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Sep 7, 2026cs.AI

RAFM-SER++: A Lightweight Multimodal Emotion Recognition Framework for Real-Time Behavioral Monitoring in Surveillance Systems

Recent multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems achieve high accuracy through interaction-heavy cross-modal transformers, but their computational cost limits deployment in latency-sensitive and resource-constrained surveillance systems. To address this challenge, we propose RAFM_SER++, a lightweight multimodal SER framework featuring an asymmetric Residual Attention Fusion Mechanism (RAFM). Rather than relying on computationally expensive bidirectional interactions, RAFM injects affective speech cues into semantic text representations through a one-directional residual attention pathway. Combined with a BYOL-inspired cross-modal alignment objective and attention-guided pooling, the proposed framework improves multimodal representation learning while maintaining low computational overhead. Experiments on the IEMOCAP and ESD benchmarks demonstrate that RAFM_SER++ consistently outperforms the HuBERT-Base baseline and achieves a superior accuracy-efficiency trade-off compared with the state-of-the-art MemoCMT. Specifically, RAFM_SER++ reduces trainable parameters by more than 60%, achieves faster inference (79.60 it/s), and attains BACC scores of 81.10% on IEMOCAP and 95.39% on ESD. These results indicate that lightweight asymmetric multimodal fusion is an effective alternative to interaction-heavy cross-modal transformers for real-time surveillance applications.
Ngo Truong Dinh, Tung-Lam Bui, Chi-Trung Duong +3
Aug 10, 2026cs.DB

Monotonicity-Guided Bottom-Up Petri Net Discovery: The SPECpp Framework

Process discovery is one of the central challenges in process mining. Petri nets are particularly attractive because simple local constructs can express complex behavior, including concurrency. While their global behavior may be difficult to analyze, individual places can be efficiently characterized using monotonic properties, enabling bottom-up discovery. Unlike top-down approaches such as the Inductive Miner, which rely on predefined constructs for sequences, choices, loops, and concurrency, our approach allows such structures to emerge organically and can exploit the full expressive power of Petri nets, including free-choice constructs and long-term dependencies. The main challenge is the exponential number of candidate places and their combinations. We present the SPECpp framework which implements strategies to obtain high-quality models under time and resource constraints. SPECpp supports rapid experimentation and is used to evaluate these strategies using both synthetic and real-life event data.
Leah Tacke genannt Unterberg, Lisa L. Mannel, Wil M. P. van der Aalst
Aug 1, 2026cs.CV

NISF++: Geometrically-grounded implicit representations of 3D+time cardiac function from 2D short- and long-axis MR views

Clinical acquisition in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging involves obtaining cross-sectional planes of the heart along the radial and longitudinal directions. Despite these planes being 2D cross-sectional images of the heart, radiologists understand the 3D spatial and continuous temporal nature of the organ being imaged. The same can not be said about the conventional deep learning architectures used to process CMR images, which rely on in-plane and grid-based operations, and are hence unable to organically integrate information from all imaging planes. This paper builds upon previous work on neural implicit segmentation functions (NISF) to overcome unaddressed challenges in cardiac function modeling in the CMR domain. For a given subject, our architecture builds a shared 3D+time representations from all available acquisition planes regardless of orientation. By design, predictions along any imaging plane orientation are cross-sections of the same 3D representation, leading to spatio-temporal consistency across all slices. Moreover, our architecture makes the rotation and translation parameters of imaging planes learnable, allowing us to correct for the commonplace respiratory and patient motion between slice acquisitions under a rigid assumption. Furthermore, interpolation of intensities and segmentation can be performed in 4D at any desired resolution. We perform our study on a 120 subject sub-cohort of CMR imaging data from the UK-Biobank. Our in-plane segmentation performance is on-par with existing CMR segmentation methods and explore how the majority of failure cases arise from limitations in the ground-truth segmentation, for which our representations make predictions with better anatomical accuracy than its original training data. We also evaluate our motion-correction capabilities, displaying quantitative and qualitative improvements in slice alignment.
Nil Stolt-Ansó, Maik Dannecker, Steven Jia +2
Jul 30, 2026cs.CL

