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Despite the rapid progress of deep learning in video action recognition (VAR) in recent years, privacy leakage in videos remains a critical concern. Current state-of-the-art privacy-preserving methods often rely on anonymization. These methods suffer from (1) low concealment, where producing visually distorted videos that attract attackers’ attention during transmission, and (2) spatiotemporal disruption, where degrading essential spatiotemporal features for accurate VAR. To address these issues, we propose StegaVAR, a novel framework that embeds action videos into ordinary cover videos and directly performs VAR in the steganographic domain for the first time. Throughout both data transmission and action analysis, the spatiotemporal information of hidden secret video remains complete, while the natural appearance of cover videos ensures the concealment of transmission. Considering the difficulty of steganographic domain analysis, we propose Secret Spatio-Temporal Promotion (STeP) and Cross-Band Difference Attention (CroDA) for analysis within the steganographic domain. STeP uses the secret video to guide spatiotemporal feature extraction in the steganographic domain during training. CroDA suppresses cover interference by capturing cross-band semantic differences. Experiments demonstrate that StegaVAR achieves superior VAR and privacy-preserving performance on widely used datasets. Moreover, our framework is effective for multiple steganographic models. The codes will be released soon.

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StegaVAR: Privacy-Preserving Video Action Recognition via Steganographic Domain Analysis

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Multi-view 3D detection with bird’s eye view (BEV) is crucial for autonomous driving and robotics, but its robustness in real-world is limited as it struggles to predict accurate depth values. A mainstream solution, cross-modal distillation, transfers depth information from LiDAR to camera models but also unintentionally transfers depth-irrelevant information (e.g. LiDAR density). To mitigate this issue, we propose RayD3D, which transfers crucial depth knowledge along the ray: a line projecting from the camera to true location of an object. It is based on the fundamental imaging principle that predicted location of this object can only vary along this ray, which is finally determined by predicted depth value. Therefore, distilling along the ray enables more effective depth information transfer. More specifically, we design two ray-based distillation modules. Ray-based Contrastive Distillation (RCD) incorporates contrastive learning into distillation by sampling along the ray to learn how LiDAR accurately locates objects. Ray-based Weighted Distillation (RWD) adaptively adjusts distillation weight based on the ray to minimize the interference of depth-irrelevant information in LiDAR. For validation, we widely apply RayD3D into three representative types of BEV-based models, including BEVDet, BEVDepth4D, and BEVFormer. Our method is trained on clean NuScenes, and tested on both clean NuScenes and RoboBEV with a variety types of data corruptions. Our method significantly improves the robustness of all the three base models in all scenarios without increasing inference costs, and achieves the best when compared to recently released multi-view and distillation models.

RayD3D: Distilling Depth Knowledge Along the Ray for Robust Multi-View 3D Object Detection

Few-shot image classification (FSIC) aims to recognize novel categories from only a few labeled examples, making it inherently challenging under limited supervision. Existing approaches have attempted to alleviate this issue by incorporating explicit semantics like class names or knowledge graphs to guide learning. However, such methods often encounter semantic ambiguity due to their dependence on either overly simplistic semantic priors or resource-intensive external knowledge sources, which limits their potential. In this paper, we explore the frequency domain as an implicit and task-adaptive source of semantic information. We propose F2SST, a Frequency-to-Spatial Semantic Transfer framework that enhances feature learning by leveraging spectral signals as hidden semantics. Specifically, F2SST applies Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to extract phase-invariant global frequency descriptors, followed by a lightweight Gated Spectral Attention (GSA) module that selectively emphasizes class-relevant frequency components. These enhanced spectral cues are then integrated into the spatial stream through a class-guided fusion mechanism, enabling more robust and semantically aligned representations. Extensive experiments on four standard benchmarks—miniImageNet, tieredImageNet, CIFAR-FS, and FC100—demonstrate that F2SST consistently improves performance, validating the effectiveness of frequency-domain semantics in FSIC.

