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Abdullah Al Noman

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Equivariant Quantum Clustering with Differential Privacy: Parameter-Efficient Privacy-Preserving Analysis Across Heterogeneous Sensitive Datasets

Privacy-preserving clustering is critical for analyzing sensitive data in healthcare, cybersecurity, and enterprise applications, where maintaining data confidentiality must be balanced with analytical performance. This paper presents Equivariant Quantum Clustering (EQC), a parameter-efficient framework that integrates symmetry-aware quantum circuits with differential privacy to improve the privacy-utility tradeoff. EQC employs p4m equivariant parameter sharing to reduce circuit complexity while preserving informative feature representations. The framework is evaluated on three privacy-sensitive datasets: NSL-KDD, CERT Insider Threat v6.2, and a synthetic MIMIC-III clinical dataset. On the NSL-KDD benchmark, EQC achieves 79.3% clustering accuracy while reducing membership inference attack success to 38.3% under a privacy budget of ε = 1.0 and δ = 10^-5, outperforming representative classical and quantum baselines. Ablation studies indicate that the performance gains primarily arise from parameter-efficient circuit design combined with differential privacy. The results demonstrate that EQC provides a practical quantum-ready framework for secure and privacy-preserving clustering across heterogeneous sensitive datasets.

quant-ph

Dynamic Image-Informed Selection of Biomechanical Tumor Growth Models

Glioblastoma progression is strongly influenced by evolving mechanical interactions between the tumor and surrounding brain tissue. However, the extent to which finite-deformation mechanics and constitutive assumptions improve subject-specific prediction as tumor burden evolves remains unclear. We introduce a sequential Bayesian inference and dynamic model selection framework that assimilates longitudinal murine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to calibrate spatially varying tumor diffusivity, proliferation rate, and tissue stiffness in biomechanical tumor growth models. Competing formulations were compared at each imaging time, including reaction-diffusion without mechanics and reaction-diffusion coupled to linear elasticity or hyperelastic mechanics, using posterior model plausibility to adapt model choice for individualized one-scan-ahead prediction as new MRI scans are acquired. Across the studied animals, mechanically coupled models were consistently more plausible than the uncoupled reaction-diffusion model, and the evolution of model plausibility indicated an increasing role of mass effect and stress-mediated feedback of tumor growth during progression. While linear and hyperelastic coupled tumor growth models often produced similar tumor morphology, they yield distinct stress, deformation, and inferred stiffness fields, with the hyperelastic formulation often receiving higher posterior plausibility at later imaging times. These results indicate that, within the present longitudinal murine dataset, mechanical coupling is favored for image-informed glioma growth prediction and that constitutive assumptions should be evaluated sequentially for each subject rather than fixed a priori.

cs.CE

Pattern Recognition Tasks with Personalized Federated Learning

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) constitutes a novel paradigm that tailors Machine Learning (ML) models to individual clients, thereby furnishing personalized model updates whilst upholding stringent data privacy principles. Diverging from conventional standard Federated Learning (FL) approaches, PFL adapts models to distinct client data distributions, engendering heightened levels of accuracy, customization, and data security, all while minimizing communication overhead. This methodology proves particularly salient in contexts marked by pattern recognition tasks reliant upon heterogeneous data sources and underpinned by paramount privacy apprehensions. In the present research endeavor, this article undertake a comprehensive comparative analysis of seven distinct PFL algorithms deployed across three diverse datasets, namely MNIST, SignMNIST, and Digit5. The overarching objective entails ascertaining the preeminent PFL algorithm, within the framework of pattern recognition tasks, through a rigorous evaluation anchored in metrics encompassing Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1 Score. Concurrently, an in-depth scrutiny of these PFL algorithms is conducted, elucidating their operative workflows, advantages, and limitations. Through empirical investigation, the findings evince that APPLE, FedGC, and FedProto emerge as stalwart contenders, consistently furnishing superior performance across the spectrum of assessed datasets, while acknowledging the contextual specificity of alternative algorithms and the potential for iterative refinement to realize optimal outcomes.

cs.CV

Real-Time Earthquake Magnitude Classification from Initial P-Waves: Models, Dataset, and Comparative Analysis for South Asia