ICLE++: Modeling Fine-Grained Traits for Holistic Essay Scoring

The majority of the recently-developed models for automated essay scoring (AES) are evaluated solely on the ASAP corpus. However, ASAP is not without its limitations. For instance, it is not clear whether models trained on ASAP can generalize well when evaluated on other corpora. In light of these limitations, we introduce ICLE++, a corpus of persuasive student essays annotated with both holistic scores and trait-specific scores. Not only can ICLE++ be used to test the generalizability of AES models trained on ASAP, but it can also facilitate the evaluation of models developed for newer AES problems such as multi-trait scoring and cross-prompt scoring. We believe that ICLE++, which represents a culmination of our long-term effort in annotating the essays in the ICLE corpus, contributes to the set of much-needed annotated corpora for AES research.
Shengjie Li, Vincent Ng
Jul 20, 2026cs.GR

Packet-Loss Robust 3D Gaussian Compression via Atomic Packaging and GNN-based Error Concealment

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and recent compression schemes such as HAC++ enable high-fidelity real-time neural rendering, but their bitstreams are fragile under packet loss during network streaming. Existing compression methods often separate correlated anchor attributes into independent streams, so losing one packet can create attribute-inconsistent broken anchors and severe rendering artifacts. We propose a packet-loss robust 3DGS transmission and error concealment framework. On the encoder side, anchor-level atomic packaging jointly encapsulates all attributes of each anchor, converting corrupted-attribute failures into clean missing-anchor erasures. Stratified random grouping further disperses packet losses across the spatial domain to avoid large contiguous voids. On the decoder side, we formulate recovery as prior-aware attribute inpainting. A Context-Aware Residual Interpolation (CARI) branch uses hash-grid prior predictions and neighboring residuals to build a robust baseline, while a lightweight two-layer graph neural network with cross-attention over hash-grid priors refines high-frequency attribute residuals. Attribute-wise confidence control falls back to interpolation when learned predictions are unreliable. Experiments under 20 percent random packet loss on BungeeNeRF, Mip-NeRF 360, and Tanks and Temples show that the proposed method substantially improves over no-concealment transmission and limits average PSNR degradation to about 3 dB relative to the lossless HAC++ reference.
Yuxuan Tao, Xuerui Ma, Hao Zhang +1
Jul 8, 2026cs.CV

Adversarially Guided Diffusion for LiDAR Range Image Synthesis

LiDAR semantic segmentation is a key perception task in autonomous driving, where false predictions can affect downstream planning and safety-critical decision-making. Although adversarial attacks, and specifically adversarial examples, have been widely studied for image classification and 3D point cloud segmentation, unrestricted adversarial examples remain largely unexplored in the space of 2D range images, which are projections of 3D point clouds. The proposed method is, to the best of our knowledge, the first diffusion-based unrestricted adversarial attack against 2D range-image segmentation, using adversarial guidance from a segmentation loss. By applying guidance directly during sampling, the method produces unrestricted adversarial examples that remain close to the learned LiDAR data manifold while inducing structured segmentation errors. Experiments on the SemanticKITTI dataset using RangeNet++ and CENet segmentation networks demonstrate that the attack provides adjustable degradation across guidance strengths and transfers across segmentation architectures. Compared with norm-bounded FGSM and SegPGD baselines, the proposed attack offers a distinct effectiveness-realism trade-off, achieving controllable white-box and transfer degradation while maintaining competitive distributional and visual realism.
Stavros Bouras, Antonios Makris, Alexandros Gkillas +2
Jul 6, 2026cs.CV

Robust Face Super-Resolution and Recognition Through Multi-Feature Aggregation in Diffusion Models

Images acquired in surveillance environments often suffer from conditions such as low resolution, variations in pose, irregular illumination, and occlusions. Due to the low quality of these images, face recognition algorithms often struggle. This major limitation can be addressed by employing super-resolution techniques that enhance the details of the image. However, due to the high degree of difficulty of the problem, most super-resolution algorithms tend to cause distortions in the image and in the individual's identity. Thus, additional information must be incorporated into the processing to improve recognition robustness. In this regard, surveillance cameras can capture multiple images, even at low quality, and the data extracted from these images, such as consecutive video frames, can significantly enhance both super-resolution and facial recognition. In this work, we introduce FASR++, a diffusion-model-based super-resolution algorithm. It leverages a reference low-resolution image and features extracted from multiple auxiliary low-quality images to generate a super-resolved output, minimizing distortions in the individual's identity. Our approach recovers facial features without explicitly providing soft attributes or computing a function gradient to guide the reconstruction process. FASR++ generates high-quality images that can considerably improve performance in face recognition tasks when used as a pre-processing step. We validate our approach on two standard face recognition datasets and attain state-of-the-art results for verification, face recognition, and image quality metrics such as PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS.
Marcelo dos Santos, Rayson Laroca, João Carlos Raposo Neves +1
Jul 3, 2026cs.SE

