Current Vision-Language Models (VLMs) frequently fail to recognize culture-specific concepts, especially from underrepresented regions. Effectively injecting this long-tail knowledge into existing…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise event-driven, low-power inference, but on vision tasks they still acquire rotation invariance only through data augmentation. Group-equivariant CNNs build such…
Differentiable decision trees (DDTs) support end-to-end optimisation and explicit decision paths, but dense oblique splits can obscure the role of individual input features. We propose the…
Statistical downscaling is the task of reconstructing high-resolution meteorological fields from coarse inputs. A principled approach formulates downscaling as a Bayesian inverse problem, using a…
As large language models (LLMs) become more widespread in Africa, their safety in low-resource languages remains largely untested since most red-teaming work focuses on English. This study evaluates…
Understanding how humans interact with the world requires a representation of physical interactions at the hand surface. Tactile sensing captures these interactions, but collecting tactile data at…
Medical severity estimation commonly relies on absolute grade annotations, which are fundamentally ordinal, yet existing methods often treat the grades as independent categories. Learning-to-rank…
Human demonstrations provide a natural and scalable source of data for learning dexterous manipulation policies. However, existing retargeting methods primarily transfer human kinematics, while the…
For a time-homogeneous Markov process, the fixed-lag solution operator \( (T_τf)(x)=\mathbb E[f(X_{t+τ})\mid X_t=x] \) of the Kolmogorov backward equation evolves observables linearly and…
Using machine learning, we identify a second transition in polymer chain stretching driven by planar elongational flow, beyond the well-known coil-stretch transition. We achieve this by developing a…
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly embedded in university learning, yet effective human-GenAI interaction depends not only on access to these tools but also on students'…
Long-run RTL simulation of CPU candidates can take hours, while short diagnostic runs may miss performance degradation that emerges later in execution. This evaluation cost can delay design decisions…
A score-based diffusion model is trained on the two-dimensional classical Heisenberg model, the lattice representation of the $O(3)$ nonlinear sigma model. Neural networks are trained on three…
Crowd simulation aims to generate agent behaviours that are rich, natural, and appropriate to their surrounding environment. Recent advances in Machine Learning have enabled such behavioural patterns…
Multi-turn conversations with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) reuse input context, but long multimodal inputs increase time to first token (TTFT). Query-aware hard pruning reduces prefill…
Network-wide flooding in mobile multihop networks selects relays from locally maintained topology information. Mobility makes this information outdated, leaving two basic responses: add redundant…
Robotic grippers operating in unstructured environments must robustly grasp objects of different shapes and sizes despite perception and positioning errors. Soft grippers that can achieve this…
Inspired by the analogy between the all-or-none activation of biological neurons and the true-false of logic circuits, McCulloch and Pitts proposed a mathematical model of the biological neuron in…
Tabular foundation models use in-context learning to estimate conditional expected outcomes and average treatment effects for specific groups of individuals. Using these estimates to guide scientific…
Recent advances in test-time optimization have shown that the multimodal reasoning performance of large multimodal language models (MLLMs) can be improved during inference without modifying backbone…
The rapid expansion of digital banking and mobile financial services creates growing challenges for fraud detection, particularly under severe class imbalance and operational constraints. This study…
In segmentation-based continuous sign language recognition, an untrimmed video is first partitioned into lexical units; segmentation is therefore a means to an end---downstream recognition. However,…
Feature detection and matching are fundamental components in computer vision, underpinning a broad spectrum of applications. This study offers a comprehensive evaluation of traditional feature…
This paper studies robust uncertainty quantification for separable nonlinear least squares (SNLLS) problems. We propose two identification methods, (i) Residual-Perturbed Gradient (RPG) and (ii)…