3 papers
cs.CL2026
A cross-domain tropical species dataset with Chinese vernacular names and CITES source links
Jeff Wang
We describe a versioned cross-domain dataset of 410,499 active tropical species (working snapshot 2026-04-20) spanning three applied subdomains -- tropical_plants, tropical_aquatic…
cs.CL2026
A Registry-Bound LLM Pipeline for Evidence-Grounded Trait Extraction across Tropical Plants, Aquatic Species, and Exotic Pets
Jeff Wang
We describe a registry-bound large-language-model extraction pipeline producing evidence-grounded structured trait records at scale, on cultivated tropical plant, aquatic, and pet…
cs.CV2026
Activation-Free Backbones for Image Recognition: Polynomial Alternatives within MetaFormer-Style Vision Models
Jeffrey Wang, Jonathan Gregory, Grigorios G. Chrysos
Modern vision backbones treat pointwise activations (e.g., ReLU, GELU) and exponential softmax as essential sources of nonlinearity, but we demonstrate they are not required within…