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May 16, 2026 04:00
47ArXiv Papers
16Web Findings
63Total 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
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📄 ArXiv Papers

🧠 LLMs 8

Shashwat Goel, Nikhil Chandak, Arvindh Arun, Ameya Prabhu, Steffen Staab, Moritz Hardt, Maksym Andriushchenko, Jonas Geiping
AI agents are being increasingly deployed in dynamic, open-ended environments that require adapting to new information as it arrives. To efficiently measure this capability for realistic use-cases, we propose building…
cs.LGcs.AIcs.CL
Sayantan Kumar, Shahriar Noroozizadeh, Juyong Kim, Jeremy C. Weiss
Reconstructing precise clinical timelines is essential for modeling patient trajectories and forecasting risk in complex, heterogeneous conditions like sepsis. While unstructured clinical narratives offer semantically…
cs.CLcs.AIcs.LGstat.ML
Utkarsh Kumar, Anish Ghoshal
We present a novel \textit{gauge-invariant and minimal} formation mechanism of primordial black holes (PBHs) in first-order phase transition (FOPT) and domain walls (DW) separately. This is based on the first-order…
astro-ph.CO
Jianyuan Wang, Minghao Chen, Shangzhan Zhang, Nikita Karaev, Johannes Schönberger, Patrick Labatut, Piotr Bojanowski, David Novotny, Andrea Vedaldi, Christian Rupprecht
Recent feed-forward reconstruction models, such as VGGT, have proven competitive with traditional optimization-based reconstructors while also providing geometry-aware features useful for other tasks. Here, we show that…
cs.CV
Rui Wen, Kansei Inamura, Sakura Schafer-Nameki
We investigate realizations of (1+1)-dimensional fusion category symmetries on tensor-product Hilbert spaces, allowing for mixing with quantum cellular automata (QCAs). It was argued recently that any such realizable…
cond-mat.str-elhep-thmath.CTquant-ph
Katherine Freese, Evangelos I. Sfakianakis, Barmak Shams Es Haghi
A direct coupling between the inflaton and Standard Model gluons can dynamically raise the QCD confinement scale during inflation, making the axion temporarily heavy and suppressing axion isocurvature perturbations. As…
astro-ph.COhep-phhep-th
Meneka Banik, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay
Evaporating colloidal droplets have long been used as model systems to understand capillarity, interfacial transport, and particle assembly, most prominently through the coffee ring effect. In classical descriptions,…
cond-mat.soft
Yanzuo Lu, Ronglai Zuo, Jiankang Deng
Causal autoregressive video diffusion models support real-time streaming generation by extrapolating future chunks from previously generated content. Distilling such generators from high-fidelity bidirectional teachers…
cs.CV

