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Recent visual generative models enable story generation with consistent characters from text, but human-centric story generation faces additional challenges, such as maintaining detailed and diverse human face consistency and coordinating multiple characters across different images. This paper presents IdentityStory, a framework for human-centric story generation that ensures consistent character identity across multiple sequential images. By taming identity-preserving generators, the framework features two key components: Iterative Identity Discovery, which extracts cohesive character identities, and Re-denoising Identity Injection, which re-denoises images to inject identities while preserving desired context. Experiments on the ConsiStory-Human benchmark demonstrate that IdentityStory outperforms existing methods, particularly in face consistency, and supports multi-character combinations. The framework also shows strong potential for applications such as infinite-length story generation and dynamic character composition. Code will be publicly available.

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IdentityStory: Taming Your Identity-Preserving Generator for Human-Centric Story Generation

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The emergence of large vision-language models (VLMs) has significantly enhanced the efficiency and flexibility of geospatial interpretation. However, general-purpose VLMs remain suboptimal for remote sensing (RS) tasks. Existing geospatial VLMs typically adopt a unified modeling strategy and struggle to differentiate between task types and interpretation granularities, limiting their ability to balance local detail perception and global contextual understanding. In this paper, we present SkyMoE, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) vision-language model tailored for multimodal, multi-task RS interpretation. SkyMoE employs an adaptive router that generates task- and granularity-aware routing instructions, enabling specialized large language model experts to handle diverse sub-tasks. To further promote expert decoupling and granularity sensitivity, we introduce a context-disentangled augmentation strategy that creates contrastive pairs between local and global features, guiding experts toward level-specific representation learning. We also construct MGRS-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark covering multiple RS interpretation tasks and granularity levels, to evaluate generalization in complex scenarios. Extensive experiments on 21 public datasets demonstrate that SkyMoE achieves state-of-the-art performance across tasks, validating its adaptability, scalability, and superior multi-granularity understanding in remote sensing.

SkyMoE: A Vision-Language Foundation Model for Enhancing Geospatial Interpretation with Mixture of Experts

Transductive Information Maximization (TIM) is a leading transductive few-shot learning method that maximizes the mutual information between query features and their predicted labels, while incorporating supervision from the support set. However, its potential remains underexplored, primarily due to the limited utilization of textual knowledge provided by vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP. To address this, we propose TIM++, an enhanced framework that incorporates both visual and textual information for few-shot CLIP adaptation. Specifically, TIM++ introduces a Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence-based regularization term that encourages the model’s posterior predictions to align with CLIP’s zero-shot output distribution, especially focusing on the most confident predictions. Additionally, we develop an improved prototype initialization strategy that leverages both support and query features enriched with CLIP-guided semantics.
Extensive experiments on 11 public datasets demonstrate that TIM++ consistently outperforms the standard TIM, achieving average accuracy gains of 19.25% and 10.88% in 1-shot and 2-shot settings, respectively. TIM++ also surpasses other existing state-of-the-art methods, establishing a new benchmark for few-shot learning with VLMs.

TIM++: Transductive Information Maximization for Few-Shot CLIP

Versatile 3D tasks (e.g., generation or editing) distilling Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have attracted significant research interest for not relying on extensive 3D training data. However, T2I models exhibit limitations resulting from prior view bias, which produces conflicting appearances between different views of an object. This bias causes subject-words to preferentially activate prior view features during cross-attention (CA) computation, regardless of the target view condition. To overcome this limitation, we conduct a comprehensive mathematical analysis to reveal the root cause of the prior view bias in T2I models. Moreover, we find different UNet-Layers show different effects of prior view in CA. Therefore, we propose a novel framework, TD-Attn, which addresses multi-view inconsistency via two key components: (1) the 3D-Aware Attention Guidance Module 3D-AAG constructs a view-consistent 3D attention Gaussian for subject-words to enforce spatial consistency across attention-focused regions, thereby compensating for the limited spatial information in 2D individual view CA maps; (2) the Hierarchical Attention Modulation Module (HAM) utilizes a semantic guidance tree to direct the Semantic Response Profiler (SRP) in localizing and modulating CA layers that are highly responsive to view conditions, where the enhanced CA maps further support the construction of more consistent 3D attention Gaussians. Notably, HAM facilitates semantic-specific interventions, enabling controllable and precise 3D editing. Extensive experiments firmly establish that TD-Attn has the potential to serve as a transformative, universal plugin, significantly enhancing multi-view consistency across a wide range of 3D tasks.

