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Open PhD/Junior Researcher Position in Neurosymbolic AI and Information Extraction on historical documents at FIZ Karlsruhe - Knowledge-driven AI research group (former ISE research group), starting at Jan 1, 2026.
Application Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/stellenan…

Data Driven Discovery of Emergent Dynamics in Reaction Diffusion Systems from Sparse and Noisy Observations
Saumitra Dwivedi, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Ibrahim A. Hameed, Gunnar Tufte, Anniken Susanne T. Karlsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09278

Data Driven Discovery of Emergent Dynamics in Reaction Diffusion Systems from Sparse and Noisy Observations
Data-driven discovery of emergent dynamics is gaining popularity, particularly in the context of reaction-diffusion systems. These systems are widely studied across various fields, including neuroscience, ecology, epidemiology, and several other subject areas that deal with emergent dynamics. A current challenge in the discovery process relates to system identification when there is no prior knowledge of the underlying physics. We attempt to address this challenge by learning Soft Artificial Li…

#NorskTut #Hippie

Last week, October sunshine in Freiburg at the anual #NFDIMatWerk planning & strategy meeting at Freiburg Innovation Center FRIZ. Usually, I don't complain about the food, but ... hey guys, there is room for improvement ;-)
Overall outcome: The MSE KnowledgeGraph will be THE central hub for all NFDIMatWerk resources

Quantum Walks for Chemical Reaction Networks
Seenivasan Hariharan, Sebastian Zur, Sachin Kinge, Lucas Visscher, Kareljan Schoutens, Stacey Jeffery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07890

Quantum Walks for Chemical Reaction Networks
We lay the foundation for a quantum algorithmic framework to analyse fixed-structure chemical reaction networks (CRNs) using quantum random walks (QRWs) via electrical circuit theory. We model perturbations to CRNs, such as, species injections that shift steady-state concentrations, while keeping the underlying species-reaction graph fixed. Under physically meaningful mass-action constraints, we develop quantum algorithms that (i) decide reachability of target species after perturbation, (ii) s…

Towards Proprioception-Aware Embodied Planning for Dual-Arm Humanoid Robots
Boyu Li, Siyuan He, Hang Xu, Haoqi Yuan, Yu Zang, Liwei Hu, Junpeng Yue, Zhenxiong Jiang, Pengbo Hu, B\"orje F. Karlsson, Yehui Tang, Zongqing Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07882

Towards Proprioception-Aware Embodied Planning for Dual-Arm Humanoid Robots
In recent years, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated the ability to serve as high-level planners, enabling robots to follow complex human instructions. However, their effectiveness, especially in long-horizon tasks involving dual-arm humanoid robots, remains limited. This limitation arises from two main challenges: (i) the absence of simulation platforms that systematically support task evaluation and data collection for humanoid robots, and (ii) the insufficient embodime…

Leveraging Generic Foundation Models for Multimodal Surgical Data Analysis
Simon Pezold, J\'er\^ome A. Kurylec, Jan S. Liechti, Beat P. M\"uller, Jo\"el L. Lavanchy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06831

Leveraging Generic Foundation Models for Multimodal Surgical Data Analysis
We investigate how both the adaptation of a generic foundation model via transfer learning and the integration of complementary modalities from the operating room (OR) can support surgical data science. To this end, we use V-JEPA as the single-modality foundation of a multimodal model for minimally invasive surgery support. We analyze how the model's downstream performance can benefit (a) from finetuning on unlabeled surgical video data and (b) from providing additional time-resolved data strea…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Aram Khachaturian, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra & Kirill Kondrashin:
🎵 Mazurka (Masquerade Suite)
#AramKhachaturian #RCAVictorSymphonyOrchestra #KirillKondrashin

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
FKA twigs & Koreless:
🎵 Drums of Death
#FKAtwigs #Koreless
https://tnsxords.bandcamp.com/track/fka-twigs-koreless-drums-of-death-tnsxords-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3kmHmR0PfFQDLkbZU5kMfc

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Sergey Prokofiev, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Kirill Karabits:
🎵 Symphony no.1 in D major Op 25 'Classical' (4th mvt)
#SergeyProkofiev #BournemouthSymphonyOrchestra #KirillKarabits