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IFDECORATOR: Wrapping Instruction Following Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
Xu Guo, Tianyi Liang, Tong Jian, Xiaogui Yang, Ling-I Wu, Chenhui Li, Zhihui Lu, Qipeng Guo, Kai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04632

IFDECORATOR: Wrapping Instruction Following Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) improves instruction following capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but suffers from training inefficiency due to inadequate difficulty assessment. Moreover, RLVR is prone to over-optimization, where LLMs exploit verification shortcuts without aligning to the actual intent of user instructions. We introduce Instruction Following Decorator (IFDecorator}, a framework that wraps RLVR training into a robust and sample-efficient pipeline…

I bet I'm the only person in #Japan who learned about what #OnePiece is not from anyone here, but from following news about #Indonesia and that symbol being used as a sign of protest against

A4FN: an Agentic AI Architecture for Autonomous Flying Networks
Andr\'e Coelho, Pedro Ribeiro, Helder Fontes, Rui Campos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03829 https://

A4FN: an Agentic AI Architecture for Autonomous Flying Networks
This position paper presents A4FN, an Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) architecture for intent-driven automation in Flying Networks (FNs) using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as access nodes. A4FN leverages Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable real-time, context-aware network control via a distributed agentic system. It comprises two components: the Perception Agent (PA), which semantically interprets multimodal input -- including imagery, audio, and telemetry data -- f…

Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/mus…

From Actions to Kinesics: Extracting Human Psychological States through Bodily Movements
Cheyu Lin, Katherine A. Flanigan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04844 https://

From Actions to Kinesics: Extracting Human Psychological States through Bodily Movements
Understanding the dynamic relationship between humans and the built environment is a key challenge in disciplines ranging from environmental psychology to reinforcement learning (RL). A central obstacle in modeling these interactions is the inability to capture human psychological states in a way that is both generalizable and privacy preserving. Traditional methods rely on theoretical models or questionnaires, which are limited in scope, static, and labor intensive. We present a kinesics recog…

Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/mus…

A van der Waals material exhibiting room temperature broken inversion symmetry with ferroelectricity
Fabia F. Athena, Cooper A. Voigt, Mengkun Tian, Anjan Goswami, Emily Toph, Moses Nnaji, Fanuel Mammo, Brent K. Wagner, Sungho Jeon, Wenshan Cai, Eric M. Vogel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03977

A van der Waals material exhibiting room temperature broken inversion symmetry with ferroelectricity
Since the initial synthesis of van der Waals two-dimensional indium selenide was first documented in 1957, five distinct polymorphs and their corresponding polytypes have been identified. In this study, we report a unique phase of indium selenide via Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) analysis in the synthesized large-area films -- which we have named the $β^\text{p}$ phase. The quintuple layers of the $β^\text{p}$ phase, characterized by a unique zigzag atomic configuration wit…

Growth of few-layer molecular crystals of PTCDI on hexagonal boron nitride by microspacing air-gap sublimation
Nils LeCoutre, Tolibjon Abdurakhmonov, Paul Weinbrenner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Tobias Korn, Franziska Fennel, Oliver K\"uhn, Friedemann Reinhard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04591

Growth of few-layer molecular crystals of PTCDI on hexagonal boron nitride by microspacing air-gap sublimation
Extended two-dimensional (2D) crystals of dye molecules adsorbed on 2D material substrates like boron nitride have recently become a subject of intense study, with potential applications ranging from quantum technology to optoelectronics. The most established technique for the production of these films is physical vapor transport in vacuum. We demonstrate that few-layer crystalline films of the organic dye molecule PTCDI on boron nitride can be produced by microspacing in-air sublimation, a rad…

An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic "algorithm films" intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style (Phil Hoad/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20…