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Xiangyu Yin

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preprint2026arXiv

CVEvolve: Autonomous Algorithm Discovery for Unstructured Scientific Data Processing

Scientific data processing often requires task-specific algorithms or AI models, creating a barrier for domain scientists who need to analyze their data but may not have extensive computing or image-processing expertise. This barrier is especially pronounced when data are noisy, have a high dynamic range, are sparsely labeled, or are only loosely specified. We introduce CVEvolve, an autonomous agentic harness with a zero-code interface for scientific data-processing algorithm discovery. CVEvolve combines a multi-round search strategy with tools for code execution, evaluation implementation, history management, holdout testing, and optional inspection of scientific data and visual outputs. The search alternates between discovery and improvement actions, and uses lineage-aware stochastic candidate sampling to balance exploration and exploitation. We demonstrate CVEvolve on x-ray fluorescence microscopy image registration, Bragg peak detection, and high-energy diffraction microscopy image segmentation. Across these tasks, CVEvolve discovers algorithms that improve over baseline methods, while holdout test tracking helps identify candidates that generalize better than later over-optimized alternatives. These results show that zero-code, autonomous LLM-powered algorithm development can help domain scientists turn unstructured scientific image data into practical algorithms and downstream scientific discoveries.

preprint2026arXiv

GatedFWA: Linear Flash Windowed Attention with Gated Associative Memory

Modern autoregressive models rely on attention, yet the Softmax full attention in Transformers scales quadratically with sequence length. Sliding Window Attention (SWA) achieves linear-time encoding/decoding by constraining the attention pattern, but under an \textit{Associative Memory} interpretation, its difference-style update renders the training objective effectively \emph{unbounded}. In contrast, Softmax attention normalizes updates, leading to \emph{memory shrinkage and gradient vanishing}. We propose GatedFWA: a Memory-\underline{Gated} (\underline{F}lash) \underline{W}indowed \underline{A}ttention mechanism that preserves SWAs efficiency while stabilizing memory updates and making gradient flow controllable. In essence, GatedFWA accumulate a per-token/head gate into a decay bias added to the attention logits, acting as a learnable contraction in the memory recurrence. We implement a fused one-pass gate preprocessing and a FlashAttention-compatible kernel that injects the gate under a sliding mask, ensuring I/O efficiency and numerical stability. On language modelling benchmarks, GatedFWA delivers competitive throughput with negligible overhead and better use of global context, and it integrates cleanly with token compression/selection methods such as NSA and generalizes to various autoregressive domains.

preprint2022arXiv

DIMBA: Discretely Masked Black-Box Attack in Single Object Tracking

The adversarial attack can force a CNN-based model to produce an incorrect output by craftily manipulating human-imperceptible input. Exploring such perturbations can help us gain a deeper understanding of the vulnerability of neural networks, and provide robustness to deep learning against miscellaneous adversaries. Despite extensive studies focusing on the robustness of image, audio, and NLP, works on adversarial examples of visual object tracking -- especially in a black-box manner -- are quite lacking. In this paper, we propose a novel adversarial attack method to generate noises for single object tracking under black-box settings, where perturbations are merely added on initial frames of tracking sequences, which is difficult to be noticed from the perspective of a whole video clip. Specifically, we divide our algorithm into three components and exploit reinforcement learning for localizing important frame patches precisely while reducing unnecessary computational queries overhead. Compared to existing techniques, our method requires fewer queries on initialized frames of a video to manipulate competitive or even better attack performance. We test our algorithm in both long-term and short-term datasets, including OTB100, VOT2018, UAV123, and LaSOT. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on three mainstream types of trackers: discrimination, Siamese-based, and reinforcement learning-based trackers.

preprint2021arXiv

TempLe: Learning Template of Transitions for Sample Efficient Multi-task RL

Transferring knowledge among various environments is important to efficiently learn multiple tasks online. Most existing methods directly use the previously learned models or previously learned optimal policies to learn new tasks. However, these methods may be inefficient when the underlying models or optimal policies are substantially different across tasks. In this paper, we propose Template Learning (TempLe), the first PAC-MDP method for multi-task reinforcement learning that could be applied to tasks with varying state/action space. TempLe generates transition dynamics templates, abstractions of the transition dynamics across tasks, to gain sample efficiency by extracting similarities between tasks even when their underlying models or optimal policies have limited commonalities. We present two algorithms for an "online" and a "finite-model" setting respectively. We prove that our proposed TempLe algorithms achieve much lower sample complexity than single-task learners or state-of-the-art multi-task methods. We show via systematically designed experiments that our TempLe method universally outperforms the state-of-the-art multi-task methods (PAC-MDP or not) in various settings and regimes.