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2026Address intelligence in e-commerce demands accurate geocoding and proactive defect detection under strict sub-50 ms latency constraints. These tasks are inherently coupled: precise spatial grounding provides a strong prior for defect propensity, yet prior approaches optimize them independently. While generative LLMs offer rich semantic representations, they lack spatial inductive bias and fail to meet real-time
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WSDM 20262026Anomaly detection is critical in domains such as cybersecurity and finance, especially when working with large-scale tabular data. Yet, unsupervised anomaly detection—where no labeled anomalies are available—remains challenging because traditional deep learning methods model a single global distribution, assuming all samples follow the same behavior. In contrast, real-world data often contain heterogeneous
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2026Large language models (LLMs) excel at structured information generation but face cost and latency challenges when deployed at scale in user-facing products. We present a parameter-efficient supervised fine-tuning pipeline for adapting a small language model (SLM) to structured attribute generation in e-commerce product listing, enabling continuous model improvement with implicit user feedback without expensive
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FSE 20262026Anomaly detection and localization (ADL) is critical for maintaining reliability and availability in cloud systems. Recent ADL developments focus on metric and log data, leaving event data unexplored. To address this gap, we propose EventADL, the first open-box event-based ADL framework for cloud-based service systems. To motivate the design of our framework, we conduct a systematic analysis on 520 real-world
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ICASSP 20262026We introduce PADAM, a no-reference perceptual model for automated detection of audio defects in professional media content. Our three-stage architecture identifies seven common audio defects through perceptual modeling, combining feature extraction, quality-aware contrastive learning, and robust classification. To address the scarcity of labeled training data, we develop a synthetic defect generation workflow
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