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GaussCast: Dependency-Aware Shared Block Retrieval for Multi-User Layered 3D Gaussian Splatting

GaussCast is a dependency-aware delivery framework for multi-user layered 3D Gaussian Splatting that aggregates concurrent user demands at an edge proxy to fetch shared prerequisite blocks only once, thereby significantly reducing upstream traffic and improving startup latency and rendering quality compared to independent per-user delivery strategies.

Yulong Zhang, Ruonan Chai, Jiadong Yu, Zili Meng, Dirk Kutscher2026-09-02
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A State-Sensing Adaptive Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Dynamic Search and Rank-Based Selection for High-Dimensional Complex Optimization

This paper proposes the State-Sensing Adaptive Artificial Bee Colony (SSA-ABC) algorithm, which overcomes standard ABC's limitations through dimensionality-aware initialization, dynamic search adjustment, and rank-based selection mechanisms to achieve superior performance in high-dimensional optimization and robot path planning.

Xinyao Gao2026-09-02
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Visual Distances among Cultural Art Corpora Align with Expert-Coded Historical-Artistic Relatedness

This study demonstrates that visual distances derived from large vision models significantly correlate with expert-coded historical-artistic relatedness across diverse cultural units and epochs, suggesting that internet-scale visual training corpora inherently encode statistical regularities reflecting art-historical relationships.

Qiurui Wang, Weiqiang Ying, Ziyu Xu, Yousheng Yao, Shirui Wen, Guoying Wu, Cheng Yao, Fangtian Ying, Guanghui Huang2026-09-02
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Joint Scheduling and Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Queuing Systems with Bursty Traffic: A Constrained Soft Actor-Critic Approach

This paper proposes a Constrained Soft Actor-Critic (CSAC) approach that decouples stringent delay constraints from the reward function and employs a two-stage mapping mechanism to effectively maximize throughput utility while minimizing delay violations in heterogeneous queuing systems with bursty traffic, outperforming both unconstrained learning and heuristic baselines.

Ao Fang, Jianyu Cao, Weihua Qian2026-09-02
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Quantifying Data Efficiency in YOLO-Based Femur Segmentation for Axial T1-Weighted MRI

This study demonstrates that among YOLO-family models for femur segmentation in T1-weighted MRI, YOLOv11m-seg provides the optimal balance of data efficiency, accuracy, and speed in data-scarce regimes, achieving high performance with as few as 100 annotated slices while showing that architectural differences become negligible with larger datasets.

Patrick Gerard Sujeeth, I R Praveen Joe2026-09-02
💻 computer science

BioSurveillance-Agent: A Multi-Method Explainable Agentic Platform for Epidemic Surveillance on One-Health Networks

BioSurveillance-Agent is a multi-method explainable agentic platform that integrates One Health networks, wearable sensors, and a hybrid AI pipeline to enable context-adaptive, hierarchical epidemic surveillance and intervention, demonstrating significant reductions in disease spread and mortality through robust, human-auditable decision-making.

Valentina Carbonari, Annamaria Defilippo, Pietro Hiram Guzzi, Pierangelo Veltri2026-09-02
💻 computer science

CMTD: Cascaded Multi-Token Disambiguation Model for Lip Reading

The paper proposes the Cascaded Multi-Token Disambiguation Model (CMTD), which enhances lip reading performance by integrating future-context modeling directly into the decoding process through a cascaded multi-token prediction structure and a hierarchical training objective, thereby effectively resolving visual ambiguities and reducing error rates on benchmark datasets.

Yuting Fang, Feng Xue, Zhe Chen, Shujie Li2026-09-02
💻 computer science

Beyond Coverage: An Empirical Study of Mutation-Score Proxies for Deep Neural Network Testing

This paper empirically demonstrates that while traditional and non-structural test adequacy metrics show weak or no correlation with mutation scores, Latent Space Class Dispersion (LSCD) serves as a significantly stronger and computationally efficient proxy for evaluating Deep Neural Network test dataset quality compared to Mahalanobis Distance-based Surprise Coverage.

Vivek V. Vekariya, Mojdeh Golagha, Andrea Stocco, Alexander Pretschner2026-09-02