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A Two-Stage Hard-Negative- and Occlusion-Aware Framework for Oil Palm Fresh Fruit Bunch Harvesting Decision Support

This paper proposes a lightweight two-stage framework utilizing YOLO11s-seg for instance-level candidate generation and YOLOv8n-cls for hard-negative and occlusion-aware classification, achieving high harvesting decision accuracy and zero false harvest rates in complex oil palm plantation environments.

Chuangang Zhao, MOHD FAISAL IBRAHIM, RIZAUDDIN RAMLI, MOHD HAIRI MOHD ZAMAN2026-07-20
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An Explainable and Fair TabNet Framework for Remote Employee Performance Prediction Using Multidimensional Workplace Data

This paper proposes an Explainable TabNet Framework that leverages attention-based deep learning and SHAP values to accurately, robustly, and fairly predict remote employee performance using a large-scale dataset, outperforming traditional baseline models while ensuring transparent and equitable human resource decision-making.

Zihe Zhu, XiaoQian Bian, Sihui Yu2026-07-20
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Identification of Causative Drugs for Adverse Events Using BioClinicalBERT and BioGPT on Social Media

This study demonstrates that advanced Large Language Models, specifically BioClinicalBERT and BioGPT, achieve high accuracy (98% F1 score and accuracy) in automatically identifying causative drugs for adverse events from social media and drug review datasets, offering a promising real-time solution for drug safety monitoring.

Brahami Menaouer, Abdeldjouad Fatma Zahra, Hadj Benaïchouche Meroua2026-07-20
💻 computer science

Distributed Consent Based Sociocracy 3.0 Governance Framework for Autonomous Robot Systems

This paper proposes a Distributed Consent Based Sociocracy 3.0 governance framework that integrates S3 principles with ROS 2 architecture to enhance ethical, transparent, and scalable coordination in autonomous multi-robot systems, demonstrating significant improvements in conflict reduction, debuggability, and consent success rates through evaluation on the DROID 100 dataset.

Karunakaran T, Dhayashankar J M2026-07-20✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

Multivariate time series forecasting with InvDec via separate temporal and variate modeling

The paper proposes InvDec, a hybrid multivariate time series forecasting architecture that achieves principled separation between temporal encoding and variate-level decoding through an inverted decoder and delayed variate embeddings, demonstrating significant performance gains on high-dimensional datasets by effectively balancing temporal patterns and cross-variate dependencies.

Wujian Yang, Yuhang Wang, Guanlin Chen2026-07-20
💻 computer science

Deep Learning for Saffron Adulteration Detection from Stigma Images: A Comparative Study of AlexNet, ResNet, and VGG16

This study demonstrates that a Convolutional Neural Network-based approach, specifically utilizing AlexNet with transfer learning, can effectively and accurately distinguish authentic saffron stigmas from counterfeit materials, offering a promising non-destructive solution for quality control.

Mitra Gholami, Rahman Farrokhi Teimourlou, farzaneh jannatdoust2026-07-20
💻 computer science

NEDOQwen: Diagnosing and Repairing a Turkish-Centric 0.824B Language Model

This paper introduces NEDOQwen, a Turkish-centric 824M-parameter language model, to demonstrate a low-cost, auditable workflow for diagnosing internal-external evaluation mismatches and achieving targeted benchmark improvements through fine-tuning and repair, while cautioning that such gains do not equate to broad competence.

Ahmet Rıfat Öztürk, Yağız Ekrem Dalar, Nedim Mutlu Sezer, Feyzi Arda Salihoğlu2026-07-20