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950 papers reviewed by authors · 441–450 / 950

⚛️ quantum physics

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of collapse models in the strongly non-Gaussian regime

This paper rigorously establishes the thermodynamic consistency of the dissipative Diósi-Penrose collapse model in the strongly non-Gaussian regime by employing a novel exact pseudo-spectral simulation approach to demonstrate that the system settles into a non-equilibrium steady state with asymptotic non-Gaussianity scaling as the cube of the dissipation parameter, thereby resolving the unphysical heating issue while confirming the necessity of exact numerical methods for capturing critical distribution tails.

Pedro B. Melo, Pedro V. Paraguassú, Simone Artini, Gabriele Lo Monaco, Sandro Donadi, Mauro Paternostro2026-06-05✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

📊 statistics

Causal Longitudinal Prior-Fitted Networks for Counterfactual Outcome Prediction

The paper introduces CausalLongPFN, a frozen prior-fitted network pretrained on synthetic temporal causal models that predicts counterfactual longitudinal outcomes without domain-specific training, demonstrating competitive performance on benchmarks like cancer, HIV, and MIMIC-III while offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional cohort-specific modeling.

Amirhossein Zare, Amirhessam Zare, Herlock Rahimi, Reza Salarikia, Mohammad Kashkooli2026-06-05✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

💬 NLP

Emergent Language as an Approach to Conscious AI

This paper proposes a generative methodology using emergent language in multi-agent reinforcement learning to study artificial consciousness by demonstrating how agents, starting without human language priors, can develop self-referential communication and novel cognitive structures driven solely by task demands and environmental affordances.

Zengqing Wu, Chuan Xiao2026-06-05✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

🔭 astrophysics

The Discovery of an Active Wind from the Milky Way's Black Hole

Using unprecedentedly deep and high-resolution ALMA observations, researchers have discovered a large, conical clearing in the cold molecular gas surrounding Sagittarius A* that provides the first direct evidence of an active wind from the Milky Way's central black hole.

Mark D. Gorski, Elena Murchikova2026-06-05✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

💬 NLP

Would you still call this Dax? Novel Visual References in VLMs and Humans

This paper introduces the Novel Visual References Dataset (NVRD) to evaluate how vision-language models and humans map novel, pre-training-contradictory visual concepts to language, revealing that models struggle with in-context learning of such concepts and significantly overgeneralize compared to human judgments.

Ada Defne Tür, Gaurav Kamath, Joyce Chai, Siva Reddy, Benno Krojer2026-06-05✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

🔢 mathematics

Analytic patch trees: branch interface inheritance and fractal dimension fields

This paper generalizes analytic fractal curve trees to higher-dimensional surface patch trees by replacing branch points with interface manifolds that transmit analytical states, thereby establishing conditions for integrability, conformality, and self-similarity while introducing a smooth dimension field through the natural foliation of the trees into curve structures.

Henk Mulder2026-06-05✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

🤖 AI

Let It Be Simple: One-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Models

This paper demonstrates that strong one-step action generation for Vision-Language-Action models can be achieved by simply biasing the training time distribution toward high-noise states, eliminating the need for complex distillation or auxiliary objectives typically required in image synthesis while matching or exceeding the performance of multi-step diffusion policies.

Yitong Chen, Shiduo Zhang, Jingjing Gong, Xipeng Qiu2026-06-05✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

💻 computer science

Catastrophic Forgetting as Accessibility Collapse: A Three-Level Framework for Knowledge Persistence in Continual Learning

This paper proposes a three-level framework distinguishing knowledge storage, representation, and accessibility to demonstrate that catastrophic forgetting in continual learning is primarily an accessibility failure rather than complete representational erasure, as evidenced by the persistence of task information in neural representations that can be recovered through simple classifier retraining.

Ayushman Trivedi, Bhavika Melwani2026-06-05✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

💻 computer science

Learning to Contest: Decentralized Robust Fairness in Cooperative MARL via Cross-Attention

This paper introduces CAN, a decentralized cross-attention policy for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning that achieves robust fairness and high efficiency by dynamically inferring the number of free-riders and proportionally contesting them, thereby overcoming the vulnerabilities of existing fair learners without requiring a centralized allocator.

Can Savcı2026-06-05✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

📄 genetic and genomic medicine

DHDDS-related juvenile parkinsonism is caused by impaired lipid metabolism, glycosylation, and mitochondrial dysfunction, which can be rescued by NAD⁺ treatment.

This study demonstrates that DHDDS-related juvenile parkinsonism arises from impaired lipid metabolism, glycosylation defects, and mitochondrial dysfunction in patient-derived brain organoids, and that these pathological features, along with associated clinical symptoms, can be effectively rescued by NAD⁺ precursor (NMN) treatment.

Muffels, I. J. J., Kantautas, K. A., MacDonald, G., Garapati, K., Pasupuleti, R. R., Tinker, R. J., Shah, R., Thevandava (…)2026-06-05✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

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