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9 papersUpdated Jul 24, 12:09 PM
🤖 AI & MLHigh ImpactMolecular Graph GenerationYesterday

MotifRole-Diff: Risk-Optimal Role-Aware Corruption for Masked Molecular Graph Diffusion

null·Tasfia Nuzhat Ornee,Elias Hossain,Ivan Garibay

💡 Researchers developed a new method to reconstruct molecular graphs more accurately by prioritizing difficult-to-reconstruct components.

Masked discrete diffusion for molecular graph generation typically applies a uniform corruption schedule to all tokens in a lossless graph-to-sequence representation, implicitly treating structurally heterogeneous molecular components as equally difficult and equally important to reconstruct. However, different molecular graph token roles exhibit substantial variation in denoising difficulty and their influence on the decoded molecule, motivating role-specific corruption strategies. We introduce MotifRole-Diff, a role-aware corruption process that allocates masking rates according to empirically measured denoising difficulty and graph-level perturbation impact while preserving the model architecture, clean sequence space, and lossless molecular-graph decoder. We formulate schedule selection as the risk-optimal allocation of a fixed masking budget across token roles. Our theorem character

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Studies molecular graph reconstruction from noisy data.

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🤖 AI & MLHigh ImpactMeta-Reinforcement LearningYesterday

Quasi-Monte Carlo Initialization for Meta-Reinforcement Learning

Julian G. Soltes' institution is unclear·Julian G. Soltes

💡 Researchers improved meta-reinforcement learning with a novel weight initialization method called quasi-Monte Carlo.

This paper explores the efficacy of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) weight initialization for meta-reinforcement learning within modern benchmark environments. Various sampling methods are used to bound a population-based search and aggregate an optimal prior from a baseline set of tasks. The QMC meta-priors show improvements in training convergence compared to modern orthogonal (SB3) defaults when extrapolated to similar unseen continuous control environments. In dissimilar tasks, the orthogonal orientation was globally superior for an unbiased search.

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This paper explores quasi-Monte Carlo weight initialization for meta-reinforcement learning.

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⚛️ PhysicsNotableQuantum PhysicsYesterday

Tunable Mpemba Effect in a Prethermal Many-Body Spin Network

Chaitali Shah,Cooper M. Selco,Leo Joon Il Moon

💡 Tunable Mpemba Effect in a Prethermal Many-Body Spin Network

Relaxation in an interacting system is determined not only by its initial distance from equilibrium, but also by the relaxation modes populated by the initial state. Here we experimentally observe and control the Mpemba effect, in which a state farther from equilibrium overtakes one initially closer, in an extended, disordered $^{13}$C nuclear-spin network in diamond. Field cycling allows us to prepare distinct spatial polarization profiles by independently controlling hyperpolarization and defect-mediated relaxation. We then track their evolution under Floquet driving, which stabilizes a long-lived prethermal regime. We observe reproducible Mpemba crossings and tune the crossing time over several orders of magnitude, from late-time thermalization into the prethermal plateau. Semiclassical simulations show that randomly positioned paramagnetic defects create fast-relaxing regions and def

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⚛️ PhysicsHigh ImpactQuantum ComputingYesterday

Non-Clifford quantum cellular automata from invertible topological quantum field theories

University of California, Berkeley·Meng Sun,Zongyuan Wang,Bowen Yang

💡 Scientists developed a new method to create quantum computers using a unified algebraic construction.

Quantum cellular automata (QCAs) describe locality-preserving quantum dynamics and connect quantum information, many-body physics, and topological quantum field theory (TQFT). Constructing a QCA from a TQFT, however, is challenging. Although a topological action can produce a commuting Hamiltonian realizing the desired ground state, it does not by itself specify an automorphism of the full local operator algebra. In this work, we develop a unified algebraic construction that extends the commuting generators of the Hamiltonian to a complete separator-flipper algebra on the full tensor-product Hilbert space, providing a microscopic definition of the corresponding QCA. In three spatial dimensions, our formalism unifies all previously known QCA constructions associated with the $\mathbb Z_8\times\mathbb Z_2$ subgroup of the Witt group, including the $U(1)_2$ and $U(1)_4$ QCAs. The same algeb

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Studies quantum cellular automata and their relationship to topological quantum field theories.

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🧬 BiologyHigh ImpactQuantitative BiologyYesterday

Jointly estimating transmissibility and prior immunity from epidemic time series

University of Ottawa·David J. D. Earn,Todd L. Parsons

💡 Scientists developed a new method to estimate the contagiousness of a disease and the immunity level of a population from a single epidemic time series.

