Program

Three days of keynotes, oral presentations of the accepted full papers, poster sessions and a doctoral forum. Talks are grouped by topic; each oral presentation is 15 minutes including questions.

November 18–20, 2026PUCP campus, Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel, LimaAll times are Peru time (GMT-5)
Keynote Oral session Poster session

At a glance

Select a day to see every talk and poster.

WednesdayNovember 18
  1. 09:00–11:00
    Registration and printed poster drop-off
  2. 11:00–12:00
    Opening session
  3. 12:00–14:00
    Lunch break
  4. 14:00–15:00
    Oral Session 1Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Grounded LLMs
  5. 15:00–16:00
    KeynoteArturo Oncevay
  6. 16:00–16:30
    Coffee break
  7. 16:30–17:00
    Poster Session 1Generative AI, LLMs and Language Technologies
  8. 17:00–19:00
    Oral Session 2Computer Vision: Representations, Generation and Real-World Recognition
ThursdayNovember 19
  1. 09:00–10:00
    Oral Session 3AI for Health
  2. 10:00–11:00
    Poster Session 2Medical Imaging, Trustworthy and Explainable AI
  3. 11:00–12:00
    Oral Session 4AI for Software Engineering and Programming Education
  4. 12:00–14:00
    Lunch break
  5. 14:00–15:00
    Oral Session 5Retrieval, Recommendation and Multimodal Search
  6. 15:00–16:00
    KeynoteOmar U. Florez
  7. 16:00–16:30
    Coffee break
  8. 16:30–17:00
    Poster Session 3Remote Sensing, Earth and Energy
  9. 17:00–19:00
    Doctoral Forum
FridayNovember 20
  1. 09:00–10:00
    Oral Session 6Energy and Climate Forecasting
  2. 10:00–11:00
    Poster Session 4Robotics, Embedded Vision and Applied ML
  3. 11:00–12:00
    Oral Session 7Geospatial AI, Risk and Rural Inclusion
  4. 12:00–14:00
    Lunch break
  5. 14:00–15:00
    Oral Session 8Reinforcement Learning and Decision-Making
  6. 15:00–16:00
    KeynoteArturo Deza
  7. 16:00–16:30
    Coffee break
  8. 16:30–17:30
    Oral Session 9AI for Education and Social Policy
  9. 17:30–18:15
    Oral Session 10Sign Language Technologies
  10. 18:15–19:00
    Closing session

Wednesday

November 18, 2026

09:00– 11:00

Registration and printed poster drop-off

11:00– 12:00

Opening session

12:00– 14:00

Lunch break

14:00– 15:00
ORAL SESSION 1

Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Grounded LLMs

  1. 14:00
    Improving ERP Technical Support Through Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Case Study in Odoo Implementation ServicesD. Julcarima Tovar
  2. 14:15
    Epistemic GraphRAG: Separating Structural Reasoning from Epistemological Justification through Claim-Based EvidenceS. Ormeño
  3. 14:30
    Hybrid Corrective RAG for Grounded Generation on Peruvian Medicinal PlantsD. Marron Carcausto, O. Lopez Arela, A. Arroyo Paz
  4. 14:45
    Evaluation of a hybrid vector-graph architecture for reducing hallucinations in logistics support systems: A case study of the Peruvian road networkA. Arroyo Paz, A. Delgado-Allpan, G. Layme-Mamani
15:00– 16:00
Arturo Oncevay
KEYNOTE

