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Computer Vision · Image and Video Generation

Cong Wei, Quande Liu, Zixuan Ye, Qiulin Wang, Xintao WANG, Pengfei Wan, Kun Gai, Wenhu Chen

Unified multimodal models have shown promising results in multimodal content generation and editing, but remain largely limited to the image domain. In this work, we present UniVideo, a versatile framework that extends unified modelling to the video domain. UniVideo adopts a dual-stream design, combining a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) for instruction understanding with a Multimodal DiT (MMDiT) for video generation. This design preserves the MLLM's original text generation capabilities, enables accurate interpretation of complex multimodal instructions, and maintains visual consistency in the generated content. Built on this architecture, UniVideo unifies diverse video generation and editing tasks under a single multimodal instruction paradigm and is jointly trained across them. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UniVideo matches or surpasses state-of-the-art task-specific baselines in text/image-to-video generation, in-context video generation and in-context video editing. Notably, the unified design of UniVideo enables two forms of generalization. First, UniVideo supports task composition, such as combining editing with style transfer, by integrating multiple capabilities within a single instruction. Second, even without explicit training on free-form video editing, UniVideo transfers its editing capability from large-scale image editing data to this setting, handling unseen instructions such as changing the environment or altering materials within a video. Beyond these core capabilities, UniVideo also supports generation with thinking, where the MLLM interprets complex prompts and guides the MMDiT during synthesis. To foster future research, we released our model and code.

Computer Vision · 3D Rendering & Reconstruction

Iris Zheng, Guojun Tang, Alexander Doronin, Paul Teal, Fang-Lue Zhang

We present SSD-GS, a physically-based relighting framework built upon 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) that achieves high-quality reconstruction and photorealistic relighting under novel lighting conditions. In physically-based relighting, accurately modeling light-material interactions is essential for faithful appearance reproduction. However, existing 3DGS-based relighting methods adopt coarse shading decompositions, either modeling only diffuse and specular reflections or relying on neural networks to approximate shadows and scattering. This leads to limited fidelity and poor physical interpretability, particularly for anisotropic metals and translucent materials. To address these limitations, SSD-GS decomposes reflectance into four components: diffuse, specular, shadow, and subsurface scattering. We introduce a learnable dipole-based scattering module for subsurface transport, an occlusion-aware shadow formulation that integrates visibility estimates with a refinement network, and an enhanced specular component with an anisotropic Fresnel-based model. Through progressive integration of all components during training, SSD-GS effectively disentangles lighting and material properties, even for unseen illumination conditions, as demonstrated on the challenging OLAT dataset. Experiments demonstrate superior quantitative and perceptual relighting quality compared to prior methods and pave the way for downstream tasks including controllable light source editing and interactive scene relighting. The source code is available at: [https://github.com/irisfreesiri/SSD-GS](https://github.com/irisfreesiri/SSD-GS).

Theory · Interpretability and Visualization

Mengyang Li, Pinlong Zhao, Zhong Zhang

The alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences is critically undermined by noisy labels in training datasets. Existing robust methods often prove insufficient, as they rely on single, narrow heuristics such as perplexity or loss, failing to address the diverse nature of real-world noise. We challenge this limited-scope approach by introducing a new paradigm where models learn to diagnose thyself, systematically fusing multiple streams of intrinsic feedback for a holistic reliability assessment of each preference pair. We instantiate this paradigm through a meta-learning methodology that learns to adaptively reweight samples based on a rich diagnostic vector. This vector captures three complementary perspectives: preference consistency, learning difficulty, and generation confidence. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods across various noise conditions. Crucially, our work provides the first quantitative analysis of these intrinsic diagnostics, revealing that their fusion is essential for overcoming the blind spots inherent in any single heuristic. This diagnostic-driven paradigm offers a principled path towards developing more robust and trustworthy LLMs.

