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992 papers reviewed by authors · 851–860 / 992

💻 bioinformatics

MAJEC: unified gene, isoform, and locus-level transposable element quantification from RNA-seq

MAJEC is a unified, fast Expectation-Maximization framework that accurately quantifies genes, isoforms, and individual transposable element loci from RNA-seq data by leveraging splice junction evidence to resolve read overlaps, thereby significantly reducing false attribution artifacts compared to existing tools like TEtranscripts and Telescope.

Lim, T.-Y., Firestone, A. J.2026-04-14✓ Author reviewed
⚛️ quantum physics

Ternary Quantum Eraser Cryptography

This paper proposes a ternary quantum eraser cryptography protocol that overcomes the inherent 85% security vulnerability of binary implementations by utilizing three polarization states and randomized temporal ordering to reduce an eavesdropper's maximum success probability to 54% while maintaining competitive efficiency.

Ahmed Halawani, Yahya Meshalwi Khabrani, Abdulaziz Al-Mogheeth, Zheng-Hong Li, M. Al-Amri2026-04-14✓ Author reviewed
🔬 materials science

Probing of magnetic dimensional crossover in CrSiTe3_{3} through picosecond strain pulses

This study utilizes picosecond acoustic strain pulses generated by femtosecond lasers to successfully probe the magnetic dimensional crossover in the van der Waals ferromagnet CrSiTe3_3 by detecting subtle spin-fluctuation-induced lattice responses and ultrafast carrier dynamics, thereby overcoming previous experimental limitations in observing this transition.

Anjan Kumar N M, Soumya Mukherjee, Abhirup Mukherjee, Ajinkya Punjal, Shubham Purwar, Thirupathaiah Setti, Shriganesh Pr (…)2026-04-13✓ Author reviewed
💬 NLP

Kathleen: Oscillator-Based Byte-Level Text Classification Without Tokenization or Attention

Kathleen is a highly efficient, parameter-minimal text classification architecture that achieves state-of-the-art performance on standard benchmarks by processing raw UTF-8 bytes directly in the frequency domain using novel components like RecurrentOscillatorBanks and PhaseHarmonics, thereby eliminating the need for tokenization, attention mechanisms, and large embedding tables.

George Fountzoulas2026-04-10✓ Author reviewed
🔢 rings & algebras

Why the Bethe Ansatz Works: A Structural Explanation via Interaction Propagation

This paper provides a structural explanation for the success and failure of the Bethe Ansatz by identifying interaction propagation as the governing mechanism, where exact solvability arises when propagation terminates finitely without encountering structural boundaries, while its breakdown occurs when such boundaries generate irreducible interaction data that prevent finite factorization.

Joe Gildea2026-04-10✓ Author reviewed
🔬 materials science

Linking Calendar and Cycle Ageing in Lithium-Ion Batteries through Consistent Parameterisation of an Electrochemical-Thermal-Degradation Model

This paper presents a consistently parameterized electrochemical-thermal-degradation model using PyBaMM to predict the capacity fade, state-of-health, and remaining useful life of NMC lithium-ion cells under 81 distinct calendar and cyclic ageing conditions, thereby providing mechanistic insights into the competing effects of solid-electrolyte interphase growth, lithium plating, and active material loss.

Ganesh Madabattula2026-04-10✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

Beyond Functional Correctness: Design Issues in AI IDE-Generated Large-Scale Projects

This paper evaluates the capability of the AI-powered IDE Cursor to generate large-scale software projects using a Feature-Driven Human-In-The-Loop framework, finding that while the tool achieves high functional correctness, the resulting systems frequently exhibit significant design issues—such as code duplication and complexity violations—that threaten long-term maintainability and require experienced developer review.

Syed Mohammad Kashif, Ruiyin Li, Peng Liang, Amjed Tahir, Qiong Feng, Zengyang Li, Mojtaba Shahin2026-04-09✓ Author reviewed
⚡ electrical engineering

In search of truth: Evaluating concordance of AI-based anatomy segmentation models

This paper introduces a practical framework for evaluating concordance among AI-based anatomy segmentation models on datasets lacking ground truth by harmonizing outputs into a standard representation and providing interactive visualization tools, demonstrating its utility in comparing six open-source models on NLST CT scans to flag discrepancies and prioritize cases of inter-model disagreement for expert review.

Lena Giebeler, Deepa Krishnaswamy, David Clunie, Jakob Wasserthal, Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar, Andres Diaz-Pinto, Klaus (…)2026-04-08✓ Author reviewed