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Scene understanding and reasoning has been a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision, requiring models to identify objects, their properties, and spatial or comparative relationships among the objects. Existing approaches enable this by creating scene graphs using multiple inputs such as 2D images, depth maps, object labels, and annotated relationships from specific reference view. However, these methods often struggle with generalization and produce inaccurate spatial relationships like "left/right", which become inconsistent across different viewpoints. To address these limitations, we propose Viewpoint-Invariant ZerO-shot scene graph generation for 3D scene Reasoning (VIZOR). VIZOR is a training-free, end-to-end framework that constructs dense, viewpoint-invariant 3D scene graphs directly from raw 3D scenes. The generated scene graph is unambiguous, as spatial relationships are defined relative to each object’s front-facing direction, making them consistent regardless of the reference view. Furthermore, it infers open-vocabulary relationships that describe spatial and proximity relationships among scene objects without requiring annotated training data. We conduct extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations to assess the effectiveness of VIZOR on scene graph generation and downstream tasks, such as query-based object grounding. VIZOR outperforms state-of-the-art methods, showing clear improvements in scene graph generation and achieving 22% and 4.81% gains in zero-shot grounding accuracy on the Replica and Nr3D datasets, respectively.

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Generating realistic human motions that naturally respond to both spoken language and physical objects is crucial for interactive digital experiences. Current methods, however, address speech-driven gestures or object interactions independently, limiting real-world applicability due to a lack of integrated, comprehensive datasets. To overcome this, we introduce InteracTalker, a novel framework that seamlessly integrates prompt-based object-aware interactions with co-speech gesture generation. We achieve this by employing a multi-stage training process to learn a unified motion, speech, and prompt embedding space. To support this, we curate a rich human-object interaction dataset, formed by augmenting an existing text-to-motion dataset with detailed object interaction annotations. Our framework utilizes a Generalized Motion Adaptation Module that enables independent training, adapting to the corresponding motion condition, which is then dynamically combined during inference. To address the imbalance between heterogeneous conditioning signals, we propose an adaptive fusion strategy, which dynamically reweights the conditioning signals during diffusion sampling. InteracTalker successfully unifies these previously separate tasks, outperforming prior methods in both co-speech gesture generation and object-interaction synthesis, outperforming gesture-focused diffusion methods, yielding highly realistic, object-aware full-body motions with enhanced realism, flexibility, and control.(https://sreeharirajan.github.io/projects/InteracTalker/)

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Early-stage fruit yield prediction plays a key role in supporting timely agronomic decisions, enhancing market planning, and empowering farmers with data-driven insights. Over the years, most approaches to yield estimation have focused on fruit counting techniques, typically performed just before harvest. While these methods have proven useful, they often come into play late in the cultivation cycle, limiting their impact on early planning and resource optimization. In this work, we introduce a comprehensive baseline framework for predicting mango yield at an earlier stage - during flowering - using image-based learning. Our contributions are twofold. (i) Our approach combines a SegFormer-based segmentation model with a regression pipeline to estimate yield from images, while also exploring the role of contextual features such as weather and scale. (ii) This work introduces a novel benchmark and an enriched dataset, paving the way for scalable, automated tools that can assist farmers and stakeholders in making proactive decisions throughout the mango growing season. Our work demonstrates that for multi-modal yield prediction, integrating features that complement visual representations (like scale) can be more impactful than using features with a stronger standalone linear correlation (like weather). Our single-image model, based on the SegFormer-B1 encoder, achieved a mean absolute error (MAE) of 7.68, R² of 0.76, and mean squared error (MSE) of 115.48. These results highlight the promise of vision-based models for yield estimation from early-stage flowering cues. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to address the prediction of mango yield using images from the flowering stage and weather data.

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Display advertising is one of the predominant modes of online advertising. Given a set of available ad slots on the web pages, a publisher makes efforts to allocate them to advertisers, satisfying their demand and maximizing their revenue. Investigating efficient approaches for ad slot allocation to advertisers is a research issue. Given a set of ad slots from different pages, advertisers aim to deliver the ad to a specified number of targeted users. Exposing a user repeatedly to the same ad may result in a potential loss of revenue for the publisher and create boredom for the user. There is an opportunity to improve the publisher’s revenue by ensuring that each ad slot allocated to an advertiser reaches a distinct number of users. In the literature, efforts are being made to address this problem by modeling it as an optimization problem. These approaches suffer from the issues of complexity and practicality. We approach the problem with the pattern-mining framework by employing the notions of “coverage” and “overlap”. In the proposed approach, we exploit the knowledge of coverage patterns extracted from click stream transactions and propose a comprehensive, efficient, and practical ad slot allocation framework. The experimental results on two real-world click stream datasets show that the proposed approach could improve the revenue of the publisher by meeting the demands of the increased number of advertisers by reducing the repeated display of advertisements to users.