🧠 Machine Learning 13

Ruozhen He, Meng Wei, Ziyan Yang, Vicente Ordonez
Multi-shot video generation extends single-shot generation to coherent visual narratives, yet maintaining consistent characters, objects, and locations across shots remains a challenge over long sequences. Existing…
cs.CVcs.AI
Ziyu Guo, Rain Liu, Xinyan Chen, Pheng-Ann Heng
Visual reasoning, often interleaved with intermediate visual states, has emerged as a promising direction in the field. A straightforward approach is to directly generate images via unified models during reasoning, but…
cs.CVcs.AIcs.CL
Kaixin Zhu, Yiwen Tang, Yifan Yang, Renrui Zhang, Bohan Zeng, Ziyu Guo, Ruichuan An, Zhou Liu, Qizhi Chen, Delin Qu, Jaehong Yoon, Wentao Zhang
High-quality 3D scene reconstruction has recently advanced toward generalizable feed-forward architectures, enabling the generation of complex environments in a single forward pass. However, despite their strong…
cs.CVcs.AI
Jiaxin Wu, Yihao Pi, Yinling Zhang, Yuheng Li, Xueyan Zou
Generative video models are increasingly studied as implicit world models, yet evaluating whether they produce physically plausible 3D structure and motion remains challenging. Most existing video evaluation pipelines…
cs.CVcs.AI
Ellwil Sharma, Arastu Sharma
Scaling Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) toward universal foundation models is bottlenecked by negative transfer: the simultaneous co-training of disparate partial differential equation (PDE) regimes can induce…
cs.LGcs.AIphysics.comp-ph
Shang Zhou, Wenhao Chai, Kaiyuan Liu, Huanzhi Mao, Qiuyang Mang, Jingbo Shang
Test-time compute scaling is a primary axis for improving LLM reasoning. Existing methods primarily scale depth by extending a single reasoning trace. Scaling breadth by sampling multiple candidates in parallel is…
cs.AI
Chenyu Lian, Hong-Yu Zhou, Jing Qin
Disease screening is critical for early detection and timely intervention in clinical practice. However, most current screening models for medical images suffer from limited interpretability and suboptimal performance.…
cs.CVcs.AIcs.LG
Pratinav Seth, Vinay Kumar Sankarapu
This position paper argues that behavioural assurance, even when carefully designed, is being asked to carry safety claims it cannot verify. AI governance frameworks enacted between 2019 and early 2026 require…
cs.LGcs.AI
Xiang Fan, Yuheng Wang, Bohan Fang, Zhongzheng Ren, Ranjay Krishna
Video generation powers a vast array of downstream applications. However, while the de facto standard, i.e., latent diffusion models, typically employ heavily conditioned denoising networks, their decoders often remain…
cs.CVcs.LG
ML Nissen Gonzalez, Melwina Albuquerque, Laurence Wroe, Jacob Meyer Cohen, Logan Riggs Smith, Thomas Dooms
Mechanistic interpretability aims to break models into meaningful parts; verifying that two such parts implement the same computation is a prerequisite. Existing similarity measures evaluate either empirical behaviour,…
cs.LG
Zhuohang Li, Liqun Huang, Wei Xu, Zhengming Zhu, Nie Lin, Xiao Ma, Xinjun Sheng, Ruoshi Wen
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are prone to compounding errors in dexterous manipulation, where high-dimensional action spaces and contact-rich dynamics amplify small policy deviations over long horizons. While…
cs.ROcs.LG
Ryan Wei Heng Quek, Sanghyuk Lee, Alfred Wei Lun Leong, Arun Verma, Alok Prakash, Nancy F. Chen, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Daniela Rus, Armando Solar-Lezama
Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across a wide range of tasks, but remain frozen after pretraining until subsequent updates. Many real-world applications require timely, domain-specific…
cs.CLcs.AIcs.LG
Zhengxi Lu, Zhiyuan Yao, Zhuowen Han, Zi-Han Wang, Jinyang Wu, Qi Gu, Xunliang Cai, Weiming Lu, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang, Yongliang Shen
Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a central paradigm for post-training LLM agents, yet its trajectory-level reward signal provides only coarse supervision for long-horizon interaction. On-Policy…
cs.LGcs.AIcs.CL

🧠 Security & Cybersecurity 8

Rui Wen, Mark Russinovich, Andrew Paverd, Jun Sakuma, Ahmed Salem
Backdoor attacks pose a serious security threat to large language models (LLMs), which are increasingly deployed as general-purpose assistants in safety- and privacy-critical applications. Existing LLM backdoors rely…
cs.CRcs.CL
Karthik Raghu Iyer, Yazdan Jamshidi, Nicholas Bray, Alexey A. Shvets
We introduce a reusable framework for auditing whether LLM attack benchmarks collectively cover the threat surface: a 4$\times$6 Target $\times$ Technique matrix grounded in STRIDE, constructed from a 507-leaf taxonomy…
cs.CRcs.CL
Xinran Zheng, Alfredo Pesoli, Marco Valleri, Suman Jana, Lorenzo Cavallaro
Detecting memory corruption vulnerabilities in stripped binaries requires recovering object semantics, interprocedural propagation, and feasible triggers from low-level, lossy representations. Recent LLM-based…
cs.SEcs.CR
Justin Applegate, Andreas Kellas
Python's native serialization protocol, pickle, is a powerful but insecure format for transferring untrusted data. It is frequently used, especially for saving machine learning models, despite known security challenges.…
cs.CR
Jiuming Jiang, Shidong Pan, Daniel W Woods, Jingjie Li
Online video games have become major online social spaces where users interact, compete, and create together. These spaces, however, expose users to a wide spectrum of online harms, including harassment, discrimination,…
cs.CRcs.HC
Tri Cao, Yulin Chen, Hieu Cao, Yibo Li, Khoi Le, Thong Nguyen, Yuexin Li, Yufei He, Yue Liu, Shuicheng Yan, Bryan Hooi
Web agents can autonomously complete online tasks by interacting with websites, but their exposure to open web environments makes them vulnerable to prompt injection attacks embedded in HTML content or visual…
cs.CRcs.AI
Lukas Pirch, Micha Horlboge, Patrick Großmann, Syeda Mahnur Asif, Klim Kireev, Thorsten Holz, Konrad Rieck
Autonomous agents based on large language models (LLMs) are rapidly emerging as a general-purpose technology, with recent systems such as OpenClaw extending their capabilities through broad tool use, third-party skills,…
cs.CR
Zheng Yan, Jingxiang Weng, Charles Chen, Dengyun Peng, Ethan Qin, Jiannan Guan, Jinhao Liu, Qiming Yu, Yixin Yuan, Fanqing Meng, Carl Che, Mengkang Hu
As coding agents gain access to shells, repositories, and user files, least-privilege authorization becomes a prerequisite for safe deployment: an agent should receive enough authority to complete the task, without…
cs.CRcs.AI

