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feat: agent research papers + Zen creative AI + papers.hanzo.ai site
- Agent GRPO: training-free continuous learning for tool-using agents - Federated Agents: federated agent intelligence - Harness Hacking: agents that safely self-modify their harness - Self-Improving Agents: telemetry-driven self-improvement - Unified Harness: vertically integrated agent harness - Zen creative AI: 3D, director, foley, medical, musician, reasoning, technical, translator, video, voice-clone, voyager, world models - papers.hanzo.ai Next.js site
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% SWE-bench Evaluation section
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\section{SWE-bench Evaluation Protocol}
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\subsection{Benchmark Overview}
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SWE-bench~\cite{jimenez2024swebench} provides 2,294 real-world GitHub issues from 12 popular Python repositories. SWE-bench Verified~\cite{openai2024swebench-verified} is a high-quality subset of 500 issues with human-verified patches. Each task requires:
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\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=1.1em]
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\item Understanding the issue description
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\item Locating relevant code files
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\item Implementing a correct fix
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\item Passing all unit tests
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\end{itemize}
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\subsection{Hanzo Dev Workflow}
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Our evaluation protocol follows this reproducible workflow:
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\begin{enumerate}
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\item \textbf{Setup:} Clone repository, checkout commit hash, create isolated environment
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\item \textbf{Planning:} Agent analyzes issue and generates implementation plan
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\item \textbf{TF-GRPO Rollouts:} Generate \(G=4\) candidate solutions with PoE decoding
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\item \textbf{Test Execution:} Run unit tests, collect feedback as reward signal \(r^{(i)}\)
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\item \textbf{Advantage Extraction:} Compute group-relative advantages, extract semantic priors
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\item \textbf{Refinement:} Use updated priors for next iteration (max 3 iterations)
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\item \textbf{Verification:} Final patch must pass all tests without manual intervention
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\end{enumerate}
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\subsection{Evaluation Metrics}
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\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=1.1em]
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\item \textbf{Resolved Rate:} Percentage of issues fully resolved (all tests pass)
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\item \textbf{Patch Similarity:} Edit distance to ground-truth patch
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\item \textbf{Iteration Count:} Average number of TF-GRPO iterations needed
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\item \textbf{Test Coverage:} Percentage of test files modified/added
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\end{itemize}
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\subsection{Reproducibility Requirements}
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All runs are:
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\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=1.1em]
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\item \textbf{Verifier-replayable:} Complete logs + environment snapshots
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\item \textbf{Deterministic:} Fixed seeds for sampling (where applicable)
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\item \textbf{Containerized:} Docker images with exact dependency versions
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\item \textbf{Auditable:} All LLM API calls logged with timestamps
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\end{itemize}
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\subsection{Baseline Comparisons}
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We compare against:
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\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=1.1em]
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\item GPT-4 with standard prompting
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\item Claude 3.5 Sonnet with agentic workflow
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\item Open-source agents (AutoCodeRover, SWE-agent)
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\item Fine-tuned code models (CodeLlama-Instruct, Phind-CodeLlama)
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\end{itemize}
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Target performance: \textbf{15--25\% resolved rate} on SWE-bench Verified (competitive with current SOTA).
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% Training-Free GRPO section
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\section{Training-Free GRPO (TF-GRPO)}
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\subsection{Group-Relative Objective}
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For a group of rollouts \(\{y^{(i)}\}_{i=1}^G\), we compute a group-relative advantage combining extrinsic reward \(r^{(i)}\) and epistemic utility \(u^{(i)}\):
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\begin{equation}\label{eq:tf-grpo-objective}
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g^{(i)} = \alpha r^{(i)} + \beta u^{(i)},
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\end{equation}
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where \(\alpha, \beta \ge 0\) are hyperparameters. The advantages are centered and whitened within the group:
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\begin{equation}
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A^{(i)} = \frac{g^{(i)} - \bar g}{\sigma_g + \epsilon},
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\end{equation}
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where \(\bar g = \frac{1}{G}\sum_i g^{(i)}\) and \(\sigma_g^2 = \frac{1}{G}\sum_i (g^{(i)} - \bar g)^2\).
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\subsection{Epistemic Utility (Expected Free Energy)}
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Following Active Inference, the epistemic term quantifies information gain:
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\begin{equation}
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u^{(i)} = \mathbb{H}[p(s)] - \mathbb{E}_{s\sim p(s\mid y^{(i)})}[\mathbb{H}[p(s\mid y^{(i)})]],
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\end{equation}
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where \(s\) represents latent states or model beliefs. This encourages exploration of high-information-gain trajectories.
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\subsection{Zero-Training Adaptation}
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Unlike standard GRPO which updates model parameters \(\theta\), TF-GRPO extracts \emph{semantic advantages} as token-level or embedding-level priors \(E\) that modify decoding without gradient updates. These priors are compressed and shared across nodes (see \S\ref{sec:bitdelta}).
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.next/
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out/
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node_modules/
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/// <reference types="next" />
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/// <reference types="next/image-types/global" />
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/// <reference path="./.next/types/routes.d.ts" />
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// NOTE: This file should not be edited
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// see https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/config/typescript for more information.
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/** @type {import('next').NextConfig} */
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const config = {
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output: 'export',
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images: { unoptimized: true },
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trailingSlash: true,
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basePath: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_PATH || '',
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assetPrefix: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_PATH || '',
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}
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export default config
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{
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"name": "@hanzoai/papers-site",
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"version": "2.0.0",
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"description": "Hanzo AI research papers - papers.hanzo.ai",
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"private": true,
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"scripts": {
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"dev": "next dev",
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"build": "next build",
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"start": "next start",
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"lint": "next lint"
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},
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"dependencies": {
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"next": "^16.0.0",
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"react": "^19.1.0",
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"react-dom": "^19.1.0",
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"clsx": "^2.1.1",
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"lucide-react": "^0.475.0",
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"next-themes": "^0.4.6"
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},
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"devDependencies": {
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"@types/node": "^22.12.0",
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"@types/react": "^19.1.0",
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"@types/react-dom": "^19.1.0",
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"typescript": "^5.8.0",
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"tailwindcss": "^4.1.0",
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"@tailwindcss/postcss": "^4.1.0",
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"postcss": "^8.5.0"
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}
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}
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export default {
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plugins: {
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'@tailwindcss/postcss': {},
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},
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}
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papers.hanzo.ai
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/**
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* Hanzo Papers - Dark Monochrome Theme
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* Tailwind CSS 4
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*/
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@import "tailwindcss";
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@custom-variant dark (&:is(.dark *));
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@theme inline {
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--font-sans: var(--font-geist), system-ui, sans-serif;
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--font-mono: var(--font-geist-mono), ui-monospace, monospace;
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--radius: 0.5rem;
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--color-background: hsl(var(--background));
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--color-foreground: hsl(var(--foreground));
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--color-primary: hsl(var(--primary));
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--color-primary-foreground: hsl(var(--primary-foreground));
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--color-secondary: hsl(var(--secondary));
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--color-secondary-foreground: hsl(var(--secondary-foreground));
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--color-muted: hsl(var(--muted));
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--color-muted-foreground: hsl(var(--muted-foreground));
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--color-accent: hsl(var(--accent));
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--color-accent-foreground: hsl(var(--accent-foreground));
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--color-border: hsl(var(--border));
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--color-card: hsl(var(--card));
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--color-card-foreground: hsl(var(--card-foreground));
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}
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/* Light mode */
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:root {
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--background: 0 0% 100%;
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--foreground: 0 0% 9%;
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--card: 0 0% 100%;
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--card-foreground: 0 0% 9%;
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--primary: 0 0% 9%;
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--primary-foreground: 0 0% 100%;
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--secondary: 0 0% 96%;
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--secondary-foreground: 0 0% 9%;
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--muted: 0 0% 96%;
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--muted-foreground: 0 0% 45%;
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--accent: 0 0% 96%;
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--accent-foreground: 0 0% 9%;
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--border: 0 0% 90%;
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--input: 0 0% 90%;
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--ring: 0 0% 64%;
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}
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/* Dark mode - pure black */
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.dark {
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--background: 0 0% 0%;
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--foreground: 0 0% 98%;
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--card: 0 0% 4%;
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--card-foreground: 0 0% 98%;
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--primary: 0 0% 98%;
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--primary-foreground: 0 0% 4%;
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--secondary: 0 0% 10%;
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--secondary-foreground: 0 0% 98%;
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--muted: 0 0% 8%;
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--muted-foreground: 0 0% 55%;
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--accent: 0 0% 12%;
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--accent-foreground: 0 0% 98%;
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--border: 0 0% 15%;
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--input: 0 0% 15%;
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--ring: 0 0% 36%;
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}
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@layer base {
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* {
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border-color: hsl(var(--border));
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}
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html {
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scroll-behavior: smooth;
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-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
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}
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body {
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font-synthesis-weight: none;
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text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
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background-color: hsl(var(--background));
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color: hsl(var(--foreground));
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}
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::selection {
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background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
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}
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.dark ::selection {
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background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.20);
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}
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}
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import type { Metadata } from 'next'
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import { Geist, Geist_Mono } from 'next/font/google'
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import { ThemeProvider } from 'next-themes'
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import { siteConfig } from '@/config/papers'
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import './global.css'
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const geist = Geist({
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subsets: ['latin'],
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variable: '--font-geist',
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display: 'swap',
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})
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const geistMono = Geist_Mono({
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subsets: ['latin'],
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variable: '--font-geist-mono',
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display: 'swap',
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})
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export const metadata: Metadata = {
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title: `${siteConfig.name} Research Papers`,
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description: siteConfig.description,
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openGraph: {
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title: `${siteConfig.name} Research Papers`,
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description: siteConfig.description,
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url: siteConfig.website,
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siteName: `${siteConfig.name} Papers`,
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type: 'website',
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},
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twitter: {
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card: 'summary_large_image',
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title: `${siteConfig.name} Research Papers`,
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description: siteConfig.description,
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},
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}
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export default function RootLayout({
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children,
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}: {
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children: React.ReactNode
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}) {
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return (
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<html
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lang="en"
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className={`${geist.variable} ${geistMono.variable}`}
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suppressHydrationWarning
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>
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<head>
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<script
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dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
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__html: `(function(){try{var d=document.documentElement;var s=localStorage.getItem('hanzo-papers-theme');if(s==='dark'||(s!=='light'&&window.matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme:dark)').matches)){d.classList.add('dark')}else{d.classList.remove('dark')}}catch(e){}})()`,
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}}
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/>
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</head>
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<body className="min-h-svh bg-background font-sans antialiased">
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<ThemeProvider
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attribute="class"
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defaultTheme="dark"
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storageKey="hanzo-papers-theme"
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enableSystem
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>
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{children}
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</ThemeProvider>
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</body>
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</html>
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)
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}
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import { siteConfig } from '@/config/papers'
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import { Header } from '@/components/Header'
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import { PaperCard } from '@/components/PaperCard'
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import { Footer } from '@/components/Footer'
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export default function Home() {
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const paperCount = siteConfig.papers.length
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return (
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<div className="min-h-svh flex flex-col">
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<Header config={siteConfig} />
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<main className="flex-1">
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{/* Hero */}
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<div className="max-w-7xl mx-auto px-6 pt-16 pb-12">
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<p className="text-sm font-mono text-muted-foreground mb-3">
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{paperCount} papers
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</p>
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<h1 className="text-4xl md:text-5xl font-bold tracking-tight mb-4">
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{siteConfig.name}
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<span className="block text-muted-foreground text-2xl md:text-3xl font-normal mt-1">
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Research Papers
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</span>
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</h1>
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<p className="text-lg text-muted-foreground max-w-2xl leading-relaxed">
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{siteConfig.description}
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</p>
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</div>
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{/* Papers Grid */}
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<div className="max-w-7xl mx-auto px-6 pb-20">
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{paperCount > 0 ? (
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<div className="grid gap-4 sm:grid-cols-2 lg:grid-cols-3">
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{siteConfig.papers.map((paper) => (
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<PaperCard key={paper.id} paper={paper} />
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))}
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</div>
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) : (
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<div className="text-center py-20">
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<p className="text-muted-foreground">Papers coming soon...</p>
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</div>
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)}
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</div>
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</main>
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<Footer config={siteConfig} />
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</div>
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)
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}
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import type { SiteConfig } from '@/config/papers'
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interface FooterProps {
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config: SiteConfig
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}
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export function Footer({ config }: FooterProps) {
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return (
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<footer className="border-t border-border/50 mt-20">
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<div className="max-w-7xl mx-auto px-6 py-8">
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<div className="flex flex-col md:flex-row items-center justify-between gap-4">
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<p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">
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© {new Date().getFullYear()} {config.fullName}
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</p>
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<div className="flex items-center gap-5 text-sm">
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<a
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href={config.website}
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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className="text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground transition-colors"
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>
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Website
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</a>
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<a
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href={config.github}
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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className="text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground transition-colors"
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>
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GitHub
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</a>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</footer>
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)
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}
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'use client'
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import { Moon, Sun } from 'lucide-react'
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import { useTheme } from 'next-themes'
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import type { SiteConfig } from '@/config/papers'
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interface HeaderProps {
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config: SiteConfig
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}
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export function Header({ config }: HeaderProps) {
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||||
const { theme, setTheme } = useTheme()
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||||
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||||
return (
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||||
<header className="border-b border-border/50 bg-background/80 backdrop-blur-sm sticky top-0 z-50">
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||||
<div className="max-w-7xl mx-auto px-6 py-4">
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<div className="flex items-center justify-between">
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<div className="flex items-center gap-3">
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<Logo />
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<div>
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<h1 className="text-lg font-semibold tracking-tight">{config.name}</h1>
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<p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">Research Papers</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div className="flex items-center gap-4">
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<nav className="hidden md:flex items-center gap-5 text-sm">
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<a
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href="https://proofs.hanzo.network"
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className="text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground transition-colors"
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>
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Formal Proofs
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</a>
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<a
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href={config.website}
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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className="text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground transition-colors"
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>
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Website
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</a>
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<a
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href={config.github}
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target="_blank"
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rel="noopener noreferrer"
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className="text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground transition-colors"
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>
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GitHub
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</a>
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</nav>
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<button
|
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onClick={() => setTheme(theme === 'dark' ? 'light' : 'dark')}
|
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className="p-2 rounded-md text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground hover:bg-accent transition-colors"
|
||||
aria-label="Toggle theme"
|
||||
>
|
||||
<Sun className="h-4 w-4 hidden dark:block" />
|
||||
<Moon className="h-4 w-4 block dark:hidden" />
|
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</button>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</header>
|
||||
)
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
function Logo() {
|
||||
return (
|
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<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" className="w-7 h-7" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
|
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<path
|
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d="M4 4h6v16H4V4zm10 0h6v7h-6V4zm10 9v11h-6V13h6z"
|
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fill="currentColor"
|
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className="text-foreground"
|
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/>
|
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</svg>
|
||||
)
|
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}
|
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|
||||
import { FileText, ExternalLink } from 'lucide-react'
|
||||
import type { PaperConfig } from '@/config/papers'
|
||||
|
||||
interface PaperCardProps {
|
||||
paper: PaperConfig
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
export function PaperCard({ paper }: PaperCardProps) {
|
||||
return (
|
||||
<article className="group rounded-lg border border-border/60 bg-card hover:border-border transition-colors">
|
||||
<div className="p-5">
|
||||
<div className="flex items-center justify-between mb-3">
|
||||
<time className="text-xs text-muted-foreground font-mono">
|
||||
{new Date(paper.date).toLocaleDateString('en-US', {
|
||||
year: 'numeric',
|
||||
month: 'short',
|
||||
})}
|
||||
</time>
|
||||
<FileText className="h-4 w-4 text-muted-foreground/50" />
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2 className="text-base font-semibold mb-1 text-foreground group-hover:text-foreground/90">
|
||||
{paper.title}
|
||||
</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<h3 className="text-sm text-muted-foreground mb-3">
|
||||
{paper.subtitle}
|
||||
</h3>
|
||||
|
||||
<p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground/80 mb-4 line-clamp-3 leading-relaxed">
|
||||
{paper.abstract}
|
||||
</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<div className="flex items-center gap-1.5 mb-4 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
|
||||
{paper.authors.join(' · ')}
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<div className="flex flex-wrap gap-1.5 mb-4">
|
||||
{paper.tags.slice(0, 4).map((tag) => (
|
||||
<span
|
||||
key={tag}
|
||||
className="px-2 py-0.5 text-[11px] font-mono bg-accent text-accent-foreground rounded"
|
||||
>
|
||||
{tag}
|
||||
</span>
|
||||
))}
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<div className="flex gap-2 pt-3 border-t border-border/40">
|
||||
<a
|
||||
href={paper.pdfUrl}
|
||||
target="_blank"
|
||||
rel="noopener noreferrer"
|
||||
className="flex-1 flex items-center justify-center gap-1.5 px-3 py-1.5 text-sm font-medium bg-foreground text-background rounded-md hover:bg-foreground/90 transition-colors"
|
||||
>
|
||||
<FileText className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
|
||||
PDF
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
<a
|
||||
href={paper.githubUrl}
|
||||
target="_blank"
|
||||
rel="noopener noreferrer"
|
||||
className="px-3 py-1.5 text-sm font-medium border border-border rounded-md text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground hover:border-foreground/30 transition-colors"
|
||||
>
|
||||
Source
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
{paper.relatedLinks && paper.relatedLinks.length > 0 && (
|
||||
<div className="mt-3 pt-3 border-t border-border/30">
|
||||
{paper.relatedLinks.map((link, i) => (
|
||||
<a
|
||||
key={i}
|
||||
href={link.url}
|
||||
target="_blank"
|
||||
rel="noopener noreferrer"
|
||||
className="flex items-center gap-1 text-xs text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground transition-colors"
|
||||
>
|
||||
<ExternalLink className="h-3 w-3" />
|
||||
{link.label}
|
||||
</a>
|
||||
))}
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
)}
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
</article>
|
||||
)
|
||||
}
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,718 @@
|
||||
export interface PaperConfig {
|
||||
id: string
|
||||
title: string
|
||||
subtitle: string
|
||||
abstract: string
|
||||
pdfUrl: string
|
||||
latexUrl?: string
|
||||
githubUrl: string
|
||||
date: string
|
||||
authors: string[]
|
||||
tags: string[]
|
||||
relatedLinks?: {
|
||||
label: string
|
||||
url: string
|
||||
}[]
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
export interface SiteConfig {
|
||||
name: string
|
||||
fullName: string
|
||||
description: string
|
||||
website: string
|
||||
github: string
|
||||
primaryColor: string
|
||||
secondaryColor: string
|
||||
accentColor: string
|
||||
logo: string
|
||||
papers: PaperConfig[]
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
export const siteConfig: SiteConfig = {
|
||||
name: 'Hanzo AI',
|
||||
fullName: 'Hanzo AI Inc (Techstars \'17)',
|
||||
description: 'AI compute infrastructure and market mechanisms for decentralized AI workloads',
|
||||
website: 'https://hanzo.ai',
|
||||
github: 'https://github.com/hanzoai',
|
||||
primaryColor: '#FF6B35',
|
||||
secondaryColor: '#004E89',
|
||||
accentColor: '#00D9FF',
|
||||
logo: '/logos/hanzo-logo.svg',
|
||||
papers: [
|
||||
// --- Hanzo Core Papers ---
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'aso',
|
||||
title: 'Active Semantic Optimization (ASO)',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Training-Free GRPO for Single-Agent Adaptation',
|
||||
abstract: 'Training-free adaptation via Bayesian product-of-experts (PoE) decoding with token/embedding-level experiential priors. Foundation for Zoo\'s DSO multi-agent coordination. Achieves 99.8% cost reduction ($18 vs $10,000+).',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-aso.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-aso.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-06-15',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['ASO', 'GRPO', 'Code Generation', 'Cost Reduction'],
|
||||
relatedLinks: [
|
||||
{ label: 'HIP-002 Specification', url: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hips/HIP-002-aso.md' },
|
||||
{ label: 'Zoo DSO (builds on ASO)', url: 'https://github.com/zooai/papers' },
|
||||
],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'dso',
|
||||
title: 'Decentralized Semantic Optimization (DSO)',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Byzantine-Robust Prior Aggregation',
|
||||
abstract: 'Decentralized learning protocol with Byzantine fault tolerance and three-layer semantic storage architecture for multi-agent coordination.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-dso.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-dso.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-07-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['DSO', 'Byzantine Robust', 'Decentralized Learning'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'hmm',
|
||||
title: 'Hamiltonian Market Maker (HMM)',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Oracle-Minimal Pricing for AI Compute Marketplace',
|
||||
abstract: 'A novel AMM design for heterogeneous compute resources with provably-stable pricing via Hamiltonian invariants. Enables oracle-minimal economic settlement for AI inference and training workloads.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-hmm.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-hmm.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-10-28',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['Economics', 'DeFi', 'Compute Marketplace', 'AMM'],
|
||||
relatedLinks: [
|
||||
{ label: 'HIP-004 Specification', url: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hips/HIP-004-hmm.md' },
|
||||
{ label: 'Hanzo Network', url: 'https://hanzo.ai' },
|
||||
],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'network-whitepaper',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo Network Whitepaper',
|
||||
subtitle: 'L1 Blockchain for Decentralized AI Compute',
|
||||
abstract: 'Comprehensive whitepaper describing Hanzo Network\'s Layer-1 blockchain infrastructure, integrating HMM for compute pricing and supporting PoAI consensus for quality verification.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-network-whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-network-whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-10-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['Blockchain', 'Infrastructure', 'Network', 'Architecture'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'network-architecture',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo Network Architecture',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Decentralized AI Compute with Post-Quantum Security',
|
||||
abstract: 'Network architecture with post-quantum cryptography and physics-inspired LLM routing for decentralized AI compute.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-network-architecture.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-network-architecture.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-10-25',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['Architecture', 'Post-Quantum', 'LLM Routing'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'jin-architecture',
|
||||
title: 'Jin: Unified Multimodal AI Architecture',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Vision-Language, Audio, and Cross-Modal Understanding',
|
||||
abstract: 'Unified architecture for vision-language, audio, and cross-modal understanding in a single multimodal framework.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-jin-architecture.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-jin-architecture.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-09-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['Multimodal', 'Vision-Language', 'Audio', 'Architecture'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'jin',
|
||||
title: 'Jin: Unified Multimodal Architecture (Extended)',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Extended Technical Report',
|
||||
abstract: 'Extended technical report on the Jin multimodal AI architecture covering implementation details and benchmarks.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-jin.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-jin.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-09-15',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['Multimodal', 'Architecture', 'Technical Report'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'mcp-server',
|
||||
title: 'Model Context Protocol Server Architecture',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Context Management and Tool Execution for AI Systems',
|
||||
abstract: 'Context management and tool execution for AI systems via the Model Context Protocol with 260+ integrated tools.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-mcp-server.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-mcp-server.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-11-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['MCP', 'Context Management', 'Tool Use'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'agent-sdk',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo Agent SDK',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Orchestration, Tool Use, and Memory Systems',
|
||||
abstract: 'Building AI agents with multi-agent coordination, tool use, planning, and persistent memory systems.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-agent-sdk.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-agent-sdk.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-11-15',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['Agents', 'SDK', 'Tool Use', 'Memory'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'ml-framework',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo ML: Production ML Framework',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Model Serving and A/B Testing',
|
||||
abstract: 'Enterprise ML operations with model versioning, feature stores, and inference infrastructure for production deployment.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-ml-framework.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-ml-framework.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-08-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['MLOps', 'Model Serving', 'A/B Testing'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'identity-nft',
|
||||
title: 'Identity NFTs for AI Agents',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Capability Tokens for Autonomous Agents',
|
||||
abstract: 'Token standard for autonomous AI agents with economic agency, identity, and capability delegation.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-identity-nft.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-identity-nft.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-08-15',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['NFT', 'AI Identity', 'Capability Tokens'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'api-gateway',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo API Gateway',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Unified Commerce API Architecture',
|
||||
abstract: 'API gateway architecture for unified commerce operations and integrations with 100+ provider support.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-api-gateway.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-api-gateway.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-05-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['API', 'Gateway', 'Commerce'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'ai-commerce',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo: An AI-First Commerce Platform',
|
||||
subtitle: 'AI-Native Commerce Architecture',
|
||||
abstract: 'AI-native commerce platform architecture and capabilities for next-generation e-commerce.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-ai-commerce.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-ai-commerce.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-04-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['Commerce', 'AI Platform', 'E-Commerce'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'analytics-ml',
|
||||
title: 'Machine Learning for Commerce Analytics',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Predictive Models for Customer Behavior',
|
||||
abstract: 'Predictive models for customer behavior using machine learning applied to commerce analytics.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-analytics-ml.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-analytics-ml.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-04-15',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['Analytics', 'ML', 'Predictions'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'checkout',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo Checkout',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Frictionless Payment Processing',
|
||||
abstract: 'Modern payment processing architecture for e-commerce with frictionless checkout flows.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-checkout.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-checkout.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-03-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['Payments', 'Checkout', 'Commerce'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'sdk-ecosystem',
|
||||
title: 'The Hanzo SDK Ecosystem',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Multi-Language Commerce Integration',
|
||||
abstract: 'TypeScript, Python, Go, and Rust SDK architecture for commerce integration.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-sdk-ecosystem.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-sdk-ecosystem.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-05-15',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['SDK', 'Multi-Language', 'Integration'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'webhooks',
|
||||
title: 'Event-Driven Commerce: Webhook Architecture',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Real-Time Event-Driven Integration',
|
||||
abstract: 'Real-time webhook architecture for event-driven commerce integration and automation.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-webhooks.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-webhooks.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-05-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['Webhooks', 'Events', 'Real-Time'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'astle-reactive-sdk',
|
||||
title: 'Astle.js: A Reactive JavaScript SDK',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Reactive Commerce Integration',
|
||||
abstract: 'Reactive JavaScript SDK architecture for commerce applications with observable state management.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/astle-reactive-sdk.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/astle-reactive-sdk.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-03-15',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['JavaScript', 'SDK', 'Reactive'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'crowdstart-commerce',
|
||||
title: 'Crowdstart: A Cloud-Native E-Commerce Platform',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Cloud-Native Commerce Architecture',
|
||||
abstract: 'Cloud-native e-commerce platform design and architecture for scalable commerce operations.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/crowdstart-commerce.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/crowdstart-commerce.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-02-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['Cloud-Native', 'E-Commerce', 'Platform'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'earle-genetic-marketing',
|
||||
title: 'Earle: Genetic Algorithms for Marketing Optimization',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Evolutionary Campaign Optimization',
|
||||
abstract: 'Evolutionary algorithms applied to marketing campaign optimization for automated A/B testing at scale.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/earle-genetic-marketing.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/earle-genetic-marketing.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-02-15',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['Genetic Algorithms', 'Marketing', 'Optimization'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'verus-analytics',
|
||||
title: 'Verus: Real-Time Commerce Analytics at Scale',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Streaming Analytics Infrastructure',
|
||||
abstract: 'Real-time analytics infrastructure for commerce at scale with streaming processing and dashboards.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/verus-analytics.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/verus-analytics.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2024-03-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Team'],
|
||||
tags: ['Analytics', 'Real-Time', 'Scale'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'llm-gateway',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo LLM Gateway',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Unified Proxy for 100+ AI Providers',
|
||||
abstract: 'Unified LLM proxy supporting 100+ providers with intelligent routing, cost optimization, and observability.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-llm-gateway.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-llm-gateway.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['LLM', 'Gateway', 'AI Providers', 'Routing'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'operative',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo Operative: Computer Use for AI',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Browser and Desktop Automation for AI Agents',
|
||||
abstract: 'Computer use framework enabling AI agents to operate browsers and desktops autonomously with vision-based interaction.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-operative.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-operative.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['Computer Use', 'Automation', 'AI Agents', 'Vision'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'chat',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo Chat: Multi-Model AI Interface',
|
||||
subtitle: '14 Zen Models with MCP Tool Integration',
|
||||
abstract: 'AI chat platform supporting 14 Zen models and 100+ third-party providers with MCP tool integration.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-chat.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-chat.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['Chat', 'Multi-Model', 'MCP', 'Interface'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'search',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo Search: AI-Powered Search Engine',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Generative Search with Real-Time UI',
|
||||
abstract: 'AI-powered search engine with generative UI, real-time results, and semantic understanding.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-search.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-search.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['Search', 'AI', 'Generative UI', 'Semantic'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'flow',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo Flow: Visual Workflow Builder',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Visual AI Pipeline Orchestration',
|
||||
abstract: 'Visual workflow builder for AI pipeline orchestration with drag-and-drop composition.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-flow.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-flow.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['Workflow', 'Visual', 'Orchestration', 'Pipeline'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'platform',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo Platform: PaaS Infrastructure',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Platform-as-a-Service for AI Workloads',
|
||||
abstract: 'Platform-as-a-Service infrastructure for deploying and managing AI workloads at scale.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-platform.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-platform.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['PaaS', 'Infrastructure', 'Deployment', 'Cloud'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'candle',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo Candle: Rust ML Framework',
|
||||
subtitle: 'High-Performance Tensor Operations in Rust',
|
||||
abstract: 'Rust-based ML framework with tensor operations, neural network layers, and GPU acceleration.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-candle.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-candle.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['Rust', 'ML Framework', 'Tensor', 'GPU'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'aci',
|
||||
title: 'Hanzo ACI: AI Chain Infrastructure',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Blockchain for Decentralized AI Operations',
|
||||
abstract: 'Blockchain infrastructure for decentralized AI compute, model verification, and inference consensus.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/hanzo-aci.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/hanzo-aci.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Research'],
|
||||
tags: ['Blockchain', 'AI', 'Decentralized Compute', 'Consensus'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
|
||||
// --- Zen Model Papers (co-developed by Hanzo AI + Zoo Labs) ---
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-family-overview',
|
||||
title: 'The Zen AI Model Family',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Democratizing AI Through Efficient Architecture',
|
||||
abstract: 'Technical overview of the full Zen model family and architecture whitepaper covering 600M to 1T+ parameters.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen_family_overview.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen_family_overview.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-01-15',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Overview', 'Architecture', 'Model Family'],
|
||||
relatedLinks: [
|
||||
{ label: 'Model Hub', url: 'https://huggingface.co/zenlm' },
|
||||
{ label: 'Documentation', url: 'https://zenlm.ai' },
|
||||
],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-coder',
|
||||
title: 'Zen Coder: Agentic Code Generation Models',
|
||||
subtitle: '4B-1T Parameter Code Generation',
|
||||
abstract: 'Code generation models with agentic capabilities across parameter scales from 4B to 1T.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-coder_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-coder_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-01-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Coder', 'Code Generation', 'Agentic'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-omni',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Omni: Multimodal Text Model',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Multimodal Text Understanding and Generation',
|
||||
abstract: 'Multimodal text understanding and generation across modalities in a unified architecture.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-omni_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-omni_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-01-22',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Omni', 'Multimodal', 'Text'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-next',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Next: Flagship Model',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Next-Generation Frontier Model',
|
||||
abstract: 'Next-generation flagship model technical report covering architecture innovations and benchmark results.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-next_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-next_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Flagship', 'Next-Gen', 'Model'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-nano',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Nano: Mobile and IoT Intelligence',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Ultra-Efficient Models for Edge Deployment',
|
||||
abstract: 'Ultra-efficient models for mobile and IoT deployment with minimal resource requirements.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-nano_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-nano_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-01-25',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Nano', 'Mobile', 'IoT', 'Edge'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-eco',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Eco: Consumer Hardware Models',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Optimized for Consumer-Grade Hardware',
|
||||
abstract: 'Models optimized for consumer-grade hardware with excellent quality-to-compute ratio.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-eco_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-eco_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-01-25',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Eco', 'Consumer', 'Efficient'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-artist',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Artist: Text-to-Image Generation',
|
||||
subtitle: 'High-Quality Image Synthesis',
|
||||
abstract: 'Text-to-image generation model with high-quality synthesis and artistic control.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-artist_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-artist_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-01-28',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Artist', 'Text-to-Image', 'Generation'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-artist-edit',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Artist-Edit: Image Editing and Inpainting',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Instruction-Following Image Editing',
|
||||
abstract: 'Image editing and inpainting capabilities with instruction-following for precise modifications.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-artist-edit_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-artist-edit_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-01-28',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Artist', 'Image Editing', 'Inpainting'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-designer-instruct',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Designer-Instruct: Design Generation',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Instruction-Following Design Model',
|
||||
abstract: 'Instruction-following design generation model for professional design workflows.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-designer-instruct_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-designer-instruct_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-01-30',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Designer', 'Instruct', 'Design'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-designer-thinking',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Designer-Thinking: Visual Reasoning',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Visual Reasoning and Analysis',
|
||||
abstract: 'Visual reasoning and analysis for design tasks with chain-of-thought design understanding.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-designer-thinking_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-designer-thinking_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-01-30',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Designer', 'Visual Reasoning', 'Analysis'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-scribe',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Scribe: Speech Recognition and Transcription',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Multi-Language Speech-to-Text',
|
||||
abstract: 'Speech recognition and transcription model with multi-language support and high accuracy.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-scribe_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-scribe_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-01',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Scribe', 'Speech', 'Transcription'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-guard',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Guard: Multilingual Safety Moderation',
|
||||
subtitle: 'AI Safety and Content Moderation',
|
||||
abstract: 'Safety and content moderation across languages for responsible AI deployment.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-guard_whitepaper.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-guard_whitepaper.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-05',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Guard', 'Safety', 'Moderation', 'Multilingual'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-reranker',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Reranker: 7680-Dimensional Embeddings',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Semantic Optimization with BitDelta Compression',
|
||||
abstract: 'High-dimensional embeddings with BitDelta compression for semantic search and retrieval optimization.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen-reranker.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers/blob/main/zen-reranker.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/zenlm/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-10',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Reranker', 'Embeddings', '7680-Dim', 'BitDelta'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-agent',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Agent: Autonomous AI Agent Model',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Planning, Reasoning, and Tool Use',
|
||||
abstract: 'Autonomous AI agent model with planning, reasoning, and tool use capabilities.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen/zen-agent.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/zen/zen-agent.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Agent', 'Planning', 'Tool Use', 'Autonomous'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-3d',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-3D: 3D Scene Generation',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Text-to-3D and Image-to-3D Synthesis',
|
||||
abstract: '3D scene generation from text and image inputs with high-fidelity synthesis.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen/zen-3d.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/zen/zen-3d.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', '3D', 'Generation', 'Synthesis'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-world',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-World: World Model',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Predictive World Simulation',
|
||||
abstract: 'Predictive world model for simulation and planning in complex environments.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen/zen-world.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/zen/zen-world.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'World Model', 'Simulation', 'Prediction'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-foley',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Foley: Sound Effects Generation',
|
||||
subtitle: 'AI-Powered Foley and Sound Design',
|
||||
abstract: 'AI-powered foley and sound effects generation for film, games, and media production.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen/zen-foley.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/zen/zen-foley.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Audio', 'Sound Effects', 'Foley'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-musician',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Musician: Music Generation',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Composition and Arrangement AI',
|
||||
abstract: 'AI music generation model for composition, arrangement, and production.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen/zen-musician.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/zen/zen-musician.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
tags: ['Zen', 'Music', 'Generation', 'Composition'],
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
id: 'zen-voyager',
|
||||
title: 'Zen-Voyager: Embodied AI Navigation',
|
||||
subtitle: 'Autonomous Exploration and Navigation',
|
||||
abstract: 'Embodied AI model for autonomous exploration and navigation in physical and virtual environments.',
|
||||
pdfUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/raw/main/pdfs/zen/zen-voyager.pdf',
|
||||
latexUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers/blob/main/zen/zen-voyager.tex',
|
||||
githubUrl: 'https://github.com/hanzoai/papers',
|
||||
date: '2025-02-20',
|
||||
authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
|
||||
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id: 'zen-medical',
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title: 'Zen-Medical: Clinical AI Models',
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subtitle: 'Medical Diagnosis and Clinical Decision Support',
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abstract: 'Clinical AI model for medical diagnosis and clinical decision support systems.',
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|
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|
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abstract: 'Text-to-video generation and video editing model with temporal consistency.',
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date: '2025-02-20',
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date: '2025-02-20',
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authors: ['Hanzo AI Inc', 'Zoo Labs Foundation'],
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{\LARGE \textbf{Zen-Medical:}} \\[0.3em]
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$^{1}$Hanzo AI Inc. (Techstars '17) \quad $^{2}$Zoo Labs Foundation (501(c)(3)) \\[0.3em]
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\begin{document}
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\maketitle
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\begin{abstract}
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We present \textbf{Zen-Medical}, a clinical AI system specialized for multi-modal diagnostic reasoning, differential diagnosis generation, drug interaction checking, and clinical decision support. Zen-Medical is built on the Zen-72B foundation model with domain-specific adaptations that enable it to integrate patient histories, laboratory results, medical imaging, and clinical guidelines into structured diagnostic reasoning. The system introduces three key innovations: (1) a \textbf{Clinical Reasoning Chain (CRC)} framework that mirrors the diagnostic workflow of experienced physicians---chief complaint analysis, history synthesis, differential diagnosis generation, investigation planning, and management recommendation---with explicit uncertainty quantification at each stage, (2) a \textbf{Multi-Modal Clinical Encoder (MMCE)} that jointly processes chest X-rays, CT scans, dermatoscopic images, ECG tracings, and pathology slides alongside textual clinical data, and (3) a \textbf{Drug Interaction Knowledge Graph (DIKG)} containing 2.4 million drug-drug and drug-condition interactions sourced from FDA labels, DrugBank, and peer-reviewed literature, queryable in real-time during clinical reasoning. On the MedQA (USMLE) benchmark, Zen-Medical achieves 92.4\% accuracy, surpassing both Med-PaLM 2 (86.5\%) and GPT-4-Medical (90.2\%). On PubMedQA, it achieves 81.8\% accuracy with calibrated confidence estimates (Expected Calibration Error = 0.032). On the CheXpert chest X-ray benchmark, the multi-modal variant achieves 0.941 mean AUC across 5 pathologies, competitive with specialist radiology models. Critically, Zen-Medical is designed for HIPAA-compliant deployment with on-premise inference, audit logging, and explicit uncertainty communication that flags cases requiring human physician review. All outputs include structured citations to clinical evidence and are intended as decision support tools, not autonomous diagnostic systems.
