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Qingshan Zhou

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arXiv2026

Mentorship resources and citation-elite journal publication trajectories after training: Evidence from bioscience mentor-mentee networks

Mentorship provides mentees with knowledge, collaborators, and reputation, but when do these resources support scholarship beyond training? Using 239,931 bioscience mentor-mentee pairs from the Academic Family Tree (1800-2020) linked to OpenAlex metadata, we examine this question through mentees' publication in citation-elite journals, identified by three source-level citation indicators. We distinguish training-period mentor and peer resources from post-graduation topic and coauthorship network continuity. Analyses combine trajectory comparisons, three propensity-score matching designs, PPML, two-part model and non-overlapping landmarks relating continuity in post-graduation years 1-3 to publication outcomes in years 4-10 and 6-20. Citation-elite journal publishing during mentorship is positively associated with later publishing, but correlates differ by career stage. Close mentor collaboration and larger peer group size characterize training-period publishing, whereas both are negatively associated with post-graduation publication probability and intensity. Early topic and network continuity are positively associated with later output in landmark analyses; across extended conventional windows, topic continuity becomes less favorable, consistent with later agenda broadening. Network continuity shows the most stable positive association with publication intensity. The findings suggest a stage-dependent resource-conversion process: training resources may facilitate entry into citation-elite journal publishing, whereas sustained output is associated with how intellectual and relational ties are retained or reconfigured.

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arXiv2026

A Semantic Geometry for Uncovering Paradigm Dynamics via Scientific Publications

Science advances not only by accumulating discovered patterns but by changing how new problems and solutions are expressed. While structural indicators track scholarly attention, they offer only an indirect proxy for the reorganization of meaning. We propose a semantic geometry based on the R-P-C (references, focal publication, and citing publications) framework to quantify how a publication positions itself relative to its knowledge base and diffusion. This geometry identifies three publication types: consolidating, exploratory and balanced. Our results show that the semantic similarity and distance between a publication's knowledge base and diffusion serve as a semantic foundation for disruption, with novelty (atypical reference combinations) acting as an antecedent disturbance that triggers a semantic rupture. This is related to team size, where small teams preserve a higher potential for exploratory departures while large collaborations systematically align with paradigmatic consolidation. Crucially, this geometry explains why citation trajectories differ; consolidating research earns rapid recognition by lowering comprehension costs, while exploratory work faces high paradigm conversion costs that result in slower, more selective diffusion. Collectively, this R-P-C framework provides a robust instrument for monitoring the dynamics of scientific paradigms.

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arXiv2026

Toward Culturally Aligned LLMs through Ontology-Guided Multi-Agent Reasoning

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly support culturally sensitive decision making, yet often exhibit misalignment due to skewed pretraining data and the absence of structured value representations. Existing methods can steer outputs, but often lack demographic grounding and treat values as independent, unstructured signals, reducing consistency and interpretability. We propose OG-MAR, an Ontology-Guided Multi-Agent Reasoning framework. OG-MAR summarizes respondent-specific values from the World Values Survey (WVS) and constructs a global cultural ontology by eliciting relations over a fixed taxonomy via competency questions. At inference time, it retrieves ontology-consistent relations and demographically similar profiles to instantiate multiple value-persona agents, whose outputs are synthesized by a judgment agent that enforces ontology consistency and demographic proximity. Experiments on regional social-survey benchmarks across four LLM backbones show that OG-MAR improves cultural alignment and robustness over competitive baselines, while producing more transparent reasoning traces.

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arXiv2026

Academic match-makers in sociology: Their role in collaboration network formation

In modern scientific collaboration networks, certain researchers play a pivotal role in bridging scholars who have never worked together - a phenomenon we term academic "match-makers." Despite their potential importance, the prevalence, characteristics, benefits, and long-term trajectory of these individuals remain underexplored. Using the Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), we operationalized a match-maker as an author who, in a given publication, introduced a first-time collaboration between two co-authors, each of whom had previously collaborated with the match-maker but not with each other. We employed a configuration null model to distinguish observed patterns from random chance. Our findings reveal that the match-maker phenomenon is deliberate, prevalent, and consequential. Among authors with over 20 publications, nearly 30% have served as a match-maker, and the probability of acting as one increased eightfold from 1980 to 2019. Publications involving a match-maker are more likely to appear in high-impact journals and exhibit higher disruptiveness - particularly in larger teams - suggesting that match-makers help facilitate what we term integrative disruption. Match-makers tend to emerge early in their careers, peaking around the 20th publication and at an academic age of roughly ten years. While nearly all match-makers eventually experience "abandonment" in the sense that the connected researchers later collaborate without them, their continued involvement remains substantial and is driven by research needs rather than structural factors. This reframes abandonment not as exclusion but as a natural evolution within project-based collaborations. The academic match-maker phenomenon is a strategic feature of collaboration networks characterized by early-career emergence, context-dependent persistence, and tangible contributions to high-impact, disruptive research.