GameEngineBench: Evaluating Coding Agents on Real C++ Runtime Environments

Game engines provide real-time simulation, rendering, physics, interaction, networking, and asset pipelines, making them valuable not only for games but also for 3D applications in healthcare, robotics, architecture, manufacturing, and related domains. Because game development is where these systems are most mature and publicly available, it offers a practical testbed for evaluating coding agents that must modify C++ code within stateful, interactive, real-time systems. We present GameEngineBench, a benchmark for evaluating coding agents on scoped C++ implementation tasks inside Unreal Engine 5 projects, built from nine real-world game repositories. The evaluation set consists of 110 tasks spanning gameplay mechanics, multiplayer behavior, AI and world orchestration, animation and movement, UI and session code, loading behavior, online-service integration, persistence, data serialization, XR behavior, and rendering-oriented plugins. These tasks require models to make native C++ changes that compile and satisfy behavioral tests within executable Unreal Engine projects. Across twelve evaluated configurations, the strongest model reaches 55.5% pass@1, while 31 tasks remain unsolved by every configuration. Our results demonstrate that frontier coding agents continue to struggle with deeply integrated C++ development for real-time interactive software, highlighting game-engine benchmarks as a valuable complement to existing software engineering evaluations.
Brian La, Sejoon Chang, Ben Kim +5
Jul 2, 2026physics.comp-ph

CodeJeNN: A simple C++ neural network generator for physics applications

Machine learning has shown speedups for numerical methods in physics applications, but integrating Python-based libraries into high-performance C++ solvers creates performance bottlenecks. We present CodeJeNN, which bridges this gap by auto-generating self-contained C++ code from trained Keras models for inference. This eliminates external dependencies through minimal inlined functions, allowing seamless integration into existing frameworks. We describe the Keras-to-C++ workflow, supported architectures, and limitations. CodeJeNN is demonstrated through inference benchmarks against Keras in eager and JIT modes and a CFD test case modeling viscosity in a hydrogen-air mixing layer, showing speedups without sacrificing accuracy.
Jay Arcities, Pavel Popov, Eric J Ching +2
Jun 24, 2026cs.LG

TL++: Accuracy and Privacy Preserving Traversal Learning for Distributed Intelligent Systems

Distributed intelligent systems increasingly need to train across data silos without centralizing raw data. Federated learning keeps data local but can suffer under heterogeneous partitions and requires repeated full-model exchange. Split learning reduces communication through cut-layer activations, but standard protocols generally do not recover centralized mini-batch gradient behavior and may expose activations and gradients in plaintext. We present TL++, a two-mode traversal-learning framework that constructs virtual batches across nodes to recover centralized mini-batch gradient behavior under explicit synchronization assumptions. Base mode exchanges cut-layer activations and gradients rather than full models. Secure mode secret-shares each cut-layer activation and gradient between an orchestrator and a non-colluding helper, preventing either server from observing plaintext cut-layer tensors. This protection is limited to a semi-honest two-server setting; labels and loss-related outputs remain visible to the orchestrator. In the lightweight secure path evaluated here, exactness requires a linear or affine server path, while nonlinear operations require nonlinear MPC or approximation. We formalize TL++, analyze communication and computation costs, and evaluate it against federated and split-learning baselines on CIFAR-10 and BioGPT/PubMedQA using full fine-tuning and LoRA. On CIFAR-10, TL++ base cut 1 and exact secure cut 3 achieve accuracies of 91.41% (SD 0.19) and 90.93% (SD 0.17), respectively, exceeding the strongest measured non-TL++ baseline by more than 12 percentage points. TL++ base cut 1 also reduces per-step communication by 13.1-fold relative to full-model synchronization. PubMedQA results similarly favor TL++. Overall, TL++ approaches centralized-training performance while reducing communication and providing activation-level secret sharing.
Erdenebileg Batbaatar, Young Yoon
Jun 17, 2026cs.AI

