Carlos's Debrief

April 16, 2026 09:00
44ArXiv Papers
30Web Findings
74Total Sources
Topics searched: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Large Language Models Security & Cybersecurity Cryptography Zero Knowledge Quantum Computing Crypto & Blockchain AI Agents & Reasoning AI Safety & Alignment
April 16, 2026 09:00 — Curated by Hermes Research Scout

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📄 ArXiv Papers

🧠 LLMs 13

Yuqiao Tan, Minzheng Wang, Bo Liu, Zichen Liu, Tian Liang, Shizhu He, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
While reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) significantly enhances LLM reasoning by optimizing the conditional distribution P(y|x), its potential is fundamentally bounded by the base…
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Sumeet Ramesh Motwani, Daniel Nichols, Charles London et al.
As language models are increasingly deployed for complex autonomous tasks, their ability to reason accurately over longer horizons becomes critical.
cs.LGcs.AI
Itay Itzhak, Eliya Habba, Gabriel Stanovsky, Yonatan Belinkov
Evaluating LLMs is challenging, as benchmark scores often fail to capture models' real-world usefulness.
cs.CLcs.AIcs.LG
Louie Hong Yao, Vishesh Anand, Yuan Zhuang, Tianyu Jiang
Rhetorical questions are asked not to seek information but to persuade or signal stance. How large language models internally represent them remains unclear.
cs.CLcs.AIcs.LG
Tianshuo Yang, Guanyu Chen, Yutian Chen et al.
While end-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation, fine-tuning them on narrow control data often compromises the profound reasoning capabilities…
cs.CVcs.AIcs.RO
Fei Tang, Bofan Chen, Zhengxi Lu et al.
GUI grounding, which localizes interface elements from screenshots given natural language queries, remains challenging for small icons and dense layouts.
cs.CVcs.AIcs.CL
Yuanda Xu, Hejian Sang, Zhengze Zhou, Ran He, Zhipeng Wang, Alborz Geramifard
On-policy knowledge distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own rollouts under token-level supervision from a teacher.
cs.LGcs.AI
Kavya Gupta, Nektarios Kalampalikis, Christoph Heitz, Isabel Valera
Fairness in algorithmic decision-making is often defined in the predictive space, where predictive performance - used as a proxy for decision-maker (DM) utility - is traded off against…
cs.LGcs.AI
Zheyu Zhang, Ziqi Pang, Shixing Chen, Xiang Hao, Vimal Bhat, Yu-Xiong Wang
Long video understanding is inherently challenging for vision-language models (VLMs) because of the extensive number of frames.
cs.CV
Song Tang, Guangquan Jie, Henghui Ding, Yu-Gang Jiang
Existing segmentation models based on multimodal large language models (MLLMs), such as LISA, often struggle with novel or emerging entities due to their inability to incorporate up-to-date…
cs.CV
Dinging Li, Yingxiu Zhao, Xinrui Cheng et al.
Spatial reasoning over three-dimensional scenes is a core capability for embodied intelligence, yet continuous model improvement remains bottlenecked by the cost of geometric annotation.
cs.CVcs.CL
Erjia Yan, Chaoqun Ni
Generative AI systems such as ChatGPT are increasingly used in scientific writing, yet their broader implications for the organization of scientific knowledge remain unclear.
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Zipeng Ling, Shuliang Liu, Shenghong Fu, Yuehao Tang, Seonil Son, Yao Wan, Xuming Hu
LLM reasoning traces suffer from complex flaws -- *Step Internal Flaws* (logical errors, hallucinations, etc.) and *Step-wise Flaws* (overthinking, underthinking), which vary by sample.
cs.CL

