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📊 epidemiology

SEVA: An externally driven framework for reproducing COVID-19 mortality waves without transmission feedback

The paper introduces the SEVA framework, an externally driven model that successfully reproduces the temporal structure of early COVID-19 mortality waves across multiple regions using a single parameter for population-level exposure, thereby offering a parsimonious alternative to traditional transmission-based models by decoupling epidemic dynamics from infection feedback.

Varming, K.2026-03-18✓ Author reviewed
💬 NLP

Exposing Long-Tail Safety Failures in Large Language Models through Efficient Diverse Response Sampling

This work proposes and demonstrates that Progressive Diverse Population Sampling (PDPS), a method that uncovers hidden vulnerabilities by shifting focus from rephrasing inputs to systematically and efficiently sampling high quality diverse model outputs, can expose a broad range of suppressed unsafe knowledge in LLMs at a significantly lower computational cost than traditional methods.

Suvadeep Hajra, Palash Nandi, Tanmoy Chakraborty2026-03-17✓ Author reviewed
🤖 AI

Faithful or Just Plausible? Evaluating the Faithfulness of Closed-Source LLMs in Medical Reasoning

This paper systematically evaluates the faithfulness of closed-source large language models in medical reasoning through black-box perturbation probes and human assessments, revealing that their chain-of-thought explanations often fail to causally drive predictions and are susceptible to external hints, thereby highlighting the critical need to prioritize faithfulness over mere accuracy for safe clinical deployment.

Halimat Afolabi, Zainab Afolabi, Elizabeth Friel, Jude Roberts, Antonio Ji-Xu, Lloyd Chen, Egheosa Ogbomo, Emiliomo Imev (…)2026-03-17✓ Author reviewed
🔬 mesoscale physics

Single-Photon Advantage in Quantum Cryptography Beyond QKD

This paper demonstrates a quantum advantage in strong coin flipping—a cryptographic primitive for distrustful parties—by experimentally implementing a protocol using a deterministic quantum dot single-photon source that outperforms both classical methods and previous faint-laser pulse implementations.

Daniel A. Vajner, Koray Kaymazlar, Fenja Drauschke, Lucas Rickert, Martin von Helversen, Hanqing Liu, Shulun Li, Haiqiao (…)2026-03-17✓ Author reviewed
⚛️ high-energy theory

Free field construction of Heterotic string compactified on Calabi-Yau manifolds of Berglund-Hubsch type in the Batyrev-Borisov combinatorial approach

This paper generalizes the free field construction of Heterotic string models from Gepner points to all Calabi-Yau manifolds of Berglund-Hubsch type by utilizing the Batyrev-Borisov combinatorial approach to define vertex operators via Borisov differentials and derive particle spectrum representations directly from reflexive Batyrev polytopes.

Alexander Belavin2026-03-17✓ Author reviewed
🔬 physics

A unifying approach to diffusive transport in heterogeneous media

This paper introduces Randomly Modulated Gaussian Processes as a unifying framework that generalizes diverse anomalous diffusion models in heterogeneous media, enabling systematic statistical characterization, deriving key metrics for experimental classification, and facilitating biophysical interpretations of single-particle trajectories.

Yann Lanoiselée, Denis S. Grebenkov, Gianni Pagnini2026-03-16✓ Author reviewed
🔬 mesoscale physics

Current cross-correlation spectroscopy of Majorana bound states

This paper employs time-dependent Landauer-Büttiker transport theory to analyze current cross-correlations in Majorana zero mode nanowire junctions, deriving a heuristic formula for electron traversal times and proposing a time-resolved transport measurement to experimentally distinguish genuine Majorana bound states from spurious ones.

Michael Ridley, Eliahu Cohen, Christian Flindt, Riku Tuovinen2026-03-16✓ Author reviewed
🔭 astrophysics

Diversity and Evolution of Dust Attenuation Curves from Redshift z ~ 1 to 9

Using a spectroscopic sample of ~3,800 galaxies at redshifts z~1–9 from JWST and HST data, this study reveals that UV-optical dust attenuation curves become significantly flatter with increasing redshift and attenuation, suggesting that early-universe dust is dominated by large grains from supernovae with limited interstellar medium processing.

Irene Shivaei, Rohan P. Naidu, Francisco Rodriguez Montero, Kosei Matsumoto, Joel Leja, Jorryt Matthee, Benjamin D. John (…)2026-03-16✓ Author reviewed