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Gay Times CEO Tag Warner says his outlet is facing "good old-fashioned discrimination" from advertisers amid DEI criticism; other LGBTQ publishers agree (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/aug/31/lgbtq-media-advertisin…

Poll shows decline in belief that Blacks and Asians face racial discrimination (Associated Press)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/poll-shows-decline-belief-blacks-asians-face-racial-discrimination-rcna222217
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p72#a250731p72

Synthetic CVs To Build and Test Fairness-Aware Hiring Tools
Jorge Saldivar, Anna Gatzioura, Carlos Castillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21179 https://arxiv.…

Synthetic CVs To Build and Test Fairness-Aware Hiring Tools
Algorithmic hiring has become increasingly necessary in some sectors as it promises to deal with hundreds or even thousands of applicants. At the heart of these systems are algorithms designed to retrieve and rank candidate profiles, which are usually represented by Curricula Vitae (CVs). Research has shown, however, that such technologies can inadvertently introduce bias, leading to discrimination based on factors such as candidates' age, gender, or national origin. Developing methods to measu…

Chiral Discrimination on Gate-Based Quantum Computers
Muhammad Arsalan Ali Akbar, Sabre Kais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18546 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18…

Chiral Discrimination on Gate-Based Quantum Computers
We present a novel approach to chiral discrimination using gate-based quantum processors, addressing a key challenge in adapting conventional control techniques using modern quantum computing. Schemes such as stimulated rapid adiabatic passage (STIRAP) and shortcuts to adiabaticity (STAP) have shown strong potential for enantiomer discrimination; their reliance on analog and continuous-time control makes them incompatible with digital gate-based quantum computing architectures. Here, we adapt t…

Mapping Brain-Behavior Correlations in Autism Using Heat Kernel Smoothing
Moo K. Chung, Kim M. Dalton, Daniel J. Kelley, Richard J. Davidson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00473

Mapping Brain-Behavior Correlations in Autism Using Heat Kernel Smoothing
This paper presents a streamlined image analysis framework for correlating behavioral measures to anatomical measures on the cortex and detecting the regions of abnormal brain-behavior correlates. We correlated a facial emotion discrimination task score and its response time to cortical thickness measurements in a group of high functioning autistic subjects. Many previous correlation studies in brain imaging neglect to account for unwanted age effect and other variables and the subsequent stati…

Frequency-Domain Joint Monitoring of Differential Group Delay and Dependent Loss of Optical Singleand Few-Mode Fiber Channels Based on CAZAC Sequences
Linsheng Fan, Gao Ye, Zhongliang Sun, Lingguo Cao, Hao Shi, Jianwei Tang, Shunfeng Wang, Hengying Xu, Chenglin Bai, Jian Zhao, Weisheng Hu, Jinlong Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.…

Frequency-Domain Joint Monitoring of Differential Group Delay and Dependent Loss of Optical Singleand Few-Mode Fiber Channels Based on CAZAC Sequences
This paper addresses the challenges of monitoring optical-fiber channels subject to complex, multidimensional impairments-such as dynamic interference across polarization or modal dimensions-where conventional methods suffer from high equipment costs, poor impairment discrimination and limited scalability. We propose an in-service, frequency-domain joint monitoring scheme based on constant-amplitude zero-autocorrelation (CAZAC) sequences. Exploiting their flat spectra and ideal autocorrelation,…

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is preparing to
💥shut down seven major investigations and cases concerning alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including
⚠️ some where the agency already found civil rights violations, according to HUD records obtained by ProPublica.
The high-profile cases involve allegations that state and local governments across the South and Midwest illegally discriminated against people of color
by placing industrial…

Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.

Ex-player sues Chiefs, cites racial discrimination https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45539732/ramzee-robinson-sues-chiefs-wrongful-termination-racial-discrimination

More on CBP treatment of Canadians at the US border, this time with CBP’s own statistics, which are interesting: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-canada-device-searches-1.7619944?cmp=rss

Surge in U.S. customs searches of electronic devices raises concerns about harsh treatment of Canadians | CBC News
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports a sharp rise in electronic device searches at crossings, raising concerns about privacy, discrimination and harsher scrutiny of Canadians. "There's a lot of fear going into the United States," a Toronto-based immigration lawyer says.

SDGO: Self-Discrimination-Guided Optimization for Consistent Safety in Large Language Models
Peng Ding, Wen Sun, Dailin Li, Wei Zou, Jiaming Wang, Jiajun Chen, Shujian Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15648

SDGO: Self-Discrimination-Guided Optimization for Consistent Safety in Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at various natural language processing tasks but remain vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks that induce harmful content generation. In this paper, we reveal a critical safety inconsistency: LLMs can more effectively identify harmful requests as discriminators than defend against them as generators. This insight inspires us to explore aligning the model's inherent discrimination and generation capabilities. To this end, we propose SDGO (Self-Discrimination-Guide…

Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil! https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1270/ecuador-stop-land-grabbing-and-racial-discrimination-for-palm-oil

#petition Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil!
Communities in northern Ecuador are fighting back against land grabbing and deforestation by the palm oil industry. Yet instead of ensuring law and order, the Ecuadorian authorities are siding with the companies – the courts are working to break the resistance of the people by ordering them to pay damages for their protests.

