💻 computer science

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
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Language Identification (LID) in Micro-Texts: An Ultra-Lightweight Geometric Approach.

This paper introduces an ultra-lightweight geometric method for language identification in micro-texts that encodes character frequencies into compact Euclidean spaces, demonstrating superior robustness against data sparsity and historical variations compared to traditional baselines while offering significant computational efficiency for edge computing.

Oscar Rendón-Aldaraca, Héctor Fraire-Huacuja, Ana María Mendoza-Martínez, José Ángel Mendoza-Sierra2026-07-15
💻 computer science

Detection First, Grading Second: A Secondary Analysis of Stage-Specific Errors in Two-Stage Colon CAD

This position-style secondary analysis argues that colon CAD systems should adopt a detection-first, grading-second workflow and be evaluated using stage-specific metrics, demonstrating through reanalysis of existing data that such an approach better aligns with clinical pathology workflows and reveals that the majority of grading errors are clinically less severe adjacent-grade swaps while highlighting the critical impact of disease prevalence on positive predictive value.

Sulav Dahal, Bipul Bhattarai2026-07-15