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FuseCodec: Semantic-Contextual Fusion and Supervision for Neural Codecs
Md Mubtasim Ahasan, Rafat Hasan Khan, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Aman Chadha, Tariq Iqbal, M Ashraful Amin, Amin Ahsan Ali, Md Mofijul Islam, A K M Mahbubur Rahman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11425

FuseCodec: Semantic-Contextual Fusion and Supervision for Neural Codecs
Speech tokenization enables discrete representation and facilitates speech language modeling. However, existing neural codecs capture low-level acoustic features, overlooking the semantic and contextual cues inherent to human speech. While recent efforts introduced semantic representations from self-supervised speech models or incorporated contextual representations from pre-trained language models, challenges remain in aligning and unifying the semantic and contextual representations. We intro…

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Modified Cubic B-spline Based Differential Quadrature Methods for Time-fractional Black-Scholes Equation
Nizamudheen V, Riyasudheen TK, Noufal Asharaf, Shefeeq T
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06780

Modified Cubic B-spline Based Differential Quadrature Methods for Time-fractional Black-Scholes Equation
The time-fractional Black-Scholes equation (TFBSE) is intended to price the options for which the underlying price fluctuates within a correlated fractal transmission system. Although the TFBSE is an influential approach for grasping the long-term memory traits of financial markets, the non-local nature of fractional derivatives makes significant challenges in finding an accurate solution. We perform an efficient use of the differential quadrature method (DQM) based on modified cubic B-splines …

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In the sixteenth century, lunacy was a constant theme that was never questioned. It was still frequent in the seventeenth century, but started to disappear, and by 1707, the year in which Le François asked the question ‘Estne aliquod lunae in corpora humana imperium?’ (Does the moon have any influence over the human body?), after lengthy discussions, the university decided that their reply was in the negative. In the course of the eighteenth century the moon was rarely cited among the causes of madness, even as a possible factor or an aggravation. But right at the end of the century the idea reappears, perhaps under the influence of English medicine, which had never entirely forgotten the moon, and Daquin, followed by Leuret and Guislain, all admitted the influence of the moon on the phases of maniacal excitement, or at the least on the agitation of their patients. But what is important here is not so much the return of the theme as the possibility and conditions necessary for its reappearance. It reappears entirely transformed, filled with a new significance that it did not formerly possess. In its traditional form, it designated an immediate influence, a direct coincidence in time and intersection in space, whose mode of action was entirely situated in the power of the stars. But in Daquin by contrast, the influence of the moon acts through a whole series of mediations, in a kind of hierarchy, surrounding man. The moon acts on the atmosphere with such intensity that it can set in motion a mass as heavy as the ocean. The nervous system, of all the parts that make up the human organism, is the part most sensitive to atmospheric variations, as the slightest variation in temperature, humidity or dryness can have serious effects upon it. The moon therefore, given the important power that its trajectory exerts on the atmosphere, is likely to act most on people whose nervous fibres are particularly delicate:
“Madness is an exclusively nervous condition, and the brain of a madman must therefore be infinitely more susceptible to the influence of the atmosphere, which itself undergoes considerable changes of intensity as a result of the different positions of the moon relative to the earth.” [Daquin, Philosophie de la folie, Paris, 1792]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Generation of Quantum Entanglement in Autonomous Thermal Machines: Effects of Non-Markovianity, Hilbert Space Structure, and Quantum Coherence
Achraf Khoudiri, Khadija El Anouz, Abderrahim El Allati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18056

Generation of Quantum Entanglement in Autonomous Thermal Machines: Effects of Non-Markovianity, Hilbert Space Structure, and Quantum Coherence
We present a theoretical investigation of entanglement generation in an external quantum system interacting with a quantum autonomous thermal machine (QATM) under a non-Markovian dynamics. Indeed, the QATM is composed of two non-coupled qubits. Each qubit is coupled to an independent thermal reservoir, where each reservoir interacts with an external system of two additional non-coupled qubits. By analyzing the Hilbert space structure, energy level configurations, and temperature gradients, we d…

Best bounds for the dual Hardy operator minus identity on decreasing functions
Achraf Ben Said, Gord Sinnamon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02290 https://

Best bounds for the dual Hardy operator minus identity on decreasing functions
The distance from the identity operator $I$ to $H^*$, the dual of the Hardy averaging operator, is studied on the cone of nonnegative, nonincreasing functions in Lebesgue space. The exact value is obtained. Optimal lower bounds are also given for difference, $H^*-I$, of these two operators acting on the same cone. A positive answer is given to a conjecture made in ``The norm of Hardy-type oscillation operators in the discrete and continuous settings'' by A. Ben Said, S. Boza, and J. Soria. Prep…