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Optical communications through highly scattering channels using the coherence-rank
Mitchell Harling, Chandler Stevenson, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Kimani C. Toussaint Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19683

Optical communications through highly scattering channels using the coherence-rank
In optical communications, logical bits are encoded in physical degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) of the electromagnetic field. Consequently, optical scattering in a communications channel compromises the information transfer. In the worst-case-scenario, bit-to-bit stochastically varying scattering that couples the DoFs to each other -including even unused DoFs -can decouple the transmitter and receiver when relying on conventional physical encoding schemes, and preclude the utilization of adaptive tec…

MuDRiC: Multi-Dialect Reasoning for Arabic Commonsense Validation
Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy, Preslav Nakov, Yuxia Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13130 https://

MuDRiC: Multi-Dialect Reasoning for Arabic Commonsense Validation
Commonsense validation evaluates whether a sentence aligns with everyday human understanding, a critical capability for developing robust natural language understanding systems. While substantial progress has been made in English, the task remains underexplored in Arabic, particularly given its rich linguistic diversity. Existing Arabic resources have primarily focused on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), leaving regional dialects underrepresented despite their prevalence in spoken contexts. To bri…

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Evaluation Guidelines for Empirical Studies in Software Engineering involving LLMs
Sebastian Baltes, Florian Angermeir, Chetan Arora, Marvin Mu\~noz Bar\'on, Chunyang Chen, Lukas B\"ohme, Fabio Calefato, Neil Ernst, Davide Falessi, Brian Fitzgerald, Davide Fucci, Marcos Kalinowski, Stefano Lambiase, Daniel Russo, Mircea Lungu, Lutz Prechelt, Paul Ralph, Christoph Treude, Stefan Wagner

Evaluation Guidelines for Empirical Studies in Software Engineering involving LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into software engineering (SE) research and practice, yet their non-determinism, opaque training data, and evolving architectures complicate the reproduction and replication of empirical studies. We present a community effort to scope this space, introducing a taxonomy of LLM-based study types together with eight guidelines for designing and reporting empirical studies involving LLMs. The guidelines present essential (must) criteria…

A Mixed-Order Phase Transition in Continuous-Variable Quantum Networks
Yaqi Zhao, Kan He, Yongtao Zhang, Jinchuan Hou, Jianxi Gao, Shlomo Havlin, Xiangyi Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16417

A Mixed-Order Phase Transition in Continuous-Variable Quantum Networks
Quantum networks (QNs) have been predominantly driven by discrete-variable (DV) architectures. Yet, many optical platforms naturally generate Gaussian states--the common states of continuous-variable (CV) systems, making CV-based QNs an attractive route toward scalable, chip-integrated quantum computation and communication. To bridge the conceptual gap between well-studied DV entanglement percolation theories and their CV counterpart, we introduce a Gaussian-to-Gaussian entanglement distributio…

The geopolitical #aiarmsrace seems largely unimpressed by people proclaiming #LLMs have plateaued and #AGI is never coming.
Such assessments are only relevant for the market, but not so much for count…

And in spite of massive amount of money, Microsoft Teams is still the biggest heap of junk I'm required to use by my employer.
I have resorted to using @… for communication with the team...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114636321276154824
Ruth_Mottram - The big winnners so far under Trump are
Microsoft, Meta, Netflix, Palantir, Tencent, Broadcom and Philip Morris according to analysis by @financialtimes - In tempted to add Burns' ever relevant epigram: "What a parcel o' rogues in a nation"
Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers  - https://on.ft.com/43N2RCb

Large AI Model-Enabled Secure Communications in Low-Altitude Wireless Networks: Concepts, Perspectives and Case Study
Chuang Zhang, Geng Sun, Jiacheng Wang, Yijing Lin, Weijie Yuan, Sinem Coleri, Dusit Niyato, Tony Q. S. Quek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00256

Large AI Model-Enabled Secure Communications in Low-Altitude Wireless Networks: Concepts, Perspectives and Case Study
Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) have the potential to revolutionize communications by supporting a range of applications, including urban parcel delivery, aerial inspections and air taxis. However, compared with traditional wireless networks, LAWNs face unique security challenges due to low-altitude operations, frequent mobility and reliance on unlicensed spectrum, making it more vulnerable to some malicious attacks. In this paper, we investigate some large artificial intelligence model …

PRELUDE: A Benchmark Designed to Require Global Comprehension and Reasoning over Long Contexts
Mo Yu, Tsz Ting Chung, Chulun Zhou, Tong Li, Rui Lu, Jiangnan Li, Liyan Xu, Haoshu Lu, Ning Zhang, Jing Li, Jie Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09848

PRELUDE: A Benchmark Designed to Require Global Comprehension and Reasoning over Long Contexts
We introduce PRELUDE, a benchmark for evaluating long-context understanding through the task of determining whether a character's prequel story is consistent with the canonical narrative of the original book. Our task poses a stronger demand for global comprehension and deep reasoning than existing benchmarks -- as the prequels are not part of the original story, assessing their plausibility typically requires searching and integrating information that is only indirectly related. Empirically, 8…

Quantum repeaters based on stationary and flying Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qudits
Stefan H\"aussler, Peter van Loock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00530 https://

Quantum repeaters based on stationary and flying Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qudits
There are various approaches to long-range quantum communication based on conceptually different forms of quantum repeaters. Here we explore a quantum repeater scheme that employs quantum error correction (QEC) both on the flying (light) qubits and on the stationary (matter) qubits. The idea is to combine the benefits of encoded one-way and two-way schemes where effective channel transmission and loss scaling are enhanced by means of photon loss codes and encoded quantum memories, respectively,…