Social Aspects · Everything Else

Xin Shen, Yan Ke, Xinyu Wang, Xin Yu

Fingerspelling plays a vital role in sign languages, particularly for conveying names, technical terms, and words not found in the standard lexicon. However, evaluation of two-handed fingerspelling detection and recognition is rarely addressed in existing sign language datasets—particularly for BANZSL (British, Australian, and New Zealand Sign Language), which share a common two-handed manual alphabet. To bridge this gap, we curate a large-scale dataset, dubbed BANZ-FS, focused on BANZSL fingerspelling in both controlled and real-world environments. Our dataset is compiled from three distinct sources: (1) live sign language interpretation in news broadcasts, (2) controlled laboratory recordings, and (3) diary vlogs from online platforms and social media. This composition enables BANZ-FS to capture variations in signing tempos and fluency across diverse signers and contents. Each instance in BANZ-FS is carefully annotated with multi-level alignment: video ↔ subtitles, video ↔ fingerspelled letters, and video ↔ target lexicons. In total, BANZ-FS includes over 35,000 video-aligned fingerspelling instances. Importantly, BANZ-FS highlights the unique linguistic and visual challenges posed by two-handed fingerspelling, including handshape coarticulation, self-occlusion, intra-letter variation, and rapid inter-letter transitions. We benchmark state-of-the-art models on the key tasks, including fingerspelling detection, isolated fingerspelling recognition, and fingerspelling recognition in context. Experimental results show that BANZ-FS presents substantial challenges while offering rich opportunities for BANZSL understanding and broader sign language technology. The dataset and benchmarks are available at BANZ-FS.

Computer Vision · Everything Else

Gabriel Afriat, Ryan Lucas, Xiang Meng, Yufang Hou, Yada Zhu, Rahul Mazumder

Error detection is critical for enhancing multimodal dataset reliability and downstream model performance. Existing error filters, while increasingly powerful, typically rely on a single similarity score per image–caption pair. This is limiting: captions with subtle errors (e.g., mislabeled objects, incorrect colors, or negations) can still score highly, while correct but imprecisely worded captions may score poorly. To address this, we introduce the notion of a caption trajectory: an ordered sequence of captions produced by iteratively editing a caption to maximize an image-text relevance score. This trajectory carries rich signals for error detection. Correct captions typically stabilize after minor edits, while erroneous captions undergo substantial improvements. Building on these insights, we introduce TRACED, a cost-efficient and model-agnostic framework that leverages trajectory statistics for more accurate caption error detection. Beyond detection, TRACED also serves as an interpretable tool for identifying the origins of errors. We further demonstrate that, in the case of error correction, this interpretable token-level error information can be provided to VLMs to enhance the alignment score of the generated captions. On MS COCO and Flickr30k, TRACED achieves up to 2.8% improvement in accuracy for error detection across three noise types. Our code is available at https://github.com/mazumder-lab/TRACED.

Computer Vision · Image and Video Generation

Die Chen, Zhongjie Duan, Zhiwen Li, Cen Chen, Daoyuan Chen, Yaliang Li, Yinda Chen

Diffusion models have recently become the dominant paradigm for image generation, yet existing systems struggle to interpret and follow numeric instructions for adjusting semantic attributes. In real-world creative scenarios, especially when precise control over aesthetic attributes is required, current methods fail to provide such controllability. This limitation partly arises from the subjective and context-dependent nature of aesthetic judgments, but more fundamentally stems from the fact that current text encoders are designed for discrete tokens rather than continuous values. Meanwhile, efforts on aesthetic alignment, often leveraging reinforcement learning, direct preference optimization, or architectural modifications, primarily align models with a global notion of human preference. While these approaches improve user experience, they overlook the multifaceted and compositional nature of aesthetics, underscoring the need for explicit disentanglement and independent control of aesthetic attributes. To address this gap, we introduce AttriCtrl, a lightweight framework for continuous aesthetic intensity control in diffusion models. It first decomposes relevant aesthetic attributes, then quantifies them through a hybrid strategy that maps both concrete and abstract dimensions onto a unified $[0,1]$ scale. A plug-and-play value encoder is then used to transform user-specified values into model-interpretable embeddings for controllable generation. Experiments show that AttriCtrl achieves accurate and continuous control over both single and multiple aesthetic attributes, significantly enhancing personalization and diversity. Crucially, it is implemented as a lightweight adapter while keeping the diffusion model frozen, ensuring seamless integration with existing frameworks such as ControlNet at negligible computational cost.

