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💻 computer science

Multi-Orientation Hybrid Convolutional Feature Learning for Touch-Less Face-Based Biometric Recognition

This study proposes an orientation-aware hybrid convolutional neural network that integrates hand-crafted edge and texture filters with deep learning features to enhance touch-less face recognition robustness against pose, illumination, and occlusion variations, achieving improved F1-scores across three benchmark datasets.

sulochana sonkamble, Balwant sonkamble2026-06-30✓ Author reviewed
⚛️ quantum physics

Compression-Driven Anomaly Detection in Brain MRI Using an Interpretable Quantum Autoencoder

This paper presents an interpretable quantum autoencoder that utilizes angle encoding and variational compression to effectively detect anomalies in brain MRI scans, achieving superior performance over classical baselines by leveraging the incompressibility of pathological regions relative to a learned normal manifold.

Santanu Ganguly, Xing Liang, Dimitrios Makris2026-06-29✓ Author reviewed
⚛️ nuclear theory

Bridging Ab Initio Symmetries and Global Nuclear Masses with Interpretable Neural Networks

This paper demonstrates that interpretable neural networks incorporating Wigner's SU(4) and Elliott's SU(3) symmetries not only achieve competitive accuracy in predicting global nuclear masses but also reveal that these fundamental symmetries govern binding energies across the entire nuclear chart, offering crucial physical insights into phenomena like symmetry restoration near the neutron dripline.

Phong Dang, Evander Espinoza, Xiaoliang Wan, Michela Negro, Jerry P. Draayer, Feng Pan, Tomas Dytrych, Daniel Langr, Dav (…)2026-06-29✓ Author reviewed
📄 psychiatry and clinical psychology

Beyond the Sentence: Clinical and Social Determinants of Forensic Hospitalization Duration in Northern Israel

This retrospective study of 119 forensic patients in Northern Israel reveals that clinical factors, particularly the timing of the first discretionary leave, rather than offense severity, are the primary determinants of hospitalization duration, suggesting a need for personalized, clinically focused discharge planning.

Kovalenko, I., Simonov, S., Shamir, A., Sharony, L.2026-06-29✓ Author reviewed
⚛️ general relativity

Gravitational-wave response functions for space-borne detectors based on multiple geometric time-delay interferometry links

This paper presents a generalized formulation based on multiple geometric time-delay interferometry links that streamlines the derivation of response functions for 45 second-generation space-borne gravitational wave detector combinations, thereby reducing computational complexity and enhancing physical clarity for future data processing.

Rui Luo, Pan-Pan Wang, Lin-Lin Yang, Xin-Lei Zhao, Cheng-Gang Shao2026-06-29✓ Author reviewed
🔭 astrophysics

Accretion-Driven Evolution of Compact-Object Populations in Gas-Rich Environments and the Origin of Massive Gravitational-Wave Sources

This paper proposes a continuity-equation framework demonstrating that gas accretion acts as a mass-space transport process that, depending on the accretion rate's mass dependence, can either diverge or converge compact-object populations, thereby naturally explaining the origin of massive gravitational-wave sources and the observed high-mass tails in merger catalogs.

Mor Rozner, Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz2026-06-29✓ Author reviewed
🔬 condensed matter

The effect of HVDC lines in power-grids via Kuramoto modelling

This paper presents a numerical study using the adaptive second-order Kuramoto model on a European power grid to demonstrate that while adaptive High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) lines improve steady-state synchronization and reduce cascade sizes, they also introduce drawbacks such as frequency spread, Braess effects, and significantly longer relaxation times.

Kristóf Benedek, Géza Ódor2026-06-29✓ Author reviewed
📄 radiology and imaging

An Open, Reproducible Gamma-Variate Pipeline for CT-Perfusion Time-Attenuation Curve Analysis, with Standardized (ASIST-Japan) Map Visualization

This paper introduces an open, reproducible gamma-variate pipeline for CT-perfusion analysis that ensures cross-site comparability through standardized ASIST-Japan visualization and validates its accuracy and bit-stable reproducibility using synthetic benchmarks with known ground truth.

Yamamoto, S.2026-06-29✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

MultModLM: A multi-modal benchmark for Large-Language Model based hardware schematic generation

This paper introduces MultModLM, a multi-modal benchmark and comprehensive evaluation framework for assessing Large Language Models' ability to generate hardware schematics from RTL descriptions, revealing that while models produce visually interpretable outputs, they struggle with functional correctness and that LLM-based evaluators are unreliable for judging structural precision in hardware design.

Dhruv Kulkarni, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinkarrao2026-06-29✓ Author reviewed