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  1. LESS: Lightweight Evolutionary Supernet Search in Minutes

    Oct 1, 2026Aviral Gandhi, Jinglue Xu, Jialong Li +1Neural Architecture SearchSearch Algorithms

    The University of Tokyo · Sakana AI · Waseda University

  2. Lightweight Probabilistic Downscaling from a Deterministic Base Model

    Sep 24, 2026Joseph McLean, Tiffany Vlaar, Sigrid Passano Hellan +1Dynamical DownscalingProbabilistic Forecasting

    University of Glasgow · Climate System and Climate Services, NORCE Research AS and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway

  3. MambaVoice: Lightweight Audiovisual Singing Voice Separation Via A Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model

    Sep 22, 2026Adithi Shankar, Gopika Krishnan, Gloria Haro +2Speech SeparationHybrid Mamba-Transformer Model

    Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain · Intelligent Multimodal Vision Analysis Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain · Serra Húnter Fellow Programme, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  4. Layout-Guided Masking for GROBID: Lightweight Structural Gains in Large-Scale Scientific PDF Ingestion

    Sep 22, 2026Luca Foppiano, Sana Khamassi, Vipul GuptaDocument ParsingUnnormalized Probability Densities

    ScienciaLAB, Portugal · Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany

  5. AgenticSizing: A Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Framework for Analog Circuit Sizing

    Sep 22, 2026Yijia Hao, Pratibha Verma, Dongxu Guo +4Analog DesignModel-Based Multi-Agent Systems

    Centre for Electronics Frontiers, Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, UK · Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India · School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK +1

  6. Lightweight Pedestrian Head-Orientation Recognition Network for Safe Pedestrian-Vehicle Interaction

    Sep 21, 2026Yuanzhe Li, Yidi Huang, Xiaotong Chang +1Pedestrian DetectionPedestrian

    Chair of Automotive Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, 13355, Germany.

  7. LiteTex-GS: Fast and Lightweight Texturing for Gaussian Splatting

    Sep 20, 2026Zhiwei Li, Yijia Guo, Yishi Lu +4Gaussian SplattingNovel View Synthesis

    School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nanchang University · State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University · Henan University +4

  8. KoUniTalk: A Lightweight Articulation-Centered Korean-English 3D Talking Face Benchmark

    Sep 17, 2026Hyunjung Chung, Unsang ParkFacial Expression RecognitionHumanml3D

    Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  9. RankGround: Efficient High-Resolution GUI Grounding via Lightweight Reranker-Guided Crop Selection

    Sep 16, 2026Liyang Fan, Xinping Bi, Yitai Li +3Graphical User InterfaceRanking

    College of Computer Science and Software Engineering Shenzhen University Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Key Laboratory for High Performance Data Mining Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology Shenzhen, China

  10. TIO-Former: Ultra-Lightweight 6-Directional ToF-Inertial Odometry for Nano-UAVs via a Streaming Causal Transformer

    Sep 15, 2026Yang Liu, Yifan He, Wenhao Zhao +9Inertial Navigation SystemsEgocentric Motion Generation

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Differential Robotics, Hangzhou, China

  11. LG-PF: Lightweight Confidence-Guided Polarization Image Fusion

    Sep 14, 2026Zhuangfan Huang, Zhenyu Kuang, Gao Wang +3Lightweight

    Guangdong-HongKong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology, School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528225, China · School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528225, China. · State Key Laboratory of Dynamic Measurement Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China

  12. Lightweight LiDAR-Based Cone Detection Framework Using Random Forest for Formula Student Driverless

    Sep 12, 2026Márk Mező-Kerekes, Péter Praksz, Chang LiuLidarAutonomous Driving Perception

    Department of Networked Systems and Services, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary · Machine Perception Research Laboratory, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI), Kende u. 13–17, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary

  13. RepoNav: From Snippet Retrieval to File-Centered Repository Navigation for Code Agents

    Sep 8, 2026Hongzheng Chai, Jiakun Li, Hongyue Yu +1Repository-Level Code UnderstandingLocalization

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University · School of Computer Science · 2National College for Excellent Engineers, Beihang University +2

  14. Design and Validation of a Lightweight, Low-Profile Powered Knee Prosthesis with Quasi-Direct Drive Actuation

    Sep 2, 2026Ross J. Cortino, Ryan Posh, Emily G. Keller +1FeetSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

