Pub Date : 2026-02-09DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2026.118036
Yan Zhu, Qingyang Liu, Chang Guo, Tianlong Fan, Linyuan Lü
Rumor propagation in social networks undermines social stability and public trust, calling for interventions that are both effective and resource-efficient. We develop a node-level, time-varying optimal intervention framework that allocates limited resources according to the evolving diffusion state. Unlike static, centrality-based heuristics, our approach derives control weights by solving a resource-constrained optimal control problem tightly coupled to the network structure. Across synthetic and real-world networks, the method consistently lowers both the infection peak and the cumulative infection area relative to uniform and centrality-based static allocations. Moreover, it reveals a stage-aware law: early resources prioritize influential hubs to curb rapid spread, whereas later resources shift to peripheral nodes to eliminate residual transmission. By integrating global efficiency with fine-grained adaptability, the framework offers a scalable and interpretable paradigm for misinformation management and crisis response.
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SIAM Review, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 213-214, February 2026. Stellarators are devices used in plasma physics to confine very hot plasmas (i.e., ionized gases) with magnetic fields to sustain nuclear fusion reactions. Fusion is the Sun’s energy source, and the achievement of sustained fusion on Earth has been studied for several decades as a promising source of clean and safe energy. Unlike tokamaks, which use a combination of simple magnetic fields and plasma current to cage the plasma, stellarators rely solely on external magnetic fields. This has potential advantages for sustained fusion energy production, but requires the design of complicated magnetic fields and expensive-to-build, complex electromagnetic coils.
{"title":"Book Review:; An Introduction to Stellarators","authors":"Georg Stadler","doi":"10.1137/25m1728582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/25m1728582","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Review, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 213-214, February 2026. <br/> Stellarators are devices used in plasma physics to confine very hot plasmas (i.e., ionized gases) with magnetic fields to sustain nuclear fusion reactions. Fusion is the Sun’s energy source, and the achievement of sustained fusion on Earth has been studied for several decades as a promising source of clean and safe energy. Unlike tokamaks, which use a combination of simple magnetic fields and plasma current to cage the plasma, stellarators rely solely on external magnetic fields. This has potential advantages for sustained fusion energy production, but requires the design of complicated magnetic fields and expensive-to-build, complex electromagnetic coils.","PeriodicalId":49525,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Review","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146138545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIAM Review, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 93-123, February 2026. Abstract. In order to compute the Fourier transform of a function [math] on the real line numerically, one samples [math] on a grid and then takes the discrete Fourier transform. We derive exact error estimates for this procedure in terms of the decay and smoothness of [math]. The analysis provides an asymptotically optimal recipe for how to relate the number of samples, the sampling interval, and the grid size.
{"title":"Quantitative Estimates: How Well Does the Discrete Fourier Transform Approximate the Fourier Transform on [math]","authors":"Martin Ehler, Karlheinz Gröchenig, Andreas Klotz","doi":"10.1137/24m1650399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/24m1650399","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Review, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 93-123, February 2026. <br/> Abstract. In order to compute the Fourier transform of a function [math] on the real line numerically, one samples [math] on a grid and then takes the discrete Fourier transform. We derive exact error estimates for this procedure in terms of the decay and smoothness of [math]. The analysis provides an asymptotically optimal recipe for how to relate the number of samples, the sampling interval, and the grid size.","PeriodicalId":49525,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Review","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146138554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-09DOI: 10.1007/s10878-026-01396-6
G. V. Soni Meera, R. Isaac Sajan
{"title":"A fault-tolerant dynamic graph attention network for energy efficient routing and reliability in wireless sensor networks","authors":"G. V. Soni Meera, R. Isaac Sajan","doi":"10.1007/s10878-026-01396-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-026-01396-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Combinatorial Optimization","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146145939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIAM Review, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 207-208, February 2026. The two volumes of Feller’s Introduction to Probability are classic and comprehensive. They span a huge range of topics, starting from measure theory and basic probability distributions and moving on to topics such as Markov chains and the central limit theorem. The books are very well written and accessible. It seems that most of the theory that is being employed in 2025 by applied modelers and analysts is touched on in these books in some way. Of course, the emphases are different. Much of the foundational material on probability theory has not changed a lot since Feller’s two volumes, including basic measure theory, the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem, conditional probabilities, and theorems such as the Borel Cantelli Lemma. In contrast, it seems that Feller spends a lot of time surveying a range of special probability models and distributions whereas more modern treatments would perhaps spend more time in surveying general analytic techniques. This is probably partly due to the fact that numerical simulation techniques were not nearly as powerful when the book was written, so scholars tended to focus more on specific tractable models.
