Acute Stroke Classification Using Asymmetric Data Standardization and Orthogonal-Focal Loss Optimized CNN-ViT Cross-Attention Fusion: A Multicenter External Validation Study

3 días 12 horas ago
arXiv:2610.34529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background/Objectives: Rapid differentiation of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke subtypes is vital for acute management. Although current deep learning models achieve high single-dataset accuracy, they suffer from "shortcut learning" and domain shift in external validation. This study proposes a hierarchical computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) system mimicking emergency triage. Methods: We introduce a 3-channel Radiology-Focused Preprocessing pipeline that feeds radiological Hounsfield Unit (HU) windows into Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT) backbones via asymmetric formats (.mat and .png). The architecture utilizes a novel joint cross-attention fusion network optimized by an Integrated Orthogonal-Focal Loss. Results: Our system achieved a 95.48% F1-score on the internal stroke dataset. However, multi-center external validation (AISD, BHSD, PhysioNet) using a Mask Anchor filter revealed a drop to the 58-62% range, exposing the "internal validation illusion" caused by hardware noise. Critically, models exhibited high precision (77%) but low sensitivity (57%) for ischemic stroke, proving prone to hemorrhage overdiagnosis. Multi-seed variance analysis demonstrated that the DenseNet201+ViT backbone yielded the lowest deviation (0.59) and highest stability, making it the most reliable architecture for real-world clinical integration. Conclusions: To overcome diagnostic challenges, future research must focus on multimodal architectures that combine 3D volumetric extraction with clinical data.
Tansel Uyar

Conviction Without Evidence: Verdict Stability Is Independent of Visual Grounding in Medical Vision--Language Models

3 días 12 horas ago
arXiv:2610.34520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision--language models applied to medical question answering can reach correct diagnoses without using the diagnostic image, inferring instead from the clinical vignette. We ask whether this is visible in how \emph{firmly} a model holds its answer: does a model defend a diagnosis derived from a blank placeholder as tenaciously as one derived from a real medical image? Crossing an image-substitution protocol with two levels of adversarial pressure on 60 Italian State Examination items, we find no evidence that ungrounded verdicts are more fragile. In a paired item-level analysis, fabricated consensus (L4) overturns 94.4\% of verdicts with the real image and 98.1\% without ($\Delta = +0.037$; one-sided 95\% upper bound $+0.105$); contentless doubt (L1) overturns 62.5\% and 51.8\% ($\Delta = -0.107$, 95\% CI $[-0.209, -0.001]$), the point estimate running opposite to the direction a grounding detector requires. The two levels nonetheless produce opposite \emph{dynamics}: under L4 the model flips once, always to the exact option argued for (110/110 first-turn flips), and then freezes, averaging 1.9 verdict changes over ten turns; under L1 it never settles, averaging 7.4 changes. Instability under contentless doubt tracks intrinsic item ambiguity rather than evidence availability, and so does not serve as a grounding signal. Flips are almost entirely corrupting (99/100 across both levels). The model is not unaware of the missing evidence---it flags the blank image at baseline on 35 of 60 items and abstains on 4--6---yet those abstentions do not survive contact with pressure. None of the epistemic signals a user could plausibly consult distinguishes a grounded diagnosis from a confabulated one.
Federico Felizzi, Francesco Andrea Causio, Bianca Destro Castaniti, Olivia Riccomi, Michele Ferramola, Vittorio De Vita, Alessandro Tosi, Antonio Cristiano, Alessia Longo, Lorenzo De Mori, Chiara Battipaglia, Melissa Sawaya, Luigi De Angelis, Marcello Di…

TRIAGE: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Inference Needs Both Reuse and Pruning

3 días 12 horas ago
arXiv:2610.34519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models are increasingly used for robot manipulation because they map camera images and a language instruction directly to actions. Robots that cannot be tethered to a workstation, such as mobile manipulators and humanoids, must run them on onboard embedded boards, where the prefill latency of the language backbone grows with the hundreds of visual tokens processed at every control step. To meet real-time limits, training-free accelerators recompute only a subset of the visual tokens and skip the rest, either by pruning them or by reusing their cached key-value (KV) states. The two options save nearly the same computation, yet existing methods apply only one of them to every skipped token. Through a token-level diagnostic, we show that which option keeps the action closer to full recomputation depends on the token's drift, the change in its shallow-layer value since its cache was computed. On both backbones tested, reusing tokens below a drift threshold was no worse than pruning them, whereas beyond it, reuse yields up to 4.4x the action error of pruning; the same diagnostic calibrates this threshold per backbone. Building on this finding, we propose TRIAGE, which deems a cache valid when its drift is below this threshold and it is not too old. TRIAGE recomputes a fixed budget of tokens, prioritizing important tokens with invalid caches, reuses every other token with a valid cache, and prunes the rest; prune-only and reuse-only methods are the two extremes of this partition. Because the budget fixes the number of recomputed tokens, it directly sets the prefill latency. On LIBERO and SimplerEnv, TRIAGE stays within 3 pp of full recomputation in average success rate while cutting prefill latency on a Jetson AGX Orin by up to 48%, and with only 7% of visual tokens recomputed, it beats the strongest baseline by 24.4 pp on LIBERO-Object.
Sooyoung Kwon, Carlee Joe-Wong, Kyunghan Lee

