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Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, Volume 8, Issue 3

2026 March - 30 articles

Cover Story: DeepHits is an end-to-end multimodal network for hit song prediction that fuses log-Mel spectrogram embeddings, from residual 2D-CNN, multilingual BERT lyric embeddings, and structured metadata, including artist popularity and release year. Evaluated on 92,517 tracks, it achieves 82.63% accuracy (macro-F1 52.20%) in a three-class setting and 37.00% accuracy (macro-F1 23.15%) in a novel ten-class decile benchmark. Ablation results reveal that metadata carries the strongest predictive signal, while capacity-controlled baselines confirm that the deep multimodal architecture outperforms simpler fusion strategies. DeepHits provides a reproducible benchmark and modality analysis for fine-grained popularity prediction under class imbalance. View this paper
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,124 Views
23 Pages

Debiased Multiplex Tokenization Using Mamba-Based Pointers for Efficient and Versatile Map-Free Visual Relocalization

  • Wenshuai Wang,
  • Hong Liu,
  • Shengquan Li,
  • Peifeng Jiang and ,
  • Dandan Che and
  • Runwei Ding
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Visual localization plays a critical role for mobile robots to estimate their position and orientation in GPS-denied environments. However, its efficiency, robustness, and generalization are fundamentally undermined by severe viewpoint changes and dr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,092 Views
18 Pages

Advancing Breast Cancer Lesion Analysis in Real-Time Sonography Through Multi-Layer Transfer Learning and Adaptive Tracking

  • Suliman Thwib,
  • Radwan Qasrawi,
  • Ghada Issa,
  • Razan AbuGhoush and ,
  • Hussein AlMasri and
  • Marah Qawasmi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Background: Real-time and accurate analysis of breast ultrasounds is crucial for diagnosis but remains challenging due to issues like low image contrast and operator dependency. This study aims to address these challenges by developing an integrated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
933 Views
31 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Synthesis, Classification and Analysis of Sedimentation Boundaries in Analytical Centrifugation Experiments

  • Moritz Moß,
  • Sebastian Boldt,
  • Gurbandurdy Dovletov,
  • Adjie Salman and ,
  • Josef Pauli,
  • Dietmar Lerche,
  • Marco Gleiß,
  • Hermann Nirschl,
  • Johannes Walter and
  • Wolfgang Peukert
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Applications for machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) are constantly growing and have already been adopted in the field of particle measurement technology. Even though analytical (ultra-)centrifugation (AC/AUC) is a widely used technique for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,677 Views
30 Pages

Audio-Based Screening of Respiratory Diseases Using Machine Learning: A Methodological Framework Evaluated on a Clinically Validated COVID-19 Cough Dataset

  • Arley Magnolia Aquino-García,
  • Humberto Pérez-Espinosa,
  • Javier Andreu-Perez and
  • Ansel Y. Rodríguez González

The development of AI-driven computational methods has enabled rapid and non-invasive analysis of respiratory sounds using acoustic data, particularly cough recordings. Although the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated research on cough-based acoustic analy...

(This article belongs to the Topic Deep Supplement Learning for Healthcare and Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,144 Views
23 Pages

Emotion classification is a fundamental task in affective computing, with applications in human–computer interaction, mental health monitoring, and social media analysis. Although most existing methods formulate it as a flat classification prob...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,584 Views
29 Pages

Polynomial Chaos Expanded Gaussian Process

  • Dominik Polke,
  • Tim Kösters,
  • Elmar Ahle and
  • Dirk Söffker

In complex and unknown processes, global models are fitted over the entire input domain but often tend to perform poorly whenever the response surface exhibits non-stationary behavior and varying smoothness. A common approach is to use local models,...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
678 Views
21 Pages

Automated Single-Slice Lumbar QCT HU Value Measurement with Clinical Workflow

  • Zhe-Yu Ye,
  • Jun-Mu Peng,
  • Bing-Qian Lu and
  • Tamotsu Kamishima

Manual single-slice lumbar quantitative computed tomography (QCT) depends on operator-driven slice selection and trabecular region-of-interest (ROI) placement. We developed a fully automated single-slice workflow for vertebral trabecular Hounsfield u...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,998 Views
31 Pages

A Review of Deep Learning Model Approach for Pain Assessment in Infant Cry Sounds

  • Anthony McCofie,
  • Dmitry Goldgof,
  • Jacqueline Hausmann,
  • Peter R. Mouton and ,
  • Yu Sun and
  • Md Imran Hossain
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Infant cries serve as a primary indicator of distress and pain; however, distinguishing pain-related cries from those triggered by other needs remains a challenging task, even for trained professionals. Timely and accurate pain assessment is essentia...

