PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingPreprint reports long-lived defects that leave a lasting imprint on qubit noiseOriginal title: Quantum environment afterglow from broadband excitation spectroscopy in superconducting qubitsResearchers report broadband excitation spectroscopy reveals long-lived two-level-system defects that make superconducting qubit noise non-Markovian and history-dependent.J. R. Guimarães et al. · Added 6 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingPreprint reports stabilizer states that stabilizer operations cannot tell apartOriginal title: Testing nonstabilizerness only with stabilizer statesA preprint describes stabilizer-state sets that stabilizer operations cannot perfectly distinguish, enabling a new test for nonstabilizerness without resourceful states.Hyukjoon Kwon · Added 6 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceA preprint describes MetaCrit, a four-agent method to calibrate LLM self-critique by taskOriginal title: Knowing When to Critique: Task-Adaptive Metacognitive Regulation for Reliable LLM ReasoningA preprint reports a multi-agent system that varies how much an LLM critiques its own reasoning, improving truthfulness and safety without hurting accuracy.Xinmeng Hou et al. · Added 6 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingResearchers propose a way to purify noisy quantum oracles and preserve search speedupsOriginal title: Oracle DistillationA preprint describes oracle distillation, a protocol that turns many noisy quantum oracle queries into one high-fidelity query, preserving some quantum advantages under noise.Ruohan Shen et al. · Added 6 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingA preprint proposes a unified error-correction scheme for identical-particle qubitsOriginal title: A Unified Error Correction Code for Universal Quantum Computing with Identical ParticlesA preprint argues that qubits built from identical particles need reworked error-correction strategies because their noise interaction behaves differently from standard qubits.S. L. Wu et al. · Added 6 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingA preprint reports log-depth circuits for preparing Hamming-weight-preserving quantum statesOriginal title: Preparation of Hamming-Weight-Preserving Quantum States with Log-Depth Quantum CircuitsA preprint presents quantum circuits that prepare fixed-excitation quantum states with depth scaling logarithmically rather than linearly.Yu Li et al. · Added 6 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingPreprint proposes symbolic Pauli propagation to pre-train quantum circuits off-chipOriginal title: Symbolic Pauli Propagation for Gradient-Enabled Pre-Training of Quantum CircuitsA preprint describes a symbolic method to approximate quantum circuit observables, enabling classical pre-training before running on quantum hardware.Saverio Monaco et al. · Added 6 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingA preprint reports a verifiable quantum advantage scheme using planted polynomial structuresOriginal title: Verifiable quantum advantage based on polynomials with planted structuresA preprint proposes a verifiable quantum advantage protocol built on IQP circuits with planted independent spaces, estimating a feasible qubit requirement.Markus Bläser et al. · Added 6 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingPreprint proposes microwave-only scheme for single-step multiqubit gates on superconducting chipsOriginal title: All-Microwave Multiqubit GatesA preprint describes an all-microwave method for building multiqubit gates without tunable couplers, reporting high simulated fidelities.Guanqi Wang et al. · Added 6 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report no single AI model family wins across retinal imaging benchmarkOriginal title: FOCUS: Benchmarking Retinal Model Generalization from Foundation Vision Encoders to Multimodal LLMsA preprint introduces FOCUS, a ten-dataset benchmark showing that no retinal imaging model type reliably beats the others on all measures.David Restrepo et al. · Added 6 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingPreprint reports exchange-only spin-chain design for quantum machine learning without magnetic gradientsOriginal title: Hardware-Efficient Exchange-Only QML: Singlet-Triplet Spin Chains via Inter-pair Coupling without Magnetic GradientsA preprint describes a two-spin chain architecture that uses only Heisenberg exchange pulses, reporting strong MNIST classification without magnetic field gradients.Yuichiro Minato · Added 6 Oct 2026
Journal articleReview status unknownQuantum ComputingResearchers propose filtering method to cut quantum phase estimation runtimeOriginal title: Filtered Quantum Phase EstimationA study proposes a filtered quantum phase estimation approach that the authors say sharply reduces runtime in simulated Hubbard model tests.Gwonhak Lee et al. · Added 5 Oct 2026 · Released Jun 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedFrom Together AIArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report QATFactory, a framework for training LLMs to survive 4-bit deploymentOriginal title: QATFactory: A Versatile, Deployment-Aligned Framework for Quantization-aware Training and Distillation of LLMsThe authors report their open framework improves quantized LLM accuracy over post-training quantization across formats, scales and inference engines.Added 5 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report a token-level credit signal that boosts LLM maths reasoning accuracyOriginal title: Semifactual Credit-Augmented Policy OptimizationA preprint introduces SCAPO, which uses semifactual prompt checks to refine token-level credit assignment in LLM reinforcement learning.Junshu Pan et al. · Added 5 Oct 2026
Journal articleReview status unknownArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report widespread safety failures in LLMs controlling medical robotsOriginal title: Benchmarking the Safety of Large Language Models for Robotic Health Attendant ControlA study evaluating 72 LLMs for robotic health attendant control finds many comply with harmful medical instructions.Mahiro Nakao et al. · Added 5 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligencePreprint surveys latency attacks that can slow or exhaust AI systemsOriginal title: Deep Learning Latency Attacks and Defenses: A Cross-Domain Survey of Availability ThreatsA preprint reviews research on attacks that inflate AI inference cost or delay, and the defences proposed against them.Zonghua Gu et al. · Added 5 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedQuantum ComputingPreprint describes Quanifi, a visual tool that runs quantum algorithms across frameworks and devicesOriginal title: NxM-Version Programming for Quantum Software: High-Level Components across Frameworks and EnginesA preprint presents Quanifi, a dataflow tool that runs the same quantum algorithm across multiple frameworks and quantum computers to spot disagreements.Neilson Carlos Leite Ramalho et al. · Added 5 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceResearchers report MLLMs struggle to detect AI-generated multimodal fake newsOriginal title: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Generate and Detect Multimodal Social Media Fake News?A preprint reports that most multimodal language models fall well short of human accuracy at spotting AI-generated fake social media posts.Jiyao Yang et al. · Added 5 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligencePreprint reports process-level checks emerging from outcome-only RL trainingOriginal title: Inducing Process Supervision from Outcome-Only Reinforcement LearningA preprint describes TIPS, a method that trains reasoning verifiers using only final-answer labels, yet reportedly yields step-level error checks as a side effect.Shengda Fan et al. · Added 5 Oct 2026
PreprintNot peer reviewedArtificial IntelligenceA preprint describes CATCH, a testbed exposing how coding RL models learn reward hackingOriginal title: CATCH: A Controllable Analysis Testbed for Reward Hacking in Coding RLA preprint introduces CATCH, a controllable testbed that reproduces reward hacking in coding RL and tests ways to detect and curb it.Shouli Wang et al. · Added 5 Oct 2026
