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This paper proposes a novel perspective on fluid dynamics, framing it as an intersection problem on an infinite-dimensional symplectic manifold. This approach aims to disentangle the influences of the equation of state, spacetime geometry, and topology. The paper's significance lies in its potential to provide a unified framework for understanding various aspects of fluid dynamics, including the chiral anomaly and Onsager quantization, and its connections to topological field theories. The separation of these structures is a key contribution.
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The paper formulates the covariant hydrodynamics equations as an intersection problem on an infinite dimensional symplectic manifold associated with spacetime.

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This paper addresses a challenging problem in stochastic optimal control: controlling a system when you only have intermittent, noisy measurements. The authors cleverly reformulate the problem on the 'belief space' (the space of possible states given the observations), allowing them to apply the Pontryagin Maximum Principle. The key contribution is a new maximum principle tailored for this hybrid setting, linking it to dynamic programming and filtering equations. This provides a theoretical foundation and leads to a practical, particle-based numerical scheme for finding near-optimal controls. The focus on actively controlling the observation process is particularly interesting.
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The paper derives a Pontryagin maximum principle on the belief space, providing necessary conditions for optimality in this hybrid setting.

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This paper introduces Dream2Flow, a novel framework that leverages video generation models to enable zero-shot robotic manipulation. The core idea is to use 3D object flow as an intermediate representation, bridging the gap between high-level video understanding and low-level robotic control. This approach allows the system to manipulate diverse object categories without task-specific demonstrations, offering a promising solution for open-world robotic manipulation.
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Dream2Flow overcomes the embodiment gap and enables zero-shot guidance from pre-trained video models to manipulate objects of diverse categories-including rigid, articulated, deformable, and granular.

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This paper introduces a novel hierarchical sensing framework for wideband integrated sensing and communications using uniform planar arrays (UPAs). The key innovation lies in leveraging the beam-squint effect in OFDM systems to enable efficient 2D angle estimation. The proposed method uses a multi-stage sensing process, formulating angle estimation as a sparse signal recovery problem and employing a modified matching pursuit algorithm. The paper also addresses power allocation strategies for optimal performance. The significance lies in improving sensing performance and reducing sensing power compared to conventional methods, which is crucial for efficient integrated sensing and communication systems.
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The proposed framework achieves superior performance over conventional sensing methods with reduced sensing power.

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This paper addresses the critical challenges of task completion delay and energy consumption in vehicular networks by leveraging IRS-enabled MEC. The proposed Hierarchical Online Optimization Approach (HOOA) offers a novel solution by integrating a Stackelberg game framework with a generative diffusion model-enhanced DRL algorithm. The results demonstrate significant improvements over existing methods, highlighting the potential of this approach for optimizing resource allocation and enhancing performance in dynamic vehicular environments.
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The proposed HOOA achieves significant improvements, which reduces average task completion delay by 2.5% and average energy consumption by 3.1% compared with the best-performing benchmark approach and state-of-the-art DRL algorithm, respectively.

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This paper addresses the problem of optimizing antenna positioning and beamforming in pinching-antenna systems, which are designed to mitigate signal attenuation in wireless networks. The research focuses on a multi-user environment with probabilistic line-of-sight blockage, a realistic scenario. The authors formulate a power minimization problem and provide solutions for both single and multi-PA systems, including closed-form beamforming structures and an efficient algorithm. The paper's significance lies in its potential to improve power efficiency in wireless communication, particularly in challenging environments.
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The paper derives closed-form BF structures and develops an efficient first-order algorithm to achieve high-quality local solutions.

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This paper offers a novel perspective on the strong CP problem, reformulating the vacuum angle as a global holonomy in the infrared regime. It uses the concept of infrared dressing and adiabatic parallel transport to explain the role of the theta vacuum. The paper's significance lies in its alternative approach to understanding the theta vacuum and its implications for local and global observables, potentially resolving inconsistencies in previous interpretations.
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The paper shows that the Pontryagin index emerges as an integer infrared winding, such that the resulting holonomy phase is quantized by Q∈Z and reproduces the standard weight e^{iθQ}.

Gravitational Effects on Sagnac Interferometry

Published:Dec 30, 2025 19:19
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This paper investigates the impact of gravitational waves on Sagnac interferometers, going beyond the standard Sagnac phase shift to identify a polarization rotation effect. This is significant because it provides a new way to detect and potentially characterize gravitational waves, especially for freely falling observers where the standard phase shift vanishes. The paper's focus on gravitational holonomy suggests a deeper connection between gravity and the geometry of the interferometer.
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The paper identifies an additional contribution originating from a relative rotation in the polarization vectors, formulating this effect as a gravitational holonomy associated to the internal Lorentz group.

