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Alle media blaten weer na dat Trump ‘binnen twee weken’ gaat beslissen of de VS meedoet aan de oorlog van Israël tegen Iran.
Zucht.
“Over twee weken” is de standaard formule als Trump geen idee heeft. Hij herhaalt die even gemakkelijk twee of drie weken later opnieuw. En opnieuw. Sancties tegen Rusland zouden twee maanden geleden ook ‘binnen twee weken’ ingesteld worden.

From SALAMANDRA to SALAMANDRATA: BSC Submission for WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task
Javier Garcia Gilabert, Xixian Liao, Severino Da Dalt, Ella Bohman, Audrey Mash, Francesca De Luca Fornaciari, Irene Baucells, Joan Llop, Miguel Claramunt Argote, Carlos Escolano, Maite Melero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12774

From SALAMANDRA to SALAMANDRATA: BSC Submission for WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task
In this paper, we present the SALAMANDRATA family of models, an improved iteration of SALAMANDRA LLMs (Gonzalez-Agirre et al., 2025) specifically trained to achieve strong performance in translation-related tasks for 38 European languages. SALAMANDRATA comes in two scales: 2B and 7B parameters. For both versions, we applied the same training recipe with a first step of continual pre-training on parallel data, and a second step of supervised fine-tuning on high-quality instructions. The BSC subm…

MCTR: Midpoint Corrected Triangulation for Autonomous Racing via Digital Twin Simulation in CARLA
Junhao Ye, Cheng Hu, Yiqin Wang, Weizhan Huang, Nicolas Baumann, Jie He, Meixun Qu, Lei Xie, Hongye Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12729

MCTR: Midpoint Corrected Triangulation for Autonomous Racing via Digital Twin Simulation in CARLA
In autonomous racing, reactive controllers eliminate the computational burden of the full See-Think-Act autonomy stack by directly mapping sensor inputs to control actions. This bypasses the need for explicit localization and trajectory planning. A widely adopted baseline in this category is the Follow-The-Gap method, which performs trajectory planning using LiDAR data. Building on FTG, the Delaunay Triangulation-based Racing algorithm introduces further enhancements. However, DTR's use of circ…

A Risk Manager for Intrusion Tolerant Systems: Enhancing HAL 9000 with New Scoring and Data Sources
Tadeu Freitas, Carlos Novo, In\^es Dutra, Jo\~ao Soares, Manuel Correia, Benham Shariati, Rolando Martins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13364

A Risk Manager for Intrusion Tolerant Systems: Enhancing HAL 9000 with New Scoring and Data Sources
Intrusion Tolerant Systems (ITSs) have become increasingly critical due to the rise of multi-domain adversaries exploiting diverse attack surfaces. ITS architectures aim to tolerate intrusions, ensuring system compromise is prevented or mitigated even with adversary presence. Existing ITS solutions often employ Risk Managers leveraging public security intelligence to adjust system defenses dynamically against emerging threats. However, these approaches rely heavily on databases like NVD and Exp…

Operational machine learning for park-scale irrigation to support urban cooling
Mesut Ko\c{c}yi\u{g}it, Bahman Javadi, Russell Thomson, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver Obst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11700 …

Operational machine learning for park-scale irrigation to support urban cooling
Urban parks can mitigate local heat, yet irrigation control is usually tuned for water savings rather than cooling. We report on SIMPaCT (Smart Irrigation Management for Parks and Cool Towns), a park-scale deployment that links per-zone soil-moisture forecasts to overnight irrigation set-points in support of urban cooling. SIMPaCT ingests data from 202 soil-moisture sensors, 50 temperature-relative humidity (TRH) nodes, and 13 weather stations, and trains a per-sensor k-nearest neighbours (kNN)…