Norton reintroduces bill to ban discrimination against LGBTQ jurors in D.C. Superior Court
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/06/20/norton-reintroduces-bill-to-ban-discrimination-against-lgbtq-jurors-in-d-c-superior-court/

Choice Outweighs Effort: Facilitating Complementary Knowledge Fusion in Federated Learning via Re-calibration and Merit-discrimination
Ming Yang, Dongrun Li, Xin Wang, Xiaoyang Yu, Xiaoming Wu, Shibo He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17954

Choice Outweighs Effort: Facilitating Complementary Knowledge Fusion in Federated Learning via Re-calibration and Merit-discrimination
Cross-client data heterogeneity in federated learning induces biases that impede unbiased consensus condensation and the complementary fusion of generalization- and personalization-oriented knowledge. While existing approaches mitigate heterogeneity through model decoupling and representation center loss, they often rely on static and restricted metrics to evaluate local knowledge and adopt global alignment too rigidly, leading to consensus distortion and diminished model adaptability. To addre…

Quantum nonlocality without entanglement and state discrimination measures
Shayeef Murshid, Tathagata Gupta, Vincent Russo, Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20560

Quantum nonlocality without entanglement and state discrimination measures
An ensemble of product states is said to exhibit "quantum nonlocality without entanglement" if the states cannot be optimally discriminated by local operations and classical communication (LOCC). We show that this property can depend on the measure of state discrimination. We present a family of ensembles, each consisting of six linearly independent, equally probable product states for which LOCC fails to achieve optimal minimum-error discrimination but succeeds in achieving optimal unambiguous…

Exploring the role of sample thickness for hyperspectral microscopy tissue discrimination through Monte Carlo simulations
Laura Quintana-quintana (Institute For Applied Microelectronics), Mark Witteveen (Image-guided Surgery, Department Of Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Behdad Dashtbozorg (Image-guided Surgery, Department Of Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Samuel Ortega (Norwegian Institute Of Food, Fisheries and …

Exploring the role of sample thickness for hyperspectral microscopy tissue discrimination through Monte Carlo simulations
Recent advancements in multispectral (MS) and hyperspectral (HS) microscopy have focused on sensor and system improvements, yet sample processing remains overlooked. We conducted an analysis of the literature, revealing that 40 percent of studies do not report sample thickness. Among those that did report it, the vast majority, 98 percent, used 2 to 10 micrometer samples. This study investigates the impact of unstained sample thickness on MS/HS image quality through light transport simulations.…

Discrimination of neutron-$\gamma$ in the low energy regime using machine learning for an EJ-276D plastic scintillator
S. Panda (a,b), P. K. Netrakanti (a), S. P. Behera (a,b), R. R. Sahu (a), K. Kumar (a,b), R. Sehgal (a), D. K. Mishra (a,b), V. Jha (a,b)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13802

Discrimination of neutron-$γ$ in the low energy regime using machine learning for an EJ-276D plastic scintillator
In this work, we present results for discrimination of neutron and $γ$ events using a plastic scintillator detector with pulse shape discrimination capabilities. Machine learning (ML) algorithms are used to improve the discriminatory power between neutron and $γ$ events at lower energy ranges which otherwise are not addressed by the conventional pulse shape discrimination techniques. The use of a multilayer perceptron with Bayesian inference (MLPBNN) and support vector machine (SVM) algorithm…

Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 Jun 2025) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p164#a250624p164

Shifting Narratives: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media Trends and Public Attitudes on Homelessness
Akshay Irudayaraj (Brown University), Nathan Ye (University of California--Berkeley), Yash Chainani (University of California--Berkeley)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21794

Shifting Narratives: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media Trends and Public Attitudes on Homelessness
Within the field of media framing, homelessness has been a historically under-researched topic. Framing theory states that the media's method of presenting information plays a pivotal role in controlling public sentiment toward a topic. The sentiment held towards homeless individuals influences their ability to access jobs, housing, and resources as a result of discrimination. This study analyzes the topic and sentiment trends in related media articles to validate framing theory within the scop…

Brian Flores' racial discrimination lawsuit against NFL can advance, court rules https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6553759/2025/08/14/nfl-brian-flores-lawsuit-racial-discrimination/

Empowering Digital Agriculture: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Data Sharing and Collaborative Research
Osama Zafar, Rosemarie Santa Gonz\'alez, Mina Namazi, Alfonso Morales, Erman Ayday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20872

Empowering Digital Agriculture: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Data Sharing and Collaborative Research
Data-driven agriculture, which integrates technology and data into agricultural practices, has the potential to improve crop yield, disease resilience, and long-term soil health. However, privacy concerns, such as adverse pricing, discrimination, and resource manipulation, deter farmers from sharing data, as it can be used against them. To address this barrier, we propose a privacy-preserving framework that enables secure data sharing and collaboration for research and development while mitigat…

Breaking Reward Collapse: Adaptive Reinforcement for Open-ended Medical Reasoning with Enhanced Semantic Discrimination
Yizhou Liu, Jingwei Wei, Zizhi Chen, Minghao Han, Xukun Zhang, Keliang Liu, Lihua Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12957

Breaking Reward Collapse: Adaptive Reinforcement for Open-ended Medical Reasoning with Enhanced Semantic Discrimination
Reinforcement learning (RL) with rule-based rewards has demonstrated strong potential in enhancing the reasoning and generalization capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs), while reducing computational overhead. However, its application in medical imaging remains underexplored. Existing reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) approaches in this domain primarily target closed-ended visual question answering (VQA), limiting their applicability to real-world clinical…

