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Xiaoqi Li

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An Intelligent-Cloud Edge Multimodal Interaction System for Robots

Robust human-robot interaction in complex environments requires accurate gesture perception, semantic scene understanding, and reliable task planning under limited onboard computing resources. This paper presents a cloud-edge multimodal interaction framework that integrates an enhanced YOLO-based gesture detector with coordinated large language model (LLM) and vision-language model (VLM) agents. The proposed detector, incorporates the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) into the neck and replaces the baseline bounding-box regression objective with Distance-IoU (DIoU) loss. These modifications improve feature discrimination and localization for small or partially occluded gestures in complex backgrounds. The cloud layer performs gesture detection, scene understanding, multimodal fusion, and action planning, whereas the TonyPi robot locally handles data acquisition, communication, action execution, and feedback. Experiments on a public gesture dataset and a custom dataset show that YOLO-DC achieves precision values of 98.9% and 95.0%, with mAP@0.5 values of 90.7% and 92.7%, respectively. System-level evaluation yields success rates of 95%, 88%, and 82% for single-action, composite-action, and vision-dependent tasks. A 30 participant evaluation yields an overall mean satisfaction score of 3.69 out of 5. These results demonstrate the feasibility of combining refined gesture detection with multimodal agents for resource-constrained robotic interaction.

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DSA Nonce Vulnerabilities: An Interactive Analysis

Digital signatures are fundamental to identity authentication and data integrity in cybersecurity, and the NIST-standardized Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) frequently appears in the cryptography track of CTF competitions. However, DSA relies on number theory, modular arithmetic, and large-integer computation, making both the algorithm and its associated attacks difficult for beginners to follow. Conventional tools often expose only inputs and outputs, leaving the intermediate computations of signing, verification, and key-recovery attacks opaque. This paper presents a DSA signature analysis and visualisation platform tailored to CTF competitions. The platform provides three main capabilities: basic signature generation and verification, reproduction of common CTF attack methods, and dynamic visualisation of attack workflows. It covers three representative nonce vulnerabilities: nonce reuse, linear nonce leakage, and HNP-based lattice attacks. Stepwise displays and highlighted intermediate values make the underlying computations directly inspectable. Experiments show that the platform correctly reproduces the standard DSA workflow and all three attack scenarios.

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ShopX: A Foundation Model for Intent-to-Item Fulfillment in Agentic Shopping

The wave of AI-native applications is moving shopping beyond page- and feed-based browsing toward intent-driven experiences orchestrated by LLM agents. A common design wraps an LLM around existing search and recommendation pipelines, forcing complex intents through low-bandwidth retrieval or ranking interfaces and leaving a gap between language understanding and item-space fulfillment. Generative recommendation gives LLMs a direct item-space interface through semantic IDs (SIDs), but existing models mainly generate candidates for retrieval rather than translate flexible intents into item-space outcomes. We propose ShopX to address this bottleneck by unifying intent understanding, execution planning, and flexible SID-native item-space operations into a single foundation model. We deploy ShopX in agentic shopping workflows through a model-native item-fulfillment framework with a serving harness that defines a model-facing action protocol and exposes support surfaces for context access, catalog grounding, and state management. Within this framework, ShopX plans and composes SID-based item-space operations such as SID beam-search retrieval, listwise ranking, or product bundling. This model-centric design reduces lossy hand-offs between agent orchestration and item-space execution. To build ShopX, we design semantically recoverable, LLM-operable SIDs and a training recipe that equips a general LLM for flexible multi-turn item-space fulfillment while retaining the knowledge and instruction-following abilities needed by a shopping agent. We evaluate the ShopX framework against tool-mediated agentic systems on single- and multi-turn fulfillment tasks derived from anonymized Taobao production logs, showing that model-native fulfillment improves overall framework behavior, especially on complex or ambiguous requests.

