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The emergence of (3+1)-dimensional expanding spacetime from complex Langevin simulations of the Lorentzian type IIB matrix model with deformations
The Lorentzian type IIB matrix model is a promising candidate for a nonperturbative formulation of superstring theory. In this model, the eigenvalue distribution of the $N\times N$ bosonic matrices $A_μ$ $(μ= 0 , \ldots , 9)$ represents an emergent spacetime, which is determined by the dynamics of the model in the large-$N$ limit. Here we perform numerical simulations of the model overcoming the s…
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Demonstrating Online Schema Alignment in Decentralized Knowledge Graphs Querying
Decentralized Knowledge Graphs querying enables integrating distributed data without centralization, but is highly sensitive to vocabulary heterogeneity. Query issuers cannot realistically anticipate all vocabulary mismatches, especially when alignment rules are local, scoped, or discovered at runtime. We present an online schema alignment approach for Link Traversal Query Processing (LTQP) that d…
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Auditing LLMs for Algorithmic Fairness in Casenote-Augmented Tabular Prediction
LLMs are increasingly being considered for prediction tasks in high-stakes social service settings, but their algorithmic fairness properties in this context are poorly understood. In this short technical report, we audit the algorithmic fairness of LLM-based tabular classification on a real housing placement prediction task, augmented with street outreach casenotes from a nonprofit partner. We au…
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SketchFaceGS: Real-Time Sketch-Driven Face Editing and Generation with Gaussian Splatting
3D Gaussian representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for digital head modeling, achieving photorealistic quality with real-time rendering. However, intuitive and interactive creation or editing of 3D Gaussian head models remains challenging. Although 2D sketches provide an ideal interaction modality for fast, intuitive conceptual design, they are sparse, depth-ambiguous, and lack high-f…
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Cascaded Code Editing: Large-Small Model Collaboration for Effective and Efficient Code Editing
Code editing constitutes a fundamental practice in software development, wherein developers modify existing codebases according to natural language requirements. Accurate code editing necessitates a comprehensive understanding of both the existing codebase and the modification requirements. Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in code editing tasks, they su…
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Cosmological constraints on TeV-scale dark matter subcomponents decaying between recombination and reionisation
The Dark Ages and the Cosmic Dawn are an untapped well of information about the particle physics properties of dark matter, which may become accessible with future radio telescopes able to probe the 21-cm signal from atomic hydrogen. In this work we study the impact on cosmological observables of a dark matter subcomponent composed of TeV-scale particles that decay into electrons, photons or neutr…
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Benchmarking Vision Foundation Models for Domain-Generalizable Face Anti-Spoofing
Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) remains challenging due to the requirement for robust domain generalization across unseen environments. While recent trends leverage Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for semantic supervision, these multimodal approaches often demand prohibitive computational resources and exhibit high inference latency. Furthermore, their efficacy is inherently limited by the quality of the u…
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How Far Are Video Models from True Multimodal Reasoning?
Despite remarkable progress toward general-purpose video models, a critical question remains unanswered: how far are these models from achieving true multimodal reasoning? Existing benchmarks fail to address this question rigorously, as they remain constrained by straightforward task designs and fragmented evaluation metrics that neglect complex multimodal reasoning. To bridge this gap, we introdu…
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Improved Anomaly Detection in Medical Images via Mean Shift Density Enhancement
Anomaly detection in medical imaging is essential for identifying rare pathological conditions, particularly when annotated abnormal samples are limited. We propose a hybrid anomaly detection framework that integrates self-supervised representation learning with manifold-based density estimation, a combination that remains largely unexplored in this domain. Medical images are first embedded into…
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Headlines You Won't Forget: Can Pronoun Insertion Increase Memorability?
