💻 computer science

Uncertainty-Aware Assessment of LLM-Enhanced Topic Models: An Experton-Based Approach to Interpretability

This study introduces an uncertainty-aware evaluation framework based on the Theory of Expertons to assess topic models in specialized tourism corpora, demonstrating that LLM-enhanced BERTopic outperforms traditional and neural approaches while revealing that decoding temperature significantly impacts interpretability.

Eddy Soria, Antonio Moreno, Jordi Pascual, Ana Beatriz Hernández-Lara2026-07-15
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Multi-view Patch Inference with Frozen DINOv3 for Industrial Anomaly Detection

This paper proposes a framework for industrial anomaly detection that combines a frozen DINOv3 backbone with a Multi-view Patch Inference strategy to overcome boundary information loss and a Multi-scale Reconstruction Fusion Transformer to model normal feature distributions, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmark datasets.

Chaoqun Wang, Wenjing Zhang, Bo Qi, Xiaoyu Huang, Ning He2026-07-15
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LAR-Net: A Lightweight Adaptive Receptive Field Network for Point Cloud Segmentation of Pharmaceutical Deposits on Reactor Inner Walls

This paper proposes LAR-Net, a lightweight adaptive receptive field network built on the LitePT backbone that dynamically adjusts to local geometric complexities to achieve high-precision point cloud segmentation of pharmaceutical deposits on reactor inner walls, thereby overcoming the limitations of conventional inspection methods and enabling automated intelligent cleaning.

Jiajia Liu, Haiyang Wang, Zhongli Ma, Yuedong Shi, Bingyu Chen, Sidong Wu, Ting Zhang2026-07-15
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Captioning Daily Activity Images in Early Childhood Education: Benchmark and Algorithm

This paper introduces KinderMM-Cap, a specialized multimedia captioning system for early childhood education that leverages the ECAC benchmark and a novel reward-conditional hybrid training framework (RSRS) to significantly improve the accuracy of generating educationally meaningful captions for complex classroom scenes and teaching toys.

Sixing Li, Zhibin Gu, Ziqi Zhang, Weiguo Pan, Bing Li, Ying Wang, Hongzhe Liu2026-07-15
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Decentralised Federated Learning Framework for Privacy-Preserving Medical Insurance and Sustainable Rural Economic Development in Tamil Nadu

This paper proposes and rigorously evaluates TW-DP-FedAvg, a privacy-preserving federated learning framework tailored for rural Tamil Nadu's medical insurance sector, demonstrating that while differential privacy incurs a measurable accuracy cost compared to centralized training, the approach remains statistically equivalent and viable under India's new data protection regulations.

Janarthanam S, Raja Sarath Kumar Boddu, Vivekanadam B2026-07-15
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Human-Centered Learning Mechanics for Reliable Smart Textiles: An Explainable and Frugal AI Framework for Separating Physiological Anomalies from Sensor Drift and Degradation

This paper presents HCLM-SmartTex, an explainable and frugal AI framework that distinguishes genuine physiological anomalies from smart-textile sensor degradation and artifacts by optimizing for human-centered decision costs rather than raw accuracy, utilizing a synthetic simulator for training and achieving high reliability with minimal computational footprint.

Kim Duc TRAN, Guillaume Tartare, Ludovic Koehl, Xianyi Zeng, Anthony Fleury, Kim Phuc Tran2026-07-15