Decentralised AI in Peru: Local Models for Local Languages

Arturo Oncevay

16:00– 16:30

Coffee break

16:30– 17:00
POSTER SESSION 1

Generative AI, LLMs and Language Technologies

  • GEN-01
    Larico for Evidence-Based LLM Assistance in Textile Order WorkflowsKevin Antonio Navarro Carrera
  • GEN-02
    Build What you Have - An Inventory-Aware Agent for Text-to-Brick Generation from a PhotoGandy Margoreth Zinanyuca Huillca
  • GEN-03
    Atlas: A Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation Platform for Study Support in Higher EducationAxel Smith Mestanza Cabrera
  • NAT-01
    The Agentic Software FactoryJorge Díaz-Villegas, Zihao Xiao, Carlos Cares
  • CVN-01
    Mlaimara: An Offline On-Device Neural Machine Translator for Spanish–AymaraAngel Rosendo Condori Coaquira, David Mamani Pari
  • CVN-02
    Optimization of Voice Translation Systems for Indigenous Languages: Retraining the NLLB-200 Model for the Quechua-Spanish PairMitzuko Quispe, Max Toledo, Ronil Torres, Patrick Pumaccahua
  • CVN-07
    Dental ZX: An Offline Framework Combining Dental Image Detection, Hybrid Retrieval and Compact Language ModelsChristian Leonardo Rosales Ventocilla, Edwin Rafael Villanueva Talavera
  • CVN-08
    ÑAN: From Syllabus PDFs to an Audited Knowledge Graph of the Computing CurriculumGiano Sebastian Montaño Cruz, Héctor Andrés Melgar Sasieta, Eder Quispe Vilchez
  • CVN-11
    Automatic generation of medical flashcard questions using natural language processingGabriel Omar Durán Ruiz, Jose Antonio Farah Zapata, Sebastian Antonio Martinez Toledo, Jose Luis Ángel Flores Gonzales, Alejandro Antonio Ríos Chávez
  • XAI-02
    Epistemic GraphRAG: Separating Structural Reasoning from Epistemological Justification through Claim-Based EvidenceSandro Ormeño
  • ETH-04
    Evidence-Ready Legal AI: A Human-Controlled Traceability Framework for AI-Assisted Legal DecisionsMarco Ezquerra
17:00– 19:00
ORAL SESSION 2

Computer Vision: Representations, Generation and Real-World Recognition

  1. 17:00
    Hypersolid: Emergent Vision Representations via Short-Range RepulsionE. Rodríguez-Betancourt, E. Casasola Murillo
  2. 17:15
    On the Limits of Flow-Matching Augmentation with FLUX.1 for Few-Shot Object DetectionG. Chipana Calderon
  3. 17:30
    AwaqIA: A Deep Learning Generative Model for Pre-Columbian Textile Pattern SynthesisA. Fujiki Escobar, F. Pineda
  4. 17:45
    MineExc-4: A Real-World Video Dataset and Benchmark for Excavator Operational State Recognition in Mining EnvironmentsD. Zela Sanca, D. Roque Mullisaca, L. Huancapaza Hilasaca, V. Sarmiento Mamani, I. Vargas Belizario
  5. 18:00
    Automatic Electric Meter Reading via a Two-Stage Detection PipelineC. Vidal, B. Chagua
  6. 18:15
    Real-Time ALPR System for Urban Video Surveillance: Detection and Recognition of Peruvian Vehicle License Plates with YOLO and PaddleOCRA. Condori Coaquira, G. Quea Lopez, D. Mamani Pari, M. Humpiri Flores, E. Tocto Cano
  7. 18:30
    A Hybrid Confidence-Gated Pipeline for Solid Waste Classification: Combining Classical Image Processing with a Convolutional Neural Network VerifierC. Tinco Aliaga, J. Cangahuala
  8. 18:45
    A Comparative Study of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for Fish Weight EstimationL. Huancapaza Hilasaca, L. E. Almeida, A. Melo

Thursday

November 19, 2026

09:00– 10:00
ORAL SESSION 3

AI for Health

  1. 09:00
    Explainable COPD Screening from Cough Sounds Using Self-Supervised Wav2Vec 2.0 Representations: Nested Validation, Model Ablation, and Temporal Error AnalysisI. Gallardo-Bernal, J. Franco Ríos, H. Pérez-Espinosa, L. Bernal Mendoza
  2. 09:15
    Multimodal Three-Dimensional Brain Tumor Segmentation in MRI Using Deep LearningN. Poma Quispe, E. Villanueva
  3. 09:30
    Mask-Guided Discriminator Conditioning for Tumor-Aware Pix2Pix Synthesis of Gadolinium-Free T1-Contrast-Enhanced MRI on BraTS 2021L. Camarena Trujillo
  4. 09:45
    What the Coach Cannot Fix: A Large-Scale Study of Emotional Regulation in Conversational Health AID. Vargas Saldaña, J. Valdivia Peceros
10:00– 11:00
POSTER SESSION 2