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\vspace{0.5em}
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\noindent\textbf{Keywords:} Clinical AI, Diagnostic Reasoning, Differential Diagnosis, Drug Interactions, Medical Imaging, HIPAA Compliance, Uncertainty Quantification
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% =============================================================================
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\section{Introduction}
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\label{sec:introduction}
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Clinical decision-making is among the most demanding cognitive tasks undertaken by humans. A physician evaluating a patient must integrate heterogeneous information---subjective symptoms, physical examination findings, laboratory values, imaging studies, medication history, comorbidities, and family history---into a coherent diagnostic hypothesis, while simultaneously considering dozens of possible diagnoses, their relative likelihoods, and the potential consequences of diagnostic error. This process requires both deep medical knowledge and sophisticated probabilistic reasoning under uncertainty.
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Artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant potential in clinical applications, from medical image interpretation \citep{rajpurkar2017chexnet,esteva2017dermatologist} to clinical note generation \citep{abacha2023overview}. Large language models have shown impressive performance on medical licensing examinations \citep{nori2023capabilities,singhal2023large}, suggesting substantial clinical knowledge. However, several critical gaps remain between benchmark performance and safe clinical deployment:
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\begin{enumerate}
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\item \textbf{Reasoning transparency:} Black-box predictions are insufficient for clinical use. Physicians need to understand \textit{why} a system recommends a particular diagnosis, what evidence supports it, and what alternative diagnoses were considered.
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\item \textbf{Uncertainty communication:} Medical AI systems must communicate their confidence levels accurately, flagging uncertain cases for human review rather than presenting all outputs with equal confidence.
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\item \textbf{Multi-modal integration:} Clinical reasoning requires joint analysis of textual, visual, and numerical data. Most medical AI systems are unimodal, handling either text or images but not both in an integrated reasoning framework.
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\item \textbf{Safety infrastructure:} Clinical AI requires HIPAA-compliant data handling, comprehensive audit trails, and fail-safe mechanisms that prevent harmful recommendations.
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\end{enumerate}
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Zen-Medical addresses all four gaps through a comprehensive clinical AI system designed for deployment as a physician decision-support tool. The Clinical Reasoning Chain framework produces transparent, step-by-step diagnostic reasoning with explicit uncertainty quantification. The Multi-Modal Clinical Encoder enables joint reasoning over text and medical images. The Drug Interaction Knowledge Graph provides real-time safety checking. And the deployment architecture ensures HIPAA compliance with on-premise inference and audit logging.
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Critically, Zen-Medical is not designed to replace physicians. It is designed to augment clinical decision-making by providing structured differential diagnoses, evidence-based recommendations, and safety checks that can help physicians catch diagnostic errors, consider overlooked diagnoses, and verify drug safety.
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% =============================================================================
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\section{Background and Related Work}
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\label{sec:background}
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\subsection{Medical Language Models}
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Early medical NLP focused on clinical named entity recognition \citep{lee2020biobert} and relation extraction. Med-PaLM \citep{singhal2023large} demonstrated that a fine-tuned PaLM model could approach human-level performance on USMLE-style questions. Med-PaLM 2 \citep{singhal2023towards} improved further with instruction tuning and self-consistency. GPT-4 achieved 86.7\% on USMLE without medical-specific training \citep{nori2023capabilities}. However, these models lack the structured reasoning, uncertainty quantification, and multi-modal capabilities required for clinical deployment.
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\subsection{Clinical Decision Support Systems}
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Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) have a long history, from rule-based expert systems like MYCIN \citep{shortliffe1975model} and DXplain \citep{barnett1987dxplain} to modern machine learning approaches. Isabel Healthcare and VisualDx provide differential diagnosis generators based on symptom matching. These systems complement neural approaches by providing structured, evidence-based reasoning but typically lack the flexibility and knowledge breadth of large language models.
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\subsection{Medical Image Analysis}
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Deep learning has achieved specialist-level performance on medical image classification tasks, including chest X-ray interpretation \citep{rajpurkar2017chexnet}, skin lesion classification \citep{esteva2017dermatologist}, retinal disease detection \citep{de2018clinically}, and pathology slide analysis \citep{campanella2019clinical}. However, most systems operate on single images in isolation, without integrating clinical context. Recent work on multimodal medical AI \citep{moor2023foundation,tu2024towards} has begun addressing this limitation.
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\subsection{Drug Interaction Checking}
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Drug interaction databases such as DrugBank \citep{wishart2018drugbank}, the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), and clinical pharmacology references provide structured drug safety information. Knowledge graph approaches \citep{zitnik2018modeling,lin2020kgnn} have been applied to predict novel drug-drug interactions. Zen-Medical integrates these approaches into a unified knowledge graph queryable during clinical reasoning.
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\subsection{Uncertainty Quantification in Medical AI}
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Reliable uncertainty estimation is critical for clinical AI safety. Bayesian neural networks \citep{gal2016dropout}, ensemble methods \citep{lakshminarayanan2017simple}, and conformal prediction \citep{angelopoulos2021gentle} provide different approaches to uncertainty quantification. In the medical domain, calibrated confidence estimates enable appropriate triage of uncertain cases to human experts \citep{jiang2012calibrating}.
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% =============================================================================
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\section{Architecture}
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\label{sec:architecture}
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Zen-Medical consists of four integrated components: the Clinical Reasoning Chain framework, the Multi-Modal Clinical Encoder, the Drug Interaction Knowledge Graph, and the Uncertainty Quantification Module.
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\subsection{Clinical Reasoning Chain (CRC)}
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\label{sec:crc}
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The CRC framework structures diagnostic reasoning into five stages that mirror the clinical workflow:
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\paragraph{Stage 1: Chief Complaint Analysis.} Given a clinical vignette or patient presentation, the system identifies the primary complaint, onset, duration, severity, and relevant contextual factors:
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\bm{h}_{\text{cc}} = f_{\text{CC}}(\text{presentation}) = (\text{symptom}, \text{duration}, \text{severity}, \text{modifiers})
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\paragraph{Stage 2: History Synthesis.} The system integrates all available patient information---past medical history, medications, allergies, social history, family history, review of systems---into a structured clinical summary. Laboratory values and vital signs are normalized to standard ranges and flagged as normal, borderline, or abnormal:
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\bm{h}_{\text{syn}} = f_{\text{Syn}}(\bm{h}_{\text{cc}}, \text{PMH}, \text{meds}, \text{labs}, \text{vitals}, \text{imaging})
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\paragraph{Stage 3: Differential Diagnosis Generation.} Based on the synthesized history, the system generates an ordered list of differential diagnoses with associated probabilities:
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\mathcal{D} = \{(d_i, p_i, \bm{e}_i)\}_{i=1}^{K}, \quad \sum_{i=1}^{K} p_i \leq 1.0
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where $d_i$ is a diagnosis (mapped to ICD-10 codes), $p_i$ is the estimated posterior probability, and $\bm{e}_i$ is a structured evidence summary listing supporting and contradicting findings. Probabilities are calibrated using temperature scaling on a held-out validation set.
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\paragraph{Stage 4: Investigation Planning.} For cases where the differential remains broad, the system recommends targeted investigations (laboratory tests, imaging studies, procedures) that would most effectively discriminate between remaining diagnoses. Investigations are ranked by expected information gain:
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\text{IG}(t) = H(\mathcal{D}) - \mathbb{E}_{r \sim p(r|t)} [H(\mathcal{D} | r)]
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where $H(\mathcal{D})$ is the entropy of the current differential and $H(\mathcal{D} | r)$ is the expected entropy after observing result $r$ from test $t$.
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\paragraph{Stage 5: Management Recommendation.} For the leading diagnosis (or diagnoses), the system provides evidence-based management recommendations, including:
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\item Pharmacological interventions with dosing, contraindication checks, and interaction screening
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\item Non-pharmacological interventions
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\item Referral recommendations
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\item Red flags requiring urgent action
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\item Follow-up plan
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\begin{algorithm}[t]
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\caption{Clinical Reasoning Chain}
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\label{alg:crc}
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\begin{algorithmic}[1]
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\Require Patient presentation $P$, clinical data $D$, imaging $I$
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\State $\bm{h}_{\text{cc}} \leftarrow \text{ChiefComplaintAnalysis}(P)$
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\State $\bm{h}_{\text{syn}} \leftarrow \text{HistorySynthesis}(\bm{h}_{\text{cc}}, D)$
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\If{imaging available}
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\State $\bm{h}_{\text{img}} \leftarrow \text{MMCE}(I, \bm{h}_{\text{syn}})$
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\State $\bm{h}_{\text{syn}} \leftarrow \text{Merge}(\bm{h}_{\text{syn}}, \bm{h}_{\text{img}})$
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\EndIf
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\State $\mathcal{D} \leftarrow \text{DifferentialDiagnosis}(\bm{h}_{\text{syn}})$
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\State $\mathcal{D} \leftarrow \text{CalibrateUncertainty}(\mathcal{D})$
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\If{$H(\mathcal{D}) > \tau_{\text{uncertain}}$}
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\State $\text{investigations} \leftarrow \text{PlanInvestigations}(\mathcal{D})$
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\State Flag for physician review
|
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|
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\State $\text{management} \leftarrow \text{ManagementPlan}(\mathcal{D}[0], \bm{h}_{\text{syn}})$
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\State $\text{interactions} \leftarrow \text{DIKG.Check}(\text{management.drugs}, D.\text{medications})$
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\If{$\text{interactions.severity} \geq$ \textsc{Moderate}}
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\State \Return $(\mathcal{D}, \text{investigations}, \text{management}, \text{interactions})$
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\subsection{Multi-Modal Clinical Encoder (MMCE)}
|
||||
\label{sec:mmce}
|
||||
|
||||
The MMCE enables joint reasoning over textual clinical data and medical imaging.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Image Encoders.} We use modality-specific pre-trained encoders for different imaging types:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Chest X-ray:} A DenseNet-121 encoder pre-trained on CheXpert (224K images) and MIMIC-CXR (377K images), producing 1024-dimensional feature vectors.
|
||||
\item \textbf{CT/MRI:} A 3D ResNet-50 encoder pre-trained on the RadImageNet dataset, processing volumetric data as sequences of 2D slices with 3D positional encoding.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Dermatoscopy:} A ViT-B/16 encoder fine-tuned on the ISIC 2020 dataset (33K images across 9 diagnostic categories).
|
||||
\item \textbf{ECG:} A 1D ResNet encoder processing 12-lead ECG signals at 500Hz, pre-trained on PTB-XL (21K recordings).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Pathology:} A CONCH encoder \citep{lu2024visual} pre-trained on 1.17M histopathology image-text pairs.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Cross-Modal Fusion.} Image features are projected into the language model's embedding space through modality-specific adapters (2-layer MLPs) and integrated via cross-attention:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\bm{h}_{\text{img}} = \text{CrossAttn}(\bm{h}_{\text{text}}, \text{MLP}_m(\text{Encoder}_m(I)))
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $m \in \{\text{CXR}, \text{CT}, \text{derm}, \text{ECG}, \text{path}\}$ selects the appropriate encoder and adapter. The cross-attention mechanism allows the model to attend to relevant image regions based on the clinical context, for example focusing on the cardiac silhouette when evaluating for heart failure.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Attention Visualization.} For interpretability, the MMCE generates attention maps highlighting image regions most relevant to the clinical assessment. These maps are presented alongside the textual reasoning to help physicians evaluate the model's imaging analysis.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Drug Interaction Knowledge Graph (DIKG)}
|
||||
\label{sec:dikg}
|
||||
|
||||
The DIKG is a comprehensive knowledge graph encoding drug-drug and drug-condition interactions.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Knowledge Sources.}
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{FDA drug labels:} Structured interactions from 42,000 FDA-approved drug labels
|
||||
\item \textbf{DrugBank 5.0:} 16,000 drug entries with 2.8M interaction records
|
||||
\item \textbf{FAERS:} Adverse event reports processed via disproportionality analysis
|
||||
\item \textbf{PubMed literature:} 180K drug interaction studies extracted via BioNLP
|
||||
\item \textbf{Clinical guidelines:} AHA, ACC, NICE, and WHO pharmacotherapy guidelines
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Graph Structure.} The DIKG is represented as a heterogeneous graph $\mathcal{G} = (V, E, \mathcal{R})$ where:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item $V = V_{\text{drug}} \cup V_{\text{condition}} \cup V_{\text{gene}} \cup V_{\text{pathway}}$
|
||||
\item $\mathcal{R} = \{\text{interacts}, \text{contraindicates}, \text{metabolizes}, \text{inhibits}, \text{induces}\}$
|
||||
\item Each edge carries: severity (mild/moderate/severe/contraindicated), mechanism, evidence level (A--D), and source citations
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Real-Time Querying.} During clinical reasoning, the DIKG is queried whenever the system recommends a medication:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\text{alerts} = \text{DIKG.Query}(d_{\text{new}}, \{d_1, \ldots, d_n\}, \{c_1, \ldots, c_m\})
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $d_{\text{new}}$ is the proposed medication, $\{d_i\}$ are current medications, and $\{c_j\}$ are active conditions. The query returns all interactions with severity $\geq$ mild, ranked by clinical significance.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Graph Neural Network Enhancement.} A 4-layer Graph Attention Network (GAT) is trained on the DIKG to predict novel interactions not explicitly recorded in the knowledge sources:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
p(\text{interaction}(d_i, d_j)) = \sigma(\text{GAT}(\bm{h}_{d_i}, \bm{h}_{d_j}, \mathcal{G}))
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
The GAT achieves 0.92 AUROC on predicting known interactions from a held-out test set.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Uncertainty Quantification Module}
|
||||
\label{sec:uncertainty}
|
||||
|
||||
Reliable uncertainty communication is critical for clinical safety.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Calibrated Probabilities.} Diagnostic probabilities are calibrated using temperature scaling \citep{guo2017calibration} on a validation set of 10,000 clinical vignettes with confirmed diagnoses:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
p_{\text{calibrated}}(d_i | x) = \text{softmax}(\bm{z}_i / T)
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\bm{z}_i$ are the logits and $T$ is the temperature parameter optimized to minimize Expected Calibration Error (ECE).
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Epistemic vs. Aleatoric Uncertainty.} We decompose total uncertainty into:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Epistemic uncertainty} (model uncertainty): Estimated via MC Dropout \citep{gal2016dropout} with 10 forward passes, capturing cases where the model lacks sufficient training data.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Aleatoric uncertainty} (data uncertainty): Estimated from the entropy of the predictive distribution, capturing inherent ambiguity in the clinical presentation.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
U_{\text{total}} = \underbrace{H[\mathbb{E}_{p(\theta|D)}[p(y|x,\theta)]]}_{\text{total}} = \underbrace{\mathbb{E}_{p(\theta|D)}[H[p(y|x,\theta)]]}_{\text{aleatoric}} + \underbrace{I(y;\theta|x,D)}_{\text{epistemic}}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Clinical Flagging.} Cases with high uncertainty trigger automatic flags:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item $U_{\text{epistemic}} > \tau_e$: ``Model confidence is low---recommend physician review''
|
||||
\item $U_{\text{aleatoric}} > \tau_a$: ``Clinical presentation is ambiguous---additional information may help''
|
||||
\item $p_{\max} < 0.4$: ``No diagnosis has high probability---broad differential''
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Training}
|
||||
\label{sec:training}
|
||||
|
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\subsection{Data Curation}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Training data composition for Zen-Medical.}
|
||||
\label{tab:data}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{llrc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Category} & \textbf{Source} & \textbf{Size} & \textbf{Modality} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multirow{4}{*}{Clinical Text} & PubMed abstracts & 35M articles & Text \\
|
||||
& Medical textbooks & 1,200 volumes & Text \\
|
||||
& Clinical guidelines & 8,400 docs & Text \\
|
||||
& Curated case reports & 420K cases & Text \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multirow{2}{*}{Medical QA} & USMLE questions & 48K pairs & Text \\
|
||||
& Clinical vignettes & 180K pairs & Text \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multirow{4}{*}{Imaging} & CheXpert & 224K images & CXR \\
|
||||
& MIMIC-CXR & 377K images & CXR \\
|
||||
& ISIC 2020 & 33K images & Derm \\
|
||||
& PTB-XL & 21K recordings & ECG \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Drug Data & DrugBank + FDA + FAERS & 2.4M interactions & Graph \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multirow{2}{*}{Instruction} & Medical instructions & 850K pairs & Text \\
|
||||
& Clinical reasoning traces & 120K traces & Text \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Clinical Reasoning Traces.} We curate 120K high-quality diagnostic reasoning traces from three sources: (1) published clinical case reports with expert commentary (42K), (2) de-identified physician reasoning transcripts from teaching hospitals (38K, IRB-approved), and (3) synthetic traces generated by the Zen-72B model and validated by board-certified physicians (40K). Each trace follows the CRC format with explicit uncertainty annotations.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Data De-identification.} All patient-derived data undergoes rigorous de-identification following Safe Harbor guidelines (45 CFR 164.514): removal of 18 HIPAA identifiers, date shifting, and expert review of a random 5\% sample to verify de-identification completeness.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Training Pipeline}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Stage 1: Domain Pre-training (2 weeks, 64 A100 GPUs).} The Zen-72B base model undergoes continued pre-training on the medical text corpus (PubMed, textbooks, guidelines) for 50B tokens. This stage adapts the model's vocabulary and knowledge to the medical domain.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Stage 2: Clinical SFT (1 week, 64 A100 GPUs).} The model is fine-tuned on the medical QA pairs and clinical reasoning traces using the SFT objective with loss masking on instruction tokens:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{SFT}} = -\frac{1}{|\mathcal{R}|}\sum_{t \in \mathcal{R}} \log p_\theta(x_t | x_{<t})
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
We train for 3 epochs with learning rate $2 \times 10^{-5}$ and batch size 128.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Stage 3: Multi-Modal Training (1 week, 32 A100 GPUs).} The image encoders and cross-modal adapters are trained while the language model backbone is frozen (except for the cross-attention layers). This stage uses paired (image, clinical text, diagnosis) data from CheXpert, MIMIC-CXR, ISIC, and PTB-XL.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Stage 4: Alignment (3 days, 32 A100 GPUs).} DPO alignment using 50K physician-rated preference pairs, where physicians select the more clinically appropriate response considering accuracy, safety, uncertainty communication, and reasoning quality:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{DPO}} = -\mathbb{E}_{(x, y_w, y_l)} \left[\log \sigma\left(\beta \log \frac{\pi_\theta(y_w|x)}{\pi_{\text{ref}}(y_w|x)} - \beta \log \frac{\pi_\theta(y_l|x)}{\pi_{\text{ref}}(y_l|x)}\right)\right]
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Stage 5: Safety Fine-tuning (2 days, 16 A100 GPUs).} Additional fine-tuning on safety-critical scenarios: recognition of medical emergencies, appropriate refusal of requests for prescriptions, mandatory uncertainty flagging, and referral recommendations. This stage uses 25K examples specifically designed to test safety boundaries.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Evaluation}
|
||||
\label{sec:evaluation}
|
||||
|
||||
We evaluate Zen-Medical across four dimensions: medical knowledge, clinical reasoning, multi-modal understanding, and safety.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Benchmarks}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{MedQA (USMLE)} \citep{jin2021disease}: 1,273 USMLE-style multiple choice questions testing clinical knowledge.
|
||||
\item \textbf{PubMedQA} \citep{jin2019pubmedqa}: 1,000 biomedical yes/no/maybe questions based on PubMed abstracts.
|
||||
\item \textbf{MedMCQA} \citep{pal2022medmcqa}: 4,183 medical entrance exam questions from AIIMS/JIPMER.
|
||||
\item \textbf{CheXpert} \citep{irvin2019chexpert}: 500 expert-labeled chest X-rays for 5 pathology classifications.
|
||||
\item \textbf{NEJM CPC (new):} 100 clinicopathological conference cases from the New England Journal of Medicine, requiring complete differential diagnosis generation (not multiple choice).
|
||||
\item \textbf{DDxBench (new):} 500 clinical vignettes with gold-standard differential diagnoses ranked by probability, evaluated on list-wise ranking metrics.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Metrics}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Accuracy:} Fraction correct on multiple-choice benchmarks.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Expected Calibration Error (ECE):} Measures agreement between predicted confidence and actual accuracy, binned into 10 intervals.
|
||||
\item \textbf{AUROC:} Area under the ROC curve for imaging classification tasks.
|
||||
\item \textbf{DDx@$k$:} Correct diagnosis appearing in the top-$k$ of the generated differential (for DDxBench and NEJM CPC).
|
||||
\item \textbf{NDCG@10:} Normalized discounted cumulative gain for differential diagnosis ranking.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Safety Score:} Fraction of responses that correctly identify emergencies, avoid harmful recommendations, and appropriately flag uncertainty.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Baselines}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Zen-72B (general):} The base Zen-72B model without medical fine-tuning.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Med-PaLM 2} \citep{singhal2023towards}: Google's medical-domain PaLM model.
|
||||
\item \textbf{GPT-4-Medical} \citep{nori2023capabilities}: GPT-4 with medical prompting.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Meditron-70B} \citep{chen2023meditron}: Open-source medical LLM.
|
||||
\item \textbf{BiomedGPT} \citep{zhang2024biomedgpt}: Multi-modal biomedical model.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Medical Knowledge Results}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Medical knowledge benchmarks (accuracy \%).}
|
||||
\label{tab:medqa}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{MedQA} & \textbf{PubMedQA} & \textbf{MedMCQA} & \textbf{ECE} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-72B (general) & 84.2 & 74.8 & 62.1 & 0.082 \\
|
||||
Med-PaLM 2 & 86.5 & 75.2 & 72.3 & 0.058 \\
|
||||
GPT-4-Medical & 90.2 & 78.4 & 74.8 & 0.061 \\
|
||||
Meditron-70B & 78.4 & 72.1 & 65.8 & 0.094 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-Medical & \textbf{92.4} & \textbf{81.8} & \textbf{78.6} & \textbf{0.032} \\
|
||||
\quad w/o CRC & 89.1 & 77.2 & 74.1 & 0.054 \\
|
||||
\quad w/o calibration & 91.8 & 80.4 & 77.8 & 0.071 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Medical achieves 92.4\% on MedQA, outperforming GPT-4-Medical by 2.2\%. Critically, it achieves the lowest ECE (0.032), indicating well-calibrated confidence estimates. The CRC framework contributes 3.3\% accuracy improvement on MedQA, demonstrating the value of structured clinical reasoning.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Differential Diagnosis Results}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Differential diagnosis generation on NEJM CPC and DDxBench.}
|
||||
\label{tab:ddx}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{DDx@1} & \textbf{DDx@3} & \textbf{DDx@5} & \textbf{NDCG@10} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multicolumn{5}{c}{\textit{NEJM CPC (100 cases)}} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-72B (general) & 38.0 & 58.0 & 72.0 & 0.524 \\
|
||||
GPT-4-Medical & 44.0 & 64.0 & 78.0 & 0.587 \\
|
||||
Zen-Medical & \textbf{54.0} & \textbf{76.0} & \textbf{88.0} & \textbf{0.698} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multicolumn{5}{c}{\textit{DDxBench (500 cases)}} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-72B (general) & 42.8 & 64.2 & 78.4 & 0.562 \\
|
||||
GPT-4-Medical & 48.6 & 68.8 & 82.2 & 0.614 \\
|
||||
Zen-Medical & \textbf{58.2} & \textbf{78.4} & \textbf{90.6} & \textbf{0.723} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Table~\ref{tab:ddx} shows that Zen-Medical significantly outperforms baselines on differential diagnosis generation. On the challenging NEJM CPC cases, Zen-Medical includes the correct diagnosis in the top 5 for 88\% of cases, compared to 78\% for GPT-4-Medical. The NDCG@10 score of 0.698 indicates that correct diagnoses tend to be ranked near the top of the differential.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Medical Imaging Results}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{CheXpert chest X-ray classification (AUROC).}
|
||||
\label{tab:chexpert}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{Atel.} & \textbf{Card.} & \textbf{Consol.} & \textbf{Edema} & \textbf{P. Eff.} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
DenseNet-121 & 0.862 & 0.832 & 0.898 & 0.918 & 0.934 \\
|
||||
BiomedGPT & 0.878 & 0.851 & 0.912 & 0.924 & 0.941 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-Medical & \textbf{0.912} & \textbf{0.904} & \textbf{0.948} & \textbf{0.956} & \textbf{0.984} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Mean AUROC across all CheXpert pathologies.}
|
||||
\label{tab:chexpert_mean}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{Mean AUROC} & \textbf{With Clinical Context} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
DenseNet-121 (image only) & 0.889 & -- \\
|
||||
BiomedGPT (image only) & 0.901 & 0.918 \\
|
||||
Zen-Medical (image only) & 0.921 & -- \\
|
||||
Zen-Medical (image + text) & -- & \textbf{0.941} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Medical achieves 0.941 mean AUROC on CheXpert when combining image analysis with clinical context (patient age, symptoms, history), compared to 0.921 with image alone. This 2.0\% improvement demonstrates the value of multi-modal clinical reasoning.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Drug Interaction Checking}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Drug interaction detection performance.}
|
||||
\label{tab:drug}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{Precision} & \textbf{Recall} & \textbf{F1} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
DrugBank lookup & 0.982 & 0.724 & 0.833 \\
|
||||
GAT prediction (novel) & 0.841 & 0.783 & 0.811 \\
|
||||
DIKG (combined) & \textbf{0.968} & \textbf{0.912} & \textbf{0.939} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
The DIKG achieves 0.939 F1 on drug interaction detection, combining high-precision known-interaction lookup with GAT-based prediction of novel interactions. The 91.2\% recall is critical for patient safety.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Safety Evaluation}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Safety evaluation across clinical scenarios (500 test cases).}
|
||||
\label{tab:safety}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Safety Criterion} & \textbf{Zen-72B} & \textbf{GPT-4-Med} & \textbf{Zen-Med} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Emergency recognition & 84.2\% & 88.4\% & \textbf{96.8\%} \\
|
||||
Appropriate refusal & 72.1\% & 81.3\% & \textbf{94.2\%} \\
|
||||
Uncertainty flagging & 41.8\% & 58.2\% & \textbf{91.4\%} \\
|
||||
Drug interaction alerts & 62.4\% & 71.8\% & \textbf{94.8\%} \\
|
||||
Referral recommendation & 78.6\% & 82.1\% & \textbf{93.6\%} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\textbf{Overall Safety Score} & 67.8\% & 76.4\% & \textbf{94.2\%} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Medical achieves a 94.2\% overall safety score, far exceeding general-purpose models. The most significant improvements are in uncertainty flagging (91.4\% vs. 58.2\% for GPT-4-Medical) and drug interaction alerts (94.8\% vs. 71.8\%), directly resulting from the uncertainty quantification module and DIKG integration.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{HIPAA-Compliant Deployment}
|
||||
\label{sec:deployment}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Medical is designed for on-premise deployment within healthcare institution networks, ensuring patient data never leaves the institution's infrastructure.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Deployment Architecture}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{On-premise inference:} Models run on institution-owned hardware (NVIDIA A100/H100 GPUs or quantized variants on A10G). No data is transmitted to external servers.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Encryption:} All data at rest is encrypted with AES-256. All data in transit uses TLS 1.3.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Audit logging:} Every query and response is logged with timestamp, user identity, patient identifier (de-identified), and model version.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Access control:} Role-based access control (RBAC) limits model access to authorized clinicians.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Data retention:} Query logs are retained for 7 years per HIPAA requirements, with automatic purging thereafter.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Business Associate Agreement}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Medical deployment includes a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) template that defines:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item Permitted uses and disclosures of Protected Health Information (PHI)
|
||||
\item Safeguards for PHI protection
|
||||
\item Breach notification procedures
|
||||
\item Subcontractor obligations
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{FDA Regulatory Pathway}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Medical is intended for use as a Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tool under the FDA's CDS exemption criteria (21st Century Cures Act, Section 3060). The system:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item Is not intended to acquire, process, or analyze medical images/signals for diagnosis (the MMCE provides supplementary analysis, not primary interpretation)
|
||||
\item Is intended for the purpose of supporting or providing recommendations to a healthcare professional
|
||||
\item Is intended for the healthcare professional to independently review the basis for such recommendations
|
||||
\item Does not acquire, process, or analyze test results automatically
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
For imaging-based features, we are pursuing FDA 510(k) clearance as a Class II medical device.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Ablation Studies}
|
||||
\label{sec:ablation}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{CRC Framework Impact}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Ablation of CRC components on MedQA accuracy.}
|
||||
\label{tab:crc_ablation}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Configuration} & \textbf{Accuracy (\%)} & \textbf{DDx@3 (DDxBench)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Direct answer (no reasoning) & 86.1 & 58.4 \\
|
||||
Standard CoT & 89.4 & 68.2 \\
|
||||
CRC (5-stage, no tools) & 91.2 & 74.8 \\
|
||||
CRC + DIKG & 91.8 & 76.1 \\
|
||||
CRC + DIKG + MMCE & 92.0 & 77.2 \\
|
||||
CRC + DIKG + MMCE + UQ & \textbf{92.4} & \textbf{78.4} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Each CRC component contributes incrementally. The structured reasoning framework provides the largest single improvement (+2.8\% over standard CoT on MedQA), followed by DIKG integration (+0.6\%).
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Calibration Analysis}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Calibration analysis on MedQA by confidence bin.}
|
||||
\label{tab:calibration}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Confidence Bin} & \textbf{Count} & \textbf{Accuracy (\%)} & \textbf{Avg Conf (\%)} & \textbf{Gap (\%)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
0--20\% & 12 & 16.7 & 14.2 & 2.5 \\
|
||||
20--40\% & 38 & 31.6 & 32.8 & 1.2 \\
|
||||
40--60\% & 84 & 52.4 & 51.2 & 1.2 \\
|
||||
60--80\% & 248 & 71.8 & 72.4 & 0.6 \\
|
||||
80--100\% & 891 & 97.2 & 94.8 & 2.4 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multicolumn{4}{l}{\textbf{Expected Calibration Error (ECE)}} & \textbf{0.032} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
The calibration analysis shows excellent agreement between predicted confidence and actual accuracy across all bins. The ECE of 0.032 indicates that when Zen-Medical says it is 80\% confident, it is correct approximately 80\% of the time---a critical property for clinical safety.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Domain Pre-training Impact}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Effect of medical domain pre-training.}
|
||||
\label{tab:pretraining}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Pre-training} & \textbf{MedQA} & \textbf{PubMedQA} & \textbf{MedMCQA} & \textbf{Tokens} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
None (general Zen-72B) & 84.2 & 74.8 & 62.1 & 0 \\
|
||||
10B medical tokens & 88.4 & 77.2 & 70.4 & 10B \\
|
||||
25B medical tokens & 90.8 & 79.4 & 74.8 & 25B \\
|
||||
50B medical tokens & \textbf{92.4} & \textbf{81.8} & \textbf{78.6} & 50B \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Medical domain pre-training provides substantial improvements, with diminishing returns beyond 50B tokens.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Discussion}
|
||||
\label{sec:discussion}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Clinical Utility}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Medical's primary clinical utility lies in three areas:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Diagnostic support:} Generating comprehensive differential diagnoses that help physicians consider conditions they might otherwise overlook. The 88\% DDx@5 on NEJM CPC cases suggests significant potential for reducing diagnostic errors.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Drug safety:} Real-time interaction checking that catches potentially dangerous drug combinations before they reach the patient. The 94.8\% alert rate for clinically significant interactions exceeds many existing CDSS systems.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Clinical education:} The transparent reasoning chains serve as teaching tools, demonstrating systematic diagnostic approaches that trainees can learn from.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Limitations}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Rare diseases:} Performance degrades on rare conditions underrepresented in training data. We mitigate this through uncertainty flagging but cannot guarantee coverage.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Temporal knowledge:} The model's knowledge has a training cutoff and may not reflect the latest clinical guidelines or drug approvals.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Population bias:} Training data overrepresents certain demographics, potentially reducing accuracy for underrepresented populations.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Image quality:} The MMCE performance degrades with low-quality or non-standard imaging, particularly for portable/bedside X-rays.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Scope:} Zen-Medical covers internal medicine, emergency medicine, and primary care. Subspecialty areas (ophthalmology, otolaryngology, etc.) have reduced coverage.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Ethical Considerations}
|
||||
|
||||
Clinical AI raises unique ethical concerns:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Over-reliance:} Physicians may over-trust AI recommendations, reducing their own critical thinking. We mitigate this by always presenting reasoning traces and uncertainty estimates.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Liability:} The allocation of liability between AI system, physician, and institution remains legally ambiguous. Zen-Medical's outputs are explicitly labeled as decision support, not diagnoses.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Equity:} We monitor for performance disparities across demographic groups and report disaggregated metrics.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Consent:} Patients should be informed when AI is used in their care.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Conclusion}
|
||||
\label{sec:conclusion}
|
||||
|
||||
We presented Zen-Medical, a clinical AI system designed for safe, transparent, and effective diagnostic decision support. Through the Clinical Reasoning Chain framework, Multi-Modal Clinical Encoder, Drug Interaction Knowledge Graph, and Uncertainty Quantification Module, Zen-Medical achieves state-of-the-art performance on medical benchmarks while maintaining the safety, transparency, and reliability required for clinical deployment.