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LaST-HD: Learning Latent Physical Reasoning from Scalable Human Data for Robot Manipulation

Human-hand demonstrations provide a direct and scalable source of physical interaction data for robot learning. While manual retargeting is indispensable for establishing kinematic action correspondence across different morphologies, robust transfer requires going beyond geometry to address the underlying alignment of physical dynamics between human and robot manipulation. To address this, we introduce LaST-HD, a novel human-to-robot action learning paradigm that extends reasoning-before-acting VLA by aligning human-hand and robot demonstrations in a shared latent reasoning space. Rather than mimicking human kinematics, LaST-HD trains an auxiliary action-conditioned world model on unpaired human-hand and robot trajectories to synthesize unified latent targets. After aligning cross-embodiment representations in this shared forward-dynamics space, these targets supervise LaST-HD's latent reasoning process, enabling it to internalize shared physical dynamics and drive efficient human-hand action learning. Moreover, we develop Out-of-Lab (OOL) Glove, a low-cost motion-capture glove tailored to LaST-HD for human-hand data collection. The captured human data provide precise keypoints and serve as universal action supervision across grippers and dexterous hands. Armed with the aligned latent space and high-fidelity human-hand data, we develop a progressive mixed-to-human training recipe comprising mixed human-robot co-training and human-hand online correction post-training. Through mixed co-training, LaST-HD improves generalization to novel objects, scenes, and positions using only human-hand demonstrations. With online correction, LaST-HD further adapts to novel environments and achieves over 90\% accuracy using only 20 minutes of OOL glove data.

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AT-VLA: Adaptive Tactile Injection for Enhanced Feedback Reaction in Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have significantly advanced the capabilities of robotic agents in executing diverse tasks; however, they still face challenges in contact-rich manipulation scenarios that require precise physical interactions. To address this limitation, recent studies have attempted to incorporate tactile signals during downstream tasks, enabling pretrained VLAs to interpret tactile feedback. Nevertheless, introducing new modalities during finetuning, which are rarely present in the pretrain stage, may disrupt the pretrained capabilities of VLAs. In addition, the inherently slow inference speed of VLAs hampers real-time responsiveness and limits the effective utilization of tactile feedback for action adjustment. To overcome these challenges, we propose Adaptive Tactile Vision-Language-Action (AT-VLA), which introduces a novel Adaptive Tactile Injection mechanism. This mechanism dynamically determines the appropriate timing and locations for tactile injection, incorporating only when it significantly contributes to action generation, thereby minimizing interference with pretrained representations. Furthermore, to enable rapid and accurate tactile responses, we propose a Tactile Reaction Dual-Stream mechanism, which decouples sensory processing into a slow visual-language stream for low-frequency perceptual reasoning and a fast tactile control stream for high-frequency physical interaction understanding, achieving real-time close-loop responses within 0.04 s. Real-world experiments thoroughly validate the effectiveness of AT-VLA in contact-rich manipulation tasks. The project page is available at: https://sites.google.com/view/at-vla.

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NFTDELTA: Detecting Permission Control Vulnerabilities in NFT Contracts through Multi-View Learning

Permission control vulnerabilities in Non-fungible token (NFT) contracts can result in significant financial losses, as attackers may exploit these weaknesses to gain unauthorized access or circumvent critical permission checks. In this paper, we propose NFTDELTA, a framework that leverages static analysis and multi-view learning to detect permission control vulnerabilities in NFT contracts. Specifically, we extract comprehensive function Control Flow Graph (CFG) information via two views: sequence features (representing execution paths) and graph features (capturing structural control flow). These two views are then integrated to create a unified code representation. We also define three specific categories of permission control vulnerabilities and employ a custom detector to identify defects through multi-view feature similarity analysis. Our evaluation of 795 popular NFT collections identified 241 confirmed permission control vulnerabilities, comprising 214 cases of Bypass Auth Reentrancy, 15 of Weak Auth Validation, and 12 of Loose Permission Management. Manual verification demonstrates the detector's high reliability, achieving an average precision of 97.92% and an F1-score of 81.09%. Furthermore, NFTDELTA demonstrates enhanced efficiency and scalability, proving its effectiveness in securing NFT ecosystems.