🤖 Machine Learning 7

Adi Arbel, Stefan Steinerberger, Ronen Talmon
Given two symmetric positive-definite matrices $A, B \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$, we study the spectral properties of the interpolation $A^{1-x} B^x$ for $0 \leq x \leq 1$.
cs.LGmath.SP
Xiaofan Zhou, Kyumin Lee
Sequential recommendation has become increasingly prominent in both academia and industry, particularly in e-commerce.
cs.IRcs.LG
Arseniy Andreyev, Advikar Ananthkumar, Marc Walden, Tomaso Poggio, Pierfrancesco Beneventano
Recent work suggests that (stochastic) gradient descent self-organizes near an instability boundary, shaping both optimization and the solutions found.
cs.LGmath.DSmath.OC
Buse Şen, Yifan Hu, Daniel Kuhn
We introduce Multistage Conditional Compositional Optimization (MCCO) as a new paradigm for decision-making under uncertainty that combines aspects of multistage stochastic programming and…
math.OCcs.LGstat.ML
Gergő Szalay, Gergely Zsolt Kovács, Sándor Teleki, Balázs Pintér, Tibor Gregorics
Resolving and rewriting references is fundamental in programming languages. Motivated by a real-world decompilation task, we abstract reference rewriting into the problems of direct and indirect…
cs.LGcs.NE
Team Seedance, De Chen, Liyang Chen et al.
Seedance 2.0 is a new native multi-modal audio-video generation model, officially released in China in early February 2026.
cs.CV
Lin-Zhuo Chen, Jian Gao, Yihang Chen et al.
Streaming 3D reconstruction aims to recover 3D information, such as camera poses and point clouds, from a video stream, which necessitates geometric accuracy, temporal consistency, and…
cs.CV

🔒 Security & Crypto 9

Ziming Wang
We present UMI-3D, a multimodal extension of the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) for robust and scalable data collection in embodied manipulation.
cs.ROcs.AI
Mustafa Doger, Sennur Ulukus
We consider the block withholding attacks on pools, more specifically the state-of-the-art Power Adjusting Withholding (PAW) attack.
cs.CRcs.DCcs.IT
Massimo Bartoletti, Angelo Ferrando, Enrico Lipparini, Vadim Malvone
Smart contracts deployed on blockchains such as Ethereum routinely manage large amounts of assets, making their security critical.
cs.CRcs.LO
Abubakar Sadiq Shittu, John Sadik, Farzin Gholamrezae, Scott Ruoti
Commit signing is widely promoted as a foundation of software supply-chain security, yet prior work has studied it through the lens of individual repositories or curated project samples, missing the…
cs.SEcs.CR
Matthew Frazier, Kostadin Damevski
According to constructivist theory, students learn software security more effectively when examples are grounded in their own code.
cs.CRcs.CYcs.SE
Yi Ting Shen, Kentaroh Toyoda, Alex Leung
The rapid proliferation of Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based agentic systems has introduced a new category of security threats that existing frameworks are inadequately equipped to address.
cs.CRcs.AI
John Pellew, Faizan Raza
How do security scanners perform on real-world code? We present RealVuln, the first open-source benchmark comparing Rule-Based SAST, General-Purpose LLMs, and Security-Specialized scanners on 26…
cs.CR
Gregory Morse, Tamás Kozsik
This paper studies obfuscation techniques for Erlang programs at the source, abstract syntax tree, BEAM assembly, and BEAM bytecode levels.
cs.PLcs.CR
Haode Yan, Kangquan Li
Niho exponents have found important applications in sequence design, coding theory, and cryptography. Determining the differential spectrum of a power function with Niho exponent is a topic of…
cs.IT

⚛️ Quantum 2

Juan Pablo Esparza, Francisco J. Peña, Patricio Vargas, Vladimir Juričić
Non-Hermitian band descriptions capture how loss, gain, and environmental coupling reshape quantum matter, yet most experimental tests rely on wave-based or dynamical probes.
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Adnan Aijaz
Sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks are expected to operate for multiple decades, supporting mission-critical and globally federated digital services.
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🛡️ AI Safety 1

Alexander Nemecek, Osama Zafar, Yuqiao Xu, Wenbiao Li, Erman Ayday
Watermarking is becoming the default mechanism for AI content authentication, with governance policies and frameworks referencing it as infrastructure for content provenance.
cs.CYcs.CLcs.CR

🤝 Agents 1

Zerun Ma, Guoqiang Wang, Xinchen Xie et al.
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have empowered AI research agents to perform isolated scientific tasks, automating complex, real-world workflows, such as LLM training, remains a significant…
cs.AIcs.CL

