content: update 2026 publications and acceptance news

_data/news.yml

@@ -115,6 +115,16 @@
 #     headline: '🎂 <strong>Happy Birthday</strong> to Omar Abdelwahed!'
 #==============================================================================
 
+# Date follows the workshop's notification schedule, not a paper-specific email:
+# https://rl-experimental-sciences-workshop.github.io/
+- date: September 29, 2026
+  headline: "**WSI-Lab** accepted for **oral presentation** at [NeurIPS Workshop 2026](https://rl-experimental-sciences-workshop.github.io/)! [Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=y5vMVs7QSp)."
+
+# Date follows ACCV's paper decision notification schedule, not a paper-specific email:
+# https://accv2026.org/submissions/author-guidelines/
+- date: September 20, 2026
+  headline: "**MFE-MIL** paper accepted in [Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2026)](https://accv2026.org/)! [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10225)."
+
 # Date follows BMVC's presentation-format notification schedule, not a paper-specific email:
 # https://bmvc2026.bmva.org/dates/
 - date: August 21, 2026

_data/publications.yml

@@ -41,6 +41,54 @@
 #     list_image: "images/pubpic/survey.jpg"
 #==============================================================================
 
+- id: "Rostami_arXiv2026_InspectAnyCrack"
+  title: "Inspect Any Crack: An Automated End-to-End Crack Segmentation and Severity Assessment Framework"
+  authors: "Ghodsiyeh Rostami, Po-Han Chen, Mahdi S. Hosseini"
+  year: 2026
+  status: "preprint"
+  type: "preprint"
+  journal: "arXiv:2610.14274"
+  arxiv: "2610.14274"
+  doi: "10.48550/arXiv.2610.14274"
+  list_image: "images/pubpic/inspect_any_crack.png"
+  highlight: 0
+
+- id: "He_ACCV2026_MFEMIL"
+  title: "Masked Feature Encoding for Large-Scale Whole Slide Image Representation"
+  authors: "Haoyu He, Basile Tessier-Cloutier, Yang Wang, Mahdi S. Hosseini"
+  year: 2026
+  status: "accepted"
+  type: "inproceedings"
+  booktitle: "Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2026)"
+  arxiv: "2610.10225"
+  github: "https://github.com/AtlasAnalyticsLab/MFE-MIL"
+  doi: "10.48550/arXiv.2610.10225"
+  list_image: "images/pubpic/mfe_mil.png"
+  highlight: 0
+
+- id: "Alagha_NeurIPSW2026_WSILab"
+  title: "WSI-Lab: A Pathologist-Inspired, High-Throughput RL Environment for Sequential Whole-Slide Analysis"
+  authors: "Ahmed Alagha, Hadi Otrok, Rabeb Mizouni, Jamal Bentahar, Mahdi S. Hosseini"
+  year: 2026
+  status: "accepted"
+  type: "inproceedings"
+  booktitle: "NeurIPS Workshop 2026"
+  note: "Oral"
+  url: "https://openreview.net/forum?id=y5vMVs7QSp"
+  highlight: 0
+
+- id: "Yang_arXiv2026_CrossResolutionDistillation"
+  title: "What Makes High-Magnification Knowledge Transferable? A Study of Cross-Resolution Distillation in Whole-Slide Imaging"
+  authors: "Zhiyuan Yang, Jiahao Cheng, Mahdi S. Hosseini"
+  year: 2026
+  status: "under_review"
+  type: "preprint"
+  journal: "arXiv:2609.36407"
+  arxiv: "2609.36407"
+  doi: "10.48550/arXiv.2609.36407"
+  list_image: "images/pubpic/cross_resolution_distillation.png"
+  highlight: 0
+
 - id: "Yang_BMVC2026_GatedSRP"
   title: "Gated Spatial Redundancy Projection for Pathology Transformer Attentions"
   authors: "Zhiyuan Yang, Jiahao Cheng, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh, Mahdi S. Hosseini"

_pages/publications.md

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ permalink: /publications/
     - _data/publications.yml
 
   Sections:
-    1. Published (status: "published", grouped by year, newest first)
-    2. Under Review / Under Revision (status: "under_review")
+    1. Published / Accepted (status: "published" or "accepted", newest year first)
+    2. Preprints / Under Review / Under Revision (status: "preprint" or "under_review")
 
   Components:
     - publication-item.html (renders individual publication cards)
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ permalink: /publications/
 ## List of Publications
 
 {% assign all_publications = site.data.publications | default: empty | compact %}
-{% assign published_entries = all_publications | where: 'status', 'published' %}
-{% assign under_review_entries = all_publications | where: 'status', 'under_review' %}
+{% assign published_entries = all_publications | where_exp: 'entry', 'entry.status == "published" or entry.status == "accepted"' %}
+{% assign under_review_entries = all_publications | where_exp: 'entry', 'entry.status == "under_review" or entry.status == "preprint"' %}
 
 {% if published_entries.size > 0 %}
-<!-- Published entries grouped by year for clarity -->
-### Published
+<!-- Published and accepted entries grouped by year for clarity -->
+### Published / Accepted
 <div class="publication-list" markdown="0">
   {%- assign published_years = published_entries | map: 'year' | compact | uniq | sort | reverse -%}
   {%- for y in published_years -%}
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ permalink: /publications/
 {% endif %}
 
 {% if under_review_entries.size > 0 %}
-<!-- Under-review entries grouped separately but using the same compact layout -->
-### Under Review / Under Revision
+<!-- Preprints and under-review entries use the same compact layout -->
+### Preprints / Under Review / Under Revision
 <div class="publication-list" markdown="0">
   {%- assign review_years = under_review_entries | map: 'year' | compact | uniq | sort | reverse -%}
   {%- for y in review_years -%}