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  1. Double descent: When do neural quantum states generalize?

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    Neural quantum states (NQS) provide flexible wavefunction parameterizations for numerical studies of quantum many-body physics. While inspired by deep learning, it remains unclear to what extent NQS …
  2. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters Catalog

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    We present the results of a search for galaxy clusters in the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) microwave sky maps covering 16293 square degrees in …
  3. Active Liquid Crystal Theory Explains the Collective Organization of Microtubules in Human Mitotic Spindles

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    How thousands of microtubules and molecular motors self-organize into spindles remains poorly understood. By combining static, nanometer-resolution, large-scale electron tomography reconstructions and dynamic, optical-resolution …
  4. Query Efficient Structured Matrix Learning

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    We study the problem of learning a structured approximation (low-rank, sparse, banded, etc.) to an unknown matrix \(A\) given access to matrix-vector product (matvec) queries of …
  5. Large protein databases reveal structural complementarity and functional locality

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    Recent breakthroughs in protein structure prediction have led to a surge in high-quality 3D models, highlighting the need for efficient computational solutions. In our work, we examine …
  6. The physical consequences of sperm gigantism

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    The male fruit fly produces ~1.8 mm long sperm, thousands of which can be stored until mating in a ~200 micron sac, the seminal vesicle. While the …
  7. Prematurity and genetic liability for autism spectrum disorder.

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  8. Feature Learning beyond the Lazy-Rich Dichotomy: Insights from Representational Geometry

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    Integrating task-relevant information into neural representations is a fundamental ability of both biological and artificial intelligence systems. Recent theories have categorized learning into two regimes: the rich …
  9. Implications of modern mass-loss rates for massive stars

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    Massive stars lose a significant fraction of their mass through stellar winds at various stages of their lives, including on the main sequence, during the red supergiant phase …
  10. Euclid preparation: Expected constraints on initial conditions

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    The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency will deliver galaxy and cosmic shear surveys, which will be used to constrain initial conditions and statistics of primordial fluctuations …
  11. Disentangling real space fluctuations: The diagnostics of metal-insulator transitions beyond single-particle spectral functions

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    The destruction of metallicity due to the mutual Coulomb interaction of quasiparticles gives rise to fascinating phenomena of solid state physics such as the Mott metal-insulator transition …
  12. Spatiotemporal Order and Parametric Instabilities from First-Principles

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    Shaping crystal structure with light is an enduring goal of physics and materials engineering. Here we present calculations in candidate materials selected by symmetry that allow light-induced …
  13. A spherical hydrodynamical model of cosmic voids in \(\Lambda\)CDM and beyond

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    Cosmic voids have emerged as powerful probes for cosmology, providing complementary information on the large-scale structure of the universe. We present the first application of a hydrodynamical …
  14. The Star Formation History and Evolution of the Ultra-Diffuse M81 Satellite, F8D1

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    We present deep HST imaging of one of the nearest ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) outside of the Local Group: F8D1, a satellite of M81 known to be tidally …
  15. Reconstructing galactic feedback history via the Lyman-\(\alpha\) forest with Habitable Worlds Observatory

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    Recent studies have focused on the low-\(z\) Ly\(\alpha\) forest as a potential constraint on galactic feedback, as different AGN and stellar feedback models in hydrodynamic simulations …
  16. Altruistic Resource-Sharing Mechanism for Synchronization: The Energy-Speed-Accuracy Trade-off

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    Synchronization among a group of active agents is ubiquitous in nature. Although synchronization based on direct interactions between agents described by the Kuramoto model is well understood, the …
  17. Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis.

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  18. Euclid preparation. Simulating thousands of Euclid spectroscopic skies

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    We present two extensive sets of 3500+1000 simulations of dark matter haloes on the past light cone, and two corresponding sets of simulated (`mock') galaxy catalogues that …
  19. Representational drift and learning-induced stabilization in the piriform cortex

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    The brain encodes external stimuli through patterns of neural activity, forming internal representations of the world. Increasing experimental evidence showed that neural representations for a specific stimulus can …
  20. Prediction of local convergent shifts in evolutionary rates with phyloConverge

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    Convergence analysis can characterize genetic elements underlying morphological adaptations. However, its performance on regulatory elements is limited due to their modular composition of transcription factor motifs, which have …
  21. Representational drift and learning-induced stabilization in the piriform cortex

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    The brain encodes external stimuli through patterns of neural activity, forming internal representations of the world. Increasing experimental evidence showed that neural representations for a specific stimulus can …
  22. Euclid preparation. Overview of Euclid infrared detector performance from ground tests

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    The paper describes the objectives, design and findings of the pre-launch ground characterisation campaigns of the Euclid infrared detectors. The pixel properties, including baseline, bad pixels, quantum …
  23. Euclid VI. NISP-P optical ghosts

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    The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) onboard Euclid includes several optical elements in its path, which introduce artefacts into the data from non-nominal light paths. To …
  24. On learning Gaussian multi-index models with gradient flow part I: General properties and two-timescale learning

