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1351 papers reviewed by authors · 791–800 / 1351

⚡ electrical engineering

From the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) to the (Deterministic) Kalman Filter in Two Easy Steps

This paper presents a two-step tutorial demonstrating how to derive the deterministic Kalman filter from the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) by first converting the state estimation problem into a purely quadratic LQR formulation using homogeneous coordinates, and then partitioning the resulting solution to recover the traditional Kalman filter dynamics and Riccati equation.

Bassam Bamieh2026-06-11✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

💻 computer science

Game-Theoretic Foundations of Competition for Conscious Access

This paper establishes a game-theoretic foundation for conscious access by modeling it as a strategic competition among internal modules for a broadcast slot, proving the existence and uniqueness of equilibria, characterizing conditions for competitive capture, demonstrating efficient computational convergence, and showing that smooth probabilistic access rules are structurally necessary to balance efficiency with robustness against perturbations.

Efthyvoulos Drousiotis, Paul Spirakis, Sotiris Nikoletseas2026-06-11✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

🔭 astrophysics

The 35-Myr old infant planet TOI-837 b has a mildly misaligned orbit

By measuring the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect on the 35-Myr-old warm Saturn TOI-837 b, researchers determined it has a mildly misaligned orbit ( $\psi \approx 26^\circ$ ), providing the first evidence of a young planet with an obliquity incompatible with perfect alignment and suggesting its configuration resulted from primordial disc-driven migration rather than high-eccentricity migration.

G. Mantovan, L. Malavolta, F. Marzari, A. F. Lanza, F. Borsa, D. Nardiello, S. Benatti, M. Damasso, S. Desidera2026-06-11✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

🤖 machine learning

ICA Lens: Interpreting Language Models Without Training Another Dictionary

This paper introduces ICALens, a practical and efficient workflow that leverages optimized Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to directly extract human-interpretable directions from language model activations without the need for training sparse autoencoders, demonstrating that ICA serves as a competitive and complementary first lens for model interpretability.

Sida Liu, Feijiang Han2026-06-11✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

🔭 astrophysics

Gaia's promise to detect compact-object binaries: where we stand with the third data release

This paper presents a theoretical framework using Gaia's third data release (DR3) selection criteria to model the detectable population of compact-object binaries with luminous companions, finding that while current detections align well with predictions for neutron stars and white dwarfs (the latter requiring moderate natal kicks), black hole detections remain elusive in DR3 but are projected to increase significantly by the mission's end.

Chirag Chawla, Sourav Chatterjee, Katelyn Breivik2026-06-11✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

🤖 AI

Multi-View In-Cabin Monitoring System for Public Transport Vehicles

This paper introduces a multi-view in-cabin monitoring dataset for public transport vehicles, featuring synchronized RGB and depth images with 3D annotations, alongside a calibration pipeline and benchmarking tools for evaluating multi-view 3D detection models.

Evgeny Gorelik, Kenny Dean Karrow, Fikret Sivrikaya, Sahin Albayrak, Christian Baumann2026-06-11✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

🔭 astrophysics

Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars: Selecting Infrared Lines for Abundance Determination

This study establishes a homogeneous, reproducible set of robust atomic absorption lines in the near-infrared Y, J, and H bands for Gaia FGK benchmark stars by quantitatively evaluating CRIRES spectra against laboratory data and synthetic models, ultimately identifying reliable transitions for elements like Mg, Si, Ca, Fe, and Sr to improve infrared abundance determinations.

Scarlet Elgueta, Paula Jofré, Claudia Aguilera-Gómez, Ditte Slumstrup, Álvaro Rojas-Arriagada, Ulrike Heiter, Laia Casam (…)2026-06-10✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

💬 NLP

MIRAGE: A Polarity-Flipping Encoding Subspace in LLM Agents

The paper introduces MIRAGE, a real-time monitoring system that detects LLM agent data exfiltration by identifying a shared, low-dimensional encoding subspace in the model's residual stream, achieving significantly higher detection accuracy than output-only methods by reading the underlying computation rather than surface features.

Pratibha Revankar, Kargi Chauhan, Jihye Kim, Sadiba Nusrat Nur, Vincent Siu, Chenguang Wang2026-06-10✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

💬 NLP

WebChallenger: A Reliable and Efficient Generalist Web Agent

WebChallenger is a generalist web agent framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks using cost-effective, off-the-shelf models by introducing PageMem and three architectural mechanisms that replicate human cognitive advantages in selective attention, persistent memory, and procedural fluency.

Jayoo Hwang, Xiaowen Zhang, Vedant Padwal2026-06-10✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

🔬 physics

Systematic comparison of VMEC and HINT equilibrium calculations for finite-beta LHD plasmas

This paper systematically compares VMEC and HINT equilibrium calculations for Large Helical Device plasmas, revealing that while both codes agree at low beta, they diverge at higher beta values as HINT captures edge stochasticity and flux surface breaking that the nested-flux-surface assumption of VMEC cannot represent.

Albert Civit-Bertran, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Shimpei Futatani2026-06-10✓ Author reviewed ⓘ

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