Papers from 22 to 26 September, 2025
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AI for Product Management
KT
Abstract
KT developed a Responsible AI (RAI) assessment methodology and risk
mitigation technologies to ensure the safety and reliability of AI services. By
analyzing the Basic Act on AI implementation and global AI governance trends,
we established a unique approach for regulatory compliance and systematically
identify and manage all potential risk factors from AI development to
operation. We present a reliable assessment methodology that systematically
verifies model safety and robustness based on KT's AI risk taxonomy tailored to
the domestic environment. We also provide practical tools for managing and
mitigating identified AI risks. With the release of this report, we also
release proprietary Guardrail : SafetyGuard that blocks harmful responses from
AI models in real-time, supporting the enhancement of safety in the domestic AI
development ecosystem. We also believe these research outcomes provide valuable
insights for organizations seeking to develop Responsible AI.
AI Insights - The risk taxonomy categorizes threats into data, model, deployment, and societal dimensions, each with measurable indicators.
- A multi‑stage assessment pipeline integrates static code analysis, adversarial testing, and human‑in‑the‑loop audits to quantify robustness.
- SafetyGuard employs a lightweight transformer‑based policy network that intercepts outputs in real time, achieving <5 ms latency on edge devices.
- Compliance mapping aligns each risk factor with specific clauses of the Basic Act on AI, enabling automated audit reports.
- Pilot deployments in Korean telecom and finance sectors demonstrated a 30 % reduction in policy‑violating incidents after Guardrail integration.
- The report proposes a future research agenda on explainable mitigation strategies and cross‑border data‑sharing protocols.
University of Cincinnati
Abstract
The benefit claims of a product is a critical driver of consumers' purchase
behavior. Creating product claims is an intense task that requires substantial
time and funding. We have developed the $\textbf{Claim Advisor}$ web
application to accelerate claim creations using in-context learning and
fine-tuning of large language models (LLM). $\textbf{Claim Advisor}$ was
designed to disrupt the speed and economics of claim search, generation,
optimization, and simulation. It has three functions: (1) semantically
searching and identifying existing claims and/or visuals that resonate with the
voice of consumers; (2) generating and/or optimizing claims based on a product
description and a consumer profile; and (3) ranking generated and/or manually
created claims using simulations via synthetic consumers. Applications in a
consumer packaged goods (CPG) company have shown very promising results. We
believe that this capability is broadly useful and applicable across product
categories and industries. We share our learning to encourage the research and
application of generative AI in different industries.
AI Insights - Claim Advisor runs in a Docker container on a secure server, enabling isolated scaling.
- It ingests historical claim logs and MaxDiff data to calibrate consumer preference models.
- The system’s MaxDiff simulation ranks generated claims by synthetic consumer best‑worst scores.
- Users report a 3‑fold speedup in claim ideation compared to manual workflows.
- The paper notes limited discussion of bias and risk when deploying large language models for claims.
- Recommended reading: “Maximum Difference Scaling” by Marley & Louviere for deep MaxDiff theory.
- For implementation, explore the Claim Advisor GitHub repo and LangChain for LLM orchestration.
Product Strategy
Abstract
This paper develops a dynamical-systems framework for modeling influence
propagation in product adoption networks, formulated as a positive linear
system with Metzler interaction matrices and utility-based decay. Exact
solutions are derived for constant, piecewise-constant, and fully time-varying
interaction structures using matrix exponentials and the Peano--Baker series.
It establishes five results: (i) positive interactions guarantee nonnegative
amplification, (ii) perceived utility saturates after $\approx\!3$
complementary additions (Weber--Fechner), (iii) frequency of comparable
introductions dominates incremental quality improvements, (iv) reinforcing
interactions yields monotone gains while decay control gives ambiguous effects,
and (v) long-run retention under SIS-type dynamics is bounded by the inverse
spectral radius of the adoption graph. These results extend epidemic-threshold
theory and positive-systems analysis to networked adoption, yielding explicit,
calibratable expressions for influence dynamics on networks.
Product Roadmap
Abstract
Identifying attribute values from product profiles is a key task for
improving product search, recommendation, and business analytics on e-commerce
platforms, which we called Product Attribute Value Identification (PAVI) .
