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Butterfly Effects in Toolchains: A Comprehensive Analysis of Failed Parameter Filling in LLM Tool-Agent Systems
Qian Xiong, Yuekai Huang, Ziyou Jiang, Zhiyuan Chang, Yujia Zheng, Tianhao Li, Mingyang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15296

Butterfly Effects in Toolchains: A Comprehensive Analysis of Failed Parameter Filling in LLM Tool-Agent Systems
The emergence of the tool agent paradigm has broadened the capability boundaries of the Large Language Model (LLM), enabling it to complete more complex tasks. However, the effectiveness of this paradigm is limited due to the issue of parameter failure during its execution. To explore this phenomenon and propose corresponding suggestions, we first construct a parameter failure taxonomy in this paper. We derive five failure categories from the invocation chain of a mainstream tool agent. Then, w…

In some UK woodlands, every young tree has died. What’s going wrong? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/britain-ancient-woodlands-failing-regenerate-forests-climate-drought-heat-dis…

Towards Accurate Phonetic Error Detection Through Phoneme Similarity Modeling
Xuanru Zhou, Jiachen Lian, Cheol Jun Cho, Tejas Prabhune, Shuhe Li, William Li, Rodrigo Ortiz, Zoe Ezzes, Jet Vonk, Brittany Morin, Rian Bogley, Lisa Wauters, Zachary Miller, Maria Gorno-Tempini, Gopala Anumanchipalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14346…

Towards Accurate Phonetic Error Detection Through Phoneme Similarity Modeling
Phonetic error detection, a core subtask of automatic pronunciation assessment, identifies pronunciation deviations at the phoneme level. Speech variability from accents and dysfluencies challenges accurate phoneme recognition, with current models failing to capture these discrepancies effectively. We propose a verbatim phoneme recognition framework using multi-task training with novel phoneme similarity modeling that transcribes what speakers actually say rather than what they're supposed to s…

Israel bombs Iranian state TV during a live broadcast, sending the anchor fleeing her desk amid smoke and rubble, as it broadens its bombing campaign in Iran (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/iran-state-tv-bombed-israel-strike

Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast
Watch the moment Iran's state TV was struck.

Scoop: RFK Jr.'s PAC stirs, fueling speculation on a 2028 campaign (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/16/rfk-jr-pac-2028-speculation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p9#a250716p9

❝Police on horseback charged at the crowd, striking some with wood rods and batons as they cleared the street in front of the federal building. Officers then fired teargas and crowd control projectiles at the large group, sending demonstrators, hotdog vendors and passing pedestrians fleeing through the street. Some have since regrouped, ignoring an LAPD dispersal order.
‘It was a total 100% over-reaction. We weren’t doing anything but standing around chanting peaceful protest,’ said Samantha Edgerton, a 37-year-old bartender.”❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/14/trump-birthday-military-parade-no-kings-protest-live-updates?page=with:block-684e0b918f08be826d571aa2#block-684e0b918f08be826d571aa2

Measurement of photo- and radio-luminescence of thin ThF4 films
Mikhail Osipenko, Carlos de Almeida Carrapico, Dmytro Burdeinyi, Roberto Caciuffo, Rachel Eloirdi, Mauro Giovannini, Alban Kellerbauer, Rikard Malmbeck, Marco Ripani, Mauro Taiuti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11585

Measurement of photo- and radio-luminescence of thin ThF4 films
We conducted measurements on the photo- and radio-luminescence of thin ThF$_4$ films in both the UV and visible ranges. In the UV range, we found that both luminescences are at a similar level as the internal dark counting noise of the photo-multiplier-tube (PMT). Our results suggest that thin ThF$_4$ crystals could be used as a target for the search for $^{229m}$Th and as a medium for the future nuclear clock. The measurements indicate that using a small and thin ThF$_4$ film can reduce backgr…

Adiabatic nonabelian braiding of imperfect Majoranas
Maximilian Nitsch, Viktor Svensson, William Samuelson, Konstantin Nestmann, Jeroen Danon, Karsten Flensberg, Rub\'en Seoane Souto, Martin Leijnse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11039

Adiabatic nonabelian braiding of imperfect Majoranas
Demonstration of a nontrivial result of quasiparticle exchange (or braiding) is usually considered the definitive proof of a topological phase with nonabelian excitations, such as Majorana bound states (MBSs). However, in finite systems with disorder and smooth potential variations, the MBSs are imperfect in the sense that they are not fully isolated in space and can, to a varying degree, resemble conventional fermions. Here, we study the braiding properties of isolated MBSs, regular fermions, …

Variety of wildlife in UK’s woodlands falling as habitats degrade, says report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/10/variety-of-wildlife-in-uks-woodlands-falling-as-habitats-degrade-says-report

Progress! Mexico becomes latest country to ban marine mammal performances https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/mexico-becomes-latest-country-to-ban-marine-mammal-performances?utm_source=Mastodon

Progress! Mexico becomes latest country to ban marine mammal performances — Species Unite
In a step forward to animal protection, lawmakers voted unanimously to ban marine mammal breeding, performances, and concrete tanks following years of advocacy.