arXiv Machine Learning

Meta-clustering of milk mid-infrared spectra identifies dairy cow groups associated with negative energy balance in early lactation

arXiv AI
Jun 9

NutriMLLM: Multimodal Large Language Models for Dietary Micronutrient Analysis

arXiv:2606. 08948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comprehensive estimation of dietary micronutrients from food images could improve clinical nutrition care, but training such models requires large multimodal datasets linking diverse foods to complete nutrient profiles.

By Runze Yan, Minxiao Wang, Jiaying Lu, Darren Liu, Xiao Hu, Hanqi Luo
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 14

A Multispectral Framework for the Detection of Calcium Carbide-Induced Ripening and Shelf-Life Estimation in Climacteric Fruits

arXiv:2608. 13073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Significant health risks are associated with the illegal, yet commonly practiced use of industrial-grade Calcium Carbide (CaC2) for ripening climacteric fruits like mango and banana, which leaves behind trace residues of arsenic and phosphorus.

By Gurbhit Chaurakoti, Harshit Kumar, Hani Kumar, Anurag Singh, Ram Asrey
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Decision Tree and K-Means Analysis of Raman Spectra for Edible Oils: A Physics-Informed AI Approach

The paper presents a Raman spectroscopy and machine‑learning framework that uses t‑SNE, K‑means, Decision Trees, and NNLS‑based spectral decomposition to authenticate edible oils. In pure oils, Decision Trees achieved 100% accuracy using only four Raman variables out of 1866 features, while in matrix‑containing samples, NNLS‑based PI‑AI improved classification to about 85–86% with only four to five key variables. The approach yields highly compact, interpretable spectral representations that enable accurate oil identification with minimal data footprint.

By Amrita Shaw, Chandrasekar S. N., Sai Muthukumar V., Jhinuk Gupta, Deepak L. N. Kallepalli
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) Improves Classification Accuracy of Bacterial Raman Spectral Data Enabling Portable Diagnostics

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) is applied to improve the generalization of machine learning models for classifying bacterial Raman spectra, a technique that could enable rapid, portable diagnostics for antimicrobial resistance. The study shows that SAM can increase classification accuracy by up to 10.5% on a single data split and by an average of 2.7% across multiple splits compared to the traditional Adam optimizer. These gains demonstrate SAM’s potential to enhance the clinical utility of AI-powered Raman spectroscopy tools.

By Kaitlin Zareno, Jarett Dewbury, Siamak K. Sorooshyari, Hossein Mobahi, Loza F. Tadesse
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Assessing the impact of dimensionality reduction on clustering performance - a systematic study

The paper systematically evaluates how five dimensionality reduction methods—PCA, Kernel PCA, VAE, Isomap, and MDS—affect the performance of four clustering algorithms (k‑means, AHC, GMM, and OPTICS). Using the Adjusted Rand Index, the study compares clustering quality with and without dimensionality reduction at levels of k‑1, 25%, and 50% of the original dimensions. Results highlight that the choice of reduction technique and its level must be carefully matched to the data’s geometry and the clustering algorithm used.

By Ousmane Assani Amate, Elyes Lounissi, Mohammadreza Bakhtyari, \'Emilie Roy, Roman Sarrazin-Gendron, Vladimir Makarenkov
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Lightweight Distillation of SAM 3 and DINOv3 for Edge-Deployable Individual-Level Livestock Monitoring and Longitudinal Visual Analytics

arXiv:2604. 27128v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation-model pipelines for individual-level livestock monitoring -- combining open-vocabulary detection, promptable video segmentation, and self-supervised visual embeddings -- have raised the accuracy ceiling of precision livestock farming (PLF), but their GPU memory budgets exceed the envelope of commodity edge accelerators.

By Haiyu Yang, Miel Hostens