arXiv:2609.24565v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A connectome-constrained model of the fly visual system, optimized for motion and then frozen, can be driven over architectural drawings by prescri...
arXiv:2610.10023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding the extent to which measured synaptic wiring determines computation remains a central challenge. Here, we couple the proofread adult Dr...
arXiv:2607. 00025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While deep learning models achieve state-of-the-art performance in complex tasks, they remain brittle when faced with new environments or sensory deprivation.
The paper introduces a deep learning pipeline that rapidly and accurately registers 3D high‑resolution Drosophila larval brain volumes to a shared anatomical reference. Unlike traditional methods that require per‑case optimization and minutes per brain, the trained network performs a single forward pass, handling volumes with many more voxels and maintaining high accuracy even as image quality declines. The authors benchmarked their approach against eleven classical and seven learned baselines, achieving a 23‑percentage‑point improvement in landmark‑based mutual information and registering brains one to two orders of magnitude faster.
arXiv:2609.24565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Architectural drawings encode material classes through repeated hatch patterns. We test whether a connectome-constrained fly visual network, pretrained...
arXiv:2608. 08713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models offer a promising path toward automating radiology report generation, but applying them to full 3D CT volumes poses substantial computational challenges.
The paper introduces HAND, a biologically-inspired activation function that incorporates homeostasis, accelerating nonlinearity, and divisive normalization to act as an inductive bias in deep neural networks. Experiments on image classification show that using HAND allows a ConvNeXt-tiny model to reach ImageNet1k accuracy in 25 epochs versus 200 epochs for the baseline, and yields larger accuracy gains on long-tailed and reduced-data settings. The authors report that HAND does not degrade generalisation on common corruptions and can improve the model’s ability to reject unknown classes, with benefits observed across multiple CNN architectures and datasets.
Lumen is a pathology vision‑language model that aligns frozen unimodal foundation models (Virchow2 and BioMedBERT) using rank‑4 adapters and projection heads, training only 0.40% of the total parameters on the QUILT‑1M corpus. It achieves the highest mean chance‑corrected balanced accuracy (0.546) across nine zero‑shot patch benchmarks and demonstrates strong performance on lymph‑node metastasis detection, with AUROC scores of 0.964 internally and 0.955 externally. While it ranks third in cross‑modal retrieval, Lumen’s low‑parameter training yields competitive results at both patch and slide levels.
arXiv:2603. 18846v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation models are used to extract transferable representations from large amounts of unlabeled data, typically via self-supervised learning (SSL).
The paper introduces Cross-Scale Channel-wise Knowledge Distillation (CSCWD), a training-time framework that transfers high‑resolution spatial representations from a YOLO11m‑P2 teacher to a lightweight YOLO11n student without changing the student’s inference architecture. CSCWD aligns teacher P2 features with student P3 while also applying same‑scale distillation at deeper pyramid levels, yielding a 2.92‑point mAP@0.5 improvement over the baseline and a 2.09‑point gain over same‑scale distillation alone. In zero‑shot tests on DUT‑Anti‑UAV and on a Raspberry Pi 5, the 2.58‑million‑parameter student reaches 50.32% mAP@0.5 at 82.32 ms latency (12.15 fps) with negligible runtime or memory increase.
arXiv:2505. 18315v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce \textbf{CoLoRA} (Convolutional Low-Rank Adaptation), a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for convolutional neural networks (CNNs).
arXiv:2606. 07633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate classification of nuclei subtypes in histopathology images is critical for downstream tasks including tumor grading, immune infiltrate quantification, and prognosis prediction.