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Chemical Taxonomy of $\omega$~Centauri: Ten Populations Reveal a Multi-Phase Enrichment History

Furkan Akbaba, Olcay Plevne, Timur Sahin, Sena Aleyna Senturk · 2026

$\omega$~Centauri, the most massive globular cluster in the Milky Way, exhibits a level of stellar population complexity that has long resisted a unified chemical characterisation. We exploit high-res…

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LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models

Hao Chen, Jiaming Liu, Zhonghao Yan, Nuowei Han, Renrui Zhang, Chenyang Gu, Jialin Gao, Ziyu Guo, Siyuan Qian, Yinxi Wang, Peng Jia, Chi-Wing Fu, Shanghang Zhang, Pheng-Ann Heng · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have increasingly incorporated reasoning mechanisms for complex robotic manipulation. However, existing approaches share a critical limitation: whether employing ex…

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Uniaxial strain-driven ferroelastic domain control in LaAlO3

Matthias Roeper, Robin Buschbeck, Jakob Wetzel, Tobias Ritschel, Anna-Lena Hofmann, Vladyslav Kovtunovych, Mike N. Pionteck, Javier Taboada-Gutierrez, Alexey B. Kuzmenko, Martina Basini, Vivek Unikandanunni, Iuliia Kiseleva, Jochen Geck, Susanne C. Kehr, Maximilian Lederer, Simone Sanna, Lukas M. Eng, Samuel D. Seddon · 2026

Multiferroic domain walls in functional oxides exhibit properties distinct from the bulk and are increasingly exploited as active elements in nanoelectronic and photonic devices. Deterministic control…

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Exploration Hacking: Can LLMs Learn to Resist RL Training?

Eyon Jang, Damon Falck, Joschka Braun, Nathalie Kirch, Achu Menon, Perusha Moodley, Scott Emmons, Roland S. Zimmermann, David Lindner · 2026

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become essential to the post-training of large language models (LLMs) for reasoning, agentic capabilities and alignment. Successful RL relies on sufficient exploration …

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Action Motifs: Self-Supervised Hierarchical Representation of Human Body Movements

Genki Kinoshita, Shu Nakamura, Ryo Kawahara, Shohei Nobuhara, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Ko Nishino · 2026

Effective human behavior modeling requires a representation of the human body movement that capitalizes on its compositionality. We propose a hierarchical representation consisting of Action Atoms tha…

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Superpolynomial Length Lower Bounds for Tree-Like Semantic Proof Systems with Bounded Line Size

Susanna F. de Rezende, David Engstrom, Yassine Ghannane, Kilian Risse · 2026

We prove superpolynomial length lower bounds for the semantic tree-like Frege refutation system with bounded line size. Concretely, for any function $n^{2-\varepsilon} \leq s(n) \leq 2^{n^{1-\varepsil…

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Heegaard Floer homology and maximal twisting numbers

Alberto Cavallo, Irena Matkovic · 2026

We adapt the Ozsv\'ath-Szab\'o full path algorithm to every star-shaped graph and establish a correspondence between negative-twisting tight contact structures on any Seifert fibred space over $S^2$, …

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Continuous-tone Simple Points: An $\ell_0$-Norm of Cyclic Gradient for Topology-Preserving Data-Driven Image Segmentation

Wenxiao Li, Faqiang Wang, Yuping Duan, Li Cui, Liqiang Zhang, Jun Liu · 2026

Topological features play an essential role in ensuring geometric plausibility and structural consistency in image analysis tasks such as segmentation and skeletonization. However, integrating topolog…

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Crab: A Semantics-Aware Checkpoint/Restore Runtime for Agent Sandboxes

Tianyuan Wu, Chaokun Chang, Lunxi Cao, Wei Gao, Wei Wang · 2026

Autonomous agents act through sandboxed containers and microVMs whose state spans filesystems, processes, and runtime artifacts. Checkpoint and restore (C/R) of this state is needed for fault toleranc…

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Unveiling the potential of NdPO4 magnetocaloric phases in cryogenic refrigeration

M. Balli, L. Attou, S-E. Bouzarmine, S. Oubad, K. El Maalam, P. Fournier, S. Mangin · 2026

The RPO4 orthophosphates (R = rare earth element) have recently attracted a wide interest due to the strong coupling between their electronic, orbital and structural ordering parameters resulting in a…

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Nodal algebraic curves and entropy diagnostics in degenerate two-dimensional harmonic-oscillator shells

C A Escobar Ruiz, H Olivares-Pilon, A M Escobar-Ruiz · 2026

Degenerate quantum eigenspaces can support substantial changes in nodal geometry at fixed energy. We show that, for the two-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator, this restructuring is organized b…

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Polar Topologies in a Ferroelastic Metal Membrane

Rahil Haria, Noah Schnitzer, T. Ben Britton, Yaqi Li, Tom J. P. Irons, Sophia Linssen Pitsaros, Ella Banyas, Geri Topore, Annabel Hoyes, Mariana Palos, Sinead M. Griffin, Katherine Inzani, Michele Shelly Conroy · 2026

Polar metals, materials in which electric polarisation and metallicity coexist, are exceptionally rare because itinerant electrons screen long-range dipoles and favour centrosymmetric structures. Engi…

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The proportion of permutations fixing a $k$-set

Ben Green, Mehtaab Sawhney · 2026

Denote by $p(k)$ the limit, as $n \rightarrow \infty$, of the probability that a random permutation on a set of size $n$ has an invariant set of size $k$. We give an asymptotic formula for $p(k)$, sho…

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FreeOcc: Training-Free Embodied Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction

Zeyu Jiang, Changqing Zhou, Xingxing Zuo, Changhao Chen · 2026

Existing learning-based occupancy prediction methods rely on large-scale 3D annotations and generalize poorly across environments. We present FreeOcc, a training-free framework for open-vocabulary occ…

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I hope we don't do to trust what advertising has done to love

Jade Alglave · 2026

Advertising uses love to sell stuff, like nylons. It also uses the word "love" in trivialising ways -- do you "love" your oven? When I hear about trust in the context of AI, especially agentic, I hope…

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UHR-Net: An Uncertainty-Aware Hypergraph Refinement Network for Medical Image Segmentation

Shuokun Cheng, Jinghao Shi, Kun Sun · 2026

Accurate lesion segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. However, lesions often resemble surrounding tissues and exhibit ill-defined boundaries, leading to unstable predi…

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On centered local $\pi$-bases

Nathan Carlson · 2026

In 1967 Hajnal and Juh{\'a}sz showed that the cardinality of a first-countable Hausdorff space with the countable chain condition has cardinality at most $\mathfrak{c}$, the cardinality of the real li…

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Tailwind: A Practical Framework for Query Accelerators

Geoffrey X. Yu, Ryan Marcus, Tim Kraska · 2026

Relational database management systems (RDBMSes) can process general-purpose queries, but often have lower performance compared to custom-built solutions for specific queries. For example, consider a …

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Hallucination, Abstention, and Recursive Inseparability

Takuma Imamura · 2026

The impossibility of eliminating hallucination, understood here as incorrect definite answers, in sufficiently expressive yes-or-no formal domains is an immediate consequence of classical undecidabili…

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Framework for Collaborative Operation of Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Within a Marshaling Yard

James O'Hara, Karl Wunderlich, Gregory Stevens · 2026

As autonomous vehicles slowly deploy into urban roads for limited use cases with significant edge case issues, closed facilities like marshaling yards provide a ripe case for combining lower-level veh…

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