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    We study gradient flow on the multi-index regression problem for high-dimensional Gaussian data. Multi-index functions consist of a composition of an unknown low-rank linear …
  25. Technical review: Time-dependent density functional theory for attosecond physics ranging from gas-phase to solids

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  26. Neural Network-Augmented Pfaffian Wave-functions for Scalable Simulations of Interacting Fermions

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    Developing accurate numerical methods for strongly interacting fermions is crucial for improving our understanding of various quantum many-body phenomena, especially unconventional superconductivity. Recently, neural quantum states have …
  27. DISCO: learning to DISCover an evolution Operator for multi-physics-agnostic prediction

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    We address the problem of predicting the next states of a dynamical system governed by unknown temporal partial differential equations (PDEs) using only a short trajectory. While standard …
  28. Stabilization of Fermi Liquid Behavior by Interactions in Disordered Metals

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    We study the interplay of electron-electron and electron-disorder scattering in correlated Fermi liquids by the disordered Hubbard model using dynamical mean-field theory with an IPT …
  29. Hund’s flat band in a frustrated spinel oxide

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    … long-standing puzzle on the origin of heavy fermion behavior and unconventional transport in LiV2O4. Simultaneously, it opens a path to achieving flat bands through electronic interactions …
  30. An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf

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    We present the discovery and confirmation of the ultra-short period (USP) planet TOI-2431 b orbiting a nearby (\(d\sim36\) pc) late K star ( …
  31. The Fruit Fly Auxodrome: a computer vision setup for longitudinal studies of Drosophila development

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    Studies in Drosophila have contributed a great deal to our understanding of developmental mechanisms. Indeed, familiar names of critical signaling components, such as Hedgehog and Notch, have their …
  32. Impact of Pretraining Word Co-occurrence on Compositional Generalization in Multimodal Models

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    CLIP and large multimodal models (LMMs) have better accuracy on examples involving concepts that are highly represented in the training data. However, the role of concept combinations in …
  33. The open-source Masala software suite: Facilitating rapid methods development for synthetic heteropolymer design

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    Although canonical protein design has benefited from machine learning methods trained on databases of protein sequences and structures, synthetic heteropolymer design still relies heavily on physics-based methods …
  34. Open Source Planning & Control System with Language Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery

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    We present a multi-agent system for automation of scientific research tasks, cmbagent (https://github.com/CMBAgents/cmbagent). The system is formed by about 30 Large Language Model …
  35. Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery in Astrophysics

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    We evaluate 9 Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) agent configurations on 105 Cosmology Question-Answer (QA) pairs that we built specifically for this purpose.The RAG configurations are manually …
  36. Early developmental origins of cortical disorders modeled in human neural stem cells.

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  37. Decomposition of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals distinct and coherent genetic programs.

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  38. Decomposition of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals underlying genetic programs

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    Unraveling the phenotypic and genetic complexity of autism is extremely challenging yet critical for understanding the biology, inheritance, trajectory and clinical manifestations of the many forms of the …
  39. Flat Elastic Disc Suspensions Are Indistinguishable from Solutions of Long Flexible Polymers within Planar Incompressible Flows

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    We prove analytically that the two fundamental rheological equations for (elastic) disc suspensions and long flexible polymers, the so-called Oldroyd-A and -B models, respectively, predict the …
  40. Causal Foundation Models: Disentangling Physics from Instrument Properties

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    Foundation models for structured time series data must contend with a fundamental challenge: observations often conflate the true underlying physical phenomena with systematic distortions introduced by measurement instruments …
  41. Regularizing 3D conformal field theories via anyons on the fuzzy sphere

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    Recently introduced ''fuzzy sphere'' method has enabled accurate numerical regularizations of certain three-dimensional (3D) conformal field theories (CFTs). The regularization is provided by the non-commutative geometry …
  42. CosmoBench: A Multiscale, Multiview, Multitask Cosmology Benchmark for Geometric Deep Learning

    Publication
    Cosmological simulations provide a wealth of data in the form of point clouds and directed trees. A crucial goal is to extract insights from this data that shed …
  43. Single-cell analysis of dup15q syndrome reveals developmental and postnatal molecular changes in autism.

    Publication
  44. Lost in Latent Space: An Empirical Study of Latent Diffusion Models for Physics Emulation

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    The steep computational cost of diffusion models at inference hinders their use as fast physics emulators. In the context of image and video generation, this computational drawback has …
  45. Circuit compression for 2D quantum dynamics

    Publication
    The study of out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics remains one of the most exciting research frontiers of physics, standing at the crossroads of our understanding of …
  46. Sloan Digital Sky Survey. V. Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

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    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is …
  47. Simulation-Efficient Cosmological Inference with Multi-Fidelity SBI

    Publication
    The simulation cost for cosmological simulation-based inference can be decreased by combining simulation sets of varying fidelity. We propose an approach to such multi-fidelity inference based …
  48. On the Universality of the Split Monopole Black Hole Magnetosphere

    Publication
    Black holes (BHs) can acquire magnetic flux from their progenitor, through merger with a magnetized star, or via prolonged accretion. We study the evolution of BH magnetospheres using …
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