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Euclid: Quick Data Release (Q1) -- Dual AGN in low-mass galaxies

Using the Euclid Quick Data Release combined with multi-wavelength observations, researchers identified nine spectroscopically confirmed dual AGN candidates in low-mass galaxies, providing the first sample of such systems that trace progenitor black hole pairs potentially destined to coalesce and emit gravitational waves detectable by LISA.

M. Mezcua (Institute of Space Sciences, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya), B. Laloux (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Via Moiariello 16, 80131 Napoli, Italy, Max Planck Institut (…)2026-04-16✓ Author reviewed 🔭 astro-ph

Staying on Track: Efficient Trajectory Discovery with Adaptive Batch Sampling

This paper proposes a trajectory-oriented Bayesian optimization method that utilizes Gaussian process surrogates incorporating both input parameters and random seeds, combined with an adaptive Thompson Sampling algorithm, to efficiently identify data-consistent trajectories in stochastic epidemic models while outperforming traditional parameter-only inference approaches.

Arindam Fadikar, Abby Stevens, Mickael Binois, Nicholson Collier, David O'Gara, Jonathan Ozik2026-04-16✓ Author reviewed 📊 stat

Functional Emotions or Situational Contexts? A Discriminating Test from the Mythos Preview System Card

This note identifies two competing hypotheses qualitatively consistent with the Claude Mythos Preview system card — that emotion vectors track functional emotions causally driving misaligned behaviour, or that they are a projection of a richer situational-context structure — and specifies the cross-reference test that would discriminate between them, with direct consequences for whether emotion-based monitoring can reliably detect dangerous model behaviour.

Hiranya V. Peiris2026-04-16✓ Author reviewed 💬 cs.CL

A Function-Centric Perspective on Flat and Sharp Minima

This paper challenges the conventional view that flat minima inherently ensure better generalization, arguing through extensive empirical studies that sharpness is a function-dependent property — sharper minima often correlate with improved performance, robustness, and calibration when models are properly regularized, though distinguishing task-driven sharpness from memorization-driven sharpness remains an open practical question.

Israel Mason-Williams, Gabryel Mason-Williams, Helen Yannakoudakis2026-04-16✓ Author reviewed 🤖 cs.LG

Quark and Lepton Masses, Baryon Asymmetry, and Neutrino Mass from a Supersymmetric Preon Model

This paper proposes a supersymmetric preon model where Standard Model fermions are three-body composites confined by a Maxwell-Chern-Simons interaction, successfully reproducing observed quark mass ratios and neutrino masses via Pauli principle constraints and a Type I seesaw mechanism while simultaneously generating the baryon asymmetry of the universe through anomaly inflow and dynamically deriving R-parity.

Risto Raitio2026-04-15✓ Author reviewed ⚛️ hep-ph

Heat transport in magnetohydrodynamic duct flow regimes with conducting and insulating walls

This study employs Direct Numerical Simulation to investigate heat transport in liquid metal duct flows under transverse magnetic fields with varying wall conductivities and buoyancy forces, identifying four distinct flow regimes and evaluating their Nusselt numbers to assess heat transfer capabilities for future fusion reactor blankets.

Andreu Queralt McBride, Dmitry Krasnov, Yuri Kolesnikov, Jörg Schumacher2026-04-15✓ Author reviewed 🔬 physics