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cs.AI2026

Safactory: A Scalable Agentic Infrastructure for Training Trustworthy Autonomous Intelligence

Xinquan Chen, Zhenyun Yin, Shan He +38

As large models evolve from conversational assistants into autonomous agents, challenges increasingly arise from long-horizon decision making, tool use, and real environment intera…

astro-ph.HE2025

Science objectives of the Einstein Probe mission

Weimin Yuan, Lixin Dai, Hua Feng +93

The Einstein Probe (EP) is an interdisciplinary mission of time-domain and X-ray astronomy. Equipped with a wide-field lobster-eye X-ray focusing imager, EP will discover cosmic X-…

cs.CV2026

CauCLIP: Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Surgical Video Understanding via Causality-Inspired Vision-Language Modeling

Yuxin He, An Li, Cheng Xue

Surgical phase recognition is a critical component for context-aware decision support in intelligent operating rooms, yet training robust models is hindered by limited annotated cl…

physics.comp-ph2026

Reinforcement learning with reputation-based adaptive exploration promotes the evolution of cooperation

An Li, Wenqiang Zhu, Chaoqian Wang +5

Multi-agent reinforcement learning serves as an effective tool for studying strategy adaptation in evolutionary games. Although prior work has integrated Q-learning with reputation…

astro-ph.HE2025

A Common Synchrotron Origin for Prompt Gamma-Ray and Soft X-Ray Emission in GRBs: Evidence from Joint Spectral Analysis

Ziming Wang, Chenyu Wang, He Gao +4

The recent launches of the Einstein Probe (EP) and the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) mission have led to the detection of a growing number of long GRBs with significant, ea…

astro-ph.HE2022

A Search for Millilensing Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Observations of Fermi GBM

Shi-Jie Lin, An Li, He Gao +8

Millilensing of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is expected to manifest as multiple emission episodes in a single triggered GRB with similar light-curve patterns and similar spectrum prope…

astro-ph.HE2024

Detection of an Orphan X-ray Flare from a Blazar Candidate EP240709a with Einstein Probe

Mingjun Liu, Yijia Zhang, Yun Wang +49

Blazars are often observed to flare across multiple wavelengths. Orphan flares from blazars have been only detected a few times, providing an opportunity to understand the structur…

astro-ph.HE2024

Magnetization Factors of Gamma-Ray Burst Jets Revealed by a Systematic Analysis of the Fermi Sample

An Li, He Gao, Lin Lan +1

The composition of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets remained a mystery until recently. In practice, we usually characterize the magnetization of the GRB jets () through the ratio b…

astro-ph.HE2024

The Peculiar Precursor of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Binary Merger Involving a Magnetar

Shuo Xiao, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Zi-Pei Zhu +42

The milestone discovery of GW 170817-GRB 170817A-AT 2017gfo has shown that gravitational wave (GW) could be produced during the merger of neutron star-neutron star/black hole and t…

astro-ph.HE2026

Minutes-long soft X-ray prompt emission from a compact object merger

An Li, Chen-Wei Wang, Niccolò Passaleva +75

Compact object mergers are multi-messenger sources and progenitors of some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), primarily understood by gamma-ray observations, while poorly constrained in the…

astro-ph.HE2026

An Archival Optical Counterpart Search for Extragalactic Fast X-Ray Transients Discovered by Einstein Probe

Run-Duo Liang, Wen-Xiong Li, Liang-Duan Liu +50

Extragalactic fast X-ray transients (eFXTs) represent a rapidly growing class of high-energy phenomena, whose physical origins remain poorly understood. With its wide-field, sensit…

astro-ph.HE2023

Insight-HXMT and GECAM-C observations of the brightest-of-all-time GRB 221009A

Zheng-Hua An, S. Antier, Xing-Zi Bi +174

GRB 221009A is the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected since the discovery of this kind of energetic explosions. However, an accurate measurement of the prompt emission propert…

cs.CV2025

GenPC: Zero-shot Point Cloud Completion via 3D Generative Priors

An Li, Zhe Zhu, Mingqiang Wei

Existing point cloud completion methods, which typically depend on predefined synthetic training datasets, encounter significant challenges when applied to out-of-distribution, rea…

cs.IT2018

UAV-Enabled Cooperative Jamming for Improving Secrecy of Ground Wiretap Channel

An Li, Qingqing Wu, Rui Zhang

This letter proposes a novel UAV-enabled mobile jamming scheme to improve the secrecy rate of ground wiretap channel. Specifically, a UAV is employed to transmit jamming signals to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011

