Xiaofeng Jiang

Gaoxiang Cao, Wenke Yuan, Huasen He et al.

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are the digital cornerstone of autonomous driving, yet they suffer from severe network fragmentation in urban environments due to physical obstructions. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), with their high mobility, have emerged as a vital solution to bridge these connectivity gaps. However, traditional Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-based UAV deployment strategies lack semantic understanding of road topology, often resulting in blind exploration and sample inefficiency. By contrast, Large Language Models (LLMs) possess powerful reasoning capabilities capable of identifying topological importance, though applying them to control tasks remains challenging. To address this, we propose the Semantic-Augmented DRL (SA-DRL) framework. Firstly, we propose a fragmentation quantification method based on Road Topology Graphs (RTG) and Dual Connected Graphs (DCG). Subsequently, we design a four-stage pipeline to transform a general-purpose LLM into a domain-specific topology expert. Finally, we propose the Semantic-Augmented PPO (SA-PPO) algorithm, which employs a Logit Fusion mechanism to inject the LLM's semantic reasoning directly into the policy as a prior, effectively guiding the agent toward critical intersections. Extensive high-fidelity simulations demonstrate that SA-PPO achieves state-of-the-art performance with remarkable efficiency, reaching baseline performance levels using only 26.6% of the training episodes. Ultimately, SA-PPO improves two key connectivity metrics by 13.2% and 23.5% over competing methods, while reducing energy consumption to just 28.2% of the baseline.

Shenghao Ye, Yu Guo, Dong Jin et al.

Table question answering (TableQA) is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP). The strong reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have brought significant advances in this field. However, as real-world applications involve increasingly complex questions and larger tables, substantial noisy data is introduced, which severely degrades reasoning performance. To address this challenge, we focus on improving two core capabilities: Relevance Filtering, which identifies and retains information truly relevant to reasoning, and Table Pruning, which reduces table size while preserving essential content. Based on these principles, we propose EnoTab, a dual denoising framework for complex questions and large-scale tables. Specifically, we first perform Evidence-based Question Denoising by decomposing the question into minimal semantic units and filtering out those irrelevant to answer reasoning based on consistency and usability criteria. Then, we propose Evidence Tree-guided Table Denoising, which constructs an explicit and transparent table pruning path to remove irrelevant data step by step. At each pruning step, we observe the intermediate state of the table and apply a post-order node rollback mechanism to handle abnormal table states, ultimately producing a highly reliable sub-table for final answer reasoning. Finally, extensive experiments show that EnoTab achieves outstanding performance on TableQA tasks with complex questions and large-scale tables, confirming its effectiveness.