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Morphology-Aware Span-First Structured ABSA for Uzbek: Boundary Modeling and a Protocol for Cross-Lingual Turkic Transfer

This paper introduces MorphoSpan-Uz, a morphology-aware span-first model that enhances structured ABSA performance on Uzbek educational texts by integrating byte convolutions, suffix features, and boundary supervision, while establishing a rigorous evaluation protocol for cross-lingual Turkic transfer without claiming immediate cross-lingual gains.

Botir Elov¹, Ruhillo Alaev², Sultonbek Normamatov¹, Alisher Abdullayev³, Elov Jamshid⁴, Muhayyo Xakimova¹, Murotali Lati (…)2026-11-11
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An Improved EfficientNet-B0 Model for Facial Emotion Recognition

This study demonstrates that an optimized EfficientNet-B0 model achieves a superior balance between facial emotion recognition performance and computational efficiency compared to larger EfficientNet variants, attaining 78.68% accuracy on a combined FER2013 and RAF-DB dataset while requiring significantly fewer parameters and less inference time.

Nnaemeka Ugwumba, Peter Sunday Jaja, Ugochi A. Okengwu, Promise Enyindah2026-11-11
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Explainable Job Category Detection Using DistilBERT: A Three-Class Transformer Model for Classifying Real, Fake, and Invalid Online Job Offers

This study presents an explainable, lightweight DistilBERT-based system that improves online job offer screening by classifying postings into Real, Fake, and Invalid categories with 98.74% accuracy, addressing the limitations of traditional binary models through a balanced three-class approach and SHAP-based interpretability.

Nnaemeka Ugwumba, Ugochi A. Okengwu, Clement Barisua Ndeekor, Peter Sunday Jaja2026-11-11
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EViSE: An Efficient Framework for Multi-Criteria Summarization Evaluation

The paper proposes EViSE, an efficient multi-criteria summarization evaluation framework that combines cardinal-ordinal regression with within-source ranking to achieve high agreement with human judgments across faithfulness, coherence, and relevance while enabling fast, reference-free inference and effective use as a reward signal for policy optimization.

Thi Thu Phuong Tran, Trinh Hoang Vu, Van Vinh Nguyen, Phuong Thai Nguyen, Anh-Quan Nguyen-Duc2026-11-11
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VGA-KIE: Reliable Layout-Aware Key Information Extraction from Visually Rich Documents via Evidence-Grounded Verification and Repair

This paper introduces VGA-KIE, a modular post-hoc reliability framework that enhances Key Information Extraction from visually rich documents by coupling evidence-grounded state definition, typed failure diagnosis, and failure-conditioned repair with re-verification, achieving significant improvements in Field-F1 scores, evidence accuracy, and repair success rates across multiple benchmarks.

Yuepeng Shi, Ning Kong, Bo Peng, Meng Wang2026-11-10
💻 computer science

FedEAGD: Trajectory-Guided Drift-Aware Distillation for Personalized Federated Learning

FedEAGD is a personalized federated learning framework that addresses data heterogeneity and partial client participation by employing a trajectory-guided, drift-aware distillation mechanism with adaptive historical knowledge transfer and progressive gated residual fusion to significantly improve model accuracy under non-IID conditions.

Mengjia Lu, Ping Zhang, An Bao, Keyi Xu, Jiechang Wang2026-11-10
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MMIF: GPU-Accelerated Parallel Cryptographic Permutation Network for Secure Multimodal Medical Image Fusion in Brain Tumor Detection

This paper presents MMIF, a GPU-accelerated parallel cryptographic permutation network that utilizes DNA-assisted chaotic permutation and XOR diffusion to securely and efficiently encrypt multimodal medical images for brain tumor detection, achieving high security metrics while enabling real-time processing.

Rajasekar Ramasamy, Ramkumar Devendiran2026-11-10
💻 computer science

FQXAI: A Semantic and Circuit-Level Explainability Framework for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Medical Learning

This paper introduces FQXAI, a unified framework that enhances the interpretability and robustness of hybrid quantum-classical medical models by combining an exhaustive semantic explanation method (FQ-SHAP) with a noise-aware circuit-level analysis tool (SVQX) to generate human-readable rationales and optimize quantum gate configurations across diverse biomedical datasets.

Ankit RAJ, Pramod Parashar, Subramanian Ramalingam2026-11-10