Beyond Bits: Achieving High-Fidelity Communication with Analog Coding
Researchers have developed a new framework to bring the benefits of analog joint source-channel coding to existing digital WiFi infrastructure.
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Secure Search for Many: A New Approach to Data Privacy
Researchers have developed a novel searchable encryption scheme that allows multiple users to securely access data based on their individual permissions.
Quantified Boolean Formulas: Taming Complexity with Limited Existential Variables
New research establishes a definitive lower bound for solving a fundamental class of logical problems, even with simplified constraints, and offers algorithmic improvements for a common subproblem.
Decoding Futures Risk: A New Measure for Slippage
![A concentration-adjusted slippage analysis across 184 tokens reveals a pronounced liquidity risk within the most extreme 5% of observations, demarcated by a [latex]\mathrm{SaR}^{\mathrm{adj}}(0.95)=3.47\%[/latex] threshold, suggesting heightened vulnerability in those specific assets.](https://arxiv.org/html/2603.09164v1/figure1_slippage_distribution.png)
A novel framework, Slippage-at-Risk (SaR), offers a proactive way to assess execution risk in the fast-moving world of perpetual futures trading.
Codecs Under Attack: Balancing Speech Clarity and Security
New research reveals a critical trade-off in neural audio codecs: deeper compression can improve speech recognition, but also opens the door to adversarial manipulation.
Taming the Quantum Ghost: Automated Flakiness Detection in Quantum Software
As quantum software grows in complexity, researchers have developed an automated pipeline to identify and diagnose the root causes of unreliable, or ‘flaky’, tests.
Bridging Quantum and Classical Security: A New Link Between Codes
Researchers have established a surprising connection between quantum error-correcting codes and a class of classically-inspired codes used in secure multi-party computation.
false Positives in Automated Code Repair
Current methods for evaluating automated vulnerability repair tools are significantly overestimating their success rates, masking critical flaws in patched code.
Sensing Spin: Quantum Geometry Reveals a Hidden Helix
![Spin textures-specifically Rashba, persistent spin helix, and Dresselhaus states-exhibit a striking enhancement of all quantum metric components [latex]g_{\mu\nu}[/latex] when Rashba and Dresselhaus strengths equalize, signaling a unique signature of the persistent spin helix state and demonstrating how geometric properties emerge from spin-orbit interactions.](https://arxiv.org/html/2603.08009v1/x1.png)
Researchers have discovered a way to sensitively detect and characterize a persistent spin helix in materials by leveraging the quantum metric, a geometric property of quantum systems.
Resilient Analog Computing: Taming Noise with Minimal Redundancy
This review explores techniques for building robust analog computing systems by leveraging error-correcting codes that maintain signal integrity with remarkably low overhead.