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NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
Beomseok Lee, Marcely Zanon Boito, Laurent Besacier, Ioan Calapodescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01808

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
In this paper we describe NAVER LABS Europe submission to the instruction-following speech processing short track at IWSLT 2025. We participate in the constrained settings, developing systems that can simultaneously perform ASR, ST, and SQA tasks from English speech input into the following target languages: Chinese, Italian, and German. Our solution leverages two pretrained modules: (1) a speech-to-LLM embedding projector trained using representations from the SeamlessM4T-v2-large speech encod…

Die „Baseballschlägerjahre“ sind zurück – nur digitaler, jünger und gefährlicher. Während Social Media rechte Ideologien normalisiert, bleibt die Antwort der Politik hilflos: Mehr Schutz für Kommunale? Fehlanzeige. Die Neonaziszene wächst – und die Gesellschaft schaut zu. David Begrich @…

Is cheese secretly fueling your nightmares? Science weighs in #AnimalRights

Is cheese secretly fueling your nightmares? Science weighs in
Over a thousand students revealed a striking link between lactose intolerance and nightmare-filled nights, hinting that midnight stomach turmoil from dairy can invade dreams. Researchers suggest simple diet tweaks—especially ditching late-night cheese—could turn scary sleep into sweet rest, though more experiments are needed to decode the gut-dream connection.

I lived in KC for a decade. This is what we ALL must do. #Resist #ProtectOurNeighbors
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Americans Say No As Terrified ICE Agents Flee from Angry Citizens
"It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming. Every day, anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!" a rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in Kansas.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Four Tet:
🎵 Into Dust (Still Falling)
#FourTet
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/into-dust-still-falling

DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model with Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment
Ke-Han Lu, Zhehuai Chen, Szu-Wei Fu, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Sung-Feng Huang, Chih-Kai Yang, Chee-En Yu, Chun-Wei Chen, Wei-Chih Chen, Chien-yu Huang, Yi-Cheng Lin, Yu-Xiang Lin, Chi-An Fu, Chun-Yi Kuan, Wenze Ren, Xuanjun Chen, Wei-Ping Huang, En-Pei Hu, Tzu-Quan Lin, Yuan-Kuei Wu, Kuan-Po Huang, Hsiao-Ying Huang, Huang-Cheng Chou, Kai-Wei Chang, Cheng-Han Chiang, Boris Ginsburg, Yu…

DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model with Self-Generated Cross-Modal Alignment
We introduce DeSTA2.5-Audio, a general-purpose Large Audio Language Model (LALM) designed for robust auditory perception and instruction-following, without requiring task-specific audio instruction-tuning. Recent LALMs typically augment Large Language Models (LLMs) with auditory capabilities by training on large-scale, manually curated or LLM-synthesized audio-instruction datasets. However, these approaches have often suffered from the catastrophic forgetting of the LLM's original language abil…

Happy Canada Day | Bonne Fête du Canada
This is from a little more than a year ago, when I traveled to some Canadian islands to see a solar eclipse. I know there's a Maple Leaf flying on that boat, although you can't see it in this pic.

Kind of hard to feel empathy for Russian soldiers being scammed by Russian cops when this is how they transfer blame.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5rm41g34qo
Punching down is the Russian, and now American, theme.

Phase Competition and Rutile Phase Stabilization of Growing GeO2 Films by MOCVD
Imteaz Rahaman, Botong Li, Hunter D. Ellis, Kathy Anderson, Feng Liu, Michael A. Scarpulla, Kai Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22430

Phase Competition and Rutile Phase Stabilization of Growing GeO2 Films by MOCVD
Rutile germanium dioxide (r-GeO2) is an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor with potential for ambipolar doping, making it a promising candidate for next-generation power electronics and optoelectronics. Growth of phase-pure r-GeO2 films by vapor phase techniques like metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) is challenging because of polymorphic competition from amorphous and quartz GeO2. Here, we introduce seed-driven stepwise crystallization (SDSC) as a segmented growth strategy for obtain…