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Zuowei Wang

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arXiv2026

The Impact of Heatwaves on Population Health: A Large Language Model-Enhanced Agent-Based Simulation

Extreme heat events are increasing in frequency and intensity under climate change, but the socio-behavioral mechanisms that shape community resilience remain insufficiently understood. This study uses a Large Language Model-enhanced agent-based model to simulate responses to a prolonged heatwave in a virtual society. One hundred heterogeneous agents were assigned a Heat Vulnerability Index based on demographic risk factors and observed over 13 simulated days covering baseline, heatwave, and recovery periods. The simulation shows that heat-related impacts are primarily psychosocial and unequally distributed. Agents with higher vulnerability experienced larger declines in perceived safety and social connection than agents with lower vulnerability. Vulnerability also shaped adaptive capacity. More resilient agents maintained routine self-care and protective behaviors, whereas highly vulnerable agents showed behavioral constriction, marked by reduced engagement in protective actions. At the collective level, risk-information diffusion followed a pattern of complex contagion, with adoption driven more by repeated social reinforcement within cohesive networks than by broad exposure alone. These findings suggest that LLM-enhanced simulation can help identify behavioral and social mechanisms of climate resilience and inform heat-risk interventions that combine targeted support for vulnerable groups with community-based information pathways.

q-bio.QM↗

arXiv2026

Quasi-multimodal-based pathophysiological feature learning for retinal disease diagnosis

Retinal diseases spanning a broad spectrum can be effectively identified and diagnosed using complementary signals from multimodal data. However, multimodal diagnosis in ophthalmic practice is typically challenged in terms of data heterogeneity, potential invasiveness, registration complexity, and so on. As such, a unified framework that integrates multimodal data synthesis and fusion is proposed for retinal disease classification and grading. Specifically, the synthesized multimodal data incorporates fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA), multispectral imaging (MSI), and saliency maps that emphasize latent lesions as well as optic disc/cup regions. Parallel models are independently trained to learn modality-specific representations that capture cross-pathophysiological signatures. These features are then adaptively calibrated within and across modalities to perform information pruning and flexible integration according to downstream tasks. The proposed learning system is thoroughly interpreted through visualizations in both image and feature spaces. Extensive experiments on two public datasets demonstrated the superiority of our approach over state-of-the-art ones in the tasks of multi-label classification (F1-score: 0.683, AUC: 0.953) and diabetic retinopathy grading (Accuracy:0.842, Kappa: 0.861). This work not only enhances the accuracy and efficiency of retinal disease screening but also offers a scalable framework for data augmentation across various medical imaging modalities.

cs.CV↗

arXiv2025

Automatic Generation of Inference Making Questions for Reading Comprehension Assessments

Inference making is an essential but complex skill in reading comprehension (RC). Some inferences require resolving references across sentences, and some rely on using prior knowledge to fill in the detail that is not explicitly written in the text. Diagnostic RC questions can help educators provide more effective and targeted reading instruction and interventions for school-age students. We introduce a taxonomy of inference types for RC and use it to analyze the distribution of items within a diagnostic RC item bank. Next, we present experiments using GPT-4o to generate bridging-inference RC items for given reading passages via few-shot prompting, comparing conditions with and without chain-of-thought prompts. Generated items were evaluated on three aspects: overall item quality, appropriate inference type, and LLM reasoning, achieving high inter-rater agreements above 0.90. Our results show that GPT-4o produced 93.8% good-quality questions suitable for operational use in grade 3-12 contexts; however, only 42.6% of the generated questions accurately matched the targeted inference type. We conclude that combining automatic item generation with human judgment offers a promising path toward scalable, high-quality diagnostic RC assessments.

cs.CL↗

arXiv2025

Towards an automatic method for generating topical vocabulary test forms for specific reading passages

Background knowledge is typically needed for successful comprehension of topical and domain specific reading passages, such as in the STEM domain. However, there are few automated measures of student knowledge that can be readily deployed and scored in time to make predictions on whether a given student will likely be able to understand a specific content area text. In this paper, we present our effort in developing K-tool, an automated system for generating topical vocabulary tests that measure students' background knowledge related to a specific text. The system automatically detects the topic of a given text and produces topical vocabulary items based on their relationship with the topic. This information is used to automatically generate background knowledge forms that contain words that are highly related to the topic and words that share similar features but do not share high associations to the topic. Prior research indicates that performance on such tasks can help determine whether a student is likely to understand a particular text based on their knowledge state. The described system is intended for use with middle and high school student population of native speakers of English. It is designed to handle single reading passages and is not dependent on any corpus or text collection. In this paper, we describe the system architecture and present an initial evaluation of the system outputs.

