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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.
Structural Inference under Hidden Agents
Zhongben Gong, Xiaoqun Wu, Mingyang Zhou, Hui Huang
SIHA jointly recovers hidden-agent trajectories and interactions via iterative structure-guided NRI; sound and honest, but supervision-matched gains are modest.
Agora: Git as Shared Memory for Collective AutoResearch
Yifan Zhang, Yunheng Zou, Shaokun Zhang, Jian Hu et al.
Git-committed research DAG as shared memory for LLM agents; a 12-day, 13-agent run reaches 1.899 bpb, but the causal benefit over a plain log remains untested.
iMINDBench: iEEG Multi-Institution Neural Decoding Benchmark
Geeling Chau, Saba Hashemi, Yonghyeon Gwon, Eshani Patel et al.
Solid multi-institution iEEG decoding benchmark; preprocessing controls and scaling negatives are valuable, but headline rankings lack uncertainty estimates.
Regional Explanations via Causal Sufficiency and Necessity
Xuexin Chen, Peng Liang, Zijian Li, Zhiyong Lin et al.
SNRE learns sufficient-and-necessary input-output region pairs via region-level PNS; elegant formulation, though evaluation mirrors its training objective.
QuanText: Protecting Dataset-Level Secrets in Textual Data Sharing
Shuaiqi Wang, Zinan Lin, Giulia Fanti
QuanText hides dataset-level proportions in text via randomized attribute distributions + LLM rewriting; solid SML theory, but empirics rely on one weak attack.
The Attention Within: Consensus Dynamics in Selective State Space Models
Jo\~ao Pedro Silvestre, \'Alvaro Rodr\'iguez Abella, Paulo Tabuada
ISS proofs show Mamba-2's recurrence drives token consensus as attention does, novel for time-varying weights, but theorems exclude the gate/SiLU.
Hybrid coupling with numerics-informed neural networks and the overlapping Schwarz alternating method
George Chumbipuma, Irina Tezaur, Alejandro Diaz, Beatrice Riviere
The paper shows pre-trained, frozen-weight NINNs can be coupled to FOM subdomain solvers via overlapping Schwarz at Pe=10^6 with ~0.05-0.1% error; it is a careful feasibility study, but computational benefit is undemonstrated, the NINN advantage mechanism is unexplained, and no code is released.
Long-Context Demonstration Selection Using State Space Models
Ziniu Zhang, Zhenshuo Zhang, Ruoxuan Xiong, Gene Cooperman et al.
SSM-distilled 16-token KV compression makes subset-sampling demo selection cheap; efficient and accurate, but <0.7% error claims conflict with appendix tables.
Maximum Strong Independent Sets in Hypergraphs: Reductions, Bounds, and Greedy Certificates
Yingquan (Cody), Wu, Jason Cong
Sound, fully proved toolkit of reductions, charging/puncturing/covering bounds, and greedy certificates for hypergraph strong independent sets — but the paper itself contains no experiments.
Adaptive hybrid coupling with operator inference, the overlapping Schwarz alternating method and reinforcement learning
Trishit Mondal, Irina Tezaur, Anthony Gruber
RL-based online FOM/ROM switching in Schwarz coupling shows strong benchmark gains; single-case reporting and unquantified training costs temper the evidence.
The Free Inference Dimension: Complexity Measure for Zero-Collision Navigation under Hypothesis Mixtures
Luiz Carlos Castro Guedes, Edward Hermann Haeusler
Defines dFI, a capacity dimension for mixture-agent zero-collision navigation, positioned vs VC/Natarajan/Littlestone; promising, but key proofs are only sketches.
Symmetry without a manifold: intrinsic dimension on orbits
Chon-Fai Kam, Miloud Bessafi, Fr\'ed\'eric Cadet
Group-orbit data make intrinsic dimension undefined and modular-addition loss exponential in width; well-controlled, but one width decade and abelian only.
Beyond the Previous Layer: Residual Predictive Structure in Sparse MoE Routing
Hao Li, Yasuyuki Tahara, Yuichi Sei
Preregistered probing study showing older MoE expert selections predict routing beyond the previous layer; controls are careful, but small scale and a single corpus temper generalization.
EdgeReMIND: A Scalable, Top-Ranked Memorization Baseline for Temporal Multi-Relational Link Prediction
Bryant Pollard
Linear per-relation memorization model claims SOTA MRR on 6/8 TGB 2.0 datasets; thorough ablations, but largest-graph wins face no running competitors.
TabPFN-3.5: Technical Report
Benjamin J\"ager, Nick Erickson, L\'eo Grinsztajn, Felix Birkel et al.
Claims SOTA on seven tabular benchmarks via new cell encodings and doubled width; evidence is broad and convincing, though headline variants are closed-source.
Procedural Pretraining for Molecular Property Prediction
Moritz Friedemann, Zachary Shinnick, Philip Torr, Bruno Andreis
Synthetic procedural pretraining cuts Lipophilicity error 4.8% even after molecular pretraining; promising but modest, task-specific and statistically thin.
Prior-Free Competitive Ratios for Improving Bandits: Scale, Curvature and Horizon Are Free, but Not Jointly Under Noise
Xuan Li
Proves scale, curvature and horizon priors cost only Θ(1) noiselessly in improving bandits but Θ(√(log k/log log k)) jointly under noise; rigorous, constants large.
Modular Deep Learning Mechanisms for Auditable Next-Day Wildfire Spread Prediction
Miguel Esparza, Aydin Ayanzadeh Ahmad Mousavi, Ali Mostafavi
Three auditable modules for next-day wildfire segmentation: candid nulls, but effect sizes tiny, statistically unconfirmed, and audit value undemonstrated.
Uncertainty-Aware Continual Learning for Open-World Intent Discovery Under an evolving Label Space
Pisante Aida, Formentin Simone
β-VAE/DP-GMM uncertainty gating with replay+EWC for continual intent discovery: coherent but lacks named dataset, quantitative baselines, significance tests.
Temperon: Full-Time SAM Quality at a Third Less Wall-Clock
Stamatis Mastromichalakis
A scheduled SGD→SAM+Muon hand-off matches full-time SAM at ~⅓ less wall-clock; refreshingly honest ablations, but n=5 tests and small scale cap generality.
SAM-on-the-Curve: Sharpness-Aware Mode Connectivity for Robust Weight-Space Interpolation
Alejandro Calatrava, Xu Zhang, Ren Wang
SMC adds SAM-style flatness to mode connectivity, giving flatter paths and up to +6.09% CIFAR-10-C blur gains; promising, but single-seed, blur-only evidence.
NObSP: Functional Decomposition of Neural Networks via Oblique Subspace Projections
Alexander Caicedo, V\'ictor De La Hoz, Santiago Alf\'erez
Decomposes NN predictions into per-feature functions via oblique projections; careful, honest paper, but functional-recovery evidence is synthetic-only.
REVERSAL-BENCH: A Reversibility Axis and Reset Oracle for Measuring the Reset-Free RL Cliff
Riyaaz Shaik, Chandru Venkataraman
Introduces a reversibility axis (rho) and simulator-based reset oracle across five physics engines, and documents a sharp reset-free RL 'cliff'; well-designed and causally controlled, but simulation-only with thin quantitative reporting and mitigation confined to controllable hazards.
Regularized Least Squares Training of Quadratic Neural Networks with Applications to System Identification
Luis Rodrigues, Zachary Yetman Van Egmond, Mohammad R. Amiri Fard
Closed-form least-squares training of quadratic NNs with provable cost lower bounds; coherent theory, but validation rests on a single small example.