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  1. Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry

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    Gravitational waves from black-hole merging events have revealed a population of extra-galactic BHs residing in short-period binaries with masses that are higher than expected based …
  2. The ALPINE-ALMA [CII] survey: Dust emission effective radius up to 3 kpc in the early Universe

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    Measurements of the size of dust continuum emission are an important tool for constraining the spatial extent of star formation and hence the build-up of stellar mass …
  3. A precise symbolic emulator of the linear matter power spectrum

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    Computing the matter power spectrum, \(P(k)\), as a function of cosmological parameters can be prohibitively slow in cosmological analyses, hence emulating this calculation is desirable. Previous analytic …
  4. ALMA-ALPINE [CII] survey: The sub-kpc morphology of three main sequence galaxy systems at z \(\sim\) 4.5 revealed by ALMA

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    Context: From redshift 6 to redshift \(\approx\) 4 galaxies grow rapidly from low mass galaxies towards the more mature massive galaxies we see at the cosmic noon. Growth …
  5. How do wavelength correlations affect transmission spectra? Application of a new fast and flexible 2D Gaussian process framework to transiting exoplanet spectroscopy

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    … sodium and potassium features were recovered.
  6. Imaging the event horizon of M87* from space on different timescales

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    … theories and models of black hole accretion, plasma dynamics, and jet launching. Movies are available at https://www.aanda.org
  7. JWST detection of a supernova associated with GRB 221009A without an r-process signature

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    Identifying the astrophysical sites of the \(r\)-process, one of the primary mechanisms by which heavy elements are formed, is a key goal of modern astrophysics. The discovery …
  8. Nematic Metal in a Multivalley Electron Gas: Variational Monte Carlo Analysis and Application to AlAs

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  9. Sublattice Structure and Topology in Spontaneously Crystallized Electronic States

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  10. High-harmonic spectroscopy of strongly bound excitons in solids

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  11. Sublattice Structure and Topology in Spontaneously Crystallized Electronic States

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  12. High-harmonic spectroscopy of strongly bound excitons in solids

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  13. Offline supervised learning vs online direct policy optimization: A comparative study and a unified training paradigm for neural network-based optimal feedback control

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    This work is concerned with solving neural network-based feedback controllers efficiently for optimal control problems. We first conduct a comparative study of two prevalent approaches: offline supervised …
  14. Layerwise complexity-matched learning yields an improved model of cortical area {V2}

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    Human ability to recognize complex visual patterns arises through transformations performed by successive areas in the ventral visual cortex. Deep neural networks trained endto-end for object recognition …
  15. Beyond the diagnosis: Evaluation of quality-of-life measures and family functioning in SLC6A1-related neurodevelopmental disorder.

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  16. Caregiver greeting to infants under 6 months already reflects emerging differences in those later diagnosed with autism.

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  17. Metabolic imaging of human cumulus cells reveals associations with pregnancy and live birth

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    Can fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) detect associations between the metabolic state of cumulus cell (CC) samples and the clinical outcome of the corresponding embryos? FLIM can detect …
  18. Martini without the twist: Unveiling a mechanically correct microtubule through bottom-up coarse-graining in Martini 3

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    Microtubules are essential cytoskeletal filaments involved in cell motility, division, and intracellular transport. These biomolecular assemblies can exhibit complex structural be-haviors influenced by various biophysical factors. However …
  19. Contextual Counting: A Mechanistic Study of Transformers on a Quantitative Task

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    Transformers have revolutionized machine learning across diverse domains, yet understanding their behavior remains crucial, particularly in high-stakes applications. This paper introduces the contextual counting task, a novel …
  20. Crowdsourcing with Difficulty: A Bayesian Rating Model for Heterogeneous Items

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    In applied statistics and machine learning, the "gold standards" used for training are often biased and almost always noisy. Dawid and Skene's justifiably popular crowdsourcing model adjusts …
  21. Is machine learning good or bad for the natural sciences?

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    Machine learning (ML) methods are having a huge impact across all of the sciences. However, ML has a strong ontology - in which only the data exist - and a …
  22. Wake forces in a background of quadratically coupled mediators

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    Two particles can exert forces on each other when embedded in a sea of weakly-coupled particles. These "wake forces" occur whenever the source and target particles have …
  23. Compensation between FOXP transcription factors maintains proper striatal function.

