Artificial Intelligence & Foundation Models
LASER: A Corrective Lens for LVLMs via Visual Attention Preservation and Sink Suppression, arXiv 2026
Yuan, B., Wang, Z., Luo, Y., Wang, S. and Huang, Z.
PEFTDiff: Diffusion-Guided Transferability Estimation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning, IEE - CVPR 2026
Khoba, P.K., Wang, Z., Arora, C., & Baktashmotlagh, M
Provable Ordering and Continuity in Vision-Language Pretraining for Generalizable Embodied Agents, NeurIPS 2025
Zhang, Z., Zhu, L., Fang, Z., Huang, Z. and Luo, Y.
SCORE: Soft Label Compression-Centric Dataset Condensation via Coding Rate Optimization,WACV 2026
Yuan, B., Fu, Y., Wang, Z., Luo, Y. and Huang, Z.
Smart Manufacturing & Digital Twins
FacProcessTwin: An LLM-Based System for Process Twin Development, arXiv 2026
Pulse, Y., Kang, Y.B., Banerjee, A. and Jayaraman, P.P.
FactoryLLM: A Safe and Open-Source AI Playground for Evaluating LLMs in Smart Factories, INDIN 2026
Pulse, Y., Kang, Y.B., Banerjee, A., Forkan, A. and Jayaraman, P.P.
Human Activity Recognition & Edge AI
Large Language Models Meet Wearable Sensing: A Demo of Training-Free HAR with RAG-HAR, IEEE PerCom Workshops 2026
Karunarathna, H., Sivaroopan, N., Madarasingha, C., Jayasumana, A. and Thilakarathna, K.
RAG-HAR: Retrieval Augmented Generation-Based Human Activity Recognition, IEEE PerCom 2026
Sivaroopan, N., Karunarathna, H., Madarasingha, C., Jayasumana, A. and Thilakarathna, K.
STELLA: Efficient Sensor-to-LLM Translation for On-Device Human Activity Recognition, arXiv, 2026
Sivaroopan, N., Zomaya, A.Y. and Thilakarathna, K.
Vision, Language & Retrieval Systems
Language-Driven Fine-Grained Retrieval, IEEE - CVPR 2026
Wang, S., Yu, X., Luo, Y., Wang, Z., Zhang, P. and Huang, Z.
Cybersecurity & Trustworthy AI
SHIELD: An Auto-Healing Agentic Defense Framework for LLM Resource Exhaustion Attacks, arXiv 2026
Sivaroopan, N., Thilakarathna, K., Zomaya, A., Manu, Guo, Y., Plested, J., Lynar, T., Yang, J. and Yang, W.
Scheduling, Optimisation & Operations Research
ATLAS: Alibaba Dataset and Benchmark for Learning-Augmented Scheduling,ICLR 2026
Jiang, Z., Zhao, T., Xia, C. and Zomaya, A.Y.
On Smoothness Bounds For Non-Clairvoyant Scheduling With Prediction, ICLR 2026
Zhao, T. and Zomaya, A.Y.
Computer Vision & 3D Perception
CodeMerge: Codebook-Guided Model Merging for Robust Test-Time Adaptation in Autonomous Driving, NeurIPS 2025
Zhao, T. and Zomaya, A.Y.
MergeVLA: Cross-Skill Model Merging Toward a Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agent, IEEE - CVPR 2026
Fu, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Y., Wang, Z., Huang, Z. and Luo, Y.
TALO: Pushing 3D Vision Foundation Models Towards Globally Consistent Online Reconstruction, IEEE - CVPR 2026
Zhang, F., Zhang, T., Khosoussi, K., Zhang, Z., Huang, Z. and Luo, Y.
Test-Time 3D Occupancy Prediction, IEEE - CVPR 2026
Zhang, F., Sun, X., Yang, H., Zhang, Z., Huang, Z. and Luo, Y.
MergeVLA: Cross-Skill Model Merging Toward a Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agent, IEEE - CVPR 2026
Fu, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Y., Wang, Z., Huang, Z. and Luo, Y.
Distributed Systems
GPU-Accelerated Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via PCA-Augmented Graph Indexing for Vector Databases, IEEE - PDPS 2026
Wang, Y., HoseinyFarahabady, M.R. and Zomaya, A.Y.
The Evolution of Decentralized Systems: From Gray's Framework to Blockchain and Beyond, arXiv 2026
Dong, Z., Lee, Y.C. and Zomaya, A.Y.



