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🤖 machine learning

An Open-Source Training Dataset for Foundation Models for Black-box Optimization

This paper introduces BBO-Pile, the first large-scale open-source dataset containing over 500,000 optimization trajectories across 3,095 black-box functions, and demonstrates that foundation models trained on this data can effectively learn and imitate black-box optimization strategies through scalable pre-training.

Aaron Klein, Herilalaina Rakotoarison, Luca Thale-Bombien, David Salinas2026-05-25✓ Author reviewed
💬 NLP

Fine-Tuning Causal LLMs for Text Classification: Embedding-Based vs. Instruction-Based Approaches

This paper demonstrates that for resource-constrained single-label text classification, fine-tuning causal LLMs with a classification head on final-token embeddings is significantly more parameter-efficient than instruction tuning while achieving comparable or superior performance to both instruction-tuned LLMs and domain-specific BERT models.

Amirhossein Yousefiramandi, Ciaran Cooney2026-05-25✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

Swarical: An Integrated Hierarchical Approach to Localizing Flying Light Specks

Swarical is a swarm-based hierarchical localization technique that enables miniature Flying Light Specks to accurately and efficiently localize themselves and illuminate complex shapes by leveraging hardware-specific sensor data and heterogeneous orientations, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy with more than twice the speed of existing decentralized methods.

Hamed Alimohammadzadeh, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh2026-05-25✓ Author reviewed
⚛️ phenomenology

Prompt photon production in a bremsstrahlung in proton-proton collisions at s\sqrt{\mathbf{s}}=10 GeV NICA energies

This paper investigates the kinematic dependencies and polarization effects on the differential cross-section and double spin asymmetry of prompt photon production via bremsstrahlung in proton-proton collisions at NICA energies of s=10\sqrt{s}=10 GeV, noting that while this process constitutes a small fraction (0.03%) of the total prompt photon yield, it exhibits significant sensitivity to proton polarization at high transverse momenta.

Mohsun Rasim Alizada, Azar Inshalla Ahmadov2026-05-22✓ Author reviewed
🔢 mathematics

A generalization of the Erd\H{o}s-Sierpinski conjecture

This paper investigates the equation σ(n+1)=kσ(n)\sigma(n+1) = k\sigma(n) by combining combinatorial generalizations of Zumkeller numbers with advanced probabilistic number theory techniques to prove that the solution set has zero natural density with an explicit upper bound of O(x/logloglogx)O(x/\sqrt{\log \log \log x}), while also establishing conditional infinitude for the case k=2k=2 under Schinzel's H Hypothesis.

Amirali Fatehizadeh2026-05-22✓ Author reviewed
⚛️ high-energy theory

Entanglement viscosity to entropy density ratio for spin-3/2 theory

This paper investigates the universality of the entanglement viscosity to entropy density ratio for spin-3/2 fields within the Rarita-Schwinger-Adler theory, revealing that while both quantities can be negative (yielding a KSS-bound-saturating ratio), a Zubarev density operator approach confirms a positive entropy, thereby clarifying the origin of the negativity and highlighting the theory's conformal field theory features.

R. V. Khakimov, G. Yu. Prokhorov, O. V. Teryaev2026-05-22✓ Author reviewed