Medical Imaging, Trustworthy and Explainable AI

  • XAI-03
    Do Attribution Maps of Mammography Classifiers Point at the Lesion? Shortcuts, Architectures and Sanity Checks on CBIS-DDSMGabriel Omar Durán Ruiz, Stefano Enrique Romero Gutierrez
  • CVN-13
    Effect of image resolution on pneumonia detection using convolutional neural networks: a comparative evaluation of ResNet-18, EfficientNet-B0, and DenseNet-121 on PneumoniaMNISTSalvador Jesús Abrahám Sánchez Suarez, Alonso Elías Gutierrez Aguirre, Christian Oswaldo Garcia Vasquez
  • ETH-03
    The Informational Cost of Spatial Prompts in SAM: A Controlled Study on Polyp SegmentationChristian Leonardo Rosales Ventocilla, Kevin Daniel Alcca Chávez, Alessandro Salvador Santé Vega
  • CVN-12
    Interpretable reconstruction of DiSpect blood vessels perfusion maps in MRIJuan Alberto Espinoza Moscoso
  • XAI-06
    Prune, Quantize, or Both? Honest Accuracy–Size Curves for a Vision TransformerFlavio Corvetto, Diego Gómez
  • CVN-15
    Temporal Representation and Frequency Fusion for Robust Deepfake DetectionErnesto Esteban Isidro Acero, Mell Carbajal, Daniel Camarena
  • ETH-01
    Can Current AI Solve CAPTCHAs? What It Says About Machine IntelligenceDiana Carolina Alarcón López
  • XAI-07
    On the Robustness of SHAP in Legal NLP: An Adversarial Analysis of Judicial Prediction ModelsJoaquín Matías Galarza San Miguel
  • XAI-01
    Intelligent system based on Stacking Machine Learning and NLP for the prediction of femicide risk in PeruNilton Omar Santillan Aching, Joel Visurraga-Agüero, Juan Jesús Soria Quijaite, Angel Rosendo Condori-Coaquira, Javier Linkolk López-Gonzales
  • SOC-02
    Do LLM Pricing Assistants Inherit Human Biases? A Rapid Scoping Review of Anchoring, Framing and Decoy Effects in AI-Supported Price DecisionsJackelin Alejo
  • ETH-02
    Does Focal Loss Improve the Cross-Manipulation Robustness of Xception-Based Deepfake Detectors?Ronaldo Segura, Yaser Fernandez, Diego Alvarez
  • CVN-20
    Honest Compression in Vision Transformers: Multilevel Quantization and Robustness Evaluation Under Domain Shift in ViT-B/16Mikler Junior Díaz Pérez, Rodrigo Ernesto Roller Cachay, Aaron Manuel Arana Solgorre
11:00– 12:00
ORAL SESSION 4

AI for Software Engineering and Programming Education

  1. 11:00
    From Ambiguous Specs to Corrective Commits: Empirical Evidence of a Correlation in Spec-Driven DevelopmentZ. Xiao, D. Díaz, J. Díaz-Villegas, C. Cares
  2. 11:15
    Heterogeneous Adoption of LLM-Based Coding Assistants in Software Maintenance: Emerging Usage ArchetypesO. Ancan-Bastias, J. Peral, C. Cares
  3. 11:30
    Classifying Cognitive Appropriation in Human–AI Interaction under Bounded LLM Opacity: A Two-Stage Auditable Architecture in Programming EducationA. Cortez, A. Garis, C. Marinez, J. Sarmiento, N. Bianchi
  4. 11:45
    The Relevance Definition Determines the Ranking: Lexical vs. Behavioral Ground Truth for Programming Problem RecommendersW. Julca-Mejia, H. Paucar-Curasma
12:00– 14:00