Rapid earthquake magnitude estimation is crucial for effective early warning systems that can save lives and reduce economic damage. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study of magnitude classification using only the vertical component of the initial 7-second P-wave window from a single station. We compare six machine learning approaches that range from traditional models to state-of-the-art deep learning architectures. We also curated a novel dataset of 7,318 earthquake events in South Asia. The dataset was categorized into five Richter-scale classes: slight (3.0-3.9), light (4.0-4.9), moderate (5.0-5.9), strong (6.0-6.9) and severe (>= 7.0). Our experiments show that deep learning models substantially outperform traditional approaches. Our Transformer based architecture achieved 76.23% standard accuracy and 81.56% adaptive accuracy with 4.8 ms inference latency. The adaptive-accuracy metric is introduced for the inherent uncertainty in magnitude estimation of near class boundaries. These results indicate that the attention mechanisms in Transformers combined with adaptive classification effectively capture the temporal dynamics of seismic signals. The architectural advantage facilitates promising generalization to rare high-magnitude events, despite the inherent data scarcity characteristic of seismic catalogs. The adaptive accuracy provides a more realistic assessment of model performance, and the result suggests viability for real-time deployment.

physics.geo-ph

Improving Fine-Grained Rice Leaf Disease Detection via Angular-Compactness Dual Loss Learning

Early detection of rice leaf diseases is critical, as rice is a staple crop supporting a substantial share of the world's population. Timely identification of these diseases enables more effective intervention and significantly reduces the risk of large-scale crop losses. However, traditional deep learning models primarily rely on cross entropy loss, which often struggles with high intra-class variance and inter-class similarity, common challenges in plant pathology datasets. To tackle this, we propose a dual-loss framework that combines Center Loss and ArcFace Loss to enhance fine-grained classification of rice leaf diseases. The method is applied into three state-of-the-art backbone architectures: InceptionNetV3, DenseNet201, and EfficientNetB0 trained on the public Rice Leaf Dataset. Our approach achieves significant performance gains, with accuracies of 99.6%, 99.2% and 99.2% respectively. The results demonstrate that angular margin-based and center-based constraints substantially boost the discriminative strength of feature embeddings. In particular, the framework does not require major architectural modifications, making it efficient and practical for real-world deployment in farming environments.

cs.CV

CANGuard: A Spatio-Temporal CNN-GRU-Attention Hybrid Architecture for Intrusion Detection in In-Vehicle CAN Networks

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) has become an essential component of smart transportation systems, enabling seamless interaction among vehicles and infrastructure. In recent years, it has played a progressively significant role in enhancing mobility, safety, and transportation efficiency. However, this connectivity introduces severe security vulnerabilities, particularly Denial-of-Service (DoS) and spoofing attacks targeting the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus, which could severely inhibit communication between the critical components of a vehicle, leading to system malfunctions, loss of control, or even endangering passengers' safety. To address this problem, this paper presents CANGuard, a novel spatio-temporal deep learning architecture that combines Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), and an attention mechanism to effectively identify such attacks. The model is trained and evaluated on the CICIoV2024 dataset, achieving competitive performance across accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score and outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods. A comprehensive ablation study confirms the individual and combined contributions of the CNN, GRU, and attention components. Additionally, a SHAP analysis is conducted to interpret the decision-making process of the model and determine which features have the most significant impact on intrusion detection. The proposed approach demonstrates strong potential for practical and scalable security enhancements in modern IoV environments, thereby ensuring safer and more secure CAN bus communications.

cs.CR

TITAN: Twin-Informed Topology Adaptation for LAWN-enabled D2C Communication

Low-Altitude Wireless Networks (LAWN) are transforming the low-altitude airspace into a mission-driven, dynamically reconfigurable 3D network fabric for safety-critical and public-safety operations. In parallel, Direct-to-Cell (D2C) satellite access can rapidly restore connectivity after disasters, yet dense urban blockages make the satellite-to-ground link unreliable for many users. To overcome this, we leverage the LAWN aerial layer and form an adaptive low-altitude relay topology where Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) act as D2C-assisted aerial relays for obstructed ground users. We introduce TITAN, a twin-informed topology adaptation framework that builds a high-fidelity Digital Twin (DT) of the affected urban area and performs site-specific, ray-traced air-to-ground channel modeling via Sionna RT. This informs a Bayesian optimization process that adapts the aerial topology to maximize coverage and Quality of Service (QoS) for ground users by using UAVs as optimal D2C relays. Extensive system-level simulations with Sionna show that TITAN consistently outperforms the baselines and delivers +32.2% user coverage, +64.9% system sum-rate, and +49.3% fairness over the state-of-the-art (SOTA) that employ heuristic placement or statistical channel approximations. To support further research in resilient network design, we open-source the codebase of the TITAN framework.