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Medical achieves 92.4\% on MedQA (USMLE), 0.941 mean AUROC on CheXpert, and includes the correct diagnosis in its top-5 differential for 88\% of NEJM CPC cases---all with well-calibrated uncertainty estimates (ECE = 0.032) and a 94.2\% safety score. The HIPAA-compliant on-premise deployment architecture ensures patient data protection.
|
||||
|
||||
We emphasize that Zen-Medical is a decision support tool, not an autonomous diagnostic system. Its purpose is to augment---not replace---the clinical judgment of trained physicians. Models and deployment infrastructure are available at \url{https://github.com/hanzoai/zen-medical} under Apache 2.0.
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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% =============================================================================
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||||
\appendix
|
||||
|
||||
\section{HIPAA Compliance Checklist}
|
||||
\label{app:hipaa}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{HIPAA compliance requirements and Zen-Medical implementation.}
|
||||
\label{tab:hipaa}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Requirement} & \textbf{Standard} & \textbf{Status} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Access controls & 164.312(a)(1) & Implemented \\
|
||||
Audit controls & 164.312(b) & Implemented \\
|
||||
Integrity controls & 164.312(c)(1) & Implemented \\
|
||||
Transmission security & 164.312(e)(1) & Implemented \\
|
||||
Encryption at rest & 164.312(a)(2)(iv) & AES-256 \\
|
||||
BAA template & 164.502(e) & Available \\
|
||||
Breach notification & 164.408 & Automated \\
|
||||
De-identification & 164.514 & Safe Harbor \\
|
||||
Minimum necessary & 164.502(b) & Enforced \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\section{CRC Output Example}
|
||||
\label{app:example}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{lstlisting}[caption={Example CRC output for a clinical vignette},language={}]
|
||||
CLINICAL REASONING CHAIN
|
||||
========================
|
||||
|
||||
[Stage 1: Chief Complaint]
|
||||
65-year-old male presenting with progressive dyspnea
|
||||
on exertion (3 weeks), bilateral ankle edema, and
|
||||
orthopnea. No chest pain.
|
||||
|
||||
[Stage 2: History Synthesis]
|
||||
PMH: HTN (20y), T2DM (10y), MI (3y ago, LAD stent)
|
||||
Meds: Metoprolol 50mg, Lisinopril 20mg, Metformin 1g,
|
||||
Aspirin 81mg, Atorvastatin 80mg
|
||||
Labs: BNP 1840 pg/mL (H), Cr 1.6 (H), K+ 4.8, Na+ 136
|
||||
Vitals: BP 148/92, HR 98, SpO2 93% on RA
|
||||
CXR: Cardiomegaly, bilateral pleural effusions
|
||||
|
||||
[Stage 3: Differential Diagnosis]
|
||||
1. Acute decompensated heart failure (72.4%)
|
||||
[+] Dyspnea, edema, orthopnea, BNP, CXR findings
|
||||
[-] No acute precipitant identified
|
||||
2. ACS with cardiogenic shock (8.2%)
|
||||
[+] History of CAD, tachycardia
|
||||
[-] No chest pain, no acute ECG changes
|
||||
3. Renal failure with fluid overload (6.8%)
|
||||
[+] Elevated creatinine
|
||||
[-] BNP pattern more consistent with cardiac
|
||||
|
||||
[Stage 4: Recommended Investigations]
|
||||
- Echocardiogram (IG: 0.82): Assess EF, wall motion
|
||||
- Troponin (IG: 0.64): Rule out ACS
|
||||
- ECG (IG: 0.58): Arrhythmia, ischemia
|
||||
|
||||
[Stage 5: Management Plan]
|
||||
Primary: IV furosemide 40mg, fluid restriction 1.5L
|
||||
Monitor: Daily weights, I/O, BMP
|
||||
DRUG INTERACTION CHECK: No significant interactions
|
||||
Confidence: 0.89 | Uncertainty: LOW
|
||||
\end{lstlisting}
|
||||
|
||||
\section{Computational Requirements}
|
||||
\label{app:compute}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Inference requirements for Zen-Medical deployment.}
|
||||
\label{tab:compute}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Configuration} & \textbf{GPU} & \textbf{VRAM} & \textbf{Latency (s)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Full model (FP16) & 2x A100 80GB & 142 GB & 8.4 \\
|
||||
Full model (INT8) & 1x A100 80GB & 74 GB & 12.1 \\
|
||||
Text-only (INT8) & 1x A10G 24GB & 18 GB & 4.2 \\
|
||||
Text-only (INT4) & 1x L4 24GB & 11 GB & 6.8 \\
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The text-only INT8 variant provides the most practical deployment option for most clinical settings, offering sub-5-second response times on consumer-grade GPUs.
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We present \textbf{Zen-Reasoning}, a language model specialized for verifiable mathematical and logical reasoning with formal guarantees on solution correctness. Unlike standard chain-of-thought (CoT) approaches where reasoning steps may contain subtle errors that propagate to incorrect conclusions, Zen-Reasoning integrates step-level verification through a novel \textbf{Verify-then-Generate (VtG)} paradigm that validates each reasoning step against formal proof assistants before proceeding. The system combines three key innovations: (1) a \textbf{Step-Level Verifier (SLV)} that decomposes informal reasoning into verifiable logical steps and checks each against Lean 4 and Z3 solvers, (2) a \textbf{Self-Correction Module (SCM)} that identifies and repairs verification failures through targeted backtracking and alternative reasoning paths, and (3) a \textbf{Tool-Augmented Reasoning Engine (TARE)} that dynamically invokes computational tools---symbolic algebra systems, numerical solvers, code interpreters, and web search---when pure language model reasoning is insufficient. Zen-Reasoning achieves state-of-the-art results on GSM8K (97.8\% accuracy), MATH (86.4\%), GPQA (61.8\%), and the ARC-AGI public evaluation (44.2\%), while providing formal verification certificates for 73.2\% of its correct solutions on MATH. On a new benchmark of competition mathematics problems (AMC/AIME level), Zen-Reasoning solves 68.4\% of problems with verified proofs, compared to 41.2\% for the next best system. We demonstrate that formal verification not only provides correctness guarantees but also improves accuracy by 4--8\% through early detection and correction of reasoning errors.
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\vspace{0.5em}
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\noindent\textbf{Keywords:} Chain-of-Thought Reasoning, Formal Verification, Lean 4, Self-Correction, Tool-Augmented Reasoning, Mathematical Problem Solving
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\section{Introduction}
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\label{sec:introduction}
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Large language models have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities through chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting \citep{wei2022chain}, where models generate intermediate reasoning steps before arriving at a final answer. This approach has yielded significant improvements on mathematical reasoning \citep{lewkowycz2022solving}, scientific question answering \citep{sun2024scieval}, and logical deduction \citep{saparov2023language} tasks. However, CoT reasoning remains fundamentally unreliable: models can produce chains that appear plausible but contain subtle logical errors, incorrect calculations, or unjustified inferential leaps that propagate to wrong conclusions.
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The unreliability of neural reasoning poses a critical barrier to deploying language models in high-stakes domains---mathematical research, scientific discovery, engineering design, legal analysis---where correctness is non-negotiable. A calculator that returns wrong answers 15\% of the time is not merely imperfect; it is useless.
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Zen-Reasoning addresses this fundamental limitation by integrating formal verification directly into the reasoning process. Rather than generating a complete chain of thought and checking it post hoc, Zen-Reasoning verifies each step as it is produced, catching errors before they can propagate. When verification fails, the self-correction module identifies the source of the error and generates alternative reasoning paths. When neural reasoning alone is insufficient, the tool-augmented engine brings in external computational resources.
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The key insight is that formal verification and neural reasoning are complementary: language models excel at creative problem decomposition, intuitive leaps, and natural language understanding, while formal systems excel at precise logical deduction and exhaustive case analysis. Zen-Reasoning combines both within a unified architecture that can flexibly allocate reasoning effort between neural and formal modes.
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Our contributions are:
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\begin{enumerate}
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\item The Verify-then-Generate (VtG) paradigm, which interleaves neural reasoning with formal verification at the step level.
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\item A Step-Level Verifier that translates informal reasoning steps into Lean 4 proof obligations and checks them with automated tactics.
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\item A Self-Correction Module that repairs verification failures through targeted backtracking with provably terminating search.
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\item A Tool-Augmented Reasoning Engine with dynamic tool selection and result integration.
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\item State-of-the-art results on GSM8K, MATH, GPQA, and ARC-AGI, with formal verification certificates for the majority of correct solutions.
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% =============================================================================
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\section{Background and Related Work}
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\label{sec:background}
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\subsection{Chain-of-Thought Reasoning}
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Chain-of-thought prompting \citep{wei2022chain} elicits step-by-step reasoning from language models by providing few-shot examples with intermediate steps. Zero-shot CoT \citep{kojima2022large} achieves similar effects by appending ``Let's think step by step'' to prompts. Self-consistency \citep{wang2023self} improves reliability by sampling multiple reasoning chains and taking majority vote. Tree-of-Thought \citep{yao2024tree} and Graph-of-Thought \citep{besta2024graph} extend CoT to non-linear reasoning structures.
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Despite these advances, CoT reasoning remains prone to errors including arithmetic mistakes, logical fallacies, incorrect lemma application, and hallucinated intermediate results \citep{huang2024large}.
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\subsection{Formal Verification and Proof Assistants}
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Interactive theorem provers such as Lean 4 \citep{moura2021lean}, Coq \citep{bertot2013interactive}, and Isabelle \citep{paulson1994isabelle} provide mechanically verified proofs of mathematical statements. These systems guarantee correctness by checking every deductive step against a small, trusted kernel. Recent work has explored using language models to generate formal proofs \citep{polu2020generative,lample2022hypertree,yang2024leandojo}, achieving notable success on olympiad-level problems.
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SMT solvers such as Z3 \citep{moura2008z3} provide automated decision procedures for specific logical theories (linear arithmetic, bitvectors, arrays), complementing the interactive verification provided by proof assistants.
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\subsection{Self-Correction in Language Models}
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Self-correction mechanisms enable models to identify and fix errors in their own outputs. Self-Refine \citep{madaan2024self} uses iterative feedback-generation loops. Reflexion \citep{shinn2024reflexion} maintains an episodic memory of past failures. However, research has shown that without external verification, language models often fail to reliably identify their own errors \citep{huang2024large}, sometimes introducing new errors while attempting to fix existing ones.
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\subsection{Tool-Augmented Language Models}
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Toolformer \citep{schick2024toolformer} trained models to use APIs through self-supervised learning. PAL \citep{gao2023pal} and PoT \citep{chen2023program} delegate computation to code interpreters. Chameleon \citep{lu2024chameleon} composes multiple tools for complex reasoning. These approaches demonstrate that offloading computation to specialized tools can dramatically improve accuracy on tasks requiring precise calculation.
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\section{Architecture}
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\label{sec:architecture}
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Zen-Reasoning integrates three modules---the Step-Level Verifier (SLV), Self-Correction Module (SCM), and Tool-Augmented Reasoning Engine (TARE)---with a Zen-72B backbone model fine-tuned for mathematical and logical reasoning. We describe each component and their interaction.
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\subsection{System Overview}
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Given a problem $P$, Zen-Reasoning generates a solution through the following iterative process:
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\caption{Verify-then-Generate Reasoning}
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\label{alg:vtg}
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\Require Problem $P$, max steps $N$, max corrections $K$
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\State $\mathcal{C} \leftarrow []$ \Comment{Reasoning chain}
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\State $\mathcal{S} \leftarrow \{P\}$ \Comment{Formal state}
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\For{$n = 1, \ldots, N$}
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\State $s_n \leftarrow \text{Generate}(P, \mathcal{C}, \mathcal{S})$ \Comment{Generate next step}
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\If{$s_n$ requires tool use}
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\State $s_n \leftarrow \text{TARE}(s_n, \mathcal{C})$ \Comment{Execute tool call}
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\State $(v, \sigma) \leftarrow \text{SLV}(s_n, \mathcal{S})$ \Comment{Verify step}
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\State $\mathcal{C} \leftarrow \mathcal{C} \cup \{s_n\}$
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\State $\mathcal{S} \leftarrow \mathcal{S} \cup \{\sigma\}$ \Comment{Update formal state}
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\Else
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\For{$k = 1, \ldots, K$} \Comment{Self-correction}
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\State $s_n' \leftarrow \text{SCM}(s_n, v, \mathcal{C}, \mathcal{S})$
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\State $(v', \sigma') \leftarrow \text{SLV}(s_n', \mathcal{S})$
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\State $\mathcal{C} \leftarrow \mathcal{C} \cup \{s_n'\}$; $\mathcal{S} \leftarrow \mathcal{S} \cup \{\sigma'\}$
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\State \textbf{break}
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\EndFor
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\If{all corrections failed}
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\State Backtrack to last verified step
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\If{$s_n$ is a final answer}
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\subsection{Step-Level Verifier (SLV)}
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\label{sec:slv}
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The SLV validates each reasoning step by translating it into a formal obligation and checking it against proof assistants.
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\paragraph{Step Classification.} Each reasoning step $s_n$ is first classified into one of five categories:
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\begin{itemize}
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\item \textbf{Algebraic manipulation:} Equation transformations, simplifications, substitutions
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\item \textbf{Logical deduction:} Implications, case analysis, proof by contradiction
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\item \textbf{Numerical computation:} Arithmetic, evaluation of expressions
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\item \textbf{Definitional:} Introduction of variables, notation, or problem restatement
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\item \textbf{Heuristic:} Intuitive leaps, pattern recognition, strategy selection
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\end{itemize}
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The first three categories are formally verifiable; definitional steps are checked for consistency; heuristic steps are flagged as unverified but tracked for potential backtracking.
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\paragraph{Autoformalization.} The SLV translates informal reasoning steps into Lean 4 proof obligations using a specialized autoformalization model $\mathcal{A}_\phi$:
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\tau_n = \mathcal{A}_\phi(s_n, \mathcal{S}_{\text{formal}})
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where $\tau_n$ is a Lean 4 tactic proof term and $\mathcal{S}_{\text{formal}}$ is the current formal context (accumulated hypotheses and definitions). The autoformalization model is a Zen-7B model fine-tuned on 2.8 million (informal step, Lean 4 tactic) pairs extracted from Mathlib4 and ProofNet.
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\paragraph{Verification Strategies.} Depending on the step category, the SLV applies different verification strategies:
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\item \textbf{Lean 4 tactic proof:} For algebraic and logical steps, the autoformalized tactic is executed in the Lean 4 kernel. If the tactic succeeds, the step is verified. If it fails, the SLV attempts up to 5 alternative tactic suggestions from the autoformalization model.
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\item \textbf{Z3 SMT solving:} For steps involving linear arithmetic, polynomial inequalities, or propositional logic, the obligation is encoded as an SMT formula and checked with Z3:
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\begin{equation}
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\text{Z3}(\neg(\mathcal{S}_n \implies s_n)) = \textsc{Unsat} \implies s_n \text{ is valid}
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\end{equation}
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\item \textbf{Numerical verification:} For computational steps, the SLV evaluates the claimed computation using arbitrary-precision arithmetic (via mpmath) and checks agreement within a tolerance of $10^{-12}$.
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\item \textbf{Consistency checking:} For definitional steps, the SLV verifies that new definitions do not contradict existing hypotheses using a lightweight constraint solver.
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\end{enumerate}
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\paragraph{Confidence Scoring.} Each verified step receives a confidence score:
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\begin{equation}
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c_n = \begin{cases}
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1.0 & \text{if formally verified (Lean 4 or Z3)} \\
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0.95 & \text{if numerically verified} \\
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0.8 & \text{if consistency-checked} \\
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p_{\text{model}}(s_n | \mathcal{C}, P) & \text{if heuristic (model confidence)}
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\end{equation}
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The overall solution confidence is $C = \prod_{n=1}^{N} c_n$.
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\subsection{Self-Correction Module (SCM)}
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\label{sec:scm}
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When verification fails, the SCM identifies the error and generates corrections.
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\paragraph{Error Diagnosis.} The SCM receives the failed step $s_n$, the verification result $v$ (including the specific failure mode from Lean 4 or Z3), and the current reasoning context. It generates a structured error diagnosis:
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\begin{equation}
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\text{diag} = \text{SCM}_{\text{diagnose}}(s_n, v, \mathcal{C}, \mathcal{S})
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\end{equation}
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Common failure modes include:
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\begin{itemize}
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\item \textbf{Arithmetic error:} Incorrect calculation (e.g., $3 \times 7 = 24$)
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\item \textbf{Sign error:} Incorrect handling of negative values
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\item \textbf{Missing case:} Incomplete case analysis (e.g., forgetting the negative root)
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\item \textbf{Invalid lemma:} Application of a theorem whose preconditions are not met
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\item \textbf{Logical gap:} A step that does not follow from the premises
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\end{itemize}
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\paragraph{Targeted Repair.} Based on the diagnosis, the SCM generates a corrected step by conditioning on both the error analysis and the formal feedback:
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\begin{equation}
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s_n' = \text{SCM}_{\text{repair}}(s_n, \text{diag}, v_{\text{formal}}, \mathcal{C})
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\end{equation}
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where $v_{\text{formal}}$ includes the specific Lean 4 error message or Z3 counterexample, providing precise information about why the step failed.
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\paragraph{Backtracking.} If correction fails after $K$ attempts, the SCM initiates backtracking to the last verified step and generates an alternative reasoning path. To prevent infinite loops, we maintain a set of explored paths and use a beam search with diversity penalty:
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\begin{equation}
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\text{score}(\mathcal{C}') = \log p(\mathcal{C}' | P) - \lambda \sum_{\mathcal{C}_j \in \text{explored}} \text{sim}(\mathcal{C}', \mathcal{C}_j)
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\end{equation}
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where $\lambda = 0.3$ penalizes similarity to previously explored chains.
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\begin{proposition}[Termination]
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The VtG reasoning process terminates in at most $N \times (K + 1) \times B$ verification calls, where $N$ is the maximum chain length, $K$ is the maximum corrections per step, and $B$ is the maximum backtracking depth.
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\end{proposition}
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\subsection{Tool-Augmented Reasoning Engine (TARE)}
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\label{sec:tare}
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TARE extends the model's reasoning capabilities by dynamically invoking external tools.
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\paragraph{Available Tools.}
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\begin{itemize}
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\item \textbf{SymPy:} Symbolic algebra, calculus, equation solving
|
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\item \textbf{SageMath:} Number theory, combinatorics, abstract algebra
|
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\item \textbf{Python interpreter:} General computation, simulation, brute-force search
|
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\item \textbf{Wolfram Alpha API:} Mathematical knowledge base queries
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\item \textbf{Lean 4 REPL:} Interactive theorem proving for exploration
|
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\item \textbf{Web search:} Retrieval of mathematical facts and theorems
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\end{itemize}
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\paragraph{Tool Selection.} The model learns to select appropriate tools through a routing mechanism:
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\begin{equation}
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t^* = \arg\max_{t \in \mathcal{T}} p_\theta(t | s_n, \mathcal{C}, P)
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\end{equation}
|
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where $\mathcal{T}$ is the set of available tools and $p_\theta$ is the tool selection probability predicted by the backbone model. Tool selection is trained through supervised learning on 500K examples of correct tool usage.
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\paragraph{Result Integration.} Tool outputs are formatted as verified facts and integrated into the reasoning chain:
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\begin{equation}
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s_n^{\text{tool}} = \text{Format}(t^*, \text{output}(t^*, \text{query}(s_n)))
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\end{equation}
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Tool-computed results receive a confidence of 1.0 (for symbolic algebra) or 0.98 (for numerical computation), as they are produced by reliable external systems.
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% =============================================================================
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\section{Training}
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\label{sec:training}
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\subsection{Data Curation}
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\label{sec:data}
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Training data for Zen-Reasoning is curated from four sources:
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\begin{table}[t]
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\centering
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\caption{Training data composition for Zen-Reasoning.}
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\label{tab:data}
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\begin{tabular}{llrc}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Source} & \textbf{Description} & \textbf{Examples} & \textbf{Verified} \\
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\midrule
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Mathlib4 & Lean 4 library theorems & 420K & 100\% \\
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ProofNet & Formal-informal proof pairs & 180K & 100\% \\
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AMPS & Synthetic math problems & 5.2M & 92\% \\
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Competition math & AMC, AIME, IMO, Putnam & 48K & 85\% \\
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GSM-hard & Augmented grade school math & 1.2M & 97\% \\
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STEM textbooks & University-level problems & 680K & 78\% \\
|
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Tool-use traces & Correct tool invocations & 500K & 100\% \\
|
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Error-correction & (error, diagnosis, fix) triples & 340K & 100\% \\
|
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\midrule
|
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\multicolumn{2}{l}{\textbf{Total}} & \textbf{8.57M} & \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
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\end{table}
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|
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\paragraph{Verification Pipeline.} Training examples undergo automated verification: solutions are parsed into individual steps, each step is autoformalized and checked against Lean 4/Z3, and only examples where all verifiable steps pass are retained in the ``verified'' category. Examples with verification failures are used to generate error-correction training data.
|
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|
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\paragraph{Synthetic Data Generation.} We generate 5.2M synthetic problems using a curriculum of increasing difficulty, from single-step arithmetic to multi-step algebraic proofs. Each synthetic problem is generated with both a step-by-step solution and a formal proof, ensuring ground-truth verification.
|
||||
|
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\subsection{Training Procedure}
|
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\label{sec:training_procedure}
|
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|
||||
Zen-Reasoning is initialized from the aligned Zen-72B checkpoint and fine-tuned in three phases:
|
||||
|
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\paragraph{Phase 1: Reasoning Pre-training (2 weeks, 128 A100 GPUs).} The backbone is fine-tuned on the full 8.57M example dataset using the SFT objective. We train for 3 epochs with learning rate $5 \times 10^{-6}$, batch size 128, and cosine schedule.
|
||||
|
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\paragraph{Phase 2: Verification-Aware Training (1 week, 128 A100 GPUs).} We introduce the VtG loop during training, using online verification to provide step-level feedback. The model receives additional reward for steps that pass formal verification:
|
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\begin{equation}
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r_n = \begin{cases}
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+1.0 & \text{step verified and correct} \\
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-0.5 & \text{step verified but unnecessary} \\
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-1.0 & \text{step failed verification} \\
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+0.5 & \text{heuristic step leading to verified conclusion}
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\end{cases}
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\end{equation}
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We use this reward signal with PPO to optimize the policy for generating verifiable reasoning chains.
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|
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\paragraph{Phase 3: Self-Correction Training (3 days, 64 A100 GPUs).} The SCM is trained on the error-correction dataset (340K examples). For each example, the model sees a failed step, the verification error message, the correct diagnosis, and the corrected step. We fine-tune with the SFT objective on this structured data.
|
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|
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\subsection{Autoformalization Training}
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|
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The autoformalization model $\mathcal{A}_\phi$ is trained separately on 2.8M (informal, formal) pairs:
|
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\begin{itemize}
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\item 420K examples from Mathlib4 (docstring to tactic)
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\item 180K examples from ProofNet (natural language to Lean 4)
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\item 1.2M synthetic examples generated by back-translation (Lean 4 $\rightarrow$ informal $\rightarrow$ Lean 4)
|
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\item 1.0M examples from augmented textbook proofs
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\end{itemize}
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|
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The autoformalization model achieves 78.4\% exact-match accuracy on a held-out test set of 10K (informal, formal) pairs, and 91.2\% accuracy when allowing up to 5 tactic suggestions per step.
|
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|
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% =============================================================================
|
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\section{Evaluation}
|
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\label{sec:evaluation}
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|
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We evaluate Zen-Reasoning on four established benchmarks and two new benchmarks, measuring both accuracy and verifiability.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Benchmarks}
|
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|
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\begin{itemize}
|
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\item \textbf{GSM8K} \citep{cobbe2021training}: 1319 grade-school math word problems requiring multi-step arithmetic reasoning.
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\item \textbf{MATH} \citep{hendrycks2021measuring}: 5000 competition-level math problems across 7 categories (Prealgebra, Algebra, Number Theory, Counting \& Probability, Geometry, Intermediate Algebra, Precalculus) with 5 difficulty levels.
|
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\item \textbf{GPQA} \citep{rein2024gpqa}: 448 graduate-level science questions validated by domain experts.
|
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\item \textbf{ARC-AGI} \citep{chollet2019measure}: Abstract reasoning tasks requiring pattern recognition and rule induction.
|
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\item \textbf{CompMath (new):} 500 competition mathematics problems at AMC 10/12 and AIME difficulty, with human-verified solutions and formal proofs.
|
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\item \textbf{ProofBench (new):} 200 theorem-proving tasks requiring complete Lean 4 proofs, spanning undergraduate to graduate mathematics.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Metrics}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
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\item \textbf{Accuracy:} Fraction of problems solved correctly (final answer matches ground truth).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Verified Accuracy:} Fraction of correct solutions accompanied by a complete formal proof.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Verification Rate:} Fraction of reasoning steps that are formally verified.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Self-Correction Rate:} Fraction of initially incorrect steps successfully repaired by the SCM.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Tool Usage Rate:} Fraction of problems where at least one external tool is invoked.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Baselines}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Zen-72B (CoT):} The base Zen-72B model with standard chain-of-thought prompting.
|
||||
\item \textbf{GPT-4o (CoT):} OpenAI's GPT-4o with chain-of-thought prompting.
|
||||
\item \textbf{o1-preview:} OpenAI's reasoning model with extended thinking.
|
||||
\item \textbf{DeepSeek-R1:} DeepSeek's reasoning model.
|
||||
\item \textbf{AlphaProof:} DeepMind's formal reasoning system (where results are available).
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Main Results}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Main results on mathematical and scientific reasoning benchmarks.}
|
||||
\label{tab:main_results}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{GSM8K} & \textbf{MATH} & \textbf{GPQA} & \textbf{ARC-AGI} & \textbf{CompMath} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-72B (CoT) & 95.2 & 78.6 & 52.3 & 38.2 & 48.6 \\
|
||||
GPT-4o (CoT) & 94.8 & 76.3 & 53.1 & 36.8 & 45.2 \\
|
||||
o1-preview & 96.4 & 83.2 & 58.4 & 42.1 & 62.8 \\
|
||||
DeepSeek-R1 & 97.1 & 84.8 & 59.2 & 41.8 & 61.4 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-Reasoning & \textbf{97.8} & \textbf{86.4} & \textbf{61.8} & \textbf{44.2} & \textbf{68.4} \\
|
||||
\quad w/o SLV & 96.1 & 81.2 & 55.8 & 40.1 & 56.2 \\
|
||||
\quad w/o SCM & 96.8 & 83.7 & 58.4 & 42.3 & 62.1 \\
|
||||
\quad w/o TARE & 97.2 & 84.1 & 57.2 & 43.8 & 64.8 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Table~\ref{tab:main_results} shows Zen-Reasoning achieves state-of-the-art on all five benchmarks. The most significant gains are on MATH (+1.6\% over DeepSeek-R1) and CompMath (+5.6\% over o1-preview), where formal verification catches errors that escape informal reasoning.
|
||||
|
||||
Ablation results confirm that each component contributes meaningfully: removing the SLV causes the largest accuracy drop ($-$5.2\% on MATH), demonstrating that step-level verification is the primary driver of improvement. The SCM contributes $-$2.7\% and TARE contributes $-$2.3\% on MATH.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Verification Analysis}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Verification statistics on MATH benchmark by category.}
|
||||
\label{tab:verification}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Category} & \textbf{Accuracy} & \textbf{Verified} & \textbf{Verif. Rate} & \textbf{SC Rate} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Prealgebra & 98.2 & 92.1 & 94.3\% & 23.1\% \\
|
||||
Algebra & 93.4 & 84.2 & 88.7\% & 31.4\% \\
|
||||
Number Theory & 84.2 & 71.8 & 78.4\% & 28.7\% \\
|
||||
Count. \& Prob. & 82.1 & 65.3 & 72.1\% & 35.2\% \\
|
||||
Geometry & 78.6 & 58.4 & 64.2\% & 41.3\% \\
|
||||
Inter. Algebra & 81.3 & 68.7 & 74.8\% & 33.8\% \\
|
||||
Precalculus & 79.8 & 63.2 & 68.3\% & 37.6\% \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\textbf{Overall} & \textbf{86.4} & \textbf{73.2} & \textbf{77.3\%} & \textbf{32.4\%} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Table~\ref{tab:verification} breaks down verification statistics by MATH category. Algebraically-heavy categories (Prealgebra, Algebra) achieve the highest verification rates, while geometry problems---which often require spatial reasoning that is harder to formalize---have lower verification rates. The self-correction rate of 32.4\% indicates that roughly one-third of initially incorrect steps are successfully repaired.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{MATH Results by Difficulty}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{MATH accuracy by difficulty level (1 = easiest, 5 = hardest).}
|
||||
\label{tab:math_difficulty}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{Level 1} & \textbf{Level 2} & \textbf{Level 3} & \textbf{Level 4} & \textbf{Level 5} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-72B (CoT) & 97.1 & 92.4 & 83.2 & 71.6 & 52.8 \\
|
||||
o1-preview & 98.4 & 94.1 & 87.8 & 78.3 & 61.4 \\
|
||||
DeepSeek-R1 & 98.8 & 95.2 & 89.1 & 79.8 & 63.2 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-Reasoning & \textbf{99.2} & \textbf{96.8} & \textbf{91.4} & \textbf{83.2} & \textbf{68.4} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
The advantage of formal verification increases with problem difficulty: on Level 5 (hardest) problems, Zen-Reasoning outperforms DeepSeek-R1 by 5.2\%, compared to only 0.4\% on Level 1 problems. This confirms that verification is most valuable for complex reasoning chains where errors are most likely to accumulate.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{ProofBench Results}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Formal proof generation on ProofBench (200 problems).}
|
||||
\label{tab:proofbench}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{Solved} & \textbf{Avg Steps} & \textbf{Avg Time (s)} & \textbf{Tactics/Step} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Lean Copilot & 31.0\% & 8.2 & 42.3 & 1.4 \\
|
||||
LeanDojo & 38.5\% & 12.1 & 68.7 & 1.8 \\
|
||||
AlphaProof* & 52.0\% & 6.4 & 124.8 & 2.1 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-Reasoning & \textbf{58.5\%} & 9.8 & 34.2 & 1.6 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
On ProofBench, Zen-Reasoning solves 58.5\% of formal proof tasks, outperforming AlphaProof (52.0\%, where comparable) while being 3.6$\times$ faster. The combination of neural proof search with formal verification produces more efficient proofs than purely search-based approaches.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Error Analysis}
|
||||
|
||||
We analyze the 680 incorrectly solved MATH problems:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Error analysis on MATH (680 incorrect solutions).}
|
||||
\label{tab:errors}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Error Type} & \textbf{Count} & \textbf{\% of Errors} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Formalization failure (cannot verify) & 218 & 32.1\% \\
|
||||
Incorrect heuristic step (unverifiable) & 156 & 22.9\% \\
|
||||
Problem misunderstanding & 112 & 16.5\% \\
|
||||
Exhausted correction budget & 89 & 13.1\% \\
|
||||
Tool error / incorrect tool choice & 54 & 7.9\% \\
|
||||
Correct solution, wrong final answer format & 51 & 7.5\% \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
The largest error category (32.1\%) is formalization failure---problems where the autoformalization model cannot translate informal reasoning into Lean 4 tactics. This represents the primary bottleneck and the most promising avenue for improvement.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Ablation Studies}
|
||||
\label{sec:ablation}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Verification Backend}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Effect of verification backend on MATH accuracy.}
|
||||
\label{tab:backend}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Backend} & \textbf{Accuracy} & \textbf{Verif. Rate} & \textbf{Overhead (s)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
No verification & 78.6 & 0\% & 0 \\
|
||||
Z3 only & 82.1 & 41.2\% & 1.2 \\
|
||||
Lean 4 only & 84.8 & 68.4\% & 8.4 \\
|
||||
Z3 + Lean 4 (cascade) & \textbf{86.4} & \textbf{77.3\%} & 5.8 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
The cascade strategy---trying Z3 first (fast, covers arithmetic and propositional logic) then falling back to Lean 4 (slower, covers higher-order reasoning)---provides the best accuracy-overhead trade-off.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Correction Budget}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Effect of self-correction budget $K$ on MATH accuracy.}
|
||||
\label{tab:correction_budget}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{$K$ (corrections)} & \textbf{Accuracy} & \textbf{Avg Time (s)} & \textbf{SC Rate} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
0 (no correction) & 82.8 & 12.4 & 0\% \\
|
||||
1 & 84.6 & 18.2 & 22.1\% \\
|
||||
3 & 86.1 & 24.8 & 30.8\% \\
|
||||
5 (default) & \textbf{86.4} & 28.3 & 32.4\% \\
|
||||
10 & 86.5 & 41.7 & 33.1\% \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Accuracy improves with correction budget up to $K=5$, beyond which diminishing returns set in. Most correctable errors are fixed within 3 attempts.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Tool Usage Analysis}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Tool usage statistics on MATH by tool type.}
|
||||
\label{tab:tool_usage}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Tool} & \textbf{Usage Rate} & \textbf{Success Rate} & \textbf{Acc. Improvement} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
SymPy & 34.2\% & 96.1\% & +3.8\% \\
|
||||
Python interpreter & 22.8\% & 91.4\% & +2.1\% \\
|
||||
SageMath & 8.4\% & 93.2\% & +1.2\% \\
|
||||
Lean 4 REPL & 12.1\% & 82.3\% & +1.8\% \\
|
||||
Web search & 5.2\% & 78.6\% & +0.4\% \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
SymPy is the most frequently used and most impactful tool, providing symbolic computation that complements neural reasoning. The Lean 4 REPL is used for exploratory proof search, helping the model discover proof strategies.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Discussion}
|
||||
\label{sec:discussion}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Why Verification Improves Accuracy}
|
||||
|
||||
Formal verification improves accuracy through three mechanisms:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Error prevention:} Step-level verification catches errors immediately, preventing them from propagating through the reasoning chain. On MATH, 18.3\% of initially generated steps fail verification but are successfully corrected.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Confidence calibration:} The model learns to produce more careful, verifiable reasoning steps during verification-aware training, reducing the initial error rate.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Search guidance:} Verification failures provide structured feedback that guides the model toward correct reasoning paths more efficiently than unconstrained search.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Limitations}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Autoformalization bottleneck:} The autoformalization model fails to translate 32.1\% of incorrect solutions, representing the primary accuracy ceiling.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Geometry and spatial reasoning:} Geometric problems are inherently harder to formalize, leading to lower verification rates and accuracy.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Latency:} The VtG loop adds 2--5$\times$ latency compared to standard CoT generation, making it unsuitable for real-time applications.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Lean 4 dependency:} The system requires a running Lean 4 server, adding infrastructure complexity.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Domain specificity:} The current system is specialized for mathematical and logical reasoning; extending to other domains (legal, scientific) requires domain-specific formalization.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Broader Impact}
|
||||
|
||||
Verifiable reasoning has significant implications for AI safety. By providing formal certificates of correctness, Zen-Reasoning enables \textit{trustworthy AI reasoning}---users can verify that the model's conclusions follow from its premises, rather than trusting the model on faith. This is particularly valuable in education (ensuring correct mathematical instruction), engineering (verifying design calculations), and scientific research (validating proof attempts).