  15. Swin Meets EfficientNet: Lightweight Architectures for GAN-Based Face Forensics

    Sep 1, 2026Sejuti Basu, Ashima Sood, Vijay Kumar +1Facial ImagesGenerative Adversarial Network

    International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India · School of Computing, Engineering, and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, Londonderry, United Kingdom · Department of Information Technology, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India

  16. Lightweight Interpretable RGB-Guided Hyperspectral Super-Resolution under Real Cross-resolution Misalignment

    Sep 1, 2026Mohamad Jouni, Aurélien Godet, Mauro Dalla MuraHyperspectral Image Super-ResolutionHyperspectral Image

    Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS Grenoble INP, GIPSA-Lab 38000 Grenoble, France · Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) Paris, France

  17. Centering before Pruning: Lightweight Geometry Correction for Diversity-Based Visual Token Pruning in LVLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Shunjie Wen, Jaeyeon Lee, Dong-Wan ChoiVisual Token PruningCosine Similarity

    Inha University

  18. A Lightweight Phenology-Aware YOLOv5 Framework for Tomato Growth Stage Detection in Resource-Constrained Bhutanese Greenhouse Environments

    Aug 30, 2026Sherab Gocha, Sou NobukawaTomato DiseasesYolo26

    Graduate School of Information and Computer Science · Chiba Institute of Technology · Chiba, Japan +1

  19. The Parser Already Knows: Lightweight Bias Correction in Constrained Decoding

    Aug 10, 2026Işıl Özgü, Yaoxuan Wu, Guy Van den Broeck +1Constrained DecodingCorrection

    University of California, Los Angeles

  20. LITEWAY: LIghtweight HAR via Temporal Efficient highWAY

    Aug 10, 2026Dominique Nshimyimana, Vitor Fortes Rey, Mengxi Liu +2Human Activity RecognitionTemporal Convolutional Networks

    RPTU, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany

  21. Toward Deployable Bangla Sign Language Recognition with Expert-Validated Data and a Lightweight Attention-Based Model

    Aug 6, 2026Saad Ahmed, Md Khalid SyfullahSign Language TranslationMobilenetv2

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh Army University of Science and Technology, Saidpur Cantonment, Saidpur, Bangladesh

  22. MALT: Lightweight Curvature-Aware Muon via Diagonal Preconditioning

    Aug 5, 2026Tongle Wu, Huanyu Dong, Ying Sun +1Spectral PreconditioningMuon

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA · Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  23. XiDepth: a Lightweight and Efficient Network for Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

    Aug 4, 2026Elena Izzo, Riccardo Toniolo, Lamberto BallanMonocular Depth EstimationMobilenetv2

    Department of Mathematics University of Padova Padova, Italy

  24. Lightweight Chunk Selection for Mobile Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Aug 4, 2026Sicong Chang, Yidan Shen, Wen Yu +3ChunkDevice

  25. Select-And-Extract: A Lightweight Plugin for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Aug 1, 2026Chenming Tang, Jiawei HanAgentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsSearch-Augmented Reasoning

    Peking University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  26. SEDR-Seq2P: A Lightweight Dilated Residual Sequence-to-Point Network for Multi-Task Industrial NILM

    Jul 30, 2026Hatem Haddad, Feres Jerbi, Issam SmaaliResidual NetworksMulti--Task Learning

    Wattnow Tunis, Tunisia

  27. Robostreet Flow: A Lightweight, Ultra-Low-Drag Electric Tractor and Four-Truck Hybrid Convoy Architecture for Minimum-Cost Point-to-Point Freight

    Jul 28, 2026Wei Wang, Yiru Veronika Wang, Sumukh Veeramalla +2Hybrid PowertrainLightweight

    Robostreet Inc.

  28. When Less Is More: A Controlled Benchmark of Lightweight CNNs for Satellite Land-Cover Segmentation on DeepGlobe

    Jul 25, 2026Atiq Ur Rehman, Joseph Michael DonovanRemote Sensing Image SegmentationLand Cover

    Department of Economics & Decision Sciences, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA · University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA

  29. Information-Theoretically Secure Aggregation for Lightweight Federated Learning: Resilient to Dropouts and Adversaries

    Jul 23, 2026Hyeong-Gun Joo, Songnam Hong, Dong-Joon ShinSecure AggregationFederated Learning

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

  30. Efficient and Interpretable Body-Based Emotion Recognition with Lightweight Temporal Convolutional Networks

    Jul 23, 2026Christian Arzate Cruz, Stefanos Gkikas, Houshyar AsadiTemporal Convolutional NetworksEmotion Recognition