(This article belongs to the Section Thematic Reviews)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,307 Views
17 Pages

We propose a centralized Activity Retrieval and Detection Intelligence (ActivityRDI) solution framework, demonstrate its application performance in network threat detection in detail, and show its generalization to other domains. Network threat detec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,604 Views
42 Pages

Towards Reliable LLM Grading Through Self-Consistency and Selective Human Review: Higher Accuracy, Less Work

  • Luke Korthals,
  • Emma Akrong,
  • Gali Geller,
  • Hannes Rosenbusch and ,
  • Raoul Grasman and
  • Ingmar Visser
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Large language models (LLMs) show promise for grading open-ended assessments but still exhibit inconsistent accuracy, systematic biases, and limited reliability across assignments. To address these concerns, we introduce SURE (Selective Uncertainty-b...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,136 Views
21 Pages

Recent work on the evaluation of large language models emphasizes that the relevant unit of intelligence is not the artificial system alone but the human–AI hybrid. In parallel, topological and dynamical models of cognition based on Painlev&eac...

(This article belongs to the Section Thematic Reviews)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,749 Views
20 Pages

Differential Equation Ensemble Discovery for Modeling Active Matter Based on Robotic Swarm Data

  • Xeniya Bashkova,
  • Anastasia Molodtsova,
  • Nikita Olekhno and
  • Alexander Hvatov

Active matter actively searches for models that allow them to connect the behavior of multiple agents to particle system with a physical law. However, the arsenal of models used to model active matter systems is very restricted. Modern differential e...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
916 Views
18 Pages

This study presents a novel data-driven framework for developing airport-specific landing policies and procedures from historical successful-landing data. The proposed process, termed the Airport-Dependent Landing Procedure (ADLP), is motivated by th...

(This article belongs to the Section Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,309 Views
29 Pages

A Procedure for Vulnerability Analysis and Countermeasures in IoT Systems Based on Their Components Characteristics

  • Ponciano Jorge Escamilla-Ambrosio,
  • Brandon Iván Méndez-Barrera,
  • Alberto Jorge Rosales-Silva,
  • Gina Gallegos-García and
  • Gilberto Lorenzo Martínez-Luna

The increasing complexity and heterogeneity of Internet of Things (IoT) systems pose significant challenges for systematic security and vulnerability assessment. From a knowledge-centric perspective, IoT security analysis requires transforming hetero...

(This article belongs to the Section Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,653 Views
37 Pages

Co-Explainers: A Position on Interactive XAI for Human–AI Collaboration as a Harm-Mitigation Infrastructure

  • Francisco Herrera,
  • Salvador García,
  • María José del Jesus,
  • Luciano Sánchez and
  • Marcos López de Prado

Human–AI collaboration (HAIC) increasingly mediates high-risk decisions in public and private sectors, yet many documented AI harms arise not only from model error but from breakdowns in joint human–AI work: miscalibrated reliance, impair...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
944 Views
27 Pages

ML-Driven Decision Support for Dynamic Modeling of Calcareous Sands

  • Abdalla Y. Almarzooqi,
  • Mohamed G. Arab,
  • Maher Omar and
  • Emran Alotaibi

Dynamic characterization of calcareous (carbonate) sands is essential for performance-based design of offshore foundations, coastal reclamation, and marine infrastructure in tropical and subtropical regions. In contrast to silica sands, carbonate sed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,041 Views
31 Pages

Drift-Aware Online Ensemble Learning for Real-Time Cybersecurity in Internet of Medical Things Networks

  • Fazliddin Makhmudov,
  • Gayrat Juraev,
  • Ozod Yusupov,
  • Parvina Nasriddinova and
  • Dusmurod Kilichev

The rapid growth of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices has revolutionized diagnostics and patient care within smart healthcare networks. However, this progress has also expanded the attack surface due to the heterogeneity and interconnectivity...

(This article belongs to the Section Safety, Security, Privacy, and Cyber Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,556 Views
35 Pages

Dynamic Feature Selection for Canadian GDP Forecasting: Machine Learning with Google Trends and Official Data

  • Shafiullah Qureshi,
  • Ba M. Chu,
  • Fanny S. Demers,
  • Najib Khan and
  • Ateeq ur Rehman Irshad

We forecast monthly Canadian real GDP growth using machine learning models trained on Official macroeconomic indicators and Google Trends (GT) data. Predictors are selected dynamically in each rolling window using PDC-SIS, with cross-validation-based...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications of NLP, AI, and ML in Software Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,579 Views
51 Pages

Language Models Are Polyglots: Language Similarity Predicts Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning Performance