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CKG-LLM: LLM-Assisted Detection of Smart Contract Access Control Vulnerabilities Based on Knowledge Graphs

Traditional approaches for smart contract analysis often rely on intermediate representations such as abstract syntax trees, control-flow graphs, or static single assignment form. However, these methods face limitations in capturing both semantic structures and control logic. Knowledge graphs, by contrast, offer a structured representation of entities and relations, enabling richer intermediate abstractions of contract code and supporting the use of graph query languages to identify rule-violating elements. This paper presents CKG-LLM, a framework for detecting access-control vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Leveraging the reasoning and code generation capabilities of large language models, CKG-LLM translates natural-language vulnerability patterns into executable queries over contract knowledge graphs to automatically locate vulnerable code elements. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that CKG-LLM achieves superior performance in detecting access-control vulnerabilities compared to existing tools. Finally, we discuss potential extensions of CKG-LLM as part of future research directions.

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LiquiLM: Bridging the Semantic Gap in Liquidity Flaw Audit via DCN and LLMs

Traditional consensus mechanisms, such as Proof of Stake (PoS), increasingly reveal an excessive dependency on large liquidity providers. Although the Proof of Liquidity (PoL) mechanism serves as a critical paradigm for incentivizing sustained liquidity provision and ensuring market stability, its transition from asset staking to active liquidity management significantly increases the complexity of underlying smart contract economic models and interaction logic. This renders hidden liquidity logic flaws difficult to detect via traditional methods, seriously threatening the system stability and user asset security of mainstream DeFi and emerging PoL ecosystems. To address this, we propose the LiquiLM framework, which integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with a Dynamic Co-Attention Network (DCN). By establishing a dynamic interaction between liquidity-critical contracts and flaw descriptions, the framework effectively bridges the semantic gap between underlying code implementations and high-level liquidity intents. We evaluate the performance of LiquiLM on 1,490 validation contracts (covering precision, recall, specificity, and F1-score). The results show that it achieves significant effectiveness in auditing and explaining liquidity flaws: in experiments using Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-4o as backbone models, respectively, the F1-scores both exceed 90%. Furthermore, through an in-depth audit of 1,380 real-world PoL and Ethereum economic contracts, LiquiLM successfully identifies 238 high-risk contracts and assists in discovering 10 vulnerabilities that have received CVE certification.

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LibScan: Smart Contract Library Misuse Detection with Iterative Feedback and Static Verification

Smart contracts are self-executing programs that manage financial transactions on blockchain networks. Developers commonly rely on third-party code libraries to improve both efficiency and security. However, improper use of these libraries can introduce hidden vulnerabilities that are difficult to detect, leading to significant financial losses. Existing automated tools struggle to identify such misuse because it often requires understanding the developer's intent rather than simply scanning for known code patterns. This paper presents LibScan, an automated detection framework that combines large language model (LLM)-based semantic reasoning with rule-based code analysis, identifying eight distinct categories of library misuse in smart contracts. To improve detection reliability, the framework incorporates an iterative self-correction mechanism that refines its analysis across multiple rounds, alongside a structured knowledge base derived from large-scale empirical studies of real-world misuse cases. Experiments conducted on 662 real-world smart contracts demonstrate that LibScan achieves an overall detection accuracy of 85.15\%, outperforming existing tools by a margin of over 16 percentage points. Ablation experiments further confirm that combining both analysis approaches yields substantially better results than either method used independently.

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SCPatcher: Automated Smart Contract Code Repair via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Knowledge Graph

Smart contract vulnerabilities can cause substantial financial losses due to the immutability of code after deployment. While existing tools detect vulnerabilities, they cannot effectively repair them. In this paper, we propose SCPatcher, a framework that combines retrieval-augmented generation with a knowledge graph for automated smart contract repair. We construct a knowledge graph from 5,000 verified Ethereum contracts, extracting function-level relationships to build a semantic network. This graph serves as an external knowledge base that enhances Large Language Model reasoning and enables precise vulnerability patching. We introduce a two-stage repair strategy, initial knowledge-guided repair followed by Chain-of-Thought reasoning for complex vulnerabilities. Evaluated on a diverse set of vulnerable contracts, SCPatcher achieves 81.5\% overall repair rate and 91.0\% compilation pass rate, substantially outperforming existing methods.