REVEAL++: Differentiable Phenotypic Grouping for Vision-Language Retinal Modeling of Alzheimer's Disease Risk

The retina offers a noninvasive window into neurodegenerative disease, capturing subtle structural patterns associated with a risk of future cognitive decline. Vision-language alignment frameworks such as REVEAL have shown that pairing retinal fundus images with structured clinical risk narratives improves early prediction of Alzheimer's disease (AD). A key design choice in these approaches is the use of phenotypic grouping, where individuals with similar risk profiles are treated as multi-positive pairs during contrastive learning. However, existing methods operationalize phenotypic similarity as a discrete construct, relying on hard group assignments that impose rigid supervision and decouple group formation from representation learning. We propose a continuous formulation of phenotypic structure within contrastive learning. Rather than assigning samples to fixed clusters, we model inter-subject similarity as a differentiable weighting function derived from intra-modality embedding similarities in both retinal images and risk profiles. These weights define soft multi-positive relationships through a continuous aggregation operator, enabling graded supervision that reflects the spectrum nature of disease risk. We further introduce a soft-target contrastive objective that jointly learns cross-modal alignment and phenotypic structure in an end-to-end manner. Evaluated on UK Biobank retinal imaging data for incident AD prediction, the proposed framework consistently outperforms discrete group-based contrastive learning and standard vision-language baselines. By treating phenotypic similarity as a learnable, continuous signal rather than a fixed grouping rule, our approach provides a principled and robust foundation for population-scale neurodegenerative risk modeling from multi-modal retinal and clinical data.
Ethan Elio Meidinger, Seowung Leem, Zeyun Zhao +1
Jun 13, 2026cs.CV

MNet++: Extended 2D/3D Networks for Anisotropic Medical Image Segmentation

This work demonstrates a full reproduction and extension of MNet, a hybrid 2D/3D convolutional network designed for anisotropic medical image segmentation. The original architecture was re-implemented within the nnU-Net framework to verify its reported performance and robustness to variable voxel spacing, known as anisotropy. Experiments were conducted on PROMISE prostate MRI and a controlled subset of LiTS liver CT under matched preprocessing and compute constraints. The reproduced MNet achieved a Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 89.0 +/- 0.9% on PROMISE, within 0.8% of the published result, and 94.3 +/- 1.9% / 54.6 +/- 3.1% for liver and tumor segmentation on LiTS, respectively. Two lightweight extensions were further introduced: (1) a learned Fusion Gating mechanism enabling adaptive 2D-3D feature blending, and (2) a VMamba state-space module for efficient long-range depth modelling. The Spatial Gating variant improved DSC by +0.8% with less than 3% inference overhead, while VMamba improved performance consistency, reducing PROMISE Dice variation to +/- 0.7% and achieving the strongest LiTS liver performance at 95.8% Dice. Both extensions preserved MNet robustness to anisotropy, with delta Dice = 1.5% across 1-4 mm voxel spacing. Overall, the study confirms MNet reproducibility and demonstrates that adaptive fusion and state-space modelling have the potential to further strengthen segmentation reliability under anisotropic conditions. However, further tests are required to provide definitive conclusions.
Kirsten Odendaal, Rade Bajic
Jun 11, 2026hep-ex

AgentRivet: an automated system for producing Rivet routines from journal publications

Particle physics collider experiments provide Rivet routines as part of the analysis preservation strategy for model-independent measurements. Rivet is a C++ toolkit that allow new theoretical models to be compared to the measurements, thus aiding the development and tuning of Monte Carlo event generators as well as searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. However, analysis coverage is known to be incomplete, with only 39% of measurements having documented and publicly available Rivet routines. In this article, we design and implement an automated workflow based on Large Language Models with the goal of providing the missing routines. This multi-step workflow, referred to as AgentRivet, extracts the physics analysis information from published papers and writes the missing Rivet routines, with intermediate code- and physics- reviews as part of an autonomous quality control. We report the results obtained using commercial Large Language Models, provided by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, for two recent measurements from the ATLAS and CMS experiments. We find that AgentRivet produces competent Rivet routines with few syntax errors. The physics fidelity of the routines is reasonable and follows the explanations given in the relevant publications. Nevertheless, physics-implementation issues do arise and are investigated using the artefacts produced by AgentRivet. The majority of physics implementation issues arise from subtle-but-ambiguous definitions in the given publication, although some models struggle to implement complex observables even when clear definitions are given.
Antonio J. Costa, Caterina Doglioni, Christian Gütschow +2
Jun 6, 2026cs.CV

