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BAGELS: Benchmarking the Automated Generation and Extraction of Limitations from Scholarly Text
Ibrahim Al Azher, Miftahul Jannat Mokarrama, Zhishuai Guo, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Hamed Alhoori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18207

BAGELS: Benchmarking the Automated Generation and Extraction of Limitations from Scholarly Text
In scientific research, limitations refer to the shortcomings, constraints, or weaknesses within a study. Transparent reporting of such limitations can enhance the quality and reproducibility of research and improve public trust in science. However, authors often a) underreport them in the paper text and b) use hedging strategies to satisfy editorial requirements at the cost of readers' clarity and confidence. This underreporting behavior, along with an explosion in the number of publications, …

See What I Mean? Expressiveness and Clarity in Robot Display Design
Matthew Ebisu, Hang Yu, Reuben Aronson, Elaine Short
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16643 h…

See What I Mean? Expressiveness and Clarity in Robot Display Design
Nonverbal visual symbols and displays play an important role in communication when humans and robots work collaboratively. However, few studies have investigated how different types of non-verbal cues affect objective task performance, especially in a dynamic environment that requires real time decision-making. In this work, we designed a collaborative navigation task where the user and the robot only had partial information about the map on each end and thus the users were forced to communicat…

Donald Trump rolled tanks through Washington, DC, and deployed the USMC to the streets of Los Angeles.
It took him 152 days to break his promise and bomb Iran without a strategy — or any semblance of a plan.
That’s why I helped launch the Save America Movement.
We’re a clear-eyed 50-state movement to degrade and defeat Trumpism.
SAM is rooted in strategy, truth, and moral clarity.
We’re not reacting.
We’re organizing.
And we’re doing it in every c…

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rd-spiral: An open-source Python library for learning 2D reaction-diffusion dynamics through pseudo-spectral method
Sandy H. S. Herho, Iwan P. Anwar, Rusmawan Suwarman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20633

rd-spiral: An open-source Python library for learning 2D reaction-diffusion dynamics through pseudo-spectral method
We introduce rd-spiral, an open-source Python library for simulating 2D reaction-diffusion systems using pseudo-spectral methods. The framework combines FFT-based spatial discretization with adaptive Dormand-Prince time integration, achieving exponential convergence while maintaining pedagogical clarity. We analyze three dynamical regimes: stable spirals, spatiotemporal chaos, and pattern decay, revealing extreme non-Gaussian statistics (kurtosis $>96$) in stable states. Information-theoretic m…

A Conceptual Framework for AI Capability Evaluations
Mar\'ia Victoria Carro, Denise Alejandra Mester, Francisca Gauna Selasco, Luca Nicol\'as Forziati Gangi, Matheo Sandleris Musa, Lola Ramos Pereyra, Mario Leiva, Juan Gustavo Corvalan, Mar\'ia Vanina Martinez, Gerardo Simari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18213

A Conceptual Framework for AI Capability Evaluations
As AI systems advance and integrate into society, well-designed and transparent evaluations are becoming essential tools in AI governance, informing decisions by providing evidence about system capabilities and risks. Yet there remains a lack of clarity on how to perform these assessments both comprehensively and reliably. To address this gap, we propose a conceptual framework for analyzing AI capability evaluations, offering a structured, descriptive approach that systematizes the analysis of …

Whatever’s going on in the employment market, it feels like there’s some kind of fever that needs to break — as bubbles bursting, as a recession, •something• — and it’s only after it does that in hindsight we’ll have some measure of clarity.

Clarity of context: nuclear deal inked under #Obama stopped #Iran's #nuke program. Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed under the Obama administration in 2015, and at the time Iran was a f…

AND THEN THERE ARE MOMENTS OF CLARITY

Physisorption on Nanomechanical Resonators: The Overlooked Influence of Trace Moisture
Hemant Kumar Verma, Suman Kumar Mandal, Darkasha Khan, Faizan Tariq Beigh, Manoj Kandpal, Jaspreet Singh, Sushobhan Avasthi, Srinivasan Raghavan, Akshay Naik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17553

Physisorption on Nanomechanical Resonators: The Overlooked Influence of Trace Moisture
Short gas pulses introduced in a vacuum chamber have long been utilized to showcase the ultra-low mass resolutions achievable with nanomechanical resonators. The resonance frequency shifts are used as evidence of gas adsorption. However, there is very little clarity as to what exactly is adsorbing on to the resonators. We demonstrate that the physisorption of gases on cantilevers is predominantly the effect of moisture content that is present even in ultra-high purity gases. The experimental wo…

