Human ability estimation is essential for educational assessment, career advancement, and professional certification. Adaptive Testing systems can improve estimation efficiency by selecting fewer, targeted questions, and are widely used in exams, e.g., GRE, GMAT, and Duolingo English Test. However, selecting an optimal subset of questions remains a challenging nested optimization problem. Existing methods rely on costly approximations or data-intensive training, making them unsuitable for today's large-scale and complex testing environments. Thus, we propose a Closed-Form solution for question subset selection in Adaptive Testing. It directly minimizes ability estimation error by reducing ability parameter's gradient bias while maintaining Hessian stability, which enables a simple greedy algorithm for question selection. Moreover, it can quantify the impact of human behavioral perturbations on ability estimation. Extensive experiments on large-scale educational datasets demonstrate that it reduces the number of required questions by 10% compared to SOTA methods, while maintaining the same estimation accuracy.

Most multimodal models treat every negative pair alike, ignoring the ambiguous negatives that differ from the positive by only a small detail. We propose BoundaryA ware Curriculum with Local Attention(BACL), a lightweight add-on that turns these borderline cases into a curriculum signal. ABoundary-aware Negative Sampler gradually raises difficulty, while a Contrastive Local Attention loss highlights where the mismatch occurs. The two modules are fully differentiable and work with any off-the-shelf dual encoder. Theory predicts a fast O(1/n) error rate; practice shows up to +32 % R@1 over CLIP and new SOTA on four large-scale benchmarks, all without extra labels.

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Generalized policy and execution efficiency constitute the two critical challenges in robotic manipulation. While recent foundation policies benefit from the commonsense reasoning capabilities of internet-scale pretrained vision-language models (VLMs), they often suffer from low execution frequency. To mitigate this dilemma, dual-system approaches have been proposed to leverage a VLM-based System 2 module for handling high-level decision-making, and a separate System 1 action module for ensuring real-time control. However, existing designs maintain both systems as separate models, limiting System 1 from fully leveraging the rich pretrained knowledge from the VLM-based System 2. In this work, we propose Fast-in-Slow (FiS), a unified dual-system vision-language-action (VLA) model that embeds the System 1 execution module within the VLM-based System 2 by partially sharing parameters. This innovative paradigm not only enables high-frequency execution in System 1, but also facilitates coordination between multimodal reasoning and execution components within a single foundation model of System 2. Given their fundamentally distinct roles within FiS-VLA, we design the two systems to incorporate heterogeneous modality inputs alongside asynchronous operating frequencies, enabling both fast and precise manipulation. To enable coordination between the two systems, a dual-aware co-training strategy is proposed that equips System 1 with action generation capabilities while preserving System 2's contextual understanding to provide stable latent conditions for System 1. For evaluation, FiS-VLA outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods by 8% in simulation and 11% in realworld tasks in terms of average success rate, while achieving a 117.7 Hz control frequency with action chunk set to eight.

We introduce Support Vector Generation (SVG), a kernel-based framework that converts a frozen language model into an interpretable, training-free classifier for zero-and few-shot learning. SVG operates by combining Metropolis-Hastings sampling with support vector machine optimization in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) induced by the language model's embedding. Each classification decision is based on a weighted combination of at most 32 natural-language sentences, which serve as explicit support vectors and provide faithful rationales. Our theoretical analysis proves that SVG minimizes the empirical hinge loss over the span of the supports and admits a generalization bound independent of the language model size. Experiments on the GLUE benchmark show that SVG matches or surpasses prompting-based zero-shot baselines in accuracy across multiple tasks--without any fine-tuning or GPU acceleration. Notably, our CPU-only implementation completes training in under three minutes per task, and maintains competitive inference speed. These results suggest that SVG offers a viable path toward efficient, interpretable NLP systems under compute constraints.

