This collection focuses on Eess — As, a specialized area within electrical engineering and systems science dedicated to the analysis and design of complex systems. Here, researchers explore how individual components interact to create larger, functional networks, ranging from power grids to communication protocols. These studies often rely on rigorous mathematical models to predict system behavior and ensure stability in an increasingly interconnected world.

Gist.Science processes every new preprint in this category directly from arXiv, ensuring you have access to the very latest findings before formal publication. For each paper, we provide both a plain-language overview to make the core concepts accessible to a broad audience and a detailed technical summary for those seeking deeper methodological insights. Below are the latest papers in this field, carefully curated to keep you informed on the cutting edge of systems science.

💻 computer science

Comparing Spectrogram Front-Ends for Abnormal Heart-Sound Detection with a Convolutional Neural Network

This study demonstrates that while a fixed Convolutional Neural Network achieves high sensitivity in detecting abnormal heart sounds using the PhysioNet 2016 dataset, employing PCEN or multi-resolution spectrogram front-ends yields slightly higher accuracy than standard logmel spectrograms, with Grad-CAM visualizations confirming the model's focus on physiologically relevant low-frequency heart sound components.

Abhinav Pala, Dhanush Pala2026-07-21
⚡ electrical engineering

SALMONN-2: Advancing General-Purpose Hearing Abilities with Self-Supervised Representations

SALMONN-2 is a general-purpose audio large language model that leverages a unified self-supervised learning encoder with a novel multi-layer feature fusion adapter to achieve state-of-the-art performance across diverse audio tasks and enable multimodal in-context learning through targeted contextual biasing training.

Xiaoyu Yang, Xuenan Xu, Wenyi Yu, Siyin Wang, Changli Tang, Terumi Chiba, Siyuan Hou, Ziyang Zhang, Wen Wu, Baoxiang Li (…)2026-07-21
⚡ electrical engineering

Song Aesthetics Evaluation with Multi-Stem Attention and Hierarchical Uncertainty Modeling

This paper proposes a novel song aesthetics evaluation framework that utilizes Multi-Stem Attention Fusion to capture complex musical features and Hierarchical Granularity-Aware Interval Aggregation to model human perception nuances, demonstrating superior performance on both AI-generated and human-created song datasets compared to state-of-the-art models.

Yishan Lv, Jing Luo, Boyuan Ju, Yang Zhang, Xinda Wu, Bo Yuan, Xinyu Yang2026-07-20
⚡ electrical engineering

Estimating the Reliability of Dynamic Time Warping Alignments Using Circumstantial Evidence

This paper proposes an unsupervised method for estimating the reliability of local segments in Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) alignments by measuring the agreement between the original path and a re-estimated path using FlexDTW with relaxed boundary conditions, achieving an aggregate AUROC of 0.97 in identifying reliable regions on audio-audio alignment tasks.

Aanya Pratapneni, Alice Yuan, TJ Tsai2026-07-20
⚡ electrical engineering

Audio-Visual Flamingo: Open Audio-Visual Intelligence for Long and Complex Videos

The paper introduces Audio-Visual Flamingo (AV-Flamingo), a fully open state-of-the-art large language model designed for joint understanding and reasoning over long, complex real-world videos by leveraging a massive new dataset, a progressive three-stage training curriculum, and a novel temporal interleaved chain-of-thought framework.

Sreyan Ghosh, Arushi Goel, Kaousheik Jayakumar, Lasha Koroshinadze, Nishit Anand, Siddharth Gururani, Hanrong Ye, Pritam (…)2026-07-20