17-Jan-2026 How roast level and sensory quality shape the price of specialty coffee beans Maximum Academic Press A research team has uncovered how subtle sensory qualities and roasting choices translate directly into what consumers pay for specialty coffee. Journal Beverage Plant Research
16-Jan-2026 Landing scheduling for carrier aircraft fleet considering bolting probability and aerial refueling KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. This paper addresses carrier aircraft landing scheduling considering bolting and aerial refueling. It defines fuel and wake interval constraints, formulates a combinatorial optimization model, and designs an improved firefly algorithm. A dynamic replanning mechanism handles special situations, and simulations validate the model’s effectiveness in enhancing recovery safety and efficiency. Journal Defence Technology Funder National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science and Technology Program of Liaoning Province
16-Jan-2026 HKU Engineering researchers discover quantum entanglement accelerates quantum simulation The University of Hong Kong Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a significant discovery regarding quantum entanglement. This phenomenon, which has long been viewed as a significant obstacle in classical quantum simulations, actually enhances the speed of quantum simulations and acts as a valuable resource. The groundbreaking findings have been featured as the Cover Story in the prestigious journal Nature Physics in an article titled “Entanglement accelerates quantum simulation”. Journal Nature Physics
14-Jan-2026 FedCare: towards interactive diagnosis of federated learning systems Higher Education Press FedCare delivers the first visual pipeline that pinpoints, classifies and mitigates FL failures in real time, cutting convergence rounds and boosting accuracy across tested attacks without sacrificing privacy. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
14-Jan-2026 DVRE: dominator-based variables reduction of encoding for model-based diagnosis Higher Education Press DVRE cuts MaxSAT encoding size offline and clauses online, delivering the fastest complete MBD on ISCAS-85 for both single- and multi-observation cases without extra data. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
14-Jan-2026 Boosting recommendation performance by user intention aware visual feature pre-training Higher Education Press Research team debuts the first visual pre-training paradigm tailored for CTR prediction, lifting Taobao GMV by 0.88% (p < 0.01) via user-intent contrastive learning that mines interest-centric image signals. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
14-Jan-2026 Multi-constraint reinforcement learning in complex robot environments Higher Education Press FPMCO decomposes multi-constraint RL into KL-projection sub-problems, achieving higher reward with lower computing than second-order rivals on the new SCIG robotics benchmark. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
14-Jan-2026 How do sweet potato harvesting robots locate grasp points in complex environments? Higher Education Press Sweet potato is a globally important food crop with rich nutritional value, widely used in food processing, feed production, and the pharmaceutical industry. Hainan Province in China has a history of sweet potato cultivation spanning over 300 years and has long been one of the major sweet potato-producing areas in southern China. Journal Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