Text-3DScene Retrieval (T3SR) aims to retrieve relevant scenes using linguistic queries. Although traditional T3SR methods have made significant progress in capturing fine-grained associations, they implicitly assume that query descriptions are information-complete. In practical deployments, however, limited by the capabilities of users and models, it is difficult or even impossible to directly obtain a perfect textual query suiting the entire scene and model, thereby leading to performance degradation. To address this issue, we propose a novel Interactive Text-3D Scene Retrieval Method (IDeal), which promotes the enhancement of the alignment between texts and 3D scenes through continuous interaction. To achieve this, we present an Interactive Retrieval Refinement framework (IRR), which employs a questioner to pose contextually relevant questions to an answerer in successive rounds that either promote detailed probing or encourage exploratory divergence within scenes. Upon the iterative responses received from the answerer, IRR adopts a retriever to perform both feature-level and semantic-level information fusion, facilitating scene-level interaction and understanding for more precise re-rankings. To bridge the domain gap between queries and interactive texts, we propose an Interaction Adaptation Tuning strategy (IAT).

While recent approaches have shown promise in generating 3D vector graphics, they often suffer from lengthy processing times and struggle to maintain view consistency. To address these limitations, we propose ViewCraft3D (VC3D), an efficient method that leverages 3D priors to generate 3D vector graphics. Specifically, our approach begins with 3D object analysis, employs a geometric extraction algorithm to fit 3D vector graphics to the underlying structure, and applies view-consistent refinement process to enhance visual quality. Our comprehensive experiments demonstrate that VC3D outperforms previous methods in both qualitative and quantitative evaluations, while significantly reducing computational overhead. The resulting 3D sketches maintain view consistency and effectively capture the essential characteristics of the original objects.

In recent years, artificial intelligence has significantly advanced medical image segmentation. Nonetheless, challenges remain, including efficient 3D medical image processing across diverse modalities and handling data variability. In this work, we introduce Hierarchical Soft Mixture-of-Experts (HoME), a two-level token-routing layer for efficient long-context modeling, specifically designed for 3D medical image segmentation. Built on the Mamba Selective State-Space Model (SSM) backbone, HoME enhances sequential modeling through adaptive expert routing.

The expansion of instruction-tuning data has enabled foundation language models to exhibit improved instruction adherence and superior performance across diverse downstream tasks. Semantically-rich 3D human motion is being progressively integrated with these foundation models to enhance multimodal understanding and cross-modal generation capabilities. However, the modality gap between human motion and text raises unresolved concerns about catastrophic forgetting during this integration. In addition, developing autoregressive-compatible pose representations that preserve generalizability across heterogeneous downstream tasks remains a critical technical barrier. To address these issues, we propose the Human MotionVision-Language Model (HMVLM), a unified framework based on the Mixture of Expert Low-Rank Adaption(MoE LoRA) strategy. The framework leverages the gating network to dynamically allocate LoRA expert weights based on the input prompt, enabling synchronized fine-tuning of multiple tasks. To mitigate catastrophic forgetting during instruction-tuning, we introduce a novel zero expert that preserves the pre-trained parameters for general linguistic tasks. For pose representation, we implement body-part-specific tokenization by partitioning the human body into different joint groups, enhancing the spatial resolution of the representation. Experiments show that our method effectively alleviates knowledge forgetting during instruction-tuning and achieves remarkable performance across diverse human motion downstream tasks.

This paper provides the first expert sample complexity characterization for learning a Nash equilibrium from expert data in Markov Games. We show that a new quantity named the all policy deviation concentrability coefficient is unavoidable in the non-interactive imitation learning setting, and we provide an upper bound for behavioral cloning (BC) featuring such coefficient. BC exhibits substantial regret in games with high concentrability coefficient, leading us to utilize expert queries to develop and introduce two novel solution algorithms: MAIL-BRO and MURMAIL. The former employs a best response oracle and learns an ε-Nash equilibrium with O(ε 4)expert and oracle queries.