Sorting a huge stream of waste accurately within a short period can be done with the support of digitalization, particularly Artificial Intelligence, instead of traditional methods. The overlap of Artificial Intelligence and Circular Economy can flourish many services in the environmental technology domain, in particular smart ewaste recycling, resulting in enabling circular smart cities.
arXiv:2606. 15547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Waste classification models have become highly accurate at sorting waste, often exceeding 95% on benchmark datasets.
arXiv:2608. 09998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have become powerful tools for supporting and automating complex human tasks.
arXiv:2609.06131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environmental identification in wireless sensing is essential for 6G integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems to achieve reliable situationa...
The paper introduces a constrained Bayesian Optimization framework to efficiently configure Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) for plant disease classification in IoT networks. It jointly optimizes the deep learning backbone, aggregation strategy, and communication rounds while respecting energy, execution time, and accuracy constraints. Experiments on an IoT-based plant disease task show the method explores only 11.11% of the search space yet finds solutions within 1% of exhaustive search, achieving a mean optimality gap of 0.056%.
arXiv:2608. 03249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cold-Start Active Learning (CSAL) aims to select a valuable subset from an unlabeled pool without any prior knowledge or human assistance.
arXiv:2609.08078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Food waste in the restaurant sector poses a substantial challenge to environmental sustainability and economic efficiency. This paper presents an explo...
The paper presents an empirical benchmark of nine deep learning models for smart meter energy forecasting, evaluating them on two public datasets. It examines how historical input length, prediction horizon, and model architecture affect accuracy, finding that longer historical context improves performance up to a saturation point while accuracy declines with longer horizons. The study also compares computational cost, showing lightweight models achieve similar accuracy to heavier ones, and notes that model choice matters less across most population segments.
The paper presents TASTE, a method that uses Bayesian optimization to tune batch size for on‑device edge learning, aiming to maximize hardware throughput while preserving accuracy. Experiments on devices like the Raspberry Pi 4 show that the tuned batch size, combined with gradient accumulation and linear learning‑rate scaling, can double training throughput compared to using the maximum batch size. In online continual learning, the optimal batch size also helps balance stability and plasticity, reducing catastrophic forgetting without sacrificing efficiency.
arXiv:2608. 09091v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transfer learning is particularly useful in settings with limited training data, and within image classification it is common to transfer learn upon massive datasets like ImageNet , CIFAR-100, or COCO .
BIPPO (Budget-aware Independent Proximal Policy Optimization) is a multi‑agent reinforcement learning framework designed for energy‑efficient client selection in federated learning (FL) over IoT systems. It addresses infrastructure constraints such as limited resources and device churn, which traditional FL and RL approaches overlook. Evaluated on two image‑classification tasks with non‑IID data, BIPPO improves mean accuracy over non‑RL methods, standard PPO, and IPPO while consuming only a negligible portion of the budget, even as client numbers grow.
The paper introduces an adaptive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) framework for time series forecasting that incorporates expert-specific losses to give each expert a direct learning signal independent of gating weights. The overall objective combines base forecasting loss with these expert losses, encouraging experts to specialize on different temporal segments. A partial online learning strategy is added for efficient incremental updates, and experiments on economic, tourism, and energy datasets show the method outperforms state‑of‑the‑art neural models and foundation models, with ablation studies confirming the benefit of expert loss integration.
arXiv:2311. 07461v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous systems (AS) often rely on Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifiers to operate in complex and dynamically changing environments.