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Learning Best Paths in Quantum Networks
Xuchuang Wang, Maoli Liu, Xutong Liu, Zhuohua Li, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, John C. S. Lui, Don Towsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12462

Learning Best Paths in Quantum Networks
Quantum networks (QNs) transmit delicate quantum information across noisy quantum channels. Crucial applications, like quantum key distribution (QKD) and distributed quantum computation (DQC), rely on efficient quantum information transmission. Learning the best path between a pair of end nodes in a QN is key to enhancing such applications. This paper addresses learning the best path in a QN in the online learning setting. We explore two types of feedback: "link-level" and "path-level". Link-le…

Bees are collapsing in the U.S.
A key to their secrets might vanish.
The Bee Lab’s potential closure comes at a tough time for bees.

Droege studies native bees,
the types of pollinators that only live in the wild,
as opposed to honeybees,
which are farmed and bred for profit.
Entomologists stress that honeybees and native bees are different —
sort of like farmed chickens and wild birds.
But they can be exposed to the same threats,

Bees are collapsing in the U.S. A key to their secrets might vanish.
The top federal lab on native bees is set to close under President Trump’s budget.

At this point, C# should introduce multiple return types as a syntactic part of the language. Bending generics to this extent seems like an abuse of the original intent.

Compact Binary Coalescence Sensitivity Estimates with Injection Campaigns during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' Fourth Observing Run
Reed Essick, Michael W. Coughlin, Michael Zevin, Deep Chatterjee, Teagan A. Clarke, Utkarsh Mali, Simona Miller, Nathan Steinle, Pratyusava Baral, Amanda C. Baylor, Gareth Cabourn Davies, Thomas Dent, Prathamesh Joshi, Praveen Kumar, Cody Messick, Tanmaya Mishra, Amazigh Ouzriat, Khun Sang Phukon, Lorenzo Piccari, Marion Pillas, Max Trevor, Thom…

Compact Binary Coalescence Sensitivity Estimates with Injection Campaigns during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' Fourth Observing Run
We describe the effort to characterize gravitational-wave searches and detector sensitivity to different types of compact binary coalescences during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' fourth observing run. We discuss the design requirements and example use cases for this data product, constructed from $> 4.33\times10^8$ injections during O4a alone. We also identify subtle effects with high confidence, like diurnal duty cycles within detectors. This paper accompanies a public data release of t…

Not quite a piece of CHERI-cake: Are new digital security by design architectures usable?
Maysara Alhindi, Joseph Hallett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23682 …

Not quite a piece of CHERI-cake: Are new digital security by design architectures usable?
A digital security-by-design computer architecture, like CHERI, lets you program without fear of buffer overflows or other memory safety errors, but CHERI also rewrites some of the assumptions about how C works and how fundamental types (such as pointers) are implemented in hardware. We conducted a usability study to examine how developers react to the changes required by CHERI when porting software to run on it. We find that developers struggle with CHERI's display of warnings and errors and a…