PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingResearchers report a method to bound qubit leakage and fidelity despite SPAM errorsOriginal title: Leakage benchmarking with decohering subgroups in the presence of preparation and measurement errorsA preprint presents decohering subgroup randomised benchmarking, tested on a dual-rail transmon qubit, to bound leakage and fidelity when preparation and measurement are imperfect.Shawn Geller et al. · Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom TencentArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report a scheduling fix cuts repeated-prefix waste in LLM RL trainingOriginal title: PrefixFlow: Training-Time KV Caching for Schedule-Level Prefix Reuse in LLM RL TrainingA preprint describes PrefixFlow, a training schedule that caches shared prompt prefixes once per rollout group instead of recomputing them for every trajectory.Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom Toyota Motor EuropeArtificial IntelligenceA preprint reports client-tailored sub-networks for federated LLM fine-tuningOriginal title: Optimal Hydra: Model Heterogeneous Federated Learning for LLMs using Data-Informed Hydra-NetsResearchers propose Optimal Hydra, which builds client-specific sub-networks for federated fine-tuning of large language models under uneven resource limits.Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingA preprint proposes forgetting quantum sensor data without re-measuring statesOriginal title: Federated Unlearning of Quantum Data via Classical ShadowsResearchers describe a method that lets federated quantum learning forget data using stored classical shadows instead of replaying quantum states.Zihao Ding et al. · Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceA survey reframes LLM long-context compression as memory lifecycle managementOriginal title: From Long Context to Selective Memory:A Survey of Memory-Centric Compression for Large Language ModelsA preprint proposes a unified framework treating context compression and memory handling in large language models as one cost-budgeted lifecycle.Chaogui Gou · Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingPreprint proposes protocol to characterise coherent noise with far fewer experimentsOriginal title: Tomography for coherent noiseA preprint describes a method to identify coherent noise models in quantum error correction using only single-qubit tomography.Long Huang · Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom HuaweiArtificial IntelligencePreprint proposes debugging near-miss NPU kernels instead of regenerating them from scratchOriginal title: Don't Regenerate, Debug: A Domain-Specific Agent for Repairing Near-Miss Accelerator KernelsA preprint reports that repairing near-miss accelerator kernels beats regenerating them, with higher success and far fewer tokens.Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom GoogleArtificial IntelligencePreprint proposes subspace tuning to cut LLM forgetting during fine-tuningOriginal title: Towards Continual Learning: Mitigating Forgetting With Subspace TuningA preprint reports that restricting fine-tuning updates to non-principal weight directions reduces catastrophic forgetting in large language models.Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom GoogleArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report language models rarely reuse representations they learn in-contextOriginal title: Language Models Struggle to Use Representations Learned In-ContextA preprint finds open-weight and frontier models often fail to use semantics they learn from context to solve related tasks.Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceResearchers propose random projection to protect privacy in RAG datastoresOriginal title: Private Retrieval Augmented Generation via Random ProjectionA preprint reports that random projection can protect RAG datastores from data extraction while keeping answer quality higher than differential-privacy methods.Dixi Yao et al. · Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingA preprint simplifies Petz recovery for quantum error correction into one QSVT stepOriginal title: Petz Recovery through a Single Polar Transformation for Approximate Quantum Error CorrectionResearchers describe a single-transformation quantum circuit approach to Petz recovery, aiming to ease implementation for approximate quantum error correction.Hanzhang Zhao et al. · Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom IonQQuantum ComputingResearchers report same-isotope ion cooling using Zeeman shifts to shield data qubitsOriginal title: Sympathetic Cooling in Trapped Ions with Spectral Selectivity via the Zeeman ShiftA preprint describes a trapped-ion sympathetic cooling scheme that uses Zeeman shifts to isolate coolant ions from data qubits without changing species or isotope.Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingPreprint reports neural ODE method extending short-time quantum data into long-time dynamicsOriginal title: Learning Quantum Operator Dynamics from Short-Time DataA preprint describes a machine-learning approach that extrapolates long-time quantum operator behaviour from brief hardware measurements.Jinyang Li et al. · Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom GoogleArtificial IntelligenceResearchers propose formally verified self-evolving LLM agents with zero constraint violationsOriginal title: SEVerA: Verified Synthesis of Self-Evolving AgentsA preprint presents SEVerA, a framework binding LLM agent calls to formal contracts so fine-tuning cannot break correctness.Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom AmazonArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report a small 8B model beats larger LLMs at GPU kernel tuningOriginal title: How to Train Your Little Dragon: Teaching a Small Language Model to Construct and Refine GPU Optimization ScriptsA preprint reports an 8-billion-parameter model trained on compiler search data outperforms far larger language models at writing GPU optimisation scripts.Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingResearchers report cavity-coupled Rydberg atom array for quantum networkingOriginal title: Realization of a cavity-coupled Rydberg arrayA preprint describes trapped atoms coupled to both an optical cavity and Rydberg states at the same location.Jacopo De Santis et al. · Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom AmazonArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report training multimodal LLMs without real paired audio-vision dataOriginal title: MSP: Modality Self-Play for Training Multimodal LLMs Without Paired Cross-Modal DataA preprint describes training multimodal models using text proxies instead of real paired audio-vision examples.Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligencePreprint proposes an evidence-first AI agent for diagnosing technical faultsOriginal title: LLM-as-an-Investigator: Evidence-First Agentic Reasoning for Robust Interactive Problem DiagnosisA preprint describes an LLM agent that tracks rival hypotheses before diagnosing technical problems, reportedly outperforming simpler baselines.Fabrizio Marozzo et al. · Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report sparse circuit tuning boosts Hindi-to-Urdu and Hindi-to-Sindhi translationOriginal title: Translation Circuit Discovery and Targeted Optimization for Low-Resource Multilingual TranslationA preprint describes TITAN, a method that finds and tunes small translation circuits in an LLM to lift low-resource translation quality.Atai Waris Khan et al. · Added 3 Nov 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom Alibaba GroupArtificial IntelligenceA preprint reports ReFlow, a replay-based system for faster LLM reinforcement learningOriginal title: ReFlow: Replay-Driven Decoupling for Efficient RL Post-TrainingA preprint describes ReFlow, which reuses recent rollout trajectories to cut GPU idle time during LLM reinforcement learning post-training.Added 3 Nov 2026