Discovery of a multi-planetary system orbiting the aged Sun-like star HD 224018
M. Damasso, L. Naponiello, A. Anna John, J. A. Egger, M. Cretignier, A. Mortier, A. S. Bonomo, A. Collier Cameron, X. Dumusque, T. Wilson, L. Buchhave, B. Nicholson, M. Stalport, A. Ghedina, D. W. Latham, J. Livingston, L. Malavolta, A. Sozzetti, J. M. Jenkins, G. Mantovan, A. F. Mart\'inez Fiorenzano, L. Palethorpe, R. Tronsgaard, S. Udry, C. A. Watson

Discovery of a multi-planetary system orbiting the aged Sun-like star HD 224018
In 2016, Kepler/K2 detected a system of two sub-Neptunes transiting the star HD 224018, one of them showing a mono-transit event. In 2017, we began a spectroscopic follow-up with HARPS-N to measure the dynamical masses of the planets using radial velocities, and collected additional transit observations using CHEOPS. We measured the fundamental physical parameters of the host star, which is an ``old Sun'' analogue. We analysed radial velocities and photometric time series, also including data b…

A Tale of Two Sightlines: Comparison of Hydrocarbon Dust Absorption Bands toward Cygnus OB2-12 and the Galactic Center
Yvonne J. Pendleton, T. R. Geballe, Laurie E. U. Chu, Marjorie Decleir, Karl D. Gordon, A. G. G. M. Tielens, Louis J. Allamandola, Jeroen Bouwman, J. E. Chiar, Curtis Dewitt, Burcu Gunay, Thomas Henning, Vito Mennella, M. E. Palumbo, Alexey Potapov, Maisie Rashman, Sasha Zeegers

A Tale of Two Sightlines: Comparison of Hydrocarbon Dust Absorption Bands toward Cygnus OB2-12 and the Galactic Center
Infrared spectra of hydrocarbon dust absorption bands toward the bright hypergiant Cygnus OB2-12 are compared to published spectra of the Quintuplet Cluster, a sightline to the Galactic center. The Cyg OB2-12 data include a new ground-based 2.86-3.70 microns spectrum and a previously published, but here further analyzed, spectrum of the 5.50-7.34 microns region. Higher spectral resolution data for the Cyg OB2-12 sightline in the 3 micron region allows a detailed comparison of the 3.4 micron ali…

Pointwise convergence to initial data of heat and Poisson equations in Modulation Spaces
Divyang G. Bhimani, Rupak K. Dalai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13220

Pointwise convergence to initial data of heat and Poisson equations in Modulation Spaces
We characterize weighted modulation spaces (data space) for which the heat semigroup $e^{-tL}f$ converges pointwise to the initial data $f$ as time $t$ tends to zero. Here $L$ stands for the standard Laplacian $-Δ$ or Hermite operator $H=-Δ+|x|^2$ on the whole domain. Similar result also holds for Poisson semigroup $e^{-t\sqrt{L}}f.$ We also prove that the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator operates on certain modulation spaces. This may be of independent interest.

Tjonge wat een puinhoop.
Dat krijg je ervan als amateurs als Trump en Witkoff zich met diplomatie gaan bemoeien.
Het enige positieve van de top gisteren is dat er niks concreets bereikt is. De Europese leiders hebben weten te voorkomen dat Zelensky bij een Putinkruisje moest tekenen. Verder wordt er gespeculeerd over een ontmoeting tussen Putin en Zelensky maar dat heeft Rusland helemaal niet toegezegd. En mijn mening: dat gaat Putin niet doen, hij stuurt op zijn best Lavrov met z…

Maximally-Informative Retrieval for State Space Model Generation
Evan Becker, Benjamin Bowman, Matthew Trager, Tian Yu Liu, Luca Zancato, Wei Xia, Stefano Soatto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12149

Maximally-Informative Retrieval for State Space Model Generation
Given a query and dataset, the optimal way of answering the query is to make use all the information available. Modern LLMs exhibit impressive ability to memorize training data, but data not deemed important during training is forgotten, and information outside that training set cannot be made use of. Processing an entire dataset at inference time is infeasible due to the bounded nature of model resources (e.g. context size in transformers or states in state space models), meaning we must resor…