Power flow and optimal power flow using quantum and digital annealers: a computational scalability analysis

This study introduces and evaluates the Adiabatic Quantum Power Flow (AQPF) and Optimal Power Flow (AQOPF) algorithms, which reformulate power system analysis as discrete combinatorial optimization problems solvable by quantum and digital annealers, demonstrating their feasibility and promising scalability across various test systems from 4 to 1354 buses.

Zeynab Kaseb, Matthias Moller, Pedro P. Vergara, Peter Palensky2026-03-10💻 cs

Representing local protein environments with machine learning force fields

This paper introduces a novel representation of local protein environments derived from atomistic foundation models that effectively captures structural and chemical features, enabling the construction of data-driven priors and achieving state-of-the-art accuracy in physics-informed NMR chemical shift prediction.

Meital Bojan, Sanketh Vedula, Advaith Maddipatla, Nadav Bojan Sellam, Anar Rzayev, Federico Napoli, Paul Schanda, Alex M. Bronstein2026-03-10💻 cs

Transforming H&E images into IHC: A Variance-Penalized GAN for Precision Oncology

This study introduces a variance-penalized GAN based on pyramid pix2pix that generates high-fidelity HER2-specific immunohistochemistry (IHC) images from routine hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides, effectively mitigating mode collapse and outperforming baseline models to enable cost-effective, scalable precision oncology diagnostics.

Sara Rehmat, Hafeez Ur Rehman, Byeong-Gwon Kang, Sarra Ayouni, Yunyoung Nam2026-03-10💻 cs

Light of Normals: Unified Feature Representation for Universal Photometric Stereo

This paper introduces LINO UniPS, a unified photometric stereo framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance under arbitrary lighting by employing Light Register Tokens and Interleaved Attention for robust illumination-normal decoupling, alongside a Wavelet-based Dual-branch Architecture to preserve high-frequency geometric details, all trained on the newly proposed large-scale PS-Verse dataset.

Houyuan Chen, Hong Li, Chongjie Ye + 11 more2026-03-10💻 cs

Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation with Cascaded Vision Language Models

This paper proposes a novel VLM-guided cascaded framework for Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation that leverages Vision Language Model features to explicitly prompt the Segment Anything Model for precise localization and utilizes soft spatial priors to retain full-image context, thereby overcoming domain gaps and improving both segmentation and classification of camouflaged objects across arbitrary categories.

Kai Zhao, Wubang Yuan, Zheng Wang, Guanyi Li, Xiaoqiang Zhu, Deng-ping Fan, Dan Zeng2026-03-10💻 cs

SUBARU: A Practical Approach to Power Saving in Hearables Using SUB-Nyquist Audio Resolution Upsampling

The paper proposes SUBARU, a power-efficient framework for hearables that intentionally employs sub-Nyquist sampling and low bit-resolution ADCs to achieve a 3.31x reduction in power consumption while maintaining high-quality multimodal speech enhancement through a novel wideband reconstruction methodology.

Tarikul Islam Tamiti, Sajid Fardin Dipto, Luke Benjamin Baja-Ricketts, David C Vergano, Anomadarshi Barua2026-03-10💻 cs

LD-RPS: Zero-Shot Unified Image Restoration via Latent Diffusion Recurrent Posterior Sampling

LD-RPS proposes a novel, dataset-free, and unified image restoration framework that leverages recurrent posterior sampling on a pretrained latent diffusion model, enhanced by multimodal semantic priors and a lightweight alignment module, to achieve superior performance across various degradation types without task-specific training.

Huaqiu Li, Yong Wang, Tongwen Huang, Hailang Huang, Haoqian Wang, Xiangxiang Chu2026-03-10💻 cs

Query-Based Adaptive Aggregation for Multi-Dataset Joint Training Toward Universal Visual Place Recognition

This paper proposes Query-based Adaptive Aggregation (QAA), a novel feature aggregation technique that utilizes learned queries as reference codebooks to effectively address dataset divergences in multi-dataset joint training, thereby achieving robust universal Visual Place Recognition with balanced generalization and state-of-the-art performance.

Jiuhong Xiao, Yang Zhou, Giuseppe Loianno2026-03-10💻 cs

Unified Medical Image Segmentation with State Space Modeling Snake

The paper proposes Mamba Snake, a novel deep snake framework enhanced by state space modeling and a dual-classification synergy mechanism, which effectively addresses the challenges of multi-scale structural heterogeneity in Unified Medical Image Segmentation by modeling inter-organ topological relationships and refining complex morphologies to achieve superior performance across five clinical datasets.

Ruicheng Zhang, Haowei Guo, Kanghui Tian, Jun Zhou, Mingliang Yan, Zeyu Zhang, Shen Zhao2026-03-10💻 cs

Post-Disaster Affected Area Segmentation with a Vision Transformer (ViT)-based EVAP Model using Sentinel-2 and Formosat-5 Imagery

This paper proposes a Vision Transformer-based framework that leverages PCA-driven weak supervision to expand limited manual annotations for refining disaster-affected area segmentation using Sentinel-2 and Formosat-5 imagery, thereby enhancing the reliability and scalability of the Taiwan Space Agency's Emergent Value Added Product (EVAP) in scenarios with scarce ground truth.

Yi-Shan Chu, Hsuan-Cheng Wei2026-03-10💻 cs