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preprint2026arXiv

Gated QKAN-FWP: Scalable Quantum-inspired Sequence Learning

Fast Weight Programmers (FWPs) encode temporal dependencies through dynamically updated parameters rather than recurrent hidden states. Quantum FWPs (QFWPs) extend this idea with variational quantum circuits (VQCs), but existing implementations rely on multi-qubit architectures that are difficult to scale on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices and expensive to simulate classically. We propose gated QKAN-FWP, a fast-weight framework that integrates FWP with Quantum-inspired Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (QKAN) using single-qubit data re-uploading circuits as learnable nonlinear activation, known as DatA Re-Uploading ActivatioN (DARUAN). We further introduce a scalar-gated fast-weight update rule that stabilizes parameter evolution, supported by a theoretical analysis of its adaptive memory kernel, geometric boundedness, and parallelizable gradient paths. We evaluate the framework across time-series benchmarks, MiniGrid reinforcement learning, and highlight real-world solar cycle forecasting as our main practical result. In the long-horizon setting with 528-month input window and 132-month forecast horizon, our 12.5k-parameter model achieves lower scaled Mean Square Error (MSE), peak amplitude error, and peak timing error than a suite of classical recurrent baselines with up to 13x more parameters, including Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks (25.9k-89.1k parameters), WaveNet-LSTM (167k), Vanilla recurrent neural network (11.5k), and a Modified Echo State Network (132k). To validate NISQ compatibility, we further deploy the trained fast programmer on IonQ and IBM Quantum processors, recovering forecasting accuracy within 0.1% relative MSE of the noiseless simulator at 1024 shots. These results position gated QKAN-FWP as a scalable, parameter-efficient, and NISQ-compatible approach to quantum-inspired sequence modeling.

preprint2026arXiv

MemLens: Benchmarking Multimodal Long-Term Memory in Large Vision-Language Models

Memory is essential for large vision-language models (LVLMs) to handle long, multimodal interactions, with two method directions providing this capability: long-context LVLMs and memory-augmented agents. However, no existing benchmark conducts a systematic comparison of the two on questions that genuinely require multimodal evidence. To close this gap, we introduce MEMLENS, a comprehensive benchmark for memory in multimodal multi-session conversations, comprising 789 questions across five memory abilities (information extraction, multi-session reasoning, temporal reasoning, knowledge update, and answer refusal) at four standard context lengths (32K-256K tokens) under a cross-modal token-counting scheme. An image-ablation study confirms that solving MEMLENS requires visual evidence: removing evidence images drops two frontier LVLMs below 2% accuracy on the 80.4% of questions whose evidence includes images. Evaluating 27 LVLMs and 7 memory-augmented agents, we find that long-context LVLMs achieve high short-context accuracy through direct visual grounding but degrade as conversations grow, whereas memory agents are length-stable but lose visual fidelity under storage-time compression. Multi-session reasoning caps most systems below 30%, and neither approach alone solves the task. These results motivate hybrid architectures that combine long-context attention with structured multimodal retrieval. Our code is available at https://github.com/xrenaf/MEMLENS.

preprint2026arXiv

ReLA: Representation Learning and Aggregation for Job Scheduling with Reinforcement Learning

Job scheduling is widely used in real-world manufacturing systems to assign ordered job operations to machines under various constraints. Existing solutions remain limited by long running time or insufficient schedule quality, especially when problem scale increases. In this paper, we propose ReLA, a reinforcement-learning (RL) scheduler built on structured representation learning and aggregation. ReLA first learns diverse representations from scheduling entities, including job operations and machines, using two intra-entity learning modules with self-attention and convolution and one inter-entity learning module with cross-attention. These modules are applied in a multi-scale architecture, and their outputs are aggregated to support RL decision-making. Across experiments on small, medium, and large job instances, ReLA achieves the best makespan in most tested settings over the latest solutions. On non-large instances, ReLA reduces the optimality gap of the SOTA baseline by 13.0%, while on large-scale instances it reduces the gap by 78.6%, with the average optimality gaps lowered to 7.3% and 2.1%, respectively. These results confirm that ReLA's learned representations and aggregation provide strong decision support for RL scheduling, and enable fast job completion and decision-making for real-world applications.

preprint2026arXiv

Stereo-GS: Multi-View Stereo Vision Model for Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction

Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction showcases advanced Image-to-3D content creation but requires substantial computational resources and large datasets, posing challenges to training models from scratch. Current methods usually entangle the prediction of 3D Gaussian geometry and appearance, which rely heavily on data-driven priors and result in slow regression speeds. To address this, we propose \method, a disentangled framework for efficient 3D Gaussian prediction. Our method extracts features from local image pairs using a stereo vision backbone and fuses them via global attention blocks. Dedicated point and Gaussian prediction heads generate multi-view point-maps for geometry and Gaussian features for appearance, combined as GS-maps to represent the 3DGS object. A refinement network enhances these GS-maps for high-quality reconstruction. Unlike existing methods that depend on camera parameters, our approach achieves pose-free 3D reconstruction, improving robustness and practicality. By reducing resource demands while maintaining high-quality outputs, \method provides an efficient, scalable solution for real-world 3D content generation.

