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Efficient Tactile Perception with Soft Electrical Impedance Tomography and Pre-trained Transformer
Huazhi Dong (Sharel), Ronald B. Liu (Sharel), Sihao Teng (Sharel), Delin Hu (Sharel), Peisan (Sharel), E, Francesco Giorgio-Serchi, Yunjie Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02824

Efficient Tactile Perception with Soft Electrical Impedance Tomography and Pre-trained Transformer
Tactile sensing is fundamental to robotic systems, enabling interactions through physical contact in multiple tasks. Despite its importance, achieving high-resolution, large-area tactile sensing remains challenging. Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) has emerged as a promising approach for large-area, distributed tactile sensing with minimal electrode requirements which can lend itself to addressing complex contact problems in robotics. However, existing EIT-based tactile reconstruction meth…

Red Teaming AI Policy: A Taxonomy of Avoision and the EU AI Act
Rui-Jie Yew, Bill Marino, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01931 https:…

Red Teaming AI Policy: A Taxonomy of Avoision and the EU AI Act
The shape of AI regulation is beginning to emerge, most prominently through the EU AI Act (the "AIA"). By 2027, the AIA will be in full effect, and firms are starting to adjust their behavior in light of this new law. In this paper, we present a framework and taxonomy for reasoning about "avoision" -- conduct that walks the line between legal avoidance and evasion -- that firms might engage in so as to minimize the regulatory burden the AIA poses. We organize these avoision strategies around th…

Principal Context-aware Diffusion Guided Data Augmentation for Fault Localization
Shihao Fu, Yan Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24079 https://

Principal Context-aware Diffusion Guided Data Augmentation for Fault Localization
Test cases are indispensable for conducting effective fault localization (FL). However, test cases in practice are severely class imbalanced, i.e. the number of failing test cases (i.e. minority class) is much less than that of passing ones (i.e. majority class). The severe class imbalance between failing and passing test cases have hindered the FL effectiveness. To address this issue, we propose PCD-DAug: a Principal Context-aware Diffusion guided Data Augmentation approach that generate syn…

Spatially Distributed Wettability Characterization in Porous Media
Faisal Aljaberi, Hadi Belhaj, Sajjad Foroughi, Mohammed Al-Kobaisi, Martin Blunt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01617

Spatially Distributed Wettability Characterization in Porous Media
An enhanced geometric algorithm for automated pore-by-pore contact angle measurement from micro-CT images, is presented that achieves superior accuracy compared to existing methods through robust fluid-fluid and solid-fluid interface extrapolation. Using this high resolution data, we generate spatially distributed contact angle maps that reveal previously hidden wettability heterogeneity. Our analysis of mixed-wet systems demonstrates the severe limitations of averaged metrics: a sample with a …

Dark photon dark matter constraints and a tentative signal at the TASEH experiment
Yuan-Hann Chang, Cheng-Wei Chiang, Hien Thi Doan, Nick Houston, Jinmian Li, Tianjun Li, Lina Wu, Xin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00784

Dark photon dark matter constraints and a tentative signal at the TASEH experiment
The dark photon is a well motivated candidate for the dark matter which comprises most of the mass of our visible Universe, leading to worldwide experimental and observational efforts towards its discovery. A primary tool in this search is the cavity haloscope, which facilitates resonantly enhanced conversion to photons from both dark photons and axions. In this context, limits from axion search experiments are often directly converted into dark photon constraints, without re-analyzing the orig…

Hey, folks who understand alt text and limited vision accessibility:
I have need to write alt text for the diagram below. The alt text needs to be comprehensible to somebody who is encountering this kind of diagram for the ••very first time••. I could describe the images using the relevant jargon, but that would only serve people who already know the thing this activity is teaching them!
Any suggestions for how I could write good alt text for something like this? Is it possible? (The horizontal black bars are minus signs, i.e. subtraction. This is clear from context in the text, but probably not clear in the image.)
PLEASE NOTE: I am looking for people with ••relevant accessibility expertise••, not just random best shots from people who (like me) don’t really know much about this kind of problem.

This is how ruthless the Israeli military complex is
The sign talks of"protecting the state of Israel", remaining silent to the fact that this offensive "protection" actually costs hundreds of thousands of lives in Israel and the region.
Context:
https://www.

Navigating AGN variability with self-organizing maps
Ylenia Maruccia, Demetra De Cicco, Stefano Cavuoti, Giuseppe Riccio, Paula S\'anchez-S\'aez, Maurizio Paolillo, Noemi Lery Borrelli, Riccardo Crupi, Massimo Brescia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16902

Navigating AGN variability with self-organizing maps
Context. The classification of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is a challenge in astrophysics. Variability features extracted from light curves offer a promising avenue for distinguishing AGNs and their subclasses. This approach would be very valuable in sight of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Aims. Our goal is to utilize self-organizing maps (SOMs) to classify AGNs based on variability features and investigate how the use of different subsets of features …

Good Morning #Canada
It was pointed out to me that I rarely, if ever, post anything about #NewBrunswick. It's not my fault that the eastern province is less exciting than Saskatoon, but today, we fix that omission. Here's an article on the 10 best towns and cities to visit in the land of Purple Violets and Black-capped Chickadees. Just in time for #RoadTrip season. Look for the next New Brunswick post in 26-ish months.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.todocanada.ca/10-small-towns-and-cities-to-add-to-your-new-brunswick-itinerary/

Towards Lean Research Inception: Assessing Practical Relevance of Formulated Research Problems
Anrafel Fernandes Pereira, Marcos Kalinowski, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, J\"urgen B\"orstler, Nauman bin Ali, Daniel Mendez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12669

Towards Lean Research Inception: Assessing Practical Relevance of Formulated Research Problems
[Context] The lack of practical relevance in many Software Engineering (SE) research contributions is often rooted in oversimplified views of industrial practice, weak industry connections, and poorly defined research problems. Clear criteria for evaluating SE research problems can help align their value, feasibility, and applicability with industrial needs. [Goal] In this paper, we introduce the Lean Research Inception (LRI) framework, designed to support the formulation and assessment of prac…