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Tubi announces plans to distribute 20 films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684374/tubi-kickstarter-initiative

Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi
Tubi and Kickstarter are partnering to bring a selection of crowdfunded movies to the upstart streamer.

Congestion-Aware Path Selection for Load Balancing in AI Clusters
Erfan Nosrati, Majid Ghaderi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08132 https://

Congestion-Aware Path Selection for Load Balancing in AI Clusters
Fast training of large machine learning models requires distributed training on AI clusters consisting of thousands of GPUs. The efficiency of distributed training crucially depends on the efficiency of the network interconnecting GPUs in the cluster. These networks are commonly built using RDMA following a Clos-like datacenter topology. To efficiently utilize the network bandwidth, load balancing is employed to distribute traffic across multiple redundant paths. While there exists numerous tec…

Integer-Clustering Optimization of Hydrogen and Battery EV Fleets Considering DERs
Sijia Geng, Thomas Lee, Dharik Mallapragada, Audun Botterud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09388

Integer-Clustering Optimization of Hydrogen and Battery EV Fleets Considering DERs
Electrified transportation leads to a tighter integration between transportation and energy distribution systems. In this work, we develop scalable optimization models to co-design hydrogen and battery electric vehicle (EV) fleets, distributed energy resources, and fast-charging and hydrogen-fueling infrastructure to efficiently meet transportation demands. A novel integer-clustering formulation is used for optimizing fleet-level EV operation while maintaining accurate individual vehicle dispat…

Building on the 90s, statistical n-gram language models, trained on vast text collections, became the backbone of NLP research. They fueled advancements in nearly all NLP techniques of the era, laying the groundwork for today's AI.
F. Jelinek (1997), Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
#NLP

Shifting from Ranking to Set Selection for Retrieval Augmented Generation
Dahyun Lee, Yongrae Jo, Haeju Park, Moontae Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06838 …

Shifting from Ranking to Set Selection for Retrieval Augmented Generation
Retrieval in Retrieval-Augmented Generation(RAG) must ensure that retrieved passages are not only individually relevant but also collectively form a comprehensive set. Existing approaches primarily rerank top-k passages based on their individual relevance, often failing to meet the information needs of complex queries in multi-hop question answering. In this work, we propose a set-wise passage selection approach and introduce SETR, which explicitly identifies the information requirements of a q…

Scalar and Mean Curvature Comparison on Compact Cylinder
Jie Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07005 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07005

Scalar and Mean Curvature Comparison on Compact Cylinder
Let $ X $ be a closed, oriented Riemannian manifold. Denote by $ (M = X \times I, \partial M = X \times \lbrace 0 \rbrace \cup X \times \lbrace 1 \rbrace, g) $ a compact cylinder with smooth boundary, $ \dim M \geqslant 3 $. In this article, we address the following question: If $ g $ is a Riemannian metric having (i) positive scalar curvature (PSC metric) on $ M $ and nonnegative mean curvature on $ \partial M $; and (ii) the $ g $-angle between normal vector field $ ν_{g} $ along $ \partial …

Way back in 2022, as the world tried to readjust back to "normal" following COVID - I helped to co-organise a bootcamp with sponsorhop from the @… IASC, @… and a generous dollop of help from @… and @… colleagues.
We gathered 10 senior scientist mentors and 22 students in an old torpedo research station (now used by Roskilde University) for 10 days. It was an extremely intense period but the 4th paper produced by this talented group has just come out.
I consider facilitating #EarlyCareerScientists to work on important science problems an extremely rewarding part of my job, and I'm looking forward to the next one already as part of our PISCO project.
In the mean time, go and read this extremely cool work, collecting together a huge number of radiosonde observations going back to the 1950s over the Arctic Ocean and using them to assess how well CMIP6 models represent lower atmosphere.
#CMIP6 #ClimateModels #Arctic #ArcticClimate #SeaIce
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JD041412

From i-boxes to signed words
Alessandro Contu, Fan Qin, Qiaoling Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06182 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.0618…

From i-boxes to signed words
The combinatorics of i-boxes has recently been introduced by Kashiwara--Kim--Oh--Park in the study of cluster algebras arising from the representation theory of quantum affine algebras. In this article, we associate to each chain of i-boxes a signed word, which canonically determines a cluster seed following Berenstein--Fomin--Zelevinsky. By bridging these two different languages, we are able to provide a quick solution to the problem of explicit determining the exchange matrices associated wit…

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, …

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