During my childhood I was highly passionate about biology, and especially genetics. I liked to solve inheritance genetics problems and understand mechanisms of molecular biology. Later I started to learn programming and with time I became a Data Scientist, partially forgetting about my childhood passion. During my Master I re-found my passion in biology, understanding that I can combine my passion to biology and my experience in Data Science by pursuing the Bioinformatics field. The National Human Genome […]

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arXiv:2602.00912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent initiatives advocating responsible, transparent research assessment have intensified the call to use open research information rather than proprietary databases. This study evaluates the coverage and citation representation of publications recorded in the Current Research Information Systems (CRIS), all instances of the IRIS software platform, of six Italian universities within OpenCitations, a community-owned open infrastructure. Using persistent identifiers (DOIs, PMIDs, and ISBNs) specified in the IRIS installations involved, we matched the publications recorded […]

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arXiv:2604.01378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) has received increasing attention for learning policies from previously collected data without interaction with the real environment, which is particularly important in high-stakes applications. While a growing body of work has developed offline RL algorithms, these methods often rely on restrictive assumptions about data coverage and suffer from distribution shift. In this paper, we propose a residuals-based offline RL framework for general state and action spaces. Specifically, we define […]

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arXiv:2602.13232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PlotChain, a deterministic, generator-based benchmark for evaluating multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on engineering plot reading-recovering quantitative values from classic plots (e.g., Bode/FFT, step response, stress-strain, pump curves) rather than OCR-only extraction or free-form captioning. PlotChain contains 15 plot families with 450 rendered plots (30 per family), where every item is produced from known parameters and paired with exact ground truth computed directly from the generating process. A central contribution is […]

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arXiv:2601.21043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Touch data from mobile devices are collected at scale but reveal little about the interactions that produce them. While biomechanical simulations can illuminate motor control processes, they have not yet been developed for touch interactions. To close this gap, we propose a novel computational problem: synthesizing plausible motion directly from logs. Our key insight is a reinforcement learning-driven musculoskeletal forward simulation that generates biomechanically plausible motion sequences consistent with events recorded in touch […]

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arXiv:2602.07197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Due to the nature of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) applications, black-box defenses are more practical than white-box methods, yet existing purification techniques suffer from key limitations: a lack of justification for specific transformations, dataset dependency, high computational overhead, and a neglect of frequency-domain transformations. This paper conducts a preliminary study on various image transformations, identifying down-upscaling as the most effective backdoor trigger […]

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arXiv:2601.12154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study investigates the use of neural topic modeling and LLMs to uncover meaningful themes from patient storytelling data, to offer insights that could contribute to more patient-oriented healthcare practices. We analyze a collection of transcribed interviews with cancer patients (132,722 words in 13 interviews). We first evaluate BERTopic and Top2Vec for individual interview summarization by using similar preprocessing, chunking, and clustering configurations to ensure a fair comparison on Keyword Extraction. LLMs (GPT4) […]

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This 2nd episode on a 2 part series analyzes how GenAI has evolved to deliver automation through AI Agents and Agentic AI. It highlights the differences between both of them citing many sources from IBM, Anthropic McKinsey and Gartner amongst others as well as their best use cases and differences and also mentioning some of the risks. 1. Generative AI (GenAI) Generative AI refers to reactive systems that wait for user input, typically a prompt, to generate content1. […]

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arXiv:2601.12164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as analytical tools across multilingual contexts, yet their outputs may carry systematic biases conditioned by the language of the prompt. This study presents an experimental comparison of LLM-generated political analyses of a Ukrainian civil society document, using semantically equivalent prompts in Russian and Ukrainian. Despite identical source material and parallel query structures, the resulting analyses varied substantially in rhetorical positioning, ideological orientation, and interpretive conclusions. The […]

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