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Curriculum Learning with Synthetic Data for Enhanced Pulmonary Nodule Detection in Chest Radiographs
Pranav Sambhu, Om Guin, Madhav Sambhu, Jinho Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07681

Curriculum Learning with Synthetic Data for Enhanced Pulmonary Nodule Detection in Chest Radiographs
This study evaluates whether integrating curriculum learning with diffusion-based synthetic augmentation can enhance the detection of difficult pulmonary nodules in chest radiographs, particularly those with low size, brightness, and contrast, which often challenge conventional AI models due to data imbalance and limited annotation. A Faster R-CNN with a Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) backbone was trained on a hybrid dataset comprising expert-labeled NODE21 (1,213 patients; 52.4 percent male; me…

F2LLM Technical Report: Matching SOTA Embedding Performance with 6 Million Open-Source Data
Ziyin Zhang, Zihan Liao, Hang Yu, Peng Di, Rui Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02294 …

F2LLM Technical Report: Matching SOTA Embedding Performance with 6 Million Open-Source Data
We introduce F2LLM - Foundation to Feature Large Language Models, a suite of state-of-the-art embedding models in three sizes: 0.6B, 1.7B, and 4B. Unlike previous top-ranking embedding models that require massive contrastive pretraining, sophisticated training pipelines, and costly synthetic training data, F2LLM is directly finetuned from foundation models on 6 million query-document-negative tuples curated from open-source, non-synthetic datasets, striking a strong balance between training cos…