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12 papers

cs.LG2026

LiBaGS: Lightweight Boundary Gap Synthesis for Targeted Synthetic Data Selection

Abhishek Moturu, Anna Goldenberg, Babak Taati

Synthetic data is useful only when the added samples fill missing parts of the training distribution that matter for the downstream task. We introduce LiBaGS, a lightweight, genera…

cs.NE2026

GEAR: Genetic AutoResearch for Agentic Code Evolution

Ahmadreza Jeddi, Minh Ngoc Le, Hakki C. Karaimer +2

Autonomous research agents can already run machine learning experiments without human supervision, but many rely on a narrow search strategy: they repeatedly modify one program and…

cs.CV2026

PuzzleCraft: Exploration-Aware Curriculum Learning for Puzzle-Based RLVR in VLMs

Ahmadreza Jeddi, Hakki Can Karaimer, Hue Nguyen +8

RL post-training with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a practical route to eliciting chain-of-thought reasoning in vision--language models (VLMs), but scaling it in the visual…

cs.CV2026

Pain in 3D: Generating Controllable Synthetic Faces for Automated Pain Assessment

Xin Lei Lin, Soroush Mehraban, Abhishek Moturu +1

Automated pain assessment from facial expressions is crucial for non-communicative patient. Progress has been limited by two challenges: (i) existing datasets exhibit severe demogr…

eess.IV2026

Leveraging Clinical Text and Class Conditioning for 3D Prostate MRI Generation

Emerson P. Grabke, Babak Taati, Masoom A. Haider

Objective: Latent diffusion models (LDM) could alleviate data scarcity challenges affecting machine learning development for medical imaging. However, medical LDM strategies typica…

cs.CV2025

GAITGen: Disentangled Motion-Pathology Impaired Gait Generative Model -- Bringing Motion Generation to the Clinical Domain

Vida Adeli, Soroush Mehraban, Majid Mirmehdi +6

Gait analysis is crucial for the diagnosis and monitoring of movement disorders like Parkinson's Disease. While computer vision models have shown potential for objectively evaluati…