Travel planning is a sophisticated decision-making process that requires synthesizing multifaceted information to construct itineraries. However, existing travel planning approaches face several challenges: (1) Pruning candidate points of interest (POIs) while maintaining a high recall rate; (2) A single reasoning path restricts the exploration capability within the feasible solution space for travel planning; (3) Simultaneously optimizing hard constraints and soft constraints remains a significant difficulty. To address these challenges, we propose TourPlanner, a comprehensive framework featuring multi-path reasoning […]

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After 35 years of multivendor storage work, I have learned that the real value is not slicing one box into smaller boxes. The real value is putting an intelligent control layer between applications and hardware so the business is no longer trapped by whichever vendor sold them the last shiny frame. Every few years, somebody asks a version of the same question: Is storage virtualization basically like VMware, where you take one piece of hardware and carve more […]

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arXiv:2601.00904v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Blind source separation, particularly through independent component analysis (ICA), is widely utilized across various signal processing domains for disentangling underlying components from observed mixed signals, owing to its fully data-driven nature that minimizes reliance on prior assumptions. However, conventional ICA methods rely on an assumption of linear mixing, limiting their ability to capture complex nonlinear relationships and to maintain robustness in noisy environments. In this work, we present deep deterministic nonlinear independent component […]

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Shadow AI—the unsanctioned use of artificial intelligence tools, models, or services within organisational processes—introduces governance, security, and privacy risks that extend beyond traditional shadow IT. This communication proposes a practical framework to (i) define and classify shadow AI use cases, (ii) detect shadow AI activity through multi-layer technical signals, and (iii) govern risk through an obligations-to-evidence mapping that supports compliance and auditability. The framework aims to balance innovation and productivity with proportionate controls, offering clear remediation paths (block, […]

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arXiv:2601.15308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extended Reality (XR), including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, provides immersive and interactive experiences across diverse applications, from VR-based education to AR-based assistance and MR-based training. However, widespread XR adoption remains limited due to two key challenges: 1) the high cost and complexity of authoring 3D content, especially for large-scale environments or complex interactions; and 2) the steep learning curve associated with non-intuitive interaction methods like handheld controllers or scripted gestures. Generative AI […]

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arXiv:2507.04341v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While continuous diffusion models excel in modeling continuous distributions, their application to categorical data has been less effective. Recent work has shown that ratio-matching through score-entropy within a continuous-time discrete Markov chain (CTMC) framework serves as a competitive alternative to autoregressive models in language modeling. To enhance this framework, we first introduce three new theorems concerning the KL divergence between the data and learned distribution. Our results serve as the discrete counterpart to […]

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In the modern microservice environment, library dependencies for inter-system communication have become bloated, and conflicts and complications during build and operation have become problems. In particular, in the conventional communication architecture that depends on the MySQL database, the multi-layer dependencies included in texttt{libmysqlclient} restrict the flexibility of system design. In this study, a replication-protocol-compatible patch was applied to the lightweight MySQL client library Trilogy, and a loosely coupled, low-footprint IPC library connecting the control plane and the data […]

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Post-training of large language models routinely interleaves supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with reinforcement learning (RL). These two methods have different objectives: SFT minimizes the cross-entropy loss between model outputs and expert responses, while RL maximizes reward signals derived from human preferences or rule-based verifiers. Modern reasoning models have widely adopted the practice of alternating SFT and RL training. However, there is no theoretical account of whether they can be decoupled. We prove that decoupling is impossible in either order: […]

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arXiv:2603.20291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, the challenge of resilient vehicular communications is investigated for a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) wireless link subject to timing jitter induced by the stochastic evolution of interference and inter-vehicular separation dynamics. To characterize the dynamic behavior of V2V systems under the influence of multiple stochastic deterioration processes, this work presents a novel mathematical framework for modeling and mitigating transmission delay jitter in V2V communication systems. A limit-state indicator is introduced to capture […]

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