Lunch break

14:00– 15:00
ORAL SESSION 5

Retrieval, Recommendation and Multimodal Search

  1. 14:00
    Beyond Static Chunks? A Cross-Domain Evaluation of Budget-Aware Query-Time Span Construction: BASIL: Token-Efficient Retrieval from Unstructured Text through Dynamic Evidence SpansF. Santana
  2. 14:15
    A Modular LLM-based Conversational Recommender Framework for Event Marketplace ServicesL. Candio Ormeño, C. Gonzales
  3. 14:30
    Semantic retrieval system for the Lima Art Museum (MALI) digital Collection based on the CLIP multimodal modelA. Arroyo Paz, D. Montana-Neyra, A. Vega-Figueroa
  4. 14:45
    Evolutionary Optimization of CLIP+LoRA for Pre-Columbian ArtifactsA. Lique Lamas, V. Bento de Sousa, M. Kohler, M. Pacheco
15:00– 16:00
Omar U. Florez
KEYNOTE

LatamGPT 1.0: Training Latin America's First Foundation Model

Omar U. Florez

16:00– 16:30

Coffee break

16:30– 17:00
POSTER SESSION 3

Remote Sensing, Earth and Energy

  • RSE-01
    Backbone Swap for Road Segmentation: Self-Supervised DINOv2 vs. ResNet-50 on Aerial ImageryAmaru M. Varillas Ponce, Fabricio J. Ochoa Landa, Kevin S. Vega Rivera
  • RSE-03
    Adapting Segment Anything for Sentinel-1 Water Mapping with Automatic PromptsJohn Manuel Arzapalo Arana, Luis Alberto Miranda Mallqui, Juan Diego Zavala Viscardo
  • CVN-16
    Cross-regional deforestation mapping in the Amazon: Evaluating DINOv3 representations with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2Christian Carhuancho, Jorge Chamorro, Jorge Fatama
  • XAI-04
    Teardown_Intervencion_DINOv2_EuroSATItalo Ramos, Jonathan Davila, Alfredo Jimenez
  • XAI-05
    Seeing Satellites Without Invented Pixels: A Native-Resolution Stem for DINOv2 on EuroSATLuis Taquiri Diaz, Leonardo Camarena
  • CVN-19
    Frozen DINOv3 Features for Martian Terrain Segmentation: Layer-wise Linear Probing on AI4MarsGustavo Meza, David Rodriguez
  • NAT-02
    Does DETR Saturate in Dense Aerial Scenes? Effect of the Number of Object Queries under Domain ShiftRodrigo Alonso Sanchez Pastor, Oscar Lau Lu, Jafeth Manases Cuyo Alata
  • STM-01
    Spatiotemporal Prediction of Marine Heatwaves in the Humboldt Current Using ConvLSTM NetworksSofia Dextre, Daniel Grados
  • SCI-01
    Probabilistic Day-Ahead Solar Forecasting in Peru's SEIN: Walk-Forward Evaluation and Uncertainty-Aware Energy ManagementJuan Ataco, Yury Tello
  • OTH-01
    Quantum Monte Carlo–Based Loss Distribution Approach for Operational Risk Capital Computation Using Quantum Amplitude EstimationOmar Briceño Cruzado
  • CVN-09
    Benchmarking Deep Learning Models for Detecting Human Footprint in Amazon Satellite ImageryCristian Calderón, Álvaro Vargas, Efraín Urbiola, Ferris Schwanebeck
  • RSE-02
    The Cost of the Prompt: Automatic DINOv3-Derived Prompts for SAM 2.1 Water Segmentation in Sentinel-2 ImageryEliezer Villarreal, Roberto Chávez
  • NAT-05
    From Natural Images to Satellite Imagery: Evaluating SAM 2 for Prompt-Free Agricultural SegmentationPierre Lavergne, Andre Rubio, Johanna Zagon
17:00– 19:00