preprint2026arXiv

Towards Intelligent Systems for Battery Management: A Five-Tier Digital Twin Architecture

As digital twin technologies are increasingly incorporated into battery management systems to meet the growing need for transparent and lifecycle-aware operation, existing battery digital twins still suffer from fragmented operational processes and lack an architectural perspective to coordinate modeling, inference, and decision-making throughout the battery lifecycle. To this end, we develop a unified five-tier battery digital twin framework that integrates key functionalities into a coherent pipeline and facilitates a clearer architectural understanding of digital twins. The five-tier comprises geometric modeling, descriptive analytics, physics-informed prediction, prescriptive optimization, and autonomous control. In quantitative evaluation, the resulting architecture achieves high-fidelity multi-physics calibration with 0.92\% voltage and 0.18\% temperature prediction error, and provides state-of-health estimation with 1.09\% MAPE and calibrated uncertainty. As the first battery digital twin system empowered by the NVIDIA ecosystem with physics-AI technologies, our proposed five-tier framework shifts battery management from reactive protection to an interpretable, predictive, and autonomous paradigm, paving the path to develop next-generation battery management and energy management systems.

preprint2023arXiv

MIGPerf: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Learning Training and Inference Workloads on Multi-Instance GPUs

New architecture GPUs like A100 are now equipped with multi-instance GPU (MIG) technology, which allows the GPU to be partitioned into multiple small, isolated instances. This technology provides more flexibility for users to support both deep learning training and inference workloads, but efficiently utilizing it can still be challenging. The vision of this paper is to provide a more comprehensive and practical benchmark study for MIG in order to eliminate the need for tedious manual benchmarking and tuning efforts. To achieve this vision, the paper presents MIGPerf, an open-source tool that streamlines the benchmark study for MIG. Using MIGPerf, the authors conduct a series of experiments, including deep learning training and inference characterization on MIG, GPU sharing characterization, and framework compatibility with MIG. The results of these experiments provide new insights and guidance for users to effectively employ MIG, and lay the foundation for further research on the orchestration of hybrid training and inference workloads on MIGs. The code and results are released on https://github.com/MLSysOps/MIGProfiler. This work is still in progress and more results will be published soon.

preprint2022arXiv

ARID: A New Dataset for Recognizing Action in the Dark

The task of action recognition in dark videos is useful in various scenarios, e.g., night surveillance and self-driving at night. Though progress has been made in the action recognition task for videos in normal illumination, few have studied action recognition in the dark. This is partly due to the lack of sufficient datasets for such a task. In this paper, we explored the task of action recognition in dark videos. We bridge the gap of the lack of data for this task by collecting a new dataset: the Action Recognition in the Dark (ARID) dataset. It consists of over 3,780 video clips with 11 action categories. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first dataset focused on human actions in dark videos. To gain further understandings of our ARID dataset, we analyze the ARID dataset in detail and exhibited its necessity over synthetic dark videos. Additionally, we benchmarked the performance of several current action recognition models on our dataset and explored potential methods for increasing their performances. Our results show that current action recognition models and frame enhancement methods may not be effective solutions for the task of action recognition in dark videos.

preprint2022arXiv

Attributed Abnormality Graph Embedding for Clinically Accurate X-Ray Report Generation

Automatic generation of medical reports from X-ray images can assist radiologists to perform the time-consuming and yet important reporting task. Yet, achieving clinically accurate generated reports remains challenging. Modeling the underlying abnormalities using the knowledge graph approach has been found promising in enhancing the clinical accuracy. In this paper, we introduce a novel fined-grained knowledge graph structure called an attributed abnormality graph (ATAG). The ATAG consists of interconnected abnormality nodes and attribute nodes, allowing it to better capture the abnormality details. In contrast to the existing methods where the abnormality graph was constructed manually, we propose a methodology to automatically construct the fine-grained graph structure based on annotations, medical reports in X-ray datasets, and the RadLex radiology lexicon. We then learn the ATAG embedding using a deep model with an encoder-decoder architecture for the report generation. In particular, graph attention networks are explored to encode the relationships among the abnormalities and their attributes. A gating mechanism is adopted and integrated with various decoders for the generation. We carry out extensive experiments based on the benchmark datasets, and show that the proposed ATAG-based deep model outperforms the SOTA methods by a large margin and can improve the clinical accuracy of the generated reports.

preprint2022arXiv

NVIDIA-UNIBZ Submission for EPIC-KITCHENS-100 Action Anticipation Challenge 2022

In this report, we describe the technical details of our submission for the EPIC-Kitchen-100 action anticipation challenge. Our modelings, the higher-order recurrent space-time transformer and the message-passing neural network with edge learning, are both recurrent-based architectures which observe only 2.5 seconds inference context to form the action anticipation prediction. By averaging the prediction scores from a set of models compiled with our proposed training pipeline, we achieved strong performance on the test set, which is 19.61% overall mean top-5 recall, recorded as second place on the public leaderboard.