Electronic, vibrational and transport properties of pnictogen substituted ternary skutterudites

Dmitri Volja, Boris Kozinsky, An Li +3

First principles calculations are used to investigate electronic band structure and vibrational spectra of pnictogen substituted ternary skutterudites. We compare the results with…

cs.IT2026

Jointly Correlated Dual-Side Fluid Antenna System

Zhentian Zhang, Yuanhui Wu, Kai-Kit Wong +2

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) have introduced a new paradigm for wireless system design by revealing how mutual correlation can be exploited to harvest inherent spatial diversity. W…

astro-ph.HE2024

Exploring Supermassive Compact Dark Matter with the Millilensing Effect of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Huan Zhou, An Li, Shi-Jie Lin +3

Gravitational lensing effect is one of most significant observational probes to investigate compact dark matter/objects over a wide mass range. In this work, we first propose to de…

physics.acc-ph2023

Longitudinal compression of macro relativistic electron beam

An Li, Jiaru Shi, Hao Zha +3

We presented a novel concept of longitudinal bunch train compression capable of manipulating relativistic electron beam in range of hundreds of meters. This concept has the potenti…

math.OC2015

Necessary optimality conditions for optimal control problems with nonsmooth mixed state and control constraints

An Li, Jane Ye

In this paper we study an optimal control problem with nonsmooth mixed state and control constraints. In most of the existing results, the necessary optimality condition for optima…

math.OC2017

Necessary optimality conditions for implicit control systems with applications to control of differential algebraic equations

An Li, Jane J. Ye

In this paper we derive necessary optimality conditions for optimal control problems with nonlinear and nonsmooth implicit control systems. Implicit control systems have wide appli…

cs.RO2026

High-Load-Density Electro-Permanent Magnetic Foot with Controllable Adhesion for Quadruped Wall-Climbing Robots

An Li, Bo Tao, I-Ming Chen +1

To enable reliable climbing locomotion of quadruped robots on ferromagnetic surfaces, this paper presents a high-load-density electro-permanent magnetic foot with controllable adhe…

physics.acc-ph2023

Longitudinal Compression of Macro Relativistic Electron Beam

An Li, Jiaru Shi, Hao Zha +3

We presented a novel concept of longitudinal bunch train compression capable of manipulating relativistic electron beam in range of hundreds of meters. This concept has the potenti…

astro-ph.HE2023

GRB 221009A: An ordinary nearby GRB with extraordinary observational properties

Lin Lan, He Gao, An Li +16

The gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A, known as the ``brightest-of-all-time" (BOAT), is the closest energetic burst detected so far, with an energy of ergs.…

physics.acc-ph2024

A Magnetic Compression method for sub-THz electron beam generation from RF freqencies

An Li, Jiaru Shi, Hao Zha +2

Current THz electron sources struggle with low energy gain and device miniaturization. We propose a magnetic compression method designed for relativistic electrons to perform post-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Continuously tunable dipolar exciton geometry for controlling bosonic quantum phase transitions

Zhenyu Sun, Haoteng Sun, Xiaohang Jia +12

The geometry and binding energy of excitons, set by electron-hole wavefunction distributions, are fundamental factors that underpin their many-body interactions and determine optoe…

astro-ph.HE2025

EP250207b is not a collapsar fast X-ray transient. Is it due to a compact object merger?

P. G. Jonker, A. J. Levan, Xing Liu +41

Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are short-lived extra-galactic X-ray sources. Recent progress through multi-wavelength follow-up of Einstein Probe discovered FXTs has shown that sever…

eess.IV2025

A Prior-Guided Joint Diffusion Model in Projection Domain for PET Tracer Conversion

Fang Chen, Weifeng Zhang, Xingyu Ai +3

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used to assess metabolic activity, but its application is limited by the availability of radiotracers. 18F-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose (…