Cross-domain sequential recommendation is increasingly important in modern Web ecosystems, where user behaviors span multiple independently operated services that maintain strict data isolation for privacy and regulatory compliance. Federated learning offers a practical paradigm for such cross-domain collaboration, but user preferences evolve asynchronously across services, creating a substantial distribution shift. This drift leads to unstable and unequal domain contributions: behaviorally rich domains dominate global updates, while low-resource or volatile domains exert limited influence. Such an imbalance degrades recommendation accuracy and raises fundamental fairness concerns. To address these challenges, we propose FairFRL, a fairness-aware federated representation learning framework designed to mitigate contribution imbalance under dynamic cross-domain drift. FairFRL mitigates contribution imbalance under dynamic cross-domain drift by jointly regulating domain influence during federated aggregation and disentangling domain-shared and domain-exclusive semantics, while preserving data locality. Experiments on real-world Amazon multi-domain datasets show that FairFRL consistently outperforms strong federated and centralized baselines across multiple metrics and achieves more equitable cross-domain contributions. These results position FairFRL as a principled step toward responsible, fair, and socially aligned Web recommendation systems.

Implicit sentiment analysis (ISA) aims to infer sentiment that is implied rather than explicitly stated, requiring models to perform deeper reasoning over subtle contextual cues. While recent prompting-based methods using large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in ISA, they often rely on majority voting over chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning paths without evaluating their causal validity, making them susceptible to internal biases and spurious correlations. To address this challenge, we propose CAPITAL, a causal prompting framework that incorporates front-door adjustment into CoT reasoning. CAPITAL decomposes the overall causal effect into two components: the influence of the input prompt on the reasoning chains, and the impact of those chains on the final output. These components are estimated using encoder-based clustering and the NWGM approximation, with a contrastive learning objective used to better align the encoder’s representation with the LLM’s reasoning space. Experiments on benchmark ISA datasets with three LLMs demonstrate that CAPITAL consistently outperforms strong prompting baselines in both accuracy and robustness, particularly under adversarial conditions. This work offers a principled approach to integrating causal inference into LLM prompting and highlights its benefits for bias-aware sentiment reasoning. The source code and case study are available at:https://github.com/whZ62/CAPITAL.

Psychiatric disorders involve complex neural activity changes, with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data serving as key diagnostic evidence. However, data scarcity and the diverse nature of fMRI information pose significant challenges. While graph-based self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have shown promise in brain network analysis, they primarily focus on time-domain representations, often overlooking the rich information embedded in the frequency domain. To overcome these limitations, we propose F requency- E nhanced Net work (FENet), a novel SSL framework specially designed for fMRI data that integrates time-domain and frequency-domain information to improve psychiatric disorder detection in small-sample datasets. FENet constructs multi-view brain networks based on the inherent properties of fMRI data, explicitly incorporating frequency information into the learning process of representation. Additionally, it employs domain-specific encoders to capture temporal-spectral characteristics, including an efficient frequency-domain encoder that highlights disease-relevant frequency features. Finally, FENet introduces a domain consistency-guided learning objective, which balances the utilization of diverse information and generates frequency-enhanced brain graph representations. Experiments on two real-world medical datasets demonstrate that FENet outperforms state-of-the-art methods while maintaining strong performance in minimal data conditions. Furthermore, we analyze the correlation between various frequency-domain features and psychiatric disorders, emphasizing the critical role of high-frequency information in disorder detection.

Path Integral Strategy Improvement (PI2)-based impedance control is a superior scheme for preventing damage to the physical structure of the fruit during the harvesting process. However, it is highly sensitive to disturbances and has limited generalization ability during the parameter learning process, making it difficult to apply the correct gripping force to fruits with uncertain stiffness. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a variable impedance force control method that integrates PI2 with Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs), supplemented by a force error correction loop. Firstly, an adaptive impedance parameter matching mechanism based on gain schedules is designed to facilitate dynamic estimation of impedance parameters and enable precise force control. To further accelerate impedance parameter matching in unknown environments, the PI2 algorithm is introduced to optimize gain schedules, and DMPs are integrated to suppress disturbances, thereby improving the generalization ability of the impedance model’s parameter learning. In addition, an additional force error control loop has been designed to minimize the deviation between the desired and actual gripping force. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through simulation and experiment in fruit teleoperation picking robot.

Many multivariate time series anomaly detection frameworks have been proposed and widely applied. However, most of these frameworks do not consider intrinsic relationships between variables in multivariate time series data, thus ignoring the causal relationship among variables and degrading anomaly detection performance. This work proposes a novel framework called CGAD, an entropy causal graph for multivariate time series Anomaly Detection. CGAD utilizes transfer entropy to construct graph structures that unveil the underlying causal relationships among time series data. Weighted graph convolutional networks combined with causal convolutions are employed to model both the causal graph structures and the temporal patterns within multivariate time series data. Furthermore, CGAD applies anomaly scoring, leveraging median absolute deviation-based normalization to improve the robustness of the anomaly identification process. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CGAD outperforms state-of-the-art methods on real-world datasets with a 9% average improvement in terms of three different multivariate time series anomaly detection metrics.