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Namrita Varshney, Ashutosh Gupta, Arhaan Ahmad, Tanay Tayal, S. Akshay

Decision tree ensembles are widely used in critical domains, making robustness and sensitivity analysis essential to their trustworthiness. We study the feature sensitivity problem, which asks whether an ensemble is ``sensitive" to a specified subset of features - such as protected attributes- whose manipulation can alter model predictions. Existing approaches often yield examples of sensitivity that lie far from the training distribution, limiting their interpretability and practical value. We propose a data-aware sensitivity framework that constrains the sensitive examples to remain close to the dataset, thereby producing realistic and interpretable evidence of model weaknesses. To this end, we develop novel techniques for data-aware search using a combination of mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) and satisfibility modulo theories (SMT) encodings. Our contributions are fourfold. Firstly, we strengthen the NP-hardness result for sensitivity verification, showing it holds even for trees of depth 1. Secondly, we develop MILP-optimizations that significantly speed up sensitivity verification for single ensembles and for the first time can also handle multiclass tree ensembles. Thirdly we introduce a data-aware framework generating realistic examples near the training distribution. Finally, we conduct an extensive experimental evaluation on large tree ensembles, demonstrating scalability to ensembles with up to 800 trees of depth 8, achieving substantial improvements over the state of the art. This framework provides a practical foundation for analyzing the reliability and fairness of tree-based models in high-stakes applications.

Theory · Interpretability and Visualization

Michael Freenor, Lauren Alvarez

Understanding how language and embedding models encode semantic relationships is fundamental to model interpretability. While early word embeddings exhibited intuitive vector arithmetic (''king'' - ''man'' + ''woman'' = ''queen''), modern high-dimensional text representations lack straightforward interpretable geometric properties. We introduce Rotor-Invariant Shift Estimation (RISE), a geometric approach that represents semantic-syntactic transformations as consistent rotational operations in embedding space, leveraging the manifold structure of modern language representations. RISE operations have the ability to operate across both languages and models without reducing performance, suggesting the existence of analogous cross-lingual geometric structure. We compare and evaluate RISE using two baseline methods, three embedding models, three datasets, and seven morphologically diverse languages in five major language groups. Our results demonstrate that RISE consistently maps discourse-level semantic-syntactic transformations with distinct grammatical features (e.g., negation and conditionality) across languages and models. This work provides the first demonstration that discourse-level semantic-syntactic transformations correspond to consistent geometric operations in multilingual embedding spaces, empirically supporting the linear representation hypothesis at the sentence level.

Applications · Language, Speech and Dialog

Tom Kempton, Julia Rozanova, Parameswaran Kamalaruban, Maeve Madigan, Karolina Wresilo, Yoann Launay, David Sutton, Stuart Burrell

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a powerful tool for statistical text analysis, with derived sequences of next-token probability distributions offering a wealth of information. Extracting this signal typically relies on metrics such as perplexity, which do not adequately account for context; how one should interpret a given next-token probability is dependent on the number of reasonable choices encoded by the shape of the conditional distribution. In this work, we present DMAP, a mathematically grounded method that maps a text, via a language model, to a set of samples in the unit interval that jointly encode rank and probability information. This representation enables efficient, model-agnostic analysis and supports a range of applications. We illustrate its utility through three case studies: (i) validation of generation parameters to ensure data integrity, (ii) examining the role of probability curvature in machine-generated text detection, and (iii) a forensic analysis revealing statistical fingerprints left in downstream models that have been subject to post-training on synthetic data. Our results demonstrate that DMAP offers a unified statistical view of text that is simple to compute on consumer hardware, widely applicable, and provides a foundation for further research into text analysis with LLMs.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

François Bertholom, Khalid Oublal

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) and Hierarchical Variational Autoencoders (HVAEs) are typically studied as distinct paradigms for high-dimensional generative modeling. In this work, we bridge this gap by establishing a formal equivalence between DDPMs and HVAEs in the limit of infinite depth with a fixed, Markovian inference process. We argue that this architectural isomorphism is not merely a mathematical curiosity but the structural key to understanding the superior generalization capabilities of diffusion models. By viewing the forward diffusion process as a fixed encoder, we elucidate how DDPMs circumvent the posterior collapse often observed in deep VAEs, effectively balancing the trade-off between structural guidance and texture synthesis. We support this theoretical unification with empirical analysis of the semantic phase transitions in latent space and demonstrate the invariance of the Variational Lower Bound under noise schedule reparameterizations, confirming the interpretation of diffusion as a continuous-time hierarchical variational framework.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Xiaohang Tang, Rares Dolga, Sangwoong Yoon, Ilija Bogunovic