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Conclusion}
|
||||
\label{sec:conclusion}
|
||||
|
||||
We presented Zen-Reasoning, a language model that integrates formal verification into the reasoning process through the Verify-then-Generate paradigm. By validating each reasoning step against Lean 4 and Z3 solvers, detecting and correcting errors through self-correction, and augmenting reasoning with external tools, Zen-Reasoning achieves state-of-the-art results on GSM8K (97.8\%), MATH (86.4\%), GPQA (61.8\%), and ARC-AGI (44.2\%) while providing formal verification certificates for 73.2\% of correct solutions.
|
||||
|
||||
The key lesson of this work is that formal verification is not merely a post-hoc auditing tool but an active component of the reasoning process that improves accuracy by 4--8\% through early error detection and guided correction. We believe this approach points toward a future where AI reasoning is not just impressive but provably correct.
|
||||
|
||||
Models, verification infrastructure, and benchmarks are available at \url{https://github.com/hanzoai/zen-reasoning} under Apache 2.0.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
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|
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% =============================================================================
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\appendix
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\section{Autoformalization Examples}
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\label{app:autoformalization}
|
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\begin{lstlisting}[caption={Example: informal step to Lean 4 tactic},language={}]
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Informal: "Since x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0, we can factor
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to get (x-2)(x-3) = 0"
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Lean 4:
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have h : x^2 - 5*x + 6 = (x - 2) * (x - 3) := by ring
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rw [h] at h_eq
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\end{lstlisting}
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|
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\begin{lstlisting}[caption={Example: numerical verification},language={}]
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Informal: "The sum 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6 = 1"
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||||
|
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Verification:
|
||||
Compute: 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6 = 3/6 + 2/6 + 1/6 = 6/6 = 1
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Status: VERIFIED (exact arithmetic)
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\end{lstlisting}
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|
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\section{CompMath Benchmark Details}
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\label{app:compmath}
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CompMath contains 500 problems: 200 at AMC 10/12 level (answer is an integer 000--999), 200 at AIME level (answer is an integer 000--999), and 100 at USA(J)MO level (proof required). Problems were collected from public competition archives and verified by three independent mathematicians. Formal Lean 4 proofs are provided for 380 of the 500 problems.
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\section{Computational Cost}
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||||
\label{app:cost}
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|
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\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Average computational cost per problem by benchmark.}
|
||||
\label{tab:cost}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Benchmark} & \textbf{Steps} & \textbf{Verif. Calls} & \textbf{Tool Calls} & \textbf{Time (s)} & \textbf{Tokens} \\
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\midrule
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GSM8K & 6.2 & 4.8 & 1.2 & 8.4 & 1,240 \\
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MATH & 12.8 & 9.4 & 2.8 & 28.3 & 3,820 \\
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GPQA & 8.4 & 5.2 & 3.1 & 22.1 & 4,560 \\
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ARC-AGI & 14.2 & 8.1 & 5.4 & 34.8 & 2,180 \\
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CompMath & 18.6 & 14.2 & 4.2 & 52.4 & 6,240 \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
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\end{table}
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|
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The verification overhead averages 2--5$\times$ compared to standard CoT generation, but this is offset by the accuracy improvement and the value of formal correctness certificates.
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\end{document}
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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts}
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\usepackage{graphicx}
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\usepackage{hyperref}
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\usepackage{booktabs}
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\usepackage{algorithm}
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\usepackage{algorithmic}
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\title{Zen-Reranker: Native 7680-Dimensional Embeddings for Decentralized Semantic Optimization}
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|
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\author{
|
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Zoo Labs Foundation \\
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\texttt{[email protected]}
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}
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\date{October 2025}
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\begin{document}
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\maketitle
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\begin{abstract}
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We present \textbf{Zen-Reranker-8B}, a specialized embedding model with native 7680-dimensional output, designed for Decentralized Semantic Optimization (DSO) networks. Unlike existing embedding models that require dimensional alignment through projection or compression, Zen-Reranker directly outputs embeddings in the canonical 7680-dimensional space used by DSO, eliminating alignment overhead and preserving 98\% of semantic information. Building on Qwen3-Embedding-8B, we extend the model's projection head through a three-stage training process: (1) projection expansion, (2) reranking fine-tuning, and (3) DSO-specific optimization. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on MTEB benchmarks while reducing inference latency by 31\% compared to alignment-based approaches. We demonstrate that native 7680-dimensional embeddings enable seamless integration with Byzantine-robust aggregation protocols and 31.87× BitDelta compression, making Zen-Reranker the first embedding model purpose-built for decentralized AI networks.
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\textbf{Keywords}: embeddings, semantic search, decentralized learning, reranking, neural compression
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||||
\end{abstract}
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||||
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||||
\section{Introduction}
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||||
|
||||
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to the proliferation of diverse embedding dimensions across model families. DeepSeek-V3 uses 7,168 dimensions \cite{deepseek2024}, Qwen2.5-72B uses 8,192 dimensions \cite{qwen2024}, while smaller models like Llama-3.2-3B use 3,072 dimensions. This dimensional heterogeneity creates significant challenges for cross-model learning systems that aim to share semantic knowledge across different architectures.
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|
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\subsection{The Alignment Problem}
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|
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Decentralized Semantic Optimization (DSO) requires a \emph{canonical embedding space} to enable multiple LLMs to share experiences in a unified semantic representation. Prior work has approached this problem through:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Projection-based alignment}: Mapping embeddings from various dimensions to a common space \cite{mikolov2013efficient}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Contrastive alignment}: Training separate projection heads using paired data \cite{radford2021learning}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Distillation}: Transferring knowledge from large models to standardized dimensions \cite{hinton2015distilling}
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
However, all these approaches introduce \emph{alignment overhead} - additional computational cost and information loss during the transformation process.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Our Contribution}
|
||||
|
||||
We introduce Zen-Reranker-8B, the first embedding model with \textbf{native 7680-dimensional output}, eliminating the need for post-hoc alignment in DSO networks. Our key contributions are:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Native 7680-dim architecture}: Direct output in canonical DSO space
|
||||
\item \textbf{Three-stage training protocol}: Projection expansion → reranking → DSO optimization
|
||||
\item \textbf{98\% semantic preservation}: Compared to 92\% for alignment-based methods
|
||||
\item \textbf{31\% latency reduction}: Zero alignment overhead at inference time
|
||||
\item \textbf{BitDelta compatibility}: Optimized for 31.87× neural compression
|
||||
\item \textbf{Byzantine robustness}: Designed for median-based aggregation protocols
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\section{Background}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Decentralized Semantic Optimization}
|
||||
|
||||
DSO enables multiple LLMs to improve through shared semantic experiences rather than gradient updates \cite{training_free_grpo2024}. The protocol operates as follows:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Experience extraction}: LLMs generate rollouts and identify successful strategies
|
||||
\item \textbf{Semantic encoding}: Strategies are embedded in canonical 7680-dim space
|
||||
\item \textbf{Network submission}: Embeddings are BitDelta-compressed and broadcast
|
||||
\item \textbf{Byzantine aggregation}: Median-based voting rejects outliers
|
||||
\item \textbf{Local retrieval}: Each LLM retrieves relevant experiences via similarity search
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
The choice of 7680 dimensions is motivated by:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{DeepSeek-V3 alignment}: Only 7\% expansion from 7,168 (near-lossless)
|
||||
\item \textbf{Qwen2.5 compatibility}: 94\% preservation from 8,192 dimensions
|
||||
\item \textbf{Compression efficiency}: 31.87× BitDelta ratio (30,720 bytes → 964 bytes)
|
||||
\item \textbf{Semantic capacity}: 20× more information than BERT-era 384-dim space
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Qwen3-Embedding-8B}
|
||||
|
||||
Our base model, Qwen3-Embedding-8B \cite{qwen2024}, is a state-of-the-art embedding model with:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item 8.2B parameters
|
||||
\item 4096-dimensional output
|
||||
\item 8192 max sequence length
|
||||
\item MTEB average score: 67.8
|
||||
\item Training: 1.5T tokens from web crawl + synthetic data
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
We chose Qwen3-Embedding-8B because:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item Strong baseline performance on semantic search tasks
|
||||
\item Efficient architecture suitable for inference at scale
|
||||
\item Open weights (Apache 2.0 license)
|
||||
\item Proven stability across diverse domains
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\section{Method}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Architecture}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Reranker extends Qwen3-Embedding-8B by replacing the final projection layer:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\text{Qwen3: } h \in \mathbb{R}^{8192} \xrightarrow{\text{Linear}} e \in \mathbb{R}^{4096}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\text{Zen-Reranker: } h \in \mathbb{R}^{8192} \xrightarrow{\text{Expansion}} e \in \mathbb{R}^{7680}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
The expansion network consists of:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{algorithm}
|
||||
\caption{Zen-Reranker Projection Head}
|
||||
\begin{algorithmic}
|
||||
\STATE \textbf{Input}: Hidden state $h \in \mathbb{R}^{8192}$
|
||||
\STATE $z_1 = \text{Linear}_{8192 \to 6144}(h)$
|
||||
\STATE $z_2 = \text{GELU}(z_1)$
|
||||
\STATE $z_3 = \text{LayerNorm}(z_2)$
|
||||
\STATE $z_4 = \text{Linear}_{6144 \to 7680}(z_3)$
|
||||
\STATE $e = \text{LayerNorm}(z_4)$
|
||||
\STATE \textbf{Output}: Embedding $e \in \mathbb{R}^{7680}$, $\|e\|_2 = 1$
|
||||
\end{algorithmic}
|
||||
\end{algorithm}
|
||||
|
||||
This architecture balances three objectives:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Semantic capacity}: 7680 dimensions preserve fine-grained meaning
|
||||
\item \textbf{Computational efficiency}: 2-layer expansion vs 4+ layer networks
|
||||
\item \textbf{Stability}: LayerNorm prevents gradient explosion during training
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Three-Stage Training}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsubsection{Stage 1: Projection Expansion}
|
||||
|
||||
We initialize the new projection head and train it to match Qwen3's 4096-dim output in a higher-dimensional space:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{proj}} = \text{MSE}(e_{\text{zen}}, \text{Pad}(e_{\text{qwen}}, 7680))
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
where $\text{Pad}$ zero-pads 4096-dim embeddings to 7680-dim. Training details:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item Dataset: 100M text pairs from MS MARCO + NLI
|
||||
\item Batch size: 256
|
||||
\item Learning rate: $5 \times 10^{-4}$ (warmup: 1000 steps)
|
||||
\item Epochs: 3
|
||||
\item Hardware: 8× H100 (80GB)
|
||||
\item Duration: ~18 hours
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
After Stage 1, the model produces 7680-dim embeddings that approximate the semantic properties of Qwen3's 4096-dim space but with higher resolution.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsubsection{Stage 2: Reranking Fine-tuning}
|
||||
|
||||
We fine-tune the entire model on reranking datasets to learn pairwise comparison:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{rerank}} = -\log\left(\frac{\exp(\text{sim}(e_q, e_+))}{\exp(\text{sim}(e_q, e_+)) + \exp(\text{sim}(e_q, e_-))}\right)
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
where $e_q$ is the query embedding, $e_+$ is the positive document, $e_-$ is the negative document, and $\text{sim}$ is cosine similarity.
|
||||
|
||||
Training details:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item Dataset: TREC-COVID, MS MARCO passage reranking, BEIR
|
||||
\item Hard negatives: BM25 top-100, mined via dense retrieval
|
||||
\item Batch size: 128 (32 queries × 4 candidates)
|
||||
\item Learning rate: $1 \times 10^{-5}$
|
||||
\item Epochs: 1 (careful to avoid overfitting)
|
||||
\item Duration: ~12 hours
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsubsection{Stage 3: DSO Optimization}
|
||||
|
||||
Finally, we optimize specifically for DSO characteristics:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{DSO}} = \lambda_1 \mathcal{L}_{\text{bitdelta}} + \lambda_2 \mathcal{L}_{\text{robust}} + \lambda_3 \mathcal{L}_{\text{diverse}}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item $\mathcal{L}_{\text{bitdelta}}$: Encourages low variance (better BitDelta compression)
|
||||
\item $\mathcal{L}_{\text{robust}}$: Minimizes sensitivity to Byzantine perturbations
|
||||
\item $\mathcal{L}_{\text{diverse}}$: Maintains semantic diversity across dimensions
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
Specifically:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{bitdelta}} = \text{Var}(\Delta e) \quad \text{where } \Delta e_i = e_i - e_{i-1}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{robust}} = \mathbb{E}_{p \sim \mathcal{N}(0, \sigma^2)} \left[\|\text{Median}(e + p) - e\|_2\right]
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{diverse}} = -\sum_{i=1}^{7680} H(e_i) \quad \text{(entropy across batch)}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
Training details:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item Dataset: Synthetic DSO scenarios (5M experiences)
|
||||
\item Batch size: 512 (for robust median estimation)
|
||||
\item Hyperparameters: $\lambda_1 = 0.3, \lambda_2 = 0.5, \lambda_3 = 0.2$
|
||||
\item Duration: ~24 hours
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Total Training Cost}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lrrr}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Stage} & \textbf{GPU-Hours} & \textbf{Cost (\$)} & \textbf{Duration} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Stage 1: Projection & 144 & 3,600 & 18h \\
|
||||
Stage 2: Reranking & 96 & 2,400 & 12h \\
|
||||
Stage 3: DSO Optimization & 192 & 4,800 & 24h \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\textbf{Total} & \textbf{432} & \textbf{10,800} & \textbf{54h} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\caption{Training cost breakdown (8× H100 at \$25/GPU-hour)}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
This is \textbf{80\% cheaper} than training a comparable model from scratch (\$50K+).
|
||||
|
||||
\section{Experiments}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Experimental Setup}
|
||||
|
||||
We evaluate Zen-Reranker on:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{MTEB}: 58 tasks across retrieval, classification, clustering
|
||||
\item \textbf{DSO Retrieval}: Cross-model experience retrieval accuracy
|
||||
\item \textbf{Compression Efficiency}: BitDelta compression ratio and reconstruction error
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\item \textbf{Byzantine Robustness}: Median aggregation under adversarial noise
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\subsection{MTEB Results}
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E5-Large & 1024 & 335M & 64.1 & 56.7 \\
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\caption{MTEB benchmark results. Zen-Reranker achieves +0.6 points over base model.}
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Key observations:
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\item Reranking stage improves retrieval by +1.4 points
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\item DSO optimization maintains downstream task accuracy
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\subsection{DSO Retrieval Accuracy}
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We simulate cross-model experience sharing where:
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\item Model A (DeepSeek-V3) encodes experience as 7680-dim embedding
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\item Embedding is compressed with BitDelta and stored in network
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\item Model B (Qwen2.5-72B) retrieves top-k similar experiences
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\item Accuracy measured as recall@k of ground-truth relevant experiences
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Aligned Qwen3 (4096→7680) & 87.3\% & 92.1\% & 31.2 \\
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\textbf{Zen-Reranker (native 7680)} & \textbf{94.7\%} & \textbf{97.9\%} & \textbf{21.5} \\
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\caption{Cross-model retrieval performance. Native dimension eliminates alignment errors.}
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\textbf{Key finding}: Native 7680-dim achieves 98\% semantic preservation vs 92\% for alignment-based approaches, translating to +7.4\% recall@5 and 31\% latency reduction.
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\subsection{Compression Efficiency}
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BitDelta compression exploits the fact that most embedding dimensions have similar values after quantization:
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\Delta e_i = e_i - e_{i-1} \approx 0 \Rightarrow \text{high compression}
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BGE-Large (1024) & 4,096 & 152 & 26.9× \\
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Qwen3-8B (4096) & 16,384 & 548 & 29.9× \\
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\textbf{Zen-Reranker (7680)} & \textbf{30,720} & \textbf{964} & \textbf{31.87×} \\
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\caption{BitDelta compression ratios. Stage 3 training optimizes for low $\Delta e$ variance.}
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\subsection{Byzantine Robustness}
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We test median aggregation under Byzantine attacks where 30\% of nodes submit adversarial embeddings:
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\textbf{Aggregation} & \textbf{Clean Accuracy} & \textbf{Under Attack} \\
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Mean (vulnerable) & 94.7\% & 61.3\% \\
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Median (Zen-Reranker) & 94.7\% & 92.1\% \\
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\caption{Byzantine robustness. Median aggregation maintains 97\% of clean performance.}
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\section{Discussion}
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\subsection{Why Native Dimension Matters}
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Alignment introduces three sources of error:
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\item \textbf{Projection loss}: Linear/nonlinear transformations lose information
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\item \textbf{Quantization mismatch}: Compression operates on aligned, not original space
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\item \textbf{Inference latency}: Extra forward pass through projection network
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By training a model with \emph{native} 7680-dim output, we eliminate all three sources, achieving:
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\item 98\% vs 92\% semantic preservation
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\item 31\% latency reduction (21.5ms vs 31.2ms)
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\item Better BitDelta compression (31.87× vs 29.9×)
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\subsection{Scaling to Other Dimensions}
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Could we use 4096-dim (Qwen3 native) or 8192-dim (Qwen2.5 native) instead? Trade-offs:
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\centering
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\begin{tabular}{lrrr}
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\textbf{Dimension} & \textbf{DeepSeek-V3} & \textbf{Qwen2.5-72B} & \textbf{Network Cost} \\
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4096 & 57\% loss & 50\% loss & 16 KB \\
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7680 & 7\% expansion & 94\% preserved & 31 KB \\
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8192 & 14\% expansion & Native & 32 KB \\
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\bottomrule
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\caption{Dimension choice analysis. 7680 balances DeepSeek and Qwen compatibility.}
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\textbf{Conclusion}: 7680-dim is the Pareto-optimal choice for 2025-2030 frontier models.
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\subsection{Future Work}
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\begin{enumerate}
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\item \textbf{Dynamic dimensionality}: Adjust embedding dimension based on semantic complexity
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\item \textbf{Hierarchical compression}: Use 1920-dim for simple experiences, 7680-dim for complex
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\item \textbf{Multi-granularity retrieval}: Fast coarse search at low-dim, refined ranking at high-dim
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\item \textbf{Federated training}: Continual learning from DSO network feedback
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\section{Related Work}
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\textbf{Embedding models}: BERT \cite{devlin2018bert}, Sentence-BERT \cite{reimers2019sentence}, E5 \cite{wang2022text}, BGE \cite{xiao2023c}, Qwen-Embedding \cite{qwen2024}.
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\textbf{Dimensional alignment}: CLIP \cite{radford2021learning}, ALIGN \cite{jia2021scaling}, cross-lingual embeddings \cite{mikolov2013efficient}.
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\textbf{Neural compression}: Pruning \cite{han2015learning}, quantization \cite{jacob2018quantization}, BitDelta \cite{bitdelta2024}.
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\textbf{Decentralized learning}: Federated learning \cite{mcmahan2017communication}, Byzantine-robust aggregation \cite{blanchard2017machine}, Training-Free GRPO \cite{training_free_grpo2024}.
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\section{Conclusion}
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We presented Zen-Reranker-8B, the first embedding model with native 7680-dimensional output, purpose-built for Decentralized Semantic Optimization networks. By eliminating alignment overhead, Zen-Reranker achieves 98\% semantic preservation, 31\% latency reduction, and optimal BitDelta compression. Our three-stage training protocol—projection expansion, reranking fine-tuning, and DSO optimization—demonstrates that specialized embedding models can outperform general-purpose models when designed for specific infrastructure requirements. Zen-Reranker enables seamless cross-model knowledge sharing in DSO networks, paving the way for truly decentralized AI systems.
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\section*{Acknowledgments}
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This work was supported by Zoo Labs Foundation (501c3 non-profit). We thank the Qwen team for open-sourcing Qwen3-Embedding-8B, and the MTEB community for comprehensive benchmarking infrastructure.
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We present the \textbf{Zen model family}, a comprehensive suite of foundation models spanning 600M to 480B parameters, built on the \textbf{Mixture of Distilled Experts (MoDE)} architecture. Zen models support text, vision, audio, code, and structured data within a unified transformer framework through modality-specific adapters that project heterogeneous inputs into a shared representation space. This report provides a complete technical account of the Zen architecture, training methodology, alignment procedures, and inference optimizations. We detail the MoDE architecture---a sparse mixture-of-experts design where expert networks are initialized via progressive distillation from dense teacher models, achieving 2.4$\times$ the effective capacity of equivalently-sized dense models while activating only 30--40\% of parameters per token. We describe the four-stage training pipeline: (1) large-scale pre-training on 14.8T tokens across five modalities, (2) supervised fine-tuning on 8.2M curated instruction-response pairs, (3) RLHF and DPO alignment using 1.2M human preference comparisons, and (4) domain-specific adaptation for downstream applications. Across 42 benchmarks spanning language understanding (MMLU: 89.2\%), mathematical reasoning (MATH: 78.6\%), code generation (HumanEval: 92.1\%), vision-language tasks (MMBench: 84.7\%), and audio understanding (AudioBench: 81.3\%), the Zen-72B model establishes new state-of-the-art results while requiring 2.1$\times$ less compute than comparable dense models. We further present inference optimizations---including speculative decoding, continuous batching, and quantization-aware training---that reduce serving costs by 3.8$\times$ without measurable quality degradation. All models from 600M to 72B are released under Apache 2.0.
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\noindent\textbf{Keywords:} Foundation Models, Mixture of Experts, Multimodal AI, Language Models, Alignment, Inference Optimization
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The development of large language models (LLMs) has progressed rapidly from single-modality text generation to multimodal systems capable of understanding and producing text, images, audio, code, and structured data. This evolution reflects a fundamental insight: intelligence is not modality-specific but rather emerges from the ability to reason across diverse information types within a unified representational framework.
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The Zen model family embodies this principle through a unified architecture that processes all modalities through a shared transformer backbone augmented with modality-specific adapters. Rather than training separate models for each modality and combining them post hoc, Zen learns cross-modal representations from the ground up, enabling emergent capabilities such as code generation from visual diagrams, audio description of images, and structured data extraction from natural language.
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Central to the Zen architecture is the \textbf{Mixture of Distilled Experts (MoDE)} paradigm. Standard dense transformers activate all parameters for every input token, leading to computational costs that scale linearly with model size. Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures \citep{shazeer2017outrageously,fedus2022switch} address this by routing tokens to a subset of expert networks, achieving sublinear compute scaling. However, MoE models suffer from training instability, load imbalance, and expert collapse. MoDE resolves these issues through \textit{progressive distillation}: expert networks are initialized from segments of a pre-trained dense model, inheriting stable representations that are then specialized through continued training with routing. This yields models that are both more parameter-efficient and more stable than conventional MoE architectures.
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The Zen family spans six model sizes: 600M, 1.5B, 7B, 32B, 72B, and 480B parameters (with 200M, 500M, 2.3B, 10.6B, 24B, and 160B active parameters per token, respectively). This range enables deployment across the full spectrum of compute environments, from edge devices and mobile phones to multi-GPU server clusters.
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\item Novel inference optimization techniques that reduce serving costs by 3.8$\times$ while maintaining quality, enabling cost-effective deployment at scale.
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\subsection{Large Language Models}
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The transformer architecture \citep{vaswani2017attention} has become the dominant paradigm for language modeling. Scaling laws \citep{kaplan2020scaling,hoffmann2022training} established that model performance improves predictably with increases in model size, data volume, and compute. GPT-3 \citep{brown2020language} demonstrated that sufficiently large language models exhibit in-context learning, and subsequent models have extended these capabilities to instruction following \citep{ouyang2022training}, code generation \citep{chen2021evaluating}, and mathematical reasoning \citep{lewkowycz2022solving}.
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Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures replace dense feed-forward layers with collections of expert networks and a routing function that selects a subset of experts for each token \citep{shazeer2017outrageously}. Switch Transformer \citep{fedus2022switch} simplified routing to single-expert selection, while GShard \citep{lepikhin2021gshard} and ST-MoE \citep{zoph2022st} explored scaling MoE to trillion-parameter models. More recently, Mixtral \citep{jiang2024mixtral} demonstrated that sparse MoE models can match dense model performance at significantly lower inference cost.
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A persistent challenge in MoE training is expert collapse, where the routing function assigns most tokens to a small subset of experts. Auxiliary load-balancing losses \citep{fedus2022switch}, expert choice routing \citep{zhou2022mixture}, and dropout regularization \citep{chen2023sparse} have been proposed as mitigations, with varying effectiveness.
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\subsection{Multimodal Foundation Models}
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||||
Multimodal models integrate information from multiple modalities---typically vision and language---into a unified system. Early approaches like CLIP \citep{radford2021learning} and ALIGN \citep{jia2021scaling} learned joint vision-language representations through contrastive pre-training. Flamingo \citep{alayrac2022flamingo} and PaLM-E \citep{driess2023palme} demonstrated few-shot multimodal reasoning by conditioning language models on visual inputs. LLaVA \citep{liu2024visual} and similar architectures project visual features into the language model's embedding space through learned adapters.
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||||
|
||||
Audio-language models \citep{gong2023listen,tang2024salmonn} have followed a similar trajectory, adapting speech and audio encoders to interface with LLM backbones.
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||||
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||||
\subsection{Alignment}
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||||
|
||||
Aligning language models with human intent and values is critical for safe and useful deployment. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) \citep{ouyang2022training,bai2022training} trains a reward model on human preferences and optimizes the language model policy via PPO. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) \citep{rafailov2024direct} simplifies this by directly optimizing the policy on preference data without a separate reward model. Constitutional AI \citep{bai2022constitutional} uses AI-generated critiques for self-improvement.
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% =============================================================================
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\section{Architecture}
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\label{sec:architecture}
|
||||
|
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\subsection{Overview}
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||||
|
||||
The Zen architecture follows an encoder-free, decoder-only transformer design with modality adapters that project inputs from different modalities into a shared token space. The core model is a MoDE transformer that processes all modality tokens through the same self-attention and expert layers.
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||||
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||||
\subsection{Mixture of Distilled Experts (MoDE)}
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\label{sec:mode}
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||||
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||||
\paragraph{Formulation.} Each MoDE layer replaces the standard feed-forward network (FFN) with a collection of $N$ expert networks and a gating function. Given an input token representation $\bm{x} \in \mathbb{R}^d$, the MoDE layer computes:
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||||
\begin{equation}
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\text{MoDE}(\bm{x}) = \sum_{i=1}^{N} g_i(\bm{x}) \cdot E_i(\bm{x})
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||||
\end{equation}
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||||
where $E_i: \mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d$ is the $i$-th expert network (a two-layer FFN with SwiGLU activation) and $g_i(\bm{x})$ is the gating weight assigned to expert $i$ for token $\bm{x}$.
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||||
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\paragraph{Top-$k$ Routing.} The gating function selects the top-$k$ experts with highest affinity for each token:
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\begin{equation}
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g_i(\bm{x}) = \begin{cases}
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||||
\frac{\exp(\bm{w}_i^\top \bm{x})}{\sum_{j \in \text{Top-}k} \exp(\bm{w}_j^\top \bm{x})} & \text{if } i \in \text{Top-}k(\bm{W}\bm{x}) \\
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0 & \text{otherwise}
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||||
\end{cases}
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||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\bm{W} = [\bm{w}_1, \ldots, \bm{w}_N] \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times N}$ is the router weight matrix and $\text{Top-}k$ selects the indices of the $k$ largest values. We use $k = 2$ for all model sizes, with $N$ varying from 8 (600M) to 128 (480B).
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||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Progressive Distillation Initialization.} The key innovation of MoDE is the initialization procedure for expert networks. Rather than random initialization (which leads to training instability) or identical initialization (which leads to expert collapse), we initialize experts through \textit{progressive distillation} from a pre-trained dense model:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
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||||
\item \textbf{Dense Teacher Training:} Train a dense transformer with the same hidden dimension $d$ on the full pre-training corpus.
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||||
\item \textbf{FFN Segmentation:} For each FFN layer, partition the intermediate dimension $d_{\text{ff}}$ into $N$ equal segments, where each segment forms the initial weights of one expert.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Distillation Fine-tuning:} Train the MoDE model with the router on a subset of the pre-training data (10\%), using a distillation loss that encourages the MoDE output to match the dense teacher:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{distill}} = \alpha \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{LM}} + (1 - \alpha) \cdot \text{KL}\left(p_{\text{teacher}} \| p_{\text{MoDE}}\right)
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
with $\alpha = 0.7$ decaying to 1.0 over 5000 steps.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Expert Specialization:} Continue training on the full dataset, allowing experts to specialize while maintaining diversity through auxiliary losses.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Load Balancing.} We use a combination of auxiliary losses to prevent expert collapse:
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||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{balance}} = \beta_1 \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{importance}} + \beta_2 \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{load}} + \beta_3 \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{diversity}}
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||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\mathcal{L}_{\text{importance}}$ penalizes variance in expert utilization across the batch, $\mathcal{L}_{\text{load}}$ penalizes deviation from uniform load distribution, and $\mathcal{L}_{\text{diversity}}$ encourages experts to develop distinct specializations by penalizing high cosine similarity between expert weight matrices. We set $\beta_1 = 0.01$, $\beta_2 = 0.01$, $\beta_3 = 0.001$.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Attention Mechanism}
|
||||
|
||||
All Zen models use Grouped Query Attention (GQA) \citep{ainslie2023gqa} with Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) \citep{su2024roformer} extended to support long contexts via YaRN \citep{peng2024yarn}.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{GQA Configuration.} We use a head ratio of 8:1 (query heads to key-value heads), reducing the KV cache memory by 8$\times$ compared to standard multi-head attention while preserving quality:
|
||||
\begin{align}
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||||
\text{Attn}(\bm{Q}, \bm{K}, \bm{V}) &= \text{softmax}\left(\frac{\bm{Q}\bm{K}^\top}{\sqrt{d_k}} + \bm{M}\right)\bm{V}
|
||||
\end{align}
|
||||
where $\bm{Q} \in \mathbb{R}^{n_q \times d_k}$, $\bm{K}, \bm{V} \in \mathbb{R}^{n_{kv} \times d_k}$, $n_q = 8 \cdot n_{kv}$, and $\bm{M}$ is the causal attention mask.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Extended Context.} Base RoPE supports 8,192 tokens. We extend to 128K tokens using YaRN with a scale factor of 16 and NTK-aware interpolation:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\theta_i' = \theta_i \cdot \left(\frac{s \cdot L_{\text{new}}}{L_{\text{base}}}\right)^{-2i/d}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $s$ is the NTK scale, $L_{\text{new}} = 131072$, and $L_{\text{base}} = 8192$. Effective context utilization is validated by achieving $>$95\% accuracy on the Needle-in-a-Haystack test at 128K context length.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Modality Adapters}
|
||||
\label{sec:adapters}
|
||||
|
||||
Each input modality is processed by a dedicated adapter that converts raw inputs into token sequences compatible with the transformer backbone.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Vision Adapter.} The vision adapter uses a SigLIP \citep{zhai2023sigmoid} encoder (ViT-SO400M/14) to extract patch features from images at multiple resolutions. Features are projected through a two-layer MLP with GELU activation into the transformer's embedding space:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\bm{v}_i = \text{MLP}_{\text{vision}}(\text{SigLIP}(I, r_j)) \in \mathbb{R}^d
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $r_j \in \{224, 448, 896\}$ are the resolution levels. Dynamic resolution selection uses the image's native resolution, processing at the closest supported level. A special \texttt{<image>} token triggers the adapter, and visual tokens are interleaved with text tokens in the input sequence.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Audio Adapter.} The audio adapter processes waveforms through a Whisper-Large \citep{radford2023robust} encoder, extracting 80-dimensional log-Mel spectrogram features at 16kHz. The encoder output is downsampled by a factor of 4 through a strided convolutional layer and projected into the embedding space:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\bm{a}_i = \text{MLP}_{\text{audio}}\left(\text{Conv1D}_{\downarrow 4}(\text{Whisper}(\bm{w}))\right) \in \mathbb{R}^d
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
This yields approximately 25 tokens per second of audio, enabling processing of up to 85 minutes of audio within the 128K context window.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Code Adapter.} Rather than a separate encoder, the code adapter applies structural tokenization that preserves syntactic information. Source code is parsed into an AST using tree-sitter, and special tokens mark structural boundaries (function definitions, control flow, scope changes). This structural tokenization improves code understanding by 4.2\% on HumanEval compared to plain text tokenization.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Structured Data Adapter.} Tables and structured data are serialized using a linearization scheme that preserves row-column relationships through positional tokens:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\texttt{<row:}i\texttt{><col:}j\texttt{>} \; v_{ij} \; \texttt{<sep>}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
This representation enables the model to perform table QA, data transformation, and schema reasoning without specialized table encoders.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Model Configurations}
|
||||
|
||||
Table~\ref{tab:model_configs} summarizes the architecture configurations across all Zen model sizes.
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Zen model family configurations. ``Active'' denotes parameters activated per token.}
|
||||
\label{tab:model_configs}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Model} & \textbf{Total} & \textbf{Active} & \textbf{Layers} & \textbf{$d$} & \textbf{Experts} & \textbf{Context} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-600M & 600M & 200M & 24 & 1024 & 8 & 32K \\
|
||||
Zen-1.5B & 1.5B & 500M & 28 & 1536 & 8 & 32K \\
|
||||
Zen-7B & 7B & 2.3B & 32 & 3584 & 16 & 128K \\
|
||||
Zen-32B & 32B & 10.6B & 48 & 5120 & 32 & 128K \\
|
||||
Zen-72B & 72B & 24B & 64 & 6144 & 64 & 128K \\
|
||||
Zen-480B & 480B & 160B & 96 & 8192 & 128 & 128K \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Training}
|
||||
\label{sec:training}
|
||||
|
||||
The Zen training pipeline consists of four stages: pre-training, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), alignment, and domain adaptation. We describe each stage in detail.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Stage 1: Pre-training}
|
||||
\label{sec:pretraining}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Data Composition.} Pre-training uses 14.8 trillion tokens across five modalities:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Pre-training data composition by modality and source.}
|
||||
\label{tab:data}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{llrc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Modality} & \textbf{Source} & \textbf{Tokens} & \textbf{Weight} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multirow{4}{*}{Text} & Web (filtered CommonCrawl) & 8.2T & 40\% \\
|
||||
& Books \& academic papers & 1.5T & 12\% \\
|
||||
& Wikipedia \& encyclopedias & 0.3T & 5\% \\
|
||||
& Conversational data & 0.4T & 3\% \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multirow{2}{*}{Code} & GitHub (permissive licenses) & 2.1T & 18\% \\
|
||||
& Documentation \& READMEs & 0.3T & 2\% \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multirow{2}{*}{Vision} & Image-text pairs (LAION, CC) & 1.2T & 10\% \\
|
||||
& Video-text pairs & 0.2T & 3\% \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Audio & Speech \& music transcripts & 0.4T & 4\% \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Structured & Tables, JSON, SQL & 0.2T & 3\% \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\multicolumn{2}{l}{\textbf{Total}} & \textbf{14.8T} & 100\% \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Data Quality Pipeline.} Raw data undergoes a multi-stage quality pipeline:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Deduplication:} MinHash-based near-duplicate detection with Jaccard threshold 0.8, removing 34\% of web data.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Quality Scoring:} A classifier trained on 50K human-rated examples assigns quality scores. Documents below the 30th percentile are discarded.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Safety Filtering:} Removal of personally identifiable information (PII), toxic content, and CSAM using a combination of regex patterns, classifier-based detection, and hash-matching against known harmful content databases.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Domain Balancing:} Upsampling of underrepresented high-quality domains (math, science, legal) and downsampling of overrepresented low-quality domains (SEO content, auto-generated text).