F2SST: Frequency-to-Spatial Semantic Transfer for Few-Shot Image Classification

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled broad progress in the general medical field. However, pathology still remains a more challenging sub-domain, with current pathology-specific VLMs exhibiting limitations in both diagnostic accuracy and reasoning plausibility. Such shortcomings are largely attributable to the nature of current pathology datasets, which are primarily composed of image–description pairs that lack the depth and structured diagnostic paradigms employed by real-world pathologists. In this study, we leverage pathology textbooks and real-world pathology experts to construct high-quality, reasoning-oriented datasets. Building on this, we introduce Patho-R1, a multimodal RLbased pathology Reasoner, trained through a three-stage pipeline: (1) continued pretraining on 3.5 million image-text pairs for knowledge infusion; (2) supervised fine-tuning on 500k high-quality Chain-of-Thought samples for reasoning incentivizing; (3) reinforcement learning using Group Relative Policy Optimization and Decoupled Clip and Dynamic sAmpling Policy Optimization strategies for multimodal reasoning quality refinement. To further assess the alignment quality of our dataset, we propose Patho-CLIP, trained on the same figure-caption corpus used for continued pretraining. Comprehensive experimental results demonstrate that both Patho-CLIP and Patho-R1 achieve robust performance across a wide range of pathology-related tasks, including zero-shot classification, cross-modal retrieval, Visual Question Answering, and Multiple Choice Question.

Patho-R1: A Multimodal Reinforcement Learning-Based Pathology Expert Reasoner

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly pushed the frontier of egocentric video question answering (EgocentricQA). However, existing benchmarks and studies are mainly limited to common daily activities such as cooking and cleaning. In contrast, real-world deployment inevitably encounters domain shifts, where target domains differ substantially in both visual style and semantic content. To bridge this gap, we introduce EgoCross, a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate the cross-domain generalization of MLLMs in EgocentricQA. EgoCross covers four diverse and challenging domains, including surgery, industry, extreme sports, and animal perspective, representing realistic and high-impact application scenarios. It comprises approximately 1,000 QA pairs across 798 video clips, spanning four key QA tasks: prediction, recognition, localization, and counting. Each QA pair provides both OpenQA and CloseQA formats to support fine-grained evaluation. Extensive experiments show that most existing MLLMs, whether general-purpose or egocentric-specialized, struggle to generalize to domains beyond daily life, highlighting the limitations of current models. Furthermore, we conduct several pilot studies, e.g., fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, to explore potential improvements. We hope EgoCross and our accompanying analysis will serve as a foundation for advancing domain-adaptive, robust egocentric video understanding.
Data and codes will be released.

EgoCross: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Cross-Domain Egocentric Video Question Answering

Emerging from recent advances in foundation models, Large Wireless Models (LWMs) represent a new paradigm of general-purpose intelligence for wireless communications that transcends task-specific engineering. The success of foundation models is critically underpinned by scaling laws, which provide a predictable roadmap for how performance scales with resources. However, established scaling laws from language and vision, charting performance as a power-law of model and dataset sizes, are ill-suited for the wireless domain, as their core formulations cannot model the structured nature of the physical channel. To address this, we propose a novel wireless scaling law that extends the classical formulation by modeling two wireless-native factors: channel heterogeneity and discretization granularity. These two factors reshape scaling behavior via nested linear and power-law relationships, recasting the scaling law's parameters (notably the scaling exponent and irreducible loss) from universal constants into dynamic variables dictated by the physical environment. Our physics-aware formulation reveals two key insights: first, that compute-optimal scaling is not dictated by a fixed model-data ratio but is instead a dynamic function of heterogeneity and granularity, and second, that this dependency is particularly sensitive to granularity, allowing significant performance to be unlocked from existing data simply by refining its resolution. Crucially, this establishes a reliable roadmap for designing powerful yet resource-efficient LWMs, translating theoretical insights into actionable engineering principles. Extensive experiments validate our wireless scaling law, showing a 32.31% prediction accuracy improvement over classical laws in diverse wireless scenarios where they fail.

Scaling Law for Large Wireless Models

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as the predominant paradigm for training large language model (LLM) agents to solve complex, multi-step tasks through environmental interaction. A fundamental challenge in such long-horizon scenarios is credit assignment, as delayed rewards provide inadequate signals for evaluating individual action contributions. 
Existing methods typically neglect trajectory transition dynamics, which leads to coarse-grained or biased credit assignment.
To address these limitations, we introduce SHADOW, a novel framework that systematically incorporates transition dynamics for improved credit assignment. Our framework makes two primary contributions: (i) a dynamics-aware state grouping mechanism that mitigates misleading action comparisons between dynamically inconsistent states, and (ii) a local dynamic advantage estimator that leverages Generalized Advantage Estimation (GAE) to precisely quantify individual action contributions through a fine-grained analysis of transition patterns. 
Comprehensive experiments conducted with the Qwen2.5-1.5/7B-Instruct agent model demonstrate that our method achieves success rate improvements of 9.4\%/7.6\% on the ALFworld benchmark and a performance gain of over 5\% on WebShop.