{"title":"Featured Review:; Introduction to Probability and Its Applications","authors":"James N. MacLaurin","doi":"10.1137/24m1717579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/24m1717579","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Review, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 207-208, February 2026. <br/> The two volumes of Feller’s Introduction to Probability are classic and comprehensive. They span a huge range of topics, starting from measure theory and basic probability distributions and moving on to topics such as Markov chains and the central limit theorem. The books are very well written and accessible. It seems that most of the theory that is being employed in 2025 by applied modelers and analysts is touched on in these books in some way. Of course, the emphases are different. Much of the foundational material on probability theory has not changed a lot since Feller’s two volumes, including basic measure theory, the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem, conditional probabilities, and theorems such as the Borel Cantelli Lemma. In contrast, it seems that Feller spends a lot of time surveying a range of special probability models and distributions whereas more modern treatments would perhaps spend more time in surveying general analytic techniques. This is probably partly due to the fact that numerical simulation techniques were not nearly as powerful when the book was written, so scholars tended to focus more on specific tractable models.","PeriodicalId":49525,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Review","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146138546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-09DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2026.2620154
Gemma Moran, Bryon Aragam
{"title":"Towards Interpretable Deep Generative Models via Causal Representation Learning","authors":"Gemma Moran, Bryon Aragam","doi":"10.1080/01621459.2026.2620154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2026.2620154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17227,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Statistical Association","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146146152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIAM Review, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 153-171, February 2026. Abstract. Interpreting data with mathematical models is an important aspect of real-world industrial and applied mathematical modeling. Often we are interested to understand the extent to which a particular set of data informs and constrains model parameters. This question is closely related to the concept of parameter identifiability, and in this article we present a series of computational exercises to introduce tools that can be used to assess parameter identifiability, estimate parameters, and generate model predictions. Taking a likelihood-based approach, we show that very similar ideas and algorithms can be used to deal with a range of different mathematical modeling frameworks. The exercises and results presented in this article are supported by a suite of open access codes that can be accessed on GitHub.
{"title":"Parameter Identifiability, Parameter Estimation, and Model Prediction for Differential Equation Models","authors":"Matthew J. Simpson, Ruth E. Baker","doi":"10.1137/24m1667968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1137/24m1667968","url":null,"abstract":"SIAM Review, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 153-171, February 2026. <br/> Abstract. Interpreting data with mathematical models is an important aspect of real-world industrial and applied mathematical modeling. Often we are interested to understand the extent to which a particular set of data informs and constrains model parameters. This question is closely related to the concept of parameter identifiability, and in this article we present a series of computational exercises to introduce tools that can be used to assess parameter identifiability, estimate parameters, and generate model predictions. Taking a likelihood-based approach, we show that very similar ideas and algorithms can be used to deal with a range of different mathematical modeling frameworks. The exercises and results presented in this article are supported by a suite of open access codes that can be accessed on GitHub.","PeriodicalId":49525,"journal":{"name":"SIAM Review","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146146213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-02-09DOI: 10.1007/s10985-026-09689-y
Qiyue Huang, Anyin Feng, Qiang Wu, Xingwei Tong
This study develops estimation methods for a deep partially linear Cox proportional hazards model with a change point under current status data, aiming to accommodate complex change-point effects. Prior work has largely relied on linear models, which may inadequately capture relationships among multivariate covariates and thus hinder accurate change-point detection. To address this, we use a deep neural network to model covariate effects within the Cox framework and propose a maximum likelihood estimation procedure for the model. We establish asymptotic properties of the resulting estimators, including consistency, asymptotic independence, and semiparametric efficiency. Simulation studies indicate that the proposed inference procedure performs well in finite samples. An analysis of a breast cancer dataset is provided to illustrate the methodology.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-09DOI: 10.1007/s10623-025-01782-x
Jean-Philippe Bossuat, Malika Izabachene
{"title":"Large domain homomorphic evaluation for BFV-like schemes via ring repacking","authors":"Jean-Philippe Bossuat, Malika Izabachene","doi":"10.1007/s10623-025-01782-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-025-01782-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11130,"journal":{"name":"Designs, Codes and Cryptography","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146145958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}