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🤖 machine learning

NEO: No-Optimization Test-Time Adaptation through Latent Re-Centering

NEO is a hyperparameter-free, computationally efficient Test-Time Adaptation method that improves model robustness and calibration under distribution shifts by re-centering target data embeddings at the origin, achieving superior accuracy across multiple datasets and devices with minimal compute overhead.

Alexander Murphy, Michal Danilowski, Soumyajit Chatterjee, Abhirup Ghosh2026-05-12✓ Author reviewed
🤖 AI

Scam2Prompt: A Scalable Framework for Auditing Malicious Scam Endpoints in Production LLMs

The paper introduces Scam2Prompt, a scalable framework that reveals a critical and worsening security vulnerability in production Large Language Models, where automated prompts derived from malicious scam sites successfully trigger the generation of harmful code in up to 47.3% of cases across multiple models, rendering current safety measures like guardrails and RAG insufficient.

Zhiyang Chen, Tara Saba, Xun Deng, Xujie Si, Fan Long2026-05-12✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

Distributional Learning of Context-Free Languages under Fixed Finite-Monoid Typing

This paper establishes that context-free languages which are substitutable under a fixed finite-monoid typing can be identified in the limit from positive data, with hypothesis construction and update running in polynomial time in the sample size for the general fixed-h class and a full polynomial time-and-data guarantee (including a polynomial bound on the characteristic-sample size) for the linear subclass, via a finite typed reconstruction theory built around a canonical hypothesis grammar derived from a finite observation set.

Takayuki Kuriyama2026-05-12✓ Author reviewed
🔢 mathematics

A Quadratic-Form Representation of the Scalar Casimir Trace from Codimension-Three Riesz Reduction

This paper establishes a quadratic-form representation of the scalar Casimir trace by deriving an induced Green kernel from a codimension-three Riesz reduction, which allows the expectation of a heat-regularized Gaussian source's energy to exactly reproduce the trace and confirms standard finite-part results in Dirichlet parallel-plate geometries.

Irshadullah Khan, Bilal Khan2026-05-11✓ Author reviewed
⚛️ general relativity

Black holes at a finite distance: Quasi-local restricted phase space formalism

This paper extends the restricted phase space formalism to quasi-local regimes with static observers at finite distances, demonstrating that RN black holes in this setting exhibit thermodynamic behaviors and phase transitions strikingly similar to asymptotic RN-AdS black holes, including Hawking-Page-like transitions in the neutral limit, provided an extra pair of thermodynamic variables (pressure and boundary area) is included.

Bai-Hao Huang, Liu Zhao2026-05-11✓ Author reviewed
🔭 astrophysics

An HST Wide Field Survey of the Galactic Bulge: Overview, Strategy, and First Results

This paper presents an overview, observing strategy, and initial results of a coordinated HST imaging survey covering 1.1 square degrees in the Galactic Bulge, designed to create a high-resolution legacy dataset that will significantly enhance the scientific return of the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey.

Sean K. Terry, Jay Anderson, Charles A. Beichman, David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhattacharya, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, B. Scot (…)2026-05-11✓ Author reviewed
🔭 astrophysics

You Only Stack Once (YOSO): A Motion-Filtered, Deep-Learning Framework for Detecting Faint Moving Sources

The paper introduces You Only Stack Once (YOSO), a novel deep-learning pipeline that utilizes a Gaussian Motion Filter to efficiently detect faint, slow-moving Solar System objects with an extremely low false positive rate, offering a scalable alternative to traditional shift-and-stack methods for large-scale astronomical surveys.

Nitya Pandey, César Fuentes, Pedro Bernardinelli, Valeria Frías, Colin Orion Chandler, David E. Trilling, Matthew J. Hol (…)2026-05-11✓ Author reviewed