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⛓️‍💥 Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations
#ai #llm

Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations
Modern tokenizers employ deterministic algorithms to map text into a single "canonical" token sequence, yet the same string can be encoded as many non-canonical tokenizations using the tokenizer vocabulary. In this work, we investigate the robustness of LMs to text encoded with non-canonical tokenizations entirely unseen during training. Surprisingly, when evaluated across 20 benchmarks, we find that instruction-tuned models retain up to 93.4% of their original performance when given a randomly…

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface aided Integrated-Navigation-and-Communication in Urban Canyons: A Satellite Selection Approach
Tianwei Hou, Da Guan, Xin Sun, Anna Li, Wenqiang Yi, Yuanwei Liu, Arumugam Nallanathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01766

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface aided Integrated-Navigation-and-Communication in Urban Canyons: A Satellite Selection Approach
This study investigates the application of a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided medium-Earth-orbit (MEO) satellite network for providing both global positioning services and communication services in the urban canyons, where the direct satellite-user links are obstructed. Superposition coding (SC) and successive interference cancellation (SIC) techniques are utilized for the integrated navigation and communication (INAC) networks, and th…

this *sounds* like SFMTA agreed to painting full 20-foot red curbs at every intersection, rather than the mere 10 feet at stop-controlled intersections that has been traffic engineer Ricardo Olea's policy. if so, good! parent organizing worked!
https://www.k…

SFMTA Coming Up Short on Daylighting SF’s Red Curbs, Parents Say
San Francisco’s transit agency says it will change its daylighting policy to ensure compliance with a California traffic safety law intended to protect pedestrians and cyclists.

Biden, in Rare Remarks Since Presidency, Warns His Accomplishments Are Coming Undone (Lindsay Ellis/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-in-rare-remarks-since-presidency-warns-his-accomplishments-are-coming-undone-18c58c50
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p135#a250702p135

Welp, looks like I'll need to file a bill to require that if the state is going to assert copyright over its historical markers, it's gotta be under a copyleft license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Historical_markers_in_New_Hampshire
(that is, assuming something can't be worked out independently without one...)

Panthers' stalwart OL Taylor Moton believes 'another contract' is coming ahead of final year of deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pant…

Robust and Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework with Communication for Autonomous Vehicles
Keshawn Smith, Zhili Zhang, H M Sabbir Ahmad, Ehsan Sabouni, Maniak Mondal, Song Han, Wenchao Li, Fei Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00982

Robust and Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework with Communication for Autonomous Vehicles
Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has been demonstrated effectively in simulations for many multi-robot problems. For autonomous vehicles, the development of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technologies provide opportunities to further enhance safety of the system. However, zero-shot transfer of simulator-trained MARL policies to hardware dynamic systems remains challenging, and how to leverage communication and shared information for MARL has limited demonstrations on hardw…

The essence of cinema. 🎞️
#cinema #film #cinemastodon

Commonsense Solidarity: How a Working-Class Coalition Can Be Built, and Maintained
https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/08095656/CWCPReport_CommonsenseSolidarity.pdf

Spatially Correlated multi-RIS Communication: The Effect of Inter-Operator Interference
Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Panagiotis A. Karkazis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02666

Spatially Correlated multi-RIS Communication: The Effect of Inter-Operator Interference
A multi-operator wireless communication system is studied where each operator is equipped with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to enhance its communication quality. RISs controlled by different operators affect the system performance of one another due to the inherently rapid phase shift adjustments that occur on an independent basis. The system performance of such a communication scenario is analytically studied for the practical case where spatial correlation occurs at RIS of arbit…