Improving the reasoning capabilities of diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) through reinforcement learning (RL) remains an open problem. The intractability of dLLMs likelihood function necessitates approximating the current, old, and reference policy likelihoods at each policy optimization step. This reliance introduces additional computational overhead, and can lead to large variance and estimation error in RL objective -- particularly in computing the policy ratio for importance sampling. To mitigate these issues, we introduce wd1, a novel ratio-free policy optimization approach that reformulates the RL objective as a weighted log-likelihood, requiring only a single approximation for the current parametrized policy likelihood. We formally show that our proposed method can be interpreted as energy-guided discrete diffusion training combined with negative sample unlearning, thereby confirming its theoretical soundness. In experiments on LLaDA-8B model, wd1 outperforms diffusion-based GRPO (d1) while requiring lower computational cost, achieving up to a +59\% improvement in accuracy. Furthermore, we extend wd1 to denoising-stepwise weighted policy optimization (wd1++), achieving state-of-the-art math performance of 44.2\% on MATH500 and 84.5\% on GSM8K with only 20 RL training steps.

Applications · Language, Speech and Dialog

Min-Sang Baek, Gyeong-Su Kim, Donghyun Kim, Joon-Hyuk Chang

Sound source localization (SSL) is a fundamental task in spatial audio understanding, yet most deep neural network-based methods are constrained by fixed array geometries and predefined directional grids, limiting generalizability and scalability. To address these issues, we propose _audio-geometry-grid representation learning_ (AGG-RL), a novel framework that jointly learns audio-geometry and grid representations in a shared latent space, enabling both geometry-invariant and grid-flexible SSL. Moreover, to enhance generalizability and interpretability, we introduce two physics-informed components: a _learnable non-uniform discrete Fourier transform_ (LNuDFT), which optimizes the dense allocation of frequency bins in a non-uniform manner to emphasize informative phase regions, and a _relative microphone positional encoding_ (rMPE), which encodes relative microphone coordinates in accordance with the nature of inter-channel time differences. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets demonstrate that AGG-RL achieves superior performance, particularly under unseen conditions. The results highlight the potential of representation learning with physics-informed design towards a universal solution for spatial acoustic scene understanding across diverse scenarios.

General Machine Learning · Representation Learning

Xiaoyuan Cheng, Wenxuan Yuan, Yiming Yang, Yuanzhao Zhang, Sibo Cheng, Yi He, Zhuo Sun

The Koopman operator provides a powerful framework for modeling dynamical systems and has attracted growing interest from the machine learning community. However, its infinite-dimensional nature makes identifying suitable finite-dimensional subspaces challenging, especially for deep architectures. We argue that these difficulties come from suboptimal representation learning, where latent variables fail to balance expressivity and simplicity. This tension is closely related to the information bottleneck (IB) dilemma: constructing compressed representations that are both compact and predictive. Rethinking Koopman learning through this lens, we demonstrate that latent mutual information promotes simplicity, yet an overemphasis on simplicity may cause latent space to collapse onto a few dominant modes. In contrast, expressiveness is sustained by the von Neumann entropy, which prevents such collapse and encourages mode diversity. This insight leads us to propose an information-theoretic Lagrangian formulation that explicitly balances this tradeoff. Furthermore, we propose a new algorithm based on the Lagrangian formulation that encourages both simplicity and expressiveness, leading to a stable and interpretable Koopman representation. Beyond quantitative evaluations, we further visualize the learned manifolds under our representations, observing empirical results consistent with our theoretical predictions. Finally, we validate our approach across a diverse range of dynamical systems, demonstrating improved performance over existing Koopman learning methods.

