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New AI model efficiently classifies tomato diseases with minimal parameters

Researchers have developed a new AI model called CoAtNet-DeepMoE, designed for efficient tomato disease classification. This hybrid architecture combines convolutional and attention mechanisms with a DeepSeek Mixture of Experts to significantly reduce parameters without compromising accuracy. The model achieved state-of-the-art performance on datasets from Kaggle and PlantVillage, demonstrating high accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-scores with a remarkably small parameter count. AI

IMPACT This model's efficiency could enable more accessible and widespread AI applications in agriculture for disease detection.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Md Nadim Mahamood, Md Arif Shahriar, Md Shafi Ud Doula, Kamrul Hasan ·

    CoAtNet-DeepMoE: A Convolution-Attention Hybrid with DeepSeek Mixture-of-Experts for Parameter-Efficient Tomato Disease Classification

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