Trump administration prepares to drop seven major housing discrimination cases
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/19/2334089/-Trump-administration-prepares-to-drop-seven-major-housing-discrimination-cases

Discrimination of metric theories
F. J. Lobo, M. Rivera-Tapia, G. Rubilar, O. Jim\'enez, A. Delgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12243 https://

Discrimination of metric theories
We study the possibility of discriminating between metric theories within the Parametrized Post-Newtonian formalism. In this approach, the two-dimensional quantum state of a massive quantum clock becomes, after propagating at low speed and in a weak gravitational field, a function of the post-Newtonian parameters and thus a signature of a metric theory. To discriminate among metric theories, we resort to quantum-state discrimination strategies such as minimum error and unambiguous state discrim…

Speciesism in AI: Evaluating Discrimination Against Animals in Large Language Models
Monika Jotautait\.e, Lucius Caviola, David A. Brewster, Thilo Hagendorff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11534

Speciesism in AI: Evaluating Discrimination Against Animals in Large Language Models
As large language models (LLMs) become more widely deployed, it is crucial to examine their ethical tendencies. Building on research on fairness and discrimination in AI, we investigate whether LLMs exhibit speciesist bias -- discrimination based on species membership -- and how they value non-human animals. We systematically examine this issue across three paradigms: (1) SpeciesismBench, a 1,003-item benchmark assessing recognition and moral evaluation of speciesist statements; (2) established…

Reasonable uncertainty: Confidence intervals in empirical Bayes discrimination detection
Jiaying Gu, Nikolaos Ignatiadis, Azeem M. Shaikh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13110 https:…

Reasonable uncertainty: Confidence intervals in empirical Bayes discrimination detection
We revisit empirical Bayes discrimination detection, focusing on uncertainty arising from both partial identification and sampling variability. While prior work has mostly focused on partial identification, we find that some empirical findings are not robust to sampling uncertainty. To better connect statistical evidence to the magnitude of real-world discriminatory behavior, we propose a counterfactual odds-ratio estimand with a attractive properties and interpretation. Our analysis reveals th…

External Evaluation of Discrimination Mitigation Efforts in Meta's Ad Delivery
Basileal Imana, Zeyu Shen, John Heidemann, Aleksandra Korolova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16560 …

External Evaluation of Discrimination Mitigation Efforts in Meta's Ad Delivery
The 2022 settlement between Meta and the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve allegations of discriminatory advertising resulted is a first-of-its-kind change to Meta's ad delivery system aimed to address algorithmic discrimination in its housing ad delivery. In this work, we explore direct and indirect effects of both the settlement's choice of terms and the Variance Reduction System (VRS) implemented by Meta on the actual reduction in discrimination. We first show that the settlement terms…

Second-degree Price Discrimination: Theoretical Analysis, Experiment Design, and Empirical Estimation
Soheil Ghili, K. Sudhir, Nitish Jain, Ankur Garg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13426

Second-degree Price Discrimination: Theoretical Analysis, Experiment Design, and Empirical Estimation
We build on theoretical results from the mechanism design literature to analyze empirical models of second-degree price discrimination (2PD). We show that for a random-coefficients discrete choice ("BLP") model to be suitable for studying 2PD, it must capture the covariance between two key random effects: (i) the "baseline" willingness to pay (affecting all product versions), and (ii) the perceived differentiation between versions. We then develop an experimental design that, among other featur…

Time-Unified Diffusion Policy with Action Discrimination for Robotic Manipulation
Ye Niu, Sanping Zhou, Yizhe Li, Ye Den, Le Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09422

Time-Unified Diffusion Policy with Action Discrimination for Robotic Manipulation
In many complex scenarios, robotic manipulation relies on generative models to estimate the distribution of multiple successful actions. As the diffusion model has better training robustness than other generative models, it performs well in imitation learning through successful robot demonstrations. However, the diffusion-based policy methods typically require significant time to iteratively denoise robot actions, which hinders real-time responses in robotic manipulation. Moreover, existing dif…

Riemannian Inexact Gradient Descent for Quadratic Discrimination
Uday Talwar, Meredith K. Kupinski, Afrooz Jalilzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04670 http…

Riemannian Inexact Gradient Descent for Quadratic Discrimination
We propose an inexact optimization algorithm on Riemannian manifolds, motivated by quadratic discrimination tasks in high-dimensional, low-sample-size (HDLSS) imaging settings. In such applications, gradient evaluations are often biased due to limited sample sizes. To address this, we introduce a novel Riemannian optimization algorithm that is robust to inexact gradient information and prove an $\mathcal O(1/K)$ convergence rate under standard assumptions. We also present a line search variant …

Harvard Crimson on Discrimination Complaints
Nearly 200 Harvard Affiliates File Complaints Alleging ‘Hostile Environment’ for Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims
Both Jay Ulfelder, program director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Nonviolent Action Lab and Hussein Rashid, Assistant Dean of Religion and Public Life at the Harvard D

Non-Discriminatory Personalized Pricing
Philipp Strack, Kai Hao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20925 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.2092…

Non-Discriminatory Personalized Pricing
A monopolist offers personalized prices to consumers with unit demand, heterogeneous values, and idiosyncratic costs, who differ in a protected characteristic, such as race or gender. The seller is subject to a non-discrimination constraint: consumers with the same cost, but different characteristics must face identical prices. Such constraints arise in regulated markets like credit or insurance. The setting reduces to an optimal transport, and we characterize the optimal pricing rule. Under th…

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07d2dyx19zo
The firm says it aims to reduce "accent discrimination" experienced by workers when callers fail to understand them.
But it can also lead to a range of more convincing deepfakes, no?

