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  1. A Lightweight Slot-Attention Framework for Multi-Instrument Multi-Pitch Estimation

    May 31, 2026Michael TaenzerMusic Structure AnalysisSymbolic Music Generation

    Electronic Media Technology Group Ilmenau University of Technology Ilmenau, Germany

  2. FreqLite: A Lightweight Frequency-Decomposed Linear Model with Adaptive Reversible Normalization for Robust Long-Term Time-Series Forecasting

    May 31, 2026Mirza Samad Ahmed Baig, Syeda Anshrah GillaniNon-StationarityBatch Normalization

    Fandaqah, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia · Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan

  3. A Lightweight Hybrid MLP-Based Framework for Real-Time Phishing URL Detection Using Structural URL Features

    May 30, 2026Uche Unoke Emmanuel, Gideon Francis OghiePhishingThreat Detection

    Department of Cyber Security Science, School of Information and Communication Technology, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria

  4. BitTP: The Lightweight Trajectory Prediction Model with BitLLM for Edge-Devices

    May 28, 2026Mincheol Kang, Hyunjin Lim, Bomin Kang +1Large Language Model QuantizationEgo-Trajectory Prediction

    1KAIST, Republic of Korea · 2DGIST, Republic of Korea

  5. Revisiting Observation Reduction for Web Agents: Comprehensive Evaluation with a Lightweight Framework

    May 28, 2026Masafumi Enomoto, Ryoma Obara, Haochen Zhang +1Web AgentsLLM Inference Optimization

    NEC Corporation

  6. DiagramRAG: A Lightweight Framework to Retrieve Scientific Diagram for Figure Generation

    May 27, 2026Xinjiang Yu, Junyi Han, Zhuofan Chen +7DiagramsSketches

    Beijing Institute of Technology

  7. ModeSwitch-LLM: A Lightweight Phase-Aware Controller for Cross-Mode LLM Inference on a Single GPU

    May 21, 2026Aman Sunesh, Ali Alshehhi, Hivansh DhakneLLM Inference OptimizationLarge Language Models(Llms

    Department of Computer Engineering NYU Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University New York, United States · Department of Computer Engineering New York University New York, United States

  8. SE3Kit: A Lightweight Python Library for Specialized Geometric Primitives in Robotics

    May 21, 2026Daniyal Maroufi, Omid Rezayof, Farshid AlambeigiLie GroupObject Geometry

    1 1D. Maroufi, O. Rezayof and F. Alambeigi are with the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Robotics at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.

  9. CommitDistill: A Lightweight Knowledge-Centric Memory Layer for Software Repositories

    May 18, 2026Divya Chukkapalli, Thejesh Avula, Aditya Aggarwal +2CommitsLightweight

    Microsoft Corporation

  10. Embedded ConvNet Ensembles: A Lightweight Approach to Recognize Arabic Handwritten Characters

    May 18, 2026Mohsine El Khayati, Rachid Elouahbi, Abdelillah SemmaHandwritten Text RecognitionEnsemble

    Systems theory and informatics laboratory Moulay Ismail University of Meknes Meknes, Morocco · Laboratory of Computer Science and Applications Moulay Ismail University of Meknes Meknes, Morocco · Computer Science Dept. EST of Sidi Bennour Chouaib Doukkali University Eljadida, Morocco

  11. Fast and Lightweight Backdoor Detection via Head Random Probing

    May 17, 2026Yinbo Yu, Xueyu Yin, Jing Fang +4Clean Label Backdoor AttackUnsupervised Detection

    College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210016, China · School of Cybersecurity, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China · Shenzhen Research Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518057, China +1

  12. Lightweight and Fast Backdoor Model Detection

    May 17, 2026Yinbo Yu, Jing Fang, Xuewen Zhang +4Clean Label Backdoor AttackFewer Surprising Backdoors

    College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210016, China · Shenzhen Research Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518057, China · School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710072, P.R. China +2

  13. Exploring Lightweight Large Language Models for Court View Generation

    May 16, 2026Zhitian Hou, Tianyong Hao, Nanli Zeng +2CourtLightweight

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University · School of Computer Science, South China Normal University · 3China Mobile Internet Co., Ltd.

