47.4ROJul 16
Xiaomi-Robotics-1: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with over 100K Hours of Real-World TrajectoriesXiaomi Robotics Team, Jun Guo, Piaopiao Jin et al.
We present Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a foundational vision-language-action (VLA) model capable of (1) following diverse language instructions to perform a wide range of mobile manipulation tasks in unseen environments out-of-the-box, and (2) efficiently adapting to novel downstream tasks with minimal fine-tuning data. We propose a two-stage training recipe consisting of pre-training and post-training. During pre-training, we imbue the model with broad and generalizable action-generation capabilities by training on over 100k hours of real-world manipulation trajectories collected via UMI devices. Crucially, we develop a scalable auto-labeling pipeline that annotates trajectory clips with natural languages describing scene state transitions, providing rich and precise conditioning for action learning. During post-training, we aim to align these capabilities with robot embodiments and imperative instructions that humans naturally use to prompt robots. Extensive experiments demonstrate strong scaling behavior. Xiaomi-Robotics-1 consistently improves with increased data scales and model sizes during pre-training. This scaling behavior directly transfers to post-training, where a stronger pre-training model yields better out-of-the-box real-robot performance in unseen environments. Furthermore, Xiaomi-Robotics-1 serves as a strong robot foundation policy that can be efficiently fine-tuned on complex, dexterous tasks with high data efficiency. Across multiple simulation benchmarks, Xiaomi-Robotics-1 outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Notably, it establishes a new state-of-the-art with a 57.6% success rate on RoboCasa365, surpassing the previous best of 46.6%. Furthermore, it achieves an average score of 20.07 on RoboDojo, significantly outperforming the prior state-of-the-art (13.07). Code and model checkpoints will be released. Project page: https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html
HETERQA: Benchmarking Record Retrieval over Multiple Heterogeneous SourcesYaodong Su, Hanchang Li, Quanqing Xu et al.
In emerging systems (e.g., social media and e-commerce platforms), data records are often drawn from heterogeneous sources, such as relational tables, text documents, image repositories, spatial databases, and knowledge graphs. Accordingly, retrieving target records for question-answering (QA) tasks requires us to jointly exploit these heterogeneous sources. However, most existing benchmarks are constructed from individual sources, and only a very few recent benchmarks have considered two or three sources. To alleviate this issue, we introduce HETERQA, a comprehensive benchmark with 857 QA pairs for record retrieval over five heterogeneous sources. HETERQA instantiates this setting with Yelp business records, each of which is grounded by multiple sources. We build HETERQA in an answer-driven manner: candidate records are first initialized with record-field constraints, then enriched through heterogeneous sources, and finally cross-verified across required sources before the natural-language question is retained. We validate the benchmark through contradiction detection and human validation, and further evaluate sparse, dense, hybrid, late-interaction, and agentic retrievers under the same metrics. The results show that HETERQA is challenging: hybrid retrieval achieves the strongest Recall@10, Self-RAG achieves the best MRR@10, and all evaluated methods remain far from saturating the benchmark. These findings indicate that HETERQA provides an effective testbed for record retrieval over heterogeneous sources and leaves substantial room for future retrieval methods. The benchmark dataset and source code are publicly available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/hanchang02/HeterQA and https://github.com/hanchang02/HeterQA, respectively.
25.8DBJul 2Code
AgenticDataBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Data AgentsZhaoyan Sun, Shan Zhong, Daizhou Wen et al.
Data science aims to derive actionable insights from heterogeneous raw data, unlocking the value of the massive amounts of data generated in modern society. Automating this process is essential to reducing labor-intensive efforts for data scientists and enabling scalable data-driven applications. Recently, large language model (LLM)-based data agents have emerged as a promising solution to automate data science workflows. However, the field lacks comprehensive benchmarks to rigorously evaluate these agents across diverse scenarios with fine-grained granularity. To address this gap, we propose AgenticDataBench, a comprehensive benchmark featuring realistic tasks spanning diverse domains with fine-grained ground-truth labels. This enables evaluations to capture the diversity and complexity of data science workflows and the detailed performance of agents. First, to cover diverse domains, we collect real datasets and tasks from 15 vertical domains, including 5 real-world B2B use cases from a leading fintech company. Second, to remove redundancy in real-world tasks and generate high-quality tasks for domains lacking real data, we introduce data science skills, recurring data-centric operational patterns, and quantify benchmark coverage by the number of skills included. Representative skills are extracted from large-scale task solutions on Stack Overflow using skill-aligned hierarchical clustering. Third, for real-world business tasks, we select task-solution pairs that maximize diversity in skill composition, ensuring broad coverage of practical scenarios. Fourth, to generate realistic tasks for devise domains without real tasks, we propose a systematic LLM-based task generation approach to create workflows and tasks based on these skills. Finally, we evaluate state-of-the-art data agents using our annotated benchmark and open-sourced testbed, providing detailed skill-level insights.