The Price of Scale in Proactive Memory Recall

3 días 12 horas ago
arXiv:2610.34507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A long-lived assistant that brings up memories without being asked must decide at every turn whether anything in its store is worth an interruption. We show that this decision is a multiple-testing problem whose difficulty grows with the store size $N$. On streaming replays of LongMemEval and LoCoMo, a similarity threshold tuned to 5% false alarms at $N=8$ reaches 87-100% at $N=2048$, across embedding models and for explicit and implicit cues; LLM judges show the same growth from a lower base. We prove that a gate with false-alarm rate $\alpha$ operates at a per-item false-positive rate of about $-\ln(1-\alpha)/N$, which pins its hit rate to the far left of the single-comparison ROC curve and, under regular variation, makes it decay as a power of $N$ with an explicit constant. The resulting prediction matches the hit rate of a per-$N$ oracle threshold to within one percentage point. The analysis explains why lexical and semantic channels need thresholds growing like $\ln N$ and $\sqrt{\ln N}$, and why per-cue normalisation roughly doubles the hit rate at matched false alarms. A cue-swap conformal gate, which compares the current cue with the user's other cues on the same store, needs no labels and has a finite-sample false-alarm guarantee under exchangeability; on LongMemEval it holds false alarms near 5% at the hit rate of a label-tuned threshold. Three annotators (Fleiss' $\kappa=0.63$) find that about nine in ten false alarms are genuine interruptions. Code and data: https://github.com/RiverChenStillCompiling/price-of-scale
Yichuan Chen, Xin Wang

Multimodal Requirements Traceability Link Recovery in Industrial Settings

3 días 12 horas ago
arXiv:2610.34503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Requirements traceability links support activities such as change-impact analysis, coverage checking, and validation. Industrial requirements can include traceable images, which text-only approaches cannot process directly. For a fixed classifier configuration, binary decisions alone offer no direct way to adjust the balance between missed and incorrect links. We extend a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approach for inter-requirements traceability link recovery (TLR). Our extension retrieves text and image candidates separately, classifies each retrieved pair with a vision-language model, and filters the predicted links by verbalized confidence. We evaluate our approach on three non-overlapping industrial requirement sets and six public text-only datasets. On the industrial test sets, our approach achieves an F1 score of 0.310, compared with 0.114 for our replication of the baseline approach by Hey et al. Our approach recovers links in all four modality combinations while improving text-only F1 on the industrial data and maintaining similar performance on the public datasets, but recovery remains limited by failures to retrieve related text requirements for image queries. Confidence filtering produces link sets with different precision and recall, removing false positives and some correctly recovered links from the unfiltered link set. This study provides industrial evidence on the potential and limitations of a current RAG-based TLR approach for multimodal requirements and identifies cross-modal retrieval as the component to prioritize in further optimization.
Haoming Huang, Shinpei Hayashi, Kazuya Kohata, Myeongki Kim, Yuki Kurihara

Certifying Distributionally Robust Decisions from Projection Observations

3 días 12 horas ago
arXiv:2610.34493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A scalar measurement can determine a robust decision without identifying the latent covariance or every decision risk. We study finite Gaussian projection experiments with a fixed mean-plus-standard-deviation target. The observation laws define a set of indistinguishable moment models. We exhibit decisions that agree throughout that set despite unidentified risk values, and give a confidence-set certificate that returns a decision or an unresolved outcome. We prove soundness, necessary abstention for indistinguishable models with incompatible optima, and a fixed-checkpoint certification guarantee. A scalar profile reduces nonlinear risk comparisons to convex inner problems. Across seven synthetic instances, jointly calibrated moment regions give sufficient budgets 21 to 52 times explicit expected-sample information lower bounds. Separately measured stopping times are lower, with zero decision errors in 1,900 simulated streams. These comparisons do not constitute matching bounds, and the guarantees require Gaussian replication.
Pouya Ahadi, Kamran Paynabar

Efficient Proof Generation for Lean Statements with Multiple Candidate Answers

3 días 12 horas ago
arXiv:2610.34490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In formal systems such as Lean 4, efficiently finding answers to mathematical problems and generating verifiable proofs is an important task in automated mathematical reasoning. In the traditional way where an upstream solver provides multiple candidate answers, the common workflow requires searching for proofs for each candidate separately, incurring redundant computational cost. To this end, we propose a joint proof framework that integrates candidate answer selection, answer supplementation, and formal proof generation into a unified reasoning process. At its core is a trained prover that selects given or proposes new answers and generates a proof for at least one answer in a single call. Joint proof can also reuse generated proofs to check for faithfulness errors. For problems with a unique answer, if two distinct answers both obtain verifiable proofs under the same formal statement, this confirms the statement does not faithfully preserve the original problem semantics. On MATH-500, AMC 2023, and AIME 2024/2025/2026, our framework achieves the same formal proof success rate as per-candidate proof generation with about one sixth of the token cost, and identifies at least 6.1% of the formalized statements as unfaithful without requiring additional judges. Our model and code are available at https://github.com/Linppz/Gobble-Prover.
Pengzhen Lin, Ke Zhang, Maziar Raissi, Zhouxing Shi

