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Tensor-polarized twist-3 parton distribution functions $f_{LT}(x)$ for the spin-1 deuteron by using twist-2 relations
Shunzo Kumano, Kenshi Kuroki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05046

Tensor-polarized twist-3 parton distribution functions $f_{LT}(x)$ for the spin-1 deuteron by using twist-2 relations
Tensor-polarized twist-3 parton distribution functions (PDFs) $f_{LT}(x)$ are calculated for the spin-1 deuteron by using twist-2 relations, which are similar to the Wandzura-Wilczek relation and the Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule in the spin-1/2 nucleon, together with tensor-polarized twist-2 PDFs $f_{1LL}(x)$. The PDFs are shown for $f_{LT}(x)$ at $Q^2 =2.5$ GeV$^2$, where the tensor-polarized PDFs $f_{1LL}(x)$ are provided. The $x$-dependence of $f_{LT}(x)$ is similar to $f_{1LL}(x)$, and the…

Make no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🤝75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law. Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- Asking For It: Question-Answering for Predicting Rule Infractions in Online Content Moderation
Mattia Samory, Diana Pamfile, Andrew To, Shruti Phadke

Ahh, the Orange Order, living in the 19th century but fervently hoping for a quick return the the 17th.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/11/06/orange-order-sends-letter-of-complaint-to-king-charles-a…

Orange Order sends letter of complaint to King Charles after he prayed with Pope Leo
Vatican visit marked first joint worship with a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since Henry VIII’s rule

Long post, game design
Crungle is a game designed to be a simple test of general reasoning skills that's difficult to play by rote memory, since there are many possible rule sets, but it should be easy to play if one can understand and extrapolate from rules. The game is not necessarily fair, with the first player often having an advantage or a forced win. The game is entirely deterministic, although a variant determines the rule set randomly.
This is version 0.1, and has not yet been tested at all.
Crungle is a competitive game for two players, each of whom controls a single piece on a 3x3 grid. The cells of the grid are numbered from 1 to 9, starting at the top left and proceeding across each row and then down to the next row, so the top three cells are 1, 2, and 3 from left to right, then the next three are 4, 5, and 6 and the final row is cells 7, 8, and 9.
The two players decide who shall play as purple and who shall play as orange. Purple goes first, starting the rules phase by picking one goal rule from the table of goal rules. Next, orange picks a goal rule. These two goal rules determine the two winning conditions. Then each player, starting with orange, alternate picking a movement rule until four movement rules have been selected. During this process, at most one indirect movement rule may be selected. Finally, purple picks a starting location for orange (1-9), with 5 (the center) not allowed. Then orange picks the starting location for purple, which may not be adjacent to orange's starting position.
Alternatively, the goal rules, movement rules, and starting positions may be determined randomly, or a pre-determined ruleset may be selected.
If the ruleset makes it impossible to win, the players should agree to a draw. Either player could instead "bet" their opponent. If the opponent agrees to the bet, the opponent must demonstrate a series of moves by both players that would result in a win for either player. If they can do this, they win, but if they submit an invalid demonstration or cannot submit a demonstration, the player who "bet" wins.
Now that starting positions, movement rules, and goals have been decided, the play phase proceeds with each player taking a turn, starting with purple, until one player wins by satisfying one of the two goals, or until the players agree to a draw. Note that it's possible for both players to occupy the same space.
During each player's turn, that player identifies one of the four movement rules to use and names the square they move to using that rule, then they move their piece into that square and their turn ends. Neither player may use the same movement rule twice in a row (but it's okay to use the same rule your opponent just did unless another rule disallows that). If the movement rule a player picks moves their opponent's piece, they need to state where their opponent's piece ends up. Pieces that would move off the board instead stay in place; it's okay to select a rule that causes your piece to stay in place because of this rule. However, if a rule says "pick a square" or "move to a square" with some additional criteria, but there are no squares that meet those criteria, then that rule may not be used, and a player who picks that rule must pick a different one instead.
Any player who incorrectly states a destination for either their piece or their opponent's piece, picks an invalid square, or chooses an invalid rule has made a violation, as long as their opponent objects before selecting their next move. A player who makes at least three violations immediately forfeits and their opponent wins by default. However, if a player violates a rule but their opponent does not object before picking their next move, the stated destination(s) of the invalid move still stand, and the violation does not count. If a player objects to a valid move, their objection is ignored, and if they do this at least three times, they forfeit and their opponent wins by default.
Goal rules (each player picks one; either player can win using either chosen rule):
End your turn in the same space as your opponent three turns in a row.
End at least one turn in each of the 9 cells.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single row, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single column, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in each of cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 (the four corners of the grid).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in each of cells 2, 4, 6, and 8 (the central cells on each side).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in the cell directly above your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly below your opponent (in either order).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in the cell directly to the left of your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly to the right of your opponent (in either order).
End 12 turns in a row without ending any of them in cell 5.
End 8 turns in a row in 8 different cells.
Movement rules (each player picks two; either player may move using any of the four):
Move to any cell on the board that's diagonally adjacent to your current position.
Move to any cell on the board that's orthogonally adjacent to your current position.
Move up one cell. Also move your opponent up one cell.
Move down one cell. Also move your opponent down one cell.
Move left one cell. Also move your opponent left one cell.
Move right one cell. Also move your opponent right one cell.
Move up one cell. Move your opponent down one cell.
Move down one cell. Move your opponent up one cell.
Move left one cell. Move your opponent right one cell.
Move right one cell. Move your opponent left one cell.
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 2 or 3 to 6 or 9 to 8).
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 counter-clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 4 or 6 to 3 or 7 to 8).
Move to any square reachable from your current position by a knight's move in chess (in other words, a square that's in an adjacent column and two rows up or down, or that's in an adjacent row and two columns left or right).
Stay in the same place.
Swap places with your opponent's piece.
Move back to the position that you started at on your previous turn.
If you are on an odd-numbered square, move to any other odd-numbered square. Otherwise, move to any even-numbered square.
Move to any square in the same column as your current position.
Move to any square in the same row as your current position.
Move to any square in the same column as your opponent's position.
Move to any square in the same row as your opponent's position.
Pick a square that's neither in the same row as your piece nor in the same row as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Pick a square that's neither in the same column as your piece nor in the same column as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Move to one of the squares orthogonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to one of the squares diagonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to the square opposite your current position across the middle square, or stay in place if you're in the middle square.
Pick any square that's closer to your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers (this includes the square your opponent is in). Move to that square.
Pick any square that's further from your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers. Move to that square.
If you are on a corner square (1, 3, 7, or 9) move to any other corner square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
If you are on an edge square (2, 4, 6, or 8) move to any other edge square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
Indirect movement rules (may be chosen instead of a direct movement rule; at most one per game):
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, and in addition, your opponent may not use that rule on their next turn (nor may they select it via an indirect rule like this one).
Select two of the other three movement rules, declare them, and then move as if you had used one and then the other, applying any additional effects of both rules in order.
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, but if the move would cause your piece to move off the board, instead of staying in place move to square 5 (in the middle).
Pick one of the other three movement rules selected in your game and apply it, but move your opponent's piece instead of your own piece. If that movement rule says to move "your opponent's piece," instead apply that movement to your own piece. References to "your position" and "your opponent's position" are swapped when applying the chosen rule, as are references to "your turn" and "your opponent's turn" and do on.
#Game #GameDesign

