Fine-grained food image retrieval is a key task in computational gastronomy, with applications in food traceability, dietary monitoring, and smart catering systems. Although hashing-based retrieval is attractive for large-scale search due to its storage efficiency and fast Hamming-distance computation, existing methods often perform poorly in fine-grained food scenarios, where subtle local semantics and frequency-sensitive visual cues are essential.
government of the people, by the people, for the people ... — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly.
This paper presents a black-box evaluation framework to systematically assess the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate Design Structure Matrices (DSMs) from structured technical documentation. Motivated by the closed-source nature of current Auto-DSM pipelines, the framework introduces a reproducible methodology that benchmarks generated DSMs (GEN-DSMs) against manually validated ground-truth matrices (GT-DSMs).
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into scientific research workflows, particularly for bibliographic discovery and literature synthesis, raises significant methodological, epistemic and regulatory challenges for the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), especially with regard to disciplinary diversity, multilingual access to sources and the evaluation of results. This paper presents an on-going use case developed within the European project LLMs4EU and the ALT-EDIC infrastructure, aimed at adapting foundation models to SSH research practices and supporting tasks such as question answering, comparative document analysis and literature review.
Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models while retaining data locality, thereby enhancing user privacy. However, traditional FL frameworks rely on a centralized aggregation server and assume honest-but-curious clients, making them susceptible to both server-side inference and client-side poisoning attacks.
Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) aims to combine known attributes and objects as primitives for recognizing previously unseen attribute-object pairs. Prior works either predict attributes and objects independently, missing their strong contextual dependency, or use unidirectional conditional modeling (e.
Automatic depression detection using audio-visual data faces significant challenges, particularly in disentangling overlapping feature distributions and establishing robust decision boundaries. To address this, we propose a fine-grained multimodal framework featuring a temporal encoder and a mutual transformer to facilitate deep cross-modal fusion.
Accurate ranking of antibody candidates according to their binding affinity is essential for therapeutic antibody discovery. However, existing methods treat affinity comparisons independently and ignore the contextual information encoded in other labeled comparisons, limiting their ability to capture antigen-specific binding landscapes.
The limited-memory BFGS (L-BFGS) algorithm is a cornerstone of large-scale optimization due to its linear memory and computational costs. However, in ill-conditioned or non-convex landscapes, the implicit inverse Hessian approximation can suffer from an exploding condition number, leading to numerical instability and degraded convergence.
arXiv:2501. 10711v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Code-related benchmarks play a critical role in evaluating large language models (LLMs), yet their quality fundamentally shapes how the community interprets model capabilities.
By Jialun Cao, Yuk-Kit Chan, Zixuan Ling, Wenxuan Wang, Shuqing Li, Mingwei Liu, Ruixi Qiao, Yuting Han, Chaozheng Wang, Boxi Yu, Pinjia He, Shuai Wang, Zibin Zheng, Michael R. Lyu, Shing-Chi Cheung
arXiv:2603. 07606v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Interpretable machine learning is essential in high-stakes domains where decision-making requires accountability, transparency, and trust.
By Hans Farrell Soegeng, Sarthak Ketanbhai Modi, Thomas Peyrin
arXiv:2607. 03299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time cardiac cine MRI enables visualization of the beating heart during free breathing, but severe undersampling and motion make reconstruction highly challenging.
By Florian F\"urnrohr, Reinhard Heckel
arXiv:2607. 03248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The alignment of large language models with human preferences is commonly achieved through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback or Direct Preference Optimization.
By Jialiang Wang, Xianming Liu, Xiong Zhou, Hui Liu, Haoliang Li
arXiv:2607. 03196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: WiFi-based human pose estimation (HPE) enables the detection and interpretation of human body positions and movements without the need for wearable devices while preserving individual privacy concerns.
By Toan D. Gian, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Vo Phi Son, Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Dinh Thai Hoang, Diep N. Nguyen, Nguyen Cong Luong, Symeon Chatzinotas
arXiv:2607. 02561v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Consumer depth sensors such as the LiDAR scanner on recent iPhones provide metric range, but their useful range is short and their returns are sparse.
By Jinwen Wen
arXiv:2602. 16086v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent collapse-free quantizers such as FSQ achieve stable training by replacing the learnable codebook with an engineered geometry: a fixed scalar grid whose structure is dictated by the codebook size K.
By Idil Bilge Altun, Mert Onur Cakiroglu, Elham Buxton, Mehmet Dalkilic, Hasan Kurban
arXiv:2511. 18613v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This study presents a controlled comparison of baseline Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN), implemented via PyKAN, and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for the forecasting of stochastic, non-stationary financial time series.
By Tabish Ali Rather, S M Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Nadezda Sukhorukova, Federico Frascoli
arXiv:2607. 04010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bangladesh has an estimated 1.
By Salma Hoque Talukdar Koli, Fahima Haque Talukder Jely
arXiv:2512. 22999v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider problems of parameter estimation where design variables can be actively optimized to maximize information gain.
By Niels Bracher, Lars K\"uhmichel, Desi R. Ivanova, Xavier Intes, Paul-Christian B\"urkner, Stefan T. Radev
arXiv:2601. 18157v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advent of always-on personal AI assistants, enabled by all-day wearable devices such as smart glasses, demands a new level of contextual understanding, one that goes beyond short, isolated events to encompass the continuous, longitudinal stream of egocentric video.
By Aniket Rege, Arka Sadhu, Yuliang Li, Kejie Li, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Yuning Chai, Yong Jae Lee, Hyo Jin Kim