💻 computer science

Boundary-damped wave dynamics enables local equilibrium propagation with finite-time gradient guarantees

This paper introduces boundary-damped wave equilibrium propagation, a physical learning architecture that combines conservative interior dynamics with localized boundary dissipation to achieve finite-time gradient convergence, spectral stability, and high accuracy on tasks like MNIST while maintaining strict energy-balance and gradient-error bounds.

Dino Vlahek, Dijana Oreški, Alen Kišić2026-09-04
💻 computer science

Swarm-Driven Design: A Unified Framework for Generative Architecture, Visual Art, Music and Narrative Generation

This paper introduces a unified generative framework that leverages a single swarm intelligence simulation, governed by fundamental interaction rules, to simultaneously produce diverse outputs across architecture, visual art, music, and narrative domains through specialized domain-specific mappings.

Mehar Kapoor, Harleen Kaur, Astha Sharma, Prof. Ashwni Kumar2026-09-04
💻 computer science

Practical Fairness Constraints in Credit Scoring for Unbanked Populations: A Pareto-Optimal Analysis of Gender and Intersectional Disparities

This paper proposes a fairness-constrained credit scoring framework using mobile money data that significantly reduces gender-based approval gaps and regulatory violations while maintaining high accuracy, though intersectional analysis reveals that such constraints alone cannot fully resolve compound socioeconomic disparities affecting low-income women.

Muadh Olamilekan Abdullateef, Nguyen Anh Van Trang2026-09-04
💻 computer science

Selective data curation enables efficient pretraining of chest radiograph foundation models

The paper introduces CheXficient, a chest X-ray foundation model that leverages representation-guided selective data curation to achieve competitive performance across diverse clinical tasks using only a fraction of the data and computational resources required by traditional large-scale pretraining approaches.

Curtis Langlotz, Chong Wang, Yabin Zhang, Yunhe Gao, Maya Varma, Clemence Mottez, Faidra Patsatzi, Fuying Wang, Jiaming (…)2026-09-04
💻 computer science

When Explanations Help or Harm Network Intrusion Alert Triage: A Distribution-Conditional Benchmark

This paper introduces a distribution-conditional benchmark demonstrating that feature-attribution explanations for network intrusion alerts can either improve, degrade, or leave unchanged the utility of alert queues depending on specific threat distributions and detector characteristics, thereby supporting the use of locally validated, explanation-aware re-ranking as a complementary strategy to score-only ordering.

Özkan Canay, Halil Arslan2026-09-04
💻 computer science

Evaluating Cross-Method Explanation Consistency in XGBoost-Based Heart-Disease Classification

This study evaluates the predictive performance and cross-method explanation consistency of an XGBoost classifier on a heart-disease dataset, demonstrating that while the model achieves strong accuracy and moderate-to-strong agreement among global explanation methods (native importance, permutation importance, and SHAP), these dimensions are distinct and do not inherently guarantee clinical validity.

Aritrik Ghosh2026-09-04
💻 computer science

Confidence Calibration and Semantic Error Analysis for Ambiguous Coreference Resolution in User-Generated Social Media Text

This paper introduces AmbiGraph-Coref, a graph-based model enhanced with confidence calibration and an explicit unresolvable mechanism that achieves high performance in resolving ambiguous coreference in synthetic social media text, while emphasizing the need for future validation on authentic real-world data.

Yuewei Yuan, Jialei Huang, Jiayang Yin, Tianyi Xu2026-09-04