Where Do Flow Semantics Reside? A Protocol-Native Tabular Pretraining Paradigm for Encrypted Traffic Classification

This paper addresses the failure of byte-sequence-based masked modeling in encrypted traffic classification by identifying a mismatch in inductive bias and proposing FlowSem-MAE, a protocol-native tabular masked autoencoder that leverages field-specific semantics and temporal patterns to significantly outperform existing methods with substantially less labeled data.

Sizhe Huang, Shujie Yang2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

OmniGuide: Universal Guidance Fields for Enhancing Generalist Robot Policies

OmniGuide is a universal framework that enhances the performance of generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies on complex tasks by integrating diverse guidance sources—such as 3D foundation models and human pose estimators—into a unified differentiable energy field that guides action sampling through task-specific attractors and repellers.

Yunzhou Song, Long Le, Yong-Hyun Park, Jie Wang, Junyao Shi, Lingjie Liu, Jiatao Gu, Eric Eaton, Dinesh Jayaraman, Kostas Daniilidis2026-03-12💻 cs

Cluster-Aware Attention-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Pickup and Delivery Problems

This paper proposes CAADRL, a cluster-aware deep reinforcement learning framework that leverages hierarchical encoding and a dynamic dual-decoder to efficiently solve Pickup and Delivery Problems by explicitly modeling multi-scale cluster structures, achieving state-of-the-art performance with significantly lower inference latency than collaborative-search baselines.

Wentao Wang, Lifeng Han, Guangyu Zou2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Quantization of Ricci Curvature in Information Geometry

This paper resolves a 20-year-old conjecture by proving that the volume-averaged Ricci scalar of binary Bayesian networks is universally quantized to positive half-integers for tree and complete-graph structures via a Beta function cancellation mechanism, while demonstrating that this quantization fails in general due to loop counterexamples and contrasting the positive curvature of discrete networks with the negative curvature of Gaussian DAGs.

Carlos C. Rodriguez2026-03-12🔢 math

Improving Search Agent with One Line of Code

This paper introduces Search Agent Policy Optimization (SAPO), a method that resolves catastrophic training instability in Tool-based Agentic Reinforcement Learning by applying a conditional token-level KL constraint to prevent Importance Sampling Distribution Drift, achieving significant performance gains with only a single line of code modification to standard GRPO.

Jian Li, Dongsheng Chen, Zhenhua Xu, Yizhang Jin, Jiafu Wu, Chengjie Wang, Xiaotong Yuan, Yabiao Wang2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Stochastic Port-Hamiltonian Neural Networks: Universal Approximation with Passivity Guarantees

This paper introduces Stochastic Port-Hamiltonian Neural Networks (SPH-NNs), a framework that parameterizes Hamiltonian systems with neural networks to enforce physical passivity and skew-symmetry constraints, thereby achieving universal approximation of stochastic dynamics with guaranteed energy stability and superior long-term performance compared to standard baselines.

Luca Di Persio, Matthias Ehrhardt, Youness Outaleb2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

A Survey of Weight Space Learning: Understanding, Representation, and Generation

This survey introduces "Weight Space Learning" as a unified framework that treats neural network weights as a structured, learnable domain, categorizing existing research into understanding, representation, and generation to enable advanced applications like model retrieval, continual learning, and data-free reconstruction.

Xiaolong Han, Zehong Wang, Bo Zhao, Binchi Zhang, Jundong Li, Damian Borth, Rose Yu, Haggai Maron, Yanfang Ye, Lu Yin, Ferrante Neri2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Equivariant Asynchronous Diffusion: An Adaptive Denoising Schedule for Accelerated Molecular Conformation Generation

This paper introduces Equivariant Asynchronous Diffusion (EAD), a novel model that combines the strengths of auto-regressive and synchronous approaches through an adaptive denoising schedule to effectively capture molecular hierarchy and achieve state-of-the-art 3D molecular conformation generation.

Junyi An, Chao Qu, Yun-Fei Shi, Zhijian Zhou, Fenglei Cao, Yuan Qi2026-03-12🧬 q-bio