    Honda Research Institute Japan Wako City, Japan · Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovations (IISRI) Deakin University Geelong, Australia

  31. Profiling Lightweight Large Language Models

    Jul 23, 2026Tomohiro Harada, Enrique Alba, Gabriel LuqueLLM Inference OptimizationProfiling

    Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan

  32. Fluid-SDF: Ultra-Lightweight and Editable Implicit Shape Representation via Differentiable Primitives

    Jul 21, 2026Pradyumna Sripada, Chinmay Nadgir, Ksheer Agrawal +1Statistical Shape ModelObject Geometry

  33. Lightweight Wrappers for Adapting Time Series Foundation Models to Regional Drought Forecasting

    Jul 20, 2026Wentao Gao, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu +4Time Series Foundation ModelsZero-Shot Forecasting

    Adelaide University · Adelaide, Australia · CSIRO Technology +1

  34. Schema-Constrained Document-Level Event Argument Extraction with Lightweight LLM Fine-Tuning

    Jul 18, 2026Roberto Pietrantuono, Antonio Guerriero, Pouya SattariCoreference ResolutionLarge Language Model Fine-Tuning

    University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy · University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

  35. Explainable Lightweight Compact Deep Models for Speech Emotion Recognition

    Jul 18, 2026Nelly ElsayedEmotion RecognitionDeep Learning

    School of Information Technology University of Cincinnati Ohio, United States

  36. MobileSAM2: Lightweight Segment Anything for Spatial Intelligence

    Jul 14, 2026Kai Jiang, Jiaxing Huang, Jingyi Zhang +5Knowledge DistillationMobilenetv2

    Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Xidian University, China +1

  37. LSTrans: Efficient Knowledge Transfer for Lightweight and Automated ECG Classification

    Jul 12, 2026Yi Zhao, Jiajun Gao, Chenyang Xu +2Electrocardiogram ClassificationWearable Devices

    School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering · Xidian University · Xi’an, China +5

  38. FabriVLA: A Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model for Precise Multi-Task Manipulation

    Jul 9, 2026Shiyuan Yang, Borong Zhang, Jizheng Zhang +5Real-World Manipulation TasksLightweight

    University of Macau · 2Mese Technology Limited Co., Ltd. · 3FabriX team at Youibot Robotics Co., Ltd.

  39. A Gold-Standard Study of What Makes a Lightweight Game-Playing Agent Strong

    Jul 7, 2026Nima Kelidari, Mohammadsaeed Haghi, Mahdi SalmaniImperfect-Information GamesSelf-Play

    University of Southern California

  40. TubeLite: Lightweight Multi-Actor Spatio-Temporal Action Detection

    Jul 6, 2026Ali Soltaninezhad, Melissa Cote, Alejandro Rico Espinosa +2Temporal Action LocalizationOptical Flow

    Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

  41. Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions

    Jul 2, 2026Wentao Zhang, Liliana Hotsko, Woojeong Kim +3FuzzyModel Weights

    University of Waterloo · 2Cornell University · 3Harvard University

  42. TAG: A Lightweight Framework for Test-Driven Agentic Artifact Generation

    Jul 1, 2026Yaniv Melamed, Yoni Zukerman, Michal Shechter +3Test GenerationAgentic Framework

    1Microsoft

  43. Towards transferable lightweight neuromorphic computing through a model-free temporal-switch framework

    Jul 1, 2026Zefeng Zhang, Chao Li, Siyao Chen +5Neuromorphic ComputingReservoir Computing

    State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China. · Research Institute of Intelligent Complex Systems, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China. · Frontier Institute of Chip and System, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China. +3

  44. Cross-Domain Generalization Failure in Lightweight Intrusion Detection Models for IIoT Networks

    Jul 1, 2026MD Azizul Hakim, Md Shihab Uddin, Talha Ibne AnisInternet Of ThingIntrusion Detection

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Bangladesh Sweden Polytechnic Institute Kaptai, Rangamati, Chittagong 4530, Bangladesh · Department of Electrical Engineering, Bangladesh Sweden Polytechnic Institute Kaptai, Rangamati, Chittagong 4530, Bangladesh

  45. Cross-Space Distillation: Teaching One-Step Students with Modern Diffusion Teachers

    Jun 30, 2026Anh Nguyen, Ngan Nguyen, Duc Vu +11Dataset DistillationTeacher

    Qualcomm AI Research† · University of Wisconsin–Madison · Johns Hopkins University +1

