Normal view
-
cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org
-
From Text to Forecasts: Bridging Modality Gap with Temporal Evolution Semantic Space
arXiv:2603.12664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Incorporating textual information into time-series forecasting holds promise for addressing event-driven non-stationarity; however, a fundamental modality gap hinders effective fusion: textual descriptions express temporal impacts implicitly and qualitatively, whereas forecasting models rely on explicit and quantitative signals. Through controlled semi-synthetic experiments, we show that existing methods over-attend to redundant tokens and strug
-
Omics In Lung
-
Multi-Omics and Single-Cell Mendelian Randomization Reveal a Potential Role of VNN2 in Lung Adenocarcinoma in Resting Natural Killer Cells
World J Oncol. 2026 Mar 5;17(2):247-255. doi: 10.14740/wjon2689. eCollection 2026 Apr.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: We aimed to evaluate the potential association between genetically predicted vanin-2 (VNN2) expression and lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) risk, and to explore the immune cell subtype that may underlie this relationship.METHODS: We integrated whole-blood expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) data from eQTLGen, plasma protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) data from deCODE, and LUAD genome-wid
Multi-Omics and Single-Cell Mendelian Randomization Reveal a Potential Role of VNN2 in Lung Adenocarcinoma in Resting Natural Killer Cells
World J Oncol. 2026 Mar 5;17(2):247-255. doi: 10.14740/wjon2689. eCollection 2026 Apr.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: We aimed to evaluate the potential association between genetically predicted vanin-2 (VNN2) expression and lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) risk, and to explore the immune cell subtype that may underlie this relationship.
METHODS: We integrated whole-blood expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) data from eQTLGen, plasma protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) data from deCODE, and LUAD genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from European-ancestry cohorts, together with differential expression analysis using GEPIA2, to identify candidate genes for subsequent single-cell eQTL (sc-eQTL) Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis. For the sc-eQTL analysis, VNN2-associated eQTLs from 14 immune cell types profiled in the OneK1K single-cell eQTL resource were tested for associations with LUAD risk.
RESULTS: Bulk-level MR analysis showed that genetically predicted increases in VNN2 expression and protein levels were significantly associated with a reduced risk of LUAD (eQTL-MR: odds ratio (OR) = 0.964, 95% confidence interval (95% CI), 0.934-0.995; P = 0.024; pQTL-MR: OR = 0.946, 95% CI, 0.921-0.970; P = 2.87 × 10-5). Transcriptomic analyses confirmed significant downregulation of VNN2 in LUAD tumors compared with normal lung tissues. sc-eQTL MR identified the strongest association in resting natural killer (rNK) cells (OR = 0.896, 95% CI, 0.829-0.967; P = 0.005).
CONCLUSIONS: Multi-omics and sc-eQTL MR analyses indicated that genetically predicted increases in VNN2 expression were associated with a reduced risk of LUAD, with the most pronounced effect observed in rNK cells. These findings suggest a potential cell type-specific role of VNN2 in LUAD susceptibility and warrant further studies to validate its biological relevance and clinical implications.
PMID:41822323 | PMC:PMC12978397 | DOI:10.14740/wjon2689
-
Pulmonary nodule
-
Profiling of the mycobiome and metabolome: a comparative study of benign pulmonary nodules and lung adenocarcinoma
Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2026 Feb 23;16:1732958. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2026.1732958. eCollection 2026.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), the most common subtype of non-small cell lung cancer, is a form of malignant pulmonary nodule that requires clinical differentiation from benign pulmonary nodules (BPN). The mechanisms underlying the development of LUAD are complex, and effective non-invasive methods for differentiating BPN from LUAD are lacking. This study aimed not only to di
Profiling of the mycobiome and metabolome: a comparative study of benign pulmonary nodules and lung adenocarcinoma
Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2026 Feb 23;16:1732958. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2026.1732958. eCollection 2026.
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), the most common subtype of non-small cell lung cancer, is a form of malignant pulmonary nodule that requires clinical differentiation from benign pulmonary nodules (BPN). The mechanisms underlying the development of LUAD are complex, and effective non-invasive methods for differentiating BPN from LUAD are lacking. This study aimed not only to distinguish BPN from LUAD using gut fungi and serum metabolites, but also to establish an integrated network of gut fungi-metabolite-cytokine interactions.