🧠 Zero Knowledge 3

Ryan Thorngren, Lei Gioia, Carolyn Zhang
We show by a counting argument that even though translation symmetry admits symmetric short-range entangled (SRE) eigenstates, there are not enough such SRE eigenstates to span the zero momentum sector. This means that…
quant-phcond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.str-elmath-ph
Yifan Wang, Tong He
Camera-controlled video generation has made substantial progress, enabling generated videos to follow prescribed viewpoint trajectories. However, existing methods usually learn camera-specific conditioning through…
cs.CV
Ludovico Lami, Bartosz Regula, Ryuji Takagi
The performance of quantum resource manipulation protocols, including key examples such as distillation of quantum entanglement, is measured in terms of the rate at which desired target states can be produced from a…
quant-phcond-mat.stat-mechcs.ITmath-ph

🧠 Quantum 3

Leonardo A. Lessa, Tsung-Cheng Lu
We present a new mechanism for long-range entanglement (LRE) in strongly symmetric many-body mixed states that does not rely on symmetry anomalies or long-range correlations. Our primary example is the maximally mixed…
quant-phcond-mat.stat-mechcond-mat.str-el
Jonah Kudler-Flam, Edward Witten
The gravitational path integral produces an asymptotic expansion in $G_N$, a fact which is puzzling in the case of observables that are expected to fluctuate wildly. Wormholes appear to compute ensemble averages of…
hep-th
Haoyi Zhu, Haozhe Liu, Yuyang Zhao, Tian Ye, Junsong Chen, Jincheng Yu, Tong He, Song Han, Enze Xie
We introduce SANA-WM, an efficient 2.6B-parameter open-source world model natively trained for one-minute generation, synthesizing high-fidelity, 720p, minute-scale videos with precise camera control. SANA-WM achieves…
cs.CV

🧠 AI Safety & Alignment 1

Tuna Han Salih Meral, Kaan Oktay, Hidir Yesiltepe, Adil Kaan Akan, Pinar Yanardag
Latent flow matching for image generation usually transports Gaussian noise to variational autoencoder latents along linear paths. Both endpoints, however, concentrate in thin spherical shells, and a Euclidean chord…
cs.CV

🧠 AI Agents & Reasoning 3

Matt Zhou, Ruining Li, Xiaoyang Lyu, Zhaomou Song, Zhening Huang, Chuanxia Zheng, Christian Rupprecht, Andrea Vedaldi, Shangzhe Wu
A bottleneck in learning to understand articulated 3D objects is the lack of large and diverse datasets. In this paper, we propose to leverage large language models (LLMs) to close this gap and generate articulated…
cs.CVcs.GRcs.RO
Sahil Sen, Akhil Kasturi, Elias Lumer, Anmol Gulati, Vamse Kumar Subbiah
Recent advances in Large Language Model (LLM) agents have enabled complex agentic workflows where models autonomously retrieve information, call tools, and reason over large corpora to complete tasks on behalf of users.…
cs.CL
Anirudh Sundara Rajan, Krishna Kumar Singh, Yong Jae Lee
Modern image editing models produce realistic results but struggle with abstract, multi step instructions (e.g., ``make this advertisement more vegetarian-friendly''). Prior agent based methods decompose such tasks but…
cs.CV