  14. TFZ-Tree: An Ultra-Lightweight Waveform Classification Framework for Resource-Constrained Devices

    May 15, 2026Hao Wang, Kuang Zhang, Yonggang Chi +3WaveformsOrthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing

  15. MHSA: A Lightweight Framework for Mitigating Hallucinations via Steered Attention in LVLMs

    May 14, 2026Wei Ding, Yilin Li, Yudong Zhang +4Hallucination MitigationGenerative Hallucination

    Tsinghua University Beijing, China · Tsinghua University, Tencent Beijing, China · Tencent Beijing, China +2

  16. Evo-Depth: A Lightweight Depth-Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Model

    May 14, 2026Tao Lin, Yuxin Du, Jiting Liu +14Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsRobotic Manipulation

    School of AI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · SJTU-Quic Robot Joint Lab +1

  17. You Only Landmark Once: Lightweight U-Net Face Super Resolution with YOLO-World Landmark Heatmaps

    May 13, 2026Riccardo Carraro, Anna Briotto, Endi Hysa +2UpsamplingYolo26

    University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  18. LightAVSeg: Lightweight Audio-Visual Segmentation

    May 9, 2026Qing Zhong, Guodong Ding, Lingqiao Liu +3Video Object SegmentationCross-Modal Attention

    College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China · School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore · School of Computer Science, Adelaide University, Australia +2

  19. TFM-Retouche: A Lightweight Input-Space Adapter for Tabular Foundation Models

    May 7, 2026Duong Nguyen, Mohammed Jawhar, Nicolas ChesneauTabular Foundation ModelsLightweight

    Ekimetrics

  20. Lightweight Cross-Spectral Face Recognition via Contrastive Alignment and Distillation

    May 6, 2026Anjith George, Sebastien MarcelFace Recognition ModelHybrid Transformer

    Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland · Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  21. SAMIC: A Lightweight Semantic-Aware Mamba for Efficient Perceptual Image Compression

    May 6, 2026Jiaqian Zhang, Hao Wei, Chenyang Ge +1Learned Image CompressionMamba-Based Models

    State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China · School of Information and Communication Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

  22. Make Your LVLM KV Cache More Lightweight

    May 1, 2026Xihao Chen, Yangyang Guo, Roger ZimmermannDepthweave-KvRecent Vision-Language Models

    Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme, National University of Singapore · School of Computing, National University of Singapore

  23. BOLT: Online Lightweight Adaptation for Preparation-Free Heterogeneous Cooperative Perception

    May 1, 2026Kang Yang, Tianci Bu, Peng Wang +2Collaborative PerceptionLightweight

    Renmin University of China · National University of Defense Technology

  24. HalluCiteChecker: A Lightweight Toolkit for Hallucinated Citation Detection and Verification in the Era of AI Scientists

    Apr 29, 2026Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro WatanabeCitationsPeer Review

    Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan

  25. Lightweight and Production-Ready PDF Visual Element Parsing

    Apr 25, 2026Meizhu Liu, Yassi Abbasi, Matthew Rowe +2Document ParsingVisual Document Retrieval

    Oracle AI

  26. Selective Depthwise Separable Convolution for Lightweight Joint Source-Channel Coding in Wireless Image Transmission

    Apr 24, 2026Ming Ye, Kui Cai, Cunhua Pan +3Source-Channel CodingResnet-18

    Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372 · National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

  27. An End-to-End Ukrainian RAG for Local Deployment. Optimized Hybrid Search and Lightweight Generation

    Apr 23, 2026Mykola Trokhymovych, Yana Oliinyk, Nazarii NyzhnykAgentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsUkrainian

    Pompeu Fabra University · Independent Researcher

  28. Optimizing Data Augmentation for Real-Time Small UAV Detection: A Lightweight Context-Aware Approach

    Apr 21, 2026Amir Zamani, Zeinab AbediniDrone DetectionYolo26

    Comprehensive University of the Islamic Revolution · Department of Computer Engineering · Tehran, Iran +1