cs.NI

Cross-Lingual Probing and Community-Grounded Analysis of Gender Bias in Low-Resource Bengali

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant success in recent years; yet, issues of intrinsic gender bias persist, especially in non-English languages. Although current research mostly emphasizes English, the linguistic and cultural biases inherent in Global South languages, like Bengali, are little examined. This research seeks to examine the characteristics and magnitude of gender bias in Bengali, evaluating the efficacy of current approaches in identifying and alleviating bias. We use several methods to extract gender-biased utterances, including lexicon-based mining, computational classification models, translation-based comparison analysis, and GPT-based bias creation. Our research indicates that the straight application of English-centric bias detection frameworks to Bengali is severely constrained by language disparities and socio-cultural factors that impact implicit biases. To tackle these difficulties, we executed two field investigations inside rural and low-income areas, gathering authentic insights on gender bias. The findings demonstrate that gender bias in Bengali presents distinct characteristics relative to English, requiring a more localized and context-sensitive methodology. Additionally, our research emphasizes the need of integrating community-driven research approaches to identify culturally relevant biases often neglected by automated systems. Our research enhances the ongoing discussion around gender bias in AI by illustrating the need to create linguistic tools specifically designed for underrepresented languages. This study establishes a foundation for further investigations into bias reduction in Bengali and other Indic languages, promoting the development of more inclusive and fair NLP systems.

cs.CL

BanglaMM-Disaster: A Multimodal Transformer-Based Deep Learning Framework for Multiclass Disaster Classification in Bangla

Natural disasters remain a major challenge for Bangladesh, so real-time monitoring and quick response systems are essential. In this study, we present BanglaMM-Disaster, an end-to-end deep learning-based multimodal framework for disaster classification in Bangla, using both textual and visual data from social media. We constructed a new dataset of 5,037 Bangla social media posts, each consisting of a caption and a corresponding image, annotated into one of nine disaster-related categories. The proposed model integrates transformer-based text encoders, including BanglaBERT, mBERT, and XLM-RoBERTa, with CNN backbones such as ResNet50, DenseNet169, and MobileNetV2, to process the two modalities. Using early fusion, the best model achieves 83.76% accuracy. This surpasses the best text-only baseline by 3.84% and the image-only baseline by 16.91%. Our analysis also shows reduced misclassification across all classes, with noticeable improvements for ambiguous examples. This work fills a key gap in Bangla multimodal disaster analysis and demonstrates the benefits of combining multiple data types for real-time disaster response in low-resource settings.

cs.LG

Evaluating Subword Tokenization Techniques for Bengali: A Benchmark Study with BengaliBPE

Tokenization is an important first step in Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipelines because it decides how models learn and represent linguistic information. However, current subword tokenizers like SentencePiece or HuggingFace BPE are mostly designed for Latin or multilingual corpora and do not perform well on languages with rich morphology such as Bengali. To address this limitation, we present BengaliBPE, a Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenizer specifically developed for the Bengali script. BengaliBPE applies Unicode normalization, grapheme-level initialization, and morphology-aware merge rules to maintain linguistic consistency and preserve subword integrity. We use a large-scale Bengali news classification dataset to compare BengaliBPE with three baselines: Whitespace, SentencePiece BPE, and HuggingFace BPE. The evaluation considers tokenization granularity, encoding speed, and downstream classification accuracy. While all methods perform reasonably well, BengaliBPE provides the most detailed segmentation and the best morphological interpretability, albeit with slightly higher computational cost. These findings highlight the importance of language-aware tokenization for morphologically rich scripts and establish BengaliBPE as a strong foundation for future Bengali NLP systems, including large-scale pretraining of contextual language models.

cs.CL

The economic, social & Environmental impact of Electric Vehicle (EV) adaptation on Bangladeshi Society

