Deep Learning
Querying Climate Knowledge: Semantic Retrieval for Scientific Discovery
Adamu, Mustapha, Zhang, Qi, Pan, Huitong, Latecki, Longin Jan, Dragut, Eduard C.
The growing complexity and volume of climate science literature make it increasingly difficult for researchers to find relevant information across models, datasets, regions, and variables. This paper introduces a domain-specific Knowledge Graph (KG) built from climate publications and broader scientific texts, aimed at improving how climate knowledge is accessed and used. Unlike keyword based search, our KG supports structured, semantic queries that help researchers discover precise connections such as which models have been validated in specific regions or which datasets are commonly used with certain teleconnection patterns. We demonstrate how the KG answers such questions using Cypher queries, and outline its integration with large language models in RAG systems to improve transparency and reliability in climate-related question answering. This work moves beyond KG construction to show its real world value for climate researchers, model developers, and others who rely on accurate, contextual scientific information.
FetalSleepNet: A Transfer Learning Framework with Spectral Equalisation Domain Adaptation for Fetal Sleep Stage Classification
Tang, Weitao, Vargas-Calixto, Johann, Katebi, Nasim, Tran, Nhi, Kelly, Sharmony B., Clifford, Gari D., Galinsky, Robert, Marzbanrad, Faezeh
Abstract--Introduction: This study presents FetalSleepNet, the first published deep learning approach to classifying sleep states from the ovine electroencephalogram (EEG). Fetal EEG is complex to acquire and difficult and laborious to interpret consistently. However, accurate sleep stage classification may aid in the early detection of abnormal brain maturation associated with pregnancy complications (e.g. Methods: EEG electrodes were secured onto the ovine dura over the parietal cortices of 24 late-gestation fetal sheep. A lightweight deep neural network originally developed for adult EEG sleep staging was trained on the ovine EEG using transfer learning from adult EEG. A spectral equalisation-based domain adaptation strategy was used to reduce cross-domain mismatch. Results: We demonstrated that while direct transfer performed poorly, full fine-tuning combined with spectral equalisation achieved the best overall performance (accuracy: 86.6%, macro F1-score: 62.5), outperforming baseline models. Conclusions: T o the best of our knowledge, FetalSleepNet is the first deep learning framework specifically developed for automated sleep staging from the fetal EEG. Beyond the laboratory, the EEG-based sleep stage classifier functions as a label engine, enabling large-scale weak/semi-supervised labeling and distillation to facilitate training on less invasive signals that can be acquired in the clinic, such as Doppler Ultrasound or electrocardiogram data. FetalSleepNet's lightweight design makes it well suited for deployment in low-power, real-time, and wearable fetal monitoring systems. LEEP state patterns reflect fetal neurophysiological function and development [1], and are clinically relevant for detecting abnormal neurodevelopment, which may result from conditions such as chronic hypoxia, infection or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) [2]-[4]. J. V argas-Calixto, N. Katebi, and G. D. Clifford are with the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA. Nhi Tran, R. Galinsky and S. B. Kelly are with the Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia. G. D. Clifford is also with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
Uncertainty-Aware Tabular Prediction: Evaluating VBLL-Enhanced TabPFN in Safety-Critical Medical Data
Predictive models are being increasingly used across a wide range of domains, including safety-critical applications such as medical diagnosis and criminal justice. Reliable uncertainty estimation is a crucial task in such settings. Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network (TabPFN) is a recently proposed machine learning foundation model for tabular dataset, which uses a generative transformer architecture. Variational Bayesian Last Layers (VBLL) is a state-of-the-art lightweight variational formulation that effectively improves uncertainty estimation with minimal computational overhead. In this work we aim to evaluate the performance of VBLL integrated with the recently proposed TabPFN in uncertainty calibration. Our experiments, conducted on three benchmark medical tabular datasets, compare the performance of the original TabPFN and the VBLL-integrated version. Contrary to expectations, we observed that original TabPFN consistently outperforms VBLL integrated TabPFN in uncertainty calibration across all datasets.
