11,686 papers

cs.HC2026

Emoception: Selective Affective Layer Fine-Tuning of Video Vision Transformers for Player Arousal Change Recognition From Gameplay Footage

Yi Xia, Ibrahim Khan, Mury Fajar Dewantoro +2

This article proposes Selective Affective Layer Fine-Tuning (SALFT), an efficient adaptation framework for Video Vision Transformers in player arousal recognition from gameplay. To…

cs.LG2026

Efficient Reasoning Distillation: Small Video-Language Models via Synthetic CoT and Difficulty-Aware Fine-Tuning

Mantek Singh, Jeshwanth Challagundla, Siddharth Raina +1

We present an efficient method to distill reasoning capabilities into compact video-language models (VLMs) for video question answering (VideoQA). Our approach fine-tunes a 2B-para…

nucl-ex2026

Precision Neutron Skins of Pb and Ca from Parity-Violating Electron Scattering

PREX Collaboration, D. Adhikari, H. Albataineh +100

We have measured the parity-violating elastic electron scattering asymmetry in the PREX and CREX experiments on Pb and Ca respectively; these are both doubly-mag…

cs.SE2026

SpecMine: A Large-Scale Corpus of Spec-Driven Development Artifacts

Shyam Agarwal, Anmol Singhal, Travis Breaux +1

Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is a fast-emerging practice in which a structured natural-language specification, written by a developer, or (more often) drafted by an AI tool and th…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

SNAD: enabling discovery in the era of big data

Maria Pruzhinskaya, Emille E. O. Ishida, Konstantin Malanchev +8

In the era of wide-field surveys and big data in astronomy, the SNAD team is exploiting the potential of modern datasets for discovering new, unforeseen, or rare astrophysical obje…

cs.DB2026

Demystifying and Improving Lazy Promotion in Cache Eviction

Qinghan Chen, Muhammad Haekal Muhyidin Al-Araby, Ziyue Qiu +3

Cache eviction algorithms play a critical role in the performance of modern data systems, yet their scalability is often limited by the high computational overhead associated with…