5,599 papers

cs.HC2026

Human-Like Attention? A Psychophysical Comparison of Visual Search in Humans and MLLMs

Renchi Zhang, Joost C. F. de Winter, Dimitra Dodou +2

Visual search is a fundamental cognitive ability. This study investigates whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit human-like difficulty signatures in visual search…

astro-ph.IM2026

Status and performance of the Asgard/NOTT cold nulling camera

P. Chingaipe, G. Medgyesi, A. Mazzoli +25

Long-baseline nulling interferometry suppresses the on-axis light of a star, enabling high-contrast observations of faint circumstellar emission and exoplanets at high angular reso…

cs.AI2026

Inferring Affective Consciousness in an Artificial Agent: A Case Study

Mark Solms, St John Grimbly, Bruce Bassett +7

Creatures that display 'hedonic place preference behaviour' are thought by many scientists to experience feelings, on the assumption that their attraction to pleasure-producing sub…

astro-ph.EP2026

From orbit to ground: pre-impact meteorite strewn field predictions for imminent impactors and meteorite recovery

Anna Moscati, Marco Fenucci, Laura Faggioli +3

The flux of meteoroids reaching the Earth is continuous, ranging from microscopic grains to occasional metre and decametre scale bodies. The smallest ones fully ablate in the upper…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Real-space overlap is not enough: ambiguity in nanobeam iterative ptychography

Stephanie M. Ribet, Mohsen Danaie, Willem P. M. de Kleijne +5

High-resolution iterative ptychography typically relies on a well-aligned, high-convergence-angle electron probe. Here we explore whether it can instead be performed at small conve…

cs.SE2026

Observability and Fault Injection for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems in Software Engineering

Zahra Seyedghorban, Egor Klimov, Arie van Deursen +2

Large Language Model-based multi-agent systems are increasingly explored for software engineering tasks, but they remain difficult to inspect, debug, and evaluate under controlled…