Multi-Intent Recognition in Dialogue Understanding: A Comparison Between Smaller Open-Source LLMs
Ahmad, Adnan, Kowol, Philine, Hillmann, Stefan, Möller, Sebastian
In this paper, we provide an extensive analysis of multi-label intent classification using Large Language Models (LLMs) that are open-source, publicly available, and can be run in consumer hardware. We use the MultiWOZ 2.1 dataset, a benchmark in the dialogue system domain, to investigate the efficacy of three popular open-source pre-trained LLMs, namely LLama2-7B-hf, Mistral-7B-v0.1, and Yi-6B. We perform the classification task in a few-shot setup, giving 20 examples in the prompt with some instructions. Our approach focuses on the differences in performance of these models across several performance metrics by methodically assessing these models on multi-label intent classification tasks. Additionally, we compare the performance of the instruction-based fine-tuning approach with supervised learning using the smaller transformer model BertForSequenceClassification as a baseline. To evaluate the performance of the models, we use evaluation metrics like accuracy, precision, and recall as well as micro, macro, and weighted F1 score. We also report the inference time, VRAM requirements, etc. The Mistral-7B-v0.1 outperforms two other generative models on 11 intent classes out of 14 in terms of F-Score, with a weighted average of 0.50. It also has relatively lower Humming Loss and higher Jaccard Similarity, making it the winning model in the few-shot setting. We find BERT based supervised classifier having superior performance compared to the best performing few-shot generative LLM. The study provides a framework for small open-source LLMs in detecting complex multi-intent dialogues, enhancing the Natural Language Understanding aspect of task-oriented chatbots.
Unsupervised Hallucination Detection by Inspecting Reasoning Processes
Srey, Ponhvoan, Wu, Xiaobao, Luu, Anh Tuan
Unsupervised hallucination detection aims to identify hallucinated content generated by large language models (LLMs) without relying on labeled data. While unsupervised methods have gained popularity by eliminating labor-intensive human annotations, they frequently rely on proxy signals unrelated to factual correctness. This misalignment biases detection probes toward superficial or non-truth-related aspects, limiting generalizability across datasets and scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we propose IRIS, an unsupervised hallucination detection framework, leveraging internal representations intrinsic to factual correctness. IRIS prompts the LLM to carefully verify the truthfulness of a given statement, and obtain its contextualized embedding as informative features for training. Meanwhile, the uncertainty of each response is considered a soft pseudolabel for truthfulness. Experimental results demonstrate that IRIS consistently outperforms existing unsupervised methods. Our approach is fully unsupervised, computationally low cost, and works well even with few training data, making it suitable for real-time detection.
Large Language Models Meet Legal Artificial Intelligence: A Survey
Hou, Zhitian, Ye, Zihan, Zeng, Nanli, Hao, Tianyong, Zeng, Kun
Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the development of Legal Artificial Intelligence (Legal AI) in recent years, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of legal tasks. To advance research and applications of LLM-based approaches in legal domain, this paper provides a comprehensive review of 16 legal LLMs series and 47 LLM-based frameworks for legal tasks, and also gather 15 benchmarks and 29 datasets to evaluate different legal capabilities. Additionally, we analyse the challenges and discuss future directions for LLM-based approaches in the legal domain. We hope this paper provides a systematic introduction for beginners and encourages future research in this field. Resources are available at https://github.com/ZhitianHou/LLMs4LegalAI.
WALL: A Web Application for Automated Quality Assurance using Large Language Models
Abtahi, Seyed Moein, Azim, Akramul
As software projects become increasingly complex, the volume and variety of issues in code files have grown substantially. Addressing this challenge requires efficient issue detection, resolution, and evaluation tools. This paper presents WALL, a web application that integrates SonarQube and large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4o to automate these tasks. WALL comprises three modules: an issue extraction tool, code issues reviser, and code comparison tool. Together, they enable a seamless pipeline for detecting software issues, generating automated code revisions, and evaluating the accuracy of revisions. Our experiments, conducted on 563 files with over 7,599 issues, demonstrate WALL's effectiveness in reducing human effort while maintaining high-quality revisions. Results show that employing a hybrid approach of cost-effective and advanced LLMs can significantly lower costs and improve revision rates. Future work aims to enhance WALL's capabilities by integrating open-source LLMs and eliminating human intervention, paving the way for fully automated code quality management.