New AI voice tool trained to copy British regional accents
A UK company says it is better at reproducing a range of accents compared with US or Chinese rivals.

Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/filipino-workers-taiwan-chip-industry/

Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.

Optimal experiment design for practical parameter identifiability and model discrimination
Yue Liu (University of Oxford, Purdue University), Philip K. Maini (University of Oxford), Ruth E. Baker (University of Oxford)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11311

Optimal experiment design for practical parameter identifiability and model discrimination
Mechanistic mathematical models of biological systems usually contain a number of unknown parameters whose values need to be estimated from available experimental data in order for the models to be validated and used to make quantitative predictions. This requires that the models are practically identifiable, that is, the values of the parameters can be confidently determined, given available data. A well-designed experiment can produce data that are much more informative for the purpose of inf…

SWiFT: Soft-Mask Weight Fine-tuning for Bias Mitigation
Junyu Yan, Feng Chen, Yuyang Xue, Yuning Du, Konstantinos Vilouras, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Steven McDonagh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18826

SWiFT: Soft-Mask Weight Fine-tuning for Bias Mitigation
Recent studies have shown that Machine Learning (ML) models can exhibit bias in real-world scenarios, posing significant challenges in ethically sensitive domains such as healthcare. Such bias can negatively affect model fairness, model generalization abilities and further risks amplifying social discrimination. There is a need to remove biases from trained models. Existing debiasing approaches often necessitate access to original training data and need extensive model retraining; they also typ…

The C-index Multiverse
Bego\~na B. Sierra, Colin McLean, Peter S. Hall, Catalina A. Vallejos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14821 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14…

The C-index Multiverse
Quantifying out-of-sample discrimination performance for time-to-event outcomes is a fundamental step for model evaluation and selection in the context of predictive modelling. The concordance index, or C-index, is a widely used metric for this purpose, particularly with the growing development of machine learning methods. Beyond differences between proposed C-index estimators (e.g. Harrell's, Uno's and Antolini's), we demonstrate the existence of a C-index multiverse among available R and pyth…

Fair Play in the Newsroom: Actor-Based Filtering Gender Discrimination in Text Corpora
Stefanie Urchs, Veronika Thurner, Matthias A{\ss}enmacher, Christian Heumann, Stephanie Thiemichen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13169

Fair Play in the Newsroom: Actor-Based Filtering Gender Discrimination in Text Corpora
Large language models are increasingly shaping digital communication, yet their outputs often reflect structural gender imbalances that originate from their training data. This paper presents an extended actor-level pipeline for detecting and mitigating gender discrimination in large-scale text corpora. Building on prior work in discourse-aware fairness analysis, we introduce new actor-level metrics that capture asymmetries in sentiment, syntactic agency, and quotation styles. The pipeline supp…

Harvard tries to eliminate discrimination protections for campus unions (Diti Kohli/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/15/business/harvard-discrimination-unions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p15#a250815p15

Sources: four senior BBC journalists have lodged ageism complaints as they face layoffs under plans to merge the BBC's Home and Foreign newsdesks (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-news-journalists-age-discriminat…

BBC News Journalists Lodge Ageism Complaint As They Face Being Fired Under Newsdesk Merger
A group of seasoned BBC News journalists have claimed that they are being forced out of the corporation because of their age.

“Supreme Court win for girl with epilepsy expected to make disability lawsuits against schools easier”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-disabilities-schools-education-access-lawsuits-56f67cf12f1f9c4a7e…

Supreme Court rules for girl with epilepsy in case over access to education
A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy has won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education. Thursday's ruling comes after her family said her Minnesota school district didn’t do enough to get her the disability accommodations she needs to learn. The girl and her family appealed to the Supreme Court after lower courts ruled against their disability discrimination case. Some courts h…

Bridging Research Gaps Between Academic Research and Legal Investigations of Algorithmic Discrimination
Colleen V. Chien, Anna Zink, Irene Y. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14954

Bridging Research Gaps Between Academic Research and Legal Investigations of Algorithmic Discrimination
As algorithms increasingly take on critical roles in high-stakes areas such as credit scoring, housing, and employment, civil enforcement actions have emerged as a powerful tool for countering potential discrimination. These legal actions increasingly draw on algorithmic fairness research to inform questions such as how to define and detect algorithmic discrimination. However, current algorithmic fairness research, while theoretically rigorous, often fails to address the practical needs of lega…

It's 2025. How can that ever, like _ever_ happen?
https://23.social/@thomasfricke/114625058446126352

Thomas Fricke (he/him) (@thomasfricke@23.social)
Attached: 1 image An all male panel talking about #AI discrimination. Priceless. #wiconf2025

ADHO (adho.org) updates at the opening of #DH2025 from Diane and Michael - the Italian Digital Humanities association officially joins ADHO, and announces awards including the Zampoli prize to Stylo software, the conference bursaries winners and Fortier prize nominees. Also note the Code of Conduct!