SHADOW: Dynamic-Aware Credit Assignment Against Long-Horizon Tasks

Generative LLMs typically improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance through instruction tuning. They excel at generating entities by semantic pattern matching but lack an explicit, verifiable reasoning mechanism. This ``cognitive shortcutting'' leads to suboptimal performance and brittle generalization, especially in zero-shot and low-resource scenarios where reasoning from limited contextual cues is crucial.
To address this problem, a reasoning framework is proposed for NER, which shifts the extraction paradigm from implicit pattern matching to explicit reasoning. This framework consists of three stages: Chain-of Thought (CoT) generation, CoT tuning, and reasoning enhancement. First, a dataset annotated with NER-oriented CoTs is generated, which contain task-relevant reasoning chains. Then, they are used to tune the NER model to generate coherent rationales before deriving the final answer. Finally, a reasoning enhancement stage is implemented to optimize the reasoning process using a comprehensive reward signal. This stage ensures explicit and verifiable extractions.
Experiments show that ReasoningNER demonstrates impressive cognitive ability in the NER task, achieving competitive performance. In zero-shot settings, it achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance, outperforming GPT-4 by $12.3$ percentage points on the F1 score. Analytical results also demonstrate its great potential to advance research in reasoning-oriented information extraction.

A Reasoning Paradigm for Named Entity Recognition

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a powerful technique for real-time novel view synthesis, using explicit, end-to-end optimized 3D Gaussians to represent scenes. However, its training objective is primarily based on pixel-wise photometric loss, and its densification strategy fails to account for structural consistency and localized perceptual priorities. As a result, 3DGS struggles to capture fine textures and boundary details in underconstrained areas, leading to inefficient use of representational capacity and degraded rendering quality in critical regions.
To overcome this limitation, we introduce TileGS, a tile-wise, perceptually guided framework designed to refine scene representation based on local rendering quality. Our method features a tile-guided densification approach that performs per-tile perceptual analysis between rendered and ground-truth tiles to identify areas and Gaussians requiring refinement. Additionally, we incorporate a tile-level structural loss to enforce localized consistency during training.
TileGS is designed to be a plug-and-play framework, seamlessly integrating into existing 3DGS pipelines with minimal adjustments. Experiments across multiple datasets demonstrate that TileGS improves rendering quality while maintaining an efficient representation, showcasing its versatility and effectiveness in diverse rendering scenarios.

TileGS: Adaptive Gaussian Densification Through Tile-Guided Perceptual Analysis

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown significant potential in surgical scene analysis, yet existing models are limited by frame-level datasets and lack high-quality video data with procedural surgical knowledge. To address these challenges, we make the following contributions: (i) SurgPub-Video, a comprehensive dataset of over 3,000 surgical videos and 25 million annotated frames across 11 specialties, sourced from peer-reviewed clinical journals, (ii) SurgLLaVA-Video, a specialized VLM for surgical video understanding, built upon the TinyLLaVA-Video architecture that supports both video-level and frame-level inputs, and (iii) a video-level surgical Visual Question Answering (VQA) benchmark, covering diverse 11 surgical specialities, such as vascular, cardiology, and thoracic. Extensive experiments, conducted on the proposed benchmark and three additional surgical downstream tasks (action recognition, skill assessment, and triplet recognition), show that SurgLLaVA-Video significantly outperforms both general-purpose and surgical-specific VLMs with only three billion parameters. The dataset, model, and benchmark will be released to enable further advancements in surgical video understanding.

SurgPub-Video: A Comprehensive Surgical Video Framework for Enhanced Surgical Intelligence in Vision-Language Model

Masked image generation (MIG) has demonstrated remarkable efficiency and high-fidelity images by enabling parallel token prediction. Existing methods typically rely solely on the model itself to learn semantic dependencies among visual token sequences. However, directly learning such semantic dependencies from data is challenging because the individual tokens lack clear semantic meanings, and these sequences are usually long. To address this limitation, we propose a novel Knowledge-Augmented Masked Image Generation framework, named KA-MIG, which introduces explicit knowledge of token-level semantic dependencies (\emph{i.e.}, extracted from the training data) as priors to learn richer representations for improving performance. In particular, we explore and identify three types of advantageous token knowledge graphs, including two positive and one negative graphs (\emph{i.e.}, the co-occurrence graph, the semantic similarity graph, and the position-token incompatibility graph). Based on three prior knowledge graphs, we design a graph-aware encoder to learn token and position-aware representations. After that, a lightweight fusion mechanism is introduced to integrate these enriched representations into the existing MIG methods. Resorting to such prior knowledge, our method effectively enhances the model's ability to capture semantic dependencies, leading to improved generation quality. Experimental results demonstrate that our method improves upon existing MIG for class-conditional image generation on ImageNet.

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