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This paper addresses the critical need for robust spatial intelligence in autonomous systems by focusing on multi-modal pre-training. It provides a comprehensive framework, taxonomy, and roadmap for integrating data from various sensors (cameras, LiDAR, etc.) to create a unified understanding. The paper's value lies in its systematic approach to a complex problem, identifying key techniques and challenges in the field.
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The paper formulates a unified taxonomy for pre-training paradigms, ranging from single-modality baselines to sophisticated unified frameworks.

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This paper addresses a critical challenge in real-world reinforcement learning: how to effectively utilize potentially suboptimal human interventions to accelerate learning without being overly constrained by them. The proposed SiLRI algorithm offers a novel approach by formulating the problem as a constrained RL optimization, using a state-wise Lagrange multiplier to account for the uncertainty of human interventions. The results demonstrate significant improvements in learning speed and success rates compared to existing methods, highlighting the practical value of the approach for robotic manipulation.
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SiLRI effectively exploits human suboptimal interventions, reducing the time required to reach a 90% success rate by at least 50% compared with the state-of-the-art RL method HIL-SERL, and achieving a 100% success rate on long-horizon manipulation tasks where other RL methods struggle to succeed.

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This paper addresses a fundamental problem in condensed matter physics: understanding and quantifying orbital magnetic multipole moments, specifically the octupole, in crystalline solids. It provides a gauge-invariant expression, which is a crucial step for accurate modeling. The paper's significance lies in connecting this octupole to a novel Hall response driven by non-uniform electric fields, potentially offering a new way to characterize and understand unconventional magnetic materials like altermagnets. The work could lead to new experimental probes and theoretical frameworks for studying these complex materials.
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The paper formulates a gauge-invariant expression for the orbital magnetic octupole moment and links it to a higher-rank Hall response induced by spatially nonuniform electric fields.

Paper#llm🔬 ResearchAnalyzed: Jan 3, 2026 16:46

DiffThinker: Generative Multimodal Reasoning with Diffusion Models

Published:Dec 30, 2025 11:51
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This paper introduces DiffThinker, a novel diffusion-based framework for multimodal reasoning, particularly excelling in vision-centric tasks. It shifts the paradigm from text-centric reasoning to a generative image-to-image approach, offering advantages in logical consistency and spatial precision. The paper's significance lies in its exploration of a new reasoning paradigm and its demonstration of superior performance compared to leading closed-source models like GPT-5 and Gemini-3-Flash in vision-centric tasks.
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DiffThinker significantly outperforms leading closed source models including GPT-5 (+314.2%) and Gemini-3-Flash (+111.6%), as well as the fine-tuned Qwen3-VL-32B baseline (+39.0%), highlighting generative multimodal reasoning as a promising approach for vision-centric reasoning.

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This paper addresses the critical challenge of ensuring reliability in fog computing environments, which are increasingly important for IoT applications. It tackles the problem of Service Function Chain (SFC) placement, a key aspect of deploying applications in a flexible and scalable manner. The research explores different redundancy strategies and proposes a framework to optimize SFC placement, considering latency, cost, reliability, and deadline constraints. The use of genetic algorithms to solve the complex optimization problem is a notable aspect. The paper's focus on practical application and the comparison of different redundancy strategies make it valuable for researchers and practitioners in the field.
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Simulation results show that shared-standby redundancy outperforms the conventional dedicated-active approach by up to 84%.

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This paper introduces a novel framework using Chebyshev polynomials to reconstruct the continuous angular power spectrum (APS) from channel covariance data. The approach transforms the ill-posed APS inversion into a manageable linear regression problem, offering advantages in accuracy and enabling downlink covariance prediction from uplink measurements. The use of Chebyshev polynomials allows for effective control of approximation errors and the incorporation of smoothness and non-negativity constraints, making it a valuable contribution to covariance-domain processing in multi-antenna systems.
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The paper derives an exact semidefinite characterization of nonnegative APS and introduces a derivative-based regularizer that promotes smoothly varying APS profiles while preserving transitions of clusters.