O YouTube preparou pra mim uma lista que só tem músicas maravilhosas, mas é uma completa mistureba de estilos. O YouTube não sabe lidar com pessoas de gostos ecléticos não, as listas dele sempre ficam assim rs.
1. Stay With Me – Miki Matsubara (J-Pop / City Pop)
2. Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears (Pop Rock / New Wave)
3. Take On Me – A-ha (Synthpop / New Wave)
4. Mšscara – Pitty (Rock Alternativo / Pop Rock Brasileiro)
5. Trem Azul – Elis Regina …

On Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings
that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1,
requiring the Trump administration to fund the program, at least partially while the legal proceedings continue.
The SNAP program, commonly referred to as food stamps, is among many government programs affectedby the ongoing shutdown,
and has been one…

JUST IN: Two Federal Judges Rule Trump Admin Must Fund Food Stamps — At Least Partially
On Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1.

Major changes are:
1. Strikes current rule that OPD shouldn’t arrest someone just for camping
2. Strikes current obligation to offer shelter before closing an encampment
3. Strikes currently permitted mobile showers as a health intervention
4. Adds definition of encampment as just 2 tents for 48 hours
5. Strikes current flexibility for council to temporarily allow a small encampment operated by an approved managing agency
6. Adds ban on encampments in AL…

94.1% accuracy is definitely the exception to the rule for me, but the moves looked clear and obvious. I had wondered about whether patience against the pinned queen was accurate but reasoned it had to be.
Opponent allowing the pin on the queen was their undoing, obviously, but they still played with 82.5% accuracy. In most of my games, I'd be delighted to score that high.
#chess

Help me come up with "fun facts"!
The rule is that they have to be:
1. Factual
2. Of or about "fun"
And for bonus points:
3. Able to be customized to any given human in case some allistic person inevitably says "I meant fun facts ABOUT YOU"
I'll start: my favorite fun fact is that my brain produces endorphins when I'm having fun

@… with regard to <https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/about> rule 1, you might have noticed that I withdrew the two toots that I made a day or so ago.
With regard to the FreeBSD Commun…

Spin period evolution and X-ray spectral characteristics of the SMC pulsar SXP 46.6
Aman Kaushik (TIFR, India), Sayantan Bhattacharya (TIFR, India), Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India,MIT, USA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01208

