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956 papers reviewed by authors · 501–510 / 956

🤖 AI

On the Collapse of Generative Paths: A Criterion and Correction for Diffusion Steering

This paper identifies "Marginal Path Collapse" as a critical failure mode in inference-time steering of diffusion models caused by mismatched noise schedules or negative exponents, and proposes the Adaptive Path Correction with Exponents (ACE) framework to mathematically guarantee path existence and significantly improve performance in complex compositional tasks like drug design and image generation.

Ziseok Lee, Minyeong Hwang, Wooyeol Lee, Sanghyun Jo, Jihyung Ko, Young Bin Park, Jae-Mun Choi, Eunho Yang, Kyungsu Kim2026-06-02✓ Author reviewed
🔭 astrophysics

Reconciling the Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies with hydrodynamical simulations: The case of IllustrisTNG100-1

This study demonstrates that the long-standing discrepancy between the observed Fundamental Plane of Early-Type Galaxies and hydrodynamical simulations like IllustrisTNG100-1 can be largely resolved by adopting observationally motivated measurement techniques and accounting for mass-dependent Initial Mass Function variations, highlighting the critical role of observational realism and stellar population modeling in interpreting galaxy scaling relations.

Pedro de Araujo Ferreira, Nicola R. Napolitano, Crescenzo Tortora, Luciano Casarini, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro2026-06-01✓ Author reviewed
🤖 machine learning

Student Capacity Moderates Knowledge Distillation Effectiveness: A Systematic Study Across ResNet Teacher-Student Pairs on CIFAR-10

This systematic study on CIFAR-10 demonstrates that student capacity is a critical moderator of knowledge distillation effectiveness, revealing that larger students (R34) benefit significantly more than smaller ones (R18), while also highlighting the necessity of fixing implementation bugs and input-resolution mismatches to achieve optimal distillation performance.

Umut Onur Yasar2026-06-01✓ Author reviewed
🤖 machine learning

Lightweight CNN-Based Anomaly Detection for High Voltage Converter Modulators in the Spallation Neutron Source

This paper proposes a lightweight CNN-based anomaly detection framework for Spallation Neutron Source high-voltage converter modulators that leverages architectural inductive bias by strategically ordering temporal and cross-channel operations, achieving state-of-the-art performance in identifying fault precursors across multiple subsystems.

Alberto D. Cencillo, Leonardo Concepción, Julián Luengo, Isaac Triguero2026-06-01✓ Author reviewed
🤖 AI

FEM-Bench: A Structured Scientific Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating Code-Generating LLMs

This paper introduces FEM-Bench, a structured benchmark based on computational mechanics tasks designed to rigorously evaluate the ability of large language models to generate scientifically valid finite element method code, revealing that even state-of-the-art models struggle to consistently solve these nontrivial problems.

Saeed Mohammadzadeh, Erfan Hamdi, Joel Shor, Emma Lejeune2026-06-01✓ Author reviewed