Wednesday 12 August

The 60-second version

Today's batch, and the 60-second version is still being written. Everything below is today's own work: the papers as they are landing, the stations that have written their piece, and the day's episodes. This page fills in as the day does.

The week in the estate's ingest

Seven days of papers the estate ingested. Weekends are striped — the weekend is visible in the data.

130 papers, three ways

Where today's batch landed

The index

The day's strongest 60, by score. Every title links its paper here and on arXiv.

1. Long-Horizon AI Research for Grothendieck Constant: A Case Study in Human-AI Mathematical Collaboration [arXiv]
2. Actions Speak Louder than Words: Measuring Cross-Lingual Policy Retention in Tool-Using Agents [arXiv]
3. PDS 70 c and SR 12 c: Observational Constraints on Giant-Planet and Satellite Formation [arXiv] [episode]
4. Synthesizing Probabilistic Saturating Counters with Differentially Private Formal Guarantees [arXiv]
5. Real-time observations of the transition to the quiescent state in an accreting magnetised neutron star: No propeller required? [arXiv]
6. ATLAS. III. Dust Around Little Red Dots: Hydrogen Line Ratios beyond Dust-free Non-Case B Models [arXiv]
7. Pulsation periods reveal tension between theoretical and empirical radii for classical Cepheids in eclipsing binary systems [arXiv]
8. Quantum Coordination Advantages in AI State-Tracking Tasks: Semantic Compilation and Latent Memory [arXiv]
9. Posterior contraction rates in Sobolev norms and Bayesian derivative estimation for infinite-dimensional exponential families [arXiv]
10. A Recommendation System Approach for Interference-Robust Sensor Subset Selection [arXiv]
11. The Last Crossing in Excursion-Set Theory of Cosmic Reionization [arXiv]
12. Heavy neutral leptons beyond the BBN bound: probing the lepton asymmetry of the Universe [arXiv]
13. On the nature of oscillating modes of proto-neutron stars [arXiv]
14. Tensor-normal maximum likelihood estimation at the operator-norm sample threshold [arXiv]
15. Rule of Thumb: Explaining Artificial Intelligence Systems using Partial Information [arXiv]
16. A lower bound for stepsize-based acceleration of gradient descent [arXiv]
17. Improving TensorSketch Using Complex Random Variables [arXiv]
18. Optimistic Rates for Multiclass PAC Learning [arXiv]
19. Once Poisoned, Arbitrarily Controlled: A Programmable Backdoor in VLMs [arXiv]
20. Mapping and Measuring the Behavioral Evolution of Large Language Models [arXiv]
21. Cross-View Feature Matching: Survey, Benchmarking, and Foundation-Model Perspectives [arXiv]
22. Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding [arXiv]
23. The Illusion of Cross-Lingual Safety in Low-Resource Languages [arXiv]
24. From Interpretability to Control: Insights from Six Years of the TrustNLP Workshop [arXiv]
25. How to Verify Probabilistic Consistency of Predictive Models [arXiv]
26. ConVAWG: A Retrieval-Grounded Framework for Controlled Synthetic Dialogue Generation in Violence Against Women and Girls [arXiv]
27. Tabular foundation models for the estimation of probabilistic quasar photometric redshifts in S-PLUS [arXiv]
28. Conditional Independence Tests for Constraint-Based Causal Discovery: A Survey [arXiv]
29. On Understanding, Identifying, and Mitigating Vulnerabilities in Agentic Large Language Models [arXiv]
30. myMediWhisper: Construction of Burmese Medical Speech Corpus and Whisper Fine-Tuning for Clinical Dialogue ASR [arXiv]
31. Scheduling Mixed RL Rollouts Beyond Prefix Locality [arXiv]
32. Entropy-Centric Explainable AI for Remote Sensing Image Segmentation [arXiv]
33. Constructing X-ray Spectral Models of Galaxies: Varying Contributions from X-ray Binary Populations with Host Galaxy Properties [arXiv]
34. Withholding the Completing Chunk: Exact Release-Boundary Equivalence for Production Streaming Guardrails [arXiv]
35. Synchrotron-Regulated Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Emission, Polarization, and Faraday Rotation [arXiv]
36. CORN -- Chronometers of Relic Nature I: The first estimate of the expansion rate of the Universe using compact relic galaxies [arXiv]
37. Logit-Boundary Geometric Belief Interfaces and Sparse Sheaf-Enclave Protocols: A Self-Contained Substrate for Secure Network Electronic Health Record (EHR) Interoperability [arXiv]
38. Estimating the local star formation rate density from ASKAP RACS [arXiv]
39. Beyond Detection Accuracy: Measuring Explanation Cost, Stability, and Utility for Resource-Aware IoT Intrusion Detection [arXiv]
40. An Optically Motivated Gamma-ray Study of Fermi-LAT Novae [arXiv]
41. Improved cross-validated distances for multivariate pattern analysis [arXiv]
42. JWST Spectroscopy of Type Ia Supernova 2025rbs from Maximum Light to the Nebular Phase [arXiv]
43. Two new highly scattered fast radio bursts: evidence for scatter broadening by the circumsource medium [arXiv]
44. The generalized second law as a thermodynamic selection criterion for dynamical dark energy [arXiv]
45. Two-Fluid Schwarzschild Solution [arXiv]
46. Iterative Erasure Count Is Not an Affine-Invariant Concept Dimension [arXiv]
47. Mapping the Inner Milky Way with Infrared-Derived Distances to AGB Stars [arXiv]
48. Transmutation Timescales for Dark Matter Induced Collapse of Compact Stars into Black Holes [arXiv]
49. Trigger the Straggler: Load Hijack on Mixture-of-Experts LLMs [arXiv]
50. Baryogenesis and CMB spectral distortion from Axions [arXiv]
51. Toward a unified framework for helium observations and interpretation of atmospheric escape [arXiv] [episode]
52. A Wandering 35,000-Solar-Mass Black Hole Fed by a Gravitational Wake [arXiv]
53. A Lightweight Fault-Detection Scheme for Barrett Modular Multiplication Using Multiple Conditional Reduction Paths [arXiv]
54. Exploring the long-term temporal variability in polarization through multi-epoch optical spectro-polarimetry - Part I: A sample of Herbig Ae/Be and classical Be stars [arXiv]
55. SIRIUS Project: Dynamical Evolution of Primordial Binaries during Star Cluster Formation [arXiv]
56. Exploring the long-term temporal variability in polarization through multi-epoch optical spectro-polarimetry - Part II: A sample of symbiotic and red-giant stars [arXiv] [episode]
57. A Gateway Architecture for Enterprise MCP Authentication: Unifying Heterogeneous Auth, Identity Delegation, and the User / Non-User Persona Problem [arXiv]
58. Path Integral Value Matching for Linear Quadratic Stochastic Optimal Control [arXiv]
59. Bernhard-1: An Eccentric Binary Periodically Obscured by its Misaligned Circumbinary Disk [arXiv]
60. Evidence for Solar-Cycle Modulation of the Alpha-to-Proton Temperature Ratio in Solar Wind [arXiv]

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Everything the estate published on 2026-08-12, in the player. Playing from this page is how the edition learns whether anyone did.

• Exploring the long-term temporal variability in polarization through multi-epoch optical spectro-polarimetry - Part II: A sample of symbiotic and red-giant stars
• PDS 70 c and SR 12 c: Observational Constraints on Giant-Planet and Satellite Formation
• Opposition effect of comet 28P/Neujmin observed with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam
• Toward a unified framework for helium observations and interpretation of atmospheric escape.