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arXiv2026

SPIO: Ensemble and Selective Strategies via LLM-Based Multi-Agent Planning in Automated Data Science

Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled dynamic reasoning in automated data analytics, yet recent multi-agent systems remain limited by rigid, single-path workflows that restrict strategic exploration and often lead to suboptimal outcomes. To overcome these limitations, we propose SPIO (Sequential Plan Integration and Optimization), a framework that replaces rigid workflows with adaptive, multi-path planning across four core modules: data preprocessing, feature engineering, model selection, and hyperparameter tuning. In each module, specialized agents generate diverse candidate strategies, which are cascaded and refined by an optimization agent. SPIO offers two operating modes: SPIO-S for selecting a single optimal pipeline, and SPIO-E for ensembling top-k pipelines to maximize robustness. Extensive evaluations on Kaggle and OpenML benchmarks show that SPIO consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving an average performance gain of 5.6%. By explicitly exploring and integrating multiple solution paths, SPIO delivers a more flexible, accurate, and reliable foundation for automated data science.

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arXiv2025

Geometric characterizations of inner uniformity through Gromov hyperbolicity

In this paper, we study the characterization of inner uniformity of bounded domains $G$ in $\IR^n$, and prove that the following three conditions are equivalent: $(1)$ $G$ is inner uniform; $(2)$ $G$ is Gromov hyperbolic and its inner metric boundary is naturally quasisymmetrically equivalent to the Gromov boundary; $(3)$ $G$ is Gromov hyperbolic and linearly locally connected with respect to the inner metric. The equivalence between the conditions $(1)$ and $(2)$, and the implication from $(2)$ to $(3)$ affirmatively answer three questions raised by Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela in 2001.

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arXiv2024

Gromov hyperbolization of unbounded noncomplete spaces and Hamenstädt metric

In this paper, we investigate Gromov hyperbolizations of unbounded locally complete and incomplete metric spaces associated with three hyperbolic type metrics: the hyperbolization metric introduced by Ibragimov, the distance ratio metric, and the quasihyperbolic metric. As an application, we obtain a Gromov hyperbolic characterization of unbounded uniform domains in Banach spaces.

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arXiv2023

Busemann functions and uniformization of Gromov hyperbolic spaces

Uniformization theory of Gromov hypebolic spaces investigated by Bonk, Heinonen and Koskela, generalizes the case where a classical Poincaré ball type model is used as the starting point. In this paper, we develop this approach in the case where the underlying domain is unbounded, corresponding to the classical Poincaré half-space model. More precisely, we study conformal densities via Busemann functions on Gromov hyperbolic spaces and prove that the deformed spaces are unbounded uniform spaces. Furthermore, we show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the bilipschitz classes of proper geodesic Gromov hyperbolic spaces that are roughly starlike with respect to a point on Gromov boundary and the quasisimilarity classes of unbounded locally compact uniform spaces. Our result can be understood as an unbounded counterpart of the main result of Bonk, Heinonen, and Koskela in "Uniformizing Gromov Hyperbolic Spaces", Astérisque 270 (2001).

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arXiv2022

Boundary rigidity of Gromov hyperbolic spaces

We introduce the concept of boundary rigidity for Gromov hyperbolic spaces. We show that a proper geodesic Gromov hyperbolic space with a pole is boundary rigid if and only if its Gromov boundary is uniformly perfect. As an application, we show that for a non-compact Gromov hyperbolic complete Riemannian manifold or a Gromov hyperbolic uniform graph, boundary rigidity is equivalent to having positive Cheeger isoperimetric constant and also to being nonamenable. Moreover, several hyperbolic fillings of compact metric spaces are proved to be boundary rigid if and only if the metric spaces are uniformly perfect. Also, boundary rigidity is shown to be equivalent to being geodesically rich, a concept introduced by Shchur (J. Funct. Anal., 2013).

