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This research introduces THPL, a framework that grounds Large Language Models in continuous spatiotemporal data to solve precision feeding challenges in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems. By integrating fish trajectory analysis with expert rules and counterfactual optimization, the study demonstrates how physical grounding can significantly enhance an LLM's decision accuracy and causal reasoning capabilities. The work highlights a critical pathway for applying advanced AI architectures to complex, real-world industrial control problems beyond standard text-based tasks.
THPL: A Vision-to-Language Decision Support Framework for Rainbow Trout Feeding Management in RAS
arXiv:2610.02378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS), precision feeding is critical for minimizing costs and improving fish welfare. However, existing methods lack cognitive alignment between fish behaviors and management knowledge, impeding translation into executable, interpretable feeding decisions. To address this, we propose THPL, a generative feeding decision framework tailored for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in RAS. First, Fishsort extracts trajectories to establish an Activity Coefficient (AC) quantifying feeding intensity. Second, a Hierarchical Behavior Encoder (HBE) models individual temporal progression and collective dynamics using Temporal and Set Transformers, transforming trajectory tensors into dual-evidence representations of explicit physical and implicit soft tokens. Finally, these tokens are integrated with environmental parameters, metadata, and expert rules to fine-tune an LLM via LoRA, followed by counterfactual multimodal Direct Preference Optimization (mDPO) to reinforce causal reasoning. Results show that AC exhibits a statistically significant monotonic positive correlation with expert-annotated feeding intensity (Spearman $\rho = 0.925$, $p < 0.001$). Ablations indicate that decision accuracy improves from 33.33% (text-only baseline) to 93.33% with dual-evidence tokens, confirming that continuous spatiotemporal tokens provide necessary physical grounding for LLMs. Compared with standard LoRA, counterfactual mDPO elevates decision accuracy from 93.33% to 96.67%, advances METEOR from 58.10% to 85.30%, reduces Self-BLEU-2 from 58.79% to 52.88%, and increases Distinct-3 from 6.68% to 7.81%, suppressing templating and actuation biases while reinforcing causal consistency and operational safety. Overall, by integrating continuous kinematics with LLM reasoning, this study provides a novel decision support paradigm for precision aquaculture.
Abstract:In Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS), precision feeding is critical for minimizing costs and improving fish welfare. However, existing methods lack cognitive alignment between fish behaviors and management knowledge, impeding translation into executable, interpretable feeding decisions. To address this, we propose THPL, a generative feeding decision framework tailored for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in RAS. First, Fishsort extracts trajectories to establish an Activity Coefficient (AC) quantifying feeding intensity. Second, a Hierarchical Behavior Encoder (HBE) models individual temporal progression and collective dynamics using Temporal and Set Transformers, transforming trajectory tensors into dual-evidence representations of explicit physical and implicit soft tokens. Finally, these tokens are integrated with environmental parameters, metadata, and expert rules to fine-tune an LLM via LoRA, followed by counterfactual multimodal Direct Preference Optimization (mDPO) to reinforce causal reasoning. Results show that AC exhibits a statistically significant monotonic positive correlation with expert-annotated feeding intensity (Spearman $\rho = 0.925$, $p < 0.001$). Ablations indicate that decision accuracy improves from 33.33% (text-only baseline) to 93.33% with dual-evidence tokens, confirming that continuous spatiotemporal tokens provide necessary physical grounding for LLMs. Compared with standard LoRA, counterfactual mDPO elevates decision accuracy from 93.33% to 96.67%, advances METEOR from 58.10% to 85.30%, reduces Self-BLEU-2 from 58.79% to 52.88%, and increases Distinct-3 from 6.68% to 7.81%, suppressing templating and actuation biases while reinforcing causal consistency and operational safety. Overall, by integrating continuous kinematics with LLM reasoning, this study provides a novel decision support paradigm for precision aquaculture.
Meng Liang and Guanbo Feng contributed equally. Corresponding authors: Zhihong Ma and Ying Liu. 50 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables. Supplementary video: this https URL
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2610.02378 [cs.AI]
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.02378 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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