For news headlines to influence beliefs and drive action, relevant information needs to be retained and retrievable from memory. In this probing study we draw on experiment designs from cognitive psychology to examine how a specific linguistic feature, namely direct address through first- and second-person pronouns, affects memorability and to what extent it is feasible to use large language model…
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Inductive Subgraphs as Shortcuts: Causal Disentanglement for Heterophilic Graph Learning
Heterophily is a prevalent property of real-world graphs and is well known to impair the performance of homophilic Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Prior work has attempted to adapt GNNs to heterophilic graphs through non-local neighbor extension or architecture refinement. However, the fundamental reasons behind misclassifications remain poorly understood. In this work, we take a novel perspective b…
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SCURank: Ranking Multiple Candidate Summaries with Summary Content Units for Enhanced Summarization
Small language models (SLMs), such as BART, can achieve summarization performance comparable to large language models (LLMs) via distillation. However, existing LLM-based ranking strategies for summary candidates suffer from instability, while classical metrics (e.g., ROUGE) are insufficient to rank high-quality summaries. To address these issues, we introduce \textbf{SCURank}, a framework that en…
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Identifying Merger-Driven and Collapsar-Driven Gamma-Ray Bursts with Precursor based Solely on Prompt Emission
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generally classified as Type~I GRBs, which originate from compact binary mergers, and Type~II GRBs, which originate from massive collapsars. The traditional correspondence between short--Type~I GRBs and long--Type~II GRBs, separated by a duration of 2 seconds, has been challenged by recent observations of long GRBs associated with kilonovae (i.e., Type~I-L GRBs) and a s…
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YAIFS: Yet (not) Another Intelligent Fog Simulator: A Framework for Agent-Driven Computing Continuum Modeling & Simulation
Simulation plays a key role in the design and evaluation of distributed systems, yet it is often treated as a static tool with limited interaction capabilities. In this work, we present Yet (not) Another Intelligent Fog Simulator (YAIFS), and evolution of YAFS that redefines simulation as an interactive, service-oriented environment. YAIFS introduce a layered architecture that exposes the simulati…
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A tidally detached super Neptune on a strongly misaligned retrograde orbit
The obliquity between a planet's orbital axis and its host star's spin axis provides crucial insights into planetary formation and migration. Planets with scaled semi-major axes ($a/R_\star$) large enough to be unaffected by tidal alterations ("tidally detached"), offer a unique opportunity to study the original obliquity in which the system formed. We therefore observed TOI-1710 b ($a/R_\star \ap…
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Multiscale Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel Scanning for Conditional Dependency
We propose a nonparametric approach to testing conditional independence and estimating conditional association, generalizing the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel (CMH) test and odds-ratio estimator to continuous sample spaces. It leverages a multiscale scanning approach to decompose the sample space into a cascade of $2\times 2 \times T$ tables. Following the CMH test, we condition on the marginal order st…
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Deep Image Prior for photoacoustic tomography can mitigate limited-view artifacts
We study the deep image prior (DIP) framework applied to photoacoustic tomography (PAT) as an unsupervised reconstruction approach to mitigate limited-view artifacts and noise commonly encountered in experimental settings. Efficient implementation is achieved by employing recently published fast forward and adjoint algorithms for circular measurement geometries. Initialization via a fast inverse a…
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Reasoning-Aware AIGC Detection via Alignment and Reinforcement
The rapid advancement and widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) have elevated the need for reliable AI-generated content (AIGC) detection, which remains challenging as models evolve. We introduce AIGC-text-bank, a comprehensive multi-domain dataset with diverse LLM sources and authorship scenarios, and propose REVEAL, a detection framework that generates interpretable reasoning chain…
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FOCAL-Attention for Heterogeneous Multi-Label Prediction
Heterogeneous graphs have attracted increasing attention for modeling multi-typed entities and relations in complex real-world systems. Multi-label node classification on heterogeneous graphs is challenging due to structural heterogeneity and the need to learn shared representations across multiple labels. Existing methods typically adopt either flexible attention mechanisms or meta-path constrain…
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A Finite Mixture Failure-rate based Heterogeneous Step-stress Accelerated Life Testing (h-SSALT) Model
Traditional step-stress accelerated life testing models assume that the test units originate from a homogeneous population. Recently, Lu and Kateri (2025) proposed a heterogeneous cumulative exposure based SSALT model to account for the inhomogeneous aging patterns among test units belonging to the same production batch. This paper introduces an alternative yet flexible failure-rate based heteroge…
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The Flat Critical Branch Between Nariai and Bertotti-Robinson Geometries as a Solution of Cosmological Einstein-Maxwell Theory
We analyze a class of product geometries of the form $\mathbb{R}^{1,1}\times Σ_2$ supported by electric, magnetic, or dyonic flux in the Einstein-Maxwell-$Λ$ theory. These spacetimes belong to a unified family of direct products $(dS_2,\mathbb{R}^{1,1},AdS_2)\times Σ_2$ distinguished solely by the sign of the Lorentzian curvature of the two-dimensional factor. We focus on the critical configuratio…
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LBLLM: Lightweight Binarization of Large Language Models via Three-Stage Distillation
Deploying large language models (LLMs) in resource-constrained environments is hindered by heavy computational and memory requirements. We present LBLLM, a lightweight binarization framework that achieves effective W(1+1)A4 quantization through a novel three-stage quantization strategy. The framework proceeds as follows: (1) initialize a high-quality quantized model via PTQ; (2) quantize binarized…
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Analytical Extraction of Conditional Sobol' Indices via Basis Decomposition of Polynomial Chaos Expansions
In uncertainty quantification, evaluating sensitivity measures under specific conditions (i.e., conditional Sobol' indices) is essential for systems with parameterized responses, such as spatial fields or varying operating conditions. Traditional approaches often rely on point-wise modeling, which is computationally expensive and may lack consistency across the parameter space. This paper demonstr…
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Mind the Unseen Mass: Unmasking LLM Hallucinations via Soft-Hybrid Alphabet Estimation
This paper studies uncertainty quantification for large language models (LLMs) under black-box access, where only a small number of responses can be sampled for each query. In this setting, estimating the effective semantic alphabet size--that is, the number of distinct meanings expressed in the sampled responses--provides a useful proxy for downstream risk. However, frequency-based estimators ten…
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Distributed Multi-Sensor Control for Multi-Target Tracking Using Adaptive Complementary Fusion for LMB Densities
Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a fundamental problem in statistical signal processing. In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate their actions to accurately estimate the locations and trajectories of multiple targets, balancing limited computation and communication resources with multi-target tracking accuracy. Multi-se…