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Lightweight Faster R-CNN with Standalone BiFPN for Accurate Detection and Counting of Tuberculosis Bacilli in Ziehl-Neelsen Smear Microscopy

This study presents a lightweight Faster R-CNN framework enhanced with a standalone BiFPN that achieves high-accuracy detection and counting of tuberculosis bacilli in Ziehl-Neelsen smear microscopy, offering a computationally efficient AI solution to accelerate diagnosis and reduce variability in tuberculosis control.

Mahasti Namira, Ridwan Wicaksono, Titik Nuryastuti2026-08-14
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Temporal speckle enables probabilistic weights for uncertainty-aware photonic AI

This paper introduces an ultrafast photonic processor that leverages the temporal speckle of broadband light to natively encode probabilistic weights, thereby overcoming the computational bottlenecks of digital Bayesian neural networks and enabling high-speed, uncertainty-aware AI capable of simultaneous classification and out-of-distribution detection.

Wolfram Pernice, Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Hendrik Borras, Shivaprasad Umesh Hulyal, Lennart Meyer, Xinru Ji, Jianq (…)2026-08-14
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Execution Grounded Multiagent Systems for Reliable Backend Code Generation with Large Language Models'

This paper introduces ExecuGraph, a configurable framework demonstrating that execution feedback is the primary driver of improved code generation accuracy in large language models, while showing that adding multi-agent role decomposition provides no measurable benefit over single-agent retry loops despite significantly higher computational costs.

Sai Deekshith Lekkala, Jothi Prabha Appadurai, Rohith Reddy Bellibatlu, Manpreet Singh, Rahul Joshi2026-08-14
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Driving Plato's Chariot: A Dual-Objective Teacher-Student Prototype for Reason-Affect Allocation in Dialogue

This paper presents a transparent proof-of-concept for a compact teacher-student prototype that explicitly models the tension between factual reliability and affective sensitivity in dialogue, demonstrating successful in-sample compression while highlighting the system's failure to improve truthfulness or empathy and proposing a concrete redesign path for future multi-objective studies.

Nikesh Adhikari2026-08-14
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Intelligent Product Conceptual Design: A Comparative Review of Paradigms, Challenges, and Future Trends

This review of 247 studies on Intelligent Product Conceptual Design reveals that while the field is shifting toward hybrid AI architectures, persistent trade-offs between interpretability, scalability, and human agency necessitate a future research agenda focused on distributed design intelligence, standardized benchmarks, and deeper industrial integration.

ALI Mohammed Adam Jamea2026-08-14