Supreme Court to decide on disability discrimination standard
https://prismreports.org/2025/06/11/disability-discrimination-supreme-court-ajt-v-osseo/

Earlier this week, a federal judge in Boston explicitly called out the Trump administration for its
“palpably clear” discrimination against racial minorities
and LGBTQ Americans
in a case involving canceled grants from the National Institutes of Health.
“Have we no shame?”
Judge William Young asked,
in an unmistakeable echo of attorney Joseph Welch,
who famously punctured Joe McCarthy’s popularity with his simple plea for decency.
Seventy-fiv…

Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot.

An Information-Theoretic Intersectional Data Valuation Theory
Eduardo C. Garrido-Merch\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14742 https://

An Information-Theoretic Intersectional Data Valuation Theory
In contemporary digital markets, personal data often reveals not just isolated traits, but complex, intersectional identities based on combinations of race, gender, disability, and other protected characteristics. This exposure generates a privacy externality: firms benefit economically from profiling, prediction, and personalization, while users face hidden costs in the form of social risk and discrimination. We introduce a formal pricing rule that quantifies and internalizes this intersection…

Unambiguous discrimination of the change point for quantum channels
Kenji Nakahira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06785 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06785…

Unambiguous discrimination of the change point for quantum channels
Identifying the precise moment when a quantum channel undergoes a change is a fundamental problem in quantum information theory. We study how accurately one can determine the time at which a channel transitions to another. We investigate the quantum limit of the average success probability in unambiguous discrimination, in which errors are completely avoided by allowing inconclusive results with a certain probability. This problem can be viewed as a quantum process discrimination task, where th…

Former Kansas City Chiefs employee sues for racial discrimination https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6435278/2025/06/18/chiefs-lawsuit-discriminatino-ramzee-robinson/

Hmong are victims of discrimination in Laos to the point that they have to hide their ethnic identity. Hmong people are in Minnesota because they helped the USA in the Vietnam War. They are valuable and contributing members of the community.
https://www.startribune.com/…

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/06/04/JNEUROSCI.1479-24.2025 Now let's "mistake" meaningful noise as meaningful images through enhanced reliance…

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception
We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and veridical perception. Yet, false percepts must arise at least in part from internally generated signals. Here, we apply multivariate analyses to human MEG data to study the overlap between veridical and false perception across two aspects of perceptual inference: discrimination of content (what did I se…

Design and Mechanical Integration of Scintillation Modules for SUB-Millicharge ExperimenT (SUBMET)
Claudio Campagnari, Sungwoong Cho, Suyong Choi, Seokju Chung, Matthew Citron, Albert De Roeck, Martin Gastal, Seungkyu Ha, Andy Haas, Christopher Scott Hill, Byeong Jin Hong, Haeyun Hwang, Insung Hwang, Hoyong Jeong, Hyunki Moon, Jayashri Padmanaban, Ryan Schmitz, Changhyun Seo, David Stuart, Eunil Won, Jae Hyeok Yoo, Jinseok Yoo, Ayman Youssef, Ahmad Zaraket, Haitham Zaraket

Design and Mechanical Integration of Scintillation Modules for SUB-Millicharge ExperimenT (SUBMET)
We present a detailed description of the detector design for the SUB-Millicharge ExperimenT (SUBMET), developed to search for millicharged particles. The experiment probes a largely unexplored region of the charge-mass parameter space, focusing on particles with mass $m_χ< 1.6~\textrm{GeV}/c^2$ and electric charge $Q < 10^{-3}e$. The detector has been optimized to achieve high sensitivity to interactions of such particles while maintaining effective discrimination against background events. We…

Loudoun schools suspend boys uncomfortable with biological female student in locker room (Nick Minock/WJLA-TV)
https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-schools-suspend-boys-students-stone-bridge-high-school-sexual-harassment-female-school-locker-room-discrimination-bathroom-title-ix-investigation-gender-identity-policy-8040-education
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p135#a250818p135

Optical discrimination of live single cancer cells using reflection-based nanohole array sensor
Alfredo Franco, Izan Calder\'on, Dolores Ortiz, Jos\'e L. Fern\'andez-Luna, Fernando Moreno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08205

Optical discrimination of live single cancer cells using reflection-based nanohole array sensor
In this research, a reflection-based nanohole array sensor system is presented for discriminating between migration-competent cancer cells that maintain the integrity of the actin cortex and those cells lacking the actin cortex and thus unable to migrate. Unlike previous transmission-based approaches, this configuration allows for more practical integration into in situ diagnostic tools. For the first time, the system performance is analyzed by studying the spectral features of the reflected li…

Noise-Limited Sensitivity in Cavity Optomechanical Molecular Sensing Enabled by Quantum Zero-Point Displacement Coupling and Strong Photon-Phonon Interaction for Chiral Detection
Giuseppina Simone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19982

Noise-Limited Sensitivity in Cavity Optomechanical Molecular Sensing Enabled by Quantum Zero-Point Displacement Coupling and Strong Photon-Phonon Interaction for Chiral Detection
This work presents a quantum-limited optomechanical sensing platform for real-time detection and discrimination of chiral molecules, based on a multilayer hybrid plasmonic-mechanical resonator. Leveraging quantum zero-point motion and engineered photon-phonon interactions, the system achieves ultrahigh displacement sensitivity that approaches the fundamental quantum limit. The multilayer architecture, composed of alternating dielectric and metallic films, supports mechanical resonances with qua…

PRIDE -- Parameter-Efficient Reduction of Identity Discrimination for Equality in LLMs
Maluna Menke, Thilo Hagendorff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13743 http…

