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ReconVLA: Reconstructive Vision-Language-Action Model as Effective Robot Perceiver
Wenxuan Song, Ziyang Zhou, Han Zhao, Jiayi Chen, Pengxiang Ding, Haodong Yan, Yuxin Huang, Feilong Tang, Donglin Wang, Haoang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10333

ReconVLA: Reconstructive Vision-Language-Action Model as Effective Robot Perceiver
Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have enabled robotic agents to integrate multimodal understanding with action execution. However, our empirical analysis reveals that current VLAs struggle to allocate visual attention to target regions. Instead, visual attention is always dispersed. To guide the visual attention grounding on the correct target, we propose ReconVLA, a reconstructive VLA model with an implicit grounding paradigm. Conditioned on the model's visual outputs, a …

From Clean Energy Review
In Edmonton’s Blatchford neighbourhood, a new “virtual power plant” is flipping the script on how communities use energy. Twenty (but soon-to-be 100) townhomes, each equipped with rooftop solar panels and energy storage, are not just powering themselves—they can feed the grid, manage peak demand, and even provide emergency backup when the lights go out. It’s a glimpse of what clean households could look like across Canada.

Precise Attribute Intensity Control in Large Language Models via Targeted Representation Editing
Rongzhi Zhang, Liqin Ye, Yuzhao Heng, Xiang Chen, Tong Yu, Lingkai Kong, Sudheer Chava, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12121

Precise Attribute Intensity Control in Large Language Models via Targeted Representation Editing
Precise attribute intensity control--generating Large Language Model (LLM) outputs with specific, user-defined attribute intensities--is crucial for AI systems adaptable to diverse user expectations. Current LLM alignment methods, however, typically provide only directional or open-ended guidance, failing to reliably achieve exact attribute intensities. We address this limitation with three key designs: (1) reformulating precise attribute intensity control as a target-reaching problem, rather t…

Trends in the Population of Binary Black Holes Following the Fourth Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog: a Data-Driven Analysis
Nir Guttman, Ethan Payne, Paul D. Lasky, Eric Thrane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09876

Trends in the Population of Binary Black Holes Following the Fourth Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog: a Data-Driven Analysis
Current population models of binary black hole distributions are difficult to interpret because standard population inferences hinge on modeling choices, which can mask or mimic real structure. The maximum population likelihood ``$\pistroke$ formalism'' provides a means to investigate and interpret features in the distribution of binary black holes using only data -- without specifying a population model. It tells us if features inferred from current population models are truly present in the d…

Struggling with our homes isn't a moral failing. It's something we're finding hard and seeing it as a moral failing, seeing it as laziness, gets us stuck. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-193-laziness-is-a-myth/

I feel stupid for asking this… but is there still no good way to checkout and later pull a pull request branch from another repo?
We've got `gh pr checkout NUMBER` but the only way I've found to fetch updates is to delete the local branch and start over.
I really don't want to play adlib with manually adding remotes etc – is this still the best we can do in 2025??
EDIT: it’s solved! 🎉

Tomáš Janoušek (@liskin@genserver.social)
@hynek @carlton Drop fetch.all=true and that fixes it.You may need to learn to use git remote update instead of git fetch though.And I’d consider filing this as a bug upstream, because as you said ...

VStyle: A Benchmark for Voice Style Adaptation with Spoken Instructions
Jun Zhan, Mingyang Han, Yuxuan Xie, Chen Wang, Dong Zhang, Kexin Huang, Haoxiang Shi, DongXiao Wang, Tengtao Song, Qinyuan Cheng, Shimin Li, Jun Song, Xipeng Qiu, Bo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09716

VStyle: A Benchmark for Voice Style Adaptation with Spoken Instructions
Spoken language models (SLMs) have emerged as a unified paradigm for speech understanding and generation, enabling natural human machine interaction. However, while most progress has focused on semantic accuracy and instruction following, the ability of SLMs to adapt their speaking style based on spoken instructions has received limited attention. We introduce Voice Style Adaptation (VSA), a new task that examines whether SLMs can modify their speaking style, such as timbre, prosody, or persona…

Multiple sign-changing solutions for semilinear subelliptic Dirichlet problem
Hua Chen, Hong-Ge Chen, Jin-Ning Li, Xin Liao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10120 https://

Multiple sign-changing solutions for semilinear subelliptic Dirichlet problem
We study the following perturbation from symmetry problem for the semilinear subelliptic equation \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{cc} -\triangle_{X} u=f(x,u)+g(x,u) & \mbox{in}~Ω, \\[2mm] u\in H_{X,0}^{1}(Ω),\hfill \end{array} \right. \] where $\triangle_{X}=-\sum_{i=1}^{m}X_{i}^{*}X_{i}$ is the self-adjoint sub-elliptic operator associated with Hörmander vector fields $X=(X_{1},X_{2},\ldots,X_{m})$, $Ω$ is an open bounded subset in $\mathbb{R}^n$, and $H_{X,0}^{1}(Ω)$ denotes the weigh…

Generalized ODE reduction algorithm with bounded degree transformation
Shaoxuan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09754 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09754

Generalized ODE reduction algorithm with bounded degree transformation
As a generalization of our previous result\cite{huang2025algorithm}, this paper aims to answer the following question: Given a 2-dimensional polynomial vector field $y^{\prime}=\frac{M(x,y)}{N(x,y)}$, how to find a rational transformation $y \to \frac{A(x,y)}{B(x,y)}$ with bounded degree numerator, the inverse of which transforms this vector field into a simpler form $y^{\prime}=\sum_{i=0}^nf_i(x)y^i$. Such a structure, often known as the generalized Abel equation and has been studied in variou…

Interaction enhanced inter-site hoppings for holons and interlayer exciton insulators in moir\'e correlated insulators
Zijian Ma, Hongyi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10847 …

Interaction enhanced inter-site hoppings for holons and interlayer exciton insulators in moiré correlated insulators
In moiré-patterned van der Waals structures of transition metal dichalcogenides, correlated insulators can form under integer and fractional fillings, whose transport properties are governed by various quasiparticle excitations including holons, doublons and interlayer exciton insulators. Here we theoretically investigate the nearest-neighbor inter-site hoppings of holons and interlayer exciton insulators. Our analysis indicates that these hopping strengths are significantly enhanced compared …