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SafeTune: Mitigating Data Poisoning in LLM Fine-Tuning for RTL Code Generation

Mahshid Rezakhani, Nowfel Mashnoor, Kimia Azar, Hadi Kamali ยท 2026

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly fine-tuned for hardware tasks like RTL code generation, the scarcity of high-quality datasets often leads to the use of rapidly assembled or generated โ€ฆ

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Galaxy Zoo Bar Lengths: A Catalogue of Measurements from Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Evolution of Galactic Bar Structure at z < 1

Tenley Hutchinson-Smith, Brooke D. Simmons, Karen L. Masters, Alison Coil, Izzy Garland, Tobias Geron, Sandor Kruk, Chris Lintott, Rebecca Smethurst, Amauri Tapia, Kyle Willett, Elisabeth Baeten, Sylvia Beer, Michael L. Peck, Julianne Wilcox ยท 2026

Understanding the role of galactic scale bars in disk galaxy evolution requires detailed measurements of bar properties across galaxies hosting bars at many redshifts. We present measurements of bar lโ€ฆ

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Coupling between stellar and HI lopsidedness in Milky Way-type galaxies from the Auriga Superstars cosmological simulations

Arianna Dolfi, Facundo A. Gomez, Rebekka Bieri, Francesca Fragkoudi, Robert J. J. Grand, Antonela Monachesi, Ruediger Pakmor, Freeke van de Voort ยท 2026

Lopsidedness is common in disk galaxies, yet its origin and evolution remain unclear. Previous studies typically examined stellar and gas asymmetries separately, but a combined analysis offers a stronโ€ฆ

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Invariant manifolds in barred galaxy simulations. I. Material density waves

Toni Soler-Terricabras, Merce Romero-Gomez, Santi Roca-Fabrega ยท 2026

We investigate the dynamical origin and kinematic signatures of spiral structure in an N-body simulation of an isolated barred galaxy, assessing whether invariant manifold theory provides a consistentโ€ฆ

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Taking a Bite Out of the Forbidden Fruit: Characterizing Third-Party Iranian iOS App Stores

Amirhossein Khanlari, Amir Rahmati ยท 2026

Due to U.S. sanctions and strict internet censorship, Iranian iOS users are barred from accessing the Apple App Store and developer services. In response, despite violating Apple's developer terms, a โ€ฆ

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BARRED: Synthetic Training of Custom Policy Guardrails via Asymmetric Debate

Arnon Mazza, Elad Levi ยท 2026

Deploying guardrails for custom policies remains challenging, as generic safety models fail to capture task-specific requirements, while prompting LLMs suffers from inconsistent boundary-case performaโ€ฆ

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Machine learning technique for morphological classification of galaxies from SDSS. IV. Visual inspection vs CNN for merging, irregular, edge-on, barred, ringed, and with dust lanes galaxies at 0.02<z<0.1

Dobrycheva D.V., Vavilova I.B., Kompaniiets O.V., Khramtsov V., Vasylenko M.Yu., Hetmantsev O.O., Melnyk O.V., Karachentseva V.E ยท 2026

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used for automated galaxy morphological classification in large surveys. However, projection effects, image artefacts, and intrinsic degeneraciโ€ฆ

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Dynamic Cyber Ranges

Victor Mayoral-Vilches, Maria Sanz-Gomez, Francesco Balassone, Maite Del Mundo De Torres, George Nicolaou, Samuel Rodriguez Borines, Almerindo Graziano, Paul Zabalegui, Endika Gil-Uriarte ยท 2026

As LLM-driven agents advance in cybersecurity, Jeopardy CTF benchmarks are approaching saturation and cyber ranges, the natural next evaluation frontier, offer diminishing resistance under their curreโ€ฆ

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A Novel Hierarchy of Quantum Kernel Networks on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Yudong Li, Wenkui Shi, Chunfa Wang, Zhihao Qian, Zhiqiang Feng, Moubin Liu ยท 2026

Currently, quantum computing and artificial intelligence are driving revolutionary advancements in computational science. This study pioneers the integration of quantum kernel networks on smoothed parโ€ฆ

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Fixed-Reservoir vs Variational Quantum Architectures for Chaotic Dynamics: Benchmarking QRC and QPINN on the Lorenz System

Tushar Pandey ยท 2026

Deploying quantum machine learning on NISQ devices requires architectures where training overhead does not negate computational advantages. We systematically compare two quantum approaches for chaoticโ€ฆ

