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Received — 10 September 2026 ⏭ cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org

Phase-Aware Spatial-Frequency Fusion for Few-Shot Fine-Grained Image Classification

arXiv:2609.03829v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Few-shot fine-grained image classification (FSFGIC) aims to classify similar images with limited labeled examples. This work highlights the critical yet underutilized role of phase information in capturing structural relationships within an image. This study introduces a novel plug-and-play amplitude-phase integration (API) module that effectively combines local and global frequency amplitude and phase information for obtaining more comprehensive feature descriptors. Additionally, a dedicated network, named PSF-Net, is proposed that adaptively fuses phase-based spatial and frequency information for FSFGIS. The designed PSF-Net can be easily integrated into standard episodic training architectures for end-to-end training from scratch. Extensive experiments on five public datasets demonstrate that the method outperforms existing state-of-the-art benchmarks.
Received — 27 May 2026 ⏭ cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org

ScaleAcross Explorer: Exploring Communication Optimization for Scale-Across AI Model Training

arXiv:2605.24326v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid scaling of large language model training requires distributing GPU resources across multiple data center buildings and regions. We refer to such paradigm as "scale-across" training. As infrastructure expands, the system design space becomes increasingly intricate, encompassing new model architectures, hardware heterogeneity, and evolving communication patterns. Drawing from Meta's production experience, we highlight the complexities of deploying training jobs across a few data centers housing hundreds of thousands of GPUs. To accelerate exploration of the large design space and to enable efficient training for frontier model development, we conduct in-depth characterization of three key design dimensions: parallelism placement, parallelism scheduling, and network layer technologies. We then propose ScaleAcross Explorer, an optimizer that considers the interplay of design dimensions and holistically optimizes scale-across training. Testbed experiments and simulations demonstrate up to 64.62% training speedups over production configuration and up to 37.59% training speedups over the state-of-the-art baseline across a wide range of design points.

DBPnet: Damper Characteristics-Based Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Network for Wheel Load Estimation

arXiv:2605.24860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) play an important role in modern automotive intelligence, significantly enhancing vehicle safety and stability. The performance of ADAS critically relies on accurate and reliable vehicle state estimation, particularly from vehicle dynamic sensors. Among these signals, wheel load is a key variable for chassis control and safety-critical functions, yet it remains difficult to estimate robustly due to complex suspension geometry, nonlinear dynamics, and measurement noise. To address this issue, we propose DBPnet, a Bayesian physics-informed neural network (PINN) with a physics-aware embedding module inspired by damper characteristics. First, this paper presents a suspension linkage-level modeling (SLLM) approach that constructs a nonlinear instantaneous dynamic model by explicitly considering the complex geometric structure of the suspension. Building upon SLLM, Bayesian inference is integrated into the PINN to effectively cope with noise and uncertainty in the vehicle chassis system, thereby improving the model's robustness. Then, a physics-informed loss function is employed to ensure consistency with fundamental physical principles, while the damper characteristics-inspired embedding module extracts temporal variation features of input signals and incorporates them into each layer of the PINN, ensuring that physical observations guide the neural network without being constrained by fixed physical models. Extensive evaluations on high-fidelity simulations and real-world experiments demonstrate that our DBPnet consistently achieves lower RMSE and MaxError than baseline methods. These results highlight the potential of our DBPnet to advance wheel load estimation and contribute to the development of more reliable ADAS actuator functions.

