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On The Road - To Xi’An 🌫️
在路上 - 去西安 🌫️
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SummDiff: Generative Modeling of Video Summarization with Diffusion
Kwanseok Kim, Jaehoon Hahm, Sumin Kim, Jinhwan Sul, Byunghak Kim, Joonseok Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08458

SummDiff: Generative Modeling of Video Summarization with Diffusion
Video summarization is a task of shortening a video by choosing a subset of frames while preserving its essential moments. Despite the innate subjectivity of the task, previous works have deterministically regressed to an averaged frame score over multiple raters, ignoring the inherent subjectivity of what constitutes a good summary. We propose a novel problem formulation by framing video summarization as a conditional generation task, allowing a model to learn the distribution of good summarie…

Probing Social Identity Bias in Chinese LLMs with Gendered Pronouns and Social Groups
Geng Liu, Feng Li, Junjie Mu, Mengxiao Zhu, Francesco Pierri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06974

Probing Social Identity Bias in Chinese LLMs with Gendered Pronouns and Social Groups
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in user-facing applications, raising concerns about their potential to reflect and amplify social biases. We investigate social identity framing in Chinese LLMs using Mandarin-specific prompts across ten representative Chinese LLMs, evaluating responses to ingroup ("We") and outgroup ("They") framings, and extending the setting to 240 social groups salient in the Chinese context. To complement controlled experiments, we further analyze Chin…

You ask your roommate to buy toilet paper. They show you the receipt as proof. The next morning, when you need toilet paper, the drawer is actually empty. This is because they used an innovative new method called Lean Shopping, where instead of buying the things they just print out a receipt — saving time and money.
This is a story about the social nature of problem framing, and when "high velocity" becomes less productive.

Skipping alignment leads to zero-impact UX
Deliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion.

Pulp Motion: Framing-aware multimodal camera and human motion generation
Robin Courant, Xi Wang, David Loiseaux, Marc Christie, Vicky Kalogeiton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05097

Pulp Motion: Framing-aware multimodal camera and human motion generation
Treating human motion and camera trajectory generation separately overlooks a core principle of cinematography: the tight interplay between actor performance and camera work in the screen space. In this paper, we are the first to cast this task as a text-conditioned joint generation, aiming to maintain consistent on-screen framing while producing two heterogeneous, yet intrinsically linked, modalities: human motion and camera trajectories. We propose a simple, model-agnostic framework that enfo…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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Moody Urbanity - UP 🆙
情绪化城市 - 上面 🆙
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
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A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Eitan Klinger, Zihao Huang, Tran Minh Nguyen, Emma Jayeon Park, Yige Chen, Yang Gu, Qingyu Gao, Siliang Liu, Mengyang Qiu, Jungyeul Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06749

A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Evaluating grammatical error correction requires metrics that reflect the diversity of valid human corrections rather than privileging a single reference. Existing frameworks, largely edit-based and English-centric, rely on rigid alignments between system and reference edits, limiting their applicability in multilingual and generative settings. This paper introduces a formal framework for \textit{fluency-based multi-reference evaluation}, framing $n$-gram similarity as an aggregation problem ov…

Heyo, I want to share this #photo from a walk in June near #Ebersberg. It's been quite a nice walk, yet no SUPER photos. But maybe enough to bring a smile on your face :)

Smartphone-based iris recognition through high-quality visible-spectrum iris image capture.V2
Naveenkumar G Venkataswamy, Yu Liu, Soumyabrata Dey, Stephanie Schuckers, Masudul H Imtiaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06170

Smartphone-based iris recognition through high-quality visible-spectrum iris image capture.V2
Smartphone-based iris recognition in the visible spectrum (VIS) remains difficult due to illumination variability, pigmentation differences, and the absence of standardized capture controls. This work presents a compact end-to-end pipeline that enforces ISO/IEC 29794-6 quality compliance at acquisition and demonstrates that accurate VIS iris recognition is feasible on commodity devices. Using a custom Android application performing real-time framing, sharpness evaluation, and feedback, we intro…

Identifying Framing Practices in Visualization Design Through Practitioner Reflections
Prakash Shukla, Paul Parsons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20383 https://

Identifying Framing Practices in Visualization Design Through Practitioner Reflections
Framing -- how designers define and reinterpret problems, shape narratives, and guide audience understanding -- is central to design practice. Yet in visualization research, framing has been examined mostly through its rhetorical and perceptual effects on audiences, leaving its role in the design process underexplored. This study addresses that gap by analyzing publicly available podcasts and book chapters in which over 80 professional visualization designers reflect on their work. We find that…