PRIDE -- Parameter-Efficient Reduction of Identity Discrimination for Equality in LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently reproduce the gender- and sexual-identity prejudices embedded in their training corpora, leading to outputs that marginalize LGBTQIA+ users. Hence, reducing such biases is of great importance. To achieve this, we evaluate two parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) techniques - Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and soft-prompt tuning - as lightweight alternatives to full-model fine-tuning for mitigating such biases. Using the WinoQueer benchmark, we quantify bias…

My Personal Privacy - Your resource for achieving better online privacy
Why privacy:
The right to privacy is a well-established, fundamental human right. It is necessary for a safe and just society. It is especially important in regions where intolerance and discrimination are backed by autocratic regimes. While you may not feel the need for privacy in all of your online activity, you should be able to achieve a high level of privacy when you need it. This website and the document…

Unsupervised linear discrimination using skewness
Una Radojicic, Klaus Nordhausen, Joni Virta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02412 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0…

Unsupervised linear discrimination using skewness
It is well-known that, in Gaussian two-group separation, the optimally discriminating projection direction can be estimated without any knowledge on the group labels. In this work, we \revision{gather} several such unsupervised estimators based on skewness and derive their limiting distributions. As one of our main results, we show that all affine equivariant estimators of the optimal direction have proportional asymptotic covariance matrices, making their comparison straightforward. Two of our…

A simple and efficient second-order immersed-boundary method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations
Paolo Luchini, Davide Gatti, Alessandro Chiarini, Federica Gattere, Marco Atzori, Maurizio Quadrio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14328

A simple and efficient second-order immersed-boundary method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations
An immersed-boundary method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations is presented. It employs discrete forcing for a sharp discrimination of the solid-fluid interface, and achieves second-order accuracy, demonstrated in examples with highly complex three-dimensional geometries. The method is implicit, meaning that the point in the solid which is nearest to the interface is accounted for implicitly, which benefits stability and convergence properties; the correction is also implicit in ti…

Equitable Discrimination in Survival Prediction: The Maximum Expected C-Index
Felipe Simon, Francisco Perez-Galarce, Joris van de Klundert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05592

Equitable Discrimination in Survival Prediction: The Maximum Expected C-Index
The C-Index measures the discrimination performance of survival prediction models. C-Index scores are often well below the upperbound of 1 that represents perfect prediction and closer to 0.5 as achieved by random prediction. Our first objective is to provide a tighter C-Index upperbound for proportional hazards models. Our second research objective is to measure discrimination performance for subpopulations, also relative to subpopulation specific upperbounds. We present the expected C-Index (…

Structural Perspectives from Quantum States and Measurements in Optimal State Discrimination
Hyunho Cha, Jungwoo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05778 https…

Structural Perspectives from Quantum States and Measurements in Optimal State Discrimination
Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory, which refers to a class of techniques to identify a specific quantum state through a positive operator-valued measure. In this work, we investigate how structural information about either the quantum states or the measurement operators can influence our ability to determine or bound the optimal discrimination probability. First, we observe that for single-qubit states, pairwise fidelities are sufficient to comp…

Kernel-based Equalized Odds: A Quantification of Accuracy-Fairness Trade-off in Fair Representation Learning
Yijin Ni, Xiaoming Huo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15084 https://

Kernel-based Equalized Odds: A Quantification of Accuracy-Fairness Trade-off in Fair Representation Learning
This paper introduces a novel kernel-based formulation of the Equalized Odds (EO) criterion, denoted as $EO_k$, for fair representation learning (FRL) in supervised settings. The central goal of FRL is to mitigate discrimination regarding a sensitive attribute $S$ while preserving prediction accuracy for the target variable $Y$. Our proposed criterion enables a rigorous and interpretable quantification of three core fairness objectives: independence (prediction $\hat{Y}$ is independent of $S$),…

President Trump orders regulators to investigate banks for "politicized or unlawful debanking", echoing allegations from conservatives and the crypto industry (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-orders-crackdow…

Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’
In a new executive order, the US president has called on federal regulators to investigate and punish banks for alleged discrimination against conservatives and certain types of business.

A federal judge on Monday declared some of the Trump administration’s cuts to National Institutes of Health grants
“void and illegal,”
accusing the government of racial discrimination and prejudice against L.G.B.T.Q. individuals.
Ruling from the bench, Judge William G. Young of the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts
delivered a damning assessment of the Trump administrations’ motives in targeting hundreds of grants that focused on the health of Bl…

Trump Live Updates: Senate Republicans Propose Deeper Medicaid Cuts in Major Policy Bill

Replaced article(s) found for nucl-th. https://arxiv.org/list/nucl-th/new
[1/2]:
- Study of the EEC discrimination power on quark and gluon jet quenching effects in heavy-ion colli...
Shi-Yong Chen, Zi-Xuan Xu, Ke-Ming Shen, Wei Dai, Ben-Wei Zhang, En-Ke Wang

Call for Chapters: Critical Sociocultural Examinations of Gender Discrimination and Persecution
https://ift.tt/skle50a
updated: Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 12:11pmfull name / name of organization: Robin Throne, PhDcontact…
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Supreme Court Rules for Straight Woman in Job Discrimination Suit (Adam Liptak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/politics/supreme-court-reverse-discrimination.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p60#a250605p60

Improved lower bound for the worst case Pretty Good Measurement
Austin Pechan, Sergio Escobar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19085 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1…