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Fascism is not some distant nightmare locked away in history books. It is a dark, living force that haunts the present, casting its shadow over the United States with terrifying clarity.
The brutal dehumanization, the cruelty inflicted on vulnerable people, the aggressive nationalism and racism, these are not echoes from the past but the harsh reality of today. Concentration camps for children, hateful rhetoric that strips away humanity, and the rise of authoritarian power show that fa…

CrowdStrike and Microsoft Unite to Harmonize Cyber Threat Attribution
https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-and-microsoft-unite-to-deconflict-cyber-threat-attribution/

CrowdStrike and Microsoft Unite to Deconflict Cyber Threat Attribution
A CrowdStrike and Microsoft collaboration aims to eliminate ambiguity in adversary naming to bring clarity. Learn more!

Russian attacks show with clarity that Putin is mocking Trump, Poland's Sikorski says
Arriving for talks in Rome, Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski said the continued Russian attacks show that
“Vladimir Putin of Russia is mocking the peace efforts of president Donald Trump.”
He also stressed that Europe is stepping up its plans for defence, with increased spending.
Talking about the meeting ahead, he said leaders needed to
“strategise about what to do…

My latest aspires-to-be-monthly newsletter went out the door this morning with an essay on banning words and some interesting reads from others. Click through if you're interested.
https://www.wordsbywes.ink/newsletter/notes-on-editing-17/

Notes on Editing 17
I’ve been churning this article around in my head for a few weeks now. While I have tried to avoid getting political in this newsletter, I can’t do that this time. The theme I planned for this issue is clarity, which often involves choosing which of a handful of choices is the most appropriate word — or words — to use to make our point. But that’s not really where I wound up with this piece.

Towards Temporally Explainable Dysarthric Speech Clarity Assessment
Seohyun Park, Chitralekha Gupta, Michelle Kah Yian Kwan, Xinhui Fung, Alexander Wenjun Yip, Suranga Nanayakkara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00454

Towards Temporally Explainable Dysarthric Speech Clarity Assessment
Dysarthria, a motor speech disorder, affects intelligibility and requires targeted interventions for effective communication. In this work, we investigate automated mispronunciation feedback by collecting a dysarthric speech dataset from six speakers reading two passages, annotated by a speech therapist with temporal markers and mispronunciation descriptions. We design a three-stage framework for explainable mispronunciation evaluation: (1) overall clarity scoring, (2) mispronunciation localiza…

Beyond Surface Similarity: Evaluating LLM-Based Test Refactorings with Structural and Semantic Awareness
Wendk\^uuni C. Ou\'edraogo, Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang, Xin Zhou, Anil Koyuncu, Jacques Klein, David Lo, Tegawend\'e F. Bissyand\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06767

Beyond Surface Similarity: Evaluating LLM-Based Test Refactorings with Structural and Semantic Awareness
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed to automatically refactor unit tests, aiming to enhance readability, naming, and structural clarity while preserving functional behavior. However, evaluating such refactorings remains challenging: traditional metrics like CodeBLEU are overly sensitive to renaming and structural edits, whereas embedding-based similarities capture semantics but ignore readability and modularity. We introduce CTSES, a composite metric that integrates CodeBLEU,…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24407 has been replaced.
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Efficient RAW Image Deblurring with Adaptive Frequency Modulation
Image deblurring plays a crucial role in enhancing visual clarity across various applications. Although most deep learning approaches primarily focus on sRGB images, which inherently lose critical information during the image signal processing pipeline, RAW images, being unprocessed and linear, possess superior restoration potential but remain underexplored. Deblurring RAW images presents unique challenges, particularly in handling frequency-dependent blur while maintaining computational effici…

A Metric Framework for Triangle Inequalities via Barycentric Coordinates
Xi Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10050 https://arxiv.org/p…

A Metric Framework for Triangle Inequalities via Barycentric Coordinates
This paper presents a unified metric-based framework for triangle geometric inequalities using barycentric coordinates. By interpreting classical inequalities as squared distances between points(a process termed metricization)we derive and refine numerous well-known inequalities. Furthermore, the squared-distance function ELD_I, measures distances from the incenter to points on the Euler line, also yielding generalized inequalities. The method offers geometric clarity and extends naturally to h…