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BiPreManip: Learning Affordance-Based Bimanual Preparatory Manipulation through Anticipatory Collaboration

Many everyday objects are difficult to directly grasp (e.g., a flat iPad) or manipulate functionally (e.g., opening the cap of a pen lying on a desk). Such tasks require sequential, asymmetric coordination between two arms, where one arm performs preparatory manipulation that enables the other's goal-directed action - for instance, pushing the iPad to the table's edge before picking it up, or lifting the pen body to allow the other hand to remove its cap. In this work, we introduce Collaborative Preparatory Manipulation, a class of bimanual manipulation tasks that demand understanding object semantics and geometry, anticipating spatial relationships, and planning long-horizon coordinated actions between the two arms. To tackle this challenge, we propose a visual affordance-based framework that first envisions the final goal-directed action and then guides one arm to perform a sequence of preparatory manipulations that facilitate the other arm's subsequent operation. This affordance-centric representation enables anticipatory inter-arm reasoning and coordination, generalizing effectively across various objects spanning diverse categories. Extensive experiments in both simulation and the real world demonstrate that our approach substantially improves task success rates and generalization compared to competitive baselines.

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Real2Edit2Real: Generating Robotic Demonstrations via a 3D Control Interface

Recent progress in robot learning has been driven by large-scale datasets and powerful visuomotor policy architectures, yet policy robustness remains limited by the substantial cost of collecting diverse demonstrations, particularly for spatial generalization in manipulation tasks. To reduce repetitive data collection, we present Real2Edit2Real, a framework that generates new demonstrations by bridging 3D editability with 2D visual data through a 3D control interface. Our approach first reconstructs scene geometry from multi-view RGB observations with a metric-scale 3D reconstruction model. Based on the reconstructed geometry, we perform depth-reliable 3D editing on point clouds to generate new manipulation trajectories while geometrically correcting the robot poses to recover physically consistent depth, which serves as a reliable condition for synthesizing new demonstrations. Finally, we propose a multi-conditional video generation model guided by depth as the primary control signal, together with action, edge, and ray maps, to synthesize spatially augmented multi-view manipulation videos. Experiments on four real-world manipulation tasks demonstrate that policies trained on data generated from only 1-5 source demonstrations can match or outperform those trained on 50 real-world demonstrations, improving data efficiency by up to 10-50x. Moreover, experimental results on height and texture editing demonstrate the framework's flexibility and extensibility, indicating its potential to serve as a unified data generation framework. Project website is https://real2edit2real.github.io/.

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AnchorVLA4D: an Anchor-Based Spatial-Temporal Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation

Since current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) systems suffer from limited spatial perception and the absence of memory throughout manipulation, we investigate visual anchors as a means to enhance spatial and temporal reasoning within VLA policies for robotic manipulation. Conventional VLAs generate actions by conditioning on a single current frame together with a language instruction. However, since the frame is encoded as a 2D image, it does not contain detailed spatial information, and the VLA similarly lacks any means to incorporate past context. As a result, it frequently forgets objects under occlusion and becomes spatially disoriented during the manipulation process. Thus, we propose AnchorVLA4D, a simple spatial-temporal VLA that augments the visual input with an anchor image to preserve the initial scene context throughout execution, and adds a lightweight spatial encoder that jointly processes the anchor and current frames to expose geometric relationships within an episode. Built on a Qwen2.5-VL backbone with a diffusion-based action head, AnchorVLA4D requires no additional sensing modalities (e.g., depth or point clouds) and introduces negligible inference overhead. Combining anchoring with a frozen pretrained spatial encoder yields further gains, realizing a 13.6% improvement on the Simpler WidowX benchmark and confirming the approach on real-world tasks, where it achieved an average success rate of 80%.

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Defensible Design for OpenClaw: Securing Autonomous Tool-Invoking Agents

OpenClaw-like agents offer substantial productivity benefits, yet they are insecure by default because they combine untrusted inputs, autonomous action, extensibility, and privileged system access within a single execution loop. We use OpenClaw as an exemplar of a broader class of agents that interact with interfaces, manipulate files, invoke tools, and install extensions in real operating environments. Consequently, their security should be treated as a software engineering problem rather than as a product-specific concern. To address these architectural vulnerabilities, we propose a blueprint for defensible design. We present a risk taxonomy, secure engineering principles, and a practical research agenda to institutionalize safety in agent construction. Our goal is to transition the community focus from isolated vulnerability patching toward systematic defensive engineering and robust deployment practices.

