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Towards Rationale-Answer Alignment of LVLMs via Self-Rationale Calibration
Yuanchen Wu, Ke Yan, Shouhong Ding, Ziyin Zhou, Xiaoqiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13919 https://…

Towards Rationale-Answer Alignment of LVLMs via Self-Rationale Calibration
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have manifested strong visual question answering capability. However, they still struggle with aligning the rationale and the generated answer, leading to inconsistent reasoning and incorrect responses. To this end, this paper introduces the Self-Rationale Calibration (SRC) framework to iteratively calibrate the alignment between rationales and answers. SRC begins by employing a lightweight "rationale fine-tuning" approach, which modifies the model's respons…

Mind the Gap: A Closer Look at Tokenization for Multiple-Choice Question Answering with LLMs
Mario Sanz-Guerrero, Minh Duc Bui, Katharina von der Wense
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15020

Mind the Gap: A Closer Look at Tokenization for Multiple-Choice Question Answering with LLMs
When evaluating large language models (LLMs) with multiple-choice question answering (MCQA), it is common to end the prompt with the string "Answer:" to facilitate automated answer extraction via next-token probabilities. However, there is no consensus on how to tokenize the space following the colon, often overlooked as a trivial choice. In this paper, we uncover accuracy differences of up to 11% due to this (seemingly irrelevant) tokenization variation as well as reshuffled model rankings, ra…

#DH2025, we're delighted to share a Turing's Humanities and Data Science event in Oxford and online on 25th Sept with a panel asking: 'How far can data science and the humanities help to answer each other’s questions?'
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Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

Judge Zia Faruqui, a former federal prosecutor,
said leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling their deluge of cases.
He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail for days while they evaluate charges.
“It’s not fair to say they’re losing credibility. We’re past that now,” Faruqui said.
He later added, “There’s no credibility left…

Judge upbraids prosecutors for handling of DC surge cases, saying they have 'no credibility left'
A federal magistrate judge has angrily accused top Justice Department prosecutors of trampling on the civil rights of people arrested during President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. Judge Zia Faruqui said Thursday that leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling the cases. He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail…

Enter the Mind Palace: Reasoning and Planning for Long-term Active Embodied Question Answering
Muhammad Fadhil Ginting, Dong-Ki Kim, Xiangyun Meng, Andrzej Reinke, Bandi Jai Krishna, Navid Kayhani, Oriana Peltzer, David D. Fan, Amirreza Shaban, Sung-Kyun Kim, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Shayegan Omidshafiei
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Enter the Mind Palace: Reasoning and Planning for Long-term Active Embodied Question Answering
As robots become increasingly capable of operating over extended periods -- spanning days, weeks, and even months -- they are expected to accumulate knowledge of their environments and leverage this experience to assist humans more effectively. This paper studies the problem of Long-term Active Embodied Question Answering (LA-EQA), a new task in which a robot must both recall past experiences and actively explore its environment to answer complex, temporally-grounded questions. Unlike tradition…

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Neuer NPM-Großangriff: Selbst-vermehrende Malware infiziert Dutzende Pakete

I just got sucked into the anachronism of the mention of an 'electric car' in a song about an 1890 bar fight and eventually found this page which has the best explanation:
https://territorialimperatives.com/2013/12/01/duncan-and-bradys-electri…

Duncan and Brady’s Electric Car
The album Classic African-American Ballads, from Smithsonian Folkways, contains a track entitled “Duncan and Brady” by the late Dave Van Ronk, whose story is told in the new film Inside…

How you don't want to spend your Saturday: figuring out how many regressions #LLVM developers managed to sneak in just before the 21.x branching, and then bisecting them.
The answer: 2 serious regressions breaking libclc build and install, 2 test regressions in clang and compiler-rt respectively (the former quickly reverted on main, for the second time, but nobody thought of backporting), and 1 assertion failure in experimental backend.
Now I really hope I'll manage a clean run for 21.1.0-rc1 with the biggest zero-day LLVM patchset in the history of #Gentoo.
LLVM downstream maintenance is a nightmare.

US-General: Tausende europäische Soldaten nötig
Für einen wirksamen Schutz der Ukraine vor zukünftigen Angriffen Russlands nach einem möglichen Friedensschluss bräuchte es nach Einschätzung des früheren Befehlshabers der US-Streitkräfte in Europa Tausende europäische Soldaten.
Die Europäer müssten gemeinsam mit den USA Sicherheitsgarantien schaffen, die echten Druck auf Moskau ausübten, sagte Ben H…
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Gipfel über Frieden in der Ukraine: Debatte über Sicherheitsgarantien
Die Debatte über Sicherheitsgarantien für die Ukraine nimmt Fahrt auf. US-Präsident Trump präzisiert den Beitrag seines Landes. Auch Berlin macht vage Andeutungen. Fachleute warnen: Einfach wird das alles nicht.

Ukraine möchte direkt mit Russland sprechen
Die Ukraine hat neue direkte Gespräche mit Russland vorgeschlagen. Das Treffen solle kommende Woche stattfinden, sagte der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj in einer Videobotschaft. "Der Schwung der Verhandlungen muss verstärkt werden", fügte er hinzu.
Selenskyj bekräftigte seine Bereitschaft zu einem persönlichen Treffen mit Kreml-Chef Wladimir Putin. "Ein Treffen auf Führ…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Mindestens drei Tote bei russischen Angriffen ++
Bei Luftangriffen in der Zentralukraine und in Odessa sind mindestens drei Menschen getötet worden. Russland hat seine große Militärschau im August ohne Nennung von Gründen abgesagt.