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Efficient Quantum Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Fengxia Liu, Zixian Gong, Kun Tian, Yi Zhang, Zhiming Zheng, Maozhi Xu ยท 2026

Quantum fully homomorphic encryption (QFHE) promises secure delegated quantum computation but has been impeded by the prohibitive quantum resource demands of existing constructions. This paper introduโ€ฆ

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The functional form of galaxy and halo luminosity and mass functions

Amelia Ford, Harry Desmond, Deaglan J Bartlett, Pedro G Ferreira ยท 2026

The galaxy luminosity and stellar mass function (LF, SMF), and halo mass function (HMF), are fundamental quantities in astrophysics and crucial inputs to a range of astrophysical and cosmological analโ€ฆ

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Beam test of a Pb/SciFi prototype for the Barrel Imaging Calorimeter at the Electron-Ion Collider

Hyungjun Lee, Changhui Lee, Jaehyeok Ryu, Geunpil An, Joonsuk Bae, Yunseul Bae, Jeongsu Bok, Yun Eo, Wooseok Ham, Yoonha Hong, Manoj Jadhav, Seo Yun Jang, Jinryong Jeong, Hyon-Suk Jo, Sylvester Joosten, Beomkyu Kim, Bobae Kim, Chong Kim, Dongguk Kim, Minsuk Kim, Shin Hyung Kim, Wonjun Ko, Sehwook Lee, Sanghoon Lim, Jessica Metcalfe, Zisis Papandreou, Sangwoo Park, Junseop Shin, Hwidong Yoo, Maria Zurek ยท 2026

A Lead-Scintillating Fiber (Pb/SciFi) prototype for the Barrel Imaging Calorimeter (BIC) at the Electron--Ion Collider (EIC) was tested with electron beams at the CERN PS T10 beam line in August 2024.โ€ฆ

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A four-player potential game for barren-plateau-aware quantum ansatz design

Ruben Dario Guerrero ยท 2026

We cast the design of parameterized quantum circuits as a four-player potential game whose state is a circuit directed acyclic graph (DAG) and whose players encode trainability, non-stabilizerness, taโ€ฆ

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On the importance of hyperparameters in initializing parameterized quantum circuits

Ankit Kulshrestha, Sarvagya Upadhyay ยท 2026

There has been intensive research on increasing the utility and performance of Parameterized Quantum Circuits (PQCs) in the past couple of years. Owing to this research, there are now several inductivโ€ฆ

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Distributed Quantum-Enhanced Optimization: A Topographical Preconditioning Approach for High-Dimensional Search

Dominik Soos, Marc Paterno, John Stenger, Nikos Chrisochoides ยท 2026

Optimization problems become fundamentally challenging as the number of variables increases. Because the volume of the search space grows exponentially, classical algorithms frequently fail to locate โ€ฆ

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Fast-Cooling Synchrotron in Decaying Magnetic Fields: Implications for the GRB Spectral Distribution

Jia-Ming Chen, Ke-Rui Zhu, Zhao-Yang Peng, Yong-Gang Zheng, Yun-Lu Gong, Shan Chang, Shi-Ting Tian, Li Zhang ยท 2026

The prompt-emission spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are commonly described by the empirical Band function. The typical low-energy spectral index is $\sim -1$, which poses a challenge to standard syโ€ฆ

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Noise-Induced Landscape Distortion in QAOA for Constrained Binary Optimization: Empirical Characterization on IBM Quantum Hardware

Dikran S Meliksetian ยท 2026

We introduce and empirically validate Landscape Span Compression (LSC), a device-agnostic metric for quantifying how hardware noise distorts the variational energy landscape of the Quantum Approximateโ€ฆ

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Very Long Baseline Interferometry Search for Nuclear Radio Continuum Emission in the Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 7479

Seppo Laine, Emmanuel Momjian, Emilia Jarvela, Thomas P. Krichbaum, S. Komossa, Travis C. Fischer, Thomas G. Pannuti ยท 2026

We have obtained very high angular resolution (a few milliarcseconds or sub-parsec scale) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and European Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Network (EVN) radio contโ€ฆ

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Trainability Beyond Linearity in Variational Quantum Objectives

Gordon Ma, Xiufan Li ยท 2026

Barren-plateau results have established exponential gradient suppression as a widely cited obstacle to the scalability of variational quantum algorithms. When and whether these results extend to a givโ€ฆ

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