An Autoencoder and Vision Transformer-based Interpretability Analysis of the Differences in Automated Staging of Second and Third Molars
Buyukcakir, Barkin, De Tobel, Jannick, Thevissen, Patrick, Vandermeulen, Dirk, Claes, Peter
The practical adoption of deep learning in high-stakes forensic applications, such as dental age estimation, is often limited by the 'black box' nature of the models. This study introduces a framework designed to enhance both performance and transparency in this context. We use a notable performance disparity in the automated staging of mandibular second (tooth 37) and third (tooth 38) molars as a case study. The proposed framework, which combines a convolutional autoencoder (AE) with a Vision Transformer (ViT), improves classification accuracy for both teeth over a baseline ViT, increasing from 0.712 to 0.815 for tooth 37 and from 0.462 to 0.543 for tooth 38. Beyond improving performance, the framework provides multi-faceted diagnostic insights. Analysis of the AE's latent space metrics and image reconstructions indicates that the remaining performance gap is data-centric, suggesting high intra-class morphological variability in the tooth 38 dataset is a primary limiting factor. This work highlights the insufficiency of relying on a single mode of interpretability, such as attention maps, which can appear anatomically plausible yet fail to identify underlying data issues. By offering a methodology that both enhances accuracy and provides evidence for why a model may be uncertain, this framework serves as a more robust tool to support expert decision-making in forensic age estimation.
Accelerating 3D Photoacoustic Computed Tomography with End-to-End Physics-Aware Neural Operators
Wang, Jiayun, Aborahama, Yousuf, Khokhar, Arya, Zhang, Yang, Wang, Chuwei, Sastry, Karteekeya, Berner, Julius, Luo, Yilin, Bonev, Boris, Li, Zongyi, Azizzadenesheli, Kamyar, Wang, Lihong V., Anandkumar, Anima
Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) combines optical contrast with ultrasonic resolution, achieving deep-tissue imaging beyond the optical diffusion limit. While three-dimensional PACT systems enable high-resolution volumetric imaging for applications spanning transcranial to breast imaging, current implementations require dense transducer arrays and prolonged acquisition times, limiting clinical translation. We introduce Pano (PACT imaging neural operator), an end-to-end physics-aware model that directly learns the inverse acoustic mapping from sensor measurements to volumetric reconstructions. Unlike existing approaches (e.g. universal back-projection algorithm), Pano learns both physics and data priors while also being agnostic to the input data resolution. Pano employs spherical discrete-continuous convolutions to preserve hemispherical sensor geometry, incorporates Helmholtz equation constraints to ensure physical consistency and operates resolutionindependently across varying sensor configurations. We demonstrate the robustness and efficiency of Pano in reconstructing high-quality images from both simulated and real experimental data, achieving consistent performance even with significantly reduced transducer counts and limited-angle acquisition configurations. The framework maintains reconstruction fidelity across diverse sparse sampling patterns while enabling real-time volumetric imaging capabilities. This advancement establishes a practical pathway for making 3D PACT more accessible and feasible for both preclinical research and clinical applications, substantially reducing hardware requirements without compromising image reconstruction quality.
Automated Tuning for Diffusion Inverse Problem Solvers without Generative Prior Retraining
Alçalar, Yaşar Utku, Yun, Junno, Akçakaya, Mehmet
Diffusion/score-based models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems, including accelerated MRI reconstruction. While their flexibility allows decoupling the measurement model from the learned prior, their performance heavily depends on carefully tuned data fidelity weights, especially under fast sampling schedules with few denoising steps. Existing approaches often rely on heuristics or fixed weights, which fail to generalize across varying measurement conditions and irregular timestep schedules. In this work, we propose Zero-shot Adaptive Diffusion Sampling (ZADS), a test-time optimization method that adaptively tunes fidelity weights across arbitrary noise schedules without requiring retraining of the diffusion prior. ZADS treats the denoising process as a fixed unrolled sampler and optimizes fidelity weights in a self-supervised manner using only undersampled measurements. Experiments on the fastMRI knee dataset demonstrate that ZADS consistently outperforms both traditional compressed sensing and recent diffusion-based methods, showcasing its ability to deliver high-fidelity reconstructions across varying noise schedules and acquisition settings.