However, existing PAVI methods face critical challenges, such as cascading
errors, inability to handle out-of-distribution (OOD) attribute values, and
lack of generalization capability. To address these limitations, we introduce
Multi-Value-Product Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MVP-RAG), combining the
strengths of retrieval, generation, and classification paradigms. MVP-RAG
defines PAVI as a retrieval-generation task, where the product title
description serves as the query, and products and attribute values act as the
corpus. It first retrieves similar products of the same category and candidate
attribute values, and then generates the standardized attribute values. The key
advantages of this work are: (1) the proposal of a multi-level retrieval
scheme, with products and attribute values as distinct hierarchical levels in
PAVI domain (2) attribute value generation of large language model to
significantly alleviate the OOD problem and (3) its successful deployment in a
real-world industrial environment. Extensive experimental results demonstrate
that MVP-RAG performs better than the state-of-the-art baselines.
Vision Setting for Tech Teams
Stanford University, USA
Abstract
Large vision-language models have driven remarkable progress in
open-vocabulary robot policies, e.g., generalist robot manipulation policies,
that enable robots to complete complex tasks specified in natural language.
Despite these successes, open-vocabulary autonomous drone navigation remains an
unsolved challenge due to the scarcity of large-scale demonstrations, real-time
control demands of drones for stabilization, and lack of reliable external pose
estimation modules. In this work, we present SINGER for language-guided
autonomous drone navigation in the open world using only onboard sensing and
compute. To train robust, open-vocabulary navigation policies, SINGER leverages
three central components: (i) a photorealistic language-embedded flight
simulator with minimal sim-to-real gap using Gaussian Splatting for efficient
data generation, (ii) an RRT-inspired multi-trajectory generation expert for
collision-free navigation demonstrations, and these are used to train (iii) a
lightweight end-to-end visuomotor policy for real-time closed-loop control.
Through extensive hardware flight experiments, we demonstrate superior
zero-shot sim-to-real transfer of our policy to unseen environments and unseen
language-conditioned goal objects. When trained on ~700k-1M observation action
pairs of language conditioned visuomotor data and deployed on hardware, SINGER
outperforms a velocity-controlled semantic guidance baseline by reaching the
query 23.33% more on average, and maintains the query in the field of view
16.67% more on average, with 10% fewer collisions.
AI Insights - The paper cites Splat‑mover and Grad‑nav++ as key baselines, situating SINGER in the Gaussian‑splatting trend.
- Future work targets robust visual feature extraction under harsh lighting, a gap in current tests.
- The lightweight policy still requires high‑end onboard GPUs, limiting low‑power drone use.
- Nerfstudio is recommended to extend the photorealistic simulator to new scenes.
- The review highlights the lack of open‑world, language‑guided navigation datasets, urging data sharing.
- Search‑and‑rescue and environmental monitoring are cited as promising real‑world use cases.
- acados is suggested for fast embedded optimal control to cut inference latency.
University of Arkansas
Abstract
We present TinyBEV, a unified, camera only Bird's Eye View (BEV) framework
that distills the full-stack capabilities of a large planning-oriented teacher
(UniAD [19]) into a compact, real-time student model. Unlike prior efficient
camera only baselines such as VAD[23] and VADv2[7], TinyBEV supports the
complete autonomy stack 3D detection, HD-map segmentation, motion forecasting,
occupancy prediction, and goal-directed planning within a streamlined
28M-parameter backbone, achieving a 78% reduction in parameters over UniAD
[19]. Our model-agnostic, multi-stage distillation strategy combines
feature-level, output-level, and adaptive region-aware supervision to
effectively transfer high-capacity multi-modal knowledge to a lightweight BEV
representation. On nuScenes[4], Tiny-BEV achieves 39.0 mAP for detection, 1.08
minADE for motion forecasting, and a 0.32 collision rate, while running 5x
faster (11 FPS) and requiring only camera input. These results demonstrate that
full-stack driving intelligence can be retained in resource-constrained
settings, bridging the gap between large-scale, multi-modal perception-planning
models and deployment-ready real-time autonomy.
Product Management
Abstract
Machine learning (ML) assets, such as models, datasets, and metadata, are
central to modern ML workflows. Despite their explosive growth in practice,
these assets are often underutilized due to fragmented documentation, siloed
storage, inconsistent licensing, and lack of unified discovery mechanisms,
making ML-asset management an urgent challenge. This tutorial offers a
comprehensive overview of ML-asset management activities across its lifecycle,
including curation, discovery, and utilization. We provide a categorization of
ML assets, and major management issues, survey state-of-the-art techniques, and
identify emerging opportunities at each stage. We further highlight
system-level challenges related to scalability, lineage, and unified indexing.
Through live demonstrations of systems, this tutorial equips both researchers
and practitioners with actionable insights and practical tools for advancing
ML-asset management in real-world and domain-specific settings.