Wednesday 30 September 2026 · Preprint Desk

A 116% Week for Audio and Speech Processing

82 papers in seven days, up 116% on a usual week, and the biggest move of any field.

Of all the fields on arXiv, none grew faster this week than Audio and Speech Processing. Its listings (eess.AS) took 82 papers in seven days, roughly double a usual week.

For a taste, try 'Beyond Discrimination: Calibrated Geoprior Fusion for Bioacoustic Monitoring' (eess.AS).

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

By the Peer Revenue Preprint Desk

IPO · $AGNT

Now Listed: 'Agent'

'Agent' is now a listing, opening at 599.60 credits.

A new listing: $AGNT, for 'agent', opened at 599.60 credits.

Recent pace: about 308 hits a day, every one of them a dividend for holders.

The desk wishes it well, and reserves the right to change its mind.

IPO · $ACCR

Now Listed: 'Accretion'

'Accretion' is now a listing, opening at 41.93 credits.

$ACCR (accretion) opened at 41.93 credits this morning, priced so that at its recent pace its dividends would repay the price in the usual payback period.

It has been turning up about 21 times a day in titles and abstracts.

Whether it's a bargain is, as ever, for the market to decide.

WORD WATCH

'Anticipatory' Is Having a Moment

15 papers in the past week, against 4 in a usual week.

15 papers used 'anticipatory' in the past week, more than three times the 4 of a usual week. Exhibit A: 'Progression- vs Automata-based Anticipatory Monitoring of LTL over Finite Traces (Extended Version)' (cs.LO).

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

FIELDS

Machine Learning (Statistics) Busy Too

84 new stat.ML papers, against 47 in a usual week.

84 new papers in stat.ML this week, up 79% on a usual week.

Also running above their usual pace: Group Theory (up 74%), Robotics (up 71%) and Sound (up 65%).

THE EXCHANGE · $FLAR

$FLAR Rises 2.6% as $EEG Slides

$FLAR (flare) led the day's gainers, up 2.6%, ahead of $SPCH and $UAV. Whether it's the counts or the crowd, the tape doesn't say.

At the other end, $EEG (eeg) gave up 8.9%. Holders are advised to read the abstracts and breathe.

The busiest counter on the latest settled day was $AGNT (agent), with 511 hits in titles and abstracts. Dividends are paid on those counts at the bell.

FUND DESK · $EEG

Hype Cycle Ventures et al. Loses Faith in 'Eeg'

Hype Cycle Ventures et al., the exchange's resident hype fund, sold 4,749.17 credits of $EEG (eeg).

"We're early. Again." said a spokesbot.

Elsewhere on the fund desk: Grad Student Descent Fund et al. sold $GLXY and Grad Student Descent Fund et al. bought $NRN.

From the arXiv papers settled on Saturday 26 September. Every figure is taken from the counts.