preprint2022arXiv

Unified Recurrence Modeling for Video Action Anticipation

Forecasting future events based on evidence of current conditions is an innate skill of human beings, and key for predicting the outcome of any decision making. In artificial vision for example, we would like to predict the next human action before it happens, without observing the future video frames associated to it. Computer vision models for action anticipation are expected to collect the subtle evidence in the preamble of the target actions. In prior studies recurrence modeling often leads to better performance, the strong temporal inference is assumed to be a key element for reasonable prediction. To this end, we propose a unified recurrence modeling for video action anticipation via message passing framework. The information flow in space-time can be described by the interaction between vertices and edges, and the changes of vertices for each incoming frame reflects the underlying dynamics. Our model leverages self-attention as the building blocks for each of the message passing functions. In addition, we introduce different edge learning strategies that can be end-to-end optimized to gain better flexibility for the connectivity between vertices. Our experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms previous works on the large-scale EPIC-Kitchen dataset.

preprint2020arXiv

A deep learning based nonlinear upscaling method for transport equations

We will develop a nonlinear upscaling method for nonlinear transport equation. The proposed scheme gives a coarse scale equation for the cell average of the solution. In order to compute the parameters in the coarse scale equation, a local downscaling operator is constructed. This downscaling operation recovers fine scale properties using cell averages. This is achieved by solving the equation on an oversampling region with the given cell average as constraint. Due to the nonlinearity, one needs to compute these downscaling operations on the fly and cannot pre-compute these quantities. In order to give an efficient downscaling operation, we apply a deep learning approach. We will use a deep neural network to approximate the downscaling operation. Our numerical results show that the proposed scheme can achieve a good accuracy and efficiency.

preprint2020arXiv

Dependently Typed Knowledge Graphs

Reasoning over knowledge graphs is traditionally built upon a hierarchy of languages in the Semantic Web Stack. Starting from the Resource Description Framework (RDF) for knowledge graphs, more advanced constructs have been introduced through various syntax extensions to add reasoning capabilities to knowledge graphs. In this paper, we show how standardized semantic web technologies (RDF and its query language SPARQL) can be reproduced in a unified manner with dependent type theory. In addition to providing the basic functionalities of knowledge graphs, dependent types add expressiveness in encoding both entities and queries, explainability in answers to queries through witnesses, and compositionality and automation in the construction of witnesses. Using the Coq proof assistant, we demonstrate how to build and query dependently typed knowledge graphs as a proof of concept for future works in this direction.

preprint2020arXiv

Effective Action Recognition with Embedded Key Point Shifts

Temporal feature extraction is an essential technique in video-based action recognition. Key points have been utilized in skeleton-based action recognition methods but they require costly key point annotation. In this paper, we propose a novel temporal feature extraction module, named Key Point Shifts Embedding Module ($KPSEM$), to adaptively extract channel-wise key point shifts across video frames without key point annotation for temporal feature extraction. Key points are adaptively extracted as feature points with maximum feature values at split regions, while key point shifts are the spatial displacements of corresponding key points. The key point shifts are encoded as the overall temporal features via linear embedding layers in a multi-set manner. Our method achieves competitive performance through embedding key point shifts with trivial computational cost, achieving the state-of-the-art performance of 82.05% on Mini-Kinetics and competitive performance on UCF101, Something-Something-v1, and HMDB51 datasets.

preprint2020arXiv

Exploiting Inter-Frame Regional Correlation for Efficient Action Recognition

Temporal feature extraction is an important issue in video-based action recognition. Optical flow is a popular method to extract temporal feature, which produces excellent performance thanks to its capacity of capturing pixel-level correlation information between consecutive frames. However, such a pixel-level correlation is extracted at the cost of high computational complexity and large storage resource. In this paper, we propose a novel temporal feature extraction method, named Attentive Correlated Temporal Feature (ACTF), by exploring inter-frame correlation within a certain region. The proposed ACTF exploits both bilinear and linear correlation between successive frames on the regional level. Our method has the advantage of achieving performance comparable to or better than optical flow-based methods while avoiding the introduction of optical flow. Experimental results demonstrate our proposed method achieves the state-of-the-art performances of 96.3% on UCF101 and 76.3% on HMDB51 benchmark datasets.

preprint2020arXiv

PNL: Efficient Long-Range Dependencies Extraction with Pyramid Non-Local Module for Action Recognition

Long-range spatiotemporal dependencies capturing plays an essential role in improving video features for action recognition. The non-local block inspired by the non-local means is designed to address this challenge and have shown excellent performance. However, the non-local block brings significant increase in computation cost to the original network. It also lacks the ability to model regional correlation in videos. To address the above limitations, we propose Pyramid Non-Local (PNL) module, which extends the non-local block by incorporating regional correlation at multiple scales through a pyramid structured module. This extension upscales the effectiveness of non-local operation by attending to the interaction between different regions. Empirical results prove the effectiveness and efficiency of our PNL module, which achieves state-of-the-art performance of 83.09% on the Mini-Kinetics dataset, with decreased computation cost compared to the non-local block.