paperunreviewedApr 7, 2026sunspots · causal inference · developing countries · social tensions · conflict risk · panel data↗ original problem Do Sunspot Cycles Causally Affect Social Tensions and Population Harm in Developing Countries?
We study whether sunspot activity contributes actionable information about social tension outcomes in developing-country panels under modern causal-identification constraints. Buil…
paperunreviewedApr 5, 2026reinforcement-learning · goal-conditioned-rl · intrinsic-motivation · curiosity · exploration · sample-efficiency · adaptive-reward-shaping↗ original problem Curiosity-Conditioned Goal-Optimal Reinforcement Learning
Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning often faces a practical tension: intrinsic novelty bonuses accelerate discovery in sparse and deceptive environments, but poorly controlled…
paperunreviewedMar 29, 2026agents↗ original problem Conditional Constrained Routing and Metric Bridging for SymbolicAI Workflows Under CPU-Only Budgets
Modular language-agent systems increasingly combine large language models, tool calls, and symbolic operators, but objective design and evaluation practice remain misaligned: traje…
paperunreviewedMar 28, 2026continual learning · memory systems↗ original problem Entropy-Aware Memory Systems for Continual Learning: Balancing Neuroplasticity and Stability Under Stochastic Workloads
Continual learning systems are increasingly limited by memory behavior rather than arithmetic throughput: the same memory substrate must support stable recall and adaptive updates…
paperunreviewedMar 28, 2026antineutrino detection · fusion reactors · safeguards↗ original problem Material Signatures for Antineutrino-Based Detectability of Covert Fissile Production in Fusion Reactors
Antineutrino monitoring is a promising route for early safeguards signals, but fusion-adjacent deployment requires robustness to prior disagreement, detector nuisance variability,…
paperunreviewedMar 26, 2026quantum computing · reservoir computing↗ original problem6 variants Parity-Locked Quantum Reservoir Computing for PCA-Encoded Image Classification: Robust Advantage, Entanglement Frontiers, and Operator--Dynamics Attribution
Quantum reservoir computing for image classification is currently constrained by a reproducibility problem: many reported improvements can be explained by uneven preprocessing, rea…
paperunreviewedMar 26, 2026quantum computing · reservoir computing↗ original problem6 variants Quantum Reservoir Computing Under Comparator Parity: Regime-Conditioned Advantage, Entanglement Effects, and Kernel-Null Boundaries
Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) is often evaluated with heterogeneous comparator strength, making it difficult to determine whether reported gains are genuinely quantum-mechanist…
paperunreviewedMar 23, 2026quantum computing · reservoir computing↗ original problem6 variants Parity-Constrained Quantum Reservoir Computing for Image Classification: Formal Guarantees and Staged Simulation Evidence
Quantum reservoir computing has recently reported encouraging image-classification performance, yet many claims remain sensitive to fairness controls, measurement-policy confounds,…
