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🌀 nonlinear sciences

Redefining Fitness: Inference, Information and Phase Transitions in Evolutionary Dynamics

This paper resolves fundamental issues in evolutionary theory by redefining fitness as a Bayesian likelihood, demonstrating that natural selection acts to maximize the mutual information between population structure and environmental statistics, thereby establishing information maximization as the governing principle of evolution.

Luís MA Bettencourt, Brandon J Grandison, Jordan T Kemp2026-07-16✓ Author reviewed
🧬 biology

Pathway-Informed Stratification of Major Depression: Links to NMN-Rescued Aging Programs in Mitochondrial Metabolism and Trafficking

This study proposes a pathway-informed stratification of major depression by demonstrating that symptom-specific genetic liabilities converge on mitochondrial metabolism and trafficking pathways previously linked to NMN-rescued aging programs, thereby supporting a biologically distinct dimensional model of the disorder.

Ngo Cheung2026-07-16✓ Author reviewed
🤖 AI

Rethinking Penetration Testing for AI-Enabled Systems: From Resource Compromise to Behavioral Objective Violation

This paper proposes a new framework for penetration testing AI-enabled systems that shifts the focus from traditional infrastructure compromise to evaluating whether adversaries can induce behavioral violations of operational objectives through various influence pathways like prompt injection and data poisoning.

Mohammad Allahbakhsh, Mohammad Hassan Bahari, Moslem Attar-Raouf2026-07-16✓ Author reviewed
⚡ electrical engineering

Physics-Driven Hierarchical Cascade Surrogate for Compositional Simulation of Geological CO2 and H2S Storage

This study introduces the Hierarchical Cascade Surrogate for CO2 Storage (HCS-CO2S), a physics-driven machine learning model that accurately predicts the full compositional state of reservoir fluids over centennial timescales by decomposing the prediction task into five causally ordered levels to suppress error accumulation in blind forecasts.

Stepan Zainulin, Anna Storozheva2026-07-16✓ Author reviewed
🧬 biology

RAcolony: A Multimodal Platform Integrating Raman Spectroscopy and Automated Imaging for Efficient Construction of Personalized Gut Microbiome Biobanks

The authors present RAcolony, an intelligent, high-throughput platform that integrates Raman spectroscopy with automated imaging to efficiently construct personalized gut microbiome biobanks by significantly reducing redundancy and capturing high-resolution microbial diversity, including novel taxa.

Yang Yan, He Jiang, Jian-Bo Ma, Min-Zhi Jiang, Chen Chen, Zi-Nuo An, Xin-Yao Li, Guozhong Chen, Xiao-Yang Zhu, Tian-Yu L (…)2026-07-16✓ Author reviewed
🧬 biology

Soft Actor-Critic Control of a Behaviorally Heterogeneous S1S2IR Epidemic Model: Stability, Bifurcation, and COVID-19 Calibration

This paper proposes a Soft Actor-Critic reinforcement learning framework integrated with a behaviorally heterogeneous S1S2IR epidemic model to dynamically optimize intervention strategies, demonstrating through COVID-19 calibration that it effectively reduces infection peaks and costs compared to static policies.

Milad tahavor, Davron Makhmudov, Mohammad Mehdipour Zarrinkamar, Hossein Hosseini, Reza Memarbashi2026-07-16✓ Author reviewed
🔭 astrophysics

TESS Photometry and Radial Velocity Analysis of the sub-Neptune Exoplanet {\pi} Mensae c and the Wider {\pi} Mensae Planetary System

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of six years of TESS photometry and 22 years of radial velocity data for the π\pi Mensae system, yielding significantly improved orbital ephemerides for planets b and c, constraining the mass of a proposed third planet, and identifying π\pi Men c as a prime target for future JWST atmospheric studies.

Skylar S. Larsen, Jake D. Turner, Nikole K. Lewis, Maryame El Moutamid, Diana Solano-Oropeza, Lili Alderson, V. Abby Boe (…)2026-07-15✓ Author reviewed
📊 epidemiology

Prevalence of Anemia and Associated Factors Among Post-Partum Mothers in Public Health Facilities in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

This systematic review and meta-analysis of six studies involving 2,819 postpartum mothers in Ethiopia reveals a severe public health burden of anemia with a pooled prevalence of 35.4%, driven significantly by modifiable factors such as inadequate antenatal care, poor iron and folic acid adherence, hemorrhagic complications, and low educational attainment.

Woldearegay, H. N., Tebeka, M. S., Osman, S. O. S.2026-07-15✓ Author reviewed
🤖 machine learning

From Geometric Recovery to Causal Validation: A Reproducible Audit of Sparse Autoencoder Features, from Superposition Geometry to Causal Inertness

This paper introduces a causal audit framework demonstrating that standard correlational recovery metrics for Sparse Autoencoder features are insufficient, as they fail to detect that a significant portion of "recovered" features are causally inert due to geometric artifacts and competitive pathologies, thereby necessitating a shift from geometric alignment validation to causal verification.

Mohamed Abdessalem Bal2026-07-15✓ Author reviewed