💻 computer science

SQCAFusion: Multi-Scale Scene-Query Cross-Attention for Illumination-Adaptive Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

This paper proposes SQCAFusion, an illumination-adaptive infrared and visible image fusion framework that employs multi-scale scene-query cross-attention with learnable scene tokens to dynamically modulate features during early encoding, thereby resolving scene-blindness issues and enhancing fusion quality under varying lighting conditions.

Yunfei Chen, Juan Zhang, Yongbin Gao, Bo Huang2026-09-22
💻 computer science

Cache Lines, Not Probes: The Memory-Access Cost of Open Addressing Without Reordering

This paper introduces a cache-line cost model for open addressing without reordering, demonstrating that while asymmetric bucketing achieves optimal memory access bounds of Θ(1+log⁡log⁡n/δB)\Theta(1+\log\log n/\delta B), symmetric approaches are significantly worse and probe-optimal hierarchical schemes remain cache-suboptimal due to unavoidable memory-access costs dictated by the parameter δB\delta B.

Mauricio Herrera2026-09-22
💻 computer science

WeanNet Enables Parameter-Efficient Transfer Through Decaying Lateral Connections in Progressive Networks

WeanNet proposes a parameter-efficient transfer learning method that uses a decaying scalar gain to temporarily connect a frozen parent network to a new student, enabling lossless parent removal and reducing model size while demonstrating competitive performance on concept-drift tasks compared to Progressive Neural Networks, though its general superiority remains limited by specific task and configuration dependencies.

Max Vorachart2026-09-22
💻 computer science

Enhancing Deep Neural Network Resilience Through Integrated Reliability-Aware Design and Fault-Aware Training

This paper introduces ResilientNet, a reliability-aware framework that enhances Deep Neural Network resilience against hardware faults through four synergistic design and training strategies—bounded activations, layer reordering, NaN filtering, and curriculum-based fault training—demonstrated to significantly reduce error propagation and maintain high classification accuracy with negligible inference overhead across extensive fault injection experiments.

Saravana Kumar Madappa, Sivakumar Nagalingam2026-09-22
💻 computer science

An Enhanced Memetic Algorithm for Emergency Outpatient Physician Scheduling Considering Patient Psychological Distress and Physician Fatigue in Fuzzy-CPT Framework

This study proposes an enhanced memetic algorithm within a fuzzy-CPT framework to optimize emergency outpatient physician scheduling by simultaneously minimizing patient psychological distress and physician fatigue perception, validated through real-world data from a Shanghai hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Junji Zhou, Jiawei Wu2026-09-22