Debiasing Diffusion Priors via 3D Attention for Consistent Gaussian Splatting

Automatic medical report generation can greatly reduce the workload of doctors, but it is often unreliable for real-world deployment. Current methods can write formally fluent sentences but may be factually flawed, introducing serious medical errors known as clinical hallucinations, which make them untrustworthy for diagnosis. To bridge this gap, we introduce \textbf{HiMed-RL}, a Hierarchical Medical Reward Learning Framework designed to explicitly prioritize clinical quality. HiMed-RL moves beyond simple text matching by deconstructing reward learning into three synergistic levels: it first ensures linguistic fluency at the token-level, then enforces factual grounding at the concept-level by aligning key medical terms with expert knowledge, and finally assesses high-level diagnostic consistency at the semantic-level using a specialized LLM verifier. This hierarchical reward is implemented via a \textbf{Human-inspired Dynamic Reward Adjustment}, a strategy which first teaches the model to learn basic facts before progressing to more complex diagnostic reasoning. Experimentally, \textbf{HiMed-3B} achieves state-of-the-art performance on both in-domain and out-of-domain benchmarks, particularly on the latter, with an improvement of \textbf{10.8\%} over the second-best baseline. Our work provides a robust paradigm for generating reports that not only improve fluency but clinical fine-grained quality.

Beyond N-grams: A Hierarchical Reward Learning Framework for Clinically-Aware Medical Report Generation

Pose-agnostic Anomaly Detection (PAD) aims to detect anomalies when the poses of query images are unknown and differ from those in the training set. Therefore, accurately estimating the camera poses for the query images in the test set is critical for this task. Existing query-specific framework methods require re-optimizing a new set of parameters for each query image, limiting their generalization and increasing computational burden. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel method, Relative Pose Estimation for Pose-agnostic Anomaly Detection (RPE-PAD), which enhances both generalization and efficiency with a query-independent framework. Specifically, we propose a Random View Synthesis Scheme (RVSS) that generates new poses by adding Gaussian perturbations to the original poses, then renders the corresponding views to augment the dataset. To estimate the relative camera pose between two input images, we introduce an Iterative Relative Pose Refinement Network (IRPRN), which incorporates a hierarchical coarse-to-fine refinement strategy. Furthermore, we employ a Multi-Pair Training Strategy (MPTS) to train the proposed IRPRN, leveraging multiple image pairs to expand the relative pose transformation space during training. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves robust anomaly detection performance while significantly improving inference efficiency.

RPE-PAD: Relative Pose Estimation for Pose-agnostic Anomaly Detection

Large language models (LLMs) have recently empowered multi-agent systems (MAS) to achieve remarkable advances in collaborative reasoning and complex task automation. The effectiveness of these systems fundamentally depends on the design of adaptive **communication graphs**—the underlying workflows that coordinate agent interactions. However, in real-world scenarios, strict privacy constraints often silo data across organizations, and client distributions are highly non-IID, posing major challenges for synthesizing such workflows. In this work, we are **the first to systematically study distributed multi-agent workflow synthesis** under these privacy and heterogeneity constraints, and we introduce the Difficulty-Based Skew (DBS) benchmark to emulate such challenging environments. Drawing inspiration from federated graph learning (FGL)—which has primarily focused on classification over static graphs—we identify a critical gap: existing FGL methods do not address the generative design of communication topologies. We reveal two fundamental obstacles to generative workflow synthesis in this setting: (i) **workflow specialization conflict**, where agents optimized for different task distributions generate incompatible communication patterns that resist meaningful aggregation, and (ii) **structural communication shift**, where locally optimal agent interaction graphs fail to compose into globally coherent multi-agent workflows. To address these challenges, we propose **DAWN**, a federated framework that integrates two key innovations: **Parametric Resonance**, which robustly aggregates heterogeneous local updates via layer-wise SVD-based denoising and alignment, and **Structural Gravity**, which regularizes local workflow generation by penalizing the Fusion Gromov-Wasserstein distance to a set of prototype communication graphs, ensuring global structural coherence without stifling local adaptation. Experiments on the DBS benchmark show that **DAWN** surpasses baselines in global task success and reduces inter-client graph divergence, laying a solid foundation for privacy-preserving, adaptive MAS workflow design in heterogeneous settings.