7.6QUANT-PHJul 15
Quantum Algorithm for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms with Space-Efficient Point AdditionHan Luo, Ziyi Yang, Jingquan Luo et al.
The Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP) is a fundamental problem in cryptography, and reducing the resource requirements of quantum algorithms for solving ECDLP is an important goal. In this work, we present a space-efficient quantum algorithm for solving the ECDLP over prime fields, achieving an implementation with only $3n+6\lfloor \log_2 n \rfloor+O(1)$ logical qubits and $919n^3/\log_2 n+O(n^2)$ Toffoli gates, where $n$ is the bit-length of the prime. For a 256-bit prime-field curve, our construction requires only 835 logical qubits, reducing the previous best estimates of 1098 and 1175 logical qubits by Chevignard et al. [EUROCRYPT 2026] and Babbush et al. [ArXiv Preprint 2026], respectively. The key to our improvement is a new space-efficient reversible modular inversion circuit, which addresses the dominant space bottleneck in affine-coordinate point addition. Starting from the extended Euclidean algorithm (EEA), we refine the register-sharing technique of Proos and Zalka by introducing length registers and location-controlled arithmetic to compactly store and update intermediate variables. We further optimize the reversible update procedures and construct the corresponding controlled arithmetic circuits, resulting in a modular inversion circuit implemented by only $2n+6\lfloor \log_2 n \rfloor+O(1)$ logical qubits and $195n^2+O(n\log_2 n)$ Toffoli gates. This modular inversion circuit together with mid-circuit measurements and classical feed-forward operations provides a space-efficient controlled affine point-addition circuit and a complete implementation of Shor's algorithm for ECDLP.
16.1AIJul 8
CANN Bench: Benchmarking Agent Generated Kernels against Real NPU and Algorithmic LimitsXue-Jian Gao, Deng Pan, Yueming Su et al.
AI agents are now capable of writing, compiling, and iteratively optimizing low-level operator kernels on different hardware platforms. Existing benchmarks, however, focus almost exclusively on CUDA and Triton, leaving hardware ecosystems with less-exposed programming models without a common evaluation baseline. We present CANN Bench, an open benchmark for AI-generated operator code on Huawei's Ascend NPU. The current release covers 53 operators and 1060 test cases organized into four difficulty tiers -- from simple elementwise primitives to MoE dispatch and FlashAttention kernels -- spanning FP16, BF16, FP32, and INT8 precision formats. Evaluation adopts a \textbf{three-dimensional weighted composite score} that treats compilation, functional correctness, and performance as independent axes, providing a principled reward signal for kernel-generation agents. Performance is graded against an out-of-the-box PyTorch-on-Ascend baseline and an analytical per-case Hardware-Anchored Performance (HAP) limit on real NPU hardware, ensuring scores reflect genuine optimization headroom rather than measurement artifacts. The evaluation harness is designed to resist reward hacking from the ground up. CANN Bench is versioned within the official CANN repository and is designed for long-term community co-construction, providing the Ascend ecosystem with a quantitative, reproducible, and sustainably maintained yardstick for AI operator-authoring capability.
