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Lean-SAM2: Target-Anchored Memory and Encoder Acceleration for SAM2

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has advanced temporal promptable segmentation, yet its deployment remains hindered by heavy memory cross-attention overhead and redundant full-frame visual feature extraction. While recent methods explore efficiency via heuristic memory pruning and window-based sparse routing, they typically suffer from catastrophic performance degradation in complex segmentatio...

Jul 22 2026 2607.19811v1

OPD-IAD: From Language Judgment to Industrial Anomaly Detection via On-Policy Self-Distillation

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have recently shown strong potential for industrial anomaly detection (IAD) by providing image-level anomaly judgments and interpretable defect reasoning. However, current LVLM-based IAD methods still struggle to produce precise pixel-level anomaly maps from generated language judgments. We aim to achieve precise pixel-level localization while using language as...

Jul 21 2026 2607.18850v1
TAP-RAG: Task-Aware Policy Control for Long-Document Multimodal Question Answering

Long-document multimodal question answering requires more than retrieving relevant chunks from a large document. Different queries require different e...

Jul 21 2026 2607.18917v1
Interpretable Machine Learning for Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Prediction: A Socioeconomic Subgroup Analysis

Air pollution and climate-related stressors are increasingly important concerns for respiratory health, especially in settings with unequal environmen...

Jul 19 2026 2607.17024v1
Spatial machine learning and longitudinal analysis of skilled antenatal care access and fertility-related inequities in Ghana (1988-2022)

This study focuses on the relationship between access to Advanced Neonatal Care (ANC) and fertility across the regions in Ghana between 1988 and 2022....

Who Became Financially Vulnerable After COVID-19? A Population-Level Machine Learning Analysis Using MEPS Data

The cost of healthcare remains a concern in the United States and may have been influenced by disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. This ...

Jul 16 2026 2607.15446v1
The Swiss Integrated Care (INCA) Study: Description of a Novel Prospective Cohort of Patients and Caregivers in Reimbursed Informal Care

Methods INCA is a prospective, single-center cohort study with nationwide recruitment. Participation is open to adult patients and informal caregivers...

Demystifying On-Policy Distillation: Roles, Pathologies, and Regulations

On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a key paradigm in LLM post-training, yet its training dynamics remain poorly understood. We present a systemat...

Jul 15 2026 2607.13399v1
Comparative analysis of discriminative and generative natural language processing pipelines for automated prostate magnetic resonance imaging reports

Objectives: Natural language processing (NLP) can enable scalable extraction of clinically relevant information from unstructured radiology reports re...

The Emerging Paradigm of Geospatial Foundation Models: From Pre-Training to Agentic Reasoning

The analysis of satellite and aerial imagery has entered a new era with the advent of foundation models. This paper describes the concept of Geospatia...

Jul 13 2026 2607.12177v1
FHIRTrustBench: A Benchmark for Interoperability-Driven Clinical AI Readiness and Trustworthiness

Existing evaluations of healthcare AI often treat interoperability as a technical infrastructure issue rather than a factor that directly influences t...

Bump2Baby & Me+ (B2B&Me+): Protocol for a multi-country, European implementation project to reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus and improve maternal and child health

Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects 1-in-7 pregnancies globally and is associated with significant short- and long-term health cons...

NVAITC AI Scientist: A Governed End-to-End Research System -- A Hypertension GWAS Case Study

Agentic research systems are emerging as a new paradigm for coordinating scientific workflows beyond isolated model inference, code generation, or sta...

Jul 13 2026 2607.11084v1
Training-Free Off-Screen Player Imputation for Broadcast-Based Spatial Football Analytics

Spatial football metrics such as pitch control assume access to the positions of all 22 players, yet the most widely available source of positional da...

Jul 13 2026 2607.11548v1
Code-Level Cost Function Generation for Spatial Image Steganography Using RAG-Enhanced Large Language Models

Designing cost functions of adaptive steganography traditionally requires extensive manual tuning, while deep learning methods lack interpretability. ...

Jul 7 2026 2607.05868v1
Environmental Drivers of Respiratory Disease: A District Level Analysis

Sri Lanka has experienced a decade of progressive forest degradation and rising atmospheric pollution, yet district-level respiratory admissions have ...

Jul 5 2026 2607.04416v1
The Turning Point of 3D Plant Phenotyping: 3D Foundation Models Enable Minute-to-Second Cross-Crop Reconstruction and Beyond

3D plant phenotyping is notoriously known to be procedure-complicated and of low throughput due to the extensive multi-view imaging, the fragile 3D re...

Jul 2 2026 2607.01753v1
ART for Diffusion Sampling: Continuous-Time Control and Actor-Critic Learning

We study timestep allocation for score-based diffusion sampling, where a learned reverse-time dynamics is discretized on a finite grid. Uniform and ha...

Jul 2 2026 2607.02137v1
Purified OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation Without Losing How to Think

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving LLM reasoning, where a privileged teacher with access to referenc...

Jul 2 2026 2607.02234v1
HealthAgentBench: A Unified Benchmark Suite of Realistic Agentic Healthcare Environments for Challenging Frontier AI Agents

As AI agents become increasingly capable of complex, long-horizon reasoning, rigorous and holistic evaluation is essential for measuring progress towa...

Jun 30 2026 2606.31179v1
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