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💬 NLP

τ\tau-Rec: A Verifiable Benchmark for Agentic Recommender Systems

The paper introduces τ\tau-Rec, a verifiable benchmark for agentic recommender systems that replaces subjective LLM-based evaluations with structured rewards and a reveal-tagged elicitation mechanism, revealing a significant reliability gap in current conversational agents where even top models struggle to consistently meet task constraints.

Bharath Sivaram Narasimhan, Karthik R Narasimhan2026-06-10✓ Author reviewed
🔬 condensed matter

Dissipative response of driven bead-spring-dashpot chains

This paper numerically demonstrates that while the dissipated work in pulling a polymer chain without internal friction consistently increases with chain length, the presence of internal friction introduces a stiffness-dependent relationship where dissipation either increases or decreases with chain length depending on the pulling trap stiffness, thereby invalidating the simple damping-dissipation correlation observed in single-mode systems.

R. Kailasham2026-06-10✓ Author reviewed
📊 statistics

On the statistical analysis of grouped data: when Pearson χ2χ^2 and other divisible statistics are not goodness-of-fit tests

This paper challenges the common assumption that divisible statistics like Pearson's χ2\chi^2 serve as effective goodness-of-fit tests in sparse data regimes with many bins, proposing instead a unifying framework that reveals the limitations of existing methods and offers modified, more powerful alternatives along with new distribution-free tests.

Sara Algeri, Estate V. Khmaladze2026-06-09✓ Author reviewed
🔬 applied physics

Chemical tuning of magnetic ordering and cryogenic magnetocaloric response in zircon-type Gd1-xErxVO4

This study demonstrates that partial substitution of Gd³⁺ with smaller Er³⁺ ions in zircon-type Gd₁₋ₓErₓVO₄ systematically tunes lattice parameters and magnetic interactions, effectively optimizing the low-temperature magnetocaloric performance for cryogenic refrigeration, with the Gd₀.₉Er₀.₁VO₄ composition achieving a maximum magnetic entropy change of 45.1 J kg⁻¹ K⁻¹ under a 7 T field.

Ming Zeng, Muqing Su, Liang Ming, Xiaolong Yang, Wang Chen, Lingwei Li, Hai-Feng Li2026-06-09✓ Author reviewed