14.5QUANT-PHJul 8
Faster quantum linear system solver beyond the condition numberAlexander M. Dalzell, Jianqiang Li, Yuan Su
The spectral condition number is a widely adopted measure of worst-case cost for quantum linear system solvers. Yet it can significantly overestimate the actual runtime for a typical problem instance. We present two quantum algorithms that produce the normalized solution $|x\rangle$ of linear system $Ax=| b \rangle$ to accuracy $ε$ with complexity independent of the condition number $κ=\lVert A^{-1}\rVert$. We focus on the standard input model where $A$ is accessed through a block encoding and $| b \rangle$ is prepared by a unitary. But we also introduce an affine dilation model that encodes $A$ and $| b \rangle$ jointly, allowing further refinements of the query complexity. Our truncation-based solver makes an optimal number of queries to $| b \rangle$ and $\operatorname{\mathbf{O}}\left(κ_{\mathrm{eff}}\operatorname{polylog}\left(\frac{κ_{\mathrm{eff}}}ε\right)\right)$ queries to $A$. We prove a family of upper bounds on the effective condition number, including $κ_{\mathrm{eff}}\leq\frac{\lVert(A^\dagger A)^{-t/2}|x\rangle\rVert^{1/t}}{ε^{1/t}}$ for positive even integer $t$ and $κ_{\mathrm{eff}}\leq\frac{\lVert A^{-1\dagger}(A^\dagger A)^{-(t-1)/2}|x\rangle\rVert^{1/t}}{ε^{1/t}}$ for positive odd $t$, overcoming the $κ$-barrier. Our filtering-based solver is extremely simple with a favorable runtime prefactor. In particular, the solver has query complexity $6\frac{\lVert A^{-1\dagger}|x\rangle\rVert}ε\ln\left(\frac{1}ε\right)$ to leading order when the solution norm is known. We then present a similarly simple solution norm estimator with the same asymptotic cost up to logarithmic factors. Our quantum linear system solvers thus substantially improve a recent algorithm of Li, enabling faster quantum linear system solving beyond the condition number.
14.0SEJul 2
KRCA: An Efficient Root Cause Analysis System in Hyper-Scale Microservice Systems via Agentic AIJiamin Jiang, Jingfei Feng, Yu Luo et al.
Hyper-scale microservice systems have become the standard infrastructure for large-scale Internet companies. These systems consist of numerous loosely coupled microservices that evolve independently through continuous development and deployment. Such complexity makes failures unavoidable, necessitating efficient Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to help Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) quickly localize root cause services and classify failure types. However, existing RCA methods often struggle to adapt to the extreme dynamism and massive scale of these systems. In this paper, we present KRCA, an end-to-end RCA system designed for hyper-scale microservice systems. To manage the vast search space, KRCA employs a multi-stage pipeline that begins with an API-level drilldown to isolate suspicious services. It then instantiates a skeleton-based causal graph from anomalous metrics to serve as a high-recall structural prior, before utilizing a memory-augmented multi-agent framework to verify causality and generate the final failure report. By combining structured causal constraints with multi-agent reasoning, KRCA employs balances diagnostic accuracy with the efficiency requirements of real-time production use. Experimental results show that KRCA achieves AC@1 scores of 0.88 and 0.79 for root cause service localization and failure type classification, outperforming the strongest baseline by at lease 31% in absolute gains. KRCA has been deployed in Kuaishou's production environment for over six months, reducing the average diagnosis time by 77.3%.
5.6LGJul 2
Liquid Latent State Dynamics for Interpretable Turbofan Degradation ModelingWeizhi Nie, Weijie Wang, Yuting Su
Multivariate time-series models for prognostics are often evaluated by point prediction accuracy, yet their internal states rarely expose a coherent degradation process. We study liquid neural networks as latent dynamics models for aircraft engine health monitoring on the C-MAPSS benchmark. The proposed model encodes a history window into a latent state, evolves that state with a liquid transition model, and decodes future sensor observations. To separate health evolution from operating-condition variation, the latent state is factorized into degradation and condition components. Remaining useful life, monotonic risk, and latent-consistency losses supervise the degradation component, while condition prediction and decorrelation losses discourage operating-condition leakage. Across FD001--FD004, the full disentangled model improves overall sensor forecasting RMSE from 0.2438 for a GRU baseline to 0.2266, with the largest gains on the multi-condition subsets FD002 and FD004. The learned degradation state also forms a clearer temporal degradation axis, reaching an average state-speed Spearman correlation of 0.5960. Direct remaining-useful-life regression remains stronger for the GRU baseline, indicating that the proposed representation is currently more effective as an interpretable world model for degradation dynamics than as a calibrated lifetime regressor. These results suggest that liquid latent dynamics can bridge predictive maintenance forecasting and inspectable health-state modeling.