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Week of July 28, 2026

Twenty new disruptive preprints for ISO week 31: Beacon; The International Lunar Reference System; ROAD; Logical computation with canonical lifted product codes; Rotating mirror with all-directional pinch compressions - The beauty and simplicity in controlled nuclear fusion. Free explainers for humans; structured JSON for agents via x402. Prior week 2026-W30 remains in the archive.

2026-W3120 papers20 explainersHow we curated →Archive
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#1
Artificial Intelligence2607.28595

Beacon: Knowing When and How to Perform Agentic Visual Reasoning

Heuristic score (4 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#2
Space Systems2607.27762

The International Lunar Reference System

Heuristic score (3 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#3
Artificial Intelligence2607.28581

ROAD: Reciprocal-Objective Alignment of Discriminative Semantics for 3D Shape Generation

Heuristic score (3 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#4
Quantum Computing2607.28605

Logical computation with canonical lifted product codes

Heuristic score (3 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#5
Energy & Fusion2607.27024

Rotating mirror with all-directional pinch compressions - The beauty and simplicity in controlled nuclear fusion

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#6
Robotics2607.28623

PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#7
Robotics2607.28596

FA-RDP: A Frequency-Adaptive Reactive Diffusion Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#8
Artificial Intelligence2607.28580

DualG-MRAG: Decoupling Macro-Reasoning and Micro-Matching for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#9
Quantum Computing2607.28621

Lifting Lifted Product Codes

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#10
Quantum Computing2607.28504

Spacetime Layout and Logical Compilation of Color Code

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#11
Quantum Computing2607.28479

Mitigating quantum decoherence via global optimal control

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#12
Biotech & Longevity2607.25435

On the Cost of Entrainment in Protein Translation

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#13
Quantum Computing2607.28541

A Provable Oracle-Free Quantum Algorithm for Nonlinear Dynamics on Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Processors

Heuristic score (1 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#14
Artificial Intelligence2607.28591

Change2Task: From Repository Changes to Executable Coding Agent Tasks and Environments

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#15
Artificial Intelligence2607.28573

Rethinking Inference-Time Scaling in Local Computer-Use Agents: Failure Modes and Compute Tradeoffs

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#16
Biotech & Longevity2607.23821

SCTA: An Agentic Framework for Stable and Interpretable Target Gene Discovery from Single-Cell RNA Sequencing

Heuristic score (1 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#17
Energy & Fusion2607.28491

Drumhead Surface States of Rhombohedral Graphite with Near Ideal Quantum Geometry Condition

Heuristic score (1 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#18
Energy & Fusion2607.26804

Disentangling bulk and surface states in the electronic structure of PtBi$_2$(0001)

Heuristic score (1 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#19
Advanced Materials2607.27331

Altermagnetism from a Cu-Fe Lieb Lattice in FeSe/Cuprate Heterostructures

Heuristic score (2 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.

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#20
Robotics2607.28560

X-NavDP: Generalizing Navigation Diffusion Policy to Novel Behavior and Embodiments with Group Q-score Reweighted Matching

Heuristic score (1 topic heat hits). Editorial review recommended.