Yu Shen Liu

Yulong Xu, Xinyue Liu, Shujuan Li et al.

Subject-to-video (S2V) generation has made substantial progress in preserving reference subjects across diverse categories, yet generic subject consistency remains insufficient for human-centric generation. A video may appear globally consistent while identity-critical human details still drift across frames, poses, and interactions. This issue becomes more severe in multi-person scenarios, where incorrect identity-role binding leads to subject confusion, attribute swapping, and excessive copying of reference-specific appearance cues. We propose Vera, a unified human-centric S2V framework for single- and multi-person generation. We first construct a million-pair identity-aligned human image-video dataset through person-level cross-clip retrieval, providing explicit identity correspondence and diverse references. Built on this dataset, Vera introduces two complementary designs. Identity-Focal Masked Supervision (IFMS) strengthens identity-aware learning with spatially focused supervision while reducing interference from irrelevant artifacts. Reference-Aware Layer-wise Attention (RALA) regulates how video tokens interact with reference identity cues in the DiT backbone, preserving stable identity anchors and enhancing layer-aware identity readout. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Vera improves human identity consistency, multi-person subject binding, and motion naturalness, while reducing identity confusion and excessive reference-image copying.

Yu Liu, Zhiwei Yang, Diandian Guo et al.

Large metal-organic framework (MOF) databases support simulation, screening, and machine learning through crystallographic information files (CIFs). Subtle chemical and structural errors in these inputs can compromise downstream results and hinder manual inspection. LLM advances in computational chemistry offer paths beyond predictive screening toward fine-grained diagnosis with evidence-grounded explanations. However, two challenges remain: (i) limited fine-grained attribution: MOF-specific validators and machine-learning models scale detection but provide fixed checks, readiness scores, or coarse labels rather than evidence-grounded explanations; and (ii) unreliable CIF reasoning: direct LLM auditing is costly and unreliable because chemical evidence is implicit across atom-site records and requires geometric, connectivity, occupancy, and charge calculations. Both stem from weak coupling between chemical evidence and language-model explanation. We introduce MOF-Sleuth, a reinforcement-guided CIF auditing agent with two modules: a deterministic Forensic Lab and a Sleuth reasoning engine. The Lab derives composition, geometry, connectivity, occupancy, coordination, and charge evidence, and Sleuth uses this evidence to produce an evidence-grounded explanation, error types, and a binary decision. Reward-guided reinforcement learning (RL) turns tool measurements into chemical explanation-level supervision, rewarding not only the final answer but also cited chemical evidence and evidence-supported diagnoses. We introduce Chemically Grounded Diagnosis (Chem-GD), a metric that assesses whether a correct diagnosis is explained by factual, relevant CIF-derived evidence. Across four benchmarks, MOF-Sleuth establishes state-of-the-art performance among LLM-based approaches and MOF-specific machine-learning methods, demonstrating gains in detection, attribution, and grounded explanation quality.

Yu Zhao, Zekun Zhang, Fan Jiang et al.

Recent advances in long chain-of-thought reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 have led to increasingly longer inference context lengths under the test-time scaling paradigm. However, the O(n^2) computational complexity of standard self-attention causes inference costs to grow sharply with long sequences, limiting the deployment of long-CoT reasoning in production settings. To address this, we propose LISA (Linear-Indexed Sparse Attention), a plug-and-play attention replacement module that requires no pretraining from scratch. LISA integrates two lightweight components in parallel within the original model: (1) a Linear Attention module that provides long-range memory with O(n) time complexity; (2) a Lightning Indexer that selects the top-M important tokens from the full context to feed into a Sparse Self-Attention. The two branches are fused via a gating mechanism, reducing inference complexity from O(n^2) to O(nM) (M << n) for generating n tokens. We design a two-stage training pipeline: Stage 1 initializes the model by integrating the linear attention to capture long-range dependencies, complemented by a sliding-window attention mechanism that is optimized via knowledge distillation to approximate the full self-attention distribution of a frozen teacher model. In Stage 2, we further introduce the Indexer to replace the static sliding-window mechanism, enabling dynamic token selection from broader contexts. The Indexer is trained using a novel per-head KL divergence loss, which aligns its selection behavior with the attention patterns of the teacher model. Experiments on DeepSeek-distilled-Qwen models demonstrate that LISA achieves a 50% inference speedup under 16K-token context, while improving average performance by 5.6% on reasoning benchmarks including AIME and MATH-500.