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949 papers reviewed by authors · 341–350 / 949

🔭 astrophysics

What an Amortized X-ray Posterior Cannot See: Gain Shifts, Silent Miscalibration, and Where Nested Sampling Still Earns Its Cost

This paper benchmarks neural posterior estimation against nested sampling for X-ray spectral analysis, demonstrating that while amortized methods offer speed, they require specific trust diagnostics like posterior-predictive checks and evidence-based model comparison to detect silent miscalibration, gain shifts, and unmodeled features that standard recovery metrics miss.

Karan Akbari2026-06-17✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔬 optics

Bistable topological edge states in polariton microcavities with unpaired Dirac cones

This paper proposes a nonlinear exciton-polariton microcavity system where the simultaneous breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetries creates unpaired Dirac cones, enabling the existence of stable, circulating edge solitons and bistable unidirectional edge states despite the absence of a complete spectral gap.

Zhuo Zhang, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Yongdong Li, Zhen-Nan Tian, Qi-Dai Chen, Yiqi Zhang2026-06-17✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔬 condensed matter

Stochastic Thermodynamics of Score Matching in Diffusion Models

This paper establishes a stochastic thermodynamic framework for diffusion models, demonstrating that the average time-asymmetry entropy production is proportional to the score-matching objective and that its fluctuations quantify sampling diversity, thereby revealing the entropic mechanisms underlying the superior performance and generalization of diffusion-based generative AI.

Xuehao Ding, H. T. Quan, Yuhai Tu2026-06-17✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
💬 NLP

When Multiple Scripts Matter: Evaluating ASR in Clinical Settings

This paper introduces MultiClin, a clinical ASR benchmark that addresses the underestimation of performance in non-English settings caused by multiscript variability, demonstrating that multiscript-aware evaluation yields fairer assessments and that unifying scripts during training significantly improves model convergence and recognition accuracy.

Jean Seo, Minkyu Kim, Jeonguk Lee, Jisoo Jung, Wooseok Han, Eunho Yang2026-06-17✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚡ electrical engineering

From Compression to Deployment: Real-Time and Energy-Efficient FastGRNN on Ultra-Constrained Microcontrollers

This paper presents an end-to-end open-source reproduction of the FastGRNN model, demonstrating its successful deployment on ultra-constrained 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers through a novel compression pipeline that achieves real-time, energy-efficient inference with high accuracy and bit-equivalent determinism.

Emre Can Kizilates2026-06-17✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

An extreme ram-pressure stripping event in a protocluster at redshift 4.3

This paper reports ALMA and JWST observations of a massive galaxy in a protocluster at redshift 4.3 undergoing extreme ram-pressure stripping, demonstrating that hydrodynamic gas removal can effectively quench massive galaxies in dense environments as early as z>4z>4.

Dazhi Zhou, Scott C. Chapman, Manuel Aravena, Roger Deane, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Ryley Hill, Nicholas LeVar, Matthew A. M (…)2026-06-17✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

The impact of the white dwarf initial-final mass relation on star clusters' ages inferred from their cooling sequence

This study quantifies how the choice of white dwarf initial-final mass relations introduces systematic uncertainties in star cluster age determinations, finding that while the impact is negligible for young clusters, it can cause age offsets of up to 0.6 Gyr for intermediate-age clusters and up to 0.8 Gyr for old, metal-poor clusters if metallicity dependence is neglected.

Maurizio Salaris (INAF -- Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna, Italy, ARI -- Liverpool John Mo (…)2026-06-16✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

Encounters of star clusters as a possible source of disturbances in their internal structure

By integrating galactic orbits over the last 100 million years and validating candidates via Monte Carlo simulations, this study identifies two reliable past close encounters involving the Hyades and Pleiades clusters, suggesting that the Hyades' recent passage near the Corona Australis star-forming cloud may have caused internal structural disturbances such as the mini-clusters observed in the Pleiades.

M. D. Sizova, L. A. Maksimova, S. V. Vereshchagin2026-06-16✓ Author reviewed ⓘ