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Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) assisting image production triggers academic controversy widely in journalism, while attracts increasingly consideration by media agencies. Key issues involve misinformation, authenticity, semantic fidelity and interpretability. Now, Most AIGC tools operate as opaque “black boxes,” which make them difficult to meet the dual demands of content accuracy and semantic alignment in journalistic contexts, even cause ethical, sociotechnical and trusting dilemma. In this paper, the authors explore feasible pathways for controllable image production in the typical scenario of journalism – special coverage, and conduct two experiments based on coverage projects of China’s top media agency: (1) Experiment 1 focuses on cross-platform adaptability by applying standardized prompts to three coverage scenes, showing the significant disparities in semantic alignment, cultural specificity, and visual realism, which are largely influenced by training corpus bias and platform-level filtering policies. (2) In experiment 2, a human-in-the-loop modular pipeline is developed that combines high-precision segmentation (SAM, GroundingDINO), semantic alignment (BrushNet) and style regulating (Style-LoRA, Prompt-to-Prompt). It ensures the editorial fidelity by CLIP-based semantic scoring, NSFW/OCR/YOLO-based content filtering, and the embedding of verifiable content credentials. The traceable deployment of modular pipeline keeps the consistency of semantic representation and interpretation when producing images. Consequently, the authors propose a human-AI collaboration mechanism of AIGC assisted image production for special coverage, and corresponding evaluation principles is suggested in three main criteria: Character Identity Stability (CIS), Cultural Expression Accuracy (CEA) and User-Public Appropriateness (U-PA). This paper calls for systemic upgrades involving human-in-the-loop modelling, stylistic co-creation, and trust labelling mechanisms, and provides a practical framework for controllable and reliable AIGC deployment in image production of journalism.

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Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in image generation, yet a persistent challenge remains: the bias between model predictions and the target distribution. In this paper, we propose a Bidirectional Noise Injection framework for enhancing diffusion models, implemented via Coordinated Input-Output Perturbation (CIOP). Our approach mitigates this bias by randomly applying synchronized noise injection to both the model inputs and the prediction targets during the training stage. This stochastic, synchronized noise injected acts as a smoothing mechanism that effectively reduces the 2-Wasserstein distance between the predicted and target distributions, as substantiated by our theoretical analysis based on optimal transport theory. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets and various generative tasks demonstrate that our method improves generation quality and training efficiency without incurring additional computational cost. Furthermore, the design of CIOP enables seamless integration with existing diffusion model improvements and advanced frameworks, thereby broadening its applicability. These results highlight the potential of Bidirectional Noise Injection via CIOP to alleviate bias in diffusion-based generative models across a wide range of settings.

Bidirectional Noise Injection: Enhancing Diffusion Models via Coordinated Input-Output Perturbation

Progress in multimedia technology has mitigated real-world data incompleteness and provided a versatile platform for multi-view learning.
Among existing research, graph-based multi-view learning has achieved notable success.
However, prior studies always immerse in comprehensive collaboration across all views and nodes to pursue consistency and complementary, which ignore the negative contribution of nodes from low-quality views.
To overcome the above limitation, we explore node behavior selection in multi-view dynamic modeling and propose the knowledge-aware multi-view state space model.
Specifically, nodes autonomously select either activation sequences or static sequences according to their current knowledge.
In the former, we design the mask-based attention mechanism to capture the dynamics of node behaviors. 
In the latter, we construct a history pool and simulate synaptic signals to regulate the behavioral distribution of nodes. 
Moreover, the proposed model provides a directional inter-view diffusion equation that selectively propagates information to alleviate interference from low-quality nodes across views.
Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms baselines on multiple benchmarks and achieves significant performance improvement.

From Static to Active: Knowledge-Aware Node State Selection in Multi-view Graph Learning

Instruction tuning plays a critical role in enhancing the performance and efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs). Its success depends not only on the quality of the instruction data but also on the inherent capabilities of the LLM itself. Some studies suggest that even a small amount of high-quality data can achieve instruction fine-tuning results that are on par with, or even exceed, those from using a full-scale dataset. However, rather than focusing solely on calculating data quality scores to evaluate instruction data, there is a growing need to select high-quality data that maximally enhances the performance of instruction tuning for a given LLM. In this paper, we propose the Model Instruction Weakness Value (MIWV) as a novel metric to quantify the importance of instruction data in enhancing model's capabilities. The MIWV metric is derived from the discrepancies in the model’s responses when using In-Context Learning (ICL), helping identify the most beneficial data for enhancing instruction tuning performance. Our experimental results demonstrate that selecting only the top 1% of data based on MIWV can outperform training on the full dataset. Furthermore, this approach extends beyond existing research that focuses on data quality scoring for data selection, offering strong empirical evidence supporting the effectiveness of our proposed method.