  46. LETT-NeXt: A Lightweight RECIST-Guided Model for 3D CT Lesion Segmentation

    Jun 29, 2026Sebastian Aas, Elias Stenhede, Arian RanjbarTumor SegmentationLesion

    Medical Technology & E-health, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway · Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  47. Action ControlNet: A Lightweight Delay-Aware Adapter for Smooth Asynchronous Control in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 24, 2026Tiecheng Guo, Meng GuoAction GenerationRobotic Manipulation

    The authors are with the School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

  48. PeLAP-A: Adaptive Latent Pruning for Lightweight Latent Diffusion Models

    Jun 22, 2026Kissa Zahra, Zaib Un NisaLatent Diffusion ModelAutoencoder Architectures

    Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

  49. Beyond Damage Assessment: Recyclable Material Detection in Aerial Disaster Imagery Using a Lightweight Patch-Based Framework

    Jun 19, 2026Mahmoud Hazem, Karim HammoudiPost-Disaster Damage AssessmentAerial Imagery

    Independent Researcher · Cairo, Egypt · Université de Haute-Alsace, IRIMAS +1

  50. Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance

    Jun 17, 2026Kangsheng Duan, Ziyang Xu, Wenyu Liu +3InpaintingFast Inference

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · *Equal contribution. Completed this work as interns at VIVO AI Lab. · † Project leader. +1

  51. High-Degree-of-Freedom Lightweight Bioinspired Leg for Enhanced Mobility in Small Robots

    Jun 17, 2026Haoqi Han, Yifei Yu, Jiaming Zhang +3Kinematic ChainLegged Robots

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China · Department of Automation Engineering,Shanghai University of Electric Power,Shanghai,China · Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China +2

  52. Signature filtering: a lightweight enhancement for statistical watermark detection in large language models

    Jun 16, 2026Chih-Duo Hong, Yen-Pang Chen, Fang YuLarge Language Model WatermarksWatermarks

    National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

  53. A Lightweight Fiducial-Based Pipeline for 3D Hyperspectral Mapping of ex-vivo Lumpectomy Specimens

    Jun 12, 2026Anna Bicchi, Alberto Rota, Leonardo Passoni +5Hyperspectral ImageDigital Pathology

    Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy · Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  54. When to Trust, How to Distill: Multi-Foundation Model Guidance for Lightweight, Robust Scientific Time Series Forecasting

    Jun 10, 2026Rupasree Dey, Abdul Matin, Nathan Orwick +3Time Series Foundation ModelsTime Series Forecasting

    Department of Computer Science Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado, USA · Department of Soil and Crop Sciences Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

  55. A Lightweight Dual-Factor Acoustic Authentication System via Cascaded GMM-DTW Architecture for Edge Computing

    Jun 9, 2026Yutong ZhangAuthenticationEdge Devices

    The School of Computer Science Northeast Electric Power University Jilin 132012, China

  56. Auto-Configuring Scientific Simulators with Lightweight Coding-Agent Adapters

    Jun 8, 2026Matthew Ho, Brian Liu, Jixuan Chen +2Coding AgentsLightweight

    University of California, San Diego

  57. NLLog: Lightweight, Explainable SOC Anomaly Detection via Log-to-Language Rewriting

    Jun 3, 2026Samuel Ndichu, Tao Ban, Seiichi Ozawa +2Interpretable Anomaly DetectionThreat Detection

    National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan · Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

  58. Enhancing MedSAM with a Lightweight Box Predictor for Medical Image Segmentation

    Jun 3, 2026Amirhossein Movahedisefat, Amirreza Fateh, Mohammad Reza MohammadiSemi-Supervised Medical Image SegmentationMedical Images

    School of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran

  59. Scaling Novel Graph Generation via Lightweight Structure-Guided Autoregressive Models

    Jun 2, 2026Alessio Barboni, Massimiliano Lupo Pasini, Bishal Lakha +1Graph Representation LearningGraph Representations

    Boise State University Boise, Idaho, USA · Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

  60. MixerSENet: A Lightweight Framework for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification

    Jun 1, 2026Mohammed Q. Alkhatib, Swalpa Kumar Roy, Ali JamaliHyperspectral ImageImage Classification

    College of Engineering and IT, University of Dubai, Dubai, 14143, UAE · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Alipurduar Government Engineering and Management College, West Bengal 736206, India · Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia 8888, Canada