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New way to dodge student-concept sparsity boosts cognitive diagnosis accuracy by up to 6% in data-scarce scenarios
Higher Education PressResearchers from Hefei University of Technology and Tsinghua University have developed a new cognitive diagnosis approach that overcomes student-concept sparsity to boost accuracy by up to 6%, delivering more accurate, real-time personalized learning analytics and equitable feedback.
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- Frontiers of Computer Science
New privacy-preserving routing method cuts multi-domain path calculation time by 24%, keeps 90% bandwidth efficiency
Higher Education PressResearchers at Nanjing University and China Mobile unveil a novel privacy-preserving traffic-engineering algorithm that cuts multi-domain routing time by 24.35% while maintaining 90% link utilization through differential privacy and graph neural network–driven bandwidth prediction.
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- Frontiers of Computer Science
Survey of 50+ multilingual AI models reveals 3 core hurdles to fair global coverage
Higher Education PressA new multilingual AI survey by Beijing Foreign Studies University researchers uncovers uneven training data, cross-lingual alignment challenges, and embedded bias in 50+ large language models—offering a roadmap for balanced corpora, universal representation, and robust bias mitigation to boost low-resource language support.
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- Frontiers of Computer Science
New audio analysis model boosts sound event detection accuracy by 12.7% for smarter home and city monitoring
Higher Education PressA new semi-supervised audio analysis model leveraging bi-path feature extraction and attention mechanisms boosts sound event detection accuracy by 12.7% (PSDS1 0.489, PSDS2 0.771), enabling smarter smart-home, security, wildlife and industrial monitoring.
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- Frontiers of Computer Science
A novel AI-powered flood damage assessment
The University of OsakaPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers at The University of Osaka developed a deep learning model for rapid building damage assessment after floods using satellite imagery. This research establishes the first systematic benchmark for this task and introduces a novel semi-supervised learning method achieving 74% of fully supervised performance with just 10% of the labeled data. A new, lightweight deep learning model named Simple Prior Attention Disaster Assessment Net or SPADANet significantly reduces missed damaged buildings, improving recall by over 9% compared to existing models. This work provides crucial design principles for future AI disaster response, enabling faster and more efficient life-saving operations.
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- International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Study lays groundwork for preventing dangerous falls on dry spills
University of Arizona Health SciencesPeer-Reviewed Publication
A new testing method could improve safety standards through better assessment of an overlooked hazard.
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- Journal of Forensic Sciences