🧠 Crypto & Blockchain 8

Wojciech Aleksander Wołoszyn
I investigate modal group theory for arbitrary homomorphisms. Possibility is interpreted by the existence of a group homomorphism out of the given group, so the semantics is governed by the possibility of collapse:…
math.LOmath.GR
Hao Lin, Guowei Sun, Guanghui Wang, Wenling Zhou
For $k\ge 3$, the $(k-2)$-uniform Turán density $π_{k-2}(F)$ of a $k$-graph $F$ is the supremum of $d$ for which there are arbitrarily large $F$-free $k$-graphs that are uniformly $d$-dense with respect to the…
math.CO
Haibo Liu, Xin Guo, Qunying Liao
Recently, minimal linear codes have been extensively studied due to their applications in secret sharing schemes, secure two-party computations, and so on. Constructing minimal linear codes violating the Ashikhmin-Barg…
cs.IT
Shruthi Gorantala, Jianming Tong, Asra Ali, Baiyu Li, Jonathan Katz, Jeremy Kun, Thomas Steinke, Abhradeep Thakurta, Julian Walker, Amir Yazdanbakhsh
The deployment of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) at scale is hindered due to its heavy computational overhead. While specialized hardware accelerators like Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) can help, mapping…
cs.CR
Siddique Abubakr Muntaka, Jess Kropczynski, Jacques Bou Abdo, Murat Ozer
The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) routes data via encrypted, decentralized tunnels. Peer selection can significantly affect security and performance. This empirical study examines whether geographic location…
cs.NIcs.CR
Zijun Chen, Yuqi Xu, Weihua Yang
For each integer $n \geq 3$, the wheel graph $W_n$ is defined as the graph obtained by connecting a single vertex to all vertices of a cycle of length $n$. In particular, $W_6$ can be uniquely obtained from the Petersen…
math.CO
Jinchang Liu, Elias X. Huber, Zhenyu Du, Xingjian Zhang, Xiongfeng Ma
Characterizing large quantum systems with minimal assumptions is a central challenge in quantum information science. Self-testing provides the strongest form of certification by identifying the underlying quantum state…
quant-ph
Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Xue-Yong Fu, Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo, Quinten McNamara, Jonas Robertson, Shashi Bhushan TN
Voice agents increasingly require reliable tool use from speech, whereas prominent tool-calling benchmarks remain text-based. We study whether verified text benchmarks can be converted into controlled audio-based tool…
cs.CL

🌐 Web Findings

🌐 Lobste.rs 5

Behind a cheap Temu doorbell sits an IoT backend where device IDs are sequential and requests are forgeable with a string baked into every firmware. One signed call lifts any device
LOBSTERS
Why frontier AI has broken the open CTF format, hollowed out the scoreboard, and made competitive CTF performance a weaker signal than it used to be.
LOBSTERS
Full exploit code for CVE-2026-40369 - A Windows kernel arbitrary write vulnerability that allows browser sandbox escape from all browsers render process sandbox - orinimron123/CVE-2026-40369-EXPLOIT
LOBSTERS
Public CVE disclosure volumes are surging across major software suppliers and open source projects, and the evidence increasingly points to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery as the driving force.
LOBSTERS
Edit April 2, 2026: I've been getting inbound interest from researchers wanting to run their own queries. The MCP integration I use for my own research lets you analyze live mobile telemetry continuously collected from…
LOBSTERS

🌐 Google Scholar 7

Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for future advancements
GOOGLE_SCHOLAR
This paper conducts systematic analysis of advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) from the year 2010 onwards, by performing original quantitative analysis of Epoch AI notable AI models dataset and…
GOOGLE_SCHOLAR
Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state, and challenges
GOOGLE_SCHOLAR
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into state-of-the-art techniques and future paradigms
GOOGLE_SCHOLAR
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...
GOOGLE_SCHOLAR
Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing for computational advancements
GOOGLE_SCHOLAR
When machines join the moral circle: The persona effect of generative AI agents in collaborative reasoning
GOOGLE_SCHOLAR

🌐 Hacker News 4

Show HN: Orchid Mantis – PoC Zero Knowledge Proof of Exploit (ZKPoX) Framework
HACKERNEWS
Orchid Mantis — standalone framework for Zero-Knowledge Proofs of eXploit (ZKPoX). - unprovable/OrchidMantis
HACKERNEWS
Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty [video]
HACKERNEWS
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA)
HACKERNEWS