Computer Vision · Image and Video Generation

Kaiwen Shi, Sichen Liu, Ziyue Lin, Hangrui Guo, Gong Cheng

Flowcharts are widely used to represent processes and relationships through intuitive visual representations. However, accurately interpreting these diagrams remains challenging due to their structural complexity and high visual diversity. Existing flowchart datasets often lack fine-grained control over key properties such as graph complexity and rendering style, limiting their utility for training and testing of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on visual reasoning tasks. To address these limitations, we introduce FlowGen, a controllable synthesizer that generates flowcharts that have customizable structural features and supports multiple renderer backends. FlowGen enables fine-grained control over graph properties such as graph order and size, branched arrows, and nested subgraphs, facilitating systematic evaluation of MLLMs' capabilities. Extensive experiments on open-source and proprietary MLLMs show that training on FlowGen substantially improves flowchart parsing and question answering (QA), while also enhancing generalization to other public datasets. Furthermore, FlowGen provides challenging test datasets that expose consistent weaknesses in current MLLMs, particularly related to high structural complexity and varied rendering styles. Our code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/nju-websoft/FlowGen.

Social Aspects · Accountability, Transparency and Interpretability

Aideen Fay, Inés García-Redondo, Qiquan Wang, Haim Dubossarsky, Anthea Monod

Existing interpretability methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) predominantly capture linear directions or isolated features. This overlooks the high-dimensional, relational, and nonlinear geometry of model representations. We apply persistent homology (PH) to characterize how adversarial inputs reshape the geometry and topology of internal representation spaces of LLMs. This phenomenon, especially when considered across operationally different attack modes, remains poorly understood. We analyze six models (3.8B to 70B parameters) under two distinct attacks, indirect prompt injection and backdoor fine-tuning, and show that a consistent topological signature persists throughout. Adversarial inputs induce topological compression, where the latent space becomes structurally simpler, collapsing the latent space from varied, compact, small-scale features into fewer, dominant, large-scale ones. This signature is architecture-agnostic, emerges early in the network, and is highly discriminative across layers. By quantifying the shape of activation point clouds and neuron-level information flow, our framework reveals geometric invariants of representational change that complement existing linear interpretability methods.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Min Xue, Nikolai Bolik, Lennart Stöpler, Erik Imgrund, Janik Schmid, Artur Andrzejak

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated outstanding capabilities in various code-related tasks, including code completion, translation, or summarization. However, these pretrained models are static, posing a challenge to incorporate new knowledge into an LLM to correct erroneous behavior. Approaches such as retraining or fine-tuning demand extensive labeled datasets and might be computationally expensive, while prompt engineering fails to change models permanently. Knowledge Editing (KE) techniques offer a more efficient alternative, enabling model updates with minimal data, even just a single example. Nevertheless, existing KE methods often manipulate parameters within the Transformer's multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), where neuronal polysemanticity hinders both the precision and interpretability of the edits. To address these limitations, we exploit TransCoder, an MLP-like model component with a wide and sparsely activated hidden feature vector. Specifically, we introduce **TransCoder-based Precise Editing** (**TCPE**), a novel method that leverages the sparsity and monosemanticity of the TransCoder’s neurons for highly localized knowledge editing. TCPE exhibits neuron-level mechanistic interpretability characteristics, revealing the correspondence between the edited neurons and the specific code-related knowledge. Furthermore, we present KECode, a new evaluation benchmark for code-to-code translation based on functional equivalence. Using KECode, we conduct a systematic evaluation of representative KE methods in the context of code-to-code translation. Our experimental results demonstrate that TCPE outperforms existing KE methods, achieving a substantial improvement of translation accuracy of CodeLlama-7b-Instruct from 57.5% to 64.0% in a low-resource scenario of Java-to-D translation.

Jingsen Kong, Wenlu Tang, Dezheng Kong, Linglong Kong, Guangren Yang, Bei Jiang

Prediction intervals are essential for applying machine learning models in real applications, yet most conformal prediction (CP) methods provide coverage guarantees that overlook the heterogeneity and domain knowledge that characterize modern multimodal datasets. We introduce Mixture-of-Experts Conformal Prediction (MoE-CP), a flexible and scalable framework that uses the gating probability vectors of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models as soft domain assignments to guide similarity-weighted conformal calibration. MoE-CP weights calibration residuals according to the similarity between gating vectors of calibration and test points, producing prediction intervals that adapt to latent subpopulations without requiring explicit domain labels. We provide theoretical justification showing that MoE-CP preserves nominal marginal validity under common similarity measures and improves conditional adaptivity when the gating captures domain structure. Empirical results on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that MoE-CP yields more domain-aware, interpretable, and often tighter intervals than existing conformal baselines while maintaining target coverage. MoE-CP offers a practical route to reliable uncertainty quantification in latent heterogeneous, multi-domain environments.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Runqi Ouyang, Haoyun Li, Zhenyuan Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Zeyu Zhang, Zheng Zhu, Guan Huang, Sirui Han, Xingang Wang