EvolveMAS: A Unified Self-Evolution Framework for Decentralized Multi-Agent Systems

3 días 12 horas ago
arXiv:2610.34450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralized multi-agent systems (MAS) enable large language model agents to interact without centralized control. Agents need to adapt to other agents at test time and reuse accumulated experience to refine their interaction strategies for future interactions across cooperative, mixed-motive, and adversarial settings. However, existing approaches often develop adaptation mechanisms for particular interaction settings. This raises a central question: how can decentralized MAS support test-time adaptation and reliable experience reuse across interaction settings? We propose EvolveMAS, a unified self-evolution framework that supports experience-driven adaptation within and across episodes. EvolveMAS pairs each main agent with a dedicated MemoryAgent for test-time memory governance, which maintains isolated Structured Memory outside the main agent's reasoning context. EvolveMAS organizes adaptation into two complementary processes: Within-Episode Online Adaptation and Cross-Episode Knowledge Evolution. During Within-Episode Online Adaptation, MemoryAgent updates episodic, semantic, and working memory from interaction evidence to inform subsequent actions. During Cross-Episode Knowledge Evolution, the main agent uses memory and episode outcomes to distill reusable interaction knowledge comprising partner profiles and interaction strategies for subsequent episodes. Across five benchmarks and six evaluation configurations spanning the three interaction settings, EvolveMAS achieves the highest normalized average score of 77.2 among the compared methods. Ablations show that test-time memory governance and cross-episode knowledge reuse both improve performance. Interaction traces further illustrate how updated memory and distilled knowledge guide subsequent interactions. These results support experience-driven adaptation in decentralized MAS without updating model parameters.
Yalun Wu, Qiwei Ma, Bingbing Xu, Dan Zhang, Long Bai, Boyang Wang, Jiatong Li, Zheqi Lv, Shaozu Yuan, Peiying Wang, Jiawei Wang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

CyberDual: AI Attackers versus AI Code Reviewers in Real Software Maintenance

3 días 12 horas ago
arXiv:2610.34435v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-source projects now let AI agents review incoming code, but the code under review may itself come from an AI attacker. We present CyberDual, an arena for this dual role of AI: attacker agents hide an exploitable bug in real maintenance work on widely used open-source projects, and reviewer agents try to find and repair it. Execution decides each match: we rerun the attacker's proof of concept (PoC) on the code that comes out of review. Every attack is new, and the windows can be rebuilt each quarter from the latest upstream history. Three agentic reviewers catch 85-91% of 1,088 valid attacks from six attackers. Yet when the attacker spreads the bug over real upstream commits, about one in six attack slots still ends with a working exploit after review. The strongest attacker has open weights: GLM 5.3 almost never refuses, and its attacks make up 13 of the 28 that get past all three reviewers. When they miss, Claude reviewers mostly approve the attack, while GPT-6-Sol mostly repairs the wrong code; a reviewer from a second vendor catches about two thirds of a Claude reviewer's misses. Beyond a leaderboard, CyberDual has three uses. First, PoC execution gives both sides a reward that agent reports cannot game, so its surviving attacks can train reviewers against stronger attackers. Second, it can gate a release on both scores: Claude Sonnet 5 refuses one in five attack slots, yet attacks about as well as GPT-6-Sol, so refusal alone does not remove attack capability. Third, it can warn the teams behind a deployed reviewer when a new attacker crosses a threshold: GLM 5.3 in Claude Code already gets an exploit past Sonnet 5 in 17% of its attack slots.
Chenyuan Yang, Hwiwon Lee, Jongseong Kim, Yihan Yang, Dongjun Kim, Yinfang Chen, Lingming Zhang

MulFCoder: Framework-conditioned Multi-agent for MLLM-based Multi-framework Front-end Code Generation

3 días 12 horas ago
arXiv:2610.34418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generating runnable front-end code from UI screenshots is a long-standing goal in automated software engineering. Existing MLLM-based methods predominantly focused on HTML/CSS, leaving multi-framework generation for React/Vue/Angular underexplored. Naively modifying prompts leads to substantial performance gaps across multi-framework and highly framework-specific error modes. To address this, we propose MulFCoder, a framework-conditioned multi-agent method that explicitly encodes framework constraints to bring multi-framework differences into a decidable rule space. MulFCoder orchestrates four agents: Grounder constructs an ElementTable, ContentTable, and macro-layout regions from detected UI elements; Planner builds a DOM-like hierarchical layout tree, produces a task schedule, and derives a framework-specific file Contract; Writer generates structured file writes or patches within a restricted edit window; Judger enforces lightweight, framework-conditioned constraints to accept or reject updates and trigger bounded repairs, preventing drift and deadlocks without expensive builds. Experiments demonstrate that MulFCoder substantially improves compilation success rate and reduces framework-specific errors, with particularly pronounced gains on Angular.
Jie Wu, Haoran Ma, Shisong Tang, Yulin Xu, Xiaoyu Kang, Jiechao Gao