Importance-Aware Data Selection for Efficient LLM Instruction Tuning

Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the creation of highly realistic image forgeries, raising significant concerns about digital media authenticity. While existing detection methods demonstrate promising results on benchmark datasets, they face critical limitations in real-world applications. First, existing detectors typically fail to detect semantic inconsistencies with the person’s identity, such as implausible behaviors or incompatible environmental contexts in given images. Second, these methods rely heavily on low-level visual cues, making them effective for known forgeries but less reliable against new or unseen manipulation techniques. To address these challenges, we present a novel personalized vision-language model (VLM) that integrates low-level visual artifact analysis and high-level semantic inconsistency detection. Unlike previous VLM-based methods, our approach avoids resource-intensive supervised fine-tuning that often struggles to preserve distinct identity characteristics. Instead, we employ a lightweight method that dynamically encodes identity-specific information into specialized identifier tokens. This design enables the model to learn distinct identity characteristics while maintaining robust generalization capabilities. We further enhance detection capabilities through a lightweight detection adapter that extracts fine-grained information from shallow features of the vision encoder, preserving critical low-level evidence. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our approach achieves 94.25% accuracy and 94.08% F1 score, outperforming both traditional forgery detectors and general VLMs while requiring only 10 extra tokens.

Identity-Aware Vision-Language Model for Explainable Face Forgery Detection

Geometry Problem Solving has become a hot topic these years due to its complexity of enabling the machine with geometric abstraction, multi-modal reasoning and mathematical capabilities. Majority of research works place their attention on the fusion of multi-modal data or the synergistic combination of neural and symbolic systems for performance improvement. However, their neglect of the unique characteristics of geometric diagrams, which distinguish them from natural images, impedes the further exploring of critical information in geometric diagrams. In this work, we introduce the novel concept of geo-graph and propose the Geo-Graph Geometry Problem Solving model which encodes the geometric diagram from a new perspective. The geo-graph is designed to include semantic, structural and spatial information in the diagram, which is crucial to subsequent problem reasoning stage. To facilitate the model's comprehension of the actual layout of geometric diagram, spatial and connecting attentions are devised to serve as intrinsic knowledge guidance for feature propagation. An extra cross-modal attention is used as external guidance to instruct the encoding of geo-graph to be related to specific problem target. Fused multi-modal features are then sent into a commonly used encoder-decoder framework for final solution generation.
The model is first trained with three carefully designed pre-training tasks to establish its fundamental knowledge of geo-graph, leveraging numerous varied samples generated through a geo-graph-based augmentation method. Experiments on popular geometry problem solving datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our model for geometric diagram encoding. Code is provided in supplementary material and will be released.

Encode Geometric Diagram as Geo-Graph in Geometry Problem Solving

Aerial object detection faces significant challenges in real-world scenarios, such as small objects and extensive background interference, which limit the performance of RGB-based detectors with insufficient discriminative information. Multispectral images (MSIs) capture additional spectral cues across multiple bands, offering a promising alternative. However, the lack of training data has been the primary bottleneck to exploiting the potential of MSIs. To address this gap, we introduce the first large-scale dataset for Multispectral Object Detection in Aerial images (MODA), which comprises 14,041 MSIs and 330,191 annotations across diverse, challenging scenarios, providing a comprehensive data foundation for this field. Furthermore, to overcome challenges inherent to aerial object detection using MSIs, we propose OSSDet, a framework that integrates spectral and spatial information with object-aware cues. OSSDet employs a cascaded spectral-spatial modulation structure to optimize target perception, aggregates spectrally related features by exploiting spectral similarities to reinforce intra-object correlations, and suppresses irrelevant regions via object-aware masking. Moreover, cross-spectral attention further refines object-related representations under explicit object-aware guidance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that OSSDet outperforms existing methods with comparable parameters and efficiency.

MODA: The First Challenging Benchmark for Multispectral Object Detection in Aerial Images

The increasing demand for AR/VR applications has highlighted the need for high-quality content, such as 360$\\degree$ live wallpapers. 
However, generating high-quality 360$\\degree$ panoramic contents remains a challenging task due to the severe distortions introduced by equirectangular projection (ERP).
Existing approaches either fine-tune pretrained diffusion models on limited ERP datasets or adopt tuning-free methods that still rely on ERP latent representations, often resulting in distracting distortions near the poles.
In this paper, we introduce *SphereDiff*, a novel approach for synthesizing 360$\\degree$ static and live wallpaper with state-of-the-art diffusion models without additional tuning. 
We define a spherical latent representation that ensures consistent quality across all perspectives, including near the poles.
Then, we extend MultiDiffusion to spherical latent representation and propose a dynamic spherical latent sampling method to enable direct use of pretrained diffusion models.
Moreover, we introduce distortion-aware weighted averaging to further improve the generation quality.
Our method outperforms existing approaches in generating 360$\\degree$ static and live wallpaper, making it a robust solution for immersive AR/VR applications.

