arXiv AI

Fed-Universe: A Semantic-Geometric-Topological-Human (S-G-T-H) Stack for Negotiated Alignment in Federated Systems

Fed-Universe introduces a Semantic‑Geometric‑Topological‑Human (S‑G‑T‑H) architecture for federated learning that replaces passive averaging with an active negotiation for decentralized alignment. The S‑layer uses an edge‑capable LLM to standardize heterogeneous inputs, the G‑layer applies geometric quality assurance to preserve minority updates, the T‑layer employs topological Pareto control to balance multi‑objective aggregation, and the H‑layer adapts to users’ real‑time psychological states via a cognitive twin dynamic. In a binational synthetic clinical network simulation, the framework enabled a minority node (<3% data) to achieve utility parity with dominant hubs, reducing its loss from 0.857 to 0.340.

arXiv AI
Jun 4

A Unified Geometric Space for Topological Alignment Between Transformer-Based Models and Human Brain Networks

arXiv:2510. 24342v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prior brain-AI alignment studies are typically constrained by specific inputs and tasks, limiting their ability to capture organizational properties across models with different modalities.

By Silin Chen, Yuzhong Chen, Caiwei Wang, Zifan Wang, Junhao Wang, Zifeng Jia, Keith M Kendrick, Tuo Zhang, Lin Zhao, Dezhong Yao, Tianming Liu, Xi Jiang
arXiv AI
Sep 16

HoloAegis: Frozen Representation, Topological Inference --- Minimally Parametric Safety Manifolds and Their Capability Boundaries for LLM Guardrails

HoloAegis is a minimally parametric topological inference framework that uses frozen representations to map text onto the unit sphere and makes decisions via Gibbs‑Boltzmann free‑energy differences over pre‑computed anchor centroids. On a frozen three‑benchmark protocol, it matches WildGuard‑7B on toxicity, outperforms it on harmful behaviors, but underperforms on oversafety detection, while ShieldGemma‑2B fails on indirect harms. The study demonstrates that geometric guardrails can substitute for LLM judges in some cases and must defer to them in others, with anchor banks reducing score variance and boundary displacement.

By Tak Ho Alex Li, Kaijie Liu, Lik-Hang Lee, Kin Chung Ho, Ping Shum, Michael K. Ng
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

Toward Federated Multimodal Graph Foundation Models: A Topology-Aware Multimodal Alignment Framework

arXiv:2607. 15687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal-attributed graphs (MAGs), whose nodes carry modalities such as images and text alongside topological structure, now pervade applications including social platforms, e-commerce, and biomedical networks, offering richer semantic signals than single-modality graphs.

By Xunkai Li, Guohao Fu, Yuming Ai, Zhengyu Wu, Hongchao Qin, Rong-Hua Li, Guoren Wang
arXiv AI
Oct 31

Aligning Medical Vision Language Models at the Capability Boundary with Entropy Adaptive Rubric Grounding

The paper introduces MedCBR, a two‑stage alignment framework for medical vision‑language models that improves diagnostic reasoning at the capability boundary. First, it uses Difficulty Weighted Boundary Preference Optimization (DBPO) to focus learning on counterfactual boundary cases, and second, it applies Entropy Gated Grounded Policy Optimization (EGPO) to reward anatomical grounding and reasoning fidelity while mitigating rubric noise. Experiments on six medical benchmarks demonstrate consistent accuracy gains, especially on challenging differential diagnosis tasks, with the combined stages delivering super‑additive improvements.

By Hongyu Bai, Jiaqi Zeng, Chunzheng Zhu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 17

MedMix: Specialization-Consistent Federated Sparse MoEs under Modality Heterogeneity

arXiv:2608. 13911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated multimodal medical AI faces modality heterogeneity at both the client and sample levels: clients may systematically lack access to specific modality types, while individual records within the same client may contain different partial modality subsets.

By Adiba Orzikulova, Dong Min Kim, Jaehong Yoon, Sung-Ju Lee