5 papers
Analog Cosmology in a Quenched Bose-Einstein Condensate Bubble
Ruotong Zhai, Brendan Rhyno, Zain Mehdi +3
Recent interest and realization of ultracold bosons confined in shell-shaped, or bubble, traps have opened up several directions in the study of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in…
AgentPersonaBench: Benchmarking Persona-Driven User Simulation
Jintao Huang, Yifan Wang, Hongyu Shen +43
We introduce AgentPersonaBench (APB), a benchmark evaluating whether persona conditioning faithfully steers downstream agent behavior. While language models are increasingly deploy…
Recommender System as Slow and Fast Thinkers
Zichen Yuan, Xiaoxuan Dong, Linkun Dai +8
Sequential recommendation models are foundational to modern personalized services, yet their effectiveness varies substantially across heterogeneous user environments. In particula…
SONAR: Self-Distilled Continual Pre-training for Domain Adaptive Audio Representation
Yizhou Zhang, Yuan Gao, Wangjin Zhou +3
Self-supervised learning (SSL) on large-scale datasets like AudioSet has become the dominant paradigm for audio representation learning. While the continuous influx of new, unlabel…
Video and Audio are Images: A Cross-Modal Mixer for Original Data on Video-Audio Retrieval
Zichen Yuan, Qi Shen, Bingyi Zheng +3
Cross-modal retrieval has become popular in recent years, particularly with the rise of multimedia. Generally, the information from each modality exhibits distinct representations…