📋 Other 11

Konstantinos Ladovrechis
Investigating the interplay among topology and electron-electron interactions is an intriguing research quest which has recently gathered steam across the community of condensed-matter physics.
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William Sheu, Tommaso Treu, Martin Millon et al.
We present a blind time-delay cosmography measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ based on the quadruply imaged quasar SDSSJ1433+6007.
astro-ph.COastro-ph.GA
Samuel J. Garratt, Dmitry A. Abanin
We construct upper bounds on entanglement entropies of many-body quantum states that have fixed energy expectation values with respect to geometrically local Hamiltonians.
cond-mat.stat-mechcond-mat.str-elquant-ph
Darij Grinberg
Let $A$ be a commutative ring with unity, and $M$ a finitely generated $A$-module. In 1971, Morris Orzech showed that any $A$-module homomorphism from a submodule of $M$ to $M$ must be an…
math.ACmath.RA
Panagiotis Kostas
We introduce a notion of global dimension for a triangulated category relative to a compact silting object.
math.RTmath.CTmath.RA
Darij Grinberg
We study $n$-homomorphisms in the sense of Khudaverdian--Voronov, but generalized to maps from arbitrary rings to arbitrary commutative rings.
math.RAmath.CO
Emanuel Gafton, Illa R. Losada
We present Visplot, a free, open-source, web-based tool for hardware-aware visibility analysis and heuristic scheduling of both sidereal and non-sidereal astronomical observations.
astro-ph.IM
Alessandra Caraceni, Nicolas Curien, William Fleurat, Adrianus Twigt
We present a simple trimming algorithm that generates nested uniform binary plane trees by removing leaves one-by-one using a best-of-three-match procedure.
math.PRmath.CO
Ishrak AlhajjHassan
We establish finite-step probabilistic upper bounds on the contraction ratios $ρ_k = Δ_{k+1}/Δ_k$ for iterated Pearson correlation dynamics.
math.STmath.DS
Zhong-Bo Kang, Luke Sellers, Congyue Zhang, Curtis Zhou
We present an extraction of unpolarized quark transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMD PDFs) from Drell-Yan data within a Bayesian inference framework, incorporating…
hep-phhep-exnucl-ex
Grace Krahm, Adam K. Leroy, Jiayi Sun et al.
We present high-resolution (0.94" $\approx$ 55 pc) ALMA CO(2-1) and 13CO(2-1) observations of the highly inclined (i~87.5 deg) galaxy NGC 4565 covering out to galactocentric radius Rgal > $\pm$ 17…
astro-ph.GA

🌐 Web Findings

🔗 HuggingFace 16

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of mobile GUI agents powered by large language models (LLMs), which can autonomously execute diverse device-control tasks based on natural language…
HuggingFace▲ 1
The rise of OpenClaw in early 2026 marks the moment when millions of users began deploying personal AI agents into their daily lives, delegating tasks ranging from travel planning to multi-step…
HuggingFace▲ 11
Reconstructing non-rigid objects with physical plausibility remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches leverage differentiable rendering for per-scene optimization, recovering geometry and…
HuggingFace▲ 6
Memory-based self-evolution has emerged as a promising paradigm for coding agents. However, existing approaches typically restrict memory utilization to homogeneous task domains, failing to leverage…
HuggingFace▲ 21
AI coding agents have become central to developer workflows, yet every existing solution locks its reasoning capabilities within a specific delivery form, such as a CLI, IDE plugin, or web…
HuggingFace▲ 11
Language Model (LM) agents are increasingly used in complex open-ended decision-making tasks, from AI coding to physical AI.
HuggingFace▲ 5
Software logging is essential for maintaining and debugging complex systems, yet it remains unclear how AI coding agents handle this non-functional requirement.
HuggingFace▲ 1
Most reward models for visual generation reduce rich human judgments to a single unexplained score, discarding the reasoning that underlies preference.
HuggingFace▲ 64
Feed-forward 3D reconstruction models are efficient but rigid: once trained, they perform inference in a zero-shot manner and cannot adapt to the test scene.
HuggingFace▲ 11
Motivated by the underspecified, multi-hop nature of search queries and the multimodal, heterogeneous, and often conflicting nature of real-world web results, we introduce MERRIN (Multimodal Evidence…
HuggingFace▲ 3
MLLM-based GUI agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in complex user interface interaction tasks.
HuggingFace▲ 4
Large language models are emerging as scientific assistants, but evaluating their ability to reason from empirical data remains challenging.
HuggingFace▲ 0
AI agents are expected to perform professional work across hundreds of occupational domains (from emergency department triage to nuclear reactor safety monitoring to customs import processing), yet…
HuggingFace▲ 42
Spec-driven development (SDD) with AI coding agents provides a structured workflow, but agents often remain "context blind" in large, evolving repositories, leading to hallucinated APIs and…
HuggingFace▲ 1
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel on many multimodal reasoning benchmarks, but these evaluations often do not require an exhaustive readout of the image and can therefore obscure failures in…
HuggingFace▲ 7
Reconstructing 3D representations from 2D inputs is a fundamental task in computer vision and graphics, serving as a cornerstone for understanding and interacting with the physical world.
HuggingFace▲ 10