Spin period evolution and X-ray spectral characteristics of the SMC pulsar SXP 46.6
We characterize the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) pulsar SXP 46.6 using NuSTAR observations conducted in 2017. The spin period (P) of this neutron star decreased from its discovered value of 46.6 s to a value of 45.984(1) s, indicating a spin-up at the rate of \dot{P} = -1.13 x 10^{-9} s s^{-1}. This spin-up rate is used to calculate a high pulsar magnetic field value of 2.25 x 10^{13} G. This process also gives a low magnetic field value, which we rule out here by constraining the inner accreti…

European Parliament report on Hungary:
Message: the Hungarian Rule of Law has worsened significantly. Therefore, the EU must freeze more funds and take away Orbšn's veto.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/LIBE-PR-777005_EN.html…

DRAFT INTERIM REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision determining, pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union, the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded | LIBE_PR(2025)777005 | European Parliament
DRAFT INTERIM REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision determining, pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union, the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (C9-0000/2022 - 2018/0902R(NLE)) Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Rapporteur: Tineke Strik

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable yet Noisy Rewards under Imperfect Verifiers
Xin-Qiang Cai, Wei Wang, Feng Liu, Tongliang Liu, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00915

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable yet Noisy Rewards under Imperfect Verifiers
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) trains policies against automated verifiers to avoid costly human labeling. To reduce vulnerability to verifier hacking, many RLVR systems collapse rewards to binary $\{0,1\}$ during training. This choice carries a cost: it introduces \textit{false negatives} (rejecting correct answers, FNs) and \textit{false positives} (accepting incorrect ones, FPs). For instance, a rule-based checker may mark the correct fraction $\frac{12}{36}$ as wrong …

Complexity of the Freezing Majority Rule with L-shaped Neighborhoods
Pablo Concha-Vega, Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, K\'evin Perrot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16065 https:…

Complexity of the Freezing Majority Rule with L-shaped Neighborhoods
In this article we investigate the computational complexity of predicting two dimensional freezing majority cellular automata with states $\{-1,+1\}$, where the local interactions are based on an L-shaped neighborhood structure. In these automata, once a cell reaches state $+1$, it remains fixed in that state forever, while cells in state $-1$ update to the most represented state among their neighborhoods. We consider L-shaped neighborhoods, which mean that the vicinity of a given cell $c$ cons…

Closed Formulas for $\eta$-Corrections in the Once Punctured Torus
Nelson A. Colon Vargas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18334 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18334…

Closed Formulas for $η$-Corrections in the Once Punctured Torus
We study $η$-correction terms in the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of the once-punctured torus $K_t(Σ_{1,1})$. While the Frohman-Gelca product-to-sum rule is explicit on the closed torus, punctures introduce correction terms in the ideal $(η)$ whose structure has resisted systematic description beyond low-determinant cases. We give a closed form for the family $P_n=(1,0)\cdot T_n((1,2))$ (determinant $2$): the correction $ε_n$ has an explicit Chebyshev expansion with coefficients that fact…

How Can the Government ‘Take Back’ a City It Largely Controls?
DC collects taxes and funds its own *balanced* budgets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/upshot/washington-dc-home-rule.html?unlocked_a…

How Can the Government ‘Take Back’ a City It Largely Controls?
President Trump and his allies have berated Washington, D.C., officials. Yet the federal government has often made it harder for those officials to manage the capital.

1. Have a simple job to do. Figure out #Makefile will do the job.
2. Think a bit about portability. Makefile becomes slightly more complex.
3. You're finally done. It turns out that some stupid implicit rule in GNU Make fires and adds a `rm` at the end that removes part of the output.
4. Use #Meson.
Just an average #Gentoo day.
[UPDATE: Now I regret using Meson. If you do anything that's not 100% boilerplate, it just keeps throwing obstacles in your way.]

"Certainly, turning out 3.5%—or 11.9 million Americans—would be a tremendous achievement in the effort to overcome MAGA authoritarian rule, but over 60% of movements that turned out 1% to 3.5% succeeded."
**Even if protests don’t hit 3.5%, the resistance can topple Trump**
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/even-if-protests-dont-hit-35-the

I grew up in a rural area in the 90s, and was a junior NRA member. Now, I will admit that I only did a limited amount of shooting and it's been at least 30 years since I touched a gun, but I'm pretty sure that rule #1 of gun safety is: Don't point weapon at your own dick.
https://www.

ICE Agent Drops Gun and Levels It at Shocked Rush-Hour Crowd
The man who captured the video said the scene unfolded in the midst of rush-hour traffic just outside Washington, D.C.

