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KAN-Matrix: Visualizing Nonlinear Pairwise and Multivariate Contributions for Physical Insight

arXiv:2512.15755v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Interpreting complex datasets remains a major challenge for scientists, particularly due to high dimensionality and collinearity among variables. We introduce a novel application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) to enhance interpretability and par…

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Quantitative Verification of Fairness in Tree Ensembles

arXiv:2512.16386v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work focuses on quantitative verification of fairness in tree ensembles. Unlike traditional verification approaches that merely return a single counterexample when the fairness is violated, quantitative verification estimates the ratio of all cou…

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Earth Has Two North Poles. How Does Santa Know Which One Is Home?

No, seriously, there's some good science here.

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Comprehensive AI Literacy: The Case for Centering Human Agency

arXiv:2512.16656v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid assimilation of Artificial Intelligence technologies into various facets of society has created a significant educational imperative that current frameworks are failing to effectively address. We are witnessing the rise of a dangerous litera…

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How mountain building and climate change have shaped alpine biodiversity over 30 million years

In a study published in Science Advances on December 19, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from international institutions, explored the impact of mountain building and climate cooling over 30 million years ac…

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Investigation of Profile Shifting and Subpulse Movement in PSR J0344-0901 with FAST

H. M. Tedila et al 2024 ApJ 965 144 Researchers have identified four emission modes in PSR J0344−0901 for the first time, finding that each emission mode has its own subpulse behavior.
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A Survey of Cassini Images of Spokes in Saturn’s Rings: Unusual Spoke Types and Seasonal Trends

S. R. Callos et al 2025 Planet. Sci. J. 6 17 Particle clouds called spokes in the outer parts of Saturn’s rings show a variety of intriguing behaviors, including seasonal variations and switching from appearing darker and lighter than the ring material.
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Insights into Galaxy Evolution from Interpretable Sparse Feature Networks

John F. Wu 2025 ApJ 980 183 A novel neural network architecture produces interpretable features that can be combined to estimate galaxy properties such as metallicity from pixel-level features.
The post Insights into Galaxy Evolution from Interpretable Sparse Feature Networks appeared first on AAS N…

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Tracking Wildfire Assets with Commodity RFID and Gaussian Process Modeling

arXiv:2512.15956v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents a novel, cost-effective, and scalable approach to track numerous assets distributed in forested environments using commodity Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) targeting wildfire response applications. Commodity RFID systems suf…

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R4: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Vision-Language Models in 4D Spatio-Temporal Space

arXiv:2512.15940v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Humans perceive and reason about their surroundings in four dimensions by building persistent, structured internal representations that encode semantic meaning, spatial layout, and temporal dynamics. These multimodal memories enable them to recall pas…

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On The Hidden Biases of Flow Matching Samplers

arXiv:2512.16768v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We study the implicit bias of flow matching (FM) samplers via the lens of empirical flow matching. Although population FM may produce gradient-field velocities resembling optimal transport (OT), we show that the empirical FM minimizer is almost neve…

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Tight Analysis of a One-Shot Quantum Secret Sharing Scheme

arXiv:2511.04399v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Quantum communication protocols can be designed to detect eavesdropping attacks, something that classical technologies are unable to do since classical information can be replicated in a non-destructive manner. Eavesdropping detection is, th…

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Optimizing tiny colorless feedback delay networks

arXiv:2402.11216v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: A common bane of artificial reverberation algorithms is spectral coloration in the synthesized sound, typically manifesting as metallic ringing, leading to a degradation in the perceived sound quality. In delay network methods, coloration is…

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Exploration v.s. Exploitation: Rethinking RLVR through Clipping, Entropy, and Spurious Reward

arXiv:2512.16912v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper examines the exploration-exploitation trade-off in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), a framework for improving the reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent studies suggest that RLVR can elicit strong mathematic…

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Implementing a Sharia Chatbot as a Consultation Medium for Questions About Islam

arXiv:2512.16644v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This research presents the implementation of a Sharia-compliant chatbot as an interactive medium for consulting Islamic questions, leveraging Reinforcement Learning (Q-Learning) integrated with Sentence-Transformers for semantic embedding to ensure co…

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Discovery of the most intron-rich eukaryotic genome

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have decoded the nuclear genome of Amorphochlora amoebiformis, a unicellular marine alga belonging to the chlorarachniophyte group.

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Value Lens: Using Large Language Models to Understand Human Values

arXiv:2512.15722v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The autonomous decision-making process, which is increasingly applied to computer systems, requires that the choices made by these systems align with human values. In this context, systems must assess how well their decisions reflect human values. To …

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Confusions and Erasures of Error-Bounded Block Decoders with Finite Blocklength

arXiv:2512.16665v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper investigates two distinct types of block errors - undetected errors (confusions) and erasures - in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels with error-bounded block decoders operating in the finite blocklength (FBL) regime. While block…

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Anubuddhi: A Multi-Agent AI System for Designing and Simulating Quantum Optics Experiments

arXiv:2512.15736v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present Anubuddhi, a multi-agent AI system that designs and simulates quantum optics experiments from natural language prompts without requiring specialized programming knowledge. The system composes optical layouts by arranging components from a t…

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Hull Clustering with Blended Representative Periods for Energy System Optimization Models

arXiv:2508.21641v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The growing integration of renewable energy sources into power systems requires planning models to account for not only demand variability but also fluctuations in renewable availability during operational periods. Capturing this temporal de…