🔗 Lobste.rs 1

Edit April 2, 2026: I've been getting inbound interest from researchers wanting to run their own queries.
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🔗 Google Scholar 12

The manufacturing sector is being transformed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) which brings in smart automation, data making decisions, and act as real time adapt.
Google Scholar
… earlier breakthrough at higher AKD concentrations. Increasing inlet Cr(VI) concentrations led to faster saturation and higher uptake, while higher flowrates reduced breakthrough time …
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… Building on this premise, this paper presents a framework for identifying breakthrough … potential to trigger technological breakthroughs. Next, a machine learning-based link prediction …
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… The advent of large language models (LLMs) has marked a new … LLM usage. We further present the challenges associated with data bias, privacy, and the integration of these models …
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… like “Large Language Models (LLMs)” or “LLM-based conversational agents” [94], we first explained the qualitifications in the screening process by showing example LLM applications …
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Cluster Computing - With the emergence of quantum computers, traditional cryptographic methods are vulnerable to attacks, emphasizing the need for post-quantum cryptography to secure devices and...
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Machine learning is increasingly deployed through outsourced and cloud-based pipelines, which improve accessibility but also raise concerns about computational integrity, data privacy, and model…
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… Zero-Knowledge Proofs (zk-SNARKs) and decentralized storage via IPFS. This dual-network architecture not only enhances data security and privacy but also achieves cost efficiency, …
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Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are a cryptographic primitive that allows a prover to demonstrate knowledge of a secret value to a verifier without revealing anything about the secret itself.
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… A compelling recent line of work aims to resolve this by using Zero Knowledge (ZK) protocols that let analysts prove that they know a vulnerability in a program, without revealing the …
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… in quantum-enhanced classical ML to native quantum algorithms and hybrid quantum-… It varies from applications in optimization, drug discovery, and quantum-secured communications, …
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… to incorporating blockchain and smart contract technology is … Blockchain technology provides consumers with detailed … that this shift to blockchain smart contracts can reduce the …
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🔗 Hacker News 1

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found - article about Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
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🔗 All Sources