This study examines the economic social and environmental impacts of electric vehicle adoption in Bangladesh using survey data from 57 respondents and secondary research. Findings show strong public perception of electric vehicles as cost effective with ninety three percent agreement and environmentally beneficial with eighty two point five percent agreement. Electric vehicles have potential to reduce fuel imports lower operational costs and create over fifty thousand jobs by 2030. Socially electric vehicles improve mobility for low income groups with seventy five point four percent agreement and increase safety although adoption remains mostly in urban areas. Environmentally electric vehicles could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to thirty percent per kilometre and lower particulate matter levels by twenty to twenty five percent in Dhaka along with a three to five decibel reduction in traffic noise. Main barriers include high purchase costs limited charging infrastructure and low public awareness of policies. Policy recommendations include tax incentives solar powered charging stations and battery recycling regulations. This research concludes that strategic electric vehicle adoption could advance Bangladesh's sustainable transportation economic resilience and public health goals.

econ.GN

Proportional Sensitivity in Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-Augmented Brain Tumor Classification Using Convolutional Neural Network

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have shown potential in expanding limited medical imaging datasets. This study explores how different ratios of GAN-generated and real brain tumor MRI images impact the performance of a CNN in classifying healthy vs. tumorous scans. A DCGAN was used to create synthetic images which were mixed with real ones at various ratios to train a custom CNN. The CNN was then evaluated on a separate real-world test set. Our results indicate that the model maintains high sensitivity and precision in tumor classification, even when trained predominantly on synthetic data. When only a small portion of GAN data was added, such as 900 real images and 100 GAN images, the model achieved excellent performance, with test accuracy reaching 95.2%, and precision, recall, and F1-score all exceeding 95%. However, as the proportion of GAN images increased further, performance gradually declined. This study suggests that while GANs are useful for augmenting limited datasets especially when real data is scarce, too much synthetic data can introduce artifacts that affect the model's ability to generalize to real world cases.

eess.IV

A Model-Mediated Stacked Ensemble Approach for Depression Prediction Among Professionals

Depression is a significant mental health concern, particularly in professional environments where work-related stress, financial pressure, and lifestyle imbalances contribute to deteriorating well-being. Despite increasing awareness, researchers and practitioners face critical challenges in developing accurate and generalizable predictive models for mental health disorders. Traditional classification approaches often struggle with the complexity of depression, as it is influenced by multifaceted, interdependent factors, including occupational stress, sleep patterns, and job satisfaction. This study addresses these challenges by proposing a stacking-based ensemble learning approach to improve the predictive accuracy of depression classification among professionals. The Depression Professional Dataset has been collected from Kaggle. The dataset comprises demographic, occupational, and lifestyle attributes that influence mental well-being. Our stacking model integrates multiple base learners with a logistic regression-mediated model, effectively capturing diverse learning patterns. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves high predictive performance, with an accuracy of 99.64% on training data and 98.75% on testing data, with precision, recall, and F1-score all exceeding 98%. These findings highlight the effectiveness of ensemble learning in mental health analytics and underscore its potential for early detection and intervention strategies.

cs.LG

Controlling evanescent waves using silicon photonic all-dielectric metamaterials for dense integration

Ultra-compact, densely integrated optical components manufactured on a CMOS-foundry platform are highly desirable for optical information processing and electronic-photonic co-integration. However, the large spatial extent of evanescent waves arising from nanoscale confinement, ubiquitous in silicon photonic devices, causes significant cross-talk and scattering loss. Here, we demonstrate that anisotropic all-dielectric metamaterials open a new degree of freedom in total internal reflection to shorten the decay length of evanescent waves. We experimentally show the reduction of cross-talk by greater than 30 times and the bending loss by greater than 3 times in densely integrated, ultra-compact photonic circuit blocks. Our prototype all-dielectric metamaterial-waveguide achieves a low propagation loss of approximately 3.7 dB/cm, comparable to those of silicon strip waveguides. Our approach marks a departure from interference-based confinement as in photonic crystals or slot waveguides, which utilize nanoscale field enhancement. Its ability to suppress evanescent waves without substantially increasing the propagation loss shall pave the way for all-dielectric metamaterial-based dense integration.

physics.optics