Improved prediction of the mass splitting for $P$-wave $\Omega$ baryons
Niu Su, Hua-Xing Chen, Philipp Gubler, Atsushi Hosaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01979 https://

Improved prediction of the mass splitting for $P$-wave $Ω$ baryons
Using the QCD sum rule method, we investigate the mass splitting for the spin-orbit partner states of the $Ω(2012)$ baryon assuming that it is a $P$-wave excitation with $J^P=3/2^-$. This study is an extension of the previous work [1] in which the masses of these states were estimated with uncertainties too large to extract the reliable mass splitting. In the present study, by directly formulating a sum rule for the mass splitting, we obtain an improved prediction, $δM = M_{3/2^-} - M_{1/2^-}…

EQ-Robin: Generating Multiple Minimal Unique-Cause MC/DC Test Suites
Robin Lee, Youngho Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26458 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.264…

EQ-Robin: Generating Multiple Minimal Unique-Cause MC/DC Test Suites
Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC), particularly its strict Unique-Cause form, is a cornerstone of safety-critical software verification. A recent algorithm, "Robin's Rule," introduced a deterministic method to construct the theoretical minimum of N+1 test cases for Singular Boolean Expressions (SBEs). However, this approach yields only a single test suite, introducing a critical risk: if a test case forming a required 'independence pair' is an illegal input forbidden by system constr…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Compact Rule-Based Classifier Learning via Gradient Descent
Javier Fumanal-Idocin, Raquel Fernandez-Peralta, Javier Andreu-Perez

Hyperfunctions in $A$-model Localization
Emil Hakan Leeb-Lundberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25976 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25976

Hyperfunctions in $A$-model Localization
We apply localization techniques to topologically $A$-twisted $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ supersymmetric theories of vector and chiral multiplets on $S^{2}$ and derive a novel exact formula for abelian observables, described by a distribution integrated along the real line. The distributional integral formula is verified by evaluating the correlator of the $A$-twisted $\mathbb{CP}^{N-1}$ gauged linear sigma model and confirming the standard selection rule. Finally, we use hyperfunctions to demonstrate …

SPARQL in N3: SPARQL CONSTRUCT as a rule language for the Semantic Web (Extended Version)
D\"orthe Arndt, William Van Woensel, Dominik Tomaszuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13041

SPARQL in N3: SPARQL CONSTRUCT as a rule language for the Semantic Web (Extended Version)
Reasoning in the Semantic Web (SW) commonly uses Description Logics (DL) via OWL2 DL ontologies, or SWRL for variables and Horn clauses. The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) offers more expressive rules but is defined outside RDF and rarely adopted. For querying, SPARQL is a well-established standard operating directly on RDF triples. We leverage SPARQL CONSTRUCT queries as logic rules, enabling (1) an expressive, familiar SW rule language, and (2) general recursion, where queries can act on the r…

An Efficient Exponential Sum Approximation of Power-Law Kernels for Solving Fractional Differential Equation
Renu Chaudhary, Kai Diethelm, Afshin Farhadi, Fred A. Fuchs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20311

An Efficient Exponential Sum Approximation of Power-Law Kernels for Solving Fractional Differential Equation
In this work, we present a comprehensive framework for approximating the weakly singular power-law kernel $t^{α-1}$ of fractional integral and differential operators, where $α\in (0,1)$ and $t \in [δ,T]$ with $0<δ

Replaced article(s) found for stat.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Nonparametric Clustering Stopping Rule Based on Multivariate Median
Hend Gabr, Brian H Willis, Mohammed Baragilly

One Equation to Rule Them All -- Part II: Direct Data-Driven Reduction and Regulation
Junyu Mao, Emyr Williams, Thulasi Mylvaganam, Giordano Scarciotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17251

One Equation to Rule Them All -- Part II: Direct Data-Driven Reduction and Regulation
The Sylvester equation underpins a wide spectrum of control synthesis and systems analysis tools associated with cascade interconnections. In the preceding Part I [1] of this article, it was shown that such an equation can be reformulated using data, enabling the production of a collection of data-driven stabilisation procedures. In this second part of the article, we continue to develop the framework established in Part I to solve two important control-theoretic problems: model order reduction…

https://karlgroves.com/how-much-should-you-spend-on-accessibility/
“… a good rule of thumb is to treat accessibility as a core part of your compliance strategy. Aiming for 5%–10% of your compliance budget is a solid starting point. For some, that may mean 0.1%–0…

If you don’t want to be compared to Nazis and called fascists, here’s a simple rule of thumb:
STOP COMMITTING GENOCIDE, YOU SICK FUCKS. https://mastodon.social/@8124/115215365985382080

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.SR. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.SR/new
[1/1]:
- Observation-Based Iterative Map for Solar Cycles. II. The Gnevyshev-Ohl Rule and its Generation M...
Zi-Fan Wang, Jie Jiang, Jing-Xiu Wang

XplaiNLP at CheckThat! 2025: Multilingual Subjectivity Detection with Finetuned Transformers and Prompt-Based Inference with Large Language Models
Ariana Sahitaj, Jiaao Li, Pia Wenzel Neves, Fedor Splitt, Premtim Sahitaj, Charlott Jakob, Veronika Solopova, Vera Schmitt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12130