🔗 All Sources

  1. [1] FutureSim: Replaying World Events to Evaluate Adaptive Agents
  2. [2] Text Knows What, Tables Know When: Clinical Timeline Reconstruction via Retrieva…
  3. [3] Primordial Black Hole from Tensor-induced Density Fluctuation: First-order Phase…
  4. [4] VGGT-$Ω$
  5. [5] Non-Invertible Symmetries on Tensor-Product Hilbert Spaces and Quantum Cellular …
  6. [6] Isocurvature-Free QCD Axion Dark Matter from Inflaton-Driven Early QCD: the Nece…
  7. [7] From Coffee Rings to Self-Driven Assembly: Active Matter Enabled Design of Dryin…
  8. [8] RAVEN: Real-time Autoregressive Video Extrapolation with Consistency-model GRPO
  9. [9] EntityBench: Towards Entity-Consistent Long-Range Multi-Shot Video Generation
  10. [10] ATLAS: Agentic or Latent Visual Reasoning? One Word is Enough for Both
  11. [11] VGGT-Edit: Feed-forward Native 3D Scene Editing with Residual Field Prediction
  12. [12] Quantitative Video World Model Evaluation for Geometric-Consistency
  13. [13] Eradicating Negative Transfer in Multi-Physics Foundation Models via Sparse Mixt…
  14. [14] OpenDeepThink: Parallel Reasoning via Bradley--Terry Aggregation
  15. [15] Evidential Reasoning Advances Interpretable Real-World Disease Screening
  16. [16] Position: Behavioural Assurance Cannot Verify the Safety Claims Governance Now D…
  17. [17] RefDecoder: Enhancing Visual Generation with Conditional Video Decoding
  18. [18] When Are Two Networks the Same? Tensor Similarity for Mechanistic Interpretabili…
  19. [19] Hand-in-the-Loop: Improving Dexterous VLA via Seamless Interventional Correction
  20. [20] MeMo: Memory as a Model
  21. [21] Self-Distilled Agentic Reinforcement Learning
  22. [22] MetaBackdoor: Exploiting Positional Encoding as a Backdoor Attack Surface in LLM…
  23. [23] Talk is (Not) Cheap: A Taxonomy and Benchmark Coverage Audit for LLM Attacks
  24. [24] Veritas: A Semantically Grounded Agentic Framework for Memory Corruption Vulnera…
  25. [25] PickleFuzzer: A Case Study in Fuzzing for Discrepancies Between Python Pickle Im…
  26. [26] Analyzing Codes of Conduct for Online Safety in Video Games at Scale
  27. [27] WARD: Adversarially Robust Defense of Web Agents Against Prompt Injections
  28. [28] Toward Securing AI Agents Like Operating Systems
  29. [29] Do Coding Agents Understand Least-Privilege Authorization?
  30. [30] Translation symmetry-enforced long-range entanglement in mixed states
  31. [31] Warp-as-History: Generalizable Camera-Controlled Video Generation from One Train…
  32. [32] Universal quantum resource distillation via composite generalised quantum Stein'…
  1. [33] Mixed-State Long-Range Entanglement from Dimensional Constraints
  2. [34] Wormholes and Averaging over N
  3. [35] SANA-WM: Efficient Minute-Scale World Modeling with Hybrid Linear Diffusion Tran…
  4. [36] Aligning Latent Geometry for Spherical Flow Matching in Image Generation
  5. [37] Articraft: An Agentic System for Scalable Articulated 3D Asset Generation
  6. [38] Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search
  7. [39] From Plans to Pixels: Learning to Plan and Orchestrate for Open-Ended Image Edit…
  8. [40] Modal group theory: homomorphisms
  9. [41] Uniform Turán densities of $k$-uniform hypergraphs
  10. [42] Construction of Minimal Ternary Linear Codes with Dimension $n+2$
  11. [43] Adapting AlphaEvolve to Optimize Fully Homomorphic Encryption on TPUs
  12. [44] Geographic Patterns in I2P Peer Selection: An Empirical Network Topology Analysi…
  13. [45] An excluded minor theorem for the 6-wheel
  14. [46] Scalable self-testing of generic multipartite quantum states
  15. [47] From Text to Voice: A Reproducible and Verifiable Framework for Evaluating Tool …
  16. [48] Cheap smart doorbell allows fleet-wide account takeover and call hijacking
  17. [49] The CTF scene is dead
  18. [50] CVE-2026-40369: Arbitrary Kernel Address Increment via NtQuerySystemInformation
  19. [51] The First CVE Wave: Signs That AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Is Reshaping …
  20. [52] ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted …
  21. [53] Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for …
  22. [54] Advancements in Artificial Intelligence: Breakthroughs, Challenges and the Road …
  23. [55] Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current …
  24. [56] Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into …
  25. [57] Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and …
  26. [58] Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum …
  27. [59] When machines join the moral circle: The persona effect of generative AI agents …
  28. [60] Show HN: Orchid Mantis – PoC Zero Knowledge Proof of Exploit (ZKPoX) Framework
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  30. [62] Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty [video]
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