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7 papers

cs.SD2026

Decoding Ambiguous Emotions with Test-Time Scaling in Audio-Language Models

Hong Jia, Weibin Li, Jingyao Wu +6

Emotion recognition from human speech is a critical enabler for socially aware conversational AI. However, while most prior work frames emotion recognition as a categorical classif…

cs.AI2025

Menta: A Small Language Model for On-Device Mental Health Prediction

Tianyi Zhang, Xiangyuan Xue, Lingyan Ruan +6

Mental health conditions affect hundreds of millions globally, yet early detection remains limited. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in mental health applicati…

cs.LG2025

Explainable Graph Neural Networks: Understanding Brain Connectivity and Biomarkers in Dementia

Niharika Tewari, Nguyen Linh Dan Le, Mujie Liu +5

Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with multiple etiologies, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and vascular dementia. I…

cs.CV2025

LiteFat: Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning for Real-Time Driver Fatigue Detection

Jing Ren, Suyu Ma, Hong Jia +5

Detecting driver fatigue is critical for road safety, as drowsy driving remains a leading cause of traffic accidents. Many existing solutions rely on computationally demanding deep…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Scale: Small Language Models are Comparable to GPT-4 in Mental Health Understanding

Hong Jia, Shiya Fu, Feng Xia +2

The emergence of Small Language Models (SLMs) as privacy-preserving alternatives for sensitive applications raises a fundamental question about their inherent understanding capabil…

cs.LG2025

Foundation Models for Anomaly Detection: Vision and Challenges

Jing Ren, Tao Tang, Hong Jia +6

As data continues to grow in volume and complexity across domains such as finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, effective anomaly detection is essential for identifying irregular…