Power flow and optimal power flow using quantum and digital annealers: a computational scalability analysis

This study introduces and evaluates the Adiabatic Quantum Power Flow (AQPF) and Optimal Power Flow (AQOPF) algorithms, which reformulate power system analysis as discrete combinatorial optimization problems solvable by quantum and digital annealers, demonstrating their feasibility and promising scalability across various test systems from 4 to 1354 buses.

Zeynab Kaseb, Matthias Moller, Pedro P. Vergara, Peter PalenskyTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Representing local protein environments with machine learning force fields

This paper introduces a novel representation of local protein environments derived from atomistic foundation models that effectively captures structural and chemical features, enabling the construction of data-driven priors and achieving state-of-the-art accuracy in physics-informed NMR chemical shift prediction.

Meital Bojan, Sanketh Vedula, Advaith Maddipatla, Nadav Bojan Sellam, Anar Rzayev, Federico Napoli, Paul Schanda, Alex M. BronsteinTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Transforming H&E images into IHC: A Variance-Penalized GAN for Precision Oncology

This study introduces a variance-penalized GAN based on pyramid pix2pix that generates high-fidelity HER2-specific immunohistochemistry (IHC) images from routine hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides, effectively mitigating mode collapse and outperforming baseline models to enable cost-effective, scalable precision oncology diagnostics.

Sara Rehmat, Hafeez Ur Rehman, Byeong-Gwon Kang, Sarra Ayouni, Yunyoung NamTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

SUBARU: A Practical Approach to Power Saving in Hearables Using SUB-Nyquist Audio Resolution Upsampling

The paper proposes SUBARU, a power-efficient framework for hearables that intentionally employs sub-Nyquist sampling and low bit-resolution ADCs to achieve a 3.31x reduction in power consumption while maintaining high-quality multimodal speech enhancement through a novel wideband reconstruction methodology.

Tarikul Islam Tamiti, Sajid Fardin Dipto, Luke Benjamin Baja-Ricketts, David C Vergano, Anomadarshi BaruaTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

TransUNet-GradCAM: A Hybrid Transformer-U-Net with Self-Attention and Explainable Visualizations for Foot Ulcer Segmentation

This paper presents TransUNet-GradCAM, a hybrid Vision Transformer-U-Net model that effectively segments diabetic foot ulcers by combining global attention with local feature extraction, achieving high accuracy on internal and external datasets while providing explainable visualizations for clinical utility.

Akwasi Asare, Mary Sagoe, Justice Williams Asare, Stephen Edward MooreTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Efficient Construction of Implicit Surface Models From a Single Image for Motion Generation

This paper introduces Fast Image-to-Neural Surface (FINS), a lightweight framework that efficiently reconstructs high-fidelity implicit surfaces and SDF fields from a single image within seconds by leveraging multi-resolution hash grids and pre-trained foundation models, outperforming existing methods in speed and accuracy for robotics applications.

Wei-Teng Chu, Tianyi Zhang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming ZhiTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Think, Speak, Decide: Language-Augmented Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Economic Decision-Making

The paper proposes LAMP, a language-augmented multi-agent reinforcement learning framework that employs a "Think-Speak-Decide" pipeline to integrate unstructured language with numerical data, significantly outperforming existing baselines in economic decision-making through improved cumulative returns, robustness, and interpretability.

Heyang Ma, Qirui Mi, Qipeng Yang, Zijun Fan, Bo Li, Haifeng ZhangTue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Impact of LLMs news Sentiment Analysis on Stock Price Movement Prediction

This paper evaluates the impact of LLM-based news sentiment analysis on stock price prediction, demonstrating that DeBERTa outperforms other models and that an ensemble approach achieves 80% accuracy, while sentiment features provide modest improvements to various time-series forecasting architectures.

Walid Siala (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Ahmed Khanfir (RIADI, ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia, SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Mike Papadakis (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)Tue, 10 Ma💻 cs

Vulnerability-Amplifying Interaction Loops: a systematic failure mode in AI chatbot mental-health interactions

This paper introduces SIM-VAIL, a scalable auditing framework that reveals how consumer AI chatbots can systematically amplify mental health vulnerabilities through cumulative, context-dependent interaction loops, highlighting the need for multidimensional safety evaluations across diverse user phenotypes.

Veith Weilnhammer, Kevin YC Hou, Lennart Luettgau, Christopher Summerfield, Raymond Dolan, Matthew M NourTue, 10 Ma💻 cs