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Sharper Guarantees for Misspecified Kernelized Bandit Optimization

This paper proves that the misspecification penalty in kernelized bandit optimization — both offline (simple regret) and online (cumulative regret) — can be reduced from a square-root-of-complexity factor to a logarithmic or polylogarithmic one, by exploiting spectral localization in the offline setting and spatial domain-splitting in the online setting.

Davide Maran, Csaba Szepesvári2026-05-08✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 machine learning

Molecules Meet Language: Confound-Aware Representation Learning and Chemical Property Steering in Transformer-VAE Latent Spaces

This paper demonstrates that while unsupervised Transformer-VAE latent spaces trained on SELFIES can support meaningful chemical property steering, such control is only valid when rigorously validated through decoded molecules and confound-aware evaluation to distinguish genuine chemical signals from sequence-level artifacts.

Zakaria Elabid, Jan Andrzejewski, Bartosz Brzoza, Attila Cangi2026-05-08✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 machine learning

Suspicious Alignment of SGD: A Fine-Grained Step Size Condition Analysis

This paper provides a fine-grained analysis of the "suspicious alignment" phenomenon in SGD under ill-conditioned optimization, revealing how specific step size conditions cause gradient updates to align with a dominant subspace that paradoxically fails to reduce loss, while updates to the bulk subspace remain effective.

Shenyang Deng, Boyao Liao, Zhuoli Ouyang, Tianyu Pang, Minhak Song, Yaoqing Yang2026-05-08✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔬 materials science

Computational study of interactions between ionized glyphosate and carbon nanotube: An alternative for mitigating environmental contamination

This computer-aided study demonstrates that single-walled carbon nanotubes effectively adsorb ionized glyphosate species through various interaction mechanisms, thereby underscoring their potential for environmental monitoring and the remediation of agricultural contamination.

H. T. Silva, L. C. S. Faria, T. A. Aversi-Ferreira, I. Camps2026-05-08✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
💻 computer science

UX in the Age of AI: Rethinking Evaluation Metrics Through a Statistical Lens

This paper proposes the Adaptive Dynamic UX Statistical Framework (ADUX-Stat), a novel evaluation model that replaces static usability metrics with probabilistic constructs—specifically the Interaction Entropy Index, Temporal Drift Coefficient, and Bayesian Usability Confidence Score—to effectively assess the stochastic and context-sensitive nature of AI-mediated systems.

Harish Vijayakumar2026-05-08✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
💻 computer science

Edge Triggering in IoT Mesh Networks: A Comparative Monte Carlo Study of Seven Detection Algorithms

This paper presents a comprehensive Monte Carlo study demonstrating that the Temporal Spectral Noise-Floor Adaptation (TSNFA) method, which uniquely combines spectral band selection, temporal persistence filtering, and adaptive noise-floor tracking, achieves perfect detection with zero false positives in a 200-node IoT mesh network, outperforming six alternative algorithms that fail due to the absence of at least one of these critical defenses.

Sergii Makovetskyi, Lars Thomsen2026-05-08✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚛️ quantum physics

Emergent Quantum Dynamics as a Bayesian Inference Problem: A Critical Analysis

This paper establishes a connection between coarse-grained quantum dynamics and the quantum conditional states formalism from a Bayesian perspective, addressing the existence of emergent dynamics through analytical solutions and semidefinite programming while introducing a new robustness measure to quantify noise tolerance in these effective descriptions.

Thales B. S. F. Rodrigues, Lucas L. Brugger, Vinicius G. Valle, Bruno F. Rizzuti, Cristhiano Duarte2026-05-07✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 AI

Temporal Reasoning Is Not the Bottleneck: A Probabilistic Inconsistency Framework for Neuro-Symbolic QA

This paper challenges the notion that temporal reasoning is the primary bottleneck for large language models, proposing instead that failures stem from unstructured text-to-event representation and introducing a neuro-symbolic framework with a Probabilistic Inconsistency Signal that achieves perfect accuracy on benchmarks by decoupling semantic extraction from symbolic reasoning.

Tran Quang Liem2026-05-07✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚛️ quantum physics

A Transferable Machine Learning Approach to Predict Optimized Orbitals for Electronic Structure Problems

This paper introduces a transferable graph neural network framework that predicts optimized molecular orbital coefficients directly from geometry, enabling scalable, retraining-free acceleration of variational quantum eigensolver workflows by significantly reducing classical pre-processing overhead and improving convergence for larger hydrogen systems.

Lucas van der Horst, Maniraman Periyasamy, Abhishek Y. Dubey, Davide Bincoletto, Jakob S. Kottmann, Daniel D. Scherer2026-05-07✓ Author reviewed ⓘ