XplaiNLP at CheckThat! 2025: Multilingual Subjectivity Detection with Finetuned Transformers and Prompt-Based Inference with Large Language Models
This notebook reports the XplaiNLP submission to the CheckThat! 2025 shared task on multilingual subjectivity detection. We evaluate two approaches: (1) supervised fine-tuning of transformer encoders, EuroBERT, XLM-RoBERTa, and German-BERT, on monolingual and machine-translated training data; and (2) zero-shot prompting using two LLMs: o3-mini for Annotation (rule-based labelling) and gpt-4.1-mini for DoubleDown (contrastive rewriting) and Perspective (comparative reasoning). The Annotation App…

Replaced article(s) found for cond-mat.str-el. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.str-el/new
[1/1]:
- Fractal dimension and the counting rule of the Goldstone modes
Qian-Qian Shi, Yan-Wei Dai, Huan-Qiang Zhou, Ian P. McCulloch

SheetDesigner: MLLM-Powered Spreadsheet Layout Generation with Rule-Based and Vision-Based Reflection
Qin Chen, Yuanyi Ren, Xiaojun Ma, Mugeng Liu, Han Shi, Dongmei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07473

SheetDesigner: MLLM-Powered Spreadsheet Layout Generation with Rule-Based and Vision-Based Reflection
Spreadsheets are critical to data-centric tasks, with rich, structured layouts that enable efficient information transmission. Given the time and expertise required for manual spreadsheet layout design, there is an urgent need for automated solutions. However, existing automated layout models are ill-suited to spreadsheets, as they often (1) treat components as axis-aligned rectangles with continuous coordinates, overlooking the inherently discrete, grid-based structure of spreadsheets; and (2)…

FCC’s data breach reporting rules for telecoms are upheld in appeals court https://therecord.media/fcc-data-breach-reporting-rule-held-up-appeals-court

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.ML. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ML/new
[1/1]:
- Sparse Polyak: an adaptive step size rule for high-dimensional M-estimation
Tianqi Qiao, Marie Maros

More frightening energy-use stats about AI, mostly reporting on the total energy use of GPT, which is pretty abstract, and makes it difficult to answer the question of what impact you yourself are having by using it.
A useful rule of thumb to remember is that the whole energy use per day of a person in a European country (including food, transportation, production etc.) is about 125 KWh if they don't live excessively. 1/n

OPERA: A Reinforcement Learning--Enhanced Orchestrated Planner-Executor Architecture for Reasoning-Oriented Multi-Hop Retrieval
Yu Liu, Yanbing Liu, Fangfang Yuan, Cong Cao, Youbang Sun, Kun Peng, WeiZhuo Chen, Jianjun Li, Zhiyuan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16438

OPERA: A Reinforcement Learning--Enhanced Orchestrated Planner-Executor Architecture for Reasoning-Oriented Multi-Hop Retrieval
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and dense retrievers have driven significant progress in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). However, existing approaches face significant challenges in complex reasoning-oriented multi-hop retrieval tasks: 1) Ineffective reasoning-oriented planning: Prior methods struggle to generate robust multi-step plans for complex queries, as rule-based decomposers perform poorly on out-of-template questions. 2) Suboptimal reasoning-driven retrieval: Relat…

Replaced article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
[1/3]:
- Born's Rule from Quantum Frequentism
Lionel Brits
https://

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-bio.MN. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.MN/new
[1/1]:
- A Sensitivity Analysis Methodology For Rule-Based Stochastic Chemical Systems
Erika M. Herrera Machado, Jakob L. Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg, Daniel Merkle

GBPP: Grasp-Aware Base Placement Prediction for Robots via Two-Stage Learning
Jizhuo Chen, Diwen Liu, Jiaming Wang, Harold Soh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11594 https://

GBPP: Grasp-Aware Base Placement Prediction for Robots via Two-Stage Learning
GBPP is a fast learning based scorer that selects a robot base pose for grasping from a single RGB-D snapshot. The method uses a two stage curriculum: (1) a simple distance-visibility rule auto-labels a large dataset at low cost; and (2) a smaller set of high fidelity simulation trials refines the model to match true grasp outcomes. A PointNet++ style point cloud encoder with an MLP scores dense grids of candidate poses, enabling rapid online selection without full task-and-motion optimization.…

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.QM. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.QM/new
[1/1]:
- Using machine learning to inform harvest control rule design in complex fishery settings
Felipe Montealegre-Mora, Carl Boettiger, Carl J. Walters, Christopher L. Cahill

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.EP. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.EP/new
[1/1]:
- Detecting Land with Reflected Light Spectroscopy to Rule Out Waterworld O$_2$ Biosignature False ...
Ulses, Krissansen-Totton, Robinson, Meadows, Catling, Fortney

A 4% withdrawal rate for retirement spending, derived from a discrete-time model of stochastic returns on assets
Drew M. Thomas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10273 https://

A 4% withdrawal rate for retirement spending, derived from a discrete-time model of stochastic returns on assets
What grounds the rule of thumb that a(n American) retiree can safely withdraw 4% of their initial retirement wealth in their first year of retirement, then increase that rate of consumption with inflation? I investigate that question with a discrete-time model of returns to a retirement portfolio consumed at a rate that grows by $s$ per period. The model hinges on the parameter $γ$, an $s$-adjusted rate of return to wealth, derived from the first 2-4 moments of the portfolio's probability dist…

Me and my new #yubikey5 part 2:
Now we get to the nitty-gritty parts. I'm using #mbsync to sync multiple #imap accounts to local

Geometric opinion exchange polarizes in every dimension
Abdou Majeed Alidou, J\'ulia Balig\'acs, Jan H\k{a}z{\l}a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08190 https://

Geometric opinion exchange polarizes in every dimension
A recent line of work studies models of opinion exchange where agent opinions about $d$ topics are tracked simultaneously. The opinions are represented as vectors on the unit $(d-1)$-sphere, and the update rule is based on the overall correlation between the relevant vectors. The update rule reflects the assumption of biased assimilation, i.e., a pair of opinions is brought closer together if their correlation is positive and further apart if the correlation is negative. This model seems to i…

A decomposition of graph a-numbers
Suyuong Choi, Younghan Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06855 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06855

A decomposition of graph a-numbers
We study the $a$-sequence $(a_0(G), a_1(G), \cdots)$ of a finite simple graph $G$, defined recursively through a combinatorial rule and known to coincide with the sequence of rational Betti numbers of the real toric variety associated with $G$. In this paper, we establish a combinatorial and topological decomposition formula for the $a$-sequence. As an application, we show that the $a$-sequence is monotone under graph inclusion; that is, $a_i(G) \geq a_i(H)$ for all $i \geq 0$ whenever $H$ is…

Also had to sit all day at pc, trying to understand what happened to the immich database, in short they changed the storage method and all my photos were gone.
In short praise the 3-2-1 backup rule

Optimal Binning for Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Data Using the Freedman-Diaconis Rule
Jessie E. An, Chi-Huan Tung, Changwoo Do, Wei-Ren Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09581 …

Optimal Binning for Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Data Using the Freedman-Diaconis Rule
Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) data analysis often relies on fixed-width binning schemes that overlook variations in signal strength and structural complexity. We introduce a statistically grounded approach based on the Freedman-Diaconis (FD) rule, which minimizes the mean integrated squared error between the histogram estimate and the true intensity distribution. By deriving the competing scaling relations for counting noise ($\propto h^{-1}$) and binning distortion ($\propto h^{2}$), w…

CSTEapp: An interactive R-Shiny application of the covariate-specific treatment effect curve for visualizing individualized treatment rule
Yi Zhou, Yuhao Deng, Yu-Shi Tian, Peng Wu, Wenjie Hu, Haoxiang Wang, Ewout Steyerberg, Xiao-Hua Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15265

CSTEapp: An interactive R-Shiny application of the covariate-specific treatment effect curve for visualizing individualized treatment rule
In precision medicine, deriving the individualized treatment rule (ITR) is crucial for recommending the optimal treatment based on patients' baseline covariates. The covariate-specific treatment effect (CSTE) curve presents a graphical method to visualize an ITR within a causal inference framework. Recent advancements have enhanced the causal interpretation of the CSTE curves and provided methods for deriving simultaneous confidence bands for various study types. To facilitate the implementatio…

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.ins-det. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ins-det/new
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- Optimal Binning for Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Data Using the Freedman-Diaconis Rule
Jessie E. An, Chi-Huan Tung, Changwoo Do, Wei-Ren Chen

Adaptive Knowledge Distillation using a Device-Aware Teacher for Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification
Seung Gyu Jeong, Seong Eun Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09262 htt…

Adaptive Knowledge Distillation using a Device-Aware Teacher for Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification
In this technical report, we describe our submission for Task 1, Low-Complexity Device-Robust Acoustic Scene Classification, of the DCASE 2025 Challenge. Our work tackles the dual challenges of strict complexity constraints and robust generalization to both seen and unseen devices, while also leveraging the new rule allowing the use of device labels at test time. Our proposed system is based on a knowledge distillation framework where an efficient CP-MobileNet student learns from a compact, spe…

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.chem-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.chem-ph/new
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- Recursive algorithm for constructing antisymmetric fermionic states in first quantization mapping
E. Rule, I. A. Chernyshev, I. Stetcu, J. Carlson, R. Weiss

Randomly twisted bilayer graphene -- the cascade transitions
Baruch Horovitz, Pierre Le Doussal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07024 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Randomly twisted bilayer graphene -- the cascade transitions
Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known to have disorder in its twist angle. We show that in terms of a Dirac equation with a random gauge potential ${\bf A}({\bf r})$ this disorder becomes huge when the average twist angle is near the magic angle where the Dirac velocity vanishes. The density of states (DOS) then diverges at the Dirac point as $ρ(E)\sim E^{(2/z)-1}$ with $z\gg 1$ and we deduce that all electrons occupy energies very near $E=0$. We prove a sum rule on the disorder averaged eig…