HACK++: Towards More Effective Head-Aware Key-Value Compression for Efficient Visual Autoregressive Modeling

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models adopt a next-scale prediction paradigm, offering high-quality generation with substantially fewer decoding steps. However, existing VAR models suffer from significant attention complexity and severe memory overhead due to the accumulation of key-value (KV) caches across scales. In this paper, we tackle this challenge by introducing KV cache compression into the next-scale paradigm. We begin with an in-depth analysis of VAR attention and observe that attention heads can be stably divided into two functionally distinct categories: Contextual Heads focus on maintaining semantic consistency, while Structural Heads preserve spatial coherence. Their functional divergence makes existing one-size-fits-all compression methods perform poorly on VAR models. We further find that the two head types differ markedly in their reliance on historical scales, and that this reliance shifts across layers and generation steps, arguing for an adaptive cache budget allocation. To address these challenges, we propose HACK++, a training-free Head-Aware key-value Compression frameworK for VAR models. From a one-time offline calibration, HACK++ classifies head types and derives head-specific priors. At inference, it decouples attention from cache compression under independent budgets, bounding the current-scale attention cost while compressing the accumulated cache far more aggressively, via pattern-specific strategies and a reliance-aware budget allocation. Extensive experiments on multiple VAR models across text-to-image, class-conditional, and unified understanding-and-generation tasks validate the effectiveness and generalizability of HACK++. For example, on Infinity-2B/8B, HACK++ maintains near-lossless generation with only a 30% attention budget and a 10% cache budget, and remains robust even under a 1% cache budget.
Ziran Qin, Yuchen Jiang, Mingbao Lin +4
May 28, 2026cs.MS

libhmm: A Modern C++20 Library for Hidden Markov Models with Correct MLE Emission M-Steps

We describe libhmm, a C++20 library for Hidden Markov Model parameter estimation, sequence decoding, and model selection. libhmm addresses two gaps in existing software: the absence of a well-maintained, zero-dependency C++ HMM library suitable for embedding in production systems, and the widespread use of method-of-moments (MOM) approximations in the emission distribution M-step of the Baum-Welch algorithm. The library implements correct maximum likelihood estimators for sixteen scalar emission distributions, including an ECME algorithm for the location-scale Student-t distribution, Newton-Raphson maximization for Gamma, Beta, Weibull, and Negative Binomial distributions, and the von Mises distribution for circular data. All forward-backward and Viterbi calculations operate in full log-space. SIMD acceleration is provided for AVX-512, AVX2, SSE2, and ARM NEON via compile-time dispatch with scalar fallback. Version 4 adds multivariate observation support via the BasicHmm<Obs> template, with three multivariate emission families (diagonal Gaussian, full-covariance Gaussian, and independent components) each with correct weighted MLE M-steps. Python bindings are available via the companion package pylibhmm. We compare libhmm against established C and C++ HMM libraries and against published R reference packages on seven real-data benchmarks, and discuss the architectural tradeoffs made in the design.
Gary Wolfman
May 15, 2026cs.RO

NavRL++: A System-Level Framework for Improving Sim-to-Real Transfer in Reinforcement Learning-Based Robot Navigation

Recent years have witnessed significant progress in autonomous navigation using reinforcement learning. However, existing approaches largely emphasize reinforcement learning framework design, such as input representations, action spaces, and reward functions, while providing limited analysis of sim-to-real transfer and insufficient insight into how training strategies affect real-world deployment performance. To bridge this gap, we not only introduce an effective RL framework but also present a complete training and deployment pipeline, along with a systematic empirical study that disentangles the key factors affecting sim-to-real transfer in reinforcement learning-based navigation, including sensor noise, perception failures, system latency, and control response. Building on insights from this analysis, we introduce perturbation-aware fine-tuning, a post-training adaptation strategy that improves transfer robustness by explicitly accounting for empirically identified domain discrepancies. To further mitigate perception degradation and enhance control smoothness in real-world deployment, we propose a Transformer-based temporal reasoning policy that leverages short-horizon observation for navigation control. We quantitatively evaluate how individual sim-to-real perturbations and training design choices impact navigation performance across environments. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed training strategy and policy architecture outperform learning-based baselines in both static and dynamic environments, while achieving performance comparable to optimization-based planners in static settings. We validate our approach through real-world deployment on multiple robotic platforms, including aerial and legged robots, across navigation-centric tasks such as exploration and inspection, demonstrating zero-shot sim-to-real transfer.
Zhefan Xu, Hanyu Jin, Kenji Shimada
May 13, 2026cs.CL

