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RheumBench: A Specialist-Validated Rubric-Based Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Rheumatology

RheumBench is the first specialist-validated, rubric-based benchmark for rheumatology that evaluates ten LLMs and RAG systems, revealing that current models exhibit substantial performance gaps, systematic overconfidence, and potentially severe omission errors, thereby underscoring the critical need for human oversight in clinical decision support.

Fabian Lechner, Jonathan Bamberger, Phillip Kremer, Jutta Richter, Matthias Schneider, Uta Kiltz, Sebastian Kuhn, Lucie (…)2026-09-01
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The Evolution of Object Detection: A Systematic Review of Transformer-Based and Few-Shot Learning Approaches

This systematic literature review analyzes the paradigm shift in object detection from traditional convolutional architectures to Transformer-based and few-shot learning models, highlighting their benefits in simplifying detection pipelines and improving data efficiency while addressing persistent challenges like computational cost and small object detection through architectural innovations and advanced pre-training strategies.

MD.Shakiful Islam Khan, Gorkem Kar2026-09-01
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TOAIAF: A Runtime AI Assurance Control Plane for Trustworthy On-Device Agentic AI in Consumer Intelligence Ecosystems

This paper introduces TOAIAF, a runtime AI assurance control plane featuring a three-stage decision procedure and seven governance components that significantly outperforms baseline systems in detecting safety violations, prompt injections, and privacy risks for on-device agentic AI, while transparently reporting experimental limitations and mapping its framework to major international AI safety standards.

Rakesh Kumar Agrawal, Wasim Mohammed Amin Tambe, Nihar Karra2026-09-01
💻 computer science

Transparent Context-aware Retrieval for Mental Health and Substance Use Service Navigation

This study developed and evaluated a transparent, context-aware retrieval system for mental health and substance use services using the HealthLink BC directory, demonstrating that combining semantic search with explicit context weighting improves ranking performance over lexical baselines while highlighting the need for further validation with real-world data and human relevance judgments before clinical deployment.

Nikesh Adhikari, Shankar Ghimire2026-09-01
💻 computer science

ASWA: An Adaptive Similarity-Weighted Aggregation Algorithm for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning under Non-IID Data

This paper proposes ASWA, a communication-efficient Federated Learning algorithm that enhances accuracy and reduces communication rounds under Non-IID data by adaptively weighting client updates based on data size and update similarity while prioritizing clients with higher loss, all without requiring additional data transmission.

Felmeta Abate Jilo, Daniel Dufera Kenea2026-09-01