💻 computer science

Decentralized Weapon-Target Assignment in Aerospace Defense Systems: An Attention-Enhanced Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach

This paper proposes the STG-MADAC framework, an attention-enhanced multi-agent reinforcement learning approach that utilizes spatiotemporal graph attention and multi-objective advantage decomposition to achieve superior decentralized weapon-target assignment in dynamic aerospace defense systems.

Haoyan Yao, Changan Shang, Wenzhe Zhang, Panrong Wang, Shengjie Xu2026-09-14
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MS-RTDETR: Leveraging Multi-Scale Feature Enhancement and Query Refinement for Small Object Detection

The paper presents MS-RTDETR, a real-time end-to-end detector that improves small-object detection by unifying multi-scale feature enhancement and query refinement through a novel Scale-Coupled Feature–Query Refinement (SCFQR) mechanism and an uncertainty-aware matching objective, achieving superior performance and robustness across diverse datasets without requiring auxiliary inference branches.

Ningxiang Sun, Fang Niu, YuJiao Chen, Bing Liu, Xiaoguang Wang, Tianping Li2026-09-14
💻 computer science

Auditable AI Ethics in Education: Developing Measurable Competencies for Sustainable Development across K-12 and University Curricula

This study develops and empirically validates an "Auditable AI Ethics" competency framework that bridges high-level regulatory mandates with practical K-12 and university curricula, demonstrating through a pilot program that outcome-based, action-oriented pedagogy effectively transforms students from passive AI consumers into responsible creators capable of critical verification, bias mitigation, and legal compliance.

Elena Gaevskaya, Rustam Shadiev, Nikolay Borisov, Aleksandra Pushkina, Peter Fedkin2026-09-14
💻 computer science

Coherent Projector-Overlap QFNNs with Chebyshev Responses: Expressivity, Approximation, and Coherent Depth

This paper introduces a coherent Quantum Feedforward Neural Network (QFNN) that utilizes trainable projector overlaps and alternating reflections to implement exact Chebyshev polynomial activations, thereby establishing rigorous theoretical foundations for its expressivity, universal approximation capabilities, and generalization bounds while demonstrating competitive performance on benchmark image classification tasks.

Andrej Sum-Shik2026-09-14
💻 computer science

S3HNet: Stage-Aware Spectral-Spatial Learning for Ground-Level Urban Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Segmentation

This paper proposes S3HNet, a stage-aware spectral-spatial hierarchical network that effectively segments ground-level urban hyperspectral images by preserving band-sensitive spectral evidence in shallow encoder stages and reconstructing spatially consistent semantic representations in the decoder, thereby outperforming existing dense segmentation models on benchmark datasets.

Shuaijun Wang, Fuqiang Yuan, Beiqi Wu, Yihao Liu2026-09-14
💻 computer science

ADE-MDA-Net: an asymmetric dual-encoder network with multi-dilation attention for bearing surface defect segmentation

This paper proposes ADE-MDA-Net, an asymmetric dual-encoder network incorporating SE-dual pooling fusion, multi-dilation depthwise attention, and multi-scale spatial attention fusion modules to achieve accurate and computationally efficient pixel-level segmentation of challenging bearing surface defects.

Hong Fan, Xiaoliang Jiang, Xiaolong Zhou, Sixian Chan, Sheng Wang2026-09-14