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Light-IF: Endowing LLMs with Generalizable Reasoning via Preview and Self-Checking for Complex Instruction Following
Chenyang Wang, Liang Wen, Shousheng Jia, Xiangzheng Zhang, Liang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03178

Light-IF: Endowing LLMs with Generalizable Reasoning via Preview and Self-Checking for Complex Instruction Following
While advancements in the reasoning abilities of LLMs have significantly enhanced their performance in solving mathematical problems, coding tasks, and general puzzles, their effectiveness in accurately adhering to instructions remains inconsistent, particularly with more complex directives. Our investigation identifies lazy reasoning during the thinking stage as the primary factor contributing to poor instruction adherence. To mitigate this issue, we propose a comprehensive framework designed …

Imagine having this issue with a kid...
It isn't exactly common but it happens occasionally with K being about 120lb. these days and me being a hard-rode 60yrs. He's not stupid but he has never fully internalized that if he tries to fight me when I'm picking him up, he can succeed in sabotaging that process and it is NOT GOOD.

@… I’m truly exhausted by the feeling that I need to move away from every service, no matter how many [hundreds of?] thousands of dollars I’ve delivered to them, all the time.
Imagine your legacy being “killed it after even a Microsoft acquisition didn’t kill it”. :smh:

New filing: "U.S. v. Russell (Trump admin sues judges)"
Doc #52: Memorandum re 14 MOTION for Preliminary Injunction
Reply in support of Motion for a Preliminary Injunction and Response to Motion to Dismiss filed by United…
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Multi-messenger dynamic imaging of laser-driven shocks in water using a plasma wakefield accelerator
Mario D. Balcazar, Hai-En Tsai, Tobias Ostermayr, Paul T. Campbell, Qiang Chen, Cary Colgan, Gillis M. Dyer, Zachary Eisentraut, Eric Esarey, Cameron G. R. Geddes, Benjamin Greenwood, Anthony Gonsalves, Sahel Hakimi, Robert Jacob, Brendan Kettle, Paul King, Karl Krushelnick, Nuno Lemos, Eva Los, Yong Ma, Stuart P. D. Mangles, John Nees, Isabella M. Pagano, Carl Schroeder, Raspberry Simp…

Multi-messenger dynamic imaging of laser-driven shocks in water using a plasma wakefield accelerator
Understanding dense matter hydrodynamics is critical for predicting plasma behavior in environments relevant to laser-driven inertial confinement fusion. Traditional diagnostic sources face limitations in brightness, spatiotemporal resolution, and inability to detect relevant electromagnetic fields. In this work, we present a dual-probe, multi-messenger laser wakefield accelerator platform combining ultrafast X-rays and relativistic electron beams at 1 Hz, to interrogate a free-flowing water ta…

Finiteness of purely cosmetic fillings
Kazuhiro Ichihara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03788 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03788…

Finiteness of purely cosmetic fillings
A pair of Dehn fillings on a compact, orientable 3-manifold with a torus boundary is said to be purely cosmetic if the resulting 3-manifolds are orientation-preservingly homeomorphic. In this paper, we show that if the torus boundary is incompressible, then there are only finitely many pairs of purely cosmetic fillings.

Chern junctions in Moir\'e-Patterned Graphene/PbI2
Sun Yan, M. Monteverde, V. Derkach, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, F. Chiodi, H. Bouchiat, A. D. Chepelianskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04935

Chern junctions in Moiré-Patterned Graphene/PbI2
Expanding the moiré material library continues to unlock novel quantum phases and emergent electronic behaviors. In this work, we introduce PbI2 into the moiré family and investigate the magnetotransport properties of moiré superlattice in a hexagonal boron nitride/graphene/PbI2 heterostructures. In high-field quantum Hall regime, we observe a robust dissipationless transport at charge neutrality point, indicative of incompressible states stabilized at the filling factor vh = 0. Additionally…

Are We on the Right Way for Assessing Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation?
Wenxuan Shen, Mingjia Wang, Yaochen Wang, Dongping Chen, Junjie Yang, Yao Wan, Weiwei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03644

Are We on the Right Way for Assessing Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation?
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show great promise for complex document understanding, yet their development is critically hampered by inadequate evaluation. Current benchmarks often focus on specific part of document RAG system and use synthetic data with incomplete ground truth and evidence labels, therefore failing to reflect real-world bottlenecks and challenges. To overcome these limitations, we introduce Double-Bench: a new large…

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE). XIX. The discovery of a spectacular 230 kpc Halpha tail following NGC 4569 in the Virgo cluster
M. Sun, H. Le, B. Epinat, A. Boselli, R. Luo, K. Hosogi, N. Pichette, W. Forman, C. Sarazin, M. Fossati, H. Chen, E. Sarpa, J. Braine, J. C. Cuillandre, S. Gwyn, G. Hensler, S. Martocchia, B. Vollmer

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE). XIX. The discovery of a spectacular 230 kpc Halpha tail following NGC 4569 in the Virgo cluster
Context. Galaxies fly inside galaxy clusters and ram pressure by the ICM can remove a large amount of the ISM from the galaxy, and deposit the gas in the ICM. The ISM decoupled from the host galaxy leaves a long trail following the moving galaxy. Such long trails track the galaxy motion and can be detected with sensitive data in Halpha. Aims. We study the Halpha tail trailing NGC 4569 in the Virgo cluster. Methods. The initial discovery was made with the deep Halpha imaging data with CFHT, …