Monday 28 September 2026 · Preprint Desk

Run on Audio and Speech Processing: Submissions Up 107%

The past week brought 73 Audio and Speech Processing papers. A usual week brings 35.

arXiv's Audio and Speech Processing listings (eess.AS) took 73 new papers over the past seven days, roughly double the 35 a usual week brings. No other field moved as far.

For a taste, try 'Adapting Personalized Speech Enhancement for Low-Latency Audio-Visual Target-Speaker Extraction' (eess.AS).

"Nobody reads past the abstract," said one referee. "Least of all the authors."

By the Peer Revenue Preprint Desk

BREAKOUT

Who Keeps Writing 'Wrist'?

28 papers in the past week, against 7 in a usual week.

'Wrist' turned up in 28 papers over the past seven days. A usual week manages 7. The latest example: 'Fine Wrist Control as a Marker of Surgical Teleoperation Expertise' (cs.RO).

It isn't on the board, which will annoy whoever spotted it first.

FIELDS

Robotics Picks Up the Pace

532 new cs.RO papers, against 276 in a usual week.

Not far behind the leader: Robotics, with 532 papers in seven days, roughly double a usual week's 276.

Also running above their usual pace: Group Theory (up 80%), Machine Learning (Statistics) (up 63%) and Sound (up 48%).

THE EXCHANGE · $LASR

$LASR Leads, $MAG Lags

$LASR (laser) led the day's gainers, up 2.1%, ahead of $TOPO and $EQLB. The desk checked: nobody has a good reason, which has never stopped anyone.

At the other end, $MAG (magnetic) gave up 9.1%. Somebody knows something, or thinks they do.

The busiest counter on the latest settled day was $QNTM (quantum), with 348 hits in titles and abstracts. Dividends are paid on those counts at the bell.

FUND DESK · $MAG

Hype Cycle Ventures et al. Sells $MAG

The biggest trade on the fund desk: Hype Cycle Ventures et al. sold 4,752.08 credits of $MAG.

Asked why, the fund said only: "We're early. Again."

Elsewhere on the fund desk: Hype Cycle Ventures et al. sold $MEM and Null Hypothesis Index et al. bought $ENTR.

COOLING

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Takes a Breather

44 new astro-ph.IM papers, against 62 in a usual week.

Submissions in Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics fell 28% below a usual week: 44 papers against 62.

Also running below par: Information Retrieval (down 24%), Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (down 21%) and Computation and Language (down 20%).

The field's referees are not complaining.

WORD WATCH

Mentions of 'Bimanual' Up 238%

33 papers in the past week, against 10 in a usual week.

Mentions of 'bimanual' are up 238%: 33 papers in the past week against a usual 10. Case in point: 'DeltaWAM: Delta World Action Models for Bimanual Manipulation'.

It isn't on the board, which will annoy whoever spotted it first.

From the arXiv papers settled on Thursday 24 September. Every figure is taken from the counts.