Infectious disease time series are often used to estimate a pathogen's basic reproduction number, $R_0$. However, fits of epidemic models to time series conflate pathogen transmissibility with pre-existing population immunity, so only the *effective* reproduction number, $R_{eff}$, can be inferred. This composite parameter is the product of the underlying $R_0$ and the pre-epidemic susceptible fraction, $x^-$. We show that a conservation law associated with epidemic momentum---prevalence weighted by potential to infect---makes it possible to disentangle transmissibility from prior immunity and to infer $R_0$ and $x^-$ separately from a single epidemic time series. We test the methodology using stochastic epidemic simulations, and illustrate the approach with a reappraisal of influenza transmissibility during the 1918 pandemic, estimating rather than assuming the degree of prior populatio

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Studies the contagiousness of diseases and the level of immunity in a population from a single epidemic time series.

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🧬 BiologyHigh ImpactSystems BiologyYesterday

Dynamics Decomposition of Boolean Networks: An algebraic foundation

University of California, San Diego·Alan Veliz-Cuba,Claus Kadelka,David Murrugarra

💡 Researchers developed an algebraic framework to systematically decompose complex Boolean networks into manageable modules.

Understanding the dynamics of Boolean networks is central to problems such as network reduction, design, control, and reverse engineering. As Boolean network models continue to grow in size and complexity, it becomes increasingly important to decompose networks into modules in a manner that is compatible with their dynamics. In this paper, we show that endowing the space of possible dynamics with a semiring structure enables a systematic decomposition of the dynamics of any Boolean network in terms of the dynamics of its constituent modules. This algebraic framework provides a systematic way to analyze how local dynamical behaviors combine to produce global dynamics. Our results establish a concrete algebraic foundation for network modularity and introduce new mathematical tools for the study of complex Boolean networks, and opens the door to the application of algebraic methods to probl

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Studies the dynamics of complex Boolean networks in biological systems.

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💰 EconomicsHigh ImpactClimate EconomicsYesterday

To what extent can long-differencing capture climate adaptation?

University of Oxford·Dalia Ghanem,Felix Pretis,Daniel Schuurman

💡 Comparing long-difference and fixed effects estimators underestimates climate adaptation by 30-80%.

Understanding the degree to which we are able to adapt to climate change is central to economic assessments of future climate damages. Economists increasingly use comparisons between long differences and fixed effects estimators to measure climate adaptation. We show that such comparisons can be misleading. Neither estimator is consistent for its intended parameter, as both the long-difference (LD) and fixed effects (FE) estimands are weighted averages of the long- and short-run responses to climate and weather. As a result, the difference between the two understates the true extent of adaptation, and the standard test based on this difference --while controlling size -- tends to be substantially underpowered in the settings researchers typically encounter. An empirically-calibrated simulation shows this difference understates adaptation by about 30--80%, depending on the averaging windo

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Studies climate adaptation using long-differencing and fixed effects estimators.

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💰 EconomicsHigh ImpactEconometricsYesterday

Measuring inequality and social stratification with Lorenz curvature

null·Antti Hippeläinen

💡 Researchers developed a new way to measure inequality and social stratification using a mathematical concept called Lorenz curvature.

We construct a continuous family of inequality and social stratification indices based on the curvature of the Lorenz curve. We study the inequality axioms of the family and find that they are satisfied only with the so-called stratification-aversion parameter $\alpha$ set to 0 -- in all other cases, these constraints cannot be satisfied in a strict sense. With $\alpha = 0$, the index has a very simple closed form and its value can be easily approximated. We study the values of the index on World Bank inequality data and see how the rankings across a wide selection of countries change as $\alpha$ is varied. Spearman and Kendall rank-correlation matrices with other common indices are also computed and analyzed. We find the curvature index to deviate consistently from the comparison indices, albeit less so for consumption- than income-based countries.

🔬 The Research·

Studies inequality and social stratification using Lorenz curvature.

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🚀 SpaceHigh ImpactAstrophysicsYesterday

Detecting habitable exoplanet atmospheres with LIFE, the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets

ETH Zurich·Sarah Rugheimer,Aiden Weatherbee,James Fecanin

💡 Scientists develop a new method to detect signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres using the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets.

A key goal of astronomers with the next generation telescopes is to detect signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres. NASA's next flagship is the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). In the context of ESA's Voyage 2050 program, the Senior Committee report prioritises detecting habitable exoplanet atmospheres in the mid-IR. The most suited mission for this is the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) which can detect an even wider range of biosignatures than HWO and at lower concentrations. LIFE is a global science collaboration based out of ETH Zurich. With the UK's expertise in building infrared instruments we could play a leading role in realising an ambitious European-led mission. Notably, LIFE is able to detect necessary planetary context like surface temperature and pressure, along with a key discriminator molecule for biosignature false positives, methane, which will be much harde

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Detects signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres using interferometry.

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