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This paper addresses the critical challenge of resource management in edge computing, where heterogeneous tasks and limited resources demand efficient orchestration. The proposed framework leverages a measurement-driven approach to model performance, enabling optimization of latency and power consumption. The use of a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem and its decomposition into tractable subproblems demonstrates a sophisticated approach to a complex problem. The results, showing significant improvements in latency and energy efficiency, highlight the practical value of the proposed solution for dynamic edge environments.
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CRMS reduces latency by over 14% and improves energy efficiency compared with heuristic and search-based baselines.

Paper#LLM🔬 ResearchAnalyzed: Jan 3, 2026 18:34

BOAD: Hierarchical SWE Agents via Bandit Optimization

Published:Dec 29, 2025 17:41
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This paper addresses the limitations of single-agent LLM systems in complex software engineering tasks by proposing a hierarchical multi-agent approach. The core contribution is the Bandit Optimization for Agent Design (BOAD) framework, which efficiently discovers effective hierarchies of specialized sub-agents. The results demonstrate significant improvements in generalization, particularly on out-of-distribution tasks, surpassing larger models. This work is important because it offers a novel and automated method for designing more robust and adaptable LLM-based systems for real-world software engineering.
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BOAD outperforms single-agent and manually designed multi-agent systems. On SWE-bench-Live, featuring more recent and out-of-distribution issues, our 36B system ranks second on the leaderboard at the time of evaluation, surpassing larger models such as GPT-4 and Claude.

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This paper addresses the limitations of fixed antenna elements in conventional RSMA-RIS architectures by proposing a movable-antenna (MA) assisted RSMA-RIS framework. It formulates a sum-rate maximization problem and provides a solution that jointly optimizes transmit beamforming, RIS reflection, common-rate partition, and MA positions. The research is significant because it explores a novel approach to enhance the performance of RSMA systems, a key technology for 6G wireless communication, by leveraging the spatial degrees of freedom offered by movable antennas. The use of fractional programming and KKT conditions to solve the optimization problem is a standard but effective approach.
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Numerical results indicate that incorporating MAs yields additional performance improvements for RSMA, and MA assistance yields a greater performance gain for RSMA relative to SDMA.

Five-Vertex Model and Discrete Log-Gas

Published:Dec 29, 2025 05:59
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This paper investigates the five-vertex model, a problem in statistical mechanics, by reformulating it as a discrete log-gas. This approach allows the authors to analyze the model's free energy and resolvent, reproducing existing results and providing new insights. The work is a step towards understanding limit shape phenomena in the model.
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The paper provides the explicit form of the resolvent in all possible regimes.

Certifying Data Removal in Federated Learning

Published:Dec 29, 2025 03:25
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This paper addresses the critical issue of data privacy and the 'right to be forgotten' in vertical federated learning (VFL). It proposes a novel algorithm, FedORA, to efficiently and effectively remove the influence of specific data points or labels from trained models in a distributed setting. The focus on VFL, where data is distributed across different parties, makes this research particularly relevant and challenging. The use of a primal-dual framework, a new unlearning loss function, and adaptive step sizes are key contributions. The theoretical guarantees and experimental validation further strengthen the paper's impact.
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FedORA formulates the removal of certain samples or labels as a constrained optimization problem solved using a primal-dual framework.

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This paper presents a novel data-driven control approach for optimizing economic performance in nonlinear systems, addressing the challenges of nonlinearity and constraints. The use of neural networks for lifting and convex optimization for control is a promising combination. The application to industrial case studies strengthens the practical relevance of the work.
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The online control problem is formulated as a convex optimization problem, despite the nonlinearity of the system dynamics and the original economic cost function.

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This paper addresses the critical problem of optimizing resource allocation for distributed inference of Large Language Models (LLMs). It's significant because LLMs are computationally expensive, and distributing the workload across geographically diverse servers is a promising approach to reduce costs and improve accessibility. The paper provides a systematic study, performance models, optimization algorithms (including a mixed integer linear programming approach), and a CPU-only simulator. This work is important for making LLMs more practical and accessible.
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The paper presents "experimentally validated performance models that can predict the inference performance under given block placement and request routing decisions."

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This paper addresses the challenge of antenna placement in near-field massive MIMO systems to improve spectral efficiency. It proposes a novel approach based on electrostatic equilibrium, offering a computationally efficient solution for optimal antenna positioning. The work's significance lies in its innovative reformulation of the antenna placement problem and the development of an ODE-based framework for efficient optimization. The asymptotic analysis and closed-form solution further enhance the practicality and applicability of the proposed scheme.
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The optimal antenna placement is in principle an electrostatic equilibrium problem.