Selective Test-Time Compute Scaling for Click-Through Rate Prediction via Uncertainty-Triggered Feature Path Exploration

arXiv:2605.24989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling test-time compute has proven highly effective for language models, yet this opportunity remains largely unexplored for industrial Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction. CTR models suffer from a fundamental asymmetry: feature combinations well-represented in training yield confident predictions, while sparsely observed ones produce unreliable outputs. Existing training-phase solutions such as adaptive gating learn a fixed selection function subject to the same sparsity, offering no per-instance recourse at deployment.We propose UTTSI (Uncertainty-Triggered Test-Time Selective Inference), a training-free model-agnostic framework that scales inference depth proportionally to per-instance uncertainty. A dual-signal estimator combining model logit confidence with a data-level frequency prior distinguishes epistemic uncertainty from aleatoric ambiguity. Every instance undergoes adaptive feature filtering to remove unreliable embeddings; uncertain instances additionally receive stochastic feature-path explorations whose predictions are aggregated via consistency-weighted ensembling. Confident instances bypass exploration entirely, keeping average overhead at approximately $2.8\times$ base model cost with worst-case latency unchanged.Experiments on four datasets with three backbone architectures demonstrate consistent, statistically significant gains over all training-phase baselines. A seven-day online A/B test further confirms a 5.3% relative CTR gain ($p
Received — 11 March 2026 ⏭ cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org

AdaCultureSafe: Adaptive Cultural Safety Grounded by Cultural Knowledge in Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.08275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), respecting indigenous cultures becomes essential for models' culturally safety and responsible global applications. Existing studies separately consider cultural safety and cultural knowledge and neglect that the former should be grounded by the latter. This severely prevents LLMs from yielding culture-specific respectful responses. Consequently, adaptive cultural safety remains a formidable task. In this work, we propose to jointly model cultural safety and knowledge. First and foremost, cultural-safety and knowledge-paired data serve as the key prerequisite to conduct this research. However, the cultural diversity across regions and the subtlety of cultural differences pose significant challenges to the creation of such paired evaluation data. To address this issue, we propose a novel framework that integrates authoritative cultural knowledge descriptions curation, LLM-automated query generation, and heavy manual verification. Accordingly, we obtain a dataset named AdaCultureSafe containing 4.8K manually decomposed fine-grained cultural descriptions and the corresponding 48K manually verified safety- and knowledge-oriented queries. Upon the constructed dataset, we evaluate three families of popular LLMs on their cultural safety and knowledge proficiency, via which we make a critical discovery: no significant correlation exists between their cultural safety and knowledge proficiency. We then delve into the utility-related neuron activations within LLMs to investigate the potential cause of the absence of correlation, which can be attributed to the difference of the objectives of pre-training and post-alignment. We finally present a knowledge-grounded method, which significantly enhances cultural safety by enforcing the integration of knowledge into the LLM response generation process.
Received — 25 February 2026 ⏭ cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org

ForesightSafety Bench: A Frontier Risk Evaluation and Governance Framework towards Safe AI

arXiv:2602.14135v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rapidly evolving AI exhibits increasingly strong autonomy and goal-directed capabilities, accompanied by derivative systemic risks that are more unpredictable, difficult to control, and potentially irreversible. However, current AI safety evaluation systems suffer from critical limitations such as restricted risk dimensions and failed frontier risk detection. The lagging safety benchmarks and alignment technologies can hardly address the complex challenges posed by cutting-edge AI models. To bridge this gap, we propose the "ForesightSafety Bench" AI Safety Evaluation Framework, beginning with 7 major Fundamental Safety pillars and progressively extends to advanced Embodied AI Safety, AI4Science Safety, Social and Environmental AI risks, Catastrophic and Existential Risks, as well as 8 critical industrial safety domains, forming a total of 94 refined risk dimensions. To date, the benchmark has accumulated tens of thousands of structured risk data points and assessment results, establishing a widely encompassing, hierarchically clear, and dynamically evolving AI safety evaluation framework. Based on this benchmark, we conduct systematic evaluation and in-depth analysis of over twenty mainstream advanced large models, identifying key risk patterns and their capability boundaries. The safety capability evaluation results reveals the widespread safety vulnerabilities of frontier AI across multiple pillars, particularly focusing on Risky Agentic Autonomy, AI4Science Safety, Embodied AI Safety, Social AI Safety and Catastrophic and Existential Risks. Our benchmark is released at https://github.com/Beijing-AISI/ForesightSafety-Bench. The project website is available at https://foresightsafety-bench.beijing-aisi.ac.cn/.
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