This category explores the dynamic relationship between constant pressure and volume changes in thermodynamic systems. By examining how gases behave when held at steady pressure, researchers uncover fundamental insights into energy transfer, heat capacity, and the mechanical work performed by expanding or contracting matter. These studies are essential for understanding everything from engine efficiency to atmospheric physics.

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🔬 physics

Energy-Efficient Federated Learning via Adaptive Encoder Freezing for MRI-to-CT Conversion: A Green AI-Guided Research

This paper proposes a Green AI-guided adaptive encoder freezing strategy for federated learning in MRI-to-CT conversion that significantly reduces energy consumption and CO2 emissions by up to 23% while maintaining or improving model performance, thereby promoting equitable and sustainable healthcare AI.

Ciro Benito Raggio, Lucia Migliorelli, Nils Skupien, Mathias Krohmer Zabaleta, Oliver Blanck, Francesco Cicone, Giuseppe (…)2026-07-17
🤖 machine learning

Automated identification of Ichneumonoidea wasps via YOLO-based deep learning: Integrating HiresCam for Explainable AI

This study presents a YOLO-based deep learning framework integrated with High-Resolution Class Activation Mapping (HiResCAM) to achieve over 96% accuracy in the automated, interpretable identification of Ichneumonoidea wasp families from high-resolution images, thereby addressing the challenges of manual taxonomic identification in biodiversity and biological control programs.

Joao Manoel Herrera Pinheiro, Gabriela Do Nascimento Herrera, Alvaro Doria Dos Santos, Luciana Bueno Dos Reis Fernandes (…)2026-07-17
🧬 biology

A vision foundation model for single-cell biology via spatial gene cartography

The paper introduces scVision, a vision foundation model that transforms single-cell transcriptomes into continuous images by spatially arranging genes based on co-expression, enabling state-of-the-art zero-shot cell-type annotation and gene program recovery without fine-tuning by leveraging the biological signal inherent in gene layout rather than just the neural network architecture.

Ridvan Yesiloglu, Sakib Mostafa, James Zou, Ash Alizadeh, Jiajun Wu, Lei Xing, Ehsan Adeli, Md Tauhidul Islam2026-07-17
🤖 machine learning

Beyond scalar losses: calibrating segmentation models via gradient vector field surgery

This paper proposes a novel "gradient vector field surgery" that linearly scales gradient magnitudes with prediction error to effectively mitigate the overconfidence and miscalibration issues inherent in region-based segmentation loss functions, thereby improving model reliability for critical medical imaging applications without compromising accuracy.

Laurin Lux, Alexander H. Berger, Moritz Knolle, Daniel Rückert, Johannes C. Paetzold2026-07-17
🤖 machine learning

Multi-Scale ViT Inference with Habitat-Fit Priors and kNN Retrieval for Multi-Species Plant Identification

This paper presents DS@GT ARC's third-place solution for the PlantCLEF 2026 challenge, which achieves robust multi-species plant identification in high-resolution quadrat images by combining a multi-scale DINOv2 ViT classifier with FAISS kNN retrieval, geographic habitat priors, and temporal fusion, while demonstrating that alternative training-centric approaches yielded no performance gains.

Alper Erten, Murilo Gustineli, Adrian Cheung2026-07-17
🤖 machine learning

Multimodality as Supervision: Self-Supervised Specialization to the Test Environment via Multimodality

This paper proposes Test-Space Training (TST), a self-supervised approach that leverages cross-modal learning on multimodal data collected exclusively from a specific test environment to develop specialized models that achieve competitive performance against generalist models pre-trained on large-scale internet datasets, thereby reducing reliance on external data.

Kunal Pratap Singh, Ali Garjani, Rishubh Singh, Muhammad Uzair Khattak, Efe Tarhan, Jason Toskov, Andrei Atanov, Oğuzhan (…)2026-07-17