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💬 NLP

Sub-Billion, Super-Frontier: Small Language Models Rival Zero-Shot Frontier LLMs on General and Literary Relation Extraction

This paper demonstrates that compact, task-adapted small language models (under 3B parameters) can significantly outperform zero-shot frontier LLMs in both general and literary relation extraction when trained on specific domain data, offering a hardware-efficient and private alternative without requiring generative scaling.

Despina Christou, Grigorios Tsoumakas2026-06-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔬 physics

Resonant Pitch-Angle Scattering Of Runaway-Electrons by Externally-launched Helicon Waves in the DIII-D Tokamak

This paper demonstrates that externally launched helicon waves can effectively suppress runaway electron growth in the DIII-D tokamak through resonant pitch-angle scattering in both ideal and non-ideal antenna configurations, while highlighting that anomalous resonance enhances runaway populations and significant propagation challenges remain for post-disruption applications.

Hari Choudhury, Jeffrey Lestz, Carlos Paz-Soldan, Alexander Battey, Nils Leuthold, Andrey Lvovskiy, Claudio Marini, Jays (…)2026-06-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚛️ quantum physics

On Quantum Perceptron Learning via Quantum Search

This paper corrects a flawed complexity assumption in the quantum version space perceptron algorithm and proposes two new quantum-enhanced cutting-plane algorithms for perceptron learning that leverage Grover's search and quantum walk search to establish improved complexity bounds under idealized conditions.

Xiaoyu Sun (Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LIS, Marseille, France), Mathieu Roget (Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LIS (…)2026-06-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
💻 computer science

SCENIC: Semantic-Conditioned Edge-Aware Neural Framework for Structured IoT Command Generation

This paper introduces SCENIC, an end-to-end framework that enables the deployment of highly efficient, sub-0.2B-scale transformer models on resource-constrained edge IoT devices for generating structured smart-home commands, achieving near-perfect accuracy (99.0% EM@1) while significantly reducing model size and inference latency through advanced pruning, quantization, and hardware-aware optimization.

Luke Ztz Hu, Hongbing Lang, Songping Mai2026-06-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 machine learning

Noise is Signal: Density-Based Outliers as Leading Indicators of Occupational Emergence in Labor Market Text

This paper challenges standard NLP practices by proposing the Emergence-Density Inversion (EDI) hypothesis, which demonstrates that discarding low-density "noise" in job postings overlooks critical leading indicators of emerging occupations, as evidenced by the rapid stabilization of novel AI-related roles like Prompt Engineer and AI Safety Researcher within the analyzed dataset.

Shreyash Rawat2026-06-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔢 mathematics

Interpolations: a linear algebra approach

This paper introduces a unified linear-algebraic framework using dual spaces to establish general existence and uniqueness theorems for various interpolation problems, deriving explicit dual basis formulas that enable efficient construction of interpolants for applications ranging from Lagrange polynomials and Hermite splines to trigonometric interpolation and heterogeneous sensor data.

Andronick Arutyunov, Nikolay Korgin2026-06-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