METHODS: Fecal and serum samples from individuals with BPN and patients with LUAD were subjected to internal transcribed spacer sequencing, ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, and multiplex Luminex assays to quantify gut fungi, metabolites, and cytokines, respectively.
RESULTS: A significant difference in gut fungal communities was observed between the BPN and LUAD groups. Multiple genera and species were more abundant in LUAD than in BPN. Docosapentaenoic acid n-6 (DPAn-6), indole-3-propionic acid (IPA), and interferon-γ-induced protein 10 (IP-10) were significantly elevated in the LUAD group. The integrated model established using a combination of gut fungi and metabolites demonstrated excellent performance in distinguishing BPN from LUAD. A network of interactions was established among differentially abundant gut fungi, serum metabolites, and cytokines.
CONCLUSION: Our study identifies a novel panel of fungal and metabolite biomarkers for differentiating between BPN and LUAD, and constructs a multi-omics network that provides new insights into investigating the mechanistic role of gut mycobiota dysbiosis in LUAD.
PMID:41809995 | PMC:PMC12968269 | DOI:10.3389/fcimb.2026.1732958
-
Nature - Issue - nature.com science feeds
-
Facile induction of immune tolerance by an interleukin-2–TGFβ surrogate agonist
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10208-0A fusion protein designed to comprise IL-2 and a helminth-derived TGFβ mimic activates IL-2 and TGFβ signalling pathways in IL-2 receptor-expressing T cells and induces stable antigen-specific regulatory T cells in peripheral lymphoid organs.
Facile induction of immune tolerance by an interleukin-2–TGFβ surrogate agonist
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10208-0
A fusion protein designed to comprise IL-2 and a helminth-derived TGFβ mimic activates IL-2 and TGFβ signalling pathways in IL-2 receptor-expressing T cells and induces stable antigen-specific regulatory T cells in peripheral lymphoid organs.-
Nature - Issue - nature.com science feeds
-
Risk-adaptive therapy guided by dynamic ctDNA in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10244-wA clinical trial testing whether monitoring ctDNA clearance during treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer could be used to inform decisions about an individual’s subsequent therapeutic programme shows promising results.
Risk-adaptive therapy guided by dynamic ctDNA in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Nature, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10244-w
A clinical trial testing whether monitoring ctDNA clearance during treatment for nasopharyngeal cancer could be used to inform decisions about an individual’s subsequent therapeutic programme shows promising results.-
Journal of Medical Internet Research
-
Breast Cancer Screening Knowledge and Sentiments in Singaporean Women: Mixed Methods Study Using Topic Modeling, Sentiment Analysis, and Structured Questionnaire Data
Background: Mammography screening uptake in Singapore remains below 40% despite campaigns and subsidies. Natural language processing (NLP) can extract nuanced attitudes from free text that fixed response options miss, revealing latent factors influencing breast cancer (BC) screening behavior. Objective: This study characterized women’s attitudes toward mammography using mixed methods data, examined associations between BC awareness and screening willingness, and identified barriers and facilitat
Breast Cancer Screening Knowledge and Sentiments in Singaporean Women: Mixed Methods Study Using Topic Modeling, Sentiment Analysis, and Structured Questionnaire Data
-
cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org
-
Agentic Critical Training
arXiv:2603.08706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language models (LLMs) as autonomous agents often begins with imitation learning, but it only teaches agents what to do without understanding why: agents never contrast successful actions against suboptimal alternatives and thus lack awareness of action quality. Recent approaches attempt to address this by introducing self-reflection supervision derived from contrasts between expert and alternative actions. However, the training par
Agentic Critical Training
-
cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org
-
GraphSkill: Documentation-Guided Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Coding for Complex Graph Reasoning
arXiv:2603.06620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing demand for automated graph algorithm reasoning has attracted increasing attention in the large language model (LLM) community. Recent LLM-based graph reasoning methods typically decouple task descriptions from graph data, generate executable code augmented by retrieval from technical documentation, and refine the code through debugging. However, we identify two key limitations in existing approaches: (i) they treat technical document
GraphSkill: Documentation-Guided Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Coding for Complex Graph Reasoning
-
cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org
-
MetaWorld-X: Hierarchical World Modeling via VLM-Orchestrated Experts for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2603.08572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning natural, stable, and compositionally generalizable whole-body control policies for humanoid robots performing simultaneous locomotion and manipulation (loco-manipulation) remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. Existing reinforcement learning approaches typically rely on a single monolithic policy to acquire multiple skills, which often leads to cross-skill gradient interference and motion pattern conflicts in high-degree-of-freedo
MetaWorld-X: Hierarchical World Modeling via VLM-Orchestrated Experts for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
-
cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org
-
Membership Inference Attacks on Tokenizers of Large Language Models
arXiv:2510.05699v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Membership inference attacks (MIAs) are widely used to assess the privacy risks associated with machine learning models. However, when these attacks are applied to pre-trained large language models (LLMs), they encounter significant challenges, including mislabeled samples, distribution shifts, and discrepancies in model size between experimental and real-world settings. To address these limitations, we introduce tokenizers as a new atta
Membership Inference Attacks on Tokenizers of Large Language Models
-
cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org
-
Unbiased Dynamic Pruning for Efficient Group-Based Policy Optimization
arXiv:2603.04135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) effectively scales LLM reasoning but incurs prohibitive computational costs due to its extensive group-based sampling requirement. While recent selective data utilization methods can mitigate this overhead, they could induce estimation bias by altering the underlying sampling distribution, compromising theoretical rigor and convergence behavior. To address this limitation, we propose Dynamic Pruning Poli
Unbiased Dynamic Pruning for Efficient Group-Based Policy Optimization
-
cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org
-
Quantum-Inspired Fine-Tuning for Few-Shot AIGC Detection via Phase-Structured Reparameterization
arXiv:2603.02281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent studies show that quantum neural networks (QNNs) generalize well in few-shot regimes. To extend this advantage to large-scale tasks, we propose Q-LoRA, a quantum-enhanced fine-tuning scheme that integrates lightweight QNNs into the low-rank adaptation (LoRA) adapter. Applied to AI-generated content (AIGC) detection, Q-LoRA consistently outperforms standard LoRA under few-shot settings. We analyze the source of this improvement and identif
Quantum-Inspired Fine-Tuning for Few-Shot AIGC Detection via Phase-Structured Reparameterization
-
cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org
-
A Deployment-Friendly Foundational Framework for Efficient Computational Pathology
arXiv:2602.14010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have enabled robust generalization in computational pathology through large-scale datasets and expansive architectures, but their substantial computational cost, particularly for gigapixel whole slide images, limits clinical accessibility and scalability. Here, we present LitePath, a deployment-friendly foundational framework designed to mitigate model over-parameterization and patch level redundancy. LitePath
A Deployment-Friendly Foundational Framework for Efficient Computational Pathology
-
cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org
-
UniWeTok: An Unified Binary Tokenizer with Codebook Size $\mathit{2^{128}}$ for Unified Multimodal Large Language Model
arXiv:2602.14178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) require a visual representation that simultaneously supports high-fidelity reconstruction, complex semantic extraction, and generative suitability. However, existing visual tokenizers typically struggle to satisfy these conflicting objectives within a single framework. In this paper, we introduce UniWeTok, a unified discrete tokenizer designed to bridge this gap using a massive binary codebook ($\
UniWeTok: An Unified Binary Tokenizer with Codebook Size $\mathit{2^{128}}$ for Unified Multimodal Large Language Model
-
cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org
-
Synergizing Foundation Models and Federated Learning: A Survey
arXiv:2406.12844v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Over the past few years, the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been reshaped by the emergence of Foundation Models (FMs). Pre-trained on massive datasets, these models exhibit exceptional performance across diverse downstream tasks through adaptation techniques like fine-tuning and prompt learning. More recently, the synergy of FMs and Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm, often termed Federated Foundat