BA-LoRA: Bias-Alleviating Low-Rank Adaptation to Mitigate Catastrophic Inheritance in Large Language Models

This paper introduces BA-LoRA, a novel parameter-efficient fine-tuning method that mitigates "Catastrophic Inheritance" in Large Language Models by employing targeted regularizers to address knowledge drift, representation collapse, and noise overfitting, thereby enhancing model robustness, fairness, and performance across diverse NLU and NLG tasks.

Yupeng Chang, Yi Chang, Yuan Wu2026-03-04💬 cs.CL

StarWhisper Telescope: An AI framework for automating end-to-end astronomical observations

The StarWhisper Telescope system is an AI agent framework that automates end-to-end astronomical observations by integrating large language models with specialized workflows to autonomously plan observations, analyze data, and trigger follow-ups, thereby reducing human intervention and demonstrating scalable potential for future large-scale telescope arrays.

Cunshi Wang, Yu Zhang, Yuyang Li + 25 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

BioChemInsight: An Online Platform for Automated Extraction of Chemical Structures and Activity Data from Patents

BioChemInsight is an open-source pipeline that integrates advanced optical recognition and large language models to automatically extract chemical structures and bioactivity data from patents with over 90% accuracy, thereby significantly accelerating drug discovery by unlocking complementary chemical space not found in public databases like ChEMBL.

Zhe Wang, Fangtian Fu, Wei Zhang + 10 more2026-03-04🧬 q-bio

A Zipf-preserving, long-range correlated surrogate for written language and other symbolic sequences

This paper introduces a novel surrogate model that simultaneously preserves both the empirical symbol frequency distributions (such as Zipf's law) and the long-range correlation structures of symbolic sequences like language and DNA by mapping fractional Gaussian noise onto the original histogram, thereby enabling the disentanglement of structural features and the testing of scaling law origins.

Marcelo A. Montemurro, Mirko Degli Esposti2026-03-04🧬 q-bio