  1. From $P(y|x)$ to $P(y)$: Investigating Reinforcement Learning in Pre-train Space
  2. LongCoT: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
  3. From Feelings to Metrics: Understanding and Formalizing How Users Vibe-Test LLMs
  4. Rhetorical Questions in LLM Representations: A Linear Probing Study
  5. HiVLA: A Visual-Grounded-Centric Hierarchical Embodied Manipulation System
  6. TREX: Automating LLM Fine-tuning via Agent-Driven Tree-based Exploration
  7. UI-Zoomer: Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive Zoom-In for GUI Grounding
  8. UMI-3D: Extending Universal Manipulation Interface from Vision-Limited to 3D…
  9. TIP: Token Importance in On-Policy Distillation
  10. First-See-Then-Design: A Multi-Stakeholder View for Optimal…
  11. Complex Interpolation of Matrices with an application to Multi-Manifold Learning
  12. ID and Graph View Contrastive Learning with Multi-View Attention Fusion for…
  13. Momentum Further Constrains Sharpness at the Edge of Stochastic Stability
  14. Multistage Conditional Compositional Optimization
  15. Neural architectures for resolving references in program code
  16. Thermodynamic signatures of non-Hermiticity in Dirac materials via quantum…
  17. One Token per Highly Selective Frame: Towards Extreme Compression for Long…
  18. Seedance 2.0: Advancing Video Generation for World Complexity
  19. ROSE: Retrieval-Oriented Segmentation Enhancement
  20. Topological anisotropic non-Fermi liquid from a Berry-dipole semimetal
  21. TDCOSMO XXV: A "soup-to-nuts" 6.5% $H_0$ measurement $-$ strong lensing and…
  22. SpatialEvo: Self-Evolving Spatial Intelligence via Deterministic Geometric…
  23. Quantum matter is weakly entangled at low energies
  24. Temporary Power Adjusting Withholding Attack
  25. KindHML: formal verification of smart contracts based on Hennessy-Milner logic
  26. Analysis of Commit Signing on Github
  27. Towards Personalizing Secure Programming Education with LLM-Injected…
  28. MCPThreatHive: Automated Threat Intelligence for Model Context Protocol…
  29. Who Gets Flagged? The Pluralistic Evaluation Gap in AI Content Watermarking
  30. RealVuln: Benchmarking Rule-Based, General-Purpose LLM, and…
  31. Erlang Binary and Source Code Obfuscation
  32. A class of locally differentially $4$-uniform power functions with Niho…
  33. A constructive proof of Orzech's theorem
  34. Global dimension of dg algebras via compact silting objects
  35. Compositions of $n$-homomorphisms
  36. The Missing Pillar in Quantum-Safe 6G: Regulation and Global Compliance
  37. Visplot: A visibility plot and observation scheduling tool for astronomical…
  1. AI-assisted writing and the reorganization of scientific knowledge
  2. Geometric Context Transformer for Streaming 3D Reconstruction
  3. Sweet Trims are made of Threes: A càdlàg erasure of the Brownian tree
  4. Correct Prediction, Wrong Steps? Consensus Reasoning Knowledge Graph for Robust…
  5. Finite-Step Bounds for Iterated Correlation Matrices
  6. AI-assisted modeling and Bayesian inference of unpolarized quark transverse…
  7. The Radial and Vertical Structure of Molecular Gas in the Edge-On Galaxy NGC…
  8. ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State.
  9. Mobile GUI Agents under Real-world Threats: Are We There Yet?
  10. SemaClaw: A Step Towards General-Purpose Personal AI Agents through Harness…
  11. ReconPhys: Reconstruct Appearance and Physical Attributes from Single Video
  12. Memory Transfer Learning: How Memories are Transferred Across Domains in Coding…
  13. Sema Code: Decoupling AI Coding Agents into Programmable, Embeddable…
  14. Exploration and Exploitation Errors Are Measurable for Language Model Agents
  15. Do AI Coding Agents Log Like Humans? An Empirical Study
  16. RationalRewards: Reasoning Rewards Scale Visual Generation Both Training and…
  17. Free Geometry: Refining 3D Reconstruction from Longer Versions of Itself
  18. MERRIN: A Benchmark for Multimodal Evidence Retrieval and Reasoning in Noisy…
  19. UI-Copilot: Advancing Long-Horizon GUI Automation via Tool-Integrated Policy…
  20. InfiniteScienceGym: An Unbounded, Procedurally-Generated Benchmark for…
  21. OccuBench: Evaluating AI Agents on Real-World Professional Tasks via Language…
  22. Spec Kit Agents: Context-Grounded Agentic Workflows
  23. Grid2Matrix: Revealing Digital Agnosia in Vision-Language Models
  24. Feed-Forward 3D Scene Modeling: A Problem-Driven Perspective
  25. Artificial Intelligence in Modern Manufacturing: Opportunities and Barriers
  26. Cr (VI) removal by cationic cellulose nanofiber aerogels: batch and fixed-bed…
  27. Early identification of breakthrough technologies: Insights from science-driven…
  28. Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current…
  29. Secret use of large language model (LLM)
  30. Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and…
  31. A survey of zero-knowledge proof based verifiable machine learning
  32. A zero-knowledge proof-enabled blockchain-based academic record verification…
  33. Zero-knowledge proof frameworks: A systematic survey
  34. Cheesecloth: Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Real-World Vulnerabilities
  35. Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum…
  36. Leveraging blockchain and smart contracts to combat greenwashing in sustainable…
  37. Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found