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1335 papers reviewed by authors · 151–160 / 1335

💻 computer science

A Building as a Repository: KIR, a Typed Intermediate Representation for Agent-Authored Building Information Models

This paper introduces KIR, a typed intermediate representation that treats building information models as versioned programs to systematically detect and represent seven specific failure modes in autonomous agent-authored construction, demonstrating significant improvements in error diagnosis and code compactness compared to direct host API manipulation.

Dmitry Kuklev2026-09-16✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 earth science

Seismic velocity changes associated with a flash flood crisis as a proxy for slope instability

This study demonstrates that ambient noise seismic interferometry can effectively monitor slope instability by detecting a rapid, spatially expanding drop in seismic velocity following the September 2022 flash flood in central Italy, which correlates with pore-pressure propagation and offers a promising proxy for forecasting hydro-geological hazards.

Andrea Albano, Mauro Palo2026-09-16✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 machine learning

A derivative-fidelity failure mode in physics-informed neural networks: strengthened benchmark evidence from function-value training

This paper identifies and validates a "derivative-fidelity failure mode" in physics-informed neural networks, demonstrating that models trained solely on function values can achieve visually accurate approximations while producing significantly erroneous second derivatives, particularly in high-curvature regions.

Koji Koyamada2026-09-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
💬 NLP

ShopEase: A Generative AI-Based Multi-Agent Framework for Intelligent Enterprise Customer Support Using Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation

This paper introduces ShopEase, a multi-agent generative AI framework for enterprise customer support that leverages local LLaMA 3.2 and hybrid retrieval, demonstrating through evaluation on 2,632 queries that dense FAISS retrieval outperforms sparse and reranked hybrid approaches in accuracy while avoiding the latency penalties associated with cross-encoder reranking.

Aakash Kumar Tiwari, Somesh Kumar2026-09-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔬 physics

Real-Time Quantum Vacuum Control in a Photonic Integrated Circuit

This paper demonstrates a monolithically integrated mirror–phaseshifter–emitter system in a GaAs waveguide that utilizes a nano-opto-electro-mechanical phase shifter to actively control the optical phase between a quantum dot and its mirror image, thereby enabling real-time modulation of the local density of optical states and the emitter's radiative decay rate for programmable quantum photonic networks.

Ying Wang, Celeste Qvotrup, Marcus Albrechtsen, Rodrigo Thomas, Zhe Liu, Sven Scholz, Arne Ludwig, Leonardo Midolo2026-09-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔢 mathematics

Greedy Packing of Nested Rings: Placement Rules, a Golden Counterexample, and a Tribonacci Floor

The greedy approach returns the lexicographically maximal feasible set for planar disks when rho <= phi; in the independent-holes model, 1/sqrt(2) is the sharp threshold for area optimality. This golden guarantee holds for any finite inventory of planar disks, while in higher dimensions, the guarantee is limited to packing at most five rings.

Javier Aguilar Martín2026-09-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