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Humans Disengage, Reasoning Models Persist: An Item-Controlled Dissociation in Deliberation Allocation

This paper reveals a critical dissociation between humans and large reasoning models (LRMs) in deliberation allocation: while both spend more time on harder problems overall, humans invest less time on items they ultimately get wrong (abandoning difficult tasks), whereas LRMs paradoxically generate longer reasoning traces on problems they fail (persisting in uncertainty), highlighting a fundamental difference in stopping and control policies despite surface-level similarities.

Han-yu Wang2026-07-23
💻 computer science

Artificial Intelligence Framework for Audit-Ready Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Under Explainability, Fairness, and Regulatory Transparency Constraints

This study proposes a comprehensive AI framework for pharmaceutical manufacturing that integrates predictive modeling with explainability, fairness, calibration, drift monitoring, and regulatory traceability to ensure audit-ready, defensible quality-governance decisions.

Charles Onyeka Nwamekwe, Nkemakonam Chidiebube Igbokwe, Chukwuma Godfrey Ono2026-07-22
💻 computer science

Seeing quality through AI: YOLOv11 for automated grading of dried sea cucumber processing methods

This study demonstrates that a lightweight YOLO11n deep learning model can achieve near-perfect accuracy in automatically classifying dried sea cucumber processing methods (salting, smoking, and roasting) from dense-object images, offering a robust, non-destructive alternative to subjective manual inspection for quality grading.

Luther Alexander Latumakulita, Risnandar Risnandar, Hence Beedwel Lumentut, Silviani Esther Rumagit2026-07-22
💻 computer science

Semantic-Guided Multi-Scale Dual-Teacher Distillation Network for Medical and Industrial Anomaly Detection

This paper proposes SGMS-DTDNet, a semantic-guided multi-scale dual-teacher distillation network that integrates domain-specific semantics, structural priors, and adaptive feature selection to achieve state-of-the-art performance in unified medical and industrial anomaly detection by overcoming challenges like scarce abnormal samples and heterogeneous defect morphologies.

Pufan Guo2026-07-22
💻 computer science

Beyond full fine-tuning: enhancing generalizability in ECG foundation models' downstream adaptation

This study demonstrates that parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) strategies, such as partial fine-tuning and BitFit, outperform full fine-tuning in electrocardiogram foundation models by significantly enhancing generalizability and reducing overfitting, particularly on out-of-domain data and resource-constrained scenarios.

Giuliana Monachino, Beatrice Zanchi, Georgiy Farina, Francesca Dalia Faraci2026-07-22