Week of September 14, 2026
2026-W38
20 curated disruptive papers. Rapid Learning of Dexterous In-Hand Pen Writing through Real-Time Jacobian Estimation; MindTopo; Biology-in-the-loop; CHIMERA Challenge Task 2 and 3. Free explainers publish after editorial write-up. Prior week 2026-W37 remains in the archive.
Rapid Learning of Dexterous In-Hand Pen Writing through Real-Time Jacobian Estimation
Dexterous in-hand manipulation of a grasped object with an anthropomorphic hand is an unsolved frontier for robot dexterity. The contact-richness and highly dy…
MindTopo: Can Foundation Models Reason in Topological Space?
Spatial reasoning depends not only on metric properties such as distance, angle, and shape, but also on topological relations that remain invariant under conti…
Biology-in-the-loop: Amortized Adaptive Hit Discovery in CRISPR Screens
Many biological discovery problems require experiments to be selected sequentially under constrained budgets. CRISPR screening is a prominent example, as exhau…
CHIMERA Challenge Task 2 and 3: Response Subtypes Classification and Progression Survival Prediction in Bladder Cancer Patients using Multimodal Datasets
High-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (HR-NMIBC) carries substantial risks of recurrence and progression, while current clinical risk stratification rem…
Reflex-Informed Neuromuscular Reinforcement Learning for Muscle-Driven Locomotion
Muscle-driven locomotion provides a physically grounded approach to generating realistic human movement. However, achieving both physiological plausibility and…
Caption-once, Frames-on-Demand: Visual-Need Routing for Budget-Aware Agentic Long Video Understanding
Long-video understanding on edge devices must reason over hours of content under tight compute and bandwidth budgets. Subsampling visual tokens loses temporal…
A Chip-scale Space-time Multiplexed Gaussian Boson Sampling Processor Beyond 10,000 Photons
Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) has emerged as a leading photonic paradigmfor demonstrating quantum computational advantage. Nevertheless, state-ofthe-art GBS se…
SenseNova-U1.5: Towards Native Unified Visual Intelligence
We launch SenseNova-U1.5, an 8B-MoT native unified multimodal model that understands, reasons about, and generates visual content within an encoder-free and VA…
Seamless Whole Slide Label-Free Virtual Staining
Label-free virtual staining offers a compelling, non-destructive alternative to standard histopathology; however, its clinical adoption is hindered by the comp…
DiffSWE2d: a differentiable Shallow Water Equations solver for end-to-end flood and tsunami modelling
Solving inverse and optimisation problems with traditional shallow water equations (SWE) solvers can be computationally expensive, particularly when gradients…
The generalised semi-Clifford conjecture is false
The Clifford hierarchy is a nested sequence of sets of quantum gates that can be fault-tolerantly performed using gate teleportation within standard quantum er…
Computational framework for quantum state tomography of spin ensembles
We present Tomography-NMR, an open-source Python package that reconstructs quantum density matrices from spectroscopic measurement data. The package implements…
PyelogP: Automated Energy-Based Determination of Preconsolidation Pressure in Clay Deposits
Estimating the preconsolidation pressure ($σ'_p$) from one-dimensional consolidation (oedometer) tests is critical in geotechnical engineering for settlement a…
High-Temperature ferromagnetism from site-selective filling in (Fe,Ni)$_{6-δ}$GeTe$_2$
The discovery of high-temperature ferromagnetism in the metallic van der Waals (vdW) system Fe$_N$GeTe$_2$ has brought two-dimensional (2D) magnets into techno…
The Dyn-Atmo Survey: High-contrast Imaging Spectroscopy of the Substellar Companion HD 13724 B with the JWST NIRSpec IFU
We present the first spectral analysis from the JWST Cycle 3 GO Program #6362, the Dyn-Atmo Survey of dynamical-atmospheric benchmarks, characterizing the atmo…
The Mysterious Inspiral of WASP-12b: Why Obliquity Tides Cannot Drive Orbital Decay
WASP-12b's orbit is decaying, for unknown reasons. The planet's period is shrinking more rapidly than can be attributed to equilibrium tides or dynamical tides…
Discovering Subtypes of Neurodegenerative Progression with a Scalable Connectome-Constrained Dynamic Model
Parkinson's disease is clinically and biologically heterogeneous, yet its spatiotemporal progression remains poorly characterized. We present a connectome-cons…
SI-Traceable Calibration and Performance Benchmarking of a Terahertz Photomixer Transmitter-Receiver System Using a Rydberg Atomic Sensor
Accurate calibration of electromagnetic field strength in the terahertz (THz) frequency regime remains challenging due to the limited availability of SI-tracea…
Experimental Plasma Density Profiles Determined Through Measurements of the Magnetosonic Wave Speed
Information on plasma density in laboratory plasmas is commonly acquired using either Langmuir probes or optical diagnostics. Here, we present an alternative a…
Effective Ionic Valence and Local Magnetic Moment in Kagome Superconductors
In order to understand the unexpected similarity and the correlated behavior in kagome superconductor families AV$_3$Sb$_5$ (A = K, Rb, Cs) and ATi$_3$Bi$_5$ (…