Text-to-Motion generation has become a fundamental task in human-machine interaction, enabling the synthesis of realistic human motions from natural language descriptions. Although recent advances in large language models and reinforcement learning have contributed to high-quality motion generation, two major challenges remain. Existing approaches often fail to capture the temporal and causal complexities inherent in natural language, leading to oversimplified or incoherent motions. Additionally, RL-based methods are frequently overly complex, hindering their scalability and adaptability across various motion generation tasks. To address these challenges, we propose **Motion-R1**, a novel framework that combines decomposed Chain-of-Thought reasoning with reinforcement learning to enhance both the quality and interpretability of generated motions. Specifically, we introduce the **Decomposed CoT Data Engine**, which leverages an automated pipeline to synthesize high-quality reasoning data, allowing the model to better capture the temporal dependencies and causal relationships of human motion. We also propose **RL Binding**, a reinforcement learning strategy that incorporates multi-modal text-motion alignment into the RL reward function, guiding the model to produce motions that are both semantically accurate and motionally realistic. Extensive experiments across benchmark datasets demonstrate that Motion-R1 achieves state-of-the-art performance, with a 3.5\% improvement in MM-Dist on HumanML3D and improvements in R-Precision and FID on KIT-ML and BABEL, surpassing existing methods across key metrics and highlighting its superior capability in handling complex motion generation tasks.

Social Aspects · Accountability, Transparency and Interpretability

Martina G. Vilas, Safoora Yousefi, Besmira Nushi, Eric Horvitz, Vidhisha Balachandran

Reasoning models improve their problem-solving ability through inference-time scaling, allocating more compute via longer and multiple token budgets. Identifying which reasoning traces are likely to succeed remains a key opportunity: reliably predicting productive thinking paths can substantially reduce wasted computation and improve overall efficiency. We introduce _Latent-Trajectory_ signals that characterize the temporal evolution of a model's internal representations during the generation of intermediate reasoning tokens. By analyzing both the extent and temporal course of latent representational change, as well as its alignment with the final state, we show that these signals are strong predictors of solution accuracy, outperforming conventional output-based confidence measures. We use latent-trajectory signals to guide answer selection across multiple sampled generations, demonstrating that they make test-time scaling more effective and efficient, reducing token usage by up to 70% while preserving and even improving accuracy on average in comparison with majority voting. Finally, we show that these signals often emerge early in the reasoning trace, which enables early selection and allocation of compute to the most promising answer candidates during generation. Our findings contribute not only practical strategies for inference-time efficiency, but also a deeper interpretability perspective on how reasoning processes are represented and differentiated in latent space.

General Machine Learning · Representation Learning

Paul Youssef, Zhixue Zhao, Christin Seifert, Jörg Schlötterer

Knowledge editing methods (KEs) are a cost-effective way to update the factual content of large language models (LLMs), but they pose a dual-use risk. While KEs are beneficial for updating outdated or incorrect information, they can be exploited maliciously to implant misinformation or bias. In order to defend against these types of malicious manipulation, we need robust techniques that can reliably detect, interpret, and mitigate malicious edits. To that end, we introduce the tasks of tracing and reversing edits. We propose a novel method to infer the edited object entity, solely based on the modified weights, without access to the editing prompt or any other semantically similar prompts, with up to 99\% accuracy. Further, we propose an effective and training-free method for reversing edits. Our method reverses up to 94\% of the edits, and helps regain the original model's output distribution without access to any information about the edit. This method can further be repurposed to distinguish between edited and unedited weights. Our findings highlight the feasibility of tracing and reversing edits based on the edited weights, opening a new research direction for safeguarding LLMs against adversarial manipulations.