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Transforming Mosquito Surveillance LarvaFormer as a Hybrid Deep Learning Tool for Rapid and Accurate Larval Recognition

This paper introduces LarvaFormer, a novel hybrid deep learning framework combining CNNs and Vision Transformers with specialized attention mechanisms, which achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in automated mosquito larval classification to enable rapid and environmentally sustainable disease control.

Ahmed Imtiaz, Debajyoti Karmaker, Abhijit Bhowmik, Md Manirul Islam2026-08-07
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High-Accuracy Surface Defect Detection for Metal Strips: Lightweight YOLOv5s-SC2 with LAMP Pruning

This paper proposes a lightweight, high-accuracy surface defect detection model for metal strips, named YOLOv5s-SC2, which integrates architectural improvements like SAC and RepGFPN to achieve 84.3% mAP on the NEU-DET dataset and utilizes LAMP pruning to significantly reduce model size and computational cost for efficient edge deployment with minimal accuracy loss.

Lifang Pan, Manman Chen, Guangming Liu, Lifeng Ma2026-08-07
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PolicyFaultBench: Mutation-Based Assurance of Policy Mediation and Proposal-Interface Conformance for Tool- Using AI Agents

PolicyFaultBench is a mutation-based benchmark that validates tool-using AI agents by rigorously testing runtime policy mediation and proposal-interface conformance, revealing that while agents can achieve high execution success, they may still fail strict acceptance criteria due to subtle interface deviations that require targeted probes to detect.

Hasan Fadhil Qasim, Sarah Abdulzahra Kadim2026-08-07
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YOLO11m-opt: An optimized YOLO detector for parasitoid wasp identification from low-cost images

This paper introduces YOLO11m-opt, an optimized object detection model that achieves high-precision identification of 36 parasitoid wasp species from low-cost microscopy images by incorporating specialized architectural enhancements and a custom dataset, thereby enabling automated, expert-independent taxonomic analysis for agricultural and ecological applications.

Xingxing Sun, Haoyan Song, Junjie Chen, Fan Wang, Yingjie Jiang, Tong Shi, Mingquan Ding, Lisheng Zhang2026-08-07
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A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning-Based Time Slotted Channel Hopping Scheduling Method for Emergency Rescue in Karst Natural Caves

This paper proposes HRL-TSCH-ERC, a hierarchical reinforcement learning-based scheduling method that dynamically allocates resources and schedules links in karst cave Wireless Mesh Networks to significantly improve packet delivery, reliability, and energy efficiency for heterogeneous emergency rescue services compared to existing algorithms.

Wanhua Luo, Shengbo Hu, Ting Wang, Jiaxiang Chen, Rongfei Pu2026-08-07
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HierGait: Hierarchical multi-modal gait recognition method with structural–temporal co-optimization

HierGait is a hierarchical multi-modal gait recognition framework that integrates adaptive multi-scale temporal enhancement, structure-guided alignment fusion, and global context recalibration to overcome limitations in fine-grained motion capture, cross-modal alignment, and temporal modeling, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the CASIA-B dataset.

Jian Zhang, Ming Xu, Jinglei Zuo, Jun Liu, Yingying Peng2026-08-07
💻 computer science

EDD-3DGS: Illumination-Guided Depth Distillation]{EDD-3DGS: Illumination-Guided Depth Distillation for Low-Light 3D Gaussian Splatting

EDD-3DGS is an illumination-guided depth distillation framework that overcomes low-light reconstruction failures in 3D Gaussian Splatting by dynamically balancing photometric and depth supervision, filtering noisy priors, and aligning monocular depth scales to eliminate floating artifacts while preserving geometric fidelity.

Yiming Song2026-08-07
💻 computer science

Prior Knowledge and Adaptive Hyperparameter Optimization with Lightweight HRNet for Clinical Decision-Making of DDH IHDI Classification

This paper presents a prior-constrained lightweight HRNet framework optimized via Quantum-behaved Particle Swarm Optimization that achieves high-accuracy, efficient IHDI classification for Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip by integrating geometric priors, model compression, and adaptive hyperparameter tuning for clinical decision support.

Shuai Xue, Xiaowei Yu2026-08-07
💻 computer science

Binding PQC to Copyleft via QGPL and Evaluating Quantum-Safe Distribution Integrity

This paper introduces the Quantum General Public License (QGPL) v3.0, which mandates post-quantum cryptographic integrity for open science distributions, and demonstrates its practical feasibility through a hybrid signature scheme that ensures long-term artifact authenticity on commodity hardware without centralized infrastructure.

Šarūnas Grigaliūnas, Rasa Brūzgienė, Daina Gudonienė2026-08-07