Forecasting as Rendering: A 2D Gaussian Splatting Framework for Time Series Forecasting

This paper introduces TimeGS, a novel time series forecasting framework that reframes prediction as 2D generative rendering by leveraging adaptive Gaussian kernels and a chronologically continuous rasterization mechanism to overcome the topological mismatches and resolution inefficiencies of existing 2D reshaping methods, thereby achieving state-of-the-art performance.

Yixin Wang, Yifan Hu, Peiyuan Liu + 3 more2026-03-04🤖 cs.AI

From Visual to Multimodal: Systematic Ablation of Encoders and Fusion Strategies in Animal Identification

This study presents a multimodal animal identification framework that leverages a massive dataset of 1.9 million images and synthetic textual descriptions to achieve an 84.28% Top-1 accuracy, representing an 11% improvement over unimodal baselines through systematic ablation of encoders and an optimal gated fusion strategy.

Vasiliy Kudryavtsev, Kirill Borodin, German Berezin + 3 more2026-03-04💻 cs

Beyond Prompt Degradation: Prototype-guided Dual-pool Prompting for Incremental Object Detection

This paper proposes PDP, a novel prompt-decoupled framework for Incremental Object Detection that utilizes a dual-pool prompting paradigm to separate task-general and task-specific knowledge while employing a prototypical pseudo-label generation module to mitigate prompt drift, thereby achieving state-of-the-art performance on MS-COCO and PASCAL VOC benchmarks.

Yaoteng Zhang, Zhou Qing, Junyu Gao + 1 more2026-03-04🤖 cs.AI

Loss Design and Architecture Selection for Long-Tailed Multi-Label Chest X-Ray Classification

This paper presents a systematic evaluation of loss functions, architectures, and post-training strategies for long-tailed multi-label chest X-ray classification on the CXR-LT 2026 benchmark, demonstrating that LDAM-DRW combined with a ConvNeXt-Large backbone and classifier re-training achieves a top-5 ranking with 0.3950 mAP while offering practical insights into the development-to-test performance gap.

Nikhileswara Rao Sulake2026-03-04⚡ eess

MERG3R: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Large-Scale Neural Visual Geometry

MERG3R is a training-free, model-agnostic divide-and-conquer framework that enables neural visual geometry models to scale to large, unordered image collections by partitioning data into manageable subsets and merging local reconstructions into a globally consistent 3D model, thereby overcoming GPU memory limitations while improving accuracy and scalability.

Leo Kaixuan Cheng, Abdus Shaikh, Ruofan Liang + 3 more2026-03-04💻 cs

Retrieving Patient-Specific Radiomic Feature Sets for Transparent Knee MRI Assessment

This paper proposes a transparent, patient-specific radiomic framework that employs a two-stage retrieval strategy to select compact, complementary feature sets for knee MRI diagnosis, achieving performance competitive with deep learning models while offering enhanced interpretability through auditable links between specific anatomical regions and clinical outcomes.

Yaxi Chen, Simin Ni, Jingjing Zhang + 7 more2026-03-04💻 cs

Cultural Counterfactuals: Evaluating Cultural Biases in Large Vision-Language Models with Counterfactual Examples

This paper introduces "Cultural Counterfactuals," a high-quality synthetic dataset of nearly 60,000 images created by placing diverse individuals into varied cultural contexts to enable the precise measurement and evaluation of cultural biases related to religion, nationality, and socioeconomic status in Large Vision-Language Models.

Phillip Howard, Xin Su, Kathleen C. Fraser2026-03-04💻 cs

Authenticated Contradictions from Desynchronized Provenance and Watermarking

This paper identifies and empirically demonstrates the "Integrity Clash," a vulnerability where digital assets can simultaneously possess valid C2PA provenance claiming human authorship and AI-generated watermarks due to their technical independence, and proposes a cross-layer audit protocol that resolves this contradiction by jointly evaluating both signals to achieve 100% classification accuracy.

Alexander Nemecek, Hengzhi He, Guang Cheng + 1 more2026-03-04⚡ eess