💻 computer science

Retrieval-Augmented Safety Knowledge for Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Vehicles

This paper proposes a retrieval-augmented captioning framework that injects distilled crash-avoidance policies and formal driving rules into Vision-Language-Action models, significantly improving autonomous vehicle trajectory prediction accuracy to match ground-truth performance by addressing safety-critical details often missed by standard models.

Elaheh Hosseini, Macheal Ruiz, Soodeh Nikan2026-09-04
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Cost-Efficient Large Language Model-Assisted Title­­ and Abstract Screening for Systematic Reviews: Method Evaluation and Validation

This study demonstrates that carefully structured large language model workflows, particularly those employing few-shot prompting and explicit reasoning, can achieve high sensitivity in systematic review screening while reducing manual effort by over 80% at a low cost.

Dimitri Belenki, Alexander Astanin, Dan Baaken, Heinrich A. M. Leymann, Felix Meyer, Blanka Pophof, Evelyn Weiser2026-09-04
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Condition-Aware Multiscale Hourglass-Transformer for Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Turbofan Engines

This paper proposes a Condition-Aware Multiscale Hourglass-Transformer (CA-MHT) model that improves Remaining Useful Life prediction for turbofan engines under varying operating conditions through regime-specific normalization and multiscale temporal analysis, while utilizing SHAP and Integrated Gradients to validate the model's reliance on temporal sensor behavior and ensure decision-making transparency.

Mubashar Abbas2026-09-04
💻 computer science

NumaRing: Topology-Aware Routing for NUMA-Local MPMC Queues, and What Broke When We Optimized It

This paper presents NumaRing, a topology-aware MPMC queue implementation that demonstrates how profiling-driven discoveries—specifically eliminating a costly per-operation topology lookup, fixing a shared-atomic bottleneck in work-stealing, and removing ineffective CPU-pause backoff—can drastically improve performance, while also revealing that even with these optimizations, raw throughput on a two-socket system remains far below original design targets.

Parth Sinha2026-09-04
💻 computer science

DriveSafe AI: Quantifying the Preprocessing Bottleneck in Lightweight Driver Drowsiness Detection

This paper identifies preprocessing bottlenecks, specifically SSD bounding-box limitations, as the primary cause of accuracy loss in lightweight driver drowsiness detection systems and proposes a solution combining CLAHE-adaptive preprocessing, a three-zone confidence protocol, and dynamic quantization to achieve 99.0% accuracy with sub-40ms latency on edge devices.

Ankush Karmakar2026-09-04
💻 computer science

Residual Hybrid Quantum Vision Transformers for Edge-Compatible Knee Osteoarthritis Grading

The paper introduces QTRadX-KOA, a hybrid quantum-classical framework that integrates a DenseNet-121 backbone, a lightweight Transformer, and a novel Residual Hybrid Quantum Head to achieve edge-compatible, resource-efficient Knee Osteoarthritis grading with performance comparable to larger classical models while reducing parameter count by approximately 90%.

Hara Gopal V P, Nagaraju S2026-09-04