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🤖 machine learning

RT-VLA: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Models via Knowledge Distillation

The paper proposes RT-VLA, a lightweight, distilled Vision-Language-Action model that transfers the driving and reasoning capabilities of the state-of-the-art SimLingo teacher into a compact student, achieving significant inference latency reductions (up to 44.8x) while maintaining competitive closed-loop performance and enabling real-time control with post-hoc explainability.

Xiangyu Huang, Zhenlin Hua, Han Zhou, Shounak Sural, Ragunathan Rajkumar2026-06-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔬 materials science

TEM Agent: enhancing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) with modern AI tools

This paper introduces TEM Agent, a framework that leverages Large Language Models and the Model Context Protocol to enable text-based control of transmission electron microscopy subsystems, data management, and high-performance computing resources, thereby simplifying complex workflows without requiring additional model training.

Morgan K. Wall, Alexander J. Pattison, Edward S. Barnard, Stephanie M. Ribet, Peter Ercius2026-06-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚡ electrical engineering

Pushing the Frontiers for Floating Solar Photovoltaics -- The Case for South America

This study proposes a techno-socio-economic framework demonstrating that Floating Solar Photovoltaic (FSPV) systems in South America offer a land-efficient, cost-competitive solution for energy access and water security, with significant potential for co-location with hydropower and AI data centers in countries like Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guyana.

Soham Ghosh, Anik Goswami, Krishna Kumba2026-06-12✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

Deep optical spectroscopic monitoring of the pulsating ULX NGC 1313 X-2 with longslit Gemini observations

This study utilizes long-slit Gemini-South spectroscopic data to identify an A-type supergiant as the companion star to the pulsating ULX NGC 1313 X-2, while simultaneously refining orbital constraints, characterizing accretion disc properties, and estimating wind kinetic power to better understand the system's binary nature and formation history.

Rajath Sathyaprakash, Timothy. P. Roberts2026-06-12✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

The first hours and days of the 2021 explosion of the recurrent symbiotic nova RS Ophiuchii

This paper analyzes the early evolution of the 2021 RS Ophiuchi nova explosion by modeling its spectral energy distribution, revealing a bipolar ejecta structure shaped by the white dwarf's rotation that facilitates internal shocks responsible for both reprocessed radiation and gamma-ray emission.

Augustin Skopal, Martin Vrašťák, Francois Teyssier, Mitsugu Fujii, Sergei Shugarov, Miroslav Šlechta, Marek Wolf2026-06-12✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

Spatio-Temporal Log-Gaussian Cox-Hawkes Processes with Inhibition and Excitation for Stochastic Star Formation

This paper establishes a theoretical link between stochastic self-propagating star formation and spatio-temporal point processes by proposing a novel log-Gaussian Cox-Hawkes model that unifies deterministic galactic structure, latent background variation, and signed history-dependent interactions (both excitation and inhibition) within a single continuous framework for analyzing star formation.

Qihan Zou2026-06-12✓ Author reviewed ⓘ