cs.CL↗

arXiv2025

Adaptive Movement Sampling Physics-Informed Residual Network (AM-PIRN) for Solving Nonlinear Option Pricing models

In this paper, we propose the Adaptive Movement Sampling Physics-Informed Residual Network (AM-PIRN) to address challenges in solving nonlinear option pricing PDE models, where solutions often exhibit significant curvature or shock waves over time. The AM-PIRN architecture is designed to concurrently minimize PDE residuals and achieve high-fidelity option price approximations by dynamically redistributing training points based on evolving PDE residuals, while maintaining a fixed total number of points. To enhance stability and training efficiency, we integrate a ResNet backbone, replacing conventional fully connected neural networks used in Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). Numerical experiments across nonlinear option pricing models demonstrate that AM-PIRN outperforms PINN, RAM-PINN, and WAM-PINN in both resolving PDE constraints and accurately estimating option prices. The method's advantages are particularly pronounced in complex or multi-dimensional models, where its adaptive sampling and robust architecture effectively mitigate challenges posed by sharp gradients and high nonlinearity.

cs.NI↗

arXiv2015

Large deviations of Rouse polymer chain: First passage problem

The purpose of this paper is to investigate several analytical methods of solving first passage (FP) problem for the Rouse model, a simplest model of a polymer chain. We show that this problem has to be treated as a multi-dimensional Kramers' problem, which presents rich and unexpected behavior. We first perform direct and forward-flux sampling (FFS) simulations, and measure the mean first-passage time $τ(z)$ for the free end to reach a certain distance $z$ away from the origin. The results show that the mean FP time is getting faster if the Rouse chain is represented by more beads. Two scaling regimes of $τ(z)$ are observed, with transition between them varying as a function of chain length. We use these simulations results to test two theoretical approaches. One is a well known asymptotic theory valid in the limit of zero temperature. We show that this limit corresponds to fully extended chain when each chain segment is stretched, which is not particularly realistic. A new theory based on the well known Freidlin-Wentzell theory is proposed, where dynamics is projected onto the minimal action path. The new theory predicts both scaling regimes correctly, but fails to get the correct numerical prefactor in the first regime. Combining our theory with the FFS simulations lead us to a simple analytical expression valid for all extensions and chain lengths. One of the applications of polymer FP problem occurs in the context of branched polymer rheology. In this paper, we consider the arm-retraction mechanism in the tube model, which maps exactly on the model we have solved. The results are compared to the Milner-McLeish theory without constraint release, which is found to overestimate FP time by a factor of 10 or more.

cond-mat.soft↗

arXiv2002

A molecular dynamics study on the equilibrium magnetization properties and structure of ferrofluids

We investigate in detail the initial susceptibility, magnetization curves, and microstructure of ferrofluids in various concentration and particle dipole moment ranges by means of molecular dynamics simulations. We use the Ewald summation for the long-range dipolar interactions, take explicitly into account the translational and rotational degrees of freedom, coupled to a Langevin thermostat. When the dipolar interaction energy is comparable with the thermal energy, the simulation results on the magnetization properties agree with the theoretical predictions very well. For stronger dipolar couplings, however, we find systematic deviations from the theoretical curves. We analyze in detail the observed microstructure of the fluids under different conditions. The formation of clusters is found to enhance the magnetization at weak fields and thus leads to a larger initial susceptibility. The influence of the particle aggregation is isolated by studying ferro-solids, which consist of magnetic dipoles frozen in at random locations but which are free to rotate. Due to the artificial suppression of clusters in ferro-solids the observed susceptibility is considerably lowered when compared to ferrofluids.

cond-mat.soft↗

arXiv2001

Estimate of the Cutoff Errors in the Ewald Summation for Dipolar Systems

Theoretical estimates for the cutoff errors in the Ewald summation method for dipolar systems are derived. Absolute errors in the total energy, forces and torques, both for the real and reciprocal space parts, are considered. The applicability of the estimates is tested and confirmed in several numerical examples. We demonstrate that these estimates can be used easily in determining the optimal parameters of the dipolar Ewald summation in the sense that they minimize the computation time for a predefined, user set, accuracy.

cond-mat.soft↗