TokAlign++: Advancing Vocabulary Adaptation via Better Token Alignment

Tokenization is a foundational step in the text process of Large Language Models (LLMs). Texts must be first tokenized into token IDs, which are then input to LLMs. Inefficient tokenization results in long token-ID sequences and will slow down the training and inference of LLMs. The fine-grained knowledge transfer between LLMs, like token-level distillation, is also impeded by the mismatch in vocabulary. To bridge this gap, we introduce a method named TokAlign++ to improve vocabulary adaptation performance by learning better token alignment lexicon. The source and target vocabularies are taken as two different languages, and the bilingual token alignment lexicon is learned from monolingual token representations. Model parameters are rearranged following this bilingual lexicon for new vocabulary, and progressively fine-tuned for adaptation. Experimental results on 15 languages show that our method boosts the multilingual text compression rates and preserves most of the multilingual ability of vanilla models. It costs as few as 1k steps to restore the performance of the vanilla model. After unifying vocabularies between vanilla models, token-level distillation remarkably improves the base model with only 235M tokens.
Chong Li, Yingzhuo Deng, Wen Yang +2
May 12, 2026cs.CV

REFNet++: Multi-Task Efficient Fusion of Camera and Radar Sensor Data in Bird's-Eye Polar View

A realistic view of the vehicle's surroundings is generally offered by camera sensors, which is crucial for environmental perception. Affordable radar sensors, on the other hand, are becoming invaluable due to their robustness in variable weather conditions. However, because of their noisy output and reduced classification capability, they work best when combined with other sensor data. Specifically, we address the challenge of multimodal sensor fusion by aligning radar and camera data in a unified domain, prioritizing not only accuracy, but also computational efficiency. Our work leverages the raw range-Doppler (RD) spectrum from radar and front-view camera images as inputs. To enable effective fusion, we employ a variational encoder-decoder architecture that learns the transformation of front-view camera data into the Bird's-Eye View (BEV) polar domain. Concurrently, a radar encoder-decoder learns to recover the angle information from the RD data that produce Range-Azimuth (RA) features. This alignment ensures that both modalities are represented in a compatible domain, facilitating robust and efficient sensor fusion. We evaluated our fusion strategy for vehicle detection and free space segmentation against state-of-the-art methods using the RADIal dataset.
Kavin Chandrasekaran, Sorin Grigorescu, Gijs Dubbelman +1
May 5, 2026cs.OS

ipc_shared_ptr: A Publish/Subscribe-Aware Smart Pointer for Cross-Process Object Lifetime Management

True zero-copy Inter-Process Communication (IPC) in publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware such as Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) requires subscribers to reference message objects in publisher-owned shared memory. Objects must not be reclaimed while referenced, yet must eventually be reclaimed, with correct handling of crash recovery and Transient Local QoS retention requirements. We propose ipc_shared_ptr, a pub/sub-aware smart pointer for cross-process message lifetime management. ipc_shared_ptr exploits pub/sub structural properties to specialize Birrell's reference listing, limiting global metadata updates to per-subscriber 0<->1 transitions and achieving an order-of-magnitude reduction in global communication over general-purpose distributed reference counting. We analyze the key metadata management tradeoff: scalability versus implementation simplicity. Owner-driven reclaim offers greater scalability, but concurrent membership changes and reclamation decisions produce races that widen the correctness-verification state space. Single-writer achieves structural atomicity, eliminating this complexity at the cost of a centralized bottleneck. iceoryx2 (owner-driven reclaim) and Agnocast -- a true zero-copy ROS 2 IPC middleware sharing the publisher's heap with subscribers and adopting ipc_shared_ptr with single-writer -- embody each architecture. Comparative evaluation at the scale of Autoware -- the largest open-source ROS 2 application -- confirms that single-writer achieves sufficient scalability: at 200 topics, two subscribers per topic and 100 Hz, Agnocast's E2E p99.9 is 2.9x lower than iceoryx2's, justifying implementation simplicity over owner-driven reclaim.
Takahiro Ishikawa-Aso, Atsushi Yano, Koichi Imai +2
Apr 21, 2026cs.CV

