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Unifying Streaming and Non-streaming Zipformer-based ASR
Bidisha Sharma, Karthik Pandia Durai, Shankar Venkatesan, Jeena J Prakash, Shashi Kumar, Malolan Chetlur, Andreas Stolcke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14434

Unifying Streaming and Non-streaming Zipformer-based ASR
There has been increasing interest in unifying streaming and non-streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) models to reduce development, training, and deployment costs. We present a unified framework that trains a single end-to-end ASR model for both streaming and non-streaming applications, leveraging future context information. We propose to use dynamic right-context through the chunked attention masking in the training of zipformer-based ASR models. We demonstrate that using right-context…

Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.
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Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
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Revisiting $\Lambda$CDM extensions in light of re-analyzed CMB data
Jacobo Asorey, Javier de Cruz P\'erez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13537 https://

Revisiting $Λ$CDM extensions in light of re-analyzed CMB data
In the last years with the increasing precision in cosmological observations we have been able to establish an standard model of cosmology, the so-called $Λ$CDM, but also find some tensions between cosmological probes that are difficult to explain within the context of this model. We tested several phenomenological extensions of the $Λ$CDM with the newest datasets from the chain CMB+BAO+SNIa, to see whether they are able to alleviate the aforementioned tensions. We find that when the updated …

Better Pseudo-labeling with Multi-ASR Fusion and Error Correction by SpeechLLM
Jeena Prakash, Blessingh Kumar, Kadri Hacioglu, Bidisha Sharma, Sindhuja Gopalan, Malolan Chetlur, Shankar Venkatesan, Andreas Stolcke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11089

Better Pseudo-labeling with Multi-ASR Fusion and Error Correction by SpeechLLM
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) models rely on high-quality transcribed data for effective training. Generating pseudo-labels for large unlabeled audio datasets often relies on complex pipelines that combine multiple ASR outputs through multi-stage processing, leading to error propagation, information loss and disjoint optimization. We propose a unified multi-ASR prompt-driven framework using postprocessing by either textual or speech-based large language models (LLMs), replacing voting or o…

POPQC: Parallel Optimization for Quantum Circuits (Extended Version)
Pengyu Liu, Jatin Arora, Mingkuan Xu, Umut A. Acar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13720 ht…

POPQC: Parallel Optimization for Quantum Circuits (Extended Version)
Optimization of quantum programs or circuits is a fundamental problem in quantum computing and remains a major challenge. State-of-the-art quantum circuit optimizers rely on heuristics and typically require superlinear, and even exponential, time. Recent work proposed a new approach that pursues a weaker form of optimality called local optimality. Parameterized by a natural number $Ω$, local optimality insists that each and every $Ω$-segment of the circuit is optimal with respect to an extern…

The Freedom Flotilla „Madleen” is projected to arrive in just a few hours at a coast in Gaza. If anything happens to @… or the other activists, the international community will never forgive the current Israeli government for it.
I wish and pray for your best, keep being the voice of our generation…

Freiheit für Greta Thunberg, Yasemin Acar und alle Aktivist*innen der Freedom Flotilla - Online-Petition
Humanitäre Hilfe ist kein Verbrechen! Am 1. Juni 2025 wurde das zivile Hilfsschiff Madleen der Freedom Flotilla Coalition auf dem Weg nach Gaza in internationalen Gewässern gewaltsam von der israelischen Armee gestoppt, geentert und seine Besatzung verschleppt. An Bord befanden sich ausschließlich unbewaffnete Freiwillige und dringend für den Gazastreifen benötigte humanitäre Hilfsgüter wie Babynahrung, Medizin und Prothesen für verletzte Kinder. Unter den Festgehaltenen ist neben Greta…

#urbanism talk today:
It was a bit stupid for the government (defending the court case) to agree with the prosecution that it w…

Ontem houve um incidente envolvendo um cachorro e esses gatos de rua que alimento. Foi um alívio agora ver a tricolor bem, ela que eu vi sendo perseguida pelo cachorro. Mas não vi a branquinha ou a preto e branca. Espero que apareçam mais tarde.

Azure cost reduction/optimization for hosted applications using Artificial Intelligence. And it's REPEATABLE. Interested? Read on...
✅ Daniel Meppiel's Project Post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielmeppiel_enterpriseai-ai-…

💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? | Daniel Meppiel
💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? 💥 I recently got it to happen—firsthand. What started as a quick experiment turned into something game-changing. Using VSCode's reusable prompts and the Azure MCP server, GitHub Copilot identified key optimizations for my app's infra in a predictable manner. Then, the Coding Agent implemented them. 📉 The result? An 80% smaller cloud bill. Just like that. In this 2-minute demo (linked below …

Maryland-based quantum computing company IonQ agrees to acquire Oxford Ionics, which spun out of Oxford University, in a $1.07B all-stock deal, closing in 2025 (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dde7bac2-cacb-4deb-9223-5bcfe285db15

US quantum computing company IonQ to buy Oxford university start-up
Acquisition of Oxford Ionics for $1.1bn shows advances in processing are kick-starting dealmaking