Week of August 17, 2026
2026-W34
Week 2026-W34: 20 curated papers with 20 free plain-English explainers.
TS-Reasoner: Aligning Time Series Foundation Models with LLM Reasoning
Time series reasoning is crucial to decision-making in diverse domains, including finance, energy, and scientific discovery. While existing time series foundat…
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MKG-CARE: Case-Aware Reasoning with Multimodal Knowledge Graphs for Explainable Medical Image Diagnosis
Medical image diagnosis has achieved significant progress with deep learning, yet existing methods often rely on isolated visual evidence and lack the ability…
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PrefixAgent: An LLM-Powered Design Framework for Efficient Prefix Adder Optimization
Prefix adders are fundamental arithmetic circuits, but their design space grows exponentially with bit-width, posing significant optimization challenges. Previ…
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LabDex: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Dexterous Manipulation in Laboratories
Autonomous laboratories hold great promise for accelerating scientific discovery. To achieve this vision, robots are supposed to dexterously manipulate diverse…
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Architecture and Compilation Co-Design for High-Rate Quantum Product Codes on Neutral Atom Arrays
Achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing at a practical scale demands quantum error correction (QEC) codes with high encoding rates. Quantum low-density pari…
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Write Once, Run Everywhere: The Axon DSL for Shape-Safe and Framework-Agnostic LLM Architectures
The entire ecosystem of open-source language models effectively relies on a single platform. What if this platform was forced to shut down tomorrow? A step on…
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HYDRA: A Heterogeneous Chiplet DSE Framework for Serving Dynamic Hybrid LLM Workloads
Hybrid Transformer-Mamba large language models (LLMs) enhance long-context efficiency, but their heterogeneous computation and communication patterns complicat…
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Erasure surface code circuit without mid-circuit erasure checks
Quantum error correction (QEC) codes can correct twice as many erasure errors as Pauli errors. Because of this scaling advantage, there is significant interest…
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Demonstration of a scalable all-solid-state refrigerator exploiting diffusion geometries and limiting interfacial conductances at temperatures below 1 kelvin
Solid-state refrigerators using Normal-metal/Insulator/Superconductor (NIS) junctions have previously demonstrated excellent electron cooling but limited abili…
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Mask2Real-WM: Segmentation Masks as a Sim-to-Real Bridge for Controllable Dexterous World Models
Action-conditioned world models allow robots to predict the future consequences of candidate actions without additional physical interaction, supporting policy…
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High fidelity control of superconducting qubits with optical transmitted signal
Superconducting circuits exhibit remarkable potential for constructing large-scale quantum simulation and computation systems, featuring numerous qubits, exten…
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Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Topological Semimetal YPtBi/W/CoFeB Heterostructures for BEOL-Compatible Spin-Orbit Torque Devices
Spin-orbit torque (SOT) devices require spin-source materials that combine efficient charge-to-spin conversion with back-end-of-line (BEOL) thermal compatibili…
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Ultrafast optical coherence elastography for volumetric and dynamic in vivo imaging
Imaging the mechanical properties of biological tissues in vivo with high spatial and temporal resolution is essential for understanding physiological function…
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Finite-temperature Green's function cluster expansion from thermofield doubles: Breakdown of the polaron picture
We introduce a method, numerically exact in principle, for computing the momentum- and frequency-resolved single-particle Green's function of a polaron at fini…
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ProteinZero: Self-Improving Protein Generation via Online Reinforcement Learning
Protein generative models have shown remarkable promise in protein design, yet their success rates remain constrained by reliance on curated sequence-structure…
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Ten simple rules for non-visual, reproducible and accessible bioinformatics
Bioinformatics workflows rely heavily on visual representations. Quality-control plots, cell embeddings, heatmaps, genome-browser tracks, and interactive dashb…
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Shaping SHAPE - A spectro-polarimeter onboard Chandrayaan-3 to observe Earth as an Exoplanet
Spectro-polarimetry of HAbitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) is an experimental instrument onboard the Propulsion Module (Orbiter) of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, desig…
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Fast Control for LIGO Interferometer Lock Acquisition
Gravitational wave observatories are large scale laser interferometers which are held on resonance to facilitate the detection of gravitational waves. Achievin…
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Navigating Through Turbulence: Charting Early Careers in Weather and Climate Science
The field of weather and climate science is at a pivotal moment, defined by simultaneous forces of institutional disruption and unprecedented technological adv…
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Coupled multiscale paleoclimate reconstruction with four-dimensional variational data assimilation
Paleoclimate archives extend climate knowledge beyond the instrumental era, registering different seasons, variables, time averages, and memory lengths. A long…
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