SphereDiff: Tuning-free 360° Static and Dynamic Panorama Generation via Spherical Latent Representation

Social bot detection is pivotal for safeguarding the integrity of online information ecosystems. Although recent graph neural network (GNN) solutions achieve strong results, they remain hindered by two practical challenges: (i) severe class imbalance arising from the high cost of generating bots, and (ii) topological noise introduced by bots that skillfully mimic human behavior and forge deceptive links. We propose the Reinforcement-guided graph Augmentation social Bot detector (RABot), a multi-granularity graph-augmentation framework that addresses both issues in a unified manner. RABot employs a neighborhood-aware oversampling strategy that linearly interpolates minority-class embeddings within local subgraphs, thereby stabilizing the decision boundary under low-resource regimes. Concurrently, a reinforcement-learning-driven edge-filtering module combines similarity-based edge features with adaptive threshold optimization to excise spurious interactions during message passing, yielding a cleaner topology. Extensive experiments on three real-world benchmarks and four GNN backbones demonstrate that RABot consistently surpasses state-of-the-art baselines. In addition, since its augmentation and filtering modules are orthogonal to the underlying architecture, RABot can be seamlessly integrated into existing GNN pipelines to boost performance with minimal overhead.

RABot: Reinforcement-Guided Graph Augmentation for Imbalanced and Noisy Social Bot Detection

Autonomous agents in safety-critical applications must continuously adapt to dynamic conditions without compromising performance and reliability. Traditional approaches that rely on policy adaptation mechanisms have inherent limitations: symbolic approaches lack flexibility due to rigid structures, while reinforcement learning approaches incur costly retraining. The more recent approaches use end-to-end large language models (LLMs), which, despite enhanced adaptiveness, suffer from unacceptable inference latency and vulnerabilities, such as hallucinations that undermine real-time reliability. This work proposes $\textbf{TAPA}$ ($\textbf{T}$raining-free $\textbf{A}$daptation of $\textbf{P}$rogrammatic $\textbf{A}$gents), a framework that re-positions LLMs as intelligent action space moderators rather than direct decision-makers, enabling training-free action adaptation in evolving environments. TAPA decouples strategic intent from execution through logical primitive abstraction, allowing meta-agents to operate in an interpretable way over abstract, high-level actions. In the meantime, LLMs dynamically synthesize and adapt programs for the high-level actions, in order to respond promptly and correctly to environmental changes. In particular, our framework constructs program pools via a multi-scenario simulation with provenance chains, mitigating the scarcity of program samples in safety-critical domains, thereby facilitating program retrieval for familiar scenarios and generation for unseen situations. Extensive experiments across diverse complex domains validate TAPA's effectiveness, achieving optimal network uptime in cybersecurity and maintaining formation consensus in swarm intelligence tasks. This work promotes a paradigm shift for autonomous system design in evolving environments, from policy adaptation to dynamic action adaptation.

Tapas Are Free! Training-Free Adaptation of Programmatic Agents via LLM-Guided Program Synthesis in Dynamic Environments

Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithms (SAEAs) are widely used for expensive Black-Box Optimization. However, their reliance on rigid, manually designed components such as infill criteria and evolutionary strategies during the search process limits their flexibility across tasks. To address these limitations, we propose Dual-Control Bi-Space Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm (DB-SAEA), a Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) framework tailored for multi-objective problems. DB-SAEA learns a meta-policy that jointly regulates candidate generation and infill criterion selection, enabling dual control. The bi-space Exploratory Landscape Analysis (ELA) module in DB-SAEA adopts an attention-based architecture to capture optimization states from both true and surrogate evaluation spaces, while ensuring scalability across problem dimensions, population sizes, and objectives. Additionally, we integrate TabPFN as the surrogate model for accurate and efficient prediction with uncertainty estimation. The framework is trained via reinforcement learning, leveraging parallel sampling and centralized training to enhance efficiency and transferability across tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that DB-SAEA not only outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across diverse benchmarks, but also exhibits strong zero-shot transfer to unseen tasks with higher-dimensional settings. This work introduces the first MetaBBO framework with dual-level control over SAEAs and a bi-space ELA that captures surrogate model information.

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