Doctoral Forum

Friday

November 20, 2026

09:00– 10:00
ORAL SESSION 6

Energy and Climate Forecasting

  1. 09:00
    XGBoost-based Solar Forecasting for the Galapagos IslandsS. Yabar, B. Morales Linares, M. Riojas Concha, J. Zelaya Contreras, J. Torres Guerrero, A. Acarapi, E. Jauregui Romero, C. Paragua Macuri
  2. 09:15
    Multi-Horizon Solar Forecasting via Independent Transformer Architectures with Temporal Adaptive TargetsE. Morales
  3. 09:30
    Interpretable Short-Term Demand Forecasting in the Peruvian Power System: Quantifying the Non-Linear Influence of Regional Climatic VariablesJ. Chavez Arias
  4. 09:45
    Temporal Cross-Attention ConvLSTM for Lightning Nowcasting from Satellite Lightning and Infrared Observations over South AmericaM. Vela Rodriguez, E. Villanueva, K. Takahashi
10:00– 11:00
POSTER SESSION 4

Robotics, Embedded Vision and Applied ML

  • ROB-01
    CrackScan: Autonomous Pavement Inspection Rover Integrating Real-Time LiDAR-Based 3D Reconstruction and Visual Line-Following NavigationRodrigo Yupanqui Rubio, Richard Palomino Andy, Stefano Enrique Romero Gutiérrez
  • ROB-02
    STRIDE: Can a Single-Image 3D Human Pose Model Be Trusted on Daily-Life Video?Alexander Franz Vasquez Montero, Adhemir Rodrigo Carbajal Satalaya
  • CVN-03
    Serverless Cross-Camera Person Handoff on Raspberry Pi 5 Using a Shared Floor HomographyDaniela Díaz, Patricio Galeas
  • CVN-04
    An Integrated Web-Based Multimodal Computer Vision and IoT Framework for Real-Time Human Gesture Control in Educational EnvironmentsCharlen Maximo Calero Huaman, Ronal Noel Vilca Apolin
  • CVN-10
    Thermal Infrared Imaging and Hybrid Deep Learning for Loose Rock Detection in Underground Mining OperationsAndrés Flores, Andrés Cáceres, Mario Balcazar
  • NAT-03
    Ripeness Classification of Key Lime (Citrus aurantiifolia) with YOLO11m for an Automated Conveyor Sorting PrototypeBryan Leonardo Quispe Umiña, Jorge Said Paredes Suca, Helarf Ferrer Calsina Condori
  • CVN-05
    Toward Smartphone-Assisted Coffee Bean Quality Screening: A Transfer Learning Baseline for Roast-Level and Green-Bean Defect ClassificationMarco Gutierrez
  • CVN-06
    Metapath-Guided Graph Recommendation Driven by User Preferences: A Transparent, Catalog-Agnostic EngineAron Omar Pizarro Cahuana, Alex David Machaca Chuquimamani
  • SOC-01
    Early Identification of At-Risk University Students Using Machine Learning: Academic Indicator Selection and Data IntegrationOscar Mateo Recoba Camarena
  • CVN-18
    Exploratory Analysis of School Tutoring Responses Using Unsupervised Machine Learning: A Comparative Study of Clustering AlgorithmsFidel Huanco Ramos, Julio Cesar Huamani Cahua
  • NAT-04
    Masked Linear Cross-Attention for Robust RGB-D Semantic Segmentation under Incomplete DepthMarshall Fernandez, Mónica Abarca, Joaquin Gonzalez, Claudia Suarez
  • CVN-14
    A Hybrid Quantum–Classical Deep Learning Framework for Cacao Fruit Disease Detection Using a 4-Qubit Variational CircuitRannoverng Yanac, Freddy Pizarro
  • SOC-03
    Effectiveness Evaluation for Volunteering Announcement through Social Media using Agent-Based ModelingYannick Patrick Carrasco Merma
  • SOC-04
    From Suspicious Transactions to Suspicious Structures: A Design Science Approach to Graph-Based Blockchain Analytics for Financial IntelligenceChristian Chiroque Ruiz
11:00– 12:00
ORAL SESSION 7

