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Aligning Effective Tokens with Video Anomaly in Large Language Models
Yingxian Chen, Jiahui Liu, Ruifan Di, Yanwei Li, Chirui Chang, Shizhen Zhao, Wilton W. T. Fok, Xiaojuan Qi, Yik-Chung Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06350

Aligning Effective Tokens with Video Anomaly in Large Language Models
Understanding abnormal events in videos is a vital and challenging task that has garnered significant attention in a wide range of applications. Although current video understanding Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are capable of analyzing general videos, they often struggle to handle anomalies due to the spatial and temporal sparsity of abnormal events, where the redundant information always leads to suboptimal outcomes. To address these challenges, exploiting the representation and g…

Trump is attending the U.S. Open on Sunday as a guest of Rolex despite imposing steep tariffs on the Swiss watchmaker’s home country
-- and with organizers seeking to keep any audience booing of him from being seen on the TV broadcast.
Trump has built the bulk of his second term’s domestic travel around attending major sports events rather than hitting the road to make policy announcements or address the kind of large rallies he so relished as a candidate
⭐️Let's make th…

Trump's US Open visit lead to boos, long security lines
President Donald Trump attended the U.S. Open on Sunday, drawing boos from the crowd. His presence delayed the men's final due to heightened security, causing long lines for many people who didn't make it in before play started. Trump briefly appeared before the event, receiving mixed reactions from the then-mostly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium. During the National Anthem, he was shown on the big screen, which increased the volume of boos. Boos got more intense later in the match. Organizers delaye…

Probing the Axion-Photon-Dark Photon Interaction at Future $e^ e^-$ Colliders
Chuan-Ren Chen, Yuan-Feng Hsieh, Van Que Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08733 https://

Probing the Axion-Photon-Dark Photon Interaction at Future $e^+e^-$ Colliders
We study the interaction between photons, dark photons, and axions at future lepton colliders, focusing on single-photon events with missing energy as the experimental signature. We find that future facilities such as the ILC, CEPC, and FCC-ee will be sensitive to the axion-photon-dark photon coupling down to the order of $10^{-4}\, {GeV}^{-1}$ for dark photon masses around $O(10~\mathrm{GeV})$, assuming that the axion is extremely light and escapes detection. Existing constraints from LEP II a…

Progressive Facial Granularity Aggregation with Bilateral Attribute-based Enhancement for Face-to-Speech Synthesis
Yejin Jeon, Youngjae Kim, Jihyun Lee, Hyounghun Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07376

Progressive Facial Granularity Aggregation with Bilateral Attribute-based Enhancement for Face-to-Speech Synthesis
For individuals who have experienced traumatic events such as strokes, speech may no longer be a viable means of communication. While text-to-speech (TTS) can be used as a communication aid since it generates synthetic speech, it fails to preserve the user's own voice. As such, face-to-voice (FTV) synthesis, which derives corresponding voices from facial images, provides a promising alternative. However, existing methods rely on pre-trained visual encoders, and finetune them to align with speec…

FRIDAY, October 31st
From 7:30 – 9:30 PM
@ Yale CCAM Sound Art Series
(149 York St, New Haven, CT)
"SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE"
An audio visual live performance by #Negativland SUE-C
Free, open to the public, but limited capacity – first come first serve!

Watching the Apple event — but a repeating “fuck you, Tim!” in the back of my head blocks any potential interest in the products.

At a talk, the FCC's Anna Gomez says she's called on the FCC to define "public interest" so the agency can't weaponize the term to censor TV and radio stations (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/10/fcc-anna-gomez-public-interest-d…

FCC Commissioner Gomez: Agency must define "public interest" requirement
Speaking at an event on Thursday, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez called on the agency to issue a rule that defines a broadcaster's public interest obligation.

FASTColor -- Full-color Amplitude Surrogate Toolkit for QCD
Javier Mari\~no Villadamigo, Rikkert Frederix, Tilman Plehn, Timea Vitos, Ramon Winterhalder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07068

FASTColor -- Full-color Amplitude Surrogate Toolkit for QCD
High-multiplicity events remain a bottleneck for LHC simulations due to their computational cost. We present a ML-surrogate approach to accelerate matrix element reweighting from leading-color (LC) to full-color (FC) accuracy, building on recent advancements in LC event generation. Comparing a variety of modern network architectures for representative QCD processes, we achieve speed-up of around a factor two over the current LC-to-FC baseline. We also show how transformers learn and exploit und…