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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9093: Security and Safety of Large Language Models—A Use Case for Extended Reality Environments

5+ hour, 18+ min ago   (361+ words) This research investigates the security of large language models (LLMs) with the aim of identifying key security and safety threats, control measures, and governance considerations that are relevant to their trustworthy adoption in the Extended Reality (XR) domain. To achieve…...

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9065: Bayesian Biaffine Variational Graph Convolutional Network for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (496+ words) Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) aims to identify the sentiment polarity expressed toward a specific aspect in a sentence. Existing sequential and Transformer-based methods can effectively capture contextual semantics, but they often lack explicit modeling of aspect–opinion relations. Graph-based approaches…...

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9003: A Knowledge Graph-Augmented Large Language Model Framework for Context-Aware Question-Answering and Intelligent Feedback Generation

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (533+ words) This study proposes EQAS (Empowered Question-Answering System), a hybrid framework designed to support context-aware question-answering and intelligent feedback generation in domain-specific knowledge environments. EQAS integrates fine-tuned transformer-based models, instruction-guided large language models, domain-specific knowledge graphs, and LangChain-based vector retrieval to…...

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9005: DWAT: Density-Weighted Adversarial Training for Robustness Beyond the Training Perturbation Budget

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (571+ words) Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely deployed in safety-critical applications such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving. Adversarial training (AT) is among the most effective defenses, casting robust optimization as a min–max problem over a defender-specified ℓp-ball of fixed…...

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 8993: CDTS2: Causal Downstreamer with Causally Disentangled Trend and Seasonality Time-Series Representations

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (411+ words) Time-series representation learning decomposes signals into interpretable factors such as trend and seasonality, and disentangled representation learning assigns these factors to distinct latent dimensions, enhancing interpretability and forecasting accuracy. However, existing methods achieve only statistical disentanglement: an intervention on one…...

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 8977: A Geometry-Controlled Analysis of Semantic Collapse and Recoverability in a Query-Based BEV 3D Detector

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (532+ words) Camera-only BEV 3D object detectors are trained under highly imbalanced category distributions, and their matched object queries can exhibit directional semantic errors toward frequent classes. We investigate this behavior as a diagnostic problem: given fixed geometric predictions and fixed query–ground-truth…...

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 8936: An Integrated STT-Based Multimodal Pre-Screening System for Korean Oral Presentations with an Analytics-Fitness Benchmark of Five Speech-to-Text Engines

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (688+ words) Oral presentations for investor relations, government funding, and technical review are typically prepared without objective, repeatable feedback on delivery. We present an integrated web-based pre-screening system for Korean oral presentations that combines automatic speech recognition (ASR), prosodic and disfluency analytics,…...

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 8886: Discriminability-Aware Symmetric Bit-Wise Feature Encoding for Resource-Constrained IoT Traffic Classification

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (383+ words) Resource-constrained traffic classification requires mapping heterogeneous numerical features into a fixed-length binary input. Equal-width encoding ignores differences in discriminability, whereas range-only allocation may spend precision on weak predictors. We propose discriminability-aware symmetric bit-wise feature encoding (DA-SBFE), which combines training-fold mutual…...

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 8853: Effect of Vertical Camera Spacing on Novel-View Synthesis Quality in Multi-Height 360° Indoor Capture for 3D Gaussian Splatting

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (598+ words) This study examines how the vertical spacing of a multi-height 360° camera array affects novel-view synthesis quality in indoor scenes reconstructed with 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS). Although 3DGS enables high-quality real-time scene representation, its output depends on the geometric arrangement of the input views,…...

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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 8835: Query-EfficientCross-Domain Black-Box Adversarial Robustness Assessment Without Retraining via Differentiable Spatial-Channel Mapping and Bandit Optimization

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (516+ words) Evaluating the adversarial robustness of deployed deep neural networks is critical for trustworthy AI, yet existing black-box assessment tools assume homogeneous input domains shared between surrogates and targets, an assumption rarely met in practice. Cross-domain transfer attacks are inherently ill-posed…...