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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.
What Should a Self-Teacher See? Privileged Context Design for On-Policy Self-Distillation
Kanghui Tian, Siyuan Liu, Tianxiang Jiang, Shuai Dong et al.
声称较少的特权教师上下文在 OPSD 数学任务中于 4B/8B 峰值下优于完整解决方案；层级不稳定，需要种子复制。
When Quantum Meets AI: Quantum Methods for Machine Learning and Machine Learning Methods for Quantum Systems
Tak Hur
PhD thesis bundling four QML/AI-for-quantum contributions (NQE, margin bounds, Mamba decoder, MS-SR); hardware-validated, but classical baselines stay thin.
Testing-Driven Reliability Audit of Trajectory-Based Early Outcome Prediction for LLM Agents: Target-Specific Calibration Transfer Persists Within a Single Benchmark
YanZe Cao
Rigorous frozen audit: calibration errors persist only in two agent/head cells on SWE-bench, not broadly; no cross-benchmark replication; credible but narrow.
Targeted Review for AI-Assisted Biodiversity Surveys: Active Continuous-Score Occupancy Modeling
Timm Haucke, Lauren Harrell, Justin Kay, Mary Clapp et al.
ACORN: score-calibrated occupancy model + Target-EIG review cuts expert effort 2-4x on two biodiversity datasets; solid, though oracle labels are imperfect.
From Experts to Sub-experts: Fine-grained Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for MoE LLMs
Zhentao Tan, Chang Liu, Yao Liu, Yue Wu et al.
NSFT tunes channel-group sub-experts within MoE experts, beating ESFT/LoRA at lower budgets on OLMoE; plausible but single-seed and internally inconsistent.
CODA: Depth-Aligned Scene Completion and Object Decomposition from a Single RGB-D Image
Dongwon Son, Junhyek Han, Yoontae Cho, Minseok Lee et al.
CODA repurposes TRELLIS.2 to complete a scene from one RGB-D view then split objects; strong ablations, 5.6 s runtime, but reports no significance tests.
TCMaster: Confidence-Aware Querying and Workload-Guided Physical Design for Multi-Source Traditional Chinese Medicine Knowledge Graphs
Zheng Chen, Yuzhu Li, Haoxuan Li, Zhongde Zhang et al.
TCMaster: confidence-aware querying + skew-aware physical design on a 221K-node TCM KG; honest, modest gains; 20pp QA win rests on a self-built benchmark.
From Utterances to Networks: Modelling Slang Adoption and Diffusion Across Subreddits
Xiaoning Wang, Ted Underwood, Zhewei Sun
LLM slang annotation plus fixed-effects and survival models tie Reddit slang spread to network position and context; sound, with survivorship caveats.
Seeing Is Not Perceiving: When Synthetic Consumers Can and Cannot Pretest Visual Marketing
Yi-Lin Tsai, Yung-Hsiu, Lai
Claims LLM synthetic consumers see but misperceive visual marketing cues; preregistered, careful stress test; steering partly = benchmark answer injection.
Teaching Reinforcement Learning and Humanoid Robotics to High-School Students: An Expert-Validated Curriculum Design on a Low-Cost Open Platform
Yuanzhe Dong, Jie Cao, Shuman Wang
Expert-reviewed curriculum framework for high-school humanoid RL on a low-cost platform; honest but effectiveness remains unevaluated.
Modular Norm RandOpt: Population-Efficient Ensembling through Architecture-Aware Perturbations
Kirato Yoshihara, Hiroaki Hamade
Modular-norm perturbation sampling makes RandOpt ensembles cheaper; well-controlled and transparent, but n=3 seeds and task-dependent gains temper conclusions.
Marginal Log-Likelihood Increments under Dirichlet-Smoothed Markov Estimation
Levin David Schwab
Clean exact KL-form theory of trace value under Dirichlet-smoothed Markov estimation; honest, but its one positive selection result is post hoc, single-dataset.
