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Why are so many people still afraid of losing their power even though they have no (relevant) power? In other words, decentralized Internet and its advantage, if implemented accordingly, is as positive for privacy as business secrets. Yes, there are always some crazy people who exploit this for their perversity and politics, but you can catch them even if they are properly investigated ~ #MindNode…

Look, Focus, Act: Efficient and Robust Robot Learning via Human Gaze and Foveated Vision Transformers
Ian Chuang, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Jinyu Zou, Iman Soltani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15833

Look, Focus, Act: Efficient and Robust Robot Learning via Human Gaze and Foveated Vision Transformers
Human vision is a highly active process driven by gaze, which directs attention and fixation to task-relevant regions and dramatically reduces visual processing. In contrast, robot learning systems typically rely on passive, uniform processing of raw camera images. In this work, we explore how incorporating human-like active gaze into robotic policies can enhance both efficiency and performance. We build on recent advances in foveated image processing and apply them to an Active Vision robot sy…

Towards Using Personas in Requirements Engineering: What Has Been Changed Recently?
Chowdhury Shahriar Muzammel, Maria Spichkova, James Harland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15197

Towards Using Personas in Requirements Engineering: What Has Been Changed Recently?
In requirements engineering (RE), personas are now being used to represent user expectations and needs. This systematic mapping study (SMS) aims to explore the most recent studies and to cover recent changes in trends, especially related to the recent evolution of Generative AI approaches. Our SMS covers the period between April 2023 and April 2025. We identified 22 relevant publications and analysed persona representation, construction, validation, as well as RE activities covered by personas.…

Driven shear flow in biological magneto-active fluids
Malo Marmol, C\'ecile Cottin-Bizonne, Andrejs Cebers, Damien Faivre, Christophe Ybert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13851

Driven shear flow in biological magneto-active fluids
Active fluids made of powered suspended particles have unique abilities to self-generate flow and density structures. How such dynamics can be triggered and leveraged by external cues is a key question of both biological and applied relevance. Here we use magnetotactic bacteria to explore how chemotaxis and magnetotaxis -- leading, respectively, to positional and orientational responses -- combine to generate global scale flows. Such steady regime can be quantitatively captured by a magneto-act…

Modeling Open-World Cognition as On-Demand Synthesis of Probabilistic Models
Lionel Wong, Katherine M. Collins, Lance Ying, Cedegao E. Zhang, Adrian Weller, Tobias Gersternberg, Timothy O'Donnell, Alexander K. Lew, Jacob D. Andreas, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tyler Brooke-Wilson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12547

Modeling Open-World Cognition as On-Demand Synthesis of Probabilistic Models
When faced with novel situations, people are able to marshal relevant considerations from a wide range of background knowledge and put these to use in inferences and predictions. What permits us to draw in globally relevant information and reason over it coherently? Here, we explore the hypothesis that people use a combination of distributed and symbolic representations to construct bespoke mental models tailored to novel situations. We propose a computational implementation of this idea -- a `…

CWGAN-GP Augmented CAE for Jamming Detection in 5G-NR in Non-IID Datasets
Samhita Kuili, Mohammadreza Amini, Burak Kantarci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15075

CWGAN-GP Augmented CAE for Jamming Detection in 5G-NR in Non-IID Datasets
In the ever-expanding domain of 5G-NR wireless cellular networks, over-the-air jamming attacks are prevalent as security attacks, compromising the quality of the received signal. We simulate a jamming environment by incorporating additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) into the real-world In-phase and Quadrature (I/Q) OFDM datasets. A Convolutional Autoencoder (CAE) is exploited to implement a jamming detection over various characteristics such as heterogenous I/Q datasets; extracting relevant inf…

Deep Learning-Based Prediction of High Explosive Induced Fluid Dynamics
Francis G. VanGessel, Mitul Pandya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14710 https://…

Deep Learning-Based Prediction of High Explosive Induced Fluid Dynamics
Underwater explosions produce complex fluid phenomena relevant to diverse applications including maritime engineering, medical therapeutics, and inertial confinement fusion. These systems exhibit multiphase flows, chemical kinetics, and highly compressible dynamics that challenge traditional computational approaches. Current hydrodynamic solvers, while accurate, are computationally expensive and non-differentiable, limiting their use in design optimization and real-time applications. Here we sh…

Examples of complete Calabi--Yau metrics on affine smoothings of irregular toric Calabi--Yau cones
Ronan J. Conlon, Tran-Trung Nghiem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14118

Examples of complete Calabi--Yau metrics on affine smoothings of irregular toric Calabi--Yau cones
We present new examples of affine Calabi--Yau manifolds of Euclidean volume growth and quadratic curvature decay, whose tangent cones at infinity are irregular and have smooth links. In the process, we demonstrate (and provide the relevant computer code) how to explicitly compute the Reeb field and all Minkowski decompositions of a given toric Calabi--Yau cone with smooth link from the data of its toric polytope. Minkowski decompositions of this polytope into lattice segments and/or triangles g…

ros2 fanuc interface: Design and Evaluation of a Fanuc CRX Hardware Interface in ROS2
Paolo Franceschi, Marco Faroni, Stefano Baraldo, Anna Valente
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14487

ros2 fanuc interface: Design and Evaluation of a Fanuc CRX Hardware Interface in ROS2
This paper introduces the ROS2 control and the Hardware Interface (HW) integration for the Fanuc CRX- robot family. It explains basic implementation details and communication protocols, and its integration with the Moveit2 motion planning library. We conducted a series of experiments to evaluate relevant performances in the robotics field. We tested the developed ros2_fanuc_interface for four relevant robotics cases: step response, trajectory tracking, collision avoidance integrated with Moveit…

Simplifications are Absolutists: How Simplified Language Reduces Word Sense Awareness in LLM-Generated Definitions
Lukas Ellinger, Miriam Ansch\"utz, Georg Groh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11981

Simplifications are Absolutists: How Simplified Language Reduces Word Sense Awareness in LLM-Generated Definitions
Large Language Models (LLMs) can provide accurate word definitions and explanations for any context. However, the scope of the definition changes for different target groups, like children or language learners. This is especially relevant for homonyms, words with multiple meanings, where oversimplification might risk information loss by omitting key senses, potentially misleading users who trust LLM outputs. We investigate how simplification impacts homonym definition quality across three targe…