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Clebsch-Gordan Transformer: Fast and Global Equivariant Attention

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Transformer-based models have demonstrated effectiveness beyond language processing, showing strong performance in geometry-aware tasks such as robotics, structural biochemistry, and materials science [1-5]. For instance, 3D robotic perception tasks ranging from segmentation to object matching process point clouds and LiDAR data using attention mechanisms. These tasks heavily rely on token-based representations, and their performance is often constrained by the number of tokens the model can effectively handle. AlphaFold [6], for example, employs equivariant transformers to predict protein structures with unprecedented accuracy by explicitly leveraging SE (3) symmetries such as rotations and translations. However, implementing an equivariant neural network structure typically incurs significant computational overhead and increased inference time. As a result, most current approaches are limited to small symmetry groups or low-order representations [7-12]. Enabling fast, low-memory overhead equivariant operations over large context windows is essential to scaling robust and sample-efficient learning in geometry-aware domains. Unfortunately, maintaining equivariance while modeling a global geometric context is challenging due to the computational demands of processing high dimensional data at scale. There are essentially two components that contribute to the computational complexity of E(3)-equivariant transformers: the time and memory scaling of the transformer with the number of tokens, N, and the time and memory complexity on the maximum harmonic degree, โ„“.


CORRECT: COndensed eRror RECognition via knowledge Transfer in multi-agent systems

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are increasingly capable of tackling complex real-world tasks, yet their reliance on inter-agent coordination, tool use, and long-horizon reasoning makes error recognition particularly challenging. Minor errors can propagate across agents, escalating into task failures while producing long, intertwined execution trajectories that impose significant costs for both human developers and automated systems to debug and analyze. Our key insight is that, despite surface differences in failure trajectories (e.g., logs), MAS errors often recur with similar structural patterns. This paper presents CORRECT, the first lightweight, training-free framework that leverages an online cache of distilled error schemata to recognize and transfer knowledge of failure structures across new requests. This cache-based reuse allows LLMs to perform targeted error localization at inference time, avoiding the need for expensive retraining while adapting to dynamic MAS deployments in subseconds. To support rigorous study in this domain, we also introduce CORRECT-Error, a large-scale dataset of over 2,000 annotated trajectories collected through a novel error-injection pipeline guided by real-world distributions, and further validated through human evaluation to ensure alignment with natural failure patterns. Experiments across seven diverse MAS applications show that CORRECT improves step-level error localization up to 19.8% over existing advances while at near-zero overhead, substantially narrowing the gap between automated and human-level error recognition.


Ensembling Multilingual Transformers for Robust Sentiment Analysis of Tweets

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Sentiment analysis is a very important natural language processing activity in which one identifies the polarity of a text, whether it conveys positive, negative, or neutral sentiment. Along with the growth of social media and the Internet, the significance of sentiment analysis has grown across numerous industries such as marketing, politics, and customer service. Sentiment analysis is flawed, however, when applied to foreign languages, particularly when there is no labelled data to train models upon. In this study, we present a transformer ensemble model and a large language model (LLM) that employs sentiment analysis of other languages. We used multi languages dataset. Sentiment was then assessed for sentences using an ensemble of pre-trained sentiment analysis models: bert-base-multilingual-uncased-sentiment, and XLM-R. Our experimental results indicated that sentiment analysis performance was more than 86% using the proposed method.


ResFormer: All-Time Reservoir Memory for Long Sequence Classification

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Sequence classification is essential in NLP for understanding and categorizing language patterns in tasks like sentiment analysis, intent detection, and topic classification. Transformer-based models, despite achieving state-of-the-art performance, have inherent limitations due to quadratic time and memory complexity, restricting their input length. Although extensive efforts have aimed at reducing computational demands, processing extensive contexts remains challenging. To overcome these limitations, we propose ResFormer, a novel neural network architecture designed to model varying context lengths efficiently through a cascaded methodology. ResFormer integrates an reservoir computing network featuring a nonlinear readout to effectively capture long-term contextual dependencies in linear time. Concurrently, short-term dependencies within sentences are modeled using a conventional Transformer architecture with fixed-length inputs. Experiments demonstrate that ResFormer significantly outperforms baseline models of DeepSeek-Qwen and ModernBERT, delivering an accuracy improvement of up to +22.3% on the EmoryNLP dataset and consistent gains on MultiWOZ, MELD, and IEMOCAP. In addition, ResFormer exhibits reduced memory consumption, underscoring its effectiveness and efficiency in modeling extensive contextual information.


AQUAIR: A High-Resolution Indoor Environmental Quality Dataset for Smart Aquaculture Monitoring

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Smart aquaculture systems depend on rich environmental data streams to protect fish welfare, optimize feeding, and reduce energy use. Yet public datasets that describe the air surrounding indoor tanks remain scarce, limiting the development of forecasting and anomaly-detection tools that couple head-space conditions with water-quality dynamics. We therefore introduce AQUAIR, an open-access public dataset that logs six Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) variables--air temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide, total volatile organic compounds, PM2.5 and PM10--inside a fish aquaculture facility in Amghass, Azrou, Morocco. A single Awair HOME monitor sampled every five minutes from 14 October 2024 to 9 January 2025, producing more than 23,000 time-stamped observations that are fully quality-controlled and publicly archived on Figshare. We describe the sensor placement, ISO-compliant mounting height, calibration checks against reference instruments, and an open-source processing pipeline that normalizes timestamps, interpolates short gaps, and exports analysis-ready tables. Exploratory statistics show stable conditions (median CO2 = 758 ppm; PM2.5 = 12 micrograms/m3) with pronounced feeding-time peaks, offering rich structure for short-horizon forecasting, event detection, and sensor drift studies. AQUAIR thus fills a critical gap in smart aquaculture informatics and provides a reproducible benchmark for data-centric machine learning curricula and environmental sensing research focused on head-space dynamics in recirculating aquaculture systems.


A Second-Order Perspective on Pruning at Initialization and Knowledge Transfer

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The widespread availability of pre-trained vision models has enabled numerous deep learning applications through their transferable representations. However, their computational and storage costs often limit practical deployment. Pruning-at-Initialization has emerged as a promising approach to compress models before training, enabling efficient task-specific adaptation. While conventional wisdom suggests that effective pruning requires task-specific data, this creates a challenge when downstream tasks are unknown in advance. In this paper, we investigate how data influences the pruning of pre-trained vision models. Surprisingly, pruning on one task retains the model's zero-shot performance also on unseen tasks. Furthermore, fine-tuning these pruned models not only improves performance on original seen tasks but can recover held-out tasks' performance. We attribute this phenomenon to the favorable loss landscapes induced by extensive pre-training on large-scale datasets.


End-to-end Topographic Auditory Models Replicate Signatures of Human Auditory Cortex

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The human auditory cortex is topographically organized. Neurons with similar response properties are spatially clustered, forming smooth maps for acoustic features such as frequency in early auditory areas, and modular regions selective for music and speech in higher-order cortex. Yet, evaluations for current computational models of auditory perception do not measure whether such topographic structure is present in a candidate model. Here, we show that cortical topography is not present in the previous best-performing models at predicting human auditory fMRI responses. To encourage the emergence of topographic organization, we adapt a cortical wiring-constraint loss originally designed for visual perception. The new class of topographic auditory models, TopoAudio, are trained to classify speech, and environmental sounds from cochleagram inputs, with an added constraint that nearby units on a 2D cortical sheet develop similar tuning. Despite these additional constraints, TopoAudio achieves high accuracy on benchmark tasks comparable to the unconstrained non-topographic baseline models. Further, TopoAudio predicts the fMRI responses in the brain as well as standard models, but unlike standard models, TopoAudio develops smooth, topographic maps for tonotopy and amplitude modulation (common properties of early auditory representation, as well as clustered response modules for music and speech (higher-order selectivity observed in the human auditory cortex). TopoAudio is the first end-to-end biologically grounded auditory model to exhibit emergent topography, and our results emphasize that a wiring-length constraint can serve as a general-purpose regularization tool to achieve biologically aligned representations.