RAFT-MSF++: Temporal Geometry-Motion Feature Fusion for Self-Supervised Monocular Scene Flow

Monocular scene flow estimation aims to recover dense 3D motion from image sequences, yet most existing methods are limited to two-frame inputs, restricting temporal modeling and robustness to occlusions. We propose RAFT-MSF++, a self-supervised multi-frame framework that recurrently fuses temporal features to jointly estimate depth and scene flow. Central to our approach is the Geometry-Motion Feature (GMF), which compactly encodes coupled motion and geometry cues and is iteratively updated for effective temporal reasoning. To ensure the robustness of this temporal fusion against occlusions, we incorporate relative positional attention to inject spatial priors and an occlusion regularization module to propagate reliable motion from visible regions. These components enable the GMF to effectively propagate information even in ambiguous areas. Extensive experiments show that RAFT-MSF++ achieves 24.14% SF-all on the KITTI Scene Flow benchmark, with a 30.99% improvement over the baseline and better robustness in occluded regions. The code is available at https://github.com/sunzunyi/RAFT-MSF-PlusPlus.
Xunpei Sun, Zuoxun Hou, Yi Chang +2
Apr 17, 2026cs.SD

TinyMU: A Compact Audio-Language Model for Music Understanding

Music understanding and reasoning are central challenges in the Music Information Research field, with applications ranging from retrieval and recommendation to music agents and virtual assistants. Recent Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have shown remarkable progress in answering music-related questions by following user instructions. However, their massive scale, often billions of parameters, results in expensive training, slow inference, and limited deployability on edge devices. In this work, we present TinyMU, a lightweight (229M) Music-Language Model (MLM) that achieves performance comparable to much larger LALMs while remaining efficient and compact. To train TinyMU, we introduce MusicSkills-3.5M, a carefully curated, music-grounded question-answering dataset with 3.5M samples. Spanning multiple-choice, binary, and open-ended formats, this dataset provides fine-grained supervision across diverse musical concepts. For its architecture, TinyMU leverages MATPAC++, the SOTA self-supervised audio encoder for fine-grained feature extraction. Paired with a lightweight linear projector, it efficiently aligns audio embeddings with the language model. Through extensive evaluation, we show that TinyMU performs strongly in both basic music understanding and complex reasoning. Notably, on the MuChoMusic benchmark, it achieves 82% of SOTA LALM's performance despite being 35x smaller, highlighting the potential of small MLMs under constrained computational budgets.
Xiquan Li, Aurian Quelennec, Slim Essid
Dec 4, 2025cs.CV

FMA-Net++: Motion- and Exposure-Aware Joint Video Super-Resolution and Deblurring

Joint video super-resolution and deblurring (VSRDB) requires both efficient long-range temporal modeling and robustness to frame-wise exposure-duration variation, which changes the extent of motion blur across video frames. We propose FMA-Net++, a non-recurrent, sequence-level framework built from Hierarchical Refinement with Bidirectional Aggregation (HRBA) blocks. By stacking HRBA blocks, FMA-Net++ processes video frames in parallel while hierarchically expanding the temporal receptive field, avoiding the limited temporal receptive field of sliding-window designs and the sequential bottleneck of recurrent ones. To handle exposure-duration-dependent blur, we introduce an Exposure Time-aware Modulation (ETM) layer that conditions HRBA features on exposure embeddings from an Exposure Time-aware Feature Extractor (ETE). The conditioned features guide an exposure-aware flow-guided dynamic filtering module to predict motion- and exposure-aware degradation kernels. FMA-Net++ decouples degradation learning from restoration: the former predicts degradation priors and the latter exploits them for efficient high-resolution restoration. To evaluate VSRDB under controlled exposure-duration variation, we introduce the REDS-ME (multi-exposure) and REDS-RE (random-exposure) benchmarks. Trained solely on synthetic data, FMA-Net++ achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and temporal consistency on these benchmarks. It further shows strong out-of-distribution performance on GoPro and challenging real-world videos, while outperforming recent methods in both restoration quality and inference speed.
Geunhyuk Youk, Jihyong Oh, Munchurl Kim