Interplay of choice and topology in percolation on mediation-driven attachment networks
Nilomber Roy, M. M. B. Sheraj, M. K. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10076 https://

Interplay of choice and topology in percolation on mediation-driven attachment networks
We investigate bond percolation on mediation-driven attachment (MDA) networks under the generalized Achlioptas process, where $M>1$ candidate bonds are sampled and the one that minimizes the resulting cluster size is selected the best-of-$M$ rule. This framework offers a systematic approach to investigate how network topology and choice mechanisms jointly shape percolation behavior. We analyze the effects of the degree exponent $ω$ and the choice parameter $M$ on the critical point $t_c$ and t…

Denominators of R-matrices, higher Dorey's rules and a generalization of T-systems for quantum affine algebras
Se-jin Oh, Travis Scrimshaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10874 h…

Denominators of R-matrices, higher Dorey's rules and a generalization of T-systems for quantum affine algebras
We construct a higher level analogue of Dorey's rule, which describe certain surjective morphisms between Kirillov--Reshetikhin (KR) modules over quantum affine algebras. Building on this, we establish a generalized T-system of short exact sequences and prove the denominator formula between KR modules in all nonexceptional types, except with only mild ambiguities persisting in type $C_n^{(1)}$. As a consequence, we can completely classify when a tensor product of KR modules is simple. These res…

Speculative politics
As an anarchist (okay, maybe not in practice), I'm tired of hearing why we have to suffer X and Y indignity to "preserve the rule of law" or "maintain Democratic norms." So here's an example of what representative democracy (a form of government that I believe is inherently flawed) could look like if its proponents had even an ounce of imagination, and/or weren't actively trying to rig it to favor a rich donor class:
1. Unicameral legislature, where representatives pass laws directly. Each state elects 3 statewide representatives: the three most-popular candidates in a statewide race where each person votes for one candidate (ranked preference voting would be even better but might not be necessary, and is not a solution by itself). Instead of each representative getting one vote in the chamber, they get N votes, where N is the number of people who voted for them. This means that in a close race, instead of the winner getting all the power, the power is split. Having 3 representatives trades off between leisure size and ensuring that two parties can't dominate together.
2. Any individual citizen can contact their local election office to switch or withdraw their vote at any time (maybe with a 3-day delay or something). Voting power of representatives can thus shift even without an election. They are limited to choosing one of the three elected representatives, or "none of the above." If the "none of the above" fraction exceeds 20% of eligible voters, a new election is triggered for that state. If turnout is less than 80%, a second election happens immediately, with results being final even at lower turnout until 6 months later (some better mechanism for turnout management might be needed).
3. All elections allow mail-in ballots, and in-person voting happens Sunday-Tuesday with the Monday being a mandatory holiday. (Yes, election integrity is not better in this system and that's a big weakness.)
4. Separate nationwide elections elect three positions for head-of-state: one with diplomatic/administrative powers, another with military powers, and a third with veto power. For each position, the top three candidates serve together, with only the first-place winner having actual power until vote switches or withdrawals change who that is. Once one of these heads loses their first-place status, they cannot get it again until another election, even if voters switch preferences back (to avoid dithering). An election for one of these positions is triggered when 20% have withdrawn their votes, or if all three people initially elected have been disqualified by losing their lead in the vote count.
5. Laws that involve spending money are packaged with specific taxes to pay for them, and may only be paid for by those specific revenues. Each tax may be opted into or out of by each taxpayer; where possible opting out of the tax also opts you out of the service. (I'm well aware of a lot of the drawbacks of this, but also feel like they'd not necessarily be worse than the drawbacks of our current system.) A small mandatory tax would cover election expenses.
6. I'm running out of attention, but similar multi-winner elections could elect panels of judges from which a subset is chosen randomly to preside in each case.
Now I'll point out once again that this system, in not directly confronting capitalism, racism, patriarchy, etc., is probably doomed to the same failures as our current system. But if you profess to want a "representative democracy" as opposed to something more libratory, I hope you'll at least advocate for something like this that actually includes meaningful representation as opposed to the current US system that's engineered to quash it.
Key questions: "Why should we have winner-take-all elections when winners-take-proportionately-to-votes is right there?" and "Why should elected officials get to ignore their constituents' approval except during elections, when vote-withdrawal or -switching is possible?"
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Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.PE. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.PE/new
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- Using machine learning to inform harvest control rule design in complex fishery settings
Felipe Montealegre-Mora, Carl Boettiger, Carl J. Walters, Christopher L. Cahill

Epsilon-Minimax Solutions of Statistical Decision Problems
Andr\'es Aradillas Fern\'andez, Jos\'e Blanchet, Jos\'e Luis Montiel Olea, Chen Qiu, J\"org Stoye, Lezhi Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08107