  29. ReCap: Lightweight Referential Grounding for Coherent Story Visualization

    Apr 20, 2026Aditya Arora, Akshita Gupta, Pau Rodriguez +1Video StorytellingLightweight

    Technical University of Darmstadt & hessian.AI, Germany

  30. Time-Division Multiplexing Actuation in Tendon-Driven Arms: Lightweight Design and Fault Tolerance

    Apr 18, 2026Shoujie Li, Changqing Guo, Jianle Xu +4Robotic ManipulatorFault Tolerance

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639956, Singapore · Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  31. SSFT: A Lightweight Spectral-Spatial Fusion Transformer for Generic Hyperspectral Classification

    Apr 17, 2026Alexander Musiat, Nikolas Ebert, Oliver WasenmüllerHyperspectral ImageTwo-Level Spatial-Frequency Fusion Strategy

    Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany

  32. EnComp: Lightweight Encoder-Only Context Compression for Retrieval-Augmented Question Answering

    Mar 10, 2026Thao Do, Dinh Phu Tran, An Vo +2Question-Answering BenchmarksData Compression Methods

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, South Korea

  33. High-Resolution Climate Projections Using Diffusion-Based Downscaling of a Lightweight Climate Emulator

    Feb 13, 2026Haiwen Guan, Dibyajyoti Chakraborty, Moein Darman +3Dynamical DownscalingWind

    1Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania · Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California · 3Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), Seattle, Washington +1

  34. EnvSSLAM-FFN: Lightweight Layer-Fused System for ESDD 2026 Challenge

    Dec 23, 2025Xiaoxuan Guo, Hengyan Huang, Jiayi Zhou +5Environmental Sound Deepfake DetectionDirect Feature Fusion

    State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China, Beijing, China · Machine Intelligence, Ant Group, Shanghai, China · Key Laboratory of Media Audio & Video, Ministry of Education, Communication University of China, Beijing, China

  35. YolovN-CBi: A Lightweight and Efficient Architecture for Real-Time Detection of Small UAVs

    Dec 19, 2025Ami Pandat, Punna Rajasekhar, Gopika Vinod +1Drone DetectionYolo26

    Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, 400094, Maharashtra, India. · Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, 400094, Maharashtra, India.

  36. ADAPT: Lightweight, Long-Range Machine Learning Force Fields Without Graphs

    Sep 28, 2025Evan Dramko, Yihuang Xiong, Yizhi Zhu +4First-Principles CalculationPhotonic Transformer Accelerators

    Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA · Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA · Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA +2

  37. Knowing When Not to Answer: Lightweight KB-Aligned OOD Detection for Safe RAG

    Aug 4, 2025Ilias Triantafyllopoulos, Renyi Qu, Salvatore Giorgi +3Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsOut-Of-Distribution Detection

    New York University · Microsoft · University of Pennsylvania +1

  38. Comparative Analysis of Lightweight CNNs for Resource-Constrained Devices: Predictive Performance, Efficiency Trade-offs, and Initialization Effects

    May 6, 2025Tasnim ShahriarMobilenetv2Efficientnet Encoder

    Independent Researcher

  39. A Lightweight Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Concrete Barrier Design

    Date pendingWanting Wang, Xiye Ma, Yuyang He +1EngineeringAutomated Heuristic Design

    College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

  40. FreeTransformSR: Efficient Lightweight Image Super-Resolution via Free Low-Rank Learnable Transform

    Date pendingHongji Li, Yunhui LiReal-World Image Super-ResolutionFourier

    Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics, Changchun, Jilin 130033, China · University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

  41. Uni-Light: An Ultra-Lightweight Framework via Uncertainty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Brain Tumour Segmentation

    Date pendingLibing Kuang, Soren Salehi, Ziling Wu +2Brain Tumor SegmentationMagnetic Resonance Imaging

    School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK · Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran · University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA