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SonoReasoner: Hierarchical Clinical Reasoning for Ultrasound Vision-Language Models

This paper introduces SonoReasoner, an ultrasound vision-language model that enhances diagnostic performance and consistency by explicitly formulating interpretation as hierarchical clinical reasoning, supported by the SonoFlow-1M corpus, the 7-million-scale SonoCorpus reasoning dataset, and the clinician-curated SonoVQA benchmark.

Qingbo Kang, Wen Wen, Qicheng Lao, Huahui Yi, Jun Gao, Xi Chen, Jiazhi Cao, Yajun Mu, Haoyu Wang, Kun Wang, Junyuan Mao (…)2026-08-03
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Privacy-Preserving Federated Distillation Resilient to Client Disconnections and Poisoning Attacks

This paper proposes GSE-SFD, a grouped selective federated distillation framework that integrates out-of-distribution filtering, threshold secret sharing, and anomaly detection to simultaneously achieve high accuracy, robustness against client disconnections and poisoning attacks, and enhanced privacy protection in resource-constrained edge environments.

Keqian Liu, Tanping Zhou, Shuaishuai Zhu, Guang Ye, Zijun Guo2026-08-03
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Single-View 3D Shape and Pose Estimation of Transparent Objects Using Statistical Shape Models

This paper proposes a method for estimating the complete 3D shape and pose of transparent objects from a single RGB-D image by leveraging YOLO11 for initial detection and iteratively optimizing a category-specific statistical shape model to overcome the limitations of conventional depth sensors.

Toshiro Nakano, Kaihei Okada, Tokuo Tsuji, Hiroaki Seki, Toshihiro Nishimura, Yosuke Suzuki, Tetsuyou Watanabe2026-08-03
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CAPE-Net: Conformal, Adaptive, and Drift-Aware Early-Exit Classification of Encrypted Traffic at ISP Scale

CAPE-Net is a conformal, adaptive, and drift-aware early-exit classifier that enables ISPs to perform accurate, certified, and maintainable encrypted traffic classification on packet-sequence metadata by integrating distribution-free error guarantees, abstention on unknown applications, and efficient per-class drift repair within a single compact model.

Farzam Rezaei, Jorge E. López de Vergara, Luis de Pedro, Iván González2026-08-03
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Design and Performance Evaluation of Blockchain-Enabled Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) for Medical Data Sharing

This paper proposes and evaluates a blockchain-enabled Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) framework implemented on Hyperledger Besu using Solidity smart contracts to achieve secure, GDPR-compliant, and patient-centric medical data sharing with dynamic consent and transparent auditing, demonstrating a balanced trade-off between performance efficiency and patient autonomy across various consensus mechanisms.

Nadeem Yaqub, Jianbiao Zhang, Muhammad Irfan Khalid, Muhammad Kashif, Mansoor Ahmed, Jungsuk Kim2026-08-03
💻 computer science

Mathematical Scientific Discovery Using Large Language Models: A Systematic Literature Review

This systematic literature review, adhering to PRISMA 2020 guidelines, analyzes 32 studies on using large language models for mathematical discovery to identify seven technical paradigms, highlight the superior efficacy of evolutionary search combined with formal verification, and provide a taxonomy to guide future research in the field.

Vinita Gangaram Jansari, Carlos Toxtli Hernandez, Michael Burr, Austin LaHue, Ben Nye, Luis David Garcia Puente2026-08-03