Improved lower bound for the worst case Pretty Good Measurement
We derive a new lower bound on the success probability of the Pretty Good Measurement (PGM) for worst-case quantum state discrimination among $m$ pure states. Our bound is strictly tighter than the previously known Gram-matrix-based bound for $m\geq 4$. The proof adapts techniques from Barnum and Knill's analysis of the average-case PGM, applied here to the worst-case scenario. By comparing the PGM to the sequential measurement algorithm, we obtain a guarantee showing that, in the low-fidelity …

Supreme Court makes it easier to claim 'reverse discrimination' in employment, in a case from Ohio (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-discrimination-lawsuit-ohio-205f07a2d47d7a46cfc96a5fefdf9269
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p54#a250605p54

[Announce] Create: Harvard Crimson on Discrimination ComplaintsNearly…
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Replaced article(s) found for econ.TH. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.TH/new
[1/1]:
- Interventions Against Machine-Assisted Statistical Discrimination
John Y. Zhu

Surpassing the PLOB bound in continuous-variable quantum secret sharing using a state-discrimination detector
Qin Liao, Chong Tang, Qingquan Peng, Chao Ding, Lingjin Zhu, Yijun Wang, Xiquan Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09445

Surpassing the PLOB bound in continuous-variable quantum secret sharing using a state-discrimination detector
Continuous-variable quantum secret sharing (CVQSS) is a promising approach to ensuring multi-party information security. While CVQSS offers practical ease of implementation, its present performance remains limited. In this paper, we propose a novel CVQSS protocol integrated with a state-discrimination detector (SDD), dubbed SDD-CVQSS. In particular, we first develop the detailed procedure of SDD-CVQSS, which replaces the traditional coherent detector with an SDD and eliminates the long-standing…

A draft White House EO shows President Trump plans to step up pressure against big banks over alleged discrimination against crypto companies and conservatives (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Rich Lyons,
the University of California, Berkeley, chancellor,
challenged US House Republicanson Tuesday
as they questioned Lyons and leaders of Georgetown University and the City University of New York
in the latest hearing on antisemitism in higher education.
The committee accused the schools of failing to respond adequately to allegations of bias or discrimination,
however the university leaders said that disciplinary action had been taken where approp…

Unanimous Supreme Court sides with Ohio woman who claimed workplace discrimination (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5424412/supreme-court-workplace-discrimination
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p55#a250605p55

Self-powered artificial synapse mimics human color vision https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/mediarelations/archive/20250528_9424.html Polarity-tunable dye-sensitized optoelectronic artificial synapses for physical reservoir computing-based machine vision

Self-Powered Artificial Synapse Mimics Human Color Vision | Tokyo University of Science
Researchers develop an energy-efficient device with near-human color discrimination capabilities, demonstrating great po...

Disney and Lucasfilm settle with Gina Carano, who sued for discrimination over her firing from The Mandalorian after she shared controversial social media posts (Katcy Stephan/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/gina-carano-disney-settle-mand…

Gina Carano, Disney Settle Legal Dispute Over 'Mandalorian' Firing
Lucasfilm and the Walt Disney Company have reached an agreement in their legal dispute with Gina Carano following her firing from "The Mandalorian."

Error exponents of quantum state discrimination with composite correlated hypotheses
Kun Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12901 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1…

Error exponents of quantum state discrimination with composite correlated hypotheses
We study the error exponents in quantum hypothesis testing between two sets of quantum states, extending the analysis beyond the independent and identically distributed case to encompass composite and correlated hypotheses. We introduce and compare two natural extensions of the quantum Hoeffding divergence and anti-divergence to sets of quantum states, establishing their equivalence or quantitative relationships. Our main results generalize the quantum Hoeffding bound to stable sequences of con…

Moving beyond harm. A critical review of how NLP research approaches discrimination
Katrin Schulz, Marjolein Lanzing, Giulia Martinez Brenner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04504 ht…

Moving beyond harm. A critical review of how NLP research approaches discrimination
How to avoid discrimination in the context of NLP technology is one of the major challenges in the field. We propose that a different and more substantiated framing of the problem could help to find more productive approaches. In the first part of the paper we report on a case study: a qualitative review on papers published in the ACL anthologies 2022 on discriminatory behavior of NLP systems. We find that the field (i) still has a strong focus on a technological fix of algorithmic discriminati…

Supreme Court sides with woman claiming anti-straight job discrimination (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/05/workplace-discrimination-supreme-court-decision/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p56#a250605p56

Newsflash: no data substantiating the assertion that 'discrimination has been sufficiently addressed' makes this arbitrary and capricious and unlawful.
USDA Ends Consideration of Race and Gender for Grants and Loans | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2025/07/10/usda-ends-consideration-of-race-and-gender-for-grants-and-loans/

Supreme Court unanimously revives straight woman's 'reverse discrimination' lawsuit (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5334394-supreme-court-reverse-discrimination-lawsuit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p75#a250605p75

NFLPA dispute emerges over lawsuit awareness https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45762449/nflpa-members-disagree-knowledge-lloyd-howell-lawsuit

Supreme Court sides with straight woman in decision that makes it easier to win 'reverse discrimination' suits (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/supreme-court-reverse-discrimination-suits
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p115#a250605p115

Where Journalism Silenced Voices: Exploring Discrimination in the Representation of Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh
Abhijit Paul, Adity Khisa, Zarif Masud, Sharif Md. Abdullah, Ahmedul Kabir, Shebuti Rayana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09771

Where Journalism Silenced Voices: Exploring Discrimination in the Representation of Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh
In this paper, we examine the intersections of indigeneity and media representation in shaping perceptions of indigenous communities in Bangladesh. Using a mixed-methods approach, we combine quantitative analysis of media data with qualitative insights from focus group discussions (FGD). First, we identify a total of 4,893 indigenous-related articles from our initial dataset of 2.2 million newspaper articles, using a combination of keyword-based filtering and LLM, achieving 77% accuracy and an …

Harvard Crimson on Discrimination Complaints
Nearly 200 Harvard Affiliates File Complaints Alleging ‘Hostile Environment’ for Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims Both Jay Ulfelder, program director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Nonviolent Action Lab and Hussein Rashid, Assistant Dean of Religion and Public Life at the Harvard Divinity School, submitted resignation letters in January.

