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Lightweight and rapid identification of ten head-thorax NCCT quality defects via physics-informed multi-view and multi-instance AI

The paper introduces PHCTQA, a lightweight and rapid AI system that utilizes a physics-informed multi-view and multi-instance learning approach to accurately identify ten head-thorax NCCT quality defects in real-time, significantly outperforming junior radiographers and reducing rescanning rates in resource-constrained settings.

Wei Yang, Yin Li, Kaixing Long, Yun Wan, Junpu Qin, Chenghua Wei, Xi Li, Lv Zhu, Xiaomei Liu, Yijun Chen, Rifeng Long, J (…)2026-08-22
💻 computer science

A memetic ant colony system algorithm for multiple machine scheduling in additive manufacturing with orientation selection of parts and energy costs ​

This paper proposes a novel memetic ant colony system algorithm integrated with variable neighborhood descent to solve the multiple machine scheduling problem in additive manufacturing by simultaneously optimizing energy costs, makespan, and part orientations, demonstrating significant efficiency improvements over existing methods.

JOSE CARLOS MOLINA, Ignacio Eguia, Andres Padillo, Jesus Racero2026-08-21
💻 computer science

Curvature-Information Duality Driven Geometrically Optimal Compression of Deep Models

This paper introduces the Curvature-aware Information Bottleneck (CurvIB) framework, a theoretically grounded model compression technique based on information geometry and the curvature-information duality theorem, which unifies curvature-sensitive adaptive pruning, Wasserstein-aware optimal quantization, and optimal transport-based accuracy recovery to significantly enhance deep learning model performance under extreme resource constraints.

Hongyu Zheng2026-08-21
💻 computer science

Lightweight attention mechanisms in breast ultrasound lesion segmentation: parameter cost, protocol choice, data leakage, and what the data can resolve

This study demonstrates that on the BUSI dataset, the performance gains from various lightweight attention mechanisms in breast ultrasound lesion segmentation are statistically negligible and below the resolution of the data, whereas factors like network depth and data leakage (via checkpoint selection or near-duplicates) produce significantly larger, resolvable effects.

Gökhan Uçar2026-08-21
💻 computer science

The Say-Do Gap Index: A Reproducible NLP Pipeline for Detecting ESG Rhetoric–Reality Divergence in Corporate Media Coverage

This paper presents a fully reproducible NLP pipeline, including a curated corpus, a six-category ESG taxonomy, and a fine-tuned Spanish BERT classifier, designed to quantify the divergence between corporate ESG rhetoric and observable outcomes in media coverage through a novel "Say-Do Gap Index" while addressing construct validity and cross-context applicability.

Alfredo Merlet2026-08-21