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  24. HybridBNN: Joint Training of Deterministic and Stochastic Layers in Bayesian Neural Nets

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    Bayesian Neural Nets are proposed as flexible models that can provide calibrated uncertainty estimates for out-of-distribution data. Due to the high dimensionality of BNN posteriors and …
  25. Neurosift: DANDI exploration and NWB visualization in the browser

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    Neurosift, a browser-based visualization tool, is designed for the interactive exploration of Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) files, whether stored locally, on remote servers, or within the Distributed …
  26. Why is parameter averaging beneficial in SGD? An objective smoothing perspective

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    It is often observed that stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants implicitly select a solution with good generalization performance; such implicit bias is often characterized in terms …
  27. Assessment of social connection among autistic and non-autistic adults: A proof of concept study for the Connections with Others Scales.

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  28. MousiPLIER: A Mouse Pathway-Level Information Extractor Model

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    High throughput gene expression profiling measures individual gene expression across conditions. However, genes are regulated in complex networks, not as individual entities, limiting the interpretability of gene expression …
  29. Molecular cascades and cell-type specific signatures in ASD revealed by single cell genomics.

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  30. Developmental isoform diversity in the human neocortex informs neuropsychiatric risk mechanisms.

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  31. Putting the spotlight back onto the flanker task in autism: Autistic adults show increased interference from foils compared with non-autistic adults.

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  32. CWAS-Plus: estimating category-wide association of rare noncoding variation from whole-genome sequencing data with cell-type-specific functional data.

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  33. Optimal compressed sensing for image reconstruction with diffusion probabilistic models

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    We examine the problem of selecting a small set of linear measurements for reconstructing high-dimensional signals. Well-established methods for optimizing such measurements include principal component analysis …
  34. Host-galaxy stars can dominate the ionizing radiation field of the circumgalactic medium in galaxies at Cosmic Noon

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    Elucidating the processes that shape the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is crucial for understanding galaxy evolution. Absorption and emission diagnostics can be interpreted using photoionization calculations to obtain information …
  35. Versatile multiple object tracking in sparse 2D/3D videos via deformable image registration

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    Tracking body parts in behaving animals, extracting fluorescence signals from cells embedded in deforming tissue, and analyzing cell migration patterns during development all require tracking objects with partially …
  36. Leveraging polygenic scores to go beyond examinations of pathology among gender-diverse individuals.

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  37. Temperature compensation through kinetic regulation in biochemical oscillators

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    Nearly all circadian clocks maintain a period that is insensitive to temperature changes, a phenomenon known as temperature compensation (TC). Yet, it is unclear whether there is any …
  38. Moral foundations in autistic people and people with systemizing minds.

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  39. Relativistic Binary Precession: Impact on Eccentric Binary Accretion and Multi-Messenger Astronomy

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    Recent hydrodynamical simulations have shown that circumbinary gas disks drive the orbits of binary black holes to become eccentric, even when general relativistic corrections to the orbit are …
  40. Factors associated with receptive and expressive language in autistic children and siblings: A systematic review.

    Publication
  41. Denoising Diffusion Delensing Delight: Reconstructing the Non-Gaussian CMB Lensing Potential with Diffusion Models

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    Optimal extraction of cosmological information from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background critically relies on our ability to accurately undo the distortions caused by weak gravitational lensing. In …
  42. Phenotypical divergence between self-reported and clinically ascertained autism.

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  43. Simulation-Based Stacking

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    Simulation-based inference has been popular for amortized Bayesian computation. It is typical to have more than one posterior approximation, from different inference algorithms, different architectures, or simply …
  44. Cosmology with Galaxy Photometry Alone

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    We present the first cosmological constraints using only the observed photometry of galaxies. Villaescusa-Navarro et al. recently demonstrated that the internal physical properties of a single simulated …
  45. AspGap: Augmented Stellar Parameters and Abundances for 37 Million Red Giant Branch Stars from Gaia XP Low-resolution Spectra

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    We present AspGap, a new approach to infer stellar labels from low-resolution Gaia XP spectra, including precise [\(\alpha\)/M] estimates for the first time. AspGap is a …
  46. Deep Hubble Space Telescope Photometry of Large Magellanic Cloud and Milky Way Ultrafaint Dwarfs: A Careful Look into the Magnitude–Size Relation

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    We present deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry of ten targets from Treasury Program GO-14734, including six confirmed ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs), three UFD candidates, and …
  47. Dissipative Dark Substructure: The Consequences of Atomic Dark Matter on Milky Way Analog Subhalos

    Publication
    Using cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations, we explore the properties of subhalos in Milky Way analogs that contain a subcomponent of atomic dark matter (ADM). ADM differs from …
  48. The Effects of r-Process Enrichment in Hydrogen-rich Supernovae

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    Core-collapse supernovae are candidate sites for the rapid neutron capture process (\(r\)-process). We explore the effects of enrichment from \(r\)-process nuclei on the light-curves …
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