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We use the spin-boson model to describe the dynamics of a two-level atom interacting with Fabry-Pérot cavity modes. We solve the Schrödinger equation for the system-bath model without the Born-Markov approximation to derive the non-Markovian reduced dynamics of the qubit. We further construct an exact Lindblad-type master equation for it. Similar to the quantum Otto cycle, we construct a non-Markovian quasicyclic process based on the atom-cavity interactions, which we call the quasi-Otto cycle. For judicious choices of input state and parameters, the quasicycle can be more efficient as a quantum engine than the Otto cycle. We also show that if the quasicycle is repeated multiple times, the efficiency of the quasi-Otto engine asymptotically approaches that of the Otto engine.

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Water scarcity and inefficient resource management present critical challenges, with conventional flow measurement techniques often relying on expensive and invasive methods. This work evaluates the performance of three low-cost pressure sensors (HK3022, MBS3000, and Series 21Y) for internet of things (IoT) and machine learning (ML) based water flow estimation. Tests were conducted in a closed-loop experimental setup across pressure ranges from 1.0 to 2.0 bar, generating over 8,640 pressure readings and 2,160 flow measurements. Sensor performance was assessed through pressure measurement accuracy metrics (RMSE and CV), and flow estimation reliability was assessed using five ML algorithms. Results demonstrate that all sensors achieve comparable flow estimation accuracy. While calibration improves absolute pressure measurement accuracy, it provides minimal advantage for flow estimation tasks. This low-cost, non-invasive approach offers a promising water monitoring solution that is accessible and economically viable.

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We present a unified approach for constraint displacement problems in which a robot finds a feasible path by displacing constraints or obstacles. To this end, we propose a two stage process that returns locally optimal obstacle displacements to enable a feasible path for the robot. The first stage proceeds by computing a trajectory through the obstacles while minimizing an appropriate objective function. In the second stage, these obstacles are displaced to make the computed robot trajectory feasible, that is, collision-free. Several examples are provided that successfully demonstrate our approach on two distinct classes of constraint displacement problems.

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Deep thermalization refers to the emergence of Haar-like randomness from quantum systems upon partial measurements. As a generalization of quantum thermalization, it is often associated with high complexity and entanglement. Here, we introduce computational deep thermalization and construct the fastest possible dynamics exhibiting it at infinite effective temperature. Our circuit dynamics produce quantum states with low entanglement in polylogarithmic depth that are indistinguishable from Haar random states to any computationally bounded observer. Importantly, the observer is allowed to request many copies of the same residual state obtained from partial projective measurements on the state—this condition is beyond the standard settings of quantum pseudorandomness but natural for deep thermalization. In cryptographic terms, these states are pseudorandom and pseudoentangled, and crucially, they retain these properties under local measurements. Our results demonstrate a new form of computational thermalization in which thermal-like behavior arises from structured quantum states endowed with cryptographic properties instead of from highly unstructured ensembles. The low resource complexity of preparing these states suggests scalable simulations of deep thermalization using quantum computers. Our Letter also motivates the study of computational quantum pseudorandomness beyond BQP observers.

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Certain types of quantum computing platforms, such as those realized using Rydberg atoms or Kerr-cat qubits, are natively more susceptible to Pauli-Z noise than Pauli-X noise, or vice versa. On such hardware, it is useful to ensure that computations use only gates that maintain the Z-bias (or X-bias) in the noise. This is so that quantum error-correcting codes tailored for biased-noise models can be used to provide fault-tolerance on these platforms. In this paper, we follow up on the recent work of Fellous-Asiani et al. (npj Quantum Inf., 2025) in studying the structure and properties of bias-preserving gates. Our main contributions are threefold: (1) We give a novel characterization of Z-bias-preserving gates based on their decomposition as a linear combination of Pauli operators. (2) We show that any Z-bias-preserving gate can be approximated arbitrarily well using only gates from the set {X,R_z(theta),CNOT,CCNOT}, where theta is any irrational multiple of 2pi. (3) We prove, by drawing a connection with coherence resource theory, that any Z-bias-preserving logical operator acting on the logical qubits of a Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) code can be realized by applying Z-bias-preserving gates on the physical qubits. Along the way, we also demonstrate that Z-bias-preserving gates are far from being universal for quantum computation.

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Air pollution represents one of the most critical environmental and public health challenges globally, with traditional sensor-based monitoring systems facing significant scalability and economic constraints. Image-based air quality estimation has emerged as a promising alternative, leveraging the visual characteristics of atmospheric pollutants in traffic scenes. However, existing methods suffer from limited cross-city generalization and inadequate exploitation of multi-view perspectives. We present AQIFormer, a novel transformer-based ensemble architecture that addresses these fundamental limitations through innovative dual-view integration, weather-aware attention mechanisms, and comprehensive multi-task learning. Our approach uniquely combines front and rear traffic imagery with meteorological parameters to achieve robust air quality classification across diverse urban environments. Extensive evaluation on a dataset of 26,678 synchronized front–rear image pairs demonstrates 89.96% accuracy, representing a 14.96% improvement over state-of-the-art methods. Most importantly, our model maintains exceptional cross-city generalization capabilities, achieving 81.67% accuracy on an independent dataset collected in Nagpur, India, with only 8.29% performance degradation using few-shot adaptation and minimal training samples.