CLApr 17Code
TTL: Test-time Textual Learning for OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language ModelsJinlun Ye, Jiang Liao, Runhe Lai et al.
Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP exhibit strong Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection capabilities by aligning visual and textual representations. Recent CLIP-based test-time adaptation methods further improve detection performance by incorporating external OOD labels. However, such labels are finite and fixed, while the real OOD semantic space is inherently open-ended. Consequently, fixed labels fail to represent the diverse and evolving OOD semantics encountered in test streams. To address this limitation, we introduce Test-time Textual Learning (TTL), a framework that dynamically learns OOD textual semantics from unlabeled test streams, without relying on external OOD labels. TTL updates learnable prompts using pseudo-labeled test samples to capture emerging OOD knowledge. To suppress noise introduced by pseudo-labels, we introduce an OOD knowledge purification strategy that selects reliable OOD samples for adaptation while suppressing noise. In addition, TTL maintains an OOD Textual Knowledge Bank that stores high-quality textual features, providing stable score calibration across batches. Extensive experiments on two standard benchmarks with nine OOD datasets demonstrate that TTL consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance, highlighting the value of textual adaptation for robust test-time OOD detection. Our code is available at https://github.com/figec/TTL.
DBMar 8Code
Dial: A Knowledge-Grounded Dialect-Specific NL2SQL SystemXiang Zhang, Hongming Xu, Le Zhou et al.
Enterprises commonly deploy heterogeneous database systems, each of which owns a distinct SQL dialect with different syntax rules, built-in functions, and execution constraints. However, most existing NL2SQL methods assume a single dialect (e.g., SQLite) and struggle to produce queries that are both semantically correct and executable on target engines. Prompt-based approaches tightly couple intent reasoning with dialect syntax, rule-based translators often degrade native operators into generic constructs, and multi-dialect fine-tuning suffers from cross-dialect interference. In this paper, we present Dial, a knowledge-grounded framework for dialect-specific NL2SQL. Dial introduces: (1) a Dialect-Aware Logical Query Planning module that converts natural language into a dialect-aware logical query plan via operator-level intent decomposition and divergence-aware specification; (2) HINT-KB, a hierarchical intent-aware knowledge base that organizes dialect knowledge into (i) a canonical syntax reference, (ii) a declarative function repository, and (iii) a procedural constraint repository; and (3) an execution-driven debugging and semantic verification loop that separates syntactic recovery from logic auditing to prevent semantic drift. We construct DS-NL2SQL, a benchmark covering six major database systems with 2,218 dialect-specific test cases. Experimental results show that Dial consistently improves translation accuracy by 10.25% and dialect feature coverage by 15.77% over state-of-the-art baselines. The code is at https://github.com/weAIDB/Dial.
LGOct 3, 2025
TokenFlow: Responsive LLM Text Streaming Serving under Request Burst via Preemptive SchedulingJunyi Chen, Chuheng Du, Renyuan Liu et al.
Real-time LLM interactions demand streamed token generations, where text tokens are progressively generated and delivered to users while balancing two objectives: responsiveness (i.e., low time-to-first-token) and steady generation (i.e.,required time-between-tokens). Standard LLM serving systems suffer from the inflexibility caused by non-preemptive request scheduling and reactive memory management, leading to poor resource utilization and low request processing parallelism under request bursts. Therefore, we present TokenFlow, a novel LLM serving system with enhanced text streaming performance via preemptive request scheduling and proactive key-value (KV) cache management. TokenFlow dynamically prioritizes requests based on real-time token buffer occupancy and token consumption rate, while actively transferring KV cache between GPU and CPU memory in the background and overlapping I/O with computation to minimize request preemption overhead. Extensive experiments on Llama3-8B and Qwen2.5-32B across multiple GPUs (RTX 4090, A6000, H200) demonstrate that TokenFlow achieves up to 82.5% higher effective throughput (accounting for actual user consumption) while reducing P99 TTFT by up to 80.2%, without degrading overall token throughput.
ROMay 1, 2024
GAD-Generative Learning for HD Map-Free Autonomous DrivingWeijian Sun, Yanbo Jia, Qi Zeng et al.
Deep-learning-based techniques have been widely adopted for autonomous driving software stacks for mass production in recent years, focusing primarily on perception modules, with some work extending this method to prediction modules. However, the downstream planning and control modules are still designed with hefty handcrafted rules, dominated by optimization-based methods such as quadratic programming or model predictive control. This results in a performance bottleneck for autonomous driving systems in that corner cases simply cannot be solved by enumerating hand-crafted rules. We present a deep-learning-based approach that brings prediction, decision, and planning modules together with the attempt to overcome the rule-based methods' deficiency in real-world applications of autonomous driving, especially for urban scenes. The DNN model we proposed is solely trained with 10 hours of human driver data, and it supports all mass-production ADAS features available on the market to date. This method is deployed onto a Jiyue test car with no modification to its factory-ready sensor set and compute platform. the feasibility, usability, and commercial potential are demonstrated in this article.