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Structured preliminary reviews of recent open-access papers, generated and continuously updated by the Evolve analysis engine. Each review condenses what the paper claims, how solid the evidence is, and the questions a rigorous peer reviewer would ask — English analysis with abstracts in your language. These are independent AI analyses, not peer review; the canonical record always lives at the publisher.
Explanations-Driven Active Feature Acquisition for Algorithmic Recourse
Vinura Galwaduge, Jagath Samarabandu
Unifies recourse with active feature acquisition via Markov blankets; strong theory and 7-dataset gains, but EDFA's fewer-feature win is partly definitional.
A decision-basis contract for auditable LLM-assisted medical billing verification: deterministic rules, verbatim evidence, and fail-closed abstention
Jan Hölter, Kevin Geis, Benjamin Raab, Boris Bauke
PoC audit contract for LLM billing checks: transparent fail-closed design, honestly reported, yet no consistent accuracy gain in single-run synthetic tests.
WinSyn: An Automated Pipeline for Realistic Enterprise Question-Answering Evaluation
Amey Varhade, Ananya Sutradhar, Ravishankar Krishnaswamy, Navin Goyal
WinSyn's diary-grounded pipeline makes synthetic enterprise QA auditable, but the evaluation rests on ~100 questions, no significance tests, and heavy model circularity.
NDT Factory: Synthesizing Verified Network Digital Twins from Semantic Models via Multi-Agent LLM
Sudipta Acharya, Petar Djukic, Burak Kantarci
Multi-agent LLM pipeline synthesizes compile-tested CAC twins from YAML semantic models with 99.3% agreement; solid single-case study, generalization untested.
Certifying Concept Unlearning in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Mansi, Luca Marzari, Francesco Leofante
一种针对 T2I 概念遗忘泄露的新型基于 Hoeffding 的证书；动机充分，但边界较松，威胁模型狭窄，36 个证书中有 4 个被违反。
Estimating Pedestrian Volumes from GIS-Derived Built-Environment Features: A Machine Learning Framework
Bahareh Golchin, Banafsheh Rekabdar, Sirisha Kothuri, Joseph Broach
Claims tuned HistGB-Poisson + Lasso cuts CV RMSE 12% vs NB GLM on 101 Portland counts; careful pipeline, but 27% in conclusion mixes holdout and CV protocols.
Predicting Collision Cross Sections with GRACE: Geometric Residual Adduct Conditioning via Early-fusion
Parthasarathy Suryanarayanan, Susanta Das, Shreyans Sethi, Kenneth M. Merz, et al.
GRACE: Uni-Mol CCS predictor with adduct token/LoRA + residual ridge; best MPD on 3 splits and strong ablations, though test-set selection tempers the win.
GLARE: Generative Learning via Adversarial Reward Estimation For Social Dynamics Forecasting
Tenghao Huang, Zhaoxuan Tan, Muhao Chen, Jonathan May et al.
Introduces MDFB meeting-forecasting benchmark and GLARE, an adaptive adversarial reward; gains over SFT are real but modest, and key RL baselines unreported.
USPLIT-VQA: U-Shaped Split Learning for Visual Question Answering with Contribution-Aware Weighted Aggregation
Md Khalid Syfullah, Alvi Ataur Khalil
U-shaped split learning for VQA with a reputation-based robust aggregator; promising but single-run, IID-only results, and BiomedCLIP loses to FL.
Repair Before Reinforce: Context-Augmented Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Multi-Hop Question Answering
Tharaka D. Fonseka, Niraj K. Jha
CG-augmented KG QA training with repair-before-RL gives consistent synthetic gains, but circular evaluation and thin statistical rigor limit the evidence.
PLSP (Pre-hoc Liminal Space Profiling): OOD Prediction over Detection -- An Anticipatory Approach for Machine Learning Model Reliability
Vipul Bansal, Himanshu Buckchash, Balasubramanian Raman, Deepak Dhungana
Proposes CREDS, a pre-hoc feature-KL credibility metric for OOD shifts; simple and interpretable, but the claimed accuracy link is never quantified.