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Blockchain Application in Metaverse: A Review

In recent years, the term Metaverse emerged as one of the most compelling concepts, captivating the interest of international companies such as Tencent, ByteDance, Microsoft, and Facebook. These company recognized the Metaverse as a pivotal element for future success and have since made significant investments in this area. The Metaverse is still in its developmental stages, requiring the integration and advancement of various technologies to bring its vision to life. One of the key technologies associated with the Metaverse is blockchain, known for its decentralization, security, trustworthiness, and ability to manage time-series data. These characteristics align perfectly with the ecosystem of the Metaverse, making blockchain foundational for its security and infrastructure. This paper introduces both blockchain and the Metaverse ecosystem while exploring the application of the blockchain within the Metaverse, including decentralization, consensus mechanisms, hash algorithms, timestamping, smart contracts, distributed storage, distributed ledgers, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to provide insights for researchers investigating these topics.

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Smart Contracts in the Real World: A Statistical Exploration of External Data Dependencies

Smart contracts with external data are crucial for functionality but pose security and reliability concerns. Statistical and quantitative studies on this interaction are scarce. To address this gap, we analyzed 10,500 smart contracts, retaining 9,356 valid ones after excluding outdated or erroneous ones. We employed code parsing to transform contract code into abstract syntax trees and identified keywords associated with external data dependencies. We conducted a quantitative analysis by comparing these keywords to a reference list. We manually classified the 9,356 valid smart contracts to ascertain their application domains and typical interaction methods with external data. Additionally, we created a database with this data to facilitate research on smart contract dependencies. Moreover, we reviewed over 3,600 security audit reports, manually identifying 249 (approximately 9%) related to external data interactions and categorized their dependencies. We explored the correlation between smart contract complexity and external data dependency to provide insights for their design and auditing processes. These studies aim to enhance the security and reliability of smart contracts and offer practical guidance to developers and auditors.

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From Data Behavior to Code Analysis: A Multimodal Study on Security and Privacy Challenges in Blockchain-Based DApp

The recent proliferation of blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApp) has catalyzed transformative advancements in distributed systems, with extensive deployments observed across financial, entertainment, media, and cybersecurity domains. These trustless architectures, characterized by their decentralized nature and elimination of third-party intermediaries, have garnered substantial institutional attention. Consequently, the escalating security challenges confronting DApp demand rigorous scholarly investigation. This study initiates with a systematic analysis of behavioral patterns derived from empirical DApp datasets, establishing foundational insights for subsequent methodological developments. The principal security vulnerabilities in Ethereum-based smart contracts developed via Solidity are then critically examined. Specifically, reentrancy vulnerability attacks are addressed by formally representing contract logic using highly expressive code fragments. This enables precise source code-level detection via bidirectional long short-term memory networks with attention mechanisms (BLSTM-ATT). Regarding privacy preservation challenges, contemporary solutions are evaluated through dual analytical lenses: identity privacy preservation and transaction anonymity enhancement, while proposing future research trajectories in cryptographic obfuscation techniques.

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From Fomo3D to Lottery DAPP: Analysis of Ethereum-Based Gambling Applications

As blockchain technology advances, Ethereum based gambling decentralized applications (DApps) represent a new paradigm in online gambling. This paper examines the concepts, principles, implementation, and prospects of Ethereum based gambling DApps. First, we outline the concept and operational principles of gambling DApps. These DApps are blockchain based online lottery platforms. They utilize smart contracts to manage the entire lottery process, including issuance, betting, drawing, and prize distribution. Being decentralized, lottery DApps operate without central oversight, unlike traditional lotteries. This ensures fairness and eliminates control by any single entity. Automated smart contract execution further reduces management costs, increases profitability, and enhances game transparency and credibility. Next, we analyze an existing Ethereum based gambling DApp, detailing its technical principles, implementation, operational status, vulnerabilities, and potential solutions. We then elaborate on the implementation of lottery DApps. Smart contracts automate the entire lottery process including betting, drawing, and prize distribution. Although developing lottery DApps requires technical expertise, the expanding Ethereum ecosystem provides growing tools and frameworks, lowering development barriers. Finally, we discuss current limitations and prospects of lottery DApps. As blockchain technology and smart contracts evolve, lottery DApps are positioned to significantly transform the online lottery industry. Advantages like decentralization, automation, and transparency will likely drive broader future adoption.

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