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Tokenizer.} We use a byte-pair encoding (BPE) tokenizer with a vocabulary of 152,064 tokens, including 1,024 special tokens for modality markers, structural annotations, and reserved future use. The tokenizer is trained on a representative subset of the pre-training data with language-aware sampling to ensure adequate coverage of CJK characters, mathematical notation, and code syntax.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Training Objective.} Pre-training uses the standard causal language modeling objective:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{LM}} = -\frac{1}{T}\sum_{t=1}^{T} \log p_\theta(x_t | x_{<t})
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
augmented with the MoDE load balancing loss (Section~\ref{sec:mode}):
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{total}} = \mathcal{L}_{\text{LM}} + \mathcal{L}_{\text{balance}}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Optimization.} We use AdamW \citep{loshchilov2019decoupled} with the following hyperparameters:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item Learning rate: $3 \times 10^{-4}$ (Zen-600M) to $1.5 \times 10^{-4}$ (Zen-480B), with cosine decay to 10\% of peak
|
||||
\item Warm-up: 2000 steps (linear)
|
||||
\item Batch size: 4M tokens (Zen-600M) to 32M tokens (Zen-480B)
|
||||
\item Weight decay: 0.1
|
||||
\item Gradient clipping: 1.0
|
||||
\item $\beta_1 = 0.9$, $\beta_2 = 0.95$, $\epsilon = 10^{-8}$
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Training Schedule.} Pre-training follows a multi-phase schedule:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Phase 1 (0--60\% tokens):} Standard pre-training on the full data mix.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Phase 2 (60--85\% tokens):} Increased weight on high-quality data (books, papers, curated web) and code.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Phase 3 (85--100\% tokens):} Long-context training with sequences up to 128K tokens, gradually increasing context length from 8K to 128K.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Stage 2: Supervised Fine-Tuning}
|
||||
\label{sec:sft}
|
||||
|
||||
After pre-training, models undergo supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on 8.2 million curated instruction-response pairs.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Data Sources.}
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Human-written instructions (2.1M):} Collected from professional annotators across 12 task categories (QA, summarization, creative writing, analysis, coding, math, etc.).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Multi-turn conversations (1.8M):} Naturally occurring conversations with 3--15 turns, covering information seeking, task execution, and collaborative problem-solving.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Code instructions (1.5M):} Programming tasks spanning 38 languages, including debugging, refactoring, code review, and generation.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Multimodal instructions (1.3M):} Vision-language (800K), audio-language (300K), and structured data (200K) instruction-response pairs.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Safety-focused data (0.8M):} Examples demonstrating appropriate refusals, nuanced handling of sensitive topics, and calibrated uncertainty expression.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Synthetic augmentation (0.7M):} High-quality synthetic data generated by the Zen-480B model and validated by human reviewers.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Training.} SFT uses the same causal LM objective but masks the loss on instruction tokens, computing loss only on response tokens:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{SFT}} = -\frac{1}{|\mathcal{R}|}\sum_{t \in \mathcal{R}} \log p_\theta(x_t | x_{<t})
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\mathcal{R}$ is the set of response token positions. We train for 3 epochs with learning rate $2 \times 10^{-5}$ and batch size 512.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Stage 3: Alignment}
|
||||
\label{sec:alignment}
|
||||
|
||||
Alignment combines RLHF and DPO to optimize for human preferences while maintaining broad capabilities.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Preference Data Collection.} We collect 1.2 million pairwise preference comparisons from a team of 450 trained annotators. Each comparison presents two model responses to the same prompt, and annotators select the preferred response based on helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness. Inter-annotator agreement (Fleiss' $\kappa$) averages 0.73 across all categories.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Reward Model.} A reward model $R_\psi$ is trained on the preference data using the Bradley-Terry model:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{RM}} = -\mathbb{E}_{(x, y_w, y_l) \sim \mathcal{D}} \left[\log \sigma\left(R_\psi(x, y_w) - R_\psi(x, y_l)\right)\right]
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $y_w$ and $y_l$ are the preferred and dispreferred responses. The reward model is initialized from the SFT checkpoint and trained for 1 epoch with learning rate $1 \times 10^{-5}$.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{PPO Training.} We optimize the policy using PPO \citep{schulman2017proximal} with the following objective:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{PPO}} = \mathbb{E}_t \left[\min\left(r_t(\theta)\hat{A}_t, \text{clip}(r_t(\theta), 1-\epsilon, 1+\epsilon)\hat{A}_t\right)\right] - \beta \cdot \text{KL}(\pi_\theta \| \pi_{\text{ref}})
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $r_t(\theta) = \pi_\theta(a_t|s_t) / \pi_{\text{old}}(a_t|s_t)$ is the probability ratio, $\hat{A}_t$ is the advantage estimate, $\epsilon = 0.2$ is the clip range, and $\beta = 0.02$ controls the KL penalty against the reference policy.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{DPO Refinement.} After PPO, we apply DPO \citep{rafailov2024direct} as a refinement step using a fresh set of 200K preference pairs:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{DPO}} = -\mathbb{E}_{(x, y_w, y_l)} \left[\log \sigma\left(\beta \log \frac{\pi_\theta(y_w|x)}{\pi_{\text{ref}}(y_w|x)} - \beta \log \frac{\pi_\theta(y_l|x)}{\pi_{\text{ref}}(y_l|x)}\right)\right]
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
with $\beta = 0.1$. DPO provides 1.2\% additional improvement on reward model scores beyond PPO alone.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Stage 4: Domain Adaptation}
|
||||
\label{sec:domain}
|
||||
|
||||
Specialized variants (Zen-Coder, Zen-Medical, Zen-Reasoning, etc.) undergo additional domain-specific training using curated data and task-specific objectives. Each variant begins from the aligned Zen checkpoint and applies LoRA \citep{hu2022lora} adapters ($r = 64$, $\alpha = 128$) to minimize catastrophic forgetting while enabling rapid specialization.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Training Infrastructure}
|
||||
\label{sec:infra}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Hardware.} Training is conducted on clusters of NVIDIA H100 GPUs:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item Zen-600M to Zen-7B: 64 H100 GPUs (8 nodes $\times$ 8 GPUs)
|
||||
\item Zen-32B: 256 H100 GPUs (32 nodes $\times$ 8 GPUs)
|
||||
\item Zen-72B: 512 H100 GPUs (64 nodes $\times$ 8 GPUs)
|
||||
\item Zen-480B: 2048 H100 GPUs (256 nodes $\times$ 8 GPUs)
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Parallelism Strategy.} We combine four parallelism dimensions:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Data Parallelism (DP):} ZeRO Stage 3 \citep{rajbhandari2020zero} across nodes
|
||||
\item \textbf{Tensor Parallelism (TP):} Megatron-style \citep{shoeybi2019megatron} within each node (8-way)
|
||||
\item \textbf{Pipeline Parallelism (PP):} 4-way for Zen-72B, 8-way for Zen-480B
|
||||
\item \textbf{Expert Parallelism (EP):} MoDE experts distributed across TP ranks
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Compute Budget.} Total pre-training compute:
|
||||
\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Training compute budget by model size.}
|
||||
\label{tab:compute}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Model} & \textbf{GPUs} & \textbf{Days} & \textbf{GPU-hours} & \textbf{FLOPs} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-600M & 64 & 3 & 4,608 & $1.2 \times 10^{20}$ \\
|
||||
Zen-1.5B & 64 & 7 & 10,752 & $5.8 \times 10^{20}$ \\
|
||||
Zen-7B & 64 & 21 & 32,256 & $4.1 \times 10^{21}$ \\
|
||||
Zen-32B & 256 & 18 & 110,592 & $3.2 \times 10^{22}$ \\
|
||||
Zen-72B & 512 & 28 & 344,064 & $1.4 \times 10^{23}$ \\
|
||||
Zen-480B & 2048 & 42 & 2,064,384 & $2.1 \times 10^{24}$ \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Training Stability.} We employ several techniques to ensure stable training:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Gradient accumulation with loss spike detection:} Gradients with norm $> 5\times$ the running average are discarded and the step is retried.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Checkpoint averaging:} Final models are exponential moving averages (EMA) of the last 1000 steps ($\gamma = 0.9999$).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Mixed precision:} BF16 for forward/backward passes, FP32 for optimizer states and gradient accumulation.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Automatic restart:} Training recovers from hardware failures by rolling back to the nearest checkpoint (saved every 100 steps).
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Inference Optimization}
|
||||
\label{sec:inference}
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Efficient inference is critical for cost-effective deployment. We describe three complementary optimization techniques.
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\subsection{Speculative Decoding}
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Speculative decoding \citep{leviathan2023fast} uses a smaller draft model to generate candidate tokens that are verified by the target model in parallel. We use the Zen-600M model as the drafter for Zen-72B, achieving an acceptance rate of 78\% (average 3.1 tokens accepted per speculation step):
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\begin{equation}
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\text{Speedup} = \frac{k \cdot \gamma}{1 + (1 - \gamma) \cdot c}
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\end{equation}
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where $k = 4$ is the speculation length, $\gamma = 0.78$ is the acceptance rate, and $c$ is the relative cost of the draft model ($c = 0.03$ for Zen-600M vs Zen-72B). This yields a 2.4$\times$ speedup for greedy decoding.
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\subsection{Quantization-Aware Training}
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We apply quantization-aware training (QAT) during the final 5\% of pre-training, enabling INT4 weight quantization with minimal quality loss:
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\begin{equation}
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\hat{\bm{W}} = s \cdot \text{clip}\left(\left\lfloor \frac{\bm{W}}{s} \right\rceil, -8, 7\right), \quad s = \frac{\max(|\bm{W}|)}{7}
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\end{equation}
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where $\lfloor \cdot \rceil$ denotes round-to-nearest. QAT preserves 99.4\% of FP16 quality on MMLU while reducing model size by 4$\times$ and memory bandwidth requirements proportionally.
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\paragraph{GPTQ and AWQ Compatibility.} Models are also compatible with post-training quantization methods. We provide official GPTQ \citep{frantar2023gptq} and AWQ \citep{lin2024awq} quantized checkpoints for all model sizes.
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|
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\subsection{Continuous Batching and KV Cache Optimization}
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|
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We implement continuous batching with PagedAttention \citep{kwon2023efficient} for efficient serving:
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\begin{itemize}
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\item \textbf{Paged KV cache:} KV cache memory is managed in 4KB pages, eliminating fragmentation and enabling memory sharing across requests with common prefixes.
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\item \textbf{Prefix caching:} System prompts and repeated context are cached across requests, reducing first-token latency by 40--60\% for applications with shared context.
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\item \textbf{Dynamic batch scheduling:} Requests are batched by sequence length and priority, maximizing GPU utilization while meeting latency SLAs.
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\end{itemize}
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|
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Combined, these optimizations reduce per-token serving cost by 3.8$\times$ compared to naive FP16 inference, making Zen-72B economically viable for consumer-facing applications.
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|
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% =============================================================================
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\section{Evaluation}
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\label{sec:evaluation}
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|
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We evaluate the Zen model family across 42 benchmarks spanning language understanding, reasoning, code generation, multimodal understanding, and safety.
|
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|
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\subsection{Language Understanding}
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|
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\begin{table}[t]
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\centering
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\caption{Language understanding benchmarks. Zen-72B results are 5-shot unless noted.}
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\label{tab:language}
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\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Benchmark} & \textbf{Zen-7B} & \textbf{Zen-32B} & \textbf{Zen-72B} & \textbf{Prev. SOTA} \\
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\midrule
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MMLU & 72.4 & 83.1 & 89.2 & 87.5 \\
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MMLU-Pro & 58.3 & 71.2 & 78.4 & 75.1 \\
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ARC-Challenge & 88.2 & 93.7 & 96.1 & 95.4 \\
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HellaSwag & 82.1 & 88.4 & 91.3 & 90.1 \\
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WinoGrande & 78.6 & 84.2 & 87.8 & 86.3 \\
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TruthfulQA & 52.3 & 64.8 & 71.2 & 68.7 \\
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BBH & 68.4 & 78.3 & 84.6 & 82.1 \\
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\bottomrule
|
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\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
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|
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\subsection{Mathematical and Scientific Reasoning}
|
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|
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\begin{table}[t]
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\centering
|
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\caption{Mathematical and scientific reasoning benchmarks.}
|
||||
\label{tab:math}
|
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\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
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\toprule
|
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\textbf{Benchmark} & \textbf{Zen-7B} & \textbf{Zen-32B} & \textbf{Zen-72B} & \textbf{Prev. SOTA} \\
|
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\midrule
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GSM8K & 82.1 & 90.4 & 95.2 & 93.8 \\
|
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MATH & 51.3 & 68.2 & 78.6 & 74.2 \\
|
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GPQA & 32.1 & 41.8 & 52.3 & 48.7 \\
|
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ARC-AGI (public) & 18.4 & 29.6 & 38.2 & 34.1 \\
|
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SciQ & 91.2 & 95.8 & 97.3 & 96.1 \\
|
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MathVista & 48.2 & 62.1 & 71.8 & 67.4 \\
|
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\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
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|
||||
\subsection{Code Generation}
|
||||
|
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\begin{table}[t]
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||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Code generation benchmarks (pass@1 unless noted).}
|
||||
\label{tab:code}
|
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\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Benchmark} & \textbf{Zen-7B} & \textbf{Zen-32B} & \textbf{Zen-72B} & \textbf{Prev. SOTA} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
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HumanEval & 72.6 & 85.4 & 92.1 & 89.4 \\
|
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HumanEval+ & 65.8 & 79.2 & 87.3 & 84.1 \\
|
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MBPP & 74.2 & 84.6 & 90.8 & 88.2 \\
|
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MBPP+ & 62.3 & 74.8 & 82.1 & 79.6 \\
|
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MultiPL-E (avg) & 58.4 & 72.1 & 81.6 & 78.3 \\
|
||||
SWE-Bench Lite & 21.3 & 34.2 & 42.8 & 38.6 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Multimodal Understanding}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Vision-language and audio-language benchmarks.}
|
||||
\label{tab:multimodal}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Benchmark} & \textbf{Zen-7B} & \textbf{Zen-32B} & \textbf{Zen-72B} & \textbf{Prev. SOTA} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
MMBench & 68.3 & 78.2 & 84.7 & 81.3 \\
|
||||
MMMU & 42.1 & 54.3 & 62.8 & 58.1 \\
|
||||
MathVista & 48.2 & 62.1 & 71.8 & 67.4 \\
|
||||
DocVQA & 78.4 & 86.2 & 91.3 & 88.7 \\
|
||||
ChartQA & 72.1 & 82.8 & 88.4 & 85.2 \\
|
||||
AudioBench & 61.2 & 74.3 & 81.3 & 77.8 \\
|
||||
LibriSpeech (WER) & 4.2 & 3.1 & 2.4 & 2.8 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Safety and Alignment}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Safety evaluation benchmarks.}
|
||||
\label{tab:safety}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Benchmark} & \textbf{Zen-7B} & \textbf{Zen-72B} & \textbf{Prev. SOTA} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
ToxiGen (lower is better) & 8.2 & 3.1 & 4.8 \\
|
||||
BBQ Bias (accuracy) & 78.4 & 88.2 & 85.1 \\
|
||||
BOLD (toxicity, lower) & 5.1 & 2.3 & 3.2 \\
|
||||
HarmBench (ASR, lower) & 12.3 & 4.7 & 6.8 \\
|
||||
MT-Bench & 8.2 & 9.1 & 8.8 \\
|
||||
AlpacaEval 2.0 (LC win\%) & 32.1 & 51.8 & 48.2 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Scaling Analysis}
|
||||
|
||||
We observe consistent log-linear scaling of benchmark performance with model size across all evaluation categories. The MoDE architecture provides a favorable compute-performance trade-off: Zen-72B (24B active parameters) matches or exceeds the performance of dense 70B models while requiring 2.1$\times$ less inference compute.
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Compute efficiency comparison (MMLU accuracy vs. inference FLOPs per token).}
|
||||
\label{tab:efficiency}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Model} & \textbf{MMLU (\%)} & \textbf{FLOPs/token} & \textbf{Efficiency} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Dense-70B (baseline) & 87.1 & $1.4 \times 10^{11}$ & 1.0$\times$ \\
|
||||
Zen-72B (MoDE) & 89.2 & $6.7 \times 10^{10}$ & 2.1$\times$ \\
|
||||
Zen-32B (MoDE) & 83.1 & $2.9 \times 10^{10}$ & 4.6$\times$ \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Ablation Studies}
|
||||
\label{sec:ablations}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{MoDE vs. Standard MoE}
|
||||
|
||||
We compare MoDE initialization against standard MoE training (random initialization, identical initialization) on the Zen-7B architecture:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Ablation: MoDE initialization vs. alternatives (Zen-7B, trained on 2T tokens).}
|
||||
\label{tab:mode_ablation}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Init Method} & \textbf{MMLU} & \textbf{HumanEval} & \textbf{Stability} & \textbf{Expert Util.} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Random init & 66.8 & 64.2 & 2 restarts & 71\% \\
|
||||
Identical init & 68.1 & 66.4 & 0 restarts & 42\% \\
|
||||
Hash routing & 69.4 & 68.1 & 0 restarts & 100\% \\
|
||||
MoDE (ours) & \textbf{72.4} & \textbf{72.6} & 0 restarts & 94\% \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
MoDE initialization provides the best combination of quality, training stability (zero restarts required), and expert utilization (94\% of experts receive meaningful traffic).
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Number of Experts}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Effect of expert count at fixed 7B total parameters.}
|
||||
\label{tab:expert_count}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{$N$ (experts)} & \textbf{Active Params} & \textbf{MMLU} & \textbf{Throughput (tok/s)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
4 & 3.5B & 71.2 & 2,800 \\
|
||||
8 & 2.8B & 71.8 & 2,450 \\
|
||||
16 & 2.3B & 72.4 & 2,100 \\
|
||||
32 & 2.1B & 72.1 & 1,750 \\
|
||||
64 & 2.0B & 71.6 & 1,200 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
The optimal expert count for 7B parameters is 16, balancing model quality and inference throughput.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Modality Adapter Design}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Ablation of vision adapter design on MMBench (Zen-7B).}
|
||||
\label{tab:adapter_ablation}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Adapter Design} & \textbf{MMBench} & \textbf{Params Added} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Linear projection & 62.1 & 2M \\
|
||||
2-layer MLP & 66.8 & 8M \\
|
||||
Q-Former (6 layers) & 67.2 & 120M \\
|
||||
SigLIP + MLP (ours) & \textbf{68.3} & 28M \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
The SigLIP + MLP adapter achieves the best quality-parameter trade-off, outperforming the more complex Q-Former while adding fewer parameters.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Discussion}
|
||||
\label{sec:discussion}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{MoDE Advantages}
|
||||
|
||||
The progressive distillation initialization provides three key advantages over standard MoE:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Training stability:} By inheriting representations from a converged dense model, MoDE avoids the early-training instability that frequently requires restarts in standard MoE training.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Expert diversity:} Segmenting the dense FFN ensures experts begin with different specializations, avoiding the collapse pathology.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Data efficiency:} MoDE reaches target quality with 20\% fewer tokens than standard MoE initialization, likely because the distilled initialization provides a better starting point for specialization.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Limitations}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Expert memory overhead:} While active parameters are reduced, total parameters (and thus model storage) remain large. This limits on-device deployment to smaller variants.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Routing overhead:} The routing computation adds approximately 3\% overhead per layer, which is amortized for large batch sizes but can be significant for latency-sensitive single-request inference.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Hallucination:} Despite alignment, Zen models occasionally generate factually incorrect statements, particularly for rare or recent knowledge.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Multimodal integration:} Audio understanding lags behind vision-language capabilities, reflecting the smaller proportion of audio data in pre-training.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Societal Impact}
|
||||
|
||||
Large language models have both positive and negative societal implications. Positive applications include education, accessibility (translation, text-to-speech), scientific research, and software development assistance. Risks include misinformation generation, bias amplification, and job displacement. We mitigate these through safety training (Section~\ref{sec:alignment}), content filtering in our API, and usage policies that prohibit harmful applications. The open release of smaller model variants enables the research community to study and improve upon our safety measures.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Conclusion}
|
||||
\label{sec:conclusion}
|
||||
|
||||
We presented the Zen model family, a comprehensive suite of multimodal foundation models built on the Mixture of Distilled Experts (MoDE) architecture. MoDE addresses the core challenges of mixture-of-experts training---instability, expert collapse, and inefficient specialization---through progressive distillation from dense teacher models. The resulting models achieve state-of-the-art performance across 42 benchmarks while requiring significantly less inference compute than comparably-sized dense models.
|
||||
|
||||
The four-stage training pipeline (pre-training, SFT, alignment, domain adaptation) produces models that are not only capable but also safe and aligned with human values. Inference optimizations including speculative decoding, quantization-aware training, and continuous batching reduce serving costs by 3.8$\times$, enabling practical deployment at scale.
|
||||
|
||||
By releasing models from 600M to 72B parameters under Apache 2.0, we aim to democratize access to state-of-the-art AI capabilities while fostering a vibrant ecosystem of research and applications. Models, code, and evaluation harnesses are available at \url{https://github.com/hanzoai/zen}.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
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% =============================================================================
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\appendix
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\section{Complete Benchmark Results}
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\label{app:benchmarks}
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\begin{table}[h]
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\centering
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\caption{Complete results across all 42 benchmarks for all model sizes.}
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\label{tab:full_benchmarks}
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\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{
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\begin{tabular}{lcccccc}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Benchmark} & \textbf{600M} & \textbf{1.5B} & \textbf{7B} & \textbf{32B} & \textbf{72B} & \textbf{480B} \\
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\midrule
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MMLU & 32.1 & 48.3 & 72.4 & 83.1 & 89.2 & 92.1 \\
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MMLU-Pro & 21.4 & 34.2 & 58.3 & 71.2 & 78.4 & 82.3 \\
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ARC-C & 48.2 & 62.4 & 88.2 & 93.7 & 96.1 & 97.4 \\
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HellaSwag & 42.1 & 58.3 & 82.1 & 88.4 & 91.3 & 93.2 \\
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WinoGrande & 52.3 & 62.1 & 78.6 & 84.2 & 87.8 & 89.4 \\
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TruthfulQA & 38.2 & 42.1 & 52.3 & 64.8 & 71.2 & 74.3 \\
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BBH & 28.4 & 41.2 & 68.4 & 78.3 & 84.6 & 88.1 \\
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GSM8K & 12.3 & 32.4 & 82.1 & 90.4 & 95.2 & 97.1 \\
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MATH & 4.2 & 14.8 & 51.3 & 68.2 & 78.6 & 84.2 \\
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HumanEval & 18.3 & 38.4 & 72.6 & 85.4 & 92.1 & 95.3 \\
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MBPP & 22.1 & 42.3 & 74.2 & 84.6 & 90.8 & 93.7 \\
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MMBench & -- & 28.4 & 68.3 & 78.2 & 84.7 & 88.2 \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
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}
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\end{table}
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\section{Training Loss Curves}
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\label{app:loss}
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All models exhibit smooth loss convergence with no significant instabilities, confirming the effectiveness of the MoDE initialization procedure. The Zen-72B model reaches a final training loss of 1.72 nats on the validation set after processing 14.8T tokens. Loss decreases monotonically with model size at fixed token count, consistent with established scaling laws.
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\section{Tokenizer Details}
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\label{app:tokenizer}
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The Zen tokenizer is a BPE tokenizer trained on a multilingual corpus with the following characteristics:
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\begin{itemize}
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\item Vocabulary size: 152,064 tokens
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\item Special tokens: 1,024 reserved
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\item Byte fallback: All byte values are in the vocabulary, ensuring lossless encoding of any UTF-8 text
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\item Compression ratio: 3.8 characters per token (English), 1.2 characters per token (Chinese), 2.1 characters per token (code)
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\item Training data: 100B characters sampled proportionally from the pre-training data mix
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\end{itemize}
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% ============================================================
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% Zen-Translator: Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages
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% Hanzo AI Inc / Zoo Labs Foundation
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\title{\textbf{Zen-Translator: Neural Machine Translation\\
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for Low-Resource Languages}\\
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{\large A Mixture-of-Distilled-Experts Architecture with\\
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Script-Aware Tokenization and Cultural Context Preservation}}
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\author{
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Hanzo AI Inc \and Zoo Labs Foundation \\[0.4em]
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\texttt{\{research, translation\}@hanzo.ai} \\[0.2em]
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\small Technical Report ZEN-TR-2025-001
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}
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\date{February 2026}
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\begin{document}
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\maketitle
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% ============================================================
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\begin{abstract}
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% ============================================================
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We present \textbf{Zen-Translator}, a neural machine translation system
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designed for underserved language pairs with a focus on Middle Eastern and
|
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Central Asian languages including Farsi (Persian), Kurdish (Kurmanji and
|
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Sorani dialects), Dari, Pashto, Arabic, and Turkish. Zen-Translator introduces
|
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a Mixture-of-Distilled-Experts (MoDE) encoder-decoder architecture with
|
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language-specific routing that dynamically assigns computational resources
|
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based on script family and morphological complexity. We propose
|
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\emph{script-aware tokenization} (SAT), which unifies subword segmentation
|
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across Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic scripts while preserving morphological
|
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boundaries critical for agglutinative languages. Our multilingual pre-training
|
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on 2.4 trillion tokens across 48 languages, combined with a novel
|
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\emph{cultural context adapter} (CCA) layer, enables Zen-Translator to
|
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preserve idiomatic expressions, honorifics, and culturally significant
|
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concepts that standard NMT systems routinely discard.
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|
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On the FLORES-200 benchmark, Zen-Translator achieves state-of-the-art
|
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performance on 23 of 32 evaluated Middle Eastern language directions,
|
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improving over the best prior system by an average of 4.1 spBLEU points.
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On a custom Farsi evaluation suite spanning legal, medical, and technical
|
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domains, Zen-Translator achieves 38.2 spBLEU, surpassing commercial systems
|
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by 6.7 points. Bidirectional quality estimation (QE) is performed in real
|
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time using a compact 340M parameter critic head, enabling deployment in
|
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high-stakes settings without reference translations. We release model weights,
|
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tokenizer, and evaluation suites at \url{https://huggingface.co/hanzoai/zen-translator}.
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\end{abstract}
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% ============================================================
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\section{Introduction}
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% ============================================================
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Neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved remarkable results for
|
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high-resource language pairs such as English-French or English-Chinese,
|
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where billions of parallel sentence pairs are available. Yet the majority
|
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of the world's 7,000 languages remain severely underserved, with speakers of
|
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Pashto (60 million), Kurdish (30 million), and Dari (50 million) having
|
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access only to translation systems of substantially lower quality than those
|
||||
available to speakers of European languages \citep{costa2022no,
|
||||
flores200_2022}.
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|
||||
The challenges are multifaceted. Low-resource languages exhibit:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item \textbf{Script diversity}: Arabic script (with Persian extensions),
|
||||
Latin, and Cyrillic scripts within closely related dialect continua.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Morphological richness}: Agglutinative morphology in Turkish
|
||||
and Kurdish produces exponentially large vocabulary spaces.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Dialectal variation}: Arabic encompasses over 30 mutually
|
||||
partially-intelligible dialects; Kurdish spans Kurmanji and Sorani
|
||||
with distinct grammars.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Code-switching}: Urban speakers frequently mix Farsi, Arabic
|
||||
loanwords, and English, especially in social media.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Cultural specificity}: Concepts such as \textit{ta'arof} in
|
||||
Persian (elaborate politeness rituals) resist literal translation.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
We address these challenges through a unified architecture that combines:
|
||||
\textit{(i)} a script-aware byte-pair encoding that operates at the
|
||||
morpheme-sensitive boundary level, \textit{(ii)} language-specific expert
|
||||
routing in a mixture-of-experts encoder, \textit{(iii)} a cultural context
|
||||
adapter that retrieves relevant cultural knowledge from a curated knowledge
|
||||
base, and \textit{(iv)} domain-adaptive fine-tuning with a small number of
|
||||
domain-specific sentence pairs.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Contributions.} Our main contributions are:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item \textbf{Script-Aware Tokenization (SAT)}: A unified tokenizer
|
||||
sensitive to script boundaries, Arabic diacritics, and morphological
|
||||
segments in agglutinative languages (\S\ref{sec:sat}).
|
||||
\item \textbf{MoDE-NMT Architecture}: Language-routing mixture-of-experts
|
||||
applied to both encoder and decoder, with shared cross-attention
|
||||
(\S\ref{sec:architecture}).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Cultural Context Adapter (CCA)}: A retrieval-augmented
|
||||
layer that injects culturally relevant context into the decoder
|
||||
(\S\ref{sec:cca}).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Bidirectional Quality Estimation}: A lightweight critic head
|
||||
for reference-free quality scoring in both translation directions
|
||||
(\S\ref{sec:qe}).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Farsi Evaluation Suite}: A new benchmark of 4,000 sentence
|
||||
pairs across legal, medical, and technical domains (\S\ref{sec:eval}).
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Background and Related Work}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation}
|
||||
|
||||
The seminal work on multilingual NMT by \citet{johnson2017google} demonstrated
|
||||
that a single model trained on many languages outperforms bilingual models for
|
||||
low-resource pairs. Subsequent work on massively multilingual models
|
||||
\citep{fan2021beyond, tang2021multilingual} extended this to 200 languages.
|
||||
However, these models allocate capacity uniformly across languages, leading to
|
||||
the \textit{curse of multilinguality}: adding more languages degrades performance
|
||||
on any individual language \citep{conneau2020unsupervised}.
|
||||
|
||||
Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models \citep{shazeer2017outrageously} address this by
|
||||
learning sparse routing, allowing the model to specialize different parameters
|
||||
for different inputs. \citet{kudugunta2021beyond} applied per-language MoE
|
||||
routing to NMT and demonstrated that language-specific experts improve
|
||||
performance without increasing inference cost. Zen-Translator extends this
|
||||
approach with \emph{script-family-aware} routing and cross-expert attention
|
||||
for related-language transfer.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Low-Resource Language Adaptation}
|
||||
|
||||
Few-shot cross-lingual transfer methods \citep{wu2020emerging, pfeiffer2020adapterhub}
|
||||
allow rapid adaptation to new languages using adapter modules. The mBART model
|
||||
\citep{liu2020multilingual} demonstrated that masked denoising pre-training on
|
||||
monolingual corpora significantly benefits translation fine-tuning. Our cultural
|
||||
context adapter extends this paradigm to inject world-knowledge beyond linguistic form.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Script Processing}
|
||||
|
||||
Prior work on Arabic NLP \citep{habash2010introduction} demonstrates that
|
||||
morphological analysis and diacritization substantially improve translation
|
||||
quality. For Kurdish, the situation is complicated by the coexistence of
|
||||
Kurmanji (Latin/Cyrillic script) and Sorani (Arabic script) dialects with
|
||||
partially divergent lexicons \citep{hassanpour2012kurdish}. Our SAT tokenizer
|
||||
handles these cases through a script-aware segmentation algorithm that
|
||||
identifies script transitions and applies language-specific normalization.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Quality Estimation}
|
||||
|
||||
Automatic quality estimation without reference translations \citep{specia2021findings}
|
||||
is critical for deployment in domains where human translators are scarce. The
|
||||
COMET-QE metric \citep{rei2020comet} trains on human-annotated direct assessment
|
||||
scores and achieves high correlation with human judgments. Our bidirectional QE
|
||||
head is trained jointly with the translation model, enabling end-to-end optimization
|
||||
of quality-aware decoding.
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Data}
|
||||
\label{sec:data}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Pre-training Corpus}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Translator is pre-trained on a curated multilingual corpus of 2.4 trillion
|
||||
tokens spanning 48 languages. For the target language group (Farsi, Kurdish,
|
||||
Dari, Pashto, Arabic, Turkish), we apply additional data quality filtering and
|
||||
deduplication. Table~\ref{tab:pretraining_data} summarizes corpus statistics.
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Pre-training corpus statistics for target languages. Tokens counted
|
||||
after SAT tokenization.}
|
||||
\label{tab:pretraining_data}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lrr}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Language} & \textbf{Tokens (B)} & \textbf{Parallel Pairs (M)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Arabic & 142.3 & 2,840 \\
|
||||
Turkish & 89.7 & 1,120 \\
|
||||
Farsi (Persian) & 43.2 & 680 \\
|
||||
Dari & 12.1 & 98 \\
|
||||
Pashto & 7.4 & 41 \\
|
||||
Kurdish (Kurmanji) & 4.8 & 28 \\
|
||||
Kurdish (Sorani) & 3.1 & 14 \\
|
||||
Other (41 languages) & 2,097.4 & 18,200 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\textbf{Total} & \textbf{2,400.0} & \textbf{23,021} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Data Collection and Filtering}
|
||||
|
||||
For low-resource languages, we apply a multi-stage data collection pipeline:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item \textbf{Web crawl}: Using the Common Crawl corpus with language
|
||||
identification via a compact fastText classifier \citep{joulin2016fasttext}.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Deduplication}: MinHash LSH deduplication at 13-gram level,
|
||||
removing near-duplicate content within and across sources.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Quality filtering}: Perplexity-based filtering using
|
||||
language-specific 5-gram language models; documents with perplexity
|
||||
above the 90th percentile are discarded.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Parallel mining}: Margin-based bitext mining \citep{artetxe2019massively}
|
||||
applied to all monolingual data to extract additional parallel pairs.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Domain tagging}: Rule-based and classifier-based domain tagging
|
||||
into legal, medical, technical, news, and conversational categories.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Domain-Specific Corpora}
|
||||
|
||||
For domain adaptation, we compile specialized corpora:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item \textbf{Legal}: Parliamentary proceedings from Iran, Afghanistan,
|
||||
and Turkey; legal document translations from ECHR and UN.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Medical}: PubMed abstracts with Farsi/Arabic translations,
|
||||
WHO clinical guidelines, and hospital discharge summaries.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Technical}: Software documentation, engineering manuals,
|
||||
and patent translations.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Script-Aware Tokenization}
|
||||
\label{sec:sat}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
Standard BPE tokenization \citep{sennrich2016neural} treats all characters
|
||||
uniformly, which is suboptimal for multilingual models spanning different
|
||||
script families. We introduce \textbf{Script-Aware Tokenization (SAT)}, which
|
||||
addresses three key challenges: script boundary detection, Arabic diacritics
|
||||
normalization, and morpheme-boundary-sensitive segmentation.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Script Boundary Detection}
|
||||
|
||||
SAT begins by segmenting input text into script-homogeneous spans using Unicode
|
||||
General Category properties. A span is a maximal contiguous substring drawn from
|
||||
a single Unicode script block. At span boundaries, special \texttt{<SCRIPT>}
|
||||
tokens indicate script transitions, allowing the model to learn cross-script
|
||||
alignment explicitly.
|
||||
|
||||
Formally, given input string $s = c_1 c_2 \ldots c_n$, define $\sigma(c)$ as
|
||||
the Unicode script of character $c$. SAT segments $s$ into spans
|
||||
$\{S_1, S_2, \ldots, S_k\}$ where each span $S_i$ consists of consecutive
|
||||
characters with identical $\sigma$ values, inserting boundary markers between
|
||||
adjacent spans of differing scripts.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Arabic Script Normalization}
|
||||
|
||||
Arabic-script languages (Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Pashto, Sorani Kurdish) share a
|
||||
common script but differ in character usage. SAT applies language-conditioned
|
||||
normalization:
|
||||
\begin{align}
|
||||
\hat{c} = N_L(c) \quad \forall c \in S_i
|
||||
\end{align}
|
||||
where $N_L$ is the normalization function for language $L$, handling:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item Arabic diacritics (\textit{tashkeel}): retained in Egyptian Arabic,
|
||||
stripped from Farsi where they are non-standard.
|
||||
\item Persian-specific characters: \textit{peh} (پ), \textit{cheh} (چ),
|
||||
\textit{zheh} (ژ), \textit{gaf} (گ) normalized to canonical forms.
|
||||
\item Letter variations: final/medial/initial forms collapsed to their base
|
||||
form before BPE vocabulary construction.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Morpheme-Boundary-Sensitive BPE}
|
||||
|
||||
For agglutinative languages (Turkish, Kurmanji Kurdish), standard BPE
|
||||
frequently merges morpheme boundaries, hindering translation of morphologically
|
||||
complex forms. SAT incorporates a lightweight morphological analyzer that marks
|
||||
likely morpheme boundaries before BPE training:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{algorithm}[h]
|
||||
\caption{SAT-BPE Training for Agglutinative Languages}
|
||||
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
|
||||
\State Initialize vocabulary $V$ with character inventory
|
||||
\State Run morphological segmenter on training corpus
|
||||
\State For each morpheme boundary, insert virtual space marker \texttt{▁M}
|
||||
\State Apply standard BPE merge operations, treating \texttt{▁M} as protected
|
||||
\State \textbf{Constraint}: Merges cannot cross \texttt{▁M} boundaries
|
||||
\State Remove \texttt{▁M} markers from final vocabulary
|
||||
\end{algorithmic}
|
||||
\end{algorithm}
|
||||
|
||||
This constraint reduces over-merging at morpheme boundaries by 63\% compared to
|
||||
standard BPE (measured on Turkish morpheme boundary recall), resulting in more
|
||||
compositional token representations.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Vocabulary Design}
|
||||
|
||||
The SAT vocabulary contains 128,000 tokens shared across all 48 languages, with
|
||||
language-specific token ranges reserved for highly frequent language-specific
|
||||
morphemes. The vocabulary allocation is:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item 70,000 shared multilingual tokens
|
||||
\item 8,000 Arabic-script-family tokens
|
||||
\item 4,000 Turkish/Turkic tokens
|
||||
\item 4,000 Kurdish (both scripts) tokens
|
||||
\item 42,000 remaining European/other languages
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Architecture}
|
||||
\label{sec:architecture}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Overview}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Translator follows the encoder-decoder Transformer architecture
|
||||
\citep{vaswani2017attention} augmented with language-specific expert routing,
|
||||
cultural context adapters, and a quality estimation head. The model has 1.3
|
||||
billion active parameters per forward pass, drawn from a total of 7.8 billion
|
||||
stored parameters across all experts.
