arXiv:2606. 26194v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban tree biomass remains less spatially explicitly quantified than biomass in managed forests because many estimates rely on inventories or coarse products that cannot resolve individual crowns or fine-scale heterogeneity.
By Jose Bermudez (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), Zilong Zhong (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), Dominic Cyr (, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Camile Sothe (Planet Labs PBC, San Francisco, California, USA), Alemu Gonsamo (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
arXiv:2606. 27202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural networks have moved from a niche representation-learning technique to the default model class wherever data carry relational structure.
By Abderaouf Bahi
arXiv:2606. 26712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skin lesion segmentation is a key task in computer-aided dermatological diagnosis, where accuracy directly impacts downstream analysis and disease classification.
By Jingjun Gu, Chaojie Shen, Yifeng Cao, Wei Zhang, Yiliu Li, Aobo Fan
arXiv:2606. 26764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shifts, and privacy restrictions.
By Yiheng Cao, Gustavo Andrade-Miranda, Jiatian Zhang, Lingxiao Zhao, Xin Gao
arXiv:2606. 27095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cold-start exemplar-free class-incremental learning requires learning a growing set of classes without replay, external pretraining, or a large initial task.
By Augustinas Ju\v{c}as, Yangchen Pan
arXiv:2606. 26994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing referring video segmentation methods often treat a video as a single event consisting of multiple images, overlooking the fact that a video typically contains multiple distinct events.
By Jinyu Liu, Henghui Ding, Shuting He, Yu-Gang Jiang
arXiv:2508. 16159v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Meta-learning aims to uniformly sample homogeneous support-query pairs, characterized by the same categories and similar attributes, and extract useful inductive biases through identical network architectures.
By Jiaqi Ma, Guo-Sen Xie, Fang Zhao, Zechao Li
arXiv:2606. 27126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kolmogorov Arnold networks (KAN) have recently been introduced as a (deep) neural network architecture whose trainable parameters adapt the activation functions, instead of the coefficients of the affine transformations at the core of traditional architectures such as deep multilayer perceptrons (MLPs).
By Miguel Jaraiz, Fermin Gutierrez, Pablo Yeste, Miguel S\'anchez-Dom\'inguez, Eusebio Valero, Gonzalo Rubio, Lucas Lacasa
arXiv:2505. 09854v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As end-user device capability increases and demand for intelligent services at the Internet's edge rises, distributed learning has emerged as a key enabling technology for the intelligent edge.
By Harikrishna Kuttivelil, Katia Obraczka
arXiv:2606. 26204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Floods frequently impact regions around the world.
By Sophia Li, Max Zhao, Raghu G. Raj, Tianyu Chen
arXiv:2409. 17754v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a distributed machine learning approach that addresses privacy concerns by training AI models locally on devices.
By Diego Cajaraville-Aboy, Ana Fern\'andez-Vilas, Rebeca P. D\'iaz-Redondo, Manuel Fern\'andez-Veiga
arXiv:2606. 26898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography enables non-invasive reconstruction of white-matter pathways, but its accuracy is fundamentally limited by indirect, low-resolution measurements of axonal organization.
By Kyriaki-Margarita Bintsi, Sparsh Makharia, Ya\"el Balbastre, Joselyn Romero Avila, Julia F. Lehman, Suzanne N. Haber, Anastasia Yendiki
Verifying the eligibility of securities as collateral is a key responsibility of the German Central Bank. However, manually verifying these assets against legal and financial criteria within lengthy, semi-structured, and often bilingual prospectuses is a resource-intensive task.
Kolmogorov Arnold networks (KAN) have recently been introduced as a (deep) neural network architecture whose trainable parameters adapt the activation functions, instead of the coefficients of the affine transformations at the core of traditional architectures such as deep multilayer perceptrons (MLPs). This architecture builds on the Kolmogorov-Arnold theorem, which endows it with universal approximation properties.
Robots operating in real-world environments must in general be able to recognize previously unseen objects. As robotic systems move toward open-world autonomy, there is a growing, yet largely unmet, need for open vocabulary object detectors that are prompt-free and efficient enough for continuous deployment.
Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shifts, and privacy restrictions. To address this, we propose a 4D controllable generative framework for anatomically consistent data augmentation.
Event cameras asynchronously report brightness changes with microsecond-level temporal resolution, but real event data remain difficult to collect at scale because specialized sensors, careful synchronization, and task-specific annotations are required. Event-camera simulation is therefore important to event-based vision tasks.
Effective multi-task learning for surgical scene understanding is fundamentally hindered by annotation granularity mismatch; temporal workflow tasks such as phase recognition, step recognition and anticipation benefit from dense frame-level supervision, whereas pixel-level spatial tasks including instrument segmentation and action recognition are only sparsely annotated on selected keyframes due to prohibitive labeling costs. This supervision imbalance undermines shared representation learning and limits joint optimization across heterogeneous surgical tasks.
arXiv:2606. 26002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HiReLC, a hierarchical ensemble-reinforcement learning framework for automated joint quantization and structured pruning of deep neural networks.
By Kamar Hibatallah Baghdadi, Kawther Guoual Belhamidi, Sara Belhadj, Aissa Boulmerka, Nadir Farhi
arXiv:2606. 25964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Small ($\sim$2B) GUI-grounding agents are attractive for on-device deployment, accessibility tooling, and low-cost iteration, but at this scale they face two open recipe questions: how to obtain bounding-box training data without expensive human annotation, and how to combine supervised fine-tuning with reinforcement learning.
By Chengheng Li-Chen, Zhiqian Zhou, Hao Chen, Nicolas Chauvin