Academic Articles & Research Papers

Privacy Risks of Cybersquatting Attacks

Cybersquatting is a collection of methods commonly used by malicious actors to mislead or trick internet users into accessing fraudulent or malicious content. Much of the current research has concentrated on the specific techniques used by ...

Integrating Adversarial Scenarios into LLM Security Labs: An Experience Report on a Hands-On Approach

This paper presents an exploratory case study detailed as a pedagogical experience report on integrating adversarial Large Language Model (LLM) scenarios into a graduate cybersecurity curriculum. In addition to prompt injection, sophisticat...

AlcoLab: a method for methanol screening using density and syringe-flow measurements, implemented as an open-source application.

Revenue-sensitive evaluation of AI-assisted ICD-10-CM coding and human-AI collaboration under dual DRG payment systems

Abstract Automated ICD-10-CM coding is critical for hospital reimbursement under Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) payment systems, yet standard metrics weight all errors equally. This study evaluated 11 models on MIMIC-IV under heterogeneous c...

Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages

We introduce Sta n z a , an open-source Python natural language processing toolkit supporting 66 human languages.Compared to existing widely used toolkits, Sta n z a features a language-agnostic fully neural pipeline for text analysis, incl...

Large Language Models in Healthcare and Medical Domain: A Review

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) within the healthcare sector has sparked both enthusiasm and apprehension. These models exhibit the remarkable ability to provide proficient responses to free-text queries, demonstrating a nuan...

Enhancing educational semantic retrieval through dual objective fine tuning of open source embedding models

Abstract Recent advances in AI have catalyzed the adoption of intelligent educational tools, yet many semantic retrieval systems remain ill-suited to the unique linguistic and structural characteristics of academic content. This study prese...

The fluency-based semantic network of LLMs differs from humans

Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit complexity and granularity similar to humans in the field of natural language processing, challenging the boundaries between humans and machines in language understanding and creativity. However, ...

Graph Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing: A Survey

Deep learning has become the dominant approach in addressing various tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Although text inputs are typically represented as a sequence of tokens, there is a rich variety of NLP problems that can be bes...

HuggingFace's Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing

Recent progress in natural language processing has been driven by advances in both model architecture and model pretraining. Transformer architectures have facilitated building higher-capacity models and pretraining has made it possible to ...

An empirical study of LLaMA3 quantization: from LLMs to MLLMs

Abstract The LLaMA family, a collection of foundation language models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters, has become one of the most powerful open-source large language models (LLMs) and the popular LLM backbone of multi-modal large language...

Design and Implementation of a Ball-Plate Control System and Python Script for Educational Purposes in STEM Technologies

This paper presents the process of designing, fabricating, assembling, programming and optimizing a prototype nonlinear mechatronic Ball-Plate System (BPS) as a laboratory platform for engineering education STEM. Due to the nonlinearity and...

import_pentacam: Open-Source OCR Recovery of Corneal Tomography Measurements From Pentacam DICOM, PDF, and Image Archives.

The NWRD Dataset: An Open-Source Annotated Segmentation Dataset of Diseased Wheat Crop

Wheat stripe rust disease (WRD) is extremely detrimental to wheat crop health, and it severely affects the crop yield, increasing the risk of food insecurity. Manual inspection by trained personnel is carried out to inspect the disease spre...

OpenCV for Computer Vision Applications

OpenCV is a powerful, open-source toolkit designed for handling real-time computer vision challenges and advanced image processing tasks. It enables automated systems to interpret images and videos effectively. This paper explores the capab...

Penerapan Haar Cascade Classifier dalam Mendeteksi Wajah dan Transformasi Citra Grayscale Menggunakan OpenCV

Aplikasi pendeteksi wajah pada citra digital sangat diperlukan dalam proses pengenalan wajah seseorang. Aplikasi ini banyak dimanfaatkan pada berbagai disiplin ilmu, salah satunya ilmu komputer visi(computer vision) seperti sistem pengenala...

SnowMapPy: An automated GEE Python tool for snow cover mapping and monitoring in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains

SnowMapPy is an open-source Python-based package developed to streamline the collection, processing, and analysis of MODIS snow cover data from Terra and Aqua satellites. By automating essential steps, including data clipping, reprojection,...

Enabling scalable inspection of offshore mooring systems using cost-effective autonomous underwater drones

As aquaculture expands to meet global food demand, it remains dependent on manual, costly, infrequent, and high-risk operations due to reliance on high-end Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Scalable and autonomous systems are needed to ena...

MAT-Fly: An Educational Platform for Simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Aimed to Detect and Track Moving Objects

The main motivation of this work is to propose a simulation approach for a specific task within the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) field, i.e., the visual detection and tracking of arbitrary moving objects. In particular, it is described MAT...

Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure Using Computer Vision

High spatial resolution measurements of vegetation structure in three-dimensions (3D) are essential for accurate estimation of vegetation biomass, carbon accounting, forestry, fire hazard evaluation and other land management and scientific ...