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Kinematic Discriminants of Deceleration Behavior Modes in Car-Following: Evidence from NGSIM Trajectory Data

Analyzing over one million car-following observations from the NGSIM dataset, this study reveals that deceleration intensity dictates whether drivers prioritize gap-closing rate or visual looming for braking decisions, while rendering traditional spacing headway negligible, thereby challenging conventional driver behavior models and offering critical insights for autonomous vehicle control.

Eni Solomon Laughter2026-05-07✓ Author reviewed ⚡ eess

On the Architectural Complexity of Neural Networks

This paper introduces a unified theoretical framework for analyzing and constructing deep neural networks by explicitly modeling tensor operations, revealing historical links between architectural complexity and breakthroughs while identifying and releasing a dataset of 3,000+ unexplored high-complexity architectures.

Nicholas J. Cooper, François G. Meyer, Michael L. Roberts, Carlos Zapata-Carratalá, Lijun Chen, Danna Gurari2026-05-07✓ Author reviewed 🤖 cs.LG

Non-thermal particle acceleration in multi-species kinetic plasmas: universal power-law distribution functions and temperature inversion in the solar corona

This article proposes a self-consistent quasilinear theory showing that non-thermal power-law distributions and the temperature inversion of the solar corona are interrelated phenomena arising from electromagnetically driven particle acceleration and Debye shielding, which naturally produce universal high-energy tails in kinetic multi-component plasmas as well as heating driven by velocity filtering.

Uddipan Banik, Amitava Bhattacharjee2026-05-07✓ Author reviewed 🔭 astro-ph

Defining Operational Conditions for Safety-Critical AI-Based Systems from Data

This paper proposes a novel, automated Safety-by-Design method that uses a multi-dimensional kernel-based representation to derive the Operational Design Domain (ODD) from collected data, thereby addressing certification challenges for safety-critical AI systems as validated by Monte Carlo simulations and a real-world aviation collision-avoidance use case.

Johann Maximilian Christensen, Elena Hoemann, Frank Köster, Sven Hallerbach2026-05-07✓ Author reviewed 🤖 cs.AI