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SynLeaF: A Dual-Stage Multimodal Fusion Framework for Synthetic Lethality Prediction Across Pan- and Single-Cancer Contexts

arXiv:2603.22369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate prediction of synthetic lethality (SL) is important for guiding the development of cancer drugs and therapies. SL prediction faces significant challenges in the effective fusion of heterogeneous multi-source data. Existing multimodal methods often suffer from "modality laziness" due to disparate convergence speeds, which hinders the exploitation of complementary information. This is also one reason why most existing SL prediction models cannot perform well on both pan-cancer and single-cancer SL pair prediction. In this study, we propose SynLeaF, a dual-stage multimodal fusion framework for SL prediction across pan- and single-cancer contexts. The framework employs a VAE-based cross-encoder with a product of experts mechanism to fuse four omics data types (gene expression, mutation, methylation, and CNV), while simultaneously utilizing a relational graph convolutional network to capture structured gene representations from biomedical knowledge graphs. To mitigate modality laziness, SynLeaF introduces a dual-stage training mechanism employing featurelevel knowledge distillation with adaptive uni-modal teacher and ensemble strategies. In extensive experiments across eight specific cancer types and a pancancer dataset, SynLeaF achieves superior performance in 17 out of 19 scenarios. Ablation studies and gradient analyses further validate the critical contributions of the proposed fusion and distillation mechanisms to model robustness and generalization. To facilitate community use, a web server is available at https://synleaf.bioinformatics-lilab.cn.

TKN: Transformer-based Keypoint Prediction Network For Real-time Video Prediction

arXiv:2303.09807v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video prediction is a complex time-series forecasting task with great potential in many use cases. However, traditional methods prioritize accuracy and overlook slow prediction speeds due to complex model structures, redundant information, and excessive GPU memory consumption. These methods often predict frames sequentially, making acceleration difficult and limiting their applicability in real-time scenarios like danger prediction and warning.Therefore, we propose a transformer-based keypoint prediction neural network (TKN). TKN extracts dynamic content from video frames in an unsupervised manner, reducing redundant feature computation. And, TKN uses an acceleration matrix to reduce the computational cost of attention and employs a parallel computing structure for prediction acceleration. To the best of our knowledge, TKN is the first real-time video prediction solution that achieves a prediction rate of 1,176 fps, significantly reducing computation costs while maintaining other performance. Qualitative and quantitative experiments on multiple datasets have demonstrated the superiority of our method, suggesting that TKN has great application potential.

Improving Data Efficiency for LLM Reinforcement Fine-tuning Through Difficulty-targeted Online Data Selection and Rollout Replay

arXiv:2506.05316v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become an effective approach for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), particularly to enhance their reasoning capabilities. However, RL fine-tuning remains highly resource-intensive, and existing work has largely overlooked the problem of data efficiency. In this paper, we propose two techniques to improve data efficiency in LLM RL fine-tuning: difficulty-targeted online data selection and rollout replay. We introduce the notion of adaptive difficulty to guide online data selection, prioritizing questions of moderate difficulty that are more likely to yield informative learning signals. To estimate adaptive difficulty efficiently, we develop an attention-based framework that requires rollouts for only a small reference set of questions. The adaptive difficulty of the remaining questions is then estimated based on their similarity to this set. To further reduce rollout cost, we introduce a rollout replay mechanism inspired by experience replay in traditional RL. This technique reuses recent rollouts, lowering per-step computation while maintaining stable updates. Experiments across 6 LLM-dataset combinations show that our method reduces RL fine-tuning time by 23% to 62% while reaching the same level of performance as the original GRPO algorithm. Our code is available at https://github.com/ASTRAL-Group/data-efficient-llm-rl.
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