  • Juuso Eronen,
  • Michal Ptaszynski,
  • Tomasz Wicherkiewicz,
  • Robert Borges and ,
  • Katarzyna Janic,
  • Zhenzhen Liu,
  • Tanjim Mahmud and
  • Fumito Masui
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Selecting a source language for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer is typically done by intuition or by defaulting to English, despite large performance differences across language pairs. We study whether linguistic similarity can predict transfer perf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Natural Language Processing for Low-Resource Languages and Dialects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,646 Views
38 Pages

Medical question answering (QA) systems and conversational agents have attracted growing interest as tools that can assist clinicians, support medical students, and help patients navigate complex information sources. However, existing evaluations of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,324 Views
23 Pages

Soft-Prompted Semantic Normalization for Unsupervised Analysis of the Scientific Literature

  • Ivan Malashin,
  • Dmitry Martysyuk,
  • Vadim Tynchenko,
  • Andrei Gantimurov and ,
  • Vladimir Nelyub and
  • Aleksei Borodulin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Mapping thematic structure in large scientific corpora enables the systematic analysis of research trends and conceptual organization. This work presents an unsupervised framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) as fixed semantic inferenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Using Large Language Models for Scientific Problem Solving and Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,309 Views
24 Pages

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Myelitis are serious inflammatory spinal cord disorders with overlapping clinical symptoms and radiological characteristics, making accurate differentiation challenging yet clinically essential. Early and precise diagnosis...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applications of Image and Video Processing in Medical Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,341 Views
25 Pages

Semantic and Engineering-Based Embedding for Classification List Development

  • Jadeyn Feng,
  • Allison Lau,
  • Melinda Hodkiewicz,
  • Caitlin Woods and
  • Michael Stewart

The creation and application of classification category labels are essential tasks for transforming complex information into structured knowledge. Categories are used for summary and reporting purposes and have historically been identified by domain...

(This article belongs to the Section Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,839 Views
27 Pages

What Knowledge Transfers in Tabular Anomaly Detection? A Teacher–Student Distillation Analysis

  • Tea Krčmar,
  • Dina Šabanović,
  • Miljenko Švarcmajer and
  • Ivica Lukić

Anomaly detection on tabular data is widely used in fraud detection, predictive maintenance, and medical screening. While heterogeneous ensembles combining multiple detection paradigms achieve strong performance, their computational cost limits deplo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,547 Views
21 Pages

This work presents a fast neural surrogate capable of reconstructing fully three-dimensional hemodynamic velocity fields in stenotic and bifurcating microvascular geometries with satisfactory accuracy, avoiding repeated, computationally demanding com...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and Computational Methods for Modelling, Simulations and Optimizing of Advanced Systems: Innovations in Complexity, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,677 Views
28 Pages

DeepHits: A Multimodal CNN Approach to Hit Song Prediction

  • Michael Nofer,
  • Valdrin Nimani and
  • Oliver Hinz

Hit Song Science aims to forecast a song’s success before release and benefits from integrating signals beyond audio content alone. We present DeepHits, an end-to-end multimodal network that combines (i) log-Mel spectrogram embeddings from a co...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
3,202 Views
15 Pages

Recent benchmarks increasingly report that large language models (LLMs) exhibit human-like causal reasoning abilities, including counterfactual inference and intervention planning. However, many such evaluations rely on domains that are heavily repre...

(This article belongs to the Topic Learning to Live with Gen-AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,579 Views
41 Pages

SSL-MEPR: A Semi-Supervised Multi-Task Cross-Domain Learning Framework for Multimodal Emotion and Personality Recognition

  • Elena Ryumina,
  • Alexandr Axyonov,
  • Darya Koryakovskaya,
  • Timur Abdulkadirov and ,
  • Angelina Egorova,
  • Sergey Fedchin,
  • Alexander Zaburdaev and
  • Dmitry Ryumin
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The growing demand for personalized human–computer interaction calls for methods that jointly model emotional states and personality traits. However, large-scale multimodal corpora annotated for both tasks are still lacking. This challenge stem...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,640 Views
43 Pages

Explainable Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks for Zero-Shot Human Activity Recognition on TinyML Edge Devices

  • Ismail Lamaakal,
  • Chaymae Yahyati,
  • Yassine Maleh,
  • Khalid El Makkaoui and
  • Ibrahim Ouahbi

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on wearable and IoT devices must jointly satisfy four requirements: high accuracy, the ability to recognize previously unseen activities, strict memory and latency constraints, and interpretable decisions. In this wor...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,698 Views
27 Pages

Modern multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) attacks pose significant challenges to existing counter-UAV frameworks due to their agility, irregular spatial formations, and increasing reliance on intelligent evasive behaviors. This paper proposes a unif...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and Computational Methods for Modelling, Simulations and Optimizing of Advanced Systems: Innovations in Complexity, 2nd Edition)
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