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$Δ$-Nets: Interaction-Based System for Optimal Parallel $λ$-Reduction
I present a model of universal parallel computation called $Δ$-Nets, and a method to translate $λ$-terms into $Δ$-nets and back. Together, the model and the method constitute an algorithm for optimal parallel $λ$-reduction, solving the longstanding enigma with groundbreaking clarity. I show that the $λ$-calculus can be understood as a projection of $Δ$-Nets -- one that severely restricts the structure of sharing, among other drawbacks. Unhindered by these restrictions, the $Δ$-Nets model…

My latest aspires-to-be-monthly newsletter went out the door this morning with an essay on banning words and some interesting reads from others. Click through if you're interested.
https://www.wordsbywes.ink/newsletter/notes-on-editing-17/

Notes on Editing 17
I’ve been churning this article around in my head for a few weeks now. While I have tried to avoid getting political in this newsletter, I can’t do that this time. The theme I planned for this issue is clarity, which often involves choosing which of a handful of choices is the most appropriate word — or words — to use to make our point. But that’s not really where I wound up with this piece.

Aucamp: An Underwater Camera-Based Multi-Robot Platform with Low-Cost, Distributed, and Robust Localization
Jisheng Xu, Ding Lin, Pangkit Fong, Chongrong Fang, Xiaoming Duan, Jianping He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09876

Aucamp: An Underwater Camera-Based Multi-Robot Platform with Low-Cost, Distributed, and Robust Localization
This paper introduces an underwater multi-robot platform, named Aucamp, characterized by cost-effective monocular-camera-based sensing, distributed protocol and robust orientation control for localization. We utilize the clarity feature to measure the distance, present the monocular imaging model, and estimate the position of the target object. We achieve global positioning in our platform by designing a distributed update protocol. The distributed algorithm enables the perception process to si…

HARNode: A Time-Synchronised, Open-Source, Multi-Device, Wearable System for Ad Hoc Field Studies
Philipp Lepold, Tobias R\"oddiger, Michael Beigl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03219

HARNode: A Time-Synchronised, Open-Source, Multi-Device, Wearable System for Ad Hoc Field Studies
Research into human activity recognition (HAR) suffers from a lack of comprehensive, freely available field data. Commercial systems are rarely open source, offer little expandability, and have shortcomings in node synchronisation, data throughput, placement clarity, setup complexity, and cost. As a result, only a few intuitively placed sensors are often used, and field trials are generally reduced. HARNode addresses these obstacles as a fully open-source hardware and software platform for rapi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14653 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Conceptualizing educational opportunity hoarding: the emergence of hoarding without hoarders
Social scientists increasingly use the concept of opportunity hoarding to explain the formation of Black-White educational inequalities. However, this concept is often loosely defined, leading to varied interpretations of the inequality-producing mechanisms it captures. To bring clarity to this valuable sociological concept, this theoretical paper, informed by the concept's original definition and existing empirical research, proposes a more precise definition of opportunity hoarding and formal…

It’s exhilarating to hear Bernie Sanders speak to a crowd:
his zeal is reflected back in their faces,
his moral clarity is such a relief,
set against the cynicism and resignation of most of the Democratic party’s opposition to Trump and his administration.
Class war is as old as time, but it’s a peculiarity of this age that you rarely hear a politician name it.
“I do,” he tells me. “There is a class war going on. The people on top are waging that war.”
…

Efficient RAW Image Deblurring with Adaptive Frequency Modulation
Wenlong Jiao, Binglong Li, Wei Shang, Ping Wang, Dongwei Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24407

Efficient RAW Image Deblurring with Adaptive Frequency Modulation
Image deblurring plays a crucial role in enhancing visual clarity across various applications. Although most deep learning approaches primarily focus on sRGB images, which inherently lose critical information during the image signal processing pipeline, RAW images, being unprocessed and linear, possess superior restoration potential but remain underexplored. Deblurring RAW images presents unique challenges, particularly in handling frequency-dependent blur while maintaining computational effici…

Disentangling Spatial and Structural Drivers of Housing Prices through Bayesian Networks: A Case Study of Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia
Alvaro Garcia Murga, Manuele Leonelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09539

Disentangling Spatial and Structural Drivers of Housing Prices through Bayesian Networks: A Case Study of Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia
Understanding how housing prices respond to spatial accessibility, structural attributes, and typological distinctions is central to contemporary urban research and policy. In cities marked by affordability stress and market segmentation, models that offer both predictive capability and interpretive clarity are increasingly needed. This study applies discrete Bayesian networks to model residential price formation across Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia using over 180,000 geo-referenced housing l…