Geospatial AI, Risk and Rural Inclusion

  1. 11:00
    Deep Learning-Based Building Footprint Segmentation Across Heterogeneous Peruvian Landscapes Using PeruSAT-1 ImageryR. Caballero, D. Llaro, W. Sebastian, S. Ocon
  2. 11:15
    Lightweight Semantic Segmentation and Optimized Monoplotting for Monocular Wildfire GeolocationG. Gomocio Barrionuevo, E. Villanueva
  3. 11:30
    Machine Learning-Based Multiclass Classification of Fatality Magnitude in Road Traffic Accidents in PeruY. Espinoza-Torres, M. Estrada-Camacho, Y. Mamani-Coaquira
  4. 11:45
    Empowering the Isolated: An Offline, Edge-AI Architecture for Low-Resource Rural Communities in Latin AmericaD. Chavez, R. Quispe Tacas, J. Paco Fernandez, D. Auccapuri Quispetupa, C. Cordova Bernuy, E. Linan Benites
12:00– 14:00

Lunch break

14:00– 15:00
ORAL SESSION 8

Reinforcement Learning and Decision-Making

  1. 14:00
    Balancing Reinforcement Learning and Episodic Memory for Automated Negotiations in Smart GridsD. Kröhling, S. Pralong, G. Alvarez, E. Martínez
  2. 14:15
    A CVaR Safety Floor for Offline Reinforcement Learning under Unobserved Confounding: Duality and a Finite-Sample Validity RegimeJ. Rodriguez, H. Rojas, J. Rodriguez
  3. 14:30
    Evaluation of Transfer Learning Methods in the Context of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Atari GamesR. Iwamoto, E. Villanueva
  4. 14:45
    Adaptive Weighting of DreamerV3 Imagined Rollouts Using Dynamics LossN. Poma Quispe, E. Villanueva
15:00– 16:00
Arturo Deza
KEYNOTE

Robusto-2: Benchmarking Humans & VLMs for Autonomous Driving in Lima & New York City

Arturo Deza

16:00– 16:30

Coffee break

16:30– 17:30
ORAL SESSION 9

AI for Education and Social Policy

  1. 16:30
    Latent Profiles of Academic Achievement Among Rural Students in Peru: An Integrated EFA–IRT–LCA Analysis of PISA DataK. Arenas Cancapa, E. Huiza Pereyra
  2. 16:45
    Predictive Modeling of Provincial Academic Performance in Quartiles Using Linear and Ensemble Machine Learning AlgorithmsA. Varillas, F. Ochoa Landa, E. Carhuanira Tarazona, D. Santana Quispe
  3. 17:00
    Factors Associated with Reading Achievement in the 2025 Aprender Assessment: A Multilevel Machine Learning Approach in La Rioja Province, ArgentinaS. Farías, A. Farías, A. Farías, G. Montejano, A. Garis
  4. 17:15
    Interpretable and Fairness-Audited Household Economic-Capacity Scoring in Peru: Evidence from ENAHO 2022-2024J. Rodriguez, L. Sánchez Alvarado, J. Rodriguez
17:30– 18:15
ORAL SESSION 10

Sign Language Technologies

  1. 17:30
    A Discrete Token Interface for LLM-Assisted Sign Transcription: The Imitator ArchitectureC. Velasquez Borasino, G. Mancusi, R. Vilchez Marin
  2. 17:45
    Learning Motion-Based Embeddings for SignLanguage RetrievalC. Velasquez Borasino
  3. 18:00
    A Unified Peruvian Sign Language (LSP) Fingerspelling Dataset with Accented Vowels and the Letters J and ÑJ. Quea Vargas, M. Chambilla Condori, A. Soto Velasquez, I. Vargas Belizario, L. Huancapaza Hilasaca
18:15– 19:00

Closing session

The program may be adjusted. Accepted full papers will be published by Springer in the Advances in Computer Science Applications and Research (ACSAR) series.