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arXiv2022

Gromov hyperbolicity in the free quasiworld. I

With the aid of a Gromov hyperbolic characterization of uniform domains, we first give an affirmative answer to an open question arisen by Väisälä under weaker assumption. Next, we show that the three-point condition introduced by Väisälä is necessary to obtain quasisymmetry for quasimöbius maps between bounded connected spaces in a quantitative way. Based on these two results, we investigate the boundary behavior of freely quasiconformal and quasihyperbolic mappings on uniform domains of Banach spaces and partially answer another question raised by Väisälä in different ways.

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arXiv2022

A note on $\partial$-bilipschitz mappings in quasiconvex metric spaces

This paper focuses on properties of \partial-biLipschitz mappings which were recently introduced by Bulter. We establish several characterizations for the class of \partial-biLipschitz mappings between domains in quasiconvex metric spaces. As an application, we show that a locally quasisymmetric equivalence between uniform metric spaces is quasimöbius, quantitatively.

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arXiv2022

Some remarks on the Gehring-Hayman theorem

In this paper we provide new characterizations of the Gehring-Hayman theorem from the point of view of Gromov boundary and uniformity. We also determine the critical exponents for the uniformized space to be a uniform space in the case of the hyperbolic spaces, the model spaces $\mathbb{M}^κ_n$ of the sectional curvature $κ<0$ with the dimension $n \geq 2$ and hyperbolic fillings.

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arXiv2021

Gromov hyperbolic John is quasihyperbolic John II

In this paper, we introduce a concept of quasihyperbolic John spaces (with center) and provide a criteria to determine spaces to be quasihyperbolic John. As an application, we provide a simple proof to show that a John space with a Gromov hyperbolic quasihyperbolization is quasihyperbolic John, quantitatively. This gives an affirmative answer to an open question posed by Heinonen (Rev.~Math.~Iber, 1989), which has been studied by Gehring et al. (Math.~Scand, 1989).

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arXiv2021

Gromov hyperbolic John is quasihyperbolic John I

In this paper, we introduce a concept of quasihyperbolic John spaces and provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a space to be quasihyperbolic John. Using this criteria, we exhibit a simple proof to show that a John space with a Gromov hyperbolic quasihyperbolization is quasihyperbolic John, quantitatively. This answers affirmatively to an open question proposed by Heinonen (Rev.~Math.~Iber, 1989), which was studied by Gehring et al. (Math.~Scand, 1989). As a tool, we study its connection between several geometric conditions.

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arXiv2021

Pommerenke's theorem on Gromov hyperbolic domains

We establish a version of a classical theorem of Pommerenke, which is a diameter version of the Gehring-Hayman inequality on Gromov hyperbolic domains of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Two applications are given. Firstly, we generalize Ostrowski's Faltensatz to quasihyperbolic geodesics of Gromov hyperbolic domains. Secondly, we prove that unbounded uniform domains can be characterized in the terms of Gromov hyperbolicity and a naturally quasisymmetric correspondence on the boundary, where the Gromov boundary is equipped with a Hamenstädt metric (defined by using a Busemann function).

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arXiv2020

A note on Väisälä's problem concerning free quasiconformal mappings

In this paper, we provide partial solutions to a problem raised by Väisälä on local properties of free quasiconformal mappings. In particular, we show that a locally free quasiconformal mapping is globally free quasiconformal under the condition of locally relative quasisymmetry.

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arXiv2020

Teichmüller's problem for Gromov hyperbolic domains

Let $\mathcal{T}_K(D)$ be the class of $K$-quasiconformal automorphisms of a domain $D\subsetneq \mathbb{R}^n$ with identity boundary values. Teichmüller's problem is to determine how far a given point $x\in D$ can be mapped under a mapping $f\in \mathcal{T}_K(D)$. We estimate this distance between $x$ and $f(x)$ from the above by using two different metrics, the distance ratio metric and the quasihyperbolic metric. We study Teichmüller's problem for Gromov hyperbolic domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with identity values at the boundary of infinity. As applications, we obtain results on Teichmüller's problem for $ψ$-uniform domains and inner uniform domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$.

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arXiv2020

Sphericalization with its applications in Gromov hyperbolic spaces

In this paper, we study certain applications of sphericalization in Gromov hyperbolic metric spaces. We first show that the doubling property regarding two classes of metrics on the Gromov boundary of hyperbolic spaces are coincided. Next, we obtain a characterization of unbounded Gromov hyperbolic domains via metric spaces sphericalization. Finally, we investigate the topological equivalence of Gromov hyperbolic $φ$-uniform domains between the Gromov boundary and the inner metric boundary.

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