More viewpoint discrimination.
'Anti-American': WH press sec blasted over demand to punish reporter who criticized Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/karoline-leavitt-abc-news/

Unequal Uncertainty: Rethinking Algorithmic Interventions for Mitigating Discrimination from AI
Holli Sargeant, Mackenzie Jorgensen, Arina Shah, Adrian Weller, Umang Bhatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07872

Unequal Uncertainty: Rethinking Algorithmic Interventions for Mitigating Discrimination from AI
Uncertainty in artificial intelligence (AI) predictions poses urgent legal and ethical challenges for AI-assisted decision-making. We examine two algorithmic interventions that act as guardrails for human-AI collaboration: selective abstention, which withholds high-uncertainty predictions from human decision-makers, and selective friction, which delivers those predictions together with salient warnings or disclosures that slow the decision process. Research has shown that selective abstention b…

Conclusive Local State Marking: More Nonlocality With No Entanglement
Samrat Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09415 https://arxiv.org/p…

Conclusive Local State Marking: More Nonlocality With No Entanglement
Nonlocality exhibited by ensembles of composite quantum states, wherein local operations and classical communication (LOCC) yield suboptimal discrimination probabilities compared to global strategies, is one of the striking nonclassical features of quantum theory. A variant of this phenomenon arises in conclusive local state discrimination, where the correct state must be identified with zero error, albeit allowing for inconclusive outcomes. More recently, the notion of local state marking has …

The Association Between Marijuana Usage and Discrimination Among Adult Black Men - PMC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5675287/

Yet another algorithmic bias: A Discursive Analysis of Large Language Models Reinforcing Dominant Discourses on Gender and Race
Gustavo Bonil, Simone Hashiguti, Jhessica Silva, Jo\~ao Gondim, Helena Maia, N\'adia Silva, Helio Pedrini, Sandra Avila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10304

Yet another algorithmic bias: A Discursive Analysis of Large Language Models Reinforcing Dominant Discourses on Gender and Race
With the advance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained prominence and been applied in diverse contexts. As they evolve into more sophisticated versions, it is essential to assess whether they reproduce biases, such as discrimination and racialization, while maintaining hegemonic discourses. Current bias detection approaches rely mostly on quantitative, automated methods, which often overlook the nuanced ways in which biases emerge in natural language. This st…

Disability Across Cultures: A Human-Centered Audit of Ableism in Western and Indic LLMs
Mahika Phutane, Aditya Vashistha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16130 https://

Disability Across Cultures: A Human-Centered Audit of Ableism in Western and Indic LLMs
People with disabilities (PwD) experience disproportionately high levels of discrimination and hate online, particularly in India, where entrenched stigma and limited resources intensify these challenges. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to identify and mitigate online hate, yet most research on online ableism focuses on Western audiences with Western AI models. Are these models adequately equipped to recognize ableist harm in non-Western places like India? Do localized, Indic…

How DEI Bureaucrats Control University Hiring (John D. Sailer/City Journal)
https://www.city-journal.org/article/university-hiring-dei-diversity-checks-discrimination
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p35#a250708p35

Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he's never seen such discrimination in 40 years (Lauran Neergaard/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nih-research-trump-cuts-dei-rfk-4fec9f308f3ff427185a12e88f260c81
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p3#a250617p3

Generalized quantum Chernoff bound
Kun Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12889 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12889

Generalized quantum Chernoff bound
We establish a generalized quantum Chernoff bound for the discrimination of multiple sets of quantum states, thereby extending the classical and quantum Chernoff bounds to the general setting of composite and correlated quantum hypotheses. Specifically, we consider the task of distinguishing whether a quantum system is prepared in a state from one of several convex, compact sets of quantum states, each of which may exhibit arbitrary correlations. Assuming their stability under tensor product, w…

Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration claiming discrimination against white farmers (Scott Bauer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-republican-usda-dei-lawsuit-5a524fedc611cb201a43c1967e3f12bf
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p72#a250616p72

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- Fair Play in the Newsroom: Actor-Based Filtering Gender Discrimination in Text Corpora
Stefanie Urchs, Veronika Thurner, Matthias A{\ss}enmacher, Christian Heumann, Stephanie Thiemichen

Trump goes 'woke' in report on antisemitism at Harvard (Benjamin Eidelson/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/03/opinion/trump-harvard-antisemitism-report-discrimination/?s_campaign=8315:varf
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p48#a250703p48

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
Formalising Anti-Discrimination Law in Automated Decision Systems
https:…

Justice Department opens investigation into Minnesota for alleged hiring discrimination (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/10/trump-doj-investigates-minnesota-00447779
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p130#a250710p130