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{figure}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\begin{tikzpicture}[
|
||||
box/.style={rectangle, draw, rounded corners, minimum height=0.6cm, minimum width=2.2cm, font=\small, fill=blue!10},
|
||||
expert/.style={rectangle, draw, rounded corners, minimum height=0.5cm, minimum width=1.5cm, font=\scriptsize, fill=orange!20},
|
||||
arrow/.style={->, thick}
|
||||
]
|
||||
\node[box] (src) at (0,0) {Source Text};
|
||||
\node[box] (sat) at (0,1.2) {SAT Tokenizer};
|
||||
\node[box] (ldet) at (0,2.4) {Lang Detector};
|
||||
\node[box] (enc) at (0,3.8) {MoDE Encoder};
|
||||
\node[box] (cca) at (3.2,3.8) {CCA Retrieval};
|
||||
\node[box] (dec) at (0,5.2) {MoDE Decoder};
|
||||
\node[box] (qe) at (3.2,5.2) {QE Head};
|
||||
\node[box] (tgt) at (0,6.4) {Target Text};
|
||||
|
||||
\draw[arrow] (src) -- (sat);
|
||||
\draw[arrow] (sat) -- (ldet);
|
||||
\draw[arrow] (ldet) -- (enc);
|
||||
\draw[arrow] (enc) -- (dec);
|
||||
\draw[arrow] (cca) -- (dec);
|
||||
\draw[arrow] (dec) -- (tgt);
|
||||
\draw[arrow] (dec) -- (qe);
|
||||
\draw[arrow] (ldet) -| (cca);
|
||||
\end{tikzpicture}
|
||||
\caption{Zen-Translator system architecture. CCA = Cultural Context Adapter,
|
||||
QE = Quality Estimation head, MoDE = Mixture of Distilled Experts.}
|
||||
\label{fig:architecture}
|
||||
\end{figure}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{MoDE Encoder}
|
||||
|
||||
The encoder consists of 24 Transformer layers. Each layer alternates between
|
||||
standard multi-head attention (MHA) and MoDE feed-forward networks (FFN).
|
||||
In MoDE layers, the FFN is replaced by a mixture-of-experts module:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{align}
|
||||
\mathbf{h}^{(l+1)} &= \text{MHA}(\mathbf{h}^{(l)}) + \text{MoDE-FFN}(\mathbf{h}^{(l)}) \\
|
||||
\text{MoDE-FFN}(\mathbf{x}) &= \sum_{i=1}^{K} g_i(\mathbf{x}) \cdot E_i(\mathbf{x})
|
||||
\end{align}
|
||||
|
||||
where $K = 32$ experts, $g_i$ are gating weights produced by the router, and
|
||||
$E_i$ are expert FFNs. The router receives the token embedding concatenated
|
||||
with a language-family embedding:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{align}
|
||||
\mathbf{g} &= \text{Softmax}(\text{TopK}(W_r [\mathbf{x}; \mathbf{e}_{L}], k=4))
|
||||
\end{align}
|
||||
|
||||
where $\mathbf{e}_L$ is a learned 64-dimensional language-family embedding and
|
||||
$k=4$ experts are activated per token. The language-family embedding partitions
|
||||
languages into: \{Arabic-script\}, \{Turkic\}, \{Indo-Iranian\}, \{European\},
|
||||
and \{Other\}, enabling family-level transfer while preserving language-specific
|
||||
specialization.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{MoDE Decoder}
|
||||
|
||||
The decoder mirrors the encoder structure with 24 layers, alternating MHA
|
||||
(self-attention), cross-attention with encoder output, and MoDE-FFN. The
|
||||
cross-attention additionally attends to cultural context representations
|
||||
retrieved by the CCA module (see \S\ref{sec:cca}).
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Language-Specific Routing Analysis}
|
||||
|
||||
We analyze expert utilization across languages post-training. Table~\ref{tab:routing}
|
||||
shows the degree of expert specialization: Arabic-family languages consistently
|
||||
activate a shared subset of experts (experts 1-8) while Turkic languages
|
||||
preferentially route to experts 9-16, demonstrating that the router
|
||||
successfully learns language-family structure without explicit supervision.
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Expert utilization by language family (fraction of tokens routed
|
||||
to each expert group, averaged across decoder layers).}
|
||||
\label{tab:routing}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Language} & \textbf{E1-8} & \textbf{E9-16} & \textbf{E17-24} & \textbf{E25-32} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Arabic & 0.61 & 0.12 & 0.15 & 0.12 \\
|
||||
Farsi & 0.54 & 0.14 & 0.17 & 0.15 \\
|
||||
Dari & 0.56 & 0.13 & 0.17 & 0.14 \\
|
||||
Pashto & 0.49 & 0.16 & 0.19 & 0.16 \\
|
||||
Turkish & 0.11 & 0.58 & 0.18 & 0.13 \\
|
||||
Kurdish (S.) & 0.42 & 0.31 & 0.15 & 0.12 \\
|
||||
Kurdish (K.) & 0.13 & 0.44 & 0.28 & 0.15 \\
|
||||
English & 0.14 & 0.13 & 0.35 & 0.38 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Cultural Context Adapter}
|
||||
\label{sec:cca}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Motivation}
|
||||
|
||||
Standard NMT systems treat translation as a character-level sequence
|
||||
transduction problem, optimizing for surface-form similarity to human
|
||||
references. This fails to capture culturally-specific meaning that requires
|
||||
world knowledge beyond the sentence. For example:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item Farsi \textit{ta'arof} expressions require understanding social context
|
||||
to determine whether an invitation should be accepted or declined.
|
||||
\item Arabic honorifics (e.g., \textit{inshallah}, \textit{mashallah})
|
||||
carry connotations that depend on register and formality.
|
||||
\item Pashto concepts of \textit{nang} (honor) and \textit{badal} (revenge)
|
||||
have no direct English equivalents.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Knowledge Base Construction}
|
||||
|
||||
We construct a multilingual cultural knowledge base (CKB) containing 2.4
|
||||
million entries spanning:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item Idiomatic expressions with cultural annotations
|
||||
\item Honorific systems and their appropriate translations by register
|
||||
\item Culture-specific concepts with definitional paraphrases
|
||||
\item Domain-specific terminology with contextual usage notes
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
Each CKB entry is a tuple $(c, L_s, L_t, k, r)$ where $c$ is the concept,
|
||||
$L_s$ source language, $L_t$ target language, $k$ cultural knowledge text,
|
||||
and $r$ the recommended translation strategy (literal, explanatory, adapted).
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Retrieval Mechanism}
|
||||
|
||||
At inference time, given source tokens $X = \{x_1, \ldots, x_n\}$, the CCA
|
||||
module:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item Computes a dense query vector: $\mathbf{q} = W_q \cdot \bar{\mathbf{h}}_{\text{enc}}$
|
||||
where $\bar{\mathbf{h}}_{\text{enc}}$ is the mean-pooled encoder output.
|
||||
\item Retrieves top-$r$ ($r=8$) CKB entries via maximum inner product search.
|
||||
\item Encodes retrieved knowledge as key-value pairs
|
||||
$\{(\mathbf{k}_i, \mathbf{v}_i)\}_{i=1}^r$.
|
||||
\item Injects knowledge via a cross-attention layer in the decoder:
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{align}
|
||||
\text{CCA-Attn}(\mathbf{h}) &= \text{softmax}\!\left(\frac{\mathbf{h} W_Q (K W_K)^\top}{\sqrt{d}}\right) V W_V
|
||||
\end{align}
|
||||
|
||||
where $K, V$ are the stacked cultural knowledge key and value matrices.
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Bidirectional Quality Estimation}
|
||||
\label{sec:qe}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
We train a quality estimation head jointly with the translation model.
|
||||
The QE head receives the encoder output (source representation) concatenated
|
||||
with the decoder output (hypothesis representation) and predicts a scalar
|
||||
quality score:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{align}
|
||||
q &= \sigma(W_{\text{QE}}[\mathbf{h}_{\text{enc}}; \mathbf{h}_{\text{dec}}] + b_{\text{QE}})
|
||||
\end{align}
|
||||
|
||||
The QE head is trained on human direct assessment (DA) scores from WMT shared
|
||||
tasks and our own annotation campaigns covering Farsi, Kurdish, and Pashto.
|
||||
Training uses a margin-ranking loss that enforces correct ordering of hypotheses:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{align}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{QE}} &= \sum_{(h^+, h^-)} \max(0, m - q(h^+) + q(h^-))
|
||||
\end{align}
|
||||
|
||||
where $h^+$ and $h^-$ are hypothesis pairs with higher and lower DA scores.
|
||||
The QE head adds 340M parameters and is active only during inference for
|
||||
quality filtering; it does not affect the translation path.
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Training}
|
||||
\label{sec:training}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Pre-training}
|
||||
|
||||
We pre-train Zen-Translator using a multilingual masked denoising objective
|
||||
\citep{lewis2020bart} on the full 2.4T token corpus. The denoising objective
|
||||
corrupts source sentences with text infilling, sentence permutation, and
|
||||
span masking, training the model to reconstruct the original text.
|
||||
|
||||
\textbf{Pre-training configuration}:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item Optimizer: AdamW with $\beta_1 = 0.9$, $\beta_2 = 0.98$, $\epsilon = 10^{-6}$
|
||||
\item Learning rate: $2 \times 10^{-4}$ with linear warmup (10K steps) then
|
||||
inverse square root decay
|
||||
\item Batch size: 4M tokens per step
|
||||
\item Duration: 300K steps (approximately 1.2T tokens seen)
|
||||
\item Hardware: 512 H100 GPUs, 21 days
|
||||
\item Expert load balancing: auxiliary loss with coefficient $\alpha = 0.01$
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Translation Fine-tuning}
|
||||
|
||||
After pre-training, we fine-tune on parallel translation data using
|
||||
teacher-forcing cross-entropy loss:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{align}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{NMT}} &= -\sum_{t=1}^{T} \log P(y_t \mid y_{<t}, X; \theta)
|
||||
\end{align}
|
||||
|
||||
We apply language-balanced sampling with temperature $T_s = 5$ to prevent
|
||||
high-resource language dominance:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{align}
|
||||
p(L) \propto \left(\frac{n_L}{\sum_j n_j}\right)^{1/T_s}
|
||||
\end{align}
|
||||
|
||||
Fine-tuning configuration:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item Learning rate: $5 \times 10^{-5}$, cosine decay
|
||||
\item Batch size: 1M tokens/step
|
||||
\item Duration: 100K steps
|
||||
\item Label smoothing: 0.1
|
||||
\item Hardware: 256 H100 GPUs, 7 days
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Domain Adaptation}
|
||||
|
||||
Domain-specific models are obtained by continued fine-tuning on domain corpora
|
||||
for 10K steps at $lr = 10^{-5}$. We use adapter modules \citep{houlsby2019parameter}
|
||||
inserted between each Transformer layer to reduce catastrophic forgetting,
|
||||
with adapter dimension 256. Domain adapters add only 42M parameters per domain.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{CCA Training}
|
||||
|
||||
The cultural context adapter is trained in a third phase using contrastive
|
||||
learning. We generate culturally-appropriate and culturally-inappropriate
|
||||
translation pairs and train the retrieval system to prefer appropriate context:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{align}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{CCA}} = -\log \frac{\exp(\text{sim}(\mathbf{q}, \mathbf{k}^+)/\tau)}{\sum_j \exp(\text{sim}(\mathbf{q}, \mathbf{k}_j)/\tau)}
|
||||
\end{align}
|
||||
|
||||
where $\tau = 0.07$ is a temperature parameter, $\mathbf{k}^+$ is the relevant
|
||||
cultural context, and the sum runs over all negative contexts in the batch.
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Evaluation}
|
||||
\label{sec:eval}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Benchmarks}
|
||||
|
||||
We evaluate on four benchmark suites:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item \textbf{FLORES-200} \citep{flores200_2022}: 1,012-sentence benchmark
|
||||
across 204 languages; we report spBLEU scores.
|
||||
\item \textbf{WMT 2023 News}: Standard news translation benchmark; Arabic-English,
|
||||
Turkish-English directions.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Farsi Evaluation Suite (FES)}: Our new benchmark described below.
|
||||
\item \textbf{OPUS-MT Test Sets}: Held-out test sets from OPUS parallel corpora.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Farsi Evaluation Suite}
|
||||
|
||||
We develop the \textbf{Farsi Evaluation Suite (FES)}, a new benchmark of 4,000
|
||||
human-translated sentence pairs across three domains:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item \textbf{Legal (1,200 pairs)}: Iranian court rulings, legal contracts,
|
||||
legislative texts.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Medical (1,600 pairs)}: Clinical notes, discharge summaries,
|
||||
pharmaceutical instructions.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Technical (1,200 pairs)}: Engineering manuals, software
|
||||
documentation, patent abstracts.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
All FES translations were produced by certified professional translators with
|
||||
domain expertise. We report both spBLEU and human evaluation (MQM scores)
|
||||
for FES.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Baselines}
|
||||
|
||||
We compare against:
|
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\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
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\item \textbf{Google Translate}: Via public API (accessed December 2025).
|
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\item \textbf{NLLB-3.3B} \citep{costa2022no}: Meta's No Language Left Behind model.
|
||||
\item \textbf{mBART-large-50} \citep{liu2020multilingual}: Facebook's multilingual model.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Opus-MT}: Helsinki-NLP bilingual models per language pair.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
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|
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\subsection{FLORES-200 Results}
|
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|
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\begin{table}[h]
|
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\centering
|
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\caption{spBLEU scores on FLORES-200 for selected language directions.
|
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``Avg.'' is the macro-average over all 32 evaluated Middle Eastern directions.}
|
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\label{tab:flores}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
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\textbf{Direction} & \textbf{NLLB} & \textbf{mBART} & \textbf{Google} & \textbf{Ours} \\
|
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\midrule
|
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Farsi $\to$ En & 29.3 & 24.1 & 31.2 & \textbf{34.8} \\
|
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En $\to$ Farsi & 13.4 & 11.2 & 15.1 & \textbf{18.7} \\
|
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Arabic $\to$ En & 38.2 & 32.4 & 40.1 & \textbf{43.2} \\
|
||||
En $\to$ Arabic & 21.4 & 18.7 & 23.8 & \textbf{26.1} \\
|
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Turkish $\to$ En & 41.2 & 36.8 & 43.0 & \textbf{45.4} \\
|
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En $\to$ Turkish & 22.8 & 19.3 & 24.7 & \textbf{27.2} \\
|
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Pashto $\to$ En & 14.2 & 8.3 & 11.9 & \textbf{19.8} \\
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En $\to$ Pashto & 5.1 & 3.2 & 6.4 & \textbf{9.7} \\
|
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Dari $\to$ En & 23.8 & 18.1 & 22.4 & \textbf{28.4} \\
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Kurdish(K) $\to$ En & 10.2 & 6.4 & 9.8 & \textbf{15.6} \\
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Kurdish(S) $\to$ En & 8.7 & 5.1 & 8.3 & \textbf{13.4} \\
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\midrule
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\textbf{Avg. (32 dir.)} & 22.1 & 17.8 & 24.3 & \textbf{28.4} \\
|
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\bottomrule
|
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\end{tabular}
|
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\end{table}
|
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|
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\subsection{Farsi Evaluation Suite Results}
|
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|
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\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
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\caption{FES domain benchmark results (spBLEU / MQM score). Higher is better.
|
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MQM scores are on a 0-100 scale (100 = perfect).}
|
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\label{tab:fes}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{System} & \textbf{Legal} & \textbf{Medical} & \textbf{Technical} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
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mBART-50 & 18.2 / 54.3 & 19.8 / 56.1 & 21.4 / 58.2 \\
|
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NLLB-3.3B & 24.6 / 61.2 & 26.1 / 63.4 & 27.8 / 65.1 \\
|
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Google Trans & 30.1 / 68.7 & 32.4 / 71.2 & 33.8 / 72.4 \\
|
||||
\textbf{Ours (base)} & 33.8 / 72.1 & 36.2 / 74.8 & 37.4 / 76.2 \\
|
||||
\textbf{Ours (domain)} & \textbf{36.4 / 76.3} & \textbf{39.1 / 79.4} & \textbf{39.2 / 80.1} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{WMT 2023 Results}
|
||||
|
||||
On WMT 2023 news translation, Zen-Translator achieves 35.4 BLEU on
|
||||
Arabic-English (vs. 33.1 for NLLB-3.3B) and 29.7 BLEU on Turkish-English
|
||||
(vs. 27.4 for NLLB-3.3B). Google Translate achieves comparable scores
|
||||
of 36.2 and 30.4 respectively, though at substantially higher inference cost.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Quality Estimation Evaluation}
|
||||
|
||||
We evaluate the QE head on the WMT 2023 QE shared task test set, measuring
|
||||
Pearson correlation with human DA scores:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{QE Pearson correlation with human DA scores.}
|
||||
\label{tab:qe}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{System} & \textbf{En-Farsi} & \textbf{En-Arabic} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
COMET-QE (standalone) & 0.712 & 0.741 \\
|
||||
Ours (standalone head) & 0.748 & 0.763 \\
|
||||
Ours + CCA context & \textbf{0.781} & \textbf{0.794} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
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% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Ablation Studies}
|
||||
\label{sec:ablation}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
We conduct ablation studies on the FLORES-200 Farsi-English direction to
|
||||
quantify the contribution of each component.
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Ablation study on FLORES-200 Farsi$\to$En (spBLEU).}
|
||||
\label{tab:ablation}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Configuration} & \textbf{spBLEU} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Full model & \textbf{34.8} \\
|
||||
\quad $-$ CCA adapter & 33.1 ($-$1.7) \\
|
||||
\quad $-$ language-family routing & 32.4 ($-$2.4) \\
|
||||
\quad $-$ SAT (standard BPE) & 31.7 ($-$3.1) \\
|
||||
\quad $-$ morpheme-boundary BPE & 33.8 ($-$1.0) \\
|
||||
\quad $-$ domain fine-tuning & 32.9 ($-$1.9) \\
|
||||
\quad $-$ QE joint training & 34.2 ($-$0.6) \\
|
||||
\quad Bilingual model (no multilingual) & 29.4 ($-$5.4) \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
The largest single contributor is multilingual pre-training ($-$5.4 spBLEU
|
||||
when removed), confirming that cross-lingual transfer is critical for
|
||||
low-resource languages. SAT contributes $-$3.1 spBLEU, demonstrating
|
||||
that script-aware tokenization provides substantial gains over standard BPE.
|
||||
Language-family routing ($-$2.4) shows that expert specialization beyond
|
||||
random initialization is important for quality.
|
||||
|
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% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Few-Shot Language Adaptation}
|
||||
\label{sec:fewshot}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
A key use case for Zen-Translator is rapid adaptation to new language pairs
|
||||
with minimal parallel data. We evaluate the model's few-shot translation
|
||||
capability by fine-tuning with $N$ parallel sentence pairs and measuring
|
||||
performance after 1,000 gradient steps.
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[h]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Few-shot adaptation on Balochi$\to$English (an unseen language
|
||||
at pre-training time). spBLEU after fine-tuning with $N$ examples.}
|
||||
\label{tab:fewshot}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{N} & \textbf{Zero-shot} & \textbf{After fine-tuning} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
0 (zero-shot) & 7.2 & -- \\
|
||||
100 & -- & 11.4 \\
|
||||
500 & -- & 16.8 \\
|
||||
1,000 & -- & 21.3 \\
|
||||
5,000 & -- & 26.1 \\
|
||||
10,000 & -- & 29.4 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Even with 100 parallel pairs, the model reaches 11.4 spBLEU, approaching
|
||||
the performance of NLLB-3.3B trained on that language. This demonstrates
|
||||
that Zen-Translator's multilingual representations provide strong
|
||||
inductive bias for related languages.
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Safety and Ethics}
|
||||
\label{sec:safety}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Bias Audit}
|
||||
|
||||
We conduct a systematic bias audit examining whether Zen-Translator
|
||||
amplifies harmful cultural stereotypes. We test 2,400 sentence pairs
|
||||
spanning gender, religion, and political content. Key findings:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item Gender pronoun assignment: 3.2\% error rate in Farsi
|
||||
(a null-subject language), compared to 8.1\% for NLLB.
|
||||
\item Religious term translation: 94.3\% neutral rendering of
|
||||
Islamic terms that are sometimes rendered pejoratively by
|
||||
competing systems.
|
||||
\item Political content: Model maintains neutrality and does not
|
||||
introduce politically charged terminology not present in source.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Harmful Content Refusal}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Translator includes a toxicity classifier trained on multilingual
|
||||
harmful content that filters outputs containing hate speech, threats, or
|
||||
incitement in any supported language. The classifier achieves 0.94 F1
|
||||
on a balanced test set of 10,000 examples per language.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Privacy Considerations}
|
||||
|
||||
Translations may contain personally identifiable information (PII).
|
||||
We implement PII detection and optional pseudonymization using a Named
|
||||
Entity Recognition model operating before translation, with an option
|
||||
to substitute canonical placeholders for names, addresses, and
|
||||
identification numbers.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Access and Consent}
|
||||
|
||||
All training data was obtained from sources with appropriate licensing
|
||||
or under fair use provisions for research purposes. We engaged native
|
||||
speaker communities for Pashto, Kurdish, and Dari data collection and
|
||||
paid above-market rates to data contributors.
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Limitations}
|
||||
\label{sec:limitations}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
Despite strong performance improvements, Zen-Translator has several
|
||||
important limitations:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,noitemsep]
|
||||
\item \textbf{Very low-resource languages}: Languages with fewer than
|
||||
1 million tokens of monolingual text (e.g., minority Kurdish
|
||||
dialects such as Zazaki and Gorani) remain beyond the model's
|
||||
reliable capability.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Dialectal Arabic}: While the model handles Modern Standard
|
||||
Arabic well, dialectal variants (Egyptian, Levantine, Maghrebi)
|
||||
show significant performance drops of 8-15 spBLEU.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Spoken language transcription}: The model processes written
|
||||
text only; spoken language includes phonological features not captured.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Long documents}: Context is limited to 512 tokens; long
|
||||
document translation requires chunking which can lose cross-sentence
|
||||
coherence.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Domain coverage}: The FES domain adaptation was validated
|
||||
on three domains; performance on highly specialized domains (e.g.,
|
||||
astrophysics, cryptocurrency) is not characterized.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
\section{Conclusion}
|
||||
\label{sec:conclusion}
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
||||
|
||||
We presented Zen-Translator, a neural machine translation system specialized
|
||||
for low-resource Middle Eastern and Central Asian languages. Our contributions
|
||||
include script-aware tokenization that respects morphological boundaries,
|
||||
language-family-aware expert routing, a cultural context adapter that improves
|
||||
translation of culturally specific content, and a bidirectional quality
|
||||
estimation head for reference-free evaluation.
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Translator achieves state-of-the-art performance on FLORES-200 for 23 of
|
||||
32 evaluated language directions and substantially outperforms all baselines on
|
||||
our Farsi Evaluation Suite. The model demonstrates strong few-shot adaptation
|
||||
capability, reaching useful translation quality with as few as 100 parallel
|
||||
sentence pairs for new languages. We release model weights and evaluation
|
||||
resources to support continued research on underserved language communities.
|
||||
|
||||
% ============================================================
|
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|
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% Zen-Voice: Zero-Shot Voice Cloning and Expressive Speech Synthesis
|
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% Hanzo AI Inc. & Zoo Labs Foundation
|
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% Technical Whitepaper v1.0 — February 2026
|
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|
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|
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% --- Layout & Geometry --------------------------------------------------------
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\usepackage[top=1in,bottom=1in,left=1.25in,right=1.25in]{geometry}
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\usepackage{microtype}
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\usepackage{setspace}
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\onehalfspacing
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% --- Graphics & Tables --------------------------------------------------------
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\usepackage{graphicx}
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\usepackage{booktabs}
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\usepackage{tabularx}
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\usepackage{multirow}
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\usepackage{array}
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\usepackage{float}
|
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|
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% --- Algorithms ---------------------------------------------------------------
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\usepackage{algorithm}
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\usepackage{algpseudocode}
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\algnewcommand\algorithmicforeach{\textbf{for each}}
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\algdef{S}[FOR]{ForEach}[1]{\algorithmicforeach\ #1\ \textbf{do}}
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|
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% --- Colors & Hyperlinks -------------------------------------------------------
|
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\usepackage{xcolor}
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\definecolor{zenred}{RGB}{253,68,68}
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\definecolor{zenblue}{RGB}{41,121,255}
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\definecolor{zendark}{RGB}{30,30,40}
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\definecolor{codegray}{RGB}{248,248,250}
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\definecolor{linkcolor}{RGB}{41,121,255}
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\usepackage{hyperref}
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\hypersetup{
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colorlinks=true,
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pdftitle={Zen-Voice: Zero-Shot Voice Cloning and Expressive Speech Synthesis},
|
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pdfauthor={Hanzo AI Inc., Zoo Labs Foundation},
|
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pdfsubject={Speech Synthesis, Voice Cloning, Text-to-Speech},
|
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pdfkeywords={voice cloning, TTS, speaker embedding, prosody transfer, anti-deepfake}
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|
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% --- Code Listings ------------------------------------------------------------
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{\normalsize \textsc{Hanzo AI Research} \hfill \textsc{Technical Whitepaper v1.0}} \\[0.8em]
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\rule{\linewidth}{0.5pt} \\[0.6em]
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{\LARGE \textbf{Zen-Voice:}} \\[0.3em]
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{\Large Zero-Shot Voice Cloning and Expressive Speech Synthesis} \\[0.3em]
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\author{
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\textbf{Hanzo AI Research}$^{1}$ \quad \textbf{Zoo Labs Foundation}$^{2}$ \\[0.6em]
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$^{1}$Hanzo AI Inc. (Techstars '17) \quad $^{2}$Zoo Labs Foundation (501(c)(3)) \\[0.3em]
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\texttt{[email protected]} \quad \texttt{[email protected]} \\[0.3em]
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{\small \url{https://hanzo.ai/research/zen-voice}}
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\date{February 2026}
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\begin{abstract}
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We present \textbf{Zen-Voice}, a neural speech synthesis system capable of zero-shot voice cloning from as little as 3 seconds of reference audio. Zen-Voice produces natural, expressive speech that faithfully reproduces the timbre, accent, speaking rate, and emotional characteristics of the reference speaker while synthesizing arbitrary text content. The system is built on three core innovations: (1) a \textbf{Hierarchical Speaker Encoder (HSE)} that disentangles speaker identity from prosodic style through multi-scale contrastive learning on 680,000 hours of multilingual speech, (2) a \textbf{Prosody Transfer Module (PTM)} based on a flow-matching architecture that models the joint distribution of pitch, energy, and duration conditioned on both text and speaker embedding, and (3) a \textbf{Neural Codec Vocoder (NCV)} that synthesizes waveforms at 24kHz from discrete codec tokens with a lightweight streaming architecture suitable for real-time applications. Zen-Voice achieves a speaker similarity MOS of 4.21 (5-point scale) on zero-shot cloning with 3-second references, improving to 4.52 with 10-second references. On the LibriTTS test-clean benchmark, it achieves a naturalness MOS of 4.38, surpassing both VALL-E (3.84) and VoiceBox (4.12). On the VCTK multi-speaker benchmark, Zen-Voice achieves a speaker verification Equal Error Rate (EER) of 2.1\% for cloned speech, approaching the 1.8\% EER of ground-truth recordings. We additionally introduce an \textbf{anti-deepfake watermarking} system that embeds imperceptible, cryptographically signed provenance markers into all Zen-Voice output, enabling downstream detection of AI-generated speech with 99.7\% accuracy even after MP3 compression and noise addition. Models and inference code are released under Apache 2.0.
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\vspace{0.5em}
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\noindent\textbf{Keywords:} Voice Cloning, Text-to-Speech, Speaker Embedding, Prosody Transfer, Neural Codec, Anti-Deepfake Watermarking
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\section{Introduction}
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\label{sec:introduction}
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Human speech conveys far more than linguistic content. A speaker's voice carries identity (timbre, accent, vocal register), emotion (joy, sadness, anger, surprise), and communicative intent (emphasis, irony, urgency) through subtle variations in pitch, timing, and spectral characteristics. Reproducing this richness in synthetic speech---particularly when cloning a voice from a brief audio sample---remains one of the most challenging problems in generative AI.
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Recent advances in neural text-to-speech (TTS) have dramatically improved synthesis quality. Autoregressive models such as VALL-E \citep{wang2023neural} treat TTS as a language modeling problem over discrete audio tokens, achieving impressive zero-shot cloning. Non-autoregressive approaches like VoiceBox \citep{le2024voicebox} and NaturalSpeech 3 \citep{ju2024naturalspeech} use flow-matching and diffusion to generate speech in parallel, offering faster inference. However, existing systems still struggle with three key challenges: (i) faithfully reproducing speaker identity from very short references ($<$5 seconds), (ii) transferring fine-grained prosodic patterns (emphasis, pacing, emotional coloring) independently of speaker identity, and (iii) generating speech in real-time for interactive applications.
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Zen-Voice addresses these challenges through a modular architecture that cleanly separates speaker identity, prosodic style, and linguistic content. The Hierarchical Speaker Encoder captures speaker characteristics at multiple temporal scales---from sub-phonemic spectral details to utterance-level speaking style---enabling robust identity extraction even from very short references. The Prosody Transfer Module models prosody as a conditional flow that can be guided by explicit emotion labels, reference audio, or natural language descriptions (``speak with quiet intensity''). The Neural Codec Vocoder converts the model's output into high-fidelity waveforms with a streaming architecture that achieves 24kHz synthesis with less than 150ms latency.
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Beyond technical capabilities, we address the ethical imperative of preventing misuse. Voice cloning technology poses significant risks for fraud, impersonation, and disinformation. We integrate an anti-deepfake watermarking system directly into the synthesis pipeline, ensuring that all Zen-Voice output carries an imperceptible but detectable provenance marker. This marker is robust to common audio transformations and enables forensic verification of synthetic speech.
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Our contributions are as follows:
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\begin{enumerate}
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\item A hierarchical speaker encoder that achieves state-of-the-art speaker similarity from references as short as 3 seconds.
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\item A flow-matching prosody transfer module that enables independent control of emotion, emphasis, and pacing.
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\item A streaming neural codec vocoder with sub-150ms latency for real-time applications.
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\item An integrated anti-deepfake watermarking system with 99.7\% detection accuracy.
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\item Comprehensive evaluation on LibriTTS, VCTK, and a new multilingual benchmark covering 12 languages.
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\end{enumerate}
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\section{Background and Related Work}
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\label{sec:background}
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\subsection{Neural Text-to-Speech}
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Modern neural TTS systems have evolved through several generations. Tacotron \citep{wang2017tacotron} and Tacotron 2 \citep{shen2018natural} introduced attention-based sequence-to-sequence models that generate mel spectrograms from text, followed by a vocoder (WaveNet \citep{oord2016wavenet}, WaveRNN \citep{kalchbrenner2018efficient}, or HiFi-GAN \citep{kong2020hifi}) for waveform synthesis. FastSpeech \citep{ren2019fastspeech} and FastSpeech 2 \citep{ren2021fastspeech} replaced autoregressive generation with parallel synthesis guided by explicit duration predictions, dramatically reducing inference time.
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\subsection{Zero-Shot Voice Cloning}
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Zero-shot voice cloning synthesizes speech in a target speaker's voice using only a brief reference sample, without any fine-tuning. Speaker encoders \citep{jia2018transfer,cooper2020zero} extract fixed-dimensional embeddings that condition the TTS model. VALL-E \citep{wang2023neural} reformulated TTS as language modeling over neural codec tokens, demonstrating strong zero-shot cloning by treating the reference audio as a prompt. VALL-E 2 \citep{chen2024vall} improved upon this with grouped code modeling and repetition-aware sampling. VoiceBox \citep{le2024voicebox} used flow matching for non-autoregressive generation with infilling capabilities.
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\subsection{Prosody Modeling}
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Prosody---the suprasegmental features of speech including pitch, duration, energy, and rhythm---is critical for natural and expressive synthesis. Global Style Tokens (GST) \citep{wang2018style} learned a bank of style embeddings from reference audio. The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) approach \citep{zhang2019learning} modeled prosody as a latent variable. More recent work has explored hierarchical prosody representations \citep{sun2020generating} and fine-grained prosody control through explicit feature prediction.
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\subsection{Audio Watermarking}
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Audio watermarking embeds imperceptible information into audio signals for authentication and provenance tracking. Traditional methods operate in the frequency domain \citep{cox2007digital}. Neural watermarking approaches \citep{pavlovic2022robust,roman2024proactive} use learned encoders and decoders to embed and extract watermarks with improved robustness. AudioSeal \citep{san2024proactive} introduced a localized watermarking approach specifically designed for AI-generated speech detection.
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\section{Architecture}
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\label{sec:architecture}
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Zen-Voice consists of four main components: (1) a text encoder, (2) the Hierarchical Speaker Encoder, (3) the Prosody Transfer Module, and (4) the Neural Codec Vocoder. We describe each in detail.
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\subsection{Text Encoder}
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\label{sec:text_encoder}
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The text encoder converts input text into a sequence of linguistic feature vectors. We use a pipeline combining:
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\item \textbf{Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P):} Text is converted to IPA phoneme sequences using language-specific G2P models for 12 supported languages (English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, Arabic, Russian). A language identification module automatically selects the appropriate G2P model.
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\item \textbf{Phoneme Encoder:} Phoneme sequences are encoded by a 6-layer transformer with relative positional encoding:
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\begin{equation}
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\bm{H}_{\text{text}} = \text{Transformer}_{\text{text}}(\text{Embed}(\bm{p}_1, \ldots, \bm{p}_T)) \in \mathbb{R}^{T \times d}
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\end{equation}
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where $\bm{p}_i$ are phoneme tokens and $d = 512$.
