math.OC 2608.21359

Primal Acceleration of Newton's Method

Proposes a primal accelerated Newton method with only one linear solve per iteration achieving O(1/k^3) convergence.

Nikita Doikov

2026-08-22 65
cs.SE 2608.21356

AI with Authority, from Application to Silicon

The Salt method enables end-to-end hardware verification from application to silicon in five weeks, led by a single researcher using AI-driven formal methods.

Jason Hickey

2026-08-22 105
cs.LG 2608.21345

Asymmetric Capacity Allocation in Self-Refinement Pipelines

First systematic analysis of model capacity distribution in self-refinement; larger generator and refiner models improve performance, critic size less impactful.

Zhuoyi Yang, Ian G. Harris, Salar Hashemitaheri et al.

2026-08-22 72