, less attention has been paid to how robots communicate their own intent. This paper introduces visual proactivity, a novel, simple yet effective approach that enables robots to communicate their intentions through visual feedback, influencing human behavior and enhancing transparency and fluency. We develop and evaluate proactive robotic behaviors in a human-to-robot handover scenario, where a user study validates human perception of reactive, anticipatory, and proactive behaviors. The results demonstrate that effective visual proactivity fosters better alignment and coordination, paving the way for more intuitive human-robot collaboration.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21729
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PSEE: Progressive Sensor Event Expansion for Point-Supervised Temporal Action Localization
2026-09-18 08:11:51Jiaxi Yin, Ge Wang, Han Ding, Fei WangAbstract
Temporal action localization (TAL) in wearable sensor streams identifies action classes and temporal boundaries, enabling finer-grained activity understanding than conventional action recognition. However, training typically requires costly start--end annotations for every action instance. To reduce this burden, we study point-supervised TAL, where each instance is labeled with only one timestamp and its class. We propose Progressive Sensor Event Expansion (PSEE), which combines semantic activations, sensor-specific transition evidence, and adaptive temporal ownership to recover point-supervised pseudo segments. These segments supervise standard TAL detectors without modifying their inference procedures. Cross-subject experiments on four inertial-sensing benchmarks demonstrate improved pseudo-boundary quality over adapted point-supervised baselines, compatibility with different TAL detectors, and robustness to point sampling. Code is available at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21462
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MAGIC: Marginal-Guided Compression with Optimal Transport for Efficient Visual Document Retrieval
2026-09-17 19:14:06Xu Yuan, Hua Liu, Wenqi Fan, Qing LiAbstract
Recent visual document retrieval (VDR) systems such as ColPali use multi-vector page embeddings, in which patch-level vectors enable fine-grained evidence matching but incur substantial index storage and MaxSim scoring overhead. Post-hoc merging offers a practical route to efficient VDR by reducing this cost without retraining the retriever, but its uniform reconstruction objectives are poorly aligned with the sparse, non-uniform patch usage induced by late-interaction retrieval. Under aggressive compression, this misalignment can preserve rarely used patches while concentrating retrieval activity on too few retained representatives. To address this misalignment, we propose Marginal-Guided Compression with Optimal Transport (MAGIC), a training-free post-hoc compressor for efficient retrieval with frozen multi-vector embeddings. MAGIC derives a MaxSim-induced compression surrogate and optimizes it through a two-marginal entropic optimal-transport formulation, where a retrieval-demand source marginal prioritizes high-use patches and a balanced target marginal regularizes retained-facet usage. Across ViDoRe benchmarks, keep ratios, and retrieval backbones, MAGIC consistently outperforms strong post-hoc compressors, with particularly large gains in the aggressive-compression regime; component ablations verify the complementary effects of its two marginals. We release the code at: this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21018
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Deep Learning-Based Classification of Cognitive and Resting States Using Electroencephalography Signals
2026-09-17 14:26:12K. A. Januka S. Fernando, Harshit SrivastavaAbstract
The categorization of cognitive and resting states derived from electroencephalography (EEG) signals is crucial for comprehending fluctuations in brain activity linked to various mental states. EEG provides a non-intrusive approach for documenting brain function in both resting and task-oriented cognitive conditions, whilst deep learning techniques enable the automatic extraction of significant patterns from intricate EEG data. This study presents a deep learning framework to distinguish between resting and cognitive states through EEG records. The proposed framework integrates a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) stacked with a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) for the extraction of features from EEG signals. Time-frequency analysis is conducted to explore the salient aspects of signals, and the derived features are then assessed utilizing conventional deep learning and machine learning classifiers, including the suggested 2D-Net architecture. The proposed approach and feature extraction strategy outperform the evaluated comparative methods, achieving accuracies of 83.177% for resting-versus-mathematical task classification, 76.107% for resting-versus-memory task classification, and 83.432% for resting-versus-music task classification. The findings illustrate the efficacy of integrating signal processing with deep learning methodologies to discriminate resting from cognitive states utilizing EEG signals.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20467
