PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom IQM Quantum ComputersQuantum ComputingPreprint reports planar qLDPC codes using only nearest-neighbour gatesOriginal title: Nearest-neighbour gates are all you need: High-rate quantum low-density parity-check codes on a planar gridA preprint describes quantum error-correcting codes that beat surface codes while using only local, nearest-neighbour connections.Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceResearchers propose a memory system that delays compressing evidence in long documentsOriginal title: CoEM: Empowering Long-Context Reasoning with Commit-on-Evidence MemoryA preprint describes CoEM, a memory agent that keeps uncertain evidence verbatim until later context clarifies its relevance, improving long-context question answering.Jingguang Li et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom ZoomArtificial IntelligencePreprint finds safety-layer defenses can be localised yet still bypassedOriginal title: Refusal Localizes, the Damage Relocates: Safety Layers Under Few-Sample Fine-TuningA preprint reports that freezing or repairing the layers tied to refusal can still be defeated by attackers who know the defense.Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceResearchers build a chess-puzzle benchmark to test prompt optimisation on frozen LLMsOriginal title: Benchmarking Prompt Optimization of Large Language Models With ChessA preprint uses Lichess puzzles to compare six automatic prompt-optimisation methods across eight frozen language models.Timothée Lesort et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingResearchers model how multiplexed trapped-ion control could meet error-correction needsOriginal title: WISER: Systematic Design-Space Exploration of Trapped Ions with Multiplexed ControlA preprint frames a design-space tool for trapped-ion hardware that shares control wiring across qubits via multiplexing.Scott Jones et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingResearchers report a risk signal that targets costly decoding search in qLDPC codesOriginal title: Adaptive decoding of quantum LDPC codes through decoder disagreementA preprint proposes using disagreement between two decoder estimates to decide which quantum error-correction syndromes need expensive extra search.Maida Wang et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingPreprint details quantum-walker qRAM design cutting active hardware needsOriginal title: Technical analysis of the Resource-efficient Quantum Walkers Quantum Random Access MemoryA preprint gives a full technical breakdown of a quantum-walker qRAM that the authors say needs far fewer active components than earlier designs.Giuseppe De Riso et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingPreprint reports syndrome motif method boosting matching-based quantum error decodersOriginal title: SMP: A General Hyperedge-Based Framework for Circuit-Level Quantum Error CorrectionA preprint presents SMP, a lightweight add-on that helps fast matching decoders handle correlated hyperedge faults in quantum error correction.Siying Wang et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedimecArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report a tool that audits model specs for internal contradictionsOriginal title: Detecting Inconsistencies in Model Specifications with LLM-as-Verifier ReasoningA preprint describes VeriSpec, which uses an LLM verifier to find conflicting rules in OpenAI's Model Spec.Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom IQM Quantum ComputersQuantum ComputingResearchers report compact quantum circuits for molecular ground-state preparationOriginal title: Hardware-Efficient Ground-State Preparation using Variational Imaginary-Time Majorana EvolutionA preprint describes a classical pre-training method, VIME, that prepares molecular ground states with far fewer quantum gates than prior approaches.Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report reinforcement learning fixes an AI theorem-falsification blind spotOriginal title: Counterexample Generation via Per-Theorem Symbolic Verifiers: When Imitation Hurts and Reinforcement RepairsA preprint finds that counterexample-only imitation training harms false-theorem detection, while reinforcement learning with a verifier reward repairs and improves it.Omar Farouk Zouak et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom PleIAsArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report a fully synthetic Wikipedia-derived corpus trains competitive small LLMsOriginal title: It's All Training: A Fully Synthetic Single-Stage Recipe for LLMsA preprint reports that models trained only on a synthetic corpus derived from Wikipedia can match similarly sized open models using far fewer tokens.Added 7 Oct 2026
Conference paperReview status unknownFrom IBMArtificial IntelligenceLLM-based tool flags Linux kernel patches fixing serious memory bugsOriginal title: What Do They Fix? LLM-Aided Categorization of Security Patches for Critical Memory BugsA conference paper presents DualLM, a tool combining an LLM and a fine-tuned small model to spot Linux patches fixing out-of-bounds and use-after-free bugs.Added 7 Oct 2026 · Released Jan 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom xDotsQuantum ComputingPreprint compares quantum circuit layouts for noisy single and distributed processorsOriginal title: Constant-Per-Layer-Depth MPS-Pretrained Ansatz for Noisy Distributed Quantum ProcessorsA preprint reports that a shallow brick-wall circuit design outperforms deeper alternatives under noise, and extends this to modular quantum processors.Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceA preprint proposes a framework to test whether LLMs reflect group differences in surveysOriginal title: Population Fidelity: Evaluating Population Representativeness in LLMsResearchers introduce Population Fidelity, a framework separating accuracy, variation and structure to evaluate how well LLMs represent subgroup differences in survey responses.Neemias B. da Silva et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingResearchers report full logical gate set for high-rate quantum codes without extra qubitsOriginal title: Construction of the full logical Clifford group for high-rate quantum Reed-Muller codes using only transversal and fold-transversal gatesA preprint describes building every logical Clifford gate for a family of quantum Reed-Muller codes using only transversal and fold-transversal operations.Theerapat Tansuwannont et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report a method blending RL and distillation for LLM post-trainingOriginal title: Distilled Reinforcement Learning for LLM Post-trainingA preprint proposes Distilled RL, which folds teacher guidance into reinforcement learning to help student models learn new skills more selectively.Chen Wang et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceA preprint reports a gating method to separate number IDs from maths in LLMsOriginal title: ANI: Adaptive Numerical Injection for Unifying Semantic and Arithmetic Representations in Numerical ReasoningResearchers propose ANI, which selectively injects numerical embeddings into LLMs only when a number is used arithmetically, not as an ID.Jinsung Jeon et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report LLMs’ reasoning text often doesn’t match their internal computationsOriginal title: Making LLMs Say What They Think: Measuring and Improving CoT-Interpretability AlignmentA preprint introduces a metric to measure whether an LLM's chain-of-thought matches what the model actually computes internally, and shows post-training can improve this.Yihuai Hong et al. · Added 7 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom Alice & BobQuantum ComputingA preprint proposes an entropy-based shortcut to estimate quantum error correction thresholdsOriginal title: Entropy threshold: A simple proxy for performance of quantum error correctionResearchers report a simple entropy-based proxy that estimates QEC thresholds without heavy simulations, matching numerical results fairly well.Added 7 Oct 2026
