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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…

Vortex Light at the Nanoscale: Twists, Spins, and Surprises -- A Review
Kayn A Forbes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09564 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09564

Vortex Light at the Nanoscale: Twists, Spins, and Surprises -- A Review
For over three decades, the study of optical vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been at the forefront of optics, driven by fundamental questions about optical momentum as well as diverse applications in quantum information, communications, and optical manipulation. Most work has focused on paraxial beams, whose transverse fields are accurately described by conventional wave optics and the Stokes formalism. By contrast, when light is confined to the nanoscale and tightly fo…

Warming Up for Zeroth-Order Federated Pre-Training with Low Resource Clients
Gwen Legate, Irina Rish, Eugene Belilovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03503 https://

Warming Up for Zeroth-Order Federated Pre-Training with Low Resource Clients
Federated learning enables collaborative model training across numerous edge devices without requiring participants to share data; however, memory and communication constraints on these edge devices may preclude their participation in training. We consider a setting in which a subset of edge devices are below a critical memory or communication threshold required to conduct model updates. Under typical federated optimization algorithms, these devices are excluded from training which renders thei…

Essentially this is abusive behavior and the only way out is to break the cycle.
This doesn't preclude valid criticism, but each party in this must recognize that the other parties aren't them and do not have the same audiences, the same requirements for rigor, or the same style of communication.

Cross-Cultural Transfer of Commonsense Reasoning in LLMs: Evidence from the Arab World
Saeed Almheiri, Rania Hossam, Mena Attia, Chenxi Wang, Preslav Nakov, Timothy Baldwin, Fajri Koto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19265

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…

Purcell-enhanced single-photon generation from CsPbBr$_3$ quantum dots in in-situ selected Laguerre-Gaussian modes
Virginia Oddi, Darius Urbonas, Etsuki Kobiyama, Ioannis Georgakilas, Ihor Cherniukh, Kseniia Shcherbak, Chenglian Zhu, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Maksym V. Kovalenko, Rainer F. Mahrt, Gabriele Rain\`o, Thilo St\"oferle
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Purcell-enhanced single-photon generation from CsPbBr$_3$ quantum dots in in-situ selected Laguerre-Gaussian modes
Single photons in Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams, which carry orbital angular momentum (OAM), could enable more robust and efficient photonic quantum communication and information processing, as well as enhanced sensitivity in quantum metrology and imaging. However, as most implementations are indirect or require additional mode-shaping elements, direct generation of single photons with OAM has received growing interest. Colloidal lead halide perovskite quantum dots (QDs) have recently emerged as…