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Needles in a Raystack: Ultra-Sparse LiDAR Occupancy Detection for Bat Tracks
2026-09-17 12:49:42Nico Klar, Pankaj Rana, Nizam Gifary, Jakob Traub, Aamir AhmadAbstract
Monitoring flying animals is important for understanding and protecting biodiversity, but nocturnal species such as bats are difficult to observe in the field. Using LiDAR, bat movements at night result in ultra-sparse 3D spatio-temporal data in which standard reconstruction losses tend to predict only background and miss real flight paths. We study this problem as voxel-wise occupancy detection in sensor-centric LiDAR raystacks. A lightweight 3D U-Net is proposed that preserves temporal resolution, uses skip connections for spatial detail, and combines weighted binary cross-entropy with Dice loss to handle the strong class imbalance. In real LiDAR recordings of bats over open fields, cross-checked with acoustic monitoring, a reconstruction-based 3D convolutional autoencoder baseline fails to recover foreground trajectories. In contrast, the proposed U-Net recovers sparse foreground occupancy in diagnostic experiments and produces coherent occupancy patterns along bat flight trajectories, providing a practical basis for validation-scale experiments, later clustering of flight tracks, and future integration of bat activity information into biodiversity-aware turbine curtailment strategies.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20160
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Foreground Voice Activity Detection: Learning Speaker Selectivity from Supervision
2026-09-17 08:07:04Guangzhao Yang, Muhammad Huzaifah, Yu Pan, Jinya Sakurai, Ningjie BaiAbstract
Voice activity detection (VAD) fronts most voice-agent pipelines, yet production detectors treat all human speech, background talkers included, as valid activity; in crowded settings this floods recognition, stalls turn-taking, and triggers false barge-in. We formalize Foreground VAD (FVAD): a frame-synchronous, enrollment-free task in which only the dominant speaker, defined by sustained presence rather than instantaneous loudness, is positive, and which reduces to conventional VAD when a single speaker is present. We show that foreground selectivity is largely governed by training supervision: the crucial ingredient is an augmentation recipe pairing foreground-only labels with competing-speaker mixing, generated fully automatically without human annotation. To quantify selectivity we introduce the Background False-Alarm Rate (BG-FAR), gated by foreground F1, and build a controlled benchmark, Mix-Interference, complemented by an adapted VOiCES for real-world far-field evaluation. Across equal-size backbones, Mamba and LSTM perform on par while a longer-context attention model is no better, suggesting that training supervision plays a substantially larger role than temporal modeling capacity in achieving foreground selectivity. The resulting lightweight streaming model, Mamba-FVAD, outperforms commercial VADs and enrollment-based speaker-aware systems in foreground selectivity while staying competitive on conventional VAD, at 1-2 ms per-frame CPU latency.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19856
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AI Smart Glasses for Wearable Intelligence: From Egocentric Sensing to Agentic Personalization
2026-09-17 06:59:58Xu Yuan, Yi Wang, Zhuohang Jiang, Haohao Qu, Yujuan Ding, Shanru Lin, Guoliang Xing, Hongxia Yang, Jiannong Cao, Qing Li, Wenqi FanAbstract
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping smart glasses from egocentric capture and display devices into platforms for wearable intelligence. Smart glasses increasingly serve as wearable AI systems that connect first-person observation with real-time assistance under strict form-factor constraints. We frame this transition through the lens of \emph{AI smart glasses} and define them as a system-level concept in which egocentric sensing, resource-aware computing, intelligent reasoning, multimodal interaction, and real-world application constraints are co-designed for personalized assistance in the physical world. To systematically study this perspective, we organize the survey around four connected dimensions. First, we examine the hardware foundation that bounds sensing, computation, feedback delivery, and sustained deployment. Second, we study wearable intelligence, where egocentric signals are transformed into perceptual, contextual, and agentic capabilities. Third, we discuss interaction design, through which users request, receive, correct, and regulate assistance during ongoing activity. Fourth, we analyze application scenarios across healthcare, accessibility, situated learning, daily life assistance, cultural tourism, and industrial support, showing how domain requirements reshape system design and evaluation. We further identify five cross-cutting research challenges for future AI smart glasses: next-generation hardware, trustworthy egocentric intelligence, lifelong personalized memory, proactive intelligence, and embodied foundation models. By centering smart glasses as wearable-intelligence platforms, this survey provides a unified framework for organizing technologies, applications, and open challenges in this emerging area.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19793
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