BRIDGE-EEG: Bridging Self-Supervised Pretraining and Efficient Deployment for Cross-Dataset EEG Classification
Meghna Roy Chowdhury, Chengwei Zhou, Haotian Yu, Gourav Datta et al.
Claims compact distilled EEG models match FMs 10–1,000× larger on abnormality/emotion; results plausible but lack variance, split protocol, and overlap checks.
Patient-Reported Survey Data Improve Prediction of Opioid Use Disorder
Xiyue Jiang, Zihan Ding, Grace Han, Yinan Liu et al.
Claims survey data improve EHR-based OUD prediction across all 24 model-window tests; gains are small and may partly reflect informative survey missingness.
Chopthin-Consensus Power Sampling: A Diversity-Preserving Approach to LLM Decoding
Minoo Ahmadi, Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Mehdi Kamal et al.
Chopthin resampling + semantic voting for SMC decoding: coverage gains credible, but 14/15 accuracy headline conflates selector effects; no significance tests.
GTA: Graph Theory Agent and Benchmark for Algorithmic Graph Reasoning with LLMs
Zixiang Xu, Yanbo Wang, Chenxi Wang, Lang Gao et al.
Benchmark+agent paper: LLM graph accuracy hinges on input format; GTA lifts Phi-4 to 69.1%/41.5%; convincing, though graphs are small, synthetic, stats thin.
CRFCAN: A Complex-Valued Cross-Domain Residual Network for Joint Channel and Phase Noise Estimation in Sub-THz OFDM Systems
Ruilin Wang, Xiaodai Dong
CRFCAN: complex-valued FFT/IFFT network jointly estimating channel and PN in sub-THz OFDM; solid simulations, but limited scale and thin stats temper claims.
The Rank the Task Demands: A Causal Rank Law for Matrix Memories Trained on Group Composition
Samuel Larson
微小的合成研究：训练后的矩阵状态精确地募集了群代数所需的秩；预注册非常严谨，但必要性仅是分析性的。
Learning to adapt GR(1) specifications through degradation
Tiberiu-Andrei Georgescu, Dalal Alrajeh, Sebastian Uchitel
Formalizes GR(1) spec adaptation after assumption violations via preference axioms and an OGIS learner; promising, but validated only on 5 tiny case studies.
DriftSE: Speech Enhancement with Generative Drifting
Liang Xu, Diego Caviedes-Nozal, W. Bastiaan Kleijn, Longfei Felix Yan et al.
DriftSE: one-step latent-drifting speech enhancement; WER-first SOTA results are credible, but evidence is single-run means without uncertainty or seeds.
Automated Detection and Structuring of Social Tipping Point Evidence in Climate related Documents: A Modular AI Framework
Kavindu Perera, Mohammad Abaeiani, Ekaterina Gilman, Lauri Loven et al.
Modular passage-level climate-text STP detector; strong on clear passages, but Set B accuracy trails the majority baseline and code/data are unreleased.
Adaptive Chemotherapy Control under Tumor Heterogeneity via Reinforcement Learning
Bereket Sitotaw Kidane, Md Samiul Haque Motayed, Shuo Wang
Simulation-only study trains DQN/TD3 dosing on a 21-subpopulation tumor model, carefully benchmarked vs PMP; sound, but no code and no seed variance.
Soft Symbol Grounding for Prototypical Concepts
Marcos Galván-López, Nijesh Upreti, Hiram Calvo, Carlos Aguilar-Ibáñez et al.
Soft-PNet replaces hand-crafted NeSy losses with a prototype-guided solution cache and one KL objective; solid results, clear edge mainly on the OOD benchmark.
Recommendation Retrievers Need Verifiers: Universal Generative Reranking for Sequential Recommendations
Benyu Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Rui Li, Qunshu Zhang et al.
Proposes a lightweight generative verifier over frozen recommenders; broad Recall@10 gains on Amazon and YaMBDa, but single-seed, no reranker baseline.
HypoKG: Evidence-Disciplined Biomedical Hypothesis Generation Beyond Endpoint Knowledge
Dominic Okonkwo, Adetayo Okunoye, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar
Claims full KG paths discipline LLM hypotheses beyond endpoint knowledge; strong controls, but the key metric embeds the claim and no code release.