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Top disruptiveness scores across every published week. Prefer the free explainer when one exists.
#1 · score 93 · 2026-W38
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…
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#2 · score 93 · 2026-W34
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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#3 · score 93 · 2026-W35
AI4AI-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Algorithmic Design for Recursive Self-Improvement
Recursive self-improvement (RSI) asks whether an AI system can improve the process that produces AI systems, so that the next system inherits the improvement.…
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#4 · score 93 · 2026-W36
Prompt-Conditioned Channel Attention for Hierarchical Feature Modulation toward Anatomy-Agnostic Segmentation
Anatomically plausible segmentation remains challenging because of low contrast, ambiguous boundaries, and modality-specific artifacts. Interactive segmentatio…
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#5 · score 93 · 2026-W37
Legibility is Not Interpretability: Comparing Judged and Actual Importance in Chain-Of-Thought Reasoning
Reasoning traces from chain-of-thought models appear to offer a legible window into how a model arrives at its answer. A growing body of work treats them as su…
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#6 · score 91 · 2026-W38
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…
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#7 · score 89 · 2026-W34
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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#8 · score 89 · 2026-W35
Logarithmic depth compression of Heisenberg Hamiltonian simulation by fan-out parallelization, with built-in error detection
Noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers are constrained by circuit depth, while product-formula simulation of spin systems leads to narrow and deep circuits…
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#9 · score 88 · 2026-W36
Swift-Image: Exploring the Performance Frontier of Compact Unified Image Generation Models
We present Swift-Image, a compact unified model for text-to-image generation, single-image editing, and multi-image editing. Our goal is to explore how far a r…
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#10 · score 87 · 2026-W38
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…
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#11 · score 87 · 2026-W30
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
We introduce DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model trained with large-scale reinforcement learning that achieves strong multi-step reasoning without extensive human-a…
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#12 · score 87 · 2026-W34
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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#13 · score 87 · 2026-W36
Towards Surgical World-Action Modeling: A Preliminary Joint Visual-Trajectory Forecasting for Surgical Motion Planning
Reliable surgical planning requires models to anticipate not only how instruments will move, but also how the operative visual state will evolve together with…
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#14 · score 86 · 2026-W35
Pandora's AI Model Routing Box: Efficient Allocation with Costly Value Estimation
Heterogeneous AI systems composed of multiple models, architectures, harnesses, or inference-time settings can improve quality and efficiency by routing querie…
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#15 · score 85 · 2026-W37
Quantum thermalization achieves optimal approximate quantum error correction
Quantum thermalization explains how an isolated many-body system naturally evolves towards a thermal state, rendering information about the initial conditions…
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#16 · score 84 · 2026-W38
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…
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#17 · score 84 · 2026-W34
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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#18 · score 84 · 2026-W35
Inter-X++: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Human-Human Interaction Analysis
The capability to perceive and synthesize human-human interactions is fundamental to developing intelligent digital human systems. However, existing datasets a…
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#19 · score 83 · 2026-W36
Hepatitis C Virus Genotyping with a Transformer Neural Network
This study aims to explore the applicability of Transformer-based models for genetic sequence classification by evaluating their performance in predicting hepa…
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#20 · score 83 · 2026-W37
Puffin-World: Scaling a Unified Multimodal Model with Native 3D World States
We propose Puffin-World, a unified multimodal architecture that integrates physical understanding, spatial simulation, and 3D world generation and reconstructi…
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#21 · score 82 · 2026-W38
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…
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#22 · score 82 · 2026-W30
DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
DeepSeek-V3 is a strong Mixture-of-Experts language model with 671B total parameters and 37B activated per token. We describe Multi-head Latent Attention, an a…
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#23 · score 82 · 2026-W34
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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#24 · score 82 · 2026-W37
GIFT: Guided Intermediate Feature Training via Action-Oriented Structural Supervision for Robotic Manipulation
Vision-language pre-training and predictive world modeling provide robot policies with rich semantic and dynamic visual features, but their native action and v…
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