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Causal identification with $Y_0$
Charles Tapley Hoyt, Craig Bakker, Richard J. Callahan, Joseph Cottam, August George, Benjamin M. Gyori, Haley M. Hummel, Nathaniel Merrill, Sara Mohammad Taheri, Pruthvi Prakash Navada, Marc-Antoine Parent, Adam Rupe, Olga Vitek, Jeremy Zucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03167…

Causal identification with $Y_0$
We present the $Y_0$ Python package, which implements causal identification algorithms that apply interventional, counterfactual, and transportability queries to data from (randomized) controlled trials, observational studies, or mixtures thereof. $Y_0$ focuses on the qualitative investigation of causation, helping researchers determine whether a causal relationship can be estimated from available data before attempting to estimate how strong that relationship is. Furthermore, $Y_0$ provides gu…

Microsoft and Asus unveil the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, two gaming handhelds that will run Windows games from multiple storefronts, including Steam (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/rog-xbox-ally-x-microsoft-handhe…

I tried Microsoft’s newly revealed Xbox gaming handheld
I played Gears of War on the upcoming ROG Xbox Ally X. Steam was on there, too. What Microsoft's portable Xbox is all about... the challenges it faces.

Image-Based Multi-Survey Classification of Light Curves with a Pre-Trained Vision Transformer
Daniel Moreno-Cartagena, Guillermo Cabrera-Vives, Alejandra M. Mu\~noz Arancibia, Pavlos Protopapas, Francisco F\"orster, M\'arcio Catelan, A. Bayo, Pablo A. Est\'evez, P. S\'anchez-S\'aez, Franz E. Bauer, M. Pavez-Herrera, L. Hern\'andez-Garc\'ia, Gonzalo Rojas

Image-Based Multi-Survey Classification of Light Curves with a Pre-Trained Vision Transformer
We explore the use of Swin Transformer V2, a pre-trained vision Transformer, for photometric classification in a multi-survey setting by leveraging light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). We evaluate different strategies for integrating data from these surveys and find that a multi-survey architecture which processes them jointly achieves the best performance. These results highlight the importance of modeling survey-s…

The impact of economic policies on housing prices. Approximations and predictions in the UK, the US, France, and Switzerland from the 1980s to today
Nicolas Houli\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09620

The impact of economic policies on housing prices. Approximations and predictions in the UK, the US, France, and Switzerland from the 1980s to today
I show that house prices can be modeled using machine learning (kNN and tree-bagging) and a small dataset composed of macro-economic factors (MEF), including an inflation metric (CPI), US treasury rates (10-yr), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and portfolio size of central banks (ECB, FED). This set of parameters covers all the parties involved in a transaction (buyer, seller, and financing facility) while ignoring the intrinsic properties of each asset and encompassing local (inflation) and liqu…

Directional Flow of Confined Polaritons in CrSBr
Pratap Chandra Adak, Sichao Yu, Jaime Abad-Arredondo, Biswajit Datta, Andy Cruz, Sorah Fischer, Kseniia Mosina, Zden\v{e}k Sofer, Antonio I. Fern\'andez-Dom\'inguez, Francisco J. Garc\'ia-Vidal, Vinod M. Menon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04367

Directional Flow of Confined Polaritons in CrSBr
Nanoscale control of energy transport is a central challenge in modern photonics. Utilization of exciton-polaritons hybrid light-matter quasiparticles is one viable approach, but it typically demands complex device engineering to enable directional transport. Here, we demonstrate that the van der Waals magnet CrSBr offers an inherent avenue for steering polariton transport leveraging a unique combination of intrinsic optical anisotropy, high refractive index, and excitons dressed by photons. Th…