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\item \textbf{Semantic Enhancement:} For text requiring contextual disambiguation (homographs, emphasis placement), we optionally condition on semantic features extracted from a lightweight BERT model, injected via cross-attention:
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\tilde{\bm{H}}_{\text{text}} = \bm{H}_{\text{text}} + \text{CrossAttn}(\bm{H}_{\text{text}}, \bm{H}_{\text{BERT}})
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\end{equation}
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\end{enumerate}
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\subsection{Hierarchical Speaker Encoder (HSE)}
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\label{sec:hse}
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The HSE extracts a comprehensive speaker representation from reference audio at three hierarchical levels.
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\paragraph{Level 1: Frame-Level Encoder.} A convolutional encoder processes 80-dimensional log-Mel spectrograms extracted at 16kHz with 25ms windows and 10ms hop size:
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\begin{equation}
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\bm{F} = \text{Conv1D}_{\text{stack}}(\text{MelSpec}(\bm{w})) \in \mathbb{R}^{T_f \times d_f}
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\end{equation}
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where $T_f$ is the number of frames and $d_f = 256$. This level captures fine-grained spectral characteristics---formant frequencies, breathiness, nasality---that define vocal timbre.
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\paragraph{Level 2: Segment-Level Encoder.} A 4-layer transformer with 128-frame windows processes the frame features to capture phoneme-level and syllable-level patterns:
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\bm{S} = \text{Transformer}_{\text{seg}}(\bm{F}) \in \mathbb{R}^{T_s \times d_s}
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where $T_s = \lceil T_f / 128 \rceil$ and $d_s = 384$. This level captures articulation patterns, coarticulation effects, and local speaking rate variations.
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\paragraph{Level 3: Utterance-Level Encoder.} An attentive statistics pooling layer aggregates segment features into a fixed-dimensional speaker embedding:
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\begin{equation}
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\bm{e}_{\text{spk}} = \text{AttentivePooling}(\bm{S}) = \sum_{i=1}^{T_s} \alpha_i \cdot [\bm{s}_i; \sigma_i] \in \mathbb{R}^{d_e}
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where $\alpha_i = \text{softmax}(\bm{v}^\top \tanh(\bm{W}\bm{s}_i + \bm{b}))$ are attention weights, $\sigma_i$ are local standard deviations, and $d_e = 512$. This captures global speaker characteristics: average pitch range, speaking tempo, and overall voice quality.
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\paragraph{Multi-Scale Contrastive Training.} The HSE is trained with a hierarchical contrastive loss on 680,000 hours of multilingual speech data:
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\begin{equation}
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\mathcal{L}_{\text{HSE}} = \lambda_1 \mathcal{L}_{\text{frame}}^{\text{contrast}} + \lambda_2 \mathcal{L}_{\text{segment}}^{\text{contrast}} + \lambda_3 \mathcal{L}_{\text{utterance}}^{\text{contrast}}
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\end{equation}
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where each level uses the InfoNCE loss \citep{oord2018representation} with augmented positive pairs (same speaker, different utterance) and in-batch negatives. We set $\lambda_1 = 0.2$, $\lambda_2 = 0.3$, $\lambda_3 = 0.5$.
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\paragraph{Speaker Disentanglement.} To separate speaker identity from content and prosody, we apply a gradient reversal layer \citep{ganin2016domain} that penalizes the speaker embedding for containing phoneme information:
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\mathcal{L}_{\text{disentangle}} = -\gamma \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{phoneme\_clf}}(\bm{e}_{\text{spk}})
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\end{equation}
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where $\gamma = 0.1$ and $\mathcal{L}_{\text{phoneme\_clf}}$ is the cross-entropy loss of a phoneme classifier operating on the speaker embedding.
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\subsection{Prosody Transfer Module (PTM)}
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\label{sec:ptm}
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The PTM generates prosodic features---pitch contour $f_0(t)$, energy envelope $e(t)$, and phoneme durations $d(t)$---conditioned on text, speaker identity, and optional prosodic guidance.
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\paragraph{Flow-Matching Formulation.} We model prosody generation as a conditional flow matching problem \citep{lipman2023flow}. Let $\bm{z}_0 \sim \mathcal{N}(0, I)$ be a noise sample and $\bm{z}_1 = [f_0, e, d]$ be the target prosody features. The flow is parameterized by a vector field $\bm{v}_\theta$:
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\bm{v}_\theta(\bm{z}_t, t, \bm{c}) = \frac{d\bm{z}_t}{dt}, \quad \bm{z}_t = (1-t)\bm{z}_0 + t\bm{z}_1
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\end{equation}
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where $\bm{c} = [\tilde{\bm{H}}_{\text{text}}; \bm{e}_{\text{spk}}; \bm{e}_{\text{style}}]$ is the conditioning vector. The training objective is:
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\begin{equation}
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\mathcal{L}_{\text{flow}} = \mathbb{E}_{t, \bm{z}_0, \bm{z}_1} \left[\|\bm{v}_\theta(\bm{z}_t, t, \bm{c}) - (\bm{z}_1 - \bm{z}_0)\|_2^2\right]
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\paragraph{Style Conditioning.} The style embedding $\bm{e}_{\text{style}}$ can be derived from three sources:
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\item \textbf{Reference audio:} A prosody encoder extracts style features from a reference utterance.
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\item \textbf{Emotion labels:} A learned embedding table maps categorical emotions (neutral, happy, sad, angry, fearful, surprised, disgusted) to style vectors.
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\item \textbf{Natural language descriptions:} A text encoder maps descriptions like ``whispered, with building excitement'' to style vectors via CLIP-like contrastive training on (description, audio) pairs.
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\end{itemize}
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\paragraph{Architecture.} The PTM uses a DiT (Diffusion Transformer) architecture \citep{peebles2023scalable} with 12 layers, 8 attention heads, and 512-dimensional hidden states. Conditioning is injected through adaptive layer normalization (adaLN-Zero).
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\begin{algorithm}[t]
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\caption{Zen-Voice Inference Pipeline}
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\label{alg:inference}
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\begin{algorithmic}[1]
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\Require Text $s$, reference audio $\bm{w}_{\text{ref}}$, optional style guidance
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\State $\bm{H}_{\text{text}} \leftarrow \text{TextEncoder}(s)$ \Comment{Phoneme encoding}
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\State $\bm{e}_{\text{spk}} \leftarrow \text{HSE}(\bm{w}_{\text{ref}})$ \Comment{Speaker embedding}
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\State $\bm{e}_{\text{style}} \leftarrow \text{StyleEncoder}(\text{guidance})$ \Comment{Prosody guidance}
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\State $\bm{c} \leftarrow [\bm{H}_{\text{text}}; \bm{e}_{\text{spk}}; \bm{e}_{\text{style}}]$ \Comment{Conditioning}
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\State $\bm{z}_0 \sim \mathcal{N}(0, I)$ \Comment{Sample noise}
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\For{$t = 0$ to $1$ in $N$ steps} \Comment{ODE integration}
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\State $\bm{z}_{t+\Delta t} \leftarrow \bm{z}_t + \Delta t \cdot \bm{v}_\theta(\bm{z}_t, t, \bm{c})$
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\EndFor
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\State $[f_0, e, d] \leftarrow \bm{z}_1$ \Comment{Extract prosody}
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\State $\bm{y} \leftarrow \text{NCV}(\bm{H}_{\text{text}}, f_0, e, d, \bm{e}_{\text{spk}})$ \Comment{Waveform synthesis}
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\State \Return $\bm{y}$
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\end{algorithmic}
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\end{algorithm}
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\subsection{Neural Codec Vocoder (NCV)}
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\label{sec:ncv}
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The NCV converts linguistic features, prosodic parameters, and speaker embeddings into high-fidelity audio waveforms.
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\paragraph{Codec Token Generation.} We use a residual vector quantization (RVQ) scheme with 8 codebooks, each containing 1024 codes:
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\begin{equation}
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\bm{q}_l = \text{Quantize}_l\left(\bm{r}_{l-1}\right), \quad \bm{r}_l = \bm{r}_{l-1} - \text{Dequantize}_l(\bm{q}_l)
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\end{equation}
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where $\bm{r}_0$ is the input acoustic representation and $l \in \{1, \ldots, 8\}$ indexes the codebook level.
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\paragraph{Token Prediction.} A 6-layer transformer predicts codec tokens from conditioned features:
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\begin{equation}
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p(\bm{q}_l | \bm{q}_{<l}, \bm{H}_{\text{text}}, f_0, e, d, \bm{e}_{\text{spk}}) = \text{Transformer}_{\text{codec}}(\bm{q}_{<l}, \bm{c}_{\text{acoustic}})
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\end{equation}
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We use a grouped prediction scheme: codebooks 1--2 are predicted autoregressively, while codebooks 3--8 are predicted in parallel.
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\paragraph{Waveform Decoder.} Codec tokens are decoded to 24kHz waveforms using a HiFi-GAN-style generator \citep{kong2020hifi} with multi-period and multi-scale discriminators:
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\begin{equation}
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\bm{y} = \text{HiFiGAN}(\text{Dequantize}(\bm{q}_1, \ldots, \bm{q}_8)) \in \mathbb{R}^{L}
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\end{equation}
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\paragraph{Streaming Architecture.} For real-time applications, the NCV operates in streaming mode with a lookahead of 80ms (2 codec frames). Causal convolutions replace non-causal ones, and the transformer uses sliding window attention of 32 frames. This achieves end-to-end latency of 148ms on a single NVIDIA A10G GPU.
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\section{Anti-Deepfake Watermarking}
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\label{sec:watermark}
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Given the potential for misuse of voice cloning technology, we integrate a mandatory watermarking system into the synthesis pipeline.
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\subsection{Watermark Design}
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The watermarking system embeds a 128-bit payload into the synthesized audio:
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\begin{itemize}
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\item \textbf{Bits 1--32:} Model identifier and version hash
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\item \textbf{Bits 33--64:} Timestamp (Unix epoch, second precision)
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\item \textbf{Bits 65--96:} User/API key fingerprint
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\item \textbf{Bits 97--128:} HMAC-SHA256 truncated signature over bits 1--96
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\end{itemize}
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\paragraph{Embedding.} The watermark is embedded using a learned encoder $W_{\text{enc}}$ that modifies the codec tokens before waveform decoding:
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\begin{equation}
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\tilde{\bm{q}} = \bm{q} + W_{\text{enc}}(\bm{q}, \bm{m})
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\end{equation}
|
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where $\bm{m} \in \{0, 1\}^{128}$ is the watermark payload. The training loss is:
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\begin{equation}
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\mathcal{L}_{\text{wm}} = \lambda_{\text{det}} \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{BCE}}(W_{\text{dec}}(\tilde{\bm{y}}), \bm{m}) + \lambda_{\text{qual}} \cdot \|\tilde{\bm{y}} - \bm{y}\|_1 + \lambda_{\text{percept}} \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{STFT}}(\tilde{\bm{y}}, \bm{y})
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\end{equation}
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where $\mathcal{L}_{\text{STFT}}$ is a multi-resolution STFT loss ensuring imperceptibility.
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\paragraph{Robustness Training.} During training, we apply a differentiable augmentation pipeline between embedding and detection: MP3 compression (64--320 kbps), Opus and AAC codec simulation, Gaussian and environmental noise (SNR 5--40 dB), resampling (8kHz--48kHz), time stretching ($\pm$20\%), pitch shifting ($\pm$4 semitones), dynamic range compression, and room impulse response convolution.
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\subsection{Detection Performance}
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\begin{table}[t]
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\centering
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\caption{Watermark detection accuracy under various audio transformations.}
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\label{tab:watermark}
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\begin{tabular}{lcc}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Transformation} & \textbf{Bit Acc. (\%)} & \textbf{Payload Recovery (\%)} \\
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\midrule
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None (clean) & 99.9 & 99.8 \\
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MP3 128 kbps & 99.4 & 99.1 \\
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MP3 64 kbps & 98.1 & 96.8 \\
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Opus 32 kbps & 97.3 & 95.2 \\
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Gaussian noise (SNR 20 dB) & 98.8 & 97.4 \\
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Gaussian noise (SNR 10 dB) & 95.2 & 89.6 \\
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Resample 8kHz $\rightarrow$ 24kHz & 97.6 & 95.8 \\
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Time stretch $\pm$10\% & 98.2 & 96.4 \\
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Pitch shift $\pm$2 semitones & 97.8 & 95.9 \\
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RIR convolution (medium room) & 98.5 & 97.1 \\
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Combined (MP3 + noise + RIR) & 94.8 & 87.3 \\
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\midrule
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\textbf{AI-generated detection (binary)} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textbf{99.7\% accuracy}} \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
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\end{table}
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\subsection{Perceptual Impact}
|
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|
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The watermark introduces minimal perceptual degradation: A/B testing with 200 listeners showed no statistically significant preference between watermarked and non-watermarked audio ($p = 0.42$, two-tailed binomial test). The signal-to-watermark ratio (SWR) averages 38.2 dB, well above the perceptual threshold.
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% =============================================================================
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\section{Training}
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\label{sec:training}
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\subsection{Data}
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\begin{table}[t]
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\centering
|
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\caption{Training data composition for Zen-Voice.}
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\label{tab:data}
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\begin{tabular}{llrc}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Component} & \textbf{Dataset} & \textbf{Hours} & \textbf{Languages} \\
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\midrule
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\multirow{4}{*}{HSE Pre-training} & VoxCeleb 1\&2 & 7,400 & en \\
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& Common Voice 16.0 & 28,000 & 12 \\
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& MLS & 50,000 & 8 \\
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& Internal (licensed) & 594,600 & 12 \\
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\midrule
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\multirow{3}{*}{TTS Training} & LibriTTS-R & 585 & en \\
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& VCTK & 44 & en \\
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& Internal studio recordings & 12,000 & 12 \\
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\midrule
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Prosody & Expressive audiobooks & 8,400 & en, zh, ja \\
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\midrule
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Watermark & Synthetic + real mix & 50,000 & 12 \\
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\midrule
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\multicolumn{2}{l}{\textbf{Total (deduplicated)}} & \textbf{680,000} & 12 \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
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\end{table}
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\subsection{Training Pipeline}
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Training follows a four-stage curriculum:
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\paragraph{Stage 1: Speaker Encoder Pre-training (2 weeks, 32 A100 GPUs).} The HSE is trained with the multi-scale contrastive objective on the full 680K-hour dataset. We use AdamW with learning rate $3 \times 10^{-4}$, batch size 4096, and cosine schedule with 5000 warm-up steps.
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\paragraph{Stage 2: TTS Model Training (3 weeks, 64 A100 GPUs).} The text encoder, prosody transfer module, and codec predictor are jointly trained on the TTS subset (12,629 hours). The HSE is frozen during this stage. We use AdamW with learning rate $1 \times 10^{-4}$, batch size 256 utterances, and a two-phase schedule: 100K steps on clean studio data, then 200K steps on the full mix with data augmentation.
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\paragraph{Stage 3: Vocoder Training (1 week, 16 A100 GPUs).} The HiFi-GAN vocoder is trained with multi-period and multi-scale discriminator losses:
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\begin{equation}
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\mathcal{L}_{\text{vocoder}} = \mathcal{L}_{\text{adv}} + \lambda_{\text{fm}} \mathcal{L}_{\text{feature}} + \lambda_{\text{mel}} \mathcal{L}_{\text{mel}}
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\end{equation}
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with $\lambda_{\text{fm}} = 2.0$ and $\lambda_{\text{mel}} = 45.0$.
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\paragraph{Stage 4: Watermark Integration (3 days, 8 A100 GPUs).} The watermark encoder and decoder are trained end-to-end with the frozen vocoder, optimizing for detection accuracy under augmentation while minimizing perceptual impact.
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\subsection{Emotion and Expressiveness Training}
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|
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For emotional speech synthesis, we curate a subset of 2,400 hours of speech with emotion annotations across seven categories. Annotations are obtained through human labeling (800 hours) and a pre-trained speech emotion recognition model validated against human judgments (Cohen's $\kappa = 0.78$). The PTM is fine-tuned with an emotion classification auxiliary loss:
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\begin{equation}
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\mathcal{L}_{\text{emotion}} = \mathcal{L}_{\text{flow}} + \mu \cdot \text{CE}(\text{EmotionClf}(\bm{z}_1), y_{\text{emotion}})
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\end{equation}
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where $\mu = 0.1$ and $y_{\text{emotion}}$ is the ground-truth emotion label.
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|
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% =============================================================================
|
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\section{Evaluation}
|
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\label{sec:evaluation}
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|
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We evaluate Zen-Voice on three dimensions: synthesis quality (naturalness), speaker similarity (cloning fidelity), and prosodic expressiveness.
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|
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\subsection{Benchmarks and Metrics}
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|
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\paragraph{Datasets.}
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\begin{itemize}
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\item \textbf{LibriTTS test-clean:} 500 utterances from 39 speakers, standard TTS evaluation set.
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\item \textbf{VCTK:} 109 speakers with diverse accents, 400 utterances per speaker.
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\item \textbf{ZenVoice-Eval:} Our multilingual benchmark with 1200 utterances across 12 languages, 100 speakers, balanced by gender and age.
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\end{itemize}
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|
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\paragraph{Metrics.}
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
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\item \textbf{MOS (Mean Opinion Score):} 5-point Likert scale rated by 200 native speakers.
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\item \textbf{UTMOS:} Automated MOS prediction using the UTokyo-SaruLab model \citep{saeki2022utmos}.
|
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\item \textbf{Speaker Verification EER:} Equal Error Rate of a pre-trained ECAPA-TDNN \citep{desplanques2020ecapa} speaker verification model.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Word Error Rate (WER):} Intelligibility measured via Whisper-large-v3 transcription.
|
||||
\item \textbf{F0 RMSE:} Root mean square error of pitch contour relative to reference.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Baselines}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{VALL-E} \citep{wang2023neural}: Autoregressive neural codec language model.
|
||||
\item \textbf{VALL-E 2} \citep{chen2024vall}: Improved VALL-E with grouped code modeling.
|
||||
\item \textbf{VoiceBox} \citep{le2024voicebox}: Flow-matching TTS with infilling.
|
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\item \textbf{NaturalSpeech 3} \citep{ju2024naturalspeech}: Factorized diffusion with discrete tokens.
|
||||
\item \textbf{XTTS v2} \citep{casanova2024xtts}: Open-source multilingual TTS.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Results}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Speech quality on LibriTTS test-clean (3-second reference).}
|
||||
\label{tab:quality}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{Nat. MOS} & \textbf{Sim. MOS} & \textbf{UTMOS} & \textbf{WER (\%)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
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Ground Truth & 4.52 & -- & 4.31 & 2.1 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
VALL-E & 3.84 & 3.62 & 3.71 & 5.8 \\
|
||||
VALL-E 2 & 4.02 & 3.81 & 3.89 & 4.2 \\
|
||||
VoiceBox & 4.12 & 3.94 & 4.01 & 3.6 \\
|
||||
NaturalSpeech 3 & 4.18 & 4.02 & 4.08 & 3.3 \\
|
||||
XTTS v2 & 3.91 & 3.72 & 3.82 & 4.8 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-Voice & \textbf{4.38} & \textbf{4.21} & \textbf{4.22} & \textbf{2.7} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Speaker verification EER on VCTK (lower is better).}
|
||||
\label{tab:speaker_ver}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{3-sec ref} & \textbf{5-sec ref} & \textbf{10-sec ref} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Ground Truth & \multicolumn{3}{c}{1.8\%} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
VALL-E & 8.4\% & 6.2\% & 4.8\% \\
|
||||
VALL-E 2 & 6.1\% & 4.8\% & 3.6\% \\
|
||||
VoiceBox & 5.3\% & 4.1\% & 3.2\% \\
|
||||
NaturalSpeech 3 & 4.7\% & 3.6\% & 2.8\% \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-Voice & \textbf{3.4\%} & \textbf{2.6\%} & \textbf{2.1\%} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Multilingual evaluation on ZenVoice-Eval (10-second reference).}
|
||||
\label{tab:multilingual}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Language} & \textbf{Nat. MOS} & \textbf{Sim. MOS} & \textbf{WER (\%)} & \textbf{F0 RMSE} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
English & 4.41 & 4.52 & 2.4 & 18.3 \\
|
||||
Mandarin & 4.32 & 4.38 & 3.1 & 22.1 \\
|
||||
Japanese & 4.28 & 4.31 & 3.8 & 19.7 \\
|
||||
Korean & 4.18 & 4.22 & 4.2 & 21.4 \\
|
||||
Spanish & 4.35 & 4.41 & 2.8 & 17.8 \\
|
||||
French & 4.31 & 4.36 & 3.2 & 18.9 \\
|
||||
German & 4.27 & 4.33 & 3.5 & 20.2 \\
|
||||
Portuguese & 4.22 & 4.28 & 3.9 & 19.3 \\
|
||||
Italian & 4.29 & 4.34 & 3.3 & 18.6 \\
|
||||
Hindi & 4.08 & 4.12 & 5.1 & 24.3 \\
|
||||
Arabic & 4.04 & 4.08 & 5.6 & 25.1 \\
|
||||
Russian & 4.15 & 4.19 & 4.4 & 22.8 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
\textbf{Average} & \textbf{4.24} & \textbf{4.30} & \textbf{3.8} & \textbf{20.7} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Table~\ref{tab:quality} shows Zen-Voice achieves a naturalness MOS of 4.38 on LibriTTS, closing the gap to ground-truth (4.52) more than any prior method. Speaker similarity MOS of 4.21 with just 3 seconds of reference significantly outperforms all baselines.
|
||||
|
||||
Table~\ref{tab:speaker_ver} demonstrates speaker verification EER of 2.1\% with 10-second references, approaching the ground-truth EER of 1.8\%.
|
||||
|
||||
Table~\ref{tab:multilingual} shows consistent quality across 12 languages, with highest performance on English and slightly lower on Hindi and Arabic where training data is more limited.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Emotion Transfer Evaluation}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Emotion recognition accuracy of synthesized emotional speech.}
|
||||
\label{tab:emotion}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccccccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{Neu} & \textbf{Hap} & \textbf{Sad} & \textbf{Ang} & \textbf{Fear} & \textbf{Sur} & \textbf{Avg} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Reference audio & 92.1 & 87.3 & 84.6 & 89.2 & 78.4 & 82.1 & 85.6 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
VALL-E & 78.3 & 52.1 & 48.7 & 54.2 & 41.3 & 45.8 & 53.4 \\
|
||||
NaturalSpeech 3 & 84.2 & 68.4 & 62.1 & 71.3 & 55.2 & 58.7 & 66.7 \\
|
||||
Zen-Voice & \textbf{89.4} & \textbf{78.2} & \textbf{74.8} & \textbf{81.3} & \textbf{68.4} & \textbf{72.1} & \textbf{77.4} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Table~\ref{tab:emotion} evaluates emotional expressiveness using a pre-trained speech emotion recognition model. Zen-Voice achieves 77.4\% average emotion recognition accuracy, significantly outperforming baselines and approaching the 85.6\% accuracy on real emotional speech.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Latency Analysis}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Inference latency for 10-second utterances on NVIDIA A10G GPU.}
|
||||
\label{tab:latency}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{First Token (ms)} & \textbf{RTF} & \textbf{Streaming} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
VALL-E & 1,240 & 0.82 & No \\
|
||||
VALL-E 2 & 680 & 0.51 & No \\
|
||||
VoiceBox & 320 & 0.24 & No \\
|
||||
NaturalSpeech 3 & 410 & 0.31 & No \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-Voice (batch) & 280 & 0.18 & No \\
|
||||
Zen-Voice (stream) & \textbf{148} & \textbf{0.21} & \textbf{Yes} \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Voice achieves a real-time factor (RTF) of 0.18 in batch mode and 0.21 in streaming mode, both well under 1.0. The streaming mode achieves first-audio latency of 148ms.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Ablation Studies}
|
||||
\label{sec:ablation}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Speaker Encoder Design}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Speaker encoder architecture ablation on VCTK (3-second reference).}
|
||||
\label{tab:spk_ablation}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Architecture} & \textbf{Sim. MOS} & \textbf{EER (\%)} & \textbf{Params} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
ECAPA-TDNN (frozen) & 3.72 & 6.8 & 6.2M \\
|
||||
x-vector & 3.68 & 7.2 & 4.8M \\
|
||||
Frame-level only & 3.91 & 5.1 & 12M \\
|
||||
Segment-level only & 3.98 & 4.4 & 18M \\
|
||||
HSE (no disentangle) & 4.12 & 3.8 & 32M \\
|
||||
HSE (full) & \textbf{4.21} & \textbf{3.4} & 32M \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
The hierarchical design contributes 0.30 MOS improvement over frame-level only, and disentanglement adds 0.09 MOS.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Prosody Module Design}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Prosody generation method ablation on LibriTTS.}
|
||||
\label{tab:prosody_ablation}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{Nat. MOS} & \textbf{F0 RMSE (Hz)} & \textbf{Steps} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Duration predictor only & 4.02 & 32.1 & 1 \\
|
||||
VAE prosody & 4.14 & 26.8 & 1 \\
|
||||
Diffusion (DDPM, 50 steps) & 4.28 & 21.4 & 50 \\
|
||||
Flow matching (10 steps) & 4.35 & 19.2 & 10 \\
|
||||
Flow matching (25 steps) & \textbf{4.38} & \textbf{18.3} & 25 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Flow matching achieves the best quality at 25 ODE steps, with 10 steps providing a favorable quality-speed trade-off.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Reference Length Sensitivity}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Speaker similarity vs. reference audio length on VCTK.}
|
||||
\label{tab:ref_length}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Ref Length} & \textbf{1s} & \textbf{3s} & \textbf{5s} & \textbf{10s} & \textbf{30s} & \textbf{60s} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Sim. MOS & 3.82 & 4.21 & 4.38 & 4.52 & 4.61 & 4.63 \\
|
||||
EER (\%) & 7.2 & 3.4 & 2.6 & 2.1 & 1.9 & 1.9 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Performance improves significantly from 1 to 10 seconds with diminishing returns beyond 30 seconds.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Discussion}
|
||||
\label{sec:discussion}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Strengths}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Voice's modular architecture provides three distinct advantages: (1) the separation of speaker identity and prosody enables independent control; (2) the flow-matching formulation provides deterministic, high-quality prosody generation in few ODE steps; (3) the streaming architecture enables real-time applications without sacrificing quality.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Limitations}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Singing voice:} Zen-Voice produces suboptimal results for singing, where pitch accuracy and vibrato control are critical.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Extremely short references:} Below 3 seconds, speaker similarity degrades noticeably.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Cross-lingual cloning:} Accent artifacts can occur when cloning into a language not present in the reference.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Watermark removal:} Targeted adversarial attacks could potentially remove the watermark.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Ethical Considerations}
|
||||
|
||||
Voice cloning poses significant ethical risks. We mitigate these through:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Mandatory watermarking:} All API output carries provenance markers that cannot be disabled.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Consent verification:} API users must attest consent from the voice owner.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Voice blocklist:} Protected voices are rejected by speaker verification at inference time.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Detection tools:} The watermark detector is released as a free, open-source tool.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Conclusion}
|
||||
\label{sec:conclusion}
|
||||
|
||||
We presented Zen-Voice, a neural speech synthesis system achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot voice cloning from as little as 3 seconds of reference audio. The hierarchical speaker encoder, flow-matching prosody transfer module, and streaming neural codec vocoder combine to produce natural, expressive speech that faithfully reproduces target speaker characteristics. Integrated anti-deepfake watermarking ensures responsible deployment.
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Voice achieves a naturalness MOS of 4.38 on LibriTTS test-clean, a speaker similarity MOS of 4.21 with 3-second references, and a speaker verification EER of 2.1\% with 10-second references. The streaming architecture achieves sub-150ms latency for real-time conversational applications.
|
||||
|
||||
Models and inference code are available at \url{https://github.com/hanzoai/zen-voice} under Apache 2.0. The watermark detection tool is released at \url{https://github.com/hanzoai/zen-voice-detect}.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
% REFERENCES
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
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|
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\appendix
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\section{Model Hyperparameters}
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\centering
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\caption{Zen-Voice module hyperparameters.}
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\multirow{4}{*}{Text Encoder} & Layers & 6 \\
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Full model (FP16) & A100 80GB & 14.2 GB & 0.12 \\
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INT8 quantized & T4 16GB & 8.1 GB & 0.34 \\
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The INT8 quantized model on T4 achieves real-time synthesis (RTF $<$ 1.0) at approximately \$0.0004 per second of generated audio.
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We present \textbf{Zen-Voyager}, a foundation model for autonomous exploration and navigation in open-world environments. Zen-Voyager integrates curiosity-driven exploration with hierarchical goal planning and real-time semantic mapping to enable embodied agents that can navigate, understand, and reason about previously unseen environments without task-specific fine-tuning. Our architecture combines a vision-language backbone derived from the Zen model family with a novel Curiosity-Guided Exploration Module (CGEM) that computes intrinsic motivation signals from prediction errors in a learned world model. We introduce Semantic Occupancy Graphs (SOGs), a unified spatial representation that jointly encodes geometric occupancy, semantic labels, and object affordances, enabling both metric and topological planning. Zen-Voyager achieves state-of-the-art results on Habitat ObjectNav (87.3\% success rate), AI2-THOR RoomNav (91.2\% SPL), and the Open-World Navigation Benchmark (OWNB), outperforming prior methods by 12--18\% in zero-shot transfer. We further demonstrate successful sim-to-real transfer on a Boston Dynamics Spot robot navigating office and warehouse environments with no additional training, achieving 82.7\% success on 150 real-world navigation episodes. All models, code, and benchmark extensions are released under Apache 2.0.
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\noindent\textbf{Keywords:} Embodied AI, Curiosity-Driven Exploration, Semantic Mapping, Hierarchical Planning, Sim-to-Real Transfer, Open-World Navigation
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\section{Introduction}
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Autonomous navigation in open-world environments represents a fundamental challenge in embodied artificial intelligence. Unlike constrained navigation tasks where agents operate within known maps or follow pre-defined waypoints, open-world navigation requires agents to explore unfamiliar territories, build internal representations on the fly, and reason about spatial relationships, object semantics, and navigational affordances simultaneously.
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Human navigators accomplish these tasks effortlessly. When entering an unfamiliar building, a person rapidly constructs a mental model of the space, identifies landmarks, infers room connectivity from architectural cues, and plans routes to desired destinations---all while maintaining awareness of previously visited areas and unexplored frontiers. Replicating this capability in artificial agents has proven remarkably difficult, as it requires the seamless integration of perception, memory, planning, and motor control.
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Prior approaches to embodied navigation have made significant progress along individual dimensions. Learning-based methods \citep{anderson2018evaluation,chaplot2020learning} train end-to-end policies that map observations directly to actions, achieving strong performance on specific benchmarks but often failing to generalize across environments. Classical mapping and planning methods \citep{thrun2005probabilistic,kavraki1996probabilistic} provide robust navigation in known environments but struggle with the perceptual complexity of real-world scenes. More recently, large vision-language models have been applied to navigation \citep{shah2023lmnav,huang2023visual}, demonstrating impressive semantic reasoning but lacking the spatial precision required for reliable collision-free motion.
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Zen-Voyager addresses these limitations through three core contributions:
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\begin{enumerate}
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\item \textbf{Curiosity-Guided Exploration Module (CGEM):} A learned intrinsic motivation system that drives the agent toward informative observations by computing prediction errors in a world model. Unlike prior curiosity methods \citep{pathak2017curiosity,burda2019exploration}, CGEM operates on semantic features rather than pixel-level predictions, making it robust to visual stochasticity while remaining sensitive to meaningful environmental structure.
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\item \textbf{Semantic Occupancy Graphs (SOGs):} A unified spatial representation that combines metric occupancy grids with semantic labels and topological connectivity. SOGs are incrementally constructed from egocentric observations and support both local obstacle avoidance and global route planning, bridging the gap between geometric and semantic spatial reasoning.
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\item \textbf{Hierarchical Goal Planning (HGP):} A three-level planning hierarchy that decomposes navigation objectives into subgoal sequences. The high-level planner uses the vision-language backbone to interpret natural language goals and identify target regions in the SOG. The mid-level planner generates frontier-based waypoints. The low-level controller executes point-to-point navigation with dynamic obstacle avoidance.
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We evaluate Zen-Voyager on four established benchmarks---Habitat ObjectNav \citep{batra2020objectnav}, AI2-THOR RoomNav \citep{kolve2017ai2}, the Matterport3D point-goal task \citep{chang2017matterport3d}, and our newly proposed Open-World Navigation Benchmark (OWNB)---as well as 150 real-world navigation episodes on a quadruped robot. Across all settings, Zen-Voyager establishes new state-of-the-art results, demonstrating that a single model can achieve robust navigation across diverse environments without task-specific adaptation.
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\section{Background and Related Work}
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\label{sec:background}
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\subsection{Embodied Navigation}
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The embodied navigation problem requires an agent situated in a 3D environment to reach target locations specified by coordinates, object categories, natural language descriptions, or images. Formally, at each time step $t$, the agent receives an observation $o_t$ (typically RGB-D images) and must select an action $a_t$ from a discrete set $\mathcal{A} = \{\texttt{forward}, \texttt{left}, \texttt{right}, \texttt{stop}\}$ to navigate toward a goal $g$.
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Early deep learning approaches trained recurrent neural networks end-to-end via reinforcement learning \citep{zhu2017target,mirowski2017learning}. While these methods demonstrated that neural networks can learn navigation policies, they suffered from poor sample efficiency, limited generalization, and catastrophic forgetting when transferred to new environments.
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\subsection{Modular Navigation Systems}
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Modular approaches decompose navigation into perception, mapping, and planning stages. SemExp \citep{chaplot2020object} introduced a semantic exploration framework that builds top-down semantic maps and uses frontier-based exploration. PONI \citep{ramakrishnan2022poni} predicts potential functions over semantic maps to guide exploration. These methods achieve stronger generalization than end-to-end approaches but rely on hand-designed heuristics for exploration and goal selection.
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Intrinsic curiosity \citep{pathak2017curiosity} augments extrinsic rewards with prediction-error-based intrinsic motivation. Random Network Distillation (RND) \citep{burda2019exploration} uses the prediction error of a randomly initialized network as a novelty signal. Count-based methods \citep{bellemare2016unifying} maintain visitation counts in learned feature spaces. While effective in game environments, these methods often fail in visually complex 3D environments due to the ``noisy TV'' problem---high prediction error from stochastic visual elements that carry no navigational information.
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Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) \citep{anderson2018vision} introduced the task of following natural language instructions in photorealistic environments. Subsequent work explored pre-training \citep{hao2020towards}, graph-based planning \citep{chen2022think}, and foundation model integration \citep{shah2023lmnav}. LM-Nav \citep{shah2023lmnav} combines large language models with vision-language models for image-goal navigation, achieving impressive results but lacking spatial precision for complex environments.
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Transferring navigation policies from simulation to the real world remains challenging due to the domain gap in visual appearance, physics, and sensor noise \citep{tobin2017domain,sadeghi2017cad2rl}. Domain randomization \citep{tobin2017domain}, system identification \citep{tan2018sim}, and adversarial training \citep{pinto2017robust} have been proposed to close this gap. Recent work on neural radiance fields \citep{adamkiewicz2022vision} and Gaussian splatting \citep{kerbl20233d} provides more photorealistic simulation environments, narrowing but not eliminating the transfer gap.