Toolcompass: Guiding Tool Trialing, Not Suppressing It
Junlin Fang, Chong Zhang, Do Nguyen-Thanh, Xiaogang Xu et al.
vMF function-class shaping in agent post-training lifts AppWorld OOD success up to 8.87 pp; broad gains, but thin stats and FTRL tuning used the test split.
Graph Domain Adaptation Does Not End with Representation Learning
Ziqian Liu, Yongxue Xu, Enze Zhang, Jiaqi Zhang et al.
EviGDA claims GDA SOTA by fusing an adapted graph expert with a source-only MLP; results look solid, but it is largely principled ensembling rather than new adaptation machinery.
How Strongly Should Task State Influence an LLM Agent?
Chenyu Zhang, Wonbin Kweon, Jiawei Han
Controlled study finds enforcement > directives > displayed state for LLM task-state coupling; rigorous, but the top rung partly measures gate correctness.
Syndrome, Synergy, and Safety: Structured Reasoning and Knowledge-Driven Alignment for TCM Prescription Generation
Zheng Chen, ZhiCheng Du, Haoxuan Li, Peiwu Qin
四级中药处方流水线显示出实际效果，但“7B超越GPT-5”的头条新闻依赖于不一致的PQS报告和极其微小的优势。
Interpretable AI plus Handheld, Portable Retinal Photographs: A Low-Cost Glaucoma Screening Solution for West Africa
Charis Y. N. Chiang, Tarela Sarimiye, Adeyinka Ashaye, Martin Buist et al.
Interpretable AI screens glaucoma from handheld fundus photos in Nigeria (Volk AUC 0.85 vs Canon 0.93); promising, but ground truth included tabletop images.
Fully Byzantine-Resilient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Haejoon Lee, Dimitra Panagou
FRAC-MARL: two-hop redundancy restores exact attack-free convergence under Byzantine edge attacks; rigorous theory, weaker threat model, thin experiments.
On the Gradient Heterogeneity Dynamics of Adversarially Robust Federated Regression
Leonardo F. Toso, James Anderson, Nirupam Gupta, Rafael Pinot
Derives robust-FL gradient heterogeneity from regression first principles, replacing the κB²<1 cap with a sample burn-in; rigorous but experiment-free.
Self-Supervised Combinatorial Optimization with Constraints via Frank-Wolfe
Akbar Rafiey, Yifei Xu, Nikolaos Karalias
Projection-free Frank-Wolfe loss for constrained neural CO with rounding guarantees; theory clean, but head-to-head empirics mixed vs specialized baselines.
Optimal Tradeoffs Between Network Size and Parameter Magnitude in Neural Approximation and Minimax Regression
Baicheng Li, Zuowei Shen, Haizhao Yang, Shijun Zhang
Sharp width–radius law [N²log(eNT)]^(−β/d) plus log-free minimax regression via a bespoke Lipschitz activation; rigorous but impractical radii.
LingLan: An Advancing Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis LLM with Multimodal Data
Zheng Chen, Zhicheng Du, Haoxuan Li, Yingshan Liang et al.
Claims 103.5% relative accuracy gain for a TCM diagnosis LLM (62.72%); promising, but malformed metrics and inconsistent confusion-matrix counts need scrutiny.
Signed Graph Pre-Training and Prompt Learning
Zihan Mei, Rong Pan, Yuzhou Chen, Yixuan He
TopoSIGN proposes the first signed-graph pre-training and prompt framework with a signed Dowker-filtration topology branch; experiments are transparent, but semi-supervised variants beat the full pipeline and topology gains stay inconsistent.
Slow Decay and Silenced Expression: Iterated Subliminal Trait Transfer in Language-Model Lineages
Ryan Vo, Duc-Vu Nguyen, Matt Kretchmar, Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen
Extends subliminal learning to 10 generations: trait persists internally (probe ~0.58) as behavior silences; rigorous but seed-selected, single model.