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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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Generalizable Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction from Unconstrained Images

Vinayak Gupta, Chih-Hao Lin, Shenlong Wang, Anand Bhattad, Jia-Bin Huang · 2026

Reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse, unposed images remains challenging under real-world conditions with varying illumination and transient occlusions. Existing methods rely on scene-specific optimiz…

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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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Synthetic Computers at Scale for Long-Horizon Productivity Simulation

Tao Ge, Baolin Peng, Hao Cheng, Jianfeng Gao · 2026

Realistic long-horizon productivity work is strongly conditioned on user-specific computer environments, where much of the work context is stored and organized through directory structures and content…

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An adaptive wavelet-based PINN for problems with localized high-magnitude source

Himanshu Pandey, Ratikanta Behera · 2026

In recent years, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have gained significant attention for solving differential equations, although they suffer from two fundamental limitations, namely, spectral …

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AEGIS: A Holistic Benchmark for Evaluating Forensic Analysis of AI-Generated Academic Images

Bo Zhang, Tzu-Yen Ma, Zichen Tang, Junpeng Ding, Zirui Wang, Yizhuo Zhao, Peilin Gao, Zijie Xi, Zixin Ding, Haiyang Sun, Haocheng Gao, Yuan Liu, Liangjia Wang, Yiling Huang, Yujie Wang, Yuyue Zhang, Ronghui Xi, Yuanze Li, Jiacheng Liu, Zhongjun Yang, Haihong E · 2026

We introduce AEGIS, A holistic benchmark for Evaluating forensic analysis of AI-Generated academic ImageS. Compared to existing benchmarks, AEGIS features three key advances: (1) Domain-Specific Compl…

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Strait: Perceiving Priority and Interference in ML Inference Serving

Haidong Zhao, Nikolaos Georgantas · 2026

Machine learning (ML) inference serving systems host deep neural network (DNN) models and schedule incoming inference requests across deployed GPUs. However, limited support for task prioritization an…

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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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PhyCo: Learning Controllable Physical Priors for Generative Motion

Sriram Narayanan, Ziyu Jiang, Srinivasa Narasimhan, Manmohan Chandraker · 2026

Modern video diffusion models excel at appearance synthesis but still struggle with physical consistency: objects drift, collisions lack realistic rebound, and material responses seldom match their un…

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Mapping the Phase Diagram of the Vicsek Model with Machine Learning

Grace T. Bai, Brandon B. Le · 2026

In this study, we use machine learning to classify and interpolate the phase structure of the Vicsek flocking model across the three-dimensional parameter space $(\eta,\rho,v_0)$. We construct a datas…

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Essential, Yet Overlooked: Identity Verification Barriers for Blind and Low Vision People in Government Services

Ryan John Oommen, Tanusree Sharma · 2026

Identity verification is a critical gateway to accessing government services and public benefits, yet contemporary systems are typically designed around visual interaction, leaving blind and low visio…

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Deeply virtual pion production through two-loop order

Wen Chen, Feng Feng, Yu Jia, Qing-Tao Song, Guang Tang, Zhe-Yu Wang · 2026

Deeply virtual meson production (DVMP) is among the most prominent channels to extract the nucleon's generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at $ep$ scattering facilities such as {\tt JLab} and the up…

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Reorganizing Quantum Measurement Records Improves Time-Series Prediction

Markus Baumann, Maximilian Zorn, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Jonas Stein · 2026

Near-term quantum computers are accessed through repeated circuit executions, which produce finite measurement records rather than exact deterministic outputs. In quantum reservoir computing, these re…

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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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FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li · 2026

We present FlexiTac, a low-cost, open-source, and scalable piezoresistive tactile sensing solution designed for robotic end-effectors. FlexiTac is a practical "plug-in" module consisting of (i) thin, …

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Supercriticality of the SIRS on random networks

Phuc Lam, Oanh Nguyen · 2026

We study how long the SIRS process persists or how quickly it reaches extinction across various network topologies. Our results provide a three-part characterization of this process: In finite sparse …

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Design and Characteristics of a Thin-Film ThermoMesh for the Efficient Embedded Sensing of a Spatio-Temporally Sparse Heat Source

Sajjad Boorghan Farahan, Ahmed Alajlouni, Jingzhou Zhao · 2026

This work presents ThermoMesh, a passive thin-film thermoelectric mesh sensor designed to detect and characterize spatio-temporally sparse heat sources through conduction-based thermal imaging. The de…

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Beyond the Separatrix: Analytic Continuation of Darwin Variables for Plunging Geodesics in Schwarzschild Spacetime

Francisco M. Blanco · 2026

We study geodesic motion of a test particle in Schwarzschild spacetime. Bound and scattering geodesics are commonly described using Darwin variables, which provide a convenient parametrization of the …

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Claw-Eval-Live: A Live Agent Benchmark for Evolving Real-World Workflows

Chenxin Li, Zhengyang Tang, Huangxin Lin, Yunlong Lin, Shijue Huang, Shengyuan Liu, Bowen Ye, Rang Li, Lei Li, Benyou Wang, Yixuan Yuan · 2026

LLM agents are expected to complete end-to-end units of work across software tools, business services, and local workspaces. Yet many agent benchmarks freeze a curated task set at release time and gra…

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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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