Epsilon-Minimax Solutions of Statistical Decision Problems
A decision rule is epsilon-minimax if it is minimax up to an additive factor epsilon. We present an algorithm for provably obtaining epsilon-minimax solutions of statistical decision problems. We are interested in problems where the statistician chooses randomly among I decision rules. The minimax solution of these problems admits a convex programming representation over the (I-1)-simplex. Our suggested algorithm is a well-known mirror subgradient descent routine, designed to approximately solv…

Crosslisted article(s) found for hep-lat. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-lat/new
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- QCD Sum Rule Study of the Tensor $\Delta^0\Delta^0$ Dibaryon State
M. Ahmadi, H. Mohseni, K. Azizi

E3-Rewrite: Learning to Rewrite SQL for Executability, Equivalence,and Efficiency
Dongjie Xu, Yue Cui, Weijie Shi, Qingzhi Ma, Hanghui Guo, Jiaming Li, Yao Zhao, Ruiyuan Zhang, Shimin Di, Jia Zhu, Kai Zheng, Jiajie Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09023

E3-Rewrite: Learning to Rewrite SQL for Executability, Equivalence,and Efficiency
SQL query rewriting aims to reformulate a query into a more efficient form while preserving equivalence. Most existing methods rely on predefined rewrite rules. However, such rule-based approaches face fundamental limitations: (1) fixed rule sets generalize poorly to novel query patterns and struggle with complex queries; (2) a wide range of effective rewriting strategies cannot be fully captured by declarative rules. To overcome these issues, we propose using large language models (LLMs) to ge…

Rephasing Invariant Formula for the CP Phase in the Kobayashi-Maskawa Parametrization and the Exact Sum Rule with the Unitarity Triangle $\delta_{\rm PDG} \delta_{\rm KM} = \pi - \alpha \gamma$
Masaki J. S. Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10249

Rephasing Invariant Formula for the CP Phase in the Kobayashi-Maskawa Parametrization and the Exact Sum Rule with the Unitarity Triangle $δ_{\rm PDG} + δ_{\rm KM} = π- α+ γ$
In this letter, we obtain a rephasing invariant formula for the CP phase in the Kobayashi--Maskawa parameterization $δ_{\rm KM} = \arg [ - { V_{ud} \det V_{\rm CKM} / V_{us} V_{ub} V_{cd} V_{td}} ]$. General perturbative expansion of the formula and observed value $δ_{\rm KM} \simeq π/2$ reveal that the phase difference of the 1-2 mixings $e^{i (ρ_{12}^{d} - ρ_{12}^{u})}$ is close to maximal for sufficiently small 1-3 quark mixings $s_{13}^{u,d}$. Moreover, by combining this result with an…

Remarks on Derivations on Maximal Triangular Operator Algebras
Mark Spivack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07347

Remarks on Derivations on Maximal Triangular Operator Algebras
This note concerns bounded derivations on maximal triangular operator algebras on a Hilbert space. Given any bounded derivation $δ$ on a maximal triangular algebra whose invariant lattice is continuous at 1, an operator which is shown to implement $δ$ is constructed explicitly. For a general reducible maximal triangular algebra the same construction yields an operator which is shown to implement any $δ$, if and only if $δ$ obeys an additional triple product rule. This work is based on unp…

Efficient Defection: Overage-Proportional Rationing Attains the Cooperative Frontier
Florian Lengyel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07145 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Efficient Defection: Overage-Proportional Rationing Attains the Cooperative Frontier
We study a noncooperative $n$-player game of slack allocation in which each player $j$ has entitlement $L_j>0$ and chooses a claim $C_j\ge0$. Let $v_j=(C_j-L_j)_+$ (overage) and $s_j=(L_j-C_j)_+$ (slack); set $X=\sum_j v_j$ and $I=\sum_j s_j$. At the end of the period an overage-proportional clearing rule allocates cooperative surplus $I$ to defectors in proportion to $v_j$; cooperators receive $C_j$. We show: (i) the selfish outcome reproduces the cooperative payoff vector $(L_1,\dots,L_n)$; (…

Replaced article(s) found for stat.ML. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ML/new
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- Thompson Exploration with Best Challenger Rule in Best Arm Identification
Jongyeong Lee, Junya Honda, Masashi Sugiyama

Resolution of spin crisis, and notes on the Bjorken sum rule, anomaly and constituent quark
J. Pasupathy, Janardhan P. Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12156 https://

Resolution of spin crisis, and notes on the Bjorken sum rule, anomaly and constituent quark
It is shown that the widely used parton model expression for $ g_1$ in polarized proton-lepton scattering is incorrect as it ignores gluon-quark spin entanglement. Therefore, there is no spin crisis. A brief summary of results of the theoretical evaluation of non-octet axial vector current renormalization constants and anomaly -anomaly vacuum correlator is given. It suggests that anomaly plays an important role in the transformation of current quarks to constituent quarks and chiral symmetry br…