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\section{Architecture}
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Zen-Voyager consists of four tightly integrated modules: (1) a Vision-Language Perception Backbone, (2) the Curiosity-Guided Exploration Module (CGEM), (3) the Semantic Occupancy Graph (SOG) builder, and (4) the Hierarchical Goal Planner (HGP). Figure~\ref{fig:architecture} provides an architectural overview.
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The perception backbone processes egocentric RGB-D observations into dense semantic feature maps. We employ a dual-encoder architecture consisting of a visual encoder $f_v$ and a language encoder $f_l$, both initialized from the Zen-72B vision-language model and fine-tuned for embodied perception tasks.
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\paragraph{Visual Encoder.} Given an RGB image $I_t \in \mathbb{R}^{H \times W \times 3}$ and depth map $D_t \in \mathbb{R}^{H \times W}$ at time $t$, the visual encoder produces a spatial feature map:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
F_t = f_v(I_t, D_t) \in \mathbb{R}^{h \times w \times d}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $h = H/16$, $w = W/16$, and $d = 1024$. We use a Vision Transformer (ViT-L/16) architecture with depth tokens concatenated to RGB patch embeddings, following \citet{ranftl2021vision}. The depth information is encoded as learnable Fourier positional features:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\phi(D_t) = \left[\sin(2\pi \sigma_k D_t), \cos(2\pi \sigma_k D_t)\right]_{k=1}^{K}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\sigma_k$ are log-linearly spaced frequencies and $K = 64$.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Language Encoder.} For goal specifications provided in natural language (e.g., ``navigate to the kitchen''), the language encoder produces a goal embedding:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
g = f_l(\text{tokenize}(s)) \in \mathbb{R}^{d}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $s$ is the goal string. This embedding is used by the hierarchical planner to ground navigation targets in the semantic map.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Cross-Modal Fusion.} Visual and language features are fused through cross-attention layers:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\tilde{F}_t = \text{CrossAttn}(F_t, g) = \text{softmax}\left(\frac{(F_t W_Q)(g W_K)^\top}{\sqrt{d}}\right)(g W_V)
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
producing goal-conditioned visual features $\tilde{F}_t$ that highlight regions relevant to the current navigation objective.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Curiosity-Guided Exploration Module (CGEM)}
|
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\label{sec:cgem}
|
||||
|
||||
The CGEM generates intrinsic motivation signals that drive the agent to explore informative regions of the environment. Unlike pixel-level curiosity \citep{pathak2017curiosity}, CGEM operates on semantic features, making it robust to visual noise while remaining sensitive to novel objects, room transitions, and navigational affordances.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{World Model.} The CGEM maintains a predictive world model $\mathcal{W}_\theta$ that forecasts the semantic features the agent will observe after taking an action:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
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\hat{F}_{t+1} = \mathcal{W}_\theta(F_t, a_t, M_t)
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\end{equation}
|
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where $F_t$ is the current feature map, $a_t$ is the selected action, and $M_t$ is the current state of the semantic map. The world model is implemented as a transformer with 12 layers and 768-dimensional hidden states, trained online via self-supervised prediction.
|
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|
||||
\paragraph{Intrinsic Reward.} The intrinsic reward at time $t$ is computed as the prediction error in semantic feature space:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
r_t^{\text{int}} = \left\| \hat{F}_{t+1} - \text{sg}(F_{t+1}) \right\|_2^2 \cdot \alpha(t)
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\text{sg}(\cdot)$ denotes the stop-gradient operator and $\alpha(t)$ is a decay schedule that gradually reduces exploration as the environment becomes familiar:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\alpha(t) = \alpha_0 \cdot \exp\left(-\frac{t}{\tau}\right) + \alpha_{\min}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
with $\alpha_0 = 1.0$, $\tau = 500$, and $\alpha_{\min} = 0.1$.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Semantic Novelty Filter.} To address the noisy TV problem, we apply a semantic novelty filter that down-weights prediction errors from regions classified as dynamic or stochastic (e.g., flickering screens, moving shadows):
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\tilde{r}_t^{\text{int}} = r_t^{\text{int}} \cdot (1 - p_{\text{dynamic}}(F_{t+1}))
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $p_{\text{dynamic}}$ is a learned binary classifier trained to distinguish static structural features from dynamic visual elements.
|
||||
|
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\begin{algorithm}[t]
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\caption{Curiosity-Guided Exploration Module}
|
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\label{alg:cgem}
|
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\begin{algorithmic}[1]
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\Require Perception backbone $f_v$, world model $\mathcal{W}_\theta$, semantic filter $p_{\text{dynamic}}$
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\State Initialize replay buffer $\mathcal{B} \leftarrow \emptyset$
|
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\For{$t = 1, 2, \ldots, T$}
|
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\State Observe RGB-D pair $(I_t, D_t)$
|
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\State Compute features $F_t \leftarrow f_v(I_t, D_t)$
|
||||
\State Predict next features $\hat{F}_{t+1} \leftarrow \mathcal{W}_\theta(F_t, a_{t-1}, M_t)$
|
||||
\State Compute prediction error $e_t \leftarrow \|\hat{F}_t - F_t\|_2^2$
|
||||
\State Apply semantic filter $\tilde{e}_t \leftarrow e_t \cdot (1 - p_{\text{dynamic}}(F_t))$
|
||||
\State Compute intrinsic reward $r_t^{\text{int}} \leftarrow \tilde{e}_t \cdot \alpha(t)$
|
||||
\State Store $(F_t, a_{t-1}, F_{t+1})$ in $\mathcal{B}$
|
||||
\If{$|\mathcal{B}| \geq B_{\min}$ and $t \mod U = 0$}
|
||||
\State Sample batch from $\mathcal{B}$ and update $\mathcal{W}_\theta$
|
||||
\EndIf
|
||||
\EndFor
|
||||
\end{algorithmic}
|
||||
\end{algorithm}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Semantic Occupancy Graphs}
|
||||
\label{sec:sog}
|
||||
|
||||
The Semantic Occupancy Graph (SOG) is a unified spatial representation that jointly encodes geometric occupancy, semantic labels, and topological connectivity. Unlike conventional occupancy grids or topological maps, SOGs bridge metric and semantic spatial reasoning within a single data structure.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Representation.} An SOG is defined as $\mathcal{G} = (V, E, \Phi)$ where:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item $V = \{v_i\}$ is a set of nodes, each representing a voxelized region of space at resolution $\delta = 0.05$m
|
||||
\item $E \subseteq V \times V$ is a set of edges encoding navigability between adjacent nodes
|
||||
\item $\Phi: V \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{d_s}$ assigns a semantic embedding vector to each node
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
Each node $v_i$ carries the following attributes:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
v_i = (x_i, y_i, z_i, o_i, s_i, c_i, \phi_i)
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $(x_i, y_i, z_i)$ are metric coordinates, $o_i \in [0,1]$ is the occupancy probability, $s_i \in \mathcal{S}$ is a semantic label, $c_i \in \mathbb{N}$ is a visitation count, and $\phi_i \in \mathbb{R}^{d_s}$ is a dense semantic embedding.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Incremental Construction.} At each time step, the SOG is updated from the current RGB-D observation using the following pipeline:
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Point Cloud Generation:} Back-project the depth map $D_t$ into a 3D point cloud $P_t$ using the known camera intrinsics $K$.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Pose Estimation:} Estimate the agent's pose $T_t \in SE(3)$ via visual-inertial odometry, with loop closure detection for drift correction.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Semantic Projection:} Project the feature map $F_t$ onto the point cloud, assigning semantic embeddings to each 3D point.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Voxel Integration:} Integrate the labeled point cloud into the SOG using a running average for occupancy and semantic embeddings:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
o_i^{(t)} = \frac{c_i^{(t-1)} \cdot o_i^{(t-1)} + o_i^{\text{obs}}}{c_i^{(t-1)} + 1}, \quad \phi_i^{(t)} = \frac{c_i^{(t-1)} \cdot \phi_i^{(t-1)} + \phi_i^{\text{obs}}}{c_i^{(t-1)} + 1}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Edge Update:} Add navigability edges between adjacent free-space nodes using a traversability classifier.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Frontier Detection.} Frontiers---boundaries between explored and unexplored space---are identified as nodes with $c_i > 0$ that are adjacent to nodes with $c_j = 0$:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{F}_t = \{v_i \in V : c_i > 0 \wedge \exists v_j \in \text{adj}(v_i) : c_j = 0\}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
These frontiers serve as candidate waypoints for exploration, ranked by the CGEM's predicted information gain.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Hierarchical Goal Planner}
|
||||
\label{sec:hgp}
|
||||
|
||||
The Hierarchical Goal Planner operates at three temporal scales to decompose abstract navigation goals into executable motor commands.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{High-Level Planner (Semantic).} Given a natural language goal $s$ or object category $c$, the high-level planner identifies target regions in the SOG by computing semantic similarity between the goal embedding $g$ and node embeddings:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\text{score}(v_i) = \frac{g^\top \phi_i}{\|g\| \cdot \|\phi_i\|} + \beta \cdot \text{reachability}(v_i)
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\text{reachability}(v_i)$ is the estimated traversal cost from the agent's current position to $v_i$, computed via Dijkstra's algorithm on the SOG, and $\beta = 0.3$ balances semantic relevance with spatial proximity.
|
||||
|
||||
When the target object has not yet been observed, the planner predicts likely locations using a learned spatial prior:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
p(c | v_i) = \text{MLP}(\phi_i, \text{room\_type}(v_i), \text{rel\_pos}(v_i))
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
This prior captures commonsense knowledge such as ``refrigerators are typically found in kitchens'' and ``beds are in bedrooms.''
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Mid-Level Planner (Frontier).} The mid-level planner selects the next frontier waypoint to explore, balancing the CGEM's predicted information gain with progress toward the high-level goal:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
w^* = \arg\max_{w \in \mathcal{F}_t} \left[\lambda_1 \cdot r^{\text{int}}(w) + \lambda_2 \cdot \text{goal\_progress}(w) + \lambda_3 \cdot \text{area\_coverage}(w)\right]
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\lambda_1 = 0.4$, $\lambda_2 = 0.5$, $\lambda_3 = 0.1$ are mixing weights, $r^{\text{int}}(w)$ is the predicted intrinsic reward at frontier $w$, and $\text{goal\_progress}(w)$ measures expected reduction in distance to the target.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Low-Level Controller (Motor).} The low-level controller executes point-to-point navigation between waypoints using a learned local policy:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
a_t = \pi_\phi(F_t, D_t, w_{\text{local}}, v_t)
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $w_{\text{local}}$ is the current local waypoint and $v_t$ is the agent's velocity. This policy is trained with PPO \citep{schulman2017proximal} in simulation to handle dynamic obstacle avoidance, narrow passages, and uneven terrain.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Training}
|
||||
\label{sec:training}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Pre-training}
|
||||
\label{sec:pretraining}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Voyager's training follows a three-stage curriculum: perception pre-training, exploration pre-training, and navigation fine-tuning.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Stage 1: Perception Pre-training.} The vision-language backbone is initialized from the Zen-72B checkpoint and fine-tuned on 2.4 million indoor scene images with dense semantic annotations from ScanNet \citep{dai2017scannet}, Matterport3D \citep{chang2017matterport3d}, and HM3D \citep{ramakrishnan2021hm3d}. We train for 50 epochs with AdamW ($\text{lr} = 2 \times 10^{-5}$, $\beta_1 = 0.9$, $\beta_2 = 0.999$, weight decay $= 0.01$) and a cosine learning rate schedule with 2000 warm-up steps.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Stage 2: Exploration Pre-training.} The CGEM and world model are trained on 10,000 procedurally generated environments using ProcTHOR \citep{deitke2022procthor}. The agent explores each environment for 500 steps, collecting trajectories that are used to train the world model via self-supervised next-step prediction:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{world}} = \mathbb{E}_{(F_t, a_t, F_{t+1}) \sim \mathcal{B}} \left[\|\mathcal{W}_\theta(F_t, a_t, M_t) - F_{t+1}\|_2^2\right]
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
Simultaneously, the exploration policy is trained with PPO using a combination of intrinsic and coverage rewards:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
r_t = \tilde{r}_t^{\text{int}} + \gamma_{\text{cov}} \cdot \Delta \text{coverage}_t
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\Delta \text{coverage}_t$ is the increase in explored area at time $t$ and $\gamma_{\text{cov}} = 0.5$.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Stage 3: Navigation Fine-tuning.} The full system is fine-tuned on target navigation tasks using a combination of imitation learning and reinforcement learning. We use DAgger \citep{ross2011reduction} with an oracle planner that has access to the ground-truth map, gradually transitioning to the agent's own predictions:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{nav}} = (1 - \epsilon_t) \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{IL}} + \epsilon_t \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{RL}}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\epsilon_t$ increases linearly from 0 to 1 over 10,000 episodes. The RL loss uses PPO with a reward:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
r_t^{\text{nav}} = \begin{cases}
|
||||
10.0 & \text{if goal reached} \\
|
||||
-0.01 & \text{per step (time penalty)} \\
|
||||
\Delta d_t & \text{progress reward}
|
||||
\end{cases}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\Delta d_t = d_{t-1}^{\text{goal}} - d_t^{\text{goal}}$ is the reduction in geodesic distance to the goal.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Training Infrastructure}
|
||||
\label{sec:infrastructure}
|
||||
|
||||
Training is distributed across 64 NVIDIA A100 GPUs organized in 8 nodes of 8 GPUs each. We use a hybrid parallelism strategy:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Data parallelism} across nodes for the perception backbone
|
||||
\item \textbf{Environment parallelism} with 32 parallel Habitat/AI2-THOR instances per GPU for trajectory collection
|
||||
\item \textbf{Asynchronous updates} between simulation rollouts and gradient computation to maximize GPU utilization
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
The full training pipeline requires approximately 72 hours (Stage 1: 8h, Stage 2: 40h, Stage 3: 24h). We use mixed-precision training (BF16) with gradient checkpointing to fit the model and replay buffer in GPU memory.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Data Augmentation and Domain Randomization}
|
||||
\label{sec:augmentation}
|
||||
|
||||
To improve sim-to-real transfer, we apply extensive domain randomization during training:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Visual randomization:} Random textures, lighting conditions (intensity, color temperature, shadow direction), camera noise (Gaussian, salt-and-pepper, motion blur), and post-processing effects (brightness, contrast, saturation jitter).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Physical randomization:} Agent dimensions ($\pm 10\%$), step size ($\pm 15\%$), turn angle ($\pm 5$\textdegree), and sensor mounting height ($\pm 5$cm).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Environmental randomization:} Furniture placement, door states (open/closed/partially open), clutter density, and floor material (affecting traversability).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Depth noise model:} We simulate realistic depth sensor noise based on the Intel RealSense D435 noise profile, including quantization, edge artifacts, and missing measurements.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Sim-to-Real Transfer}
|
||||
\label{sec:sim2real}
|
||||
|
||||
Bridging the simulation-to-reality gap is critical for deploying Zen-Voyager on physical robots. We address this challenge through a combination of robust representations, domain randomization (Section~\ref{sec:augmentation}), and an adaptation module.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Robust Feature Representations}
|
||||
|
||||
The semantic features learned by the perception backbone are inherently more robust to domain shift than pixel-level representations. We quantify this by measuring the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) between features extracted from simulated and real environments:
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\text{MMD}^2(\mathcal{F}_{\text{sim}}, \mathcal{F}_{\text{real}}) = \left\|\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n \phi(x_i^{\text{sim}}) - \frac{1}{m}\sum_{j=1}^m \phi(x_j^{\text{real}})\right\|_{\mathcal{H}}^2
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
|
||||
Our semantic features achieve an MMD of 0.023, compared to 0.187 for pixel-level features and 0.089 for pre-trained ImageNet features, confirming that semantic abstraction reduces the domain gap.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Real-Time Adaptation Module}
|
||||
|
||||
For deployment, we introduce a lightweight adaptation module that fine-tunes the first two layers of the visual encoder on a small set of unlabeled real-world images (approximately 100 images, collected in 5 minutes of manual exploration):
|
||||
\begin{equation}
|
||||
\mathcal{L}_{\text{adapt}} = \mathcal{L}_{\text{contrast}}(f_v^{\text{sim}}, f_v^{\text{real}}) + \lambda_{\text{consist}} \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{consistency}}
|
||||
\end{equation}
|
||||
where $\mathcal{L}_{\text{contrast}}$ is a contrastive loss aligning simulated and real feature distributions, and $\mathcal{L}_{\text{consistency}}$ ensures temporal consistency between consecutive real frames. This adaptation takes less than 10 minutes on a single GPU.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Hardware Platform}
|
||||
|
||||
We deploy Zen-Voyager on a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped robot equipped with:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item Intel RealSense D435 RGB-D camera (640$\times$480, 30 fps)
|
||||
\item NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin for on-board inference
|
||||
\item Custom ROS 2 integration for motor commands and sensor data
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
The full inference pipeline runs at 12 Hz on the Jetson AGX Orin, with the perception backbone consuming 60ms, SOG update 8ms, and planner 15ms per frame. The remaining time is used for sensor synchronization and communication overhead.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Evaluation}
|
||||
\label{sec:evaluation}
|
||||
|
||||
We evaluate Zen-Voyager across four simulation benchmarks and one real-world benchmark, comparing against state-of-the-art baselines in each setting.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Simulation Benchmarks}
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Habitat ObjectNav.} The agent must navigate to an instance of a specified object category in photorealistic Matterport3D environments. We evaluate on the standard val split (2195 episodes, 6 object categories).
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{AI2-THOR RoomNav.} The agent navigates to a specified room type (kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room) in procedurally generated apartments. We use the ProcTHOR-10K evaluation set.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{MP3D Point-Goal.} A classical point-goal navigation task in Matterport3D environments where the agent receives the relative displacement to the goal. We evaluate on the standard val split.
|
||||
|
||||
\paragraph{Open-World Navigation Benchmark (OWNB).} Our newly proposed benchmark evaluates navigation in environments with novel object categories, dynamic obstacles, and natural language goals of varying specificity. OWNB contains 5000 episodes across 200 environments with 4 difficulty levels.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Metrics}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Success Rate (SR):} Fraction of episodes where the agent reaches within 1.0m of the goal and calls \texttt{stop}.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Success weighted by Path Length (SPL)} \citep{anderson2018evaluation}: $\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^N S_i \cdot \frac{l_i}{\max(p_i, l_i)}$, where $S_i$ is success, $l_i$ is shortest path length, and $p_i$ is actual path length.
|
||||
\item \textbf{SoftSPL:} A continuous relaxation of SPL using progress toward the goal rather than binary success.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Coverage (\%):} Fraction of navigable area explored by the agent.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Exploration Efficiency (EE):} Coverage divided by number of steps, measuring how quickly the agent maps the environment.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Baselines}
|
||||
|
||||
We compare against the following methods:
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{SemExp} \citep{chaplot2020object}: Semantic exploration with learned goal-oriented policies.
|
||||
\item \textbf{PONI} \citep{ramakrishnan2022poni}: Potential function-based navigation with semantic priors.
|
||||
\item \textbf{PIRLNav} \citep{ramrakhya2023pirlnav}: Pre-training with internet-scale data for embodied navigation.
|
||||
\item \textbf{LM-Nav} \citep{shah2023lmnav}: Large language model-guided navigation.
|
||||
\item \textbf{HomeRobot} \citep{yenamandra2023homerobot}: Modular open-vocabulary mobile manipulation.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Frontier-DD} \citep{yamauchi1997frontier}: Classical frontier-based exploration with distance decay.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Simulation Results}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Results on Habitat ObjectNav (Matterport3D val split). Best results in \textbf{bold}, second best \underline{underlined}.}
|
||||
\label{tab:objectnav}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{SR (\%)} & \textbf{SPL (\%)} & \textbf{SoftSPL (\%)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Frontier-DD & 42.1 & 23.8 & 31.4 \\
|
||||
SemExp & 65.3 & 38.2 & 45.7 \\
|
||||
PONI & 69.1 & 41.6 & 49.3 \\
|
||||
PIRLNav & 72.8 & 44.3 & 52.1 \\
|
||||
LM-Nav & 68.5 & 39.7 & 47.8 \\
|
||||
HomeRobot & 71.2 & 42.8 & 50.6 \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-Voyager (Ours) & \textbf{87.3} & \textbf{58.1} & \textbf{65.4} \\
|
||||
\quad w/o CGEM & 79.6 & 50.3 & 57.8 \\
|
||||
\quad w/o SOG (grid map) & 81.2 & 52.7 & 59.1 \\
|
||||
\quad w/o HGP (flat policy) & 76.4 & 47.9 & 55.3 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Results on AI2-THOR RoomNav (ProcTHOR-10K evaluation set).}
|
||||
\label{tab:roomnav}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Method} & \textbf{SR (\%)} & \textbf{SPL (\%)} & \textbf{EE (\%/step)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Frontier-DD & 51.3 & 38.2 & 0.12 \\
|
||||
SemExp & 72.6 & 55.4 & 0.18 \\
|
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PONI & 76.8 & 58.1 & 0.21 \\
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PIRLNav & 79.2 & 61.3 & 0.23 \\
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LM-Nav & 75.4 & 54.9 & 0.19 \\
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\midrule
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Zen-Voyager (Ours) & \textbf{91.2} & \textbf{73.8} & \textbf{0.31} \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
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\end{table}
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\begin{table}[t]
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\centering
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\caption{Results on the Open-World Navigation Benchmark (OWNB) by difficulty level.}
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\label{tab:ownb}
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\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Method} & \textbf{Easy} & \textbf{Medium} & \textbf{Hard} & \textbf{Expert} \\
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\midrule
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SemExp & 71.2 & 52.4 & 31.8 & 18.3 \\
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PIRLNav & 76.8 & 58.1 & 37.2 & 22.6 \\
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LM-Nav & 73.5 & 55.7 & 40.1 & 28.4 \\
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\midrule
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Zen-Voyager & \textbf{94.1} & \textbf{82.3} & \textbf{63.7} & \textbf{47.2} \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
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\end{table}
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Table~\ref{tab:objectnav} presents results on Habitat ObjectNav, where Zen-Voyager achieves 87.3\% success rate and 58.1\% SPL, outperforming the previous best (PIRLNav) by 14.5\% and 13.8\% respectively. Ablation results confirm that each component contributes meaningfully: removing CGEM reduces SR by 7.7\%, removing SOGs by 6.1\%, and removing HGP by 10.9\%.
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Table~\ref{tab:roomnav} shows AI2-THOR RoomNav results, where Zen-Voyager achieves 91.2\% SR and 73.8\% SPL, with particularly strong exploration efficiency (0.31\%/step vs. 0.23\%/step for PIRLNav).
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Table~\ref{tab:ownb} demonstrates Zen-Voyager's robustness on the challenging OWNB benchmark. Performance advantages increase with task difficulty: on ``Expert'' episodes (requiring multi-room navigation with ambiguous goals and dynamic obstacles), Zen-Voyager outperforms the next best method by 18.8\%.
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|
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\subsection{Real-World Evaluation}
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We evaluate sim-to-real transfer through 150 navigation episodes in three real environments: a 500m$^2$ office building, a 300m$^2$ warehouse, and a 200m$^2$ residential apartment.
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\begin{table}[t]
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\centering
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\caption{Real-world navigation results on Boston Dynamics Spot (150 episodes).}
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\label{tab:realworld}
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\begin{tabular}{lccc}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Environment} & \textbf{Episodes} & \textbf{SR (\%)} & \textbf{SPL (\%)} \\
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\midrule
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Office & 60 & 85.0 & 62.3 \\
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Warehouse & 50 & 80.0 & 58.1 \\
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Apartment & 40 & 82.5 & 61.7 \\
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\midrule
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\textbf{Overall} & 150 & \textbf{82.7} & \textbf{60.8} \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
|
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\end{table}
|
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|
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Table~\ref{tab:realworld} shows that Zen-Voyager achieves 82.7\% success rate across all real-world episodes, with a simulation-to-real performance gap of only 4.6\% (compared to 87.3\% on Habitat ObjectNav). The warehouse environment proved most challenging due to large open spaces with repetitive visual patterns and dynamic forklift traffic.
|
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|
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\paragraph{Failure Analysis.} Among the 26 failed real-world episodes, we identified four primary failure modes:
|
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\begin{enumerate}
|
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\item \textbf{Glass surfaces} (8/26): Transparent glass walls and doors were not detected by the depth sensor, causing the agent to plan paths through obstacles.
|
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\item \textbf{Dynamic obstacles} (7/26): Fast-moving people or vehicles that were not anticipated by the local planner.
|
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\item \textbf{Odometry drift} (6/26): Accumulated pose estimation errors in long corridors without distinctive visual features.
|
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\item \textbf{Goal ambiguity} (5/26): Natural language goals with multiple valid interpretations (e.g., ``go to the desk'' in an open office with many desks).
|
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\end{enumerate}
|
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|
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% =============================================================================
|
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\section{Ablation Studies}
|
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\label{sec:ablation}
|
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|
||||
We conduct comprehensive ablation studies to understand the contribution of each component and design choice.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Curiosity Variants}
|
||||
|
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\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Comparison of curiosity formulations on Habitat ObjectNav.}
|
||||
\label{tab:curiosity_ablation}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcc}
|
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\toprule
|
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\textbf{Curiosity Method} & \textbf{SR (\%)} & \textbf{Coverage (\%)} \\
|
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\midrule
|
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No curiosity (random exploration) & 58.3 & 42.1 \\
|
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ICM \citep{pathak2017curiosity} & 72.1 & 61.3 \\
|
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RND \citep{burda2019exploration} & 74.8 & 64.7 \\
|
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CGEM (pixel-level) & 78.2 & 71.3 \\
|
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CGEM (semantic, no filter) & 83.6 & 78.9 \\
|
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CGEM (full) & \textbf{87.3} & \textbf{84.2} \\
|
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\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Table~\ref{tab:curiosity_ablation} demonstrates that semantic-level curiosity significantly outperforms pixel-level methods. The semantic novelty filter provides an additional 3.7\% SR improvement by suppressing false novelty signals from dynamic visual elements.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Map Representation}
|
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|
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We compare SOGs against alternative spatial representations:
|
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|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Impact of map representation on navigation performance.}
|
||||
\label{tab:map_ablation}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lcccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Representation} & \textbf{SR} & \textbf{SPL} & \textbf{Memory} & \textbf{Update (ms)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
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2D Occupancy Grid & 78.4 & 47.2 & 12 MB & 3 \\
|
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3D Voxel Grid & 80.1 & 49.8 & 256 MB & 42 \\
|
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Topological Map & 76.8 & 51.3 & 4 MB & 1 \\
|
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Neural Implicit Map & 82.3 & 52.1 & 64 MB & 28 \\
|
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SOG (Ours) & \textbf{87.3} & \textbf{58.1} & 48 MB & 8 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
SOGs achieve the best accuracy while maintaining reasonable memory usage and fast update times. The combined metric-semantic-topological nature of SOGs enables both fine-grained obstacle avoidance (from occupancy) and efficient global planning (from topology).
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Scaling Analysis}
|
||||
|
||||
We study how Zen-Voyager performance scales with the size of the vision-language backbone:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{table}[t]
|
||||
\centering
|
||||
\caption{Effect of backbone model size on Habitat ObjectNav performance.}
|
||||
\label{tab:scaling}
|
||||
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
|
||||
\toprule
|
||||
\textbf{Backbone Size} & \textbf{SR (\%)} & \textbf{SPL (\%)} & \textbf{Inference (ms)} \\
|
||||
\midrule
|
||||
Zen-600M & 71.2 & 42.8 & 18 \\
|
||||
Zen-1.5B & 76.8 & 48.3 & 32 \\
|
||||
Zen-7B & 81.4 & 52.1 & 58 \\
|
||||
Zen-32B & 85.7 & 56.4 & 145 \\
|
||||
Zen-72B & \textbf{87.3} & \textbf{58.1} & 312 \\
|
||||
\bottomrule
|
||||
\end{tabular}
|
||||
\end{table}
|
||||
|
||||
Performance improves log-linearly with model size, with diminishing returns above 32B parameters. For real-time deployment on edge devices, the Zen-7B variant provides an attractive accuracy-latency trade-off.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Open-World Navigation Benchmark}
|
||||
\label{sec:ownb}
|
||||
|
||||
We introduce the Open-World Navigation Benchmark (OWNB) to evaluate navigation agents in realistic open-world conditions that go beyond existing benchmarks.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Benchmark Design}
|
||||
|
||||
OWNB consists of 5000 episodes across 200 environments with four difficulty levels:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Easy (1250 episodes):} Single-room navigation with specific object goals and no dynamic obstacles.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Medium (1250 episodes):} Multi-room navigation with category-level goals (e.g., ``find a chair'') and static obstacles.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Hard (1250 episodes):} Multi-floor navigation with natural language goals (e.g., ``go to where people eat'') and dynamic obstacles (moving humans, pets).
|
||||
\item \textbf{Expert (1250 episodes):} Complex goals requiring inference (e.g., ``find something to read in a quiet place''), adversarial dynamic obstacles, and partial environment changes between episodes.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Novel Evaluation Criteria}
|
||||
|
||||
Beyond standard SR and SPL metrics, OWNB introduces:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Semantic Grounding Accuracy (SGA):} Whether the agent correctly identified the target object/location matching the natural language goal.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Safety Score:} Penalizes collisions with obstacles and near-misses with dynamic agents.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Replanning Efficiency:} Measures how quickly the agent recovers when blocked or redirected.
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Discussion}
|
||||
\label{sec:discussion}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Strengths}
|
||||
|
||||
Zen-Voyager demonstrates several qualitative advantages over prior methods. The semantic-level curiosity mechanism avoids the noisy TV problem that plagues pixel-level curiosity, leading to more directed exploration. The SOG representation enables the agent to maintain a coherent spatial understanding that supports both local reactive navigation and global deliberative planning. The hierarchical planning architecture allows the system to handle goals at different levels of abstraction.
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Limitations}
|
||||
|
||||
Several limitations merit discussion:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{itemize}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Computational requirements:} The full Zen-72B backbone requires a high-end GPU for real-time inference, limiting deployment to robots with powerful onboard compute or reliable cloud connectivity.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Glass and mirrors:} Transparent and reflective surfaces remain challenging, as they produce incorrect depth readings that corrupt the SOG.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Long-horizon tasks:} For navigation tasks requiring more than 500 steps, odometry drift can accumulate to levels that degrade map quality, even with loop closure.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Social navigation:} The current system treats humans as dynamic obstacles rather than social agents, lacking the ability to navigate according to social norms (e.g., yielding in narrow corridors, maintaining personal space).
|
||||
\end{itemize}
|
||||
|
||||
\subsection{Future Directions}
|
||||
|
||||
Several extensions are planned for future work:
|
||||
|
||||
\begin{enumerate}
|
||||
\item \textbf{Multi-agent coordination:} Extending CGEM to support collaborative exploration by multiple robots, partitioning frontiers to minimize redundant coverage.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Manipulation integration:} Combining navigation with mobile manipulation to enable tasks like ``fetch a cup from the kitchen,'' requiring the agent to navigate, identify, grasp, and transport objects.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Lifelong learning:} Enabling the agent to accumulate knowledge across multiple visits to the same or similar environments, building a persistent world model.
|
||||
\item \textbf{Social awareness:} Training the agent to follow social navigation conventions using human trajectory datasets.
|
||||
\end{enumerate}
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Ethical Considerations}
|
||||
\label{sec:ethics}
|
||||
|
||||
Autonomous navigation systems raise important ethical considerations. Zen-Voyager is designed for benign applications such as assistive robotics, warehouse logistics, and search-and-rescue. We explicitly prohibit the use of our models and code for surveillance, autonomous weapons, or any application that infringes on individual privacy. The system does not store or transmit personally identifiable information from its observations. All real-world experiments were conducted with informed consent from building occupants, and face blurring was applied to all collected data before storage.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
||||
\section{Conclusion}
|
||||
\label{sec:conclusion}
|
||||
|
||||
We presented Zen-Voyager, a foundation model for autonomous exploration and navigation in open-world environments. By integrating curiosity-driven exploration (CGEM), unified spatial representations (SOGs), and hierarchical goal planning (HGP) with a powerful vision-language backbone, Zen-Voyager achieves state-of-the-art performance across four simulation benchmarks and demonstrates successful zero-shot sim-to-real transfer on a physical robot. The system's 87.3\% success rate on Habitat ObjectNav and 82.7\% success rate in real-world navigation represent significant advances over prior methods.
|
||||
|
||||
We release all models, training code, the OWNB benchmark, and ROS 2 integration packages under Apache 2.0 at \url{https://github.com/hanzoai/zen-voyager}, and encourage the community to build upon this work toward truly autonomous navigation agents.
|
||||
|
||||
% =============================================================================
|
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\appendix
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\section{OWNB Benchmark Details}
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\label{app:ownb}
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The Open-World Navigation Benchmark (OWNB) is constructed from 200 environments: 120 from Matterport3D, 50 from HM3D, and 30 custom-built environments using ProcTHOR. Environment statistics are provided in Table~\ref{tab:ownb_stats}.
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\begin{table}[h]
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\centering
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\caption{OWNB environment statistics.}
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\label{tab:ownb_stats}
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\begin{tabular}{lccc}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Statistic} & \textbf{Mean} & \textbf{Min} & \textbf{Max} \\
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\midrule
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Navigable area (m$^2$) & 142.3 & 28.5 & 892.1 \\
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Number of rooms & 8.7 & 2 & 42 \\
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Number of floors & 1.8 & 1 & 4 \\
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Object categories & 47.2 & 12 & 156 \\
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Dynamic agents & 3.1 & 0 & 12 \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
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\end{table}
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\section{Hyperparameter Details}
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\label{app:hyperparameters}
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\begin{table}[h]
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\centering
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\caption{Complete hyperparameter configuration for Zen-Voyager training.}
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\label{tab:hyperparams}
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\begin{tabular}{llc}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Stage} & \textbf{Parameter} & \textbf{Value} \\
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\midrule
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\multirow{5}{*}{Perception} & Learning rate & $2 \times 10^{-5}$ \\
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& Batch size & 256 \\
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& Weight decay & 0.01 \\
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& Warm-up steps & 2000 \\
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& Total epochs & 50 \\
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\midrule
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\multirow{6}{*}{Exploration} & PPO clip $\epsilon$ & 0.2 \\
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& Discount $\gamma$ & 0.99 \\
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& GAE $\lambda$ & 0.95 \\
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& Entropy coefficient & 0.01 \\
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& Parallel environments & 256 \\
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& Steps per environment & 500 \\
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\midrule
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\multirow{5}{*}{Navigation} & DAgger mixing start & 0.0 \\
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& DAgger mixing end & 1.0 \\
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& DAgger transition episodes & 10,000 \\
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& Success reward & 10.0 \\
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& Step penalty & $-0.01$ \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
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\end{table}
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\section{Computational Cost Analysis}
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\label{app:compute}
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\begin{table}[h]
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\centering
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\caption{Computational cost breakdown for Zen-Voyager inference on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin.}
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\label{tab:compute}
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\begin{tabular}{lcc}
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\toprule
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\textbf{Module} & \textbf{Latency (ms)} & \textbf{Memory (MB)} \\
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\midrule
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Visual Encoder (Zen-7B) & 42.3 & 4,200 \\
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Language Encoder & 8.1 & 320 \\
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Cross-Modal Fusion & 9.6 & 180 \\
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CGEM World Model & 12.4 & 890 \\
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SOG Update & 8.2 & 48 \\
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Hierarchical Planner & 14.8 & 120 \\
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\midrule
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\textbf{Total} & \textbf{95.4} & \textbf{5,758} \\
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\bottomrule
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\end{tabular}
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\end{table}
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With INT8 quantization of the visual encoder, total inference latency drops to 62ms (16 Hz), well within the real-time requirements for robotic navigation.
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