Pretraining Scaling Laws for Generative Evaluations of Language Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Neural scaling laws have played a central role in modern machine learning, driving the field's ever-expanding scaling of parameters, data and compute. While much research has gone into fitting scaling laws and predicting performance on pretraining losses and on discriminative evaluations such as multiple-choice question-answering benchmarks, comparatively little research has been done on fitting scaling laws and predicting performance on generative evaluations such as mathematical problem-solving or coding. In this work, we propose and evaluate three different pretraining scaling laws for fitting pass-at-k on generative evaluations and for predicting pass-at-k of the most expensive model using the performance of cheaper models. Our three scaling laws differ in the covariates used: (1) pretraining compute, (2) model parameters and pretraining tokens, (3) log likelihoods of gold reference solutions. We make four main contributions: First, we show how generative evaluations offer new hyperparameters (in our setting, k) that researchers can use to control the scaling laws parameters and the predictability of performance. Second, in terms of scaling law parameters, we find that the compute scaling law and parameters + tokens scaling law stabilize for the last 1.5 2.5 orders of magnitude, whereas the gold reference likelihood scaling law stabilizes for the last 5 orders of magnitude.


Sequential Diffusion Language Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Diffusion language models (DLMs) have strong theoretical efficiency but are limited by fixed-length decoding and incompatibility with key-value (KV) caches. Block diffusion mitigates these issues, yet still enforces a fixed block size and requires expensive training. We introduce Next Sequence Prediction (NSP), which unifies next-token and next-block prediction, enabling the model to adaptively determine the generation length at each step. When the length is fixed to 1, NSP reduces to standard next-token prediction. Building on NSP, we propose Sequential Diffusion Language Model (SDLM), which can retrofit pre-trained autoregressive language models (ALMs) at minimal cost. Specifically, SDLM performs diffusion inference within fixed-size mask blocks, but dynamically decodes consecutive subsequences based on model confidence, thereby preserving KV-cache compatibility and improving robustness to varying uncertainty and semantics across the sequence. Experiments show that SDLM matches or surpasses strong autoregressive baselines using only 3.5M training samples, while achieving 2.1 higher throughput than Qwen-2.5. Notably, the SDLM-32B model delivers even more pronounced efficiency gains, demonstrating the strong scalability potential of our modeling paradigm. Project page and codes: https://github.com/OpenGVLab/SDLM


MCPMark: A Benchmark for Stress-Testing Realistic and Comprehensive MCP Use

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

MCP standardizes how LLMs interact with external systems, forming the foundation for general agents. However, existing MCP benchmarks remain narrow in scope: they focus on read-heavy tasks or tasks with limited interaction depth, and fail to capture the complexity and realism of real-world workflows. To address this gap, we propose MCPMark, a benchmark designed to evaluate MCP use in a more realistic and comprehensive manner. It consists of $127$ high-quality tasks collaboratively created by domain experts and AI agents. Each task begins with a curated initial state and includes a programmatic script for automatic verification. These tasks demand richer and more diverse interactions with the environment, involving a broad range of create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of cutting-edge LLMs using a minimal agent framework that operates in a tool-calling loop. Empirical results show that the best-performing model, gpt-5-medium, reaches only $52.56$\% pass@1 and $33.86$\% pass^4, while other widely regarded strong models, including claude-sonnet-4 and o3, fall below $30$\% pass@1 and $15$\% pass^4. On average, LLMs require $16.2$ execution turns and $17.4$ tool calls per task, significantly surpassing those in previous MCP benchmarks and highlighting the stress-testing nature of MCPMark.