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Spectral Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformer for few-shot rice germplasm viability detection using hyperspectral imaging

Xu H, Wang Z, Li F, Zhang W, Zhang H, Zhang H, Li W, Xue Z, Xin X.

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. · 1 Dec 2025

Abstract

Rice is a fundamental staple crop germplasm and a vital resource for germplasm innovation, playing a critical role in global food security. Viability is a key indicator for evaluating the conservation and utilization of germplasm resources, ensuring high and stable grain yields. Viability loss during the germplasm conservation process is a natural-aging process. Given the large number of varieties and the rarity of certain samples, excessive destructive tests for viability assessment should be minimized and ultimately replaced by intelligent non-destructive detection methods. Therefore, it is imperative to explore intelligent non-destructive, few-shot, cross-variety/germplasm, and viability detection of rice germplasm based on natural-aging. Current algorithms for rice germplasm viability detection encounter significant challenges in achieving optimal performance under few-shot conditions. We propose a spectral Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformer algorithm, specifically designed for viability detection of rice germplasm under few-shot conditions. A feature enhancement module is implemented to improve the spectral feature representation capabilities of germplasm hyperspectral image (GHSI). A multi-scale spectral feature extraction module is designed to extract spectral features across multiple scales. A fusion of convolutional neural network and Transformer module is introduced to capture both global and local features of GHSI. Finally, a learnable activation function (Kolmogorov-Arnold networks, KAN) and global average pooling are employed for viability classification. Under the condition of 15 samples per class, the SKA-T achieved overall accuracies of 92.87%, 92.30%, and 92.57% for the three rice lines, respectively. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of SKA-T in intelligent non-destructive viability detection of rice germplasm under few-shot conditions.

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