An Explainable Ensemble Framework for Alzheimer's Disease Prediction Using Structured Clinical and Cognitive Data

This research proposes an explainable ensemble learning framework that integrates structured clinical and cognitive data with advanced preprocessing and hybrid class balancing techniques to achieve accurate and transparent Alzheimer's disease prediction, demonstrating that optimized ensemble models outperform deep learning while providing actionable clinical insights through SHAP analysis.

Nishan Mitra2026-03-06💻 cs

On Emergences of Non-Classical Statistical Characteristics in Classical Neural Networks

This paper introduces the Non-Classical Network (NCnet), a classical neural architecture that exhibits quantum-like non-classical statistical behaviors through gradient competitions and implicit inter-task correlations, revealing that the resulting CHSH SS statistic serves as a novel indicator for understanding internal network dynamics and generalization performance across different resource regimes.

Hanyu Zhao, Yang Wu, Yuexian Hou2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Understanding the Dynamics of Demonstration Conflict in In-Context Learning

This paper investigates how large language models process conflicting demonstrations in in-context learning, revealing a two-phase computational structure where early layers encode both correct and incorrect rules while late layers commit to predictions, and identifies specific attention heads responsible for this vulnerability that can be mitigated through targeted ablation to significantly improve performance.

Difan Jiao, Di Wang, Lijie Hu2026-03-06💻 cs

Towards Explainable Deep Learning for Ship Trajectory Prediction in Inland Waterways

This study proposes an interpretable LSTM-based model for predicting ship trajectories in inland waterways that incorporates trained ship domain parameters to analyze attention mechanisms, revealing that while the model achieves competitive accuracy, its attention weights do not fully align with expected causal relationships between interacting vessels.

Tom Legel, Dirk Söffker, Roland Schätzle + 1 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Dictionary Based Pattern Entropy for Causal Direction Discovery

This paper introduces Dictionary Based Pattern Entropy (DPE), a novel framework that combines Algorithmic and Shannon Information Theories to infer causal directions and identify driving subpatterns in symbolic sequences by quantifying how compact, rule-based patterns in a cause systematically reduce uncertainty in an effect, demonstrating robust performance across diverse synthetic and real-world datasets.

Harikrishnan N B, Shubham Bhilare, Aditi Kathpalia + 1 more2026-03-06🔢 math

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Rethinking EEG Foundation Model Pretraining via Multi-Teacher Distillation

This paper proposes the Multi-Teacher Distillation Pretraining (MTDP) framework, which leverages representations from established vision and time-series foundation models to efficiently bootstrap EEG foundation models, achieving superior performance across diverse downstream tasks with only 25% of the data required by traditional self-supervised methods.

Chenqi Li, Yu Liu, Shuo Zhang + 2 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Projected Hessian Learning: Fast Curvature Supervision for Accurate Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials

The paper introduces Projected Hessian Learning (PHL), a scalable framework that enables efficient, curvature-informed training of machine-learning interatomic potentials by utilizing stochastic Hessian-vector products instead of explicit Hessian matrices, thereby achieving full-second-order accuracy with significantly reduced computational cost and memory requirements.

Austin Rodriguez, Justin S. Smith, Sakib Matin + 3 more2026-03-06🔬 physics