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1343 papers reviewed by authors · 621–630 / 1343

📄 occupational and environmental health

Biomechanical Analysis of Dynamic Gripping in Manual Laborers Exhibiting Work-Related Scapholunate Instability Signs

This cross-sectional study of manual laborers in Pakistan reveals that those exhibiting signs of scapholunate instability demonstrate significantly reduced grip force, abnormal wrist ulnar deviation, and compensatory muscle hyperactivation during dynamic gripping, with occupational exposure duration and specific biomechanical loading patterns serving as key predictors of ligament compromise.

Bari, M. H., Khalid, Z., Ilyas, M., Qaiser, S.2026-06-30✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 machine learning

A Gravitational Interpretation of Fine-Tuning Reversion

This paper proposes a "gravitational interpretation" of fine-tuning reversion—where the term "gravitational" serves as a geometric/optimization metaphor for a history-induced bias rather than a literal physical dynamical law—arguing that early training establishes dominant behavioral manifolds that exert a geometric pull, causing models to revert toward pre-alignment behaviors during subsequent updates, a phenomenon characterized by a specific history-defined direction (vrevv_{rev}) that can be blocked to prevent safety erosion.

Samuele Poppi, Nils Lukas2026-06-30✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 machine learning

Geometric Measurements of the Axiom of Choice in Neural Proof Embeddings

This paper demonstrates that the Axiom of Choice leaves a measurable geometric signature in neural proof embeddings—characterized by declining anomaly scores and reconstruction losses as proofs move further from the axiom in the dependency graph—which correlates with and predicts the performance disparity between constructive and classical theorem proving in systems like Lean 4.

Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith2026-06-30✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔢 mathematics

The Thickness of Infinite Sidon Sets

Building on Erdos's proof of the existence of these numbers for Sidon sets 70 years ago, this paper establishes upper and lower bounds on the asymptotic density of γ\gamma-Golomb rulers (sets where each positive difference occurs at most γ\gamma times), proving that their size is bounded above by a term proportional to γn/log⁡n\sqrt{\gamma n/\log n} and below by a term proportional to γn\sqrt{\gamma n}.

Kevin O'Bryant2026-06-30✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 machine learning

Invariant Reasoning Directions in Latent Trajectories of Language Models

This paper introduces Trajectory-Invariant Latent Refinement (TILR), a training-free framework that identifies and manipulates stable, low-rank invariant directions within language model latent trajectories to significantly improve reasoning consistency and reduce sensitivity to paraphrasing and perturbations without sacrificing accuracy.

Arun Vignesh Malarkkan, Manan Roy Choudhury, Utkarsh Byahut, Yash Ravindra Charde, Vivek Gupta, Yanjie Fu2026-06-30✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 machine learning

Towards Evaluating Data Priors for Tabular Foundation Models

This paper introduces a unified framework to independently evaluate and compare data-generating priors for tabular foundation models by training identical architectures on tasks derived from various priors, revealing that different priors significantly influence downstream performance and consistency beyond mere data-level similarity.

Zeynep Türkmen, Kürşat Kaya, Alexander Pfefferle, Frank Hutter2026-06-30✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 machine learning

Deterministic Decisions for High-Stakes AI. A Zero-Egress Pipeline with the Deployability of RAG and the Accuracy of Machine Learning

This paper identifies and quantifies "intervention bias" in zero-shot LLM educational advisors, which erroneously recommend unnecessary actions compared to an optimal oracle, and demonstrates that supervised policy learning using Decision Transformers or XGBoost effectively eliminates this bias while achieving high accuracy and low-latency decisions suitable for high-stakes deployment.

Craig Atkinson2026-06-30✓ Author reviewed ⓘ