DAWN: Distributed LLM Multi-Agent Workflow Synthesis

We present a novel framework for online learning in Stackelberg general-sum games, where two agents, the leader and follower, engage in sequential turn-based interactions. At the core of this approach is a learned diffeomorphism that maps the joint action space to a smooth spherical Riemannian manifold, referred to as the Stackelberg manifold. This mapping, facilitated by neural normalizing flows, ensures the formation of tractable isoplanar subspaces, enabling efficient techniques for online learning. Leveraging the linearity of the agents' reward functions on the Stackelberg manifold, our construct allows the application of linear bandit algorithms. We then provide a rigorous theoretical basis for regret minimization on the learned manifold and establish bounds on the simple regret for learning Stackelberg equilibrium. This integration of manifold learning into game theory uncovers a previously unrecognized potential for neural normalizing flows as an effective tool for multi-agent learning. We present empirical results demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach compared to standard baselines, with applications spanning domains such as cybersecurity and economic supply chain optimization.

Riemannian Manifold Learning for Stackelberg Games with Neural Flow Representations

Supervised learning with distributional inputs is a classic area of machine learning, and recently the two-stage sampling setup has received considerable attention. 
In this setting, the inputs (which are probability distributions) are not accessible in the learning phase, but only samples thereof. 
This problem is particularly amenable to kernel-based learning methods, where the distributions or samples are first embedded into a Hilbert space, often using kernel mean embeddings (KMEs), and then a standard kernel method like Support Vector Machines (SVMs) is applied, using a kernel defined on the embedding Hilbert space.
The case of distributional regression has received particular attention and there is by now a substantial body of theory available, including learning rates.
In contrast, the case of distributional classification is considerably less investigated, despite being relevant for applications like learning-based medical screening or causal learning.
Motivated by this, we provide a thorough analysis of classification with distributional inputs in the two-stage sampling setup using SVMs, in particular, establishing consistency and learning rate results.
Furthermore, for SVMs using the hinge loss and Gaussian kernels, we formulate a novel variant of an established noise assumption from the binary classification literature, under which we can establish learning rates.
Our results are formulated in significant generality, with many results also applicable to learning problems other than classification.
Furthermore, some of our technical tools like a new feature space for Gaussian kernels on Hilbert spaces are of independent interest.

Statistical Learning Theory for Distributional Classification

Recent advances demonstrate that reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) significantly enhances the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, standard RLVR faces challenges with reward sparsity, where zero rewards from consistently incorrect candidate answers provide no learning signal, particularly in challenging tasks. To address this, we propose, we propose \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{E}xpert \textbf{M}utual \textbf{L}earning GRPO (MEML-GRPO), an innovative framework that utilizes diverse expert prompts as system prompts to generate a broader range of responses, substantially increasing the likelihood of identifying correct solutions. Additionally, we introduce an inter-expert mutual learning mechanism that facilitates knowledge sharing and transfer among experts, further boosting the model’s performance through RLVR. Extensive experiments across multiple reasoning benchmarks show that MEML-GRPO delivers significant improvements, achieving an average performance gain of 4.89\% with Qwen and 11.33\% with Llama, effectively overcoming the core limitations of traditional RLVR methods.

MEML-GRPO: Heterogeneous Multi-Expert Mutual Learning for RLVR Advancement

Machine unlearning is a newly popularized technique for removing specific training data from a trained model, enabling it to comply with data deletion requests. While it protects the rights of users requesting unlearning, it also introduces new privacy risks. Prior works have primarily focused on the privacy of data that has been unlearned, while the risks to retained data remain largely unexplored. 
To address this gap, we focus on the privacy risks of retained data and, for the first time, reveal the vulnerabilities introduced by machine unlearning under the \textbf{dual-view} setting, where an adversary can query both the original and the unlearned models. From an information-theoretic perspective, we introduce the concept of {privacy knowledge gain} and demonstrate that the dual-view setting allows adversaries to obtain more information than querying either model alone, thereby amplifying privacy leakage. To effectively demonstrate this threat, we propose DVIA, a \textbf{D}ual-\textbf{V}iew \textbf{I}nference \textbf{A}ttack, which extracts membership information on retained data using black-box queries to both models. DVIA eliminates the need to train an attack model and employs a lightweight likelihood ratio inference module for efficient inference. Experiments across different datasets and model architectures validate the effectiveness of DVIA and highlight the privacy risks inherent in the dual-view setting.

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