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: If they've any left.
ATLAN: Oh yes, they have, but not for long. How soon can this be fitted to our space choppers?
PLAXTON: Napier. [Napier exits.]
ATLAN: Well?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/304 B7B5

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Arianna Pera, Veronica Jude, Ceren Budak, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as representation elections. This study addresses the gap by combining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data with 158k Facebook posts published by U.S. labor unions between 2015 and 2024. We focused on five discourse frames widely recognized in labor and social movement communication res…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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Hill on Baranski, 'The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution' …
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De NOS blijft maar hameren dat ‘het linkse blok kleiner is geworden’.
Om dat te kunnen beweren wordt vandaag voor het allereerst in de historie D66 niet tot het linkse blok gerekend.
#verkiezingsuitslag #framing

Grundsätzlich finde ich so eine Aufklärungskampagne gar nicht verkehrt, aber Framing, Tonfall und die regelwidrige Plakatkampagne* sind Mist. Die Aufwertung von Alternativrouten ist gar kein Thema.
*) Plakatieren auf der Hauptstraße ist verboten
https://www.ta…

Dresden: So sollen Rambo-Radler auf der Hauptstraße gestoppt werden
Mit Plakaten soll der Konflikt zwischen rücksichtslosen Radlern und Fußgängern sowie Händlern auf der Hauptstraße gelöst werden.

#Apple has removed all the colors from the framing of browsers (Safari, Firefox...) even without going to iOS26. How can I get decent color cues to have applications look different instead of every single iOS window having the exact same look?
Jeez why do companies so often make things much worse - just change so they can say they changed?
Standardized menus... make sense. Removing all …

This is how Democrats need to respond to questions from slanted journalists framing the govt shutdown as anything but a cruel matter caused by Republicans.
The field of journalism has lost its integrity.
#democrats #governmentshutdown

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127143/reimagining-totemism-mystical-experience-life-values-and-contemporary

A freely available masterclass! 👇

I do think that this framing isn't fully correct. "Open Source" often has a libertarian (and therefore explicitly non-left) bend. It can be put into left thinking and politics but it works just as well in more right-wing logics. (See Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism)
https://mastodon.mallegolhanse…

Colored Petri Nets are Lax Double Functors
Jade Master, Joe Moeller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01946 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01946

Colored Petri Nets are Lax Double Functors
We give a characterization of colored Petri nets as lax double functors. Framing colored Petri nets in terms of category theory allows for canonical definitions of various well-known constructions on colored Petri nets. In particular, we show how morphisms of colored Petri nets may be understood as natural transformations. A result from folklore, which we sketch in the appendix, shows that lax double functors are equivalent to functors with codomain their former domain. We use this result to ch…

Oyster-I: Beyond Refusal -- Constructive Safety Alignment for Responsible Language Models
Ranjie Duan, Jiexi Liu, Xiaojun Jia, Shiji Zhao, Ruoxi Cheng, Fengxiang Wang, Cheng Wei, Yong Xie, Chang Liu, Defeng Li, Yinpeng Dong, Yichi Zhang, Yuefeng Chen, Chongwen Wang, Xingjun Ma, Xingxing Wei, Yang Liu, Hang Su, Jun Zhu, Xinfeng Li, Yitong Sun, Jie Zhang, Jinzhao Hu, Sha Xu, Yitong Yang, Jialing Tao, Hui Xue

Oyster-I: Beyond Refusal -- Constructive Safety Alignment for Responsible Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) typically deploy safety mechanisms to prevent harmful content generation. Most current approaches focus narrowly on risks posed by malicious actors, often framing risks as adversarial events and relying on defensive refusals. However, in real-world settings, risks also come from non-malicious users seeking help while under psychological distress (e.g., self-harm intentions). In such cases, the model's response can strongly influence the user's next actions. Simple r…

Information Design With Large Language Models
Paul Duetting, Safwan Hossain, Tao Lin, Renato Paes Leme, Sai Srivatsa Ravindranath, Haifeng Xu, Song Zuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25565

Information Design With Large Language Models
Information design is typically studied through the lens of Bayesian signaling, where signals shape beliefs based on their correlation with the true state of the world. However, Behavioral Economics and Psychology emphasize that human decision-making is more complex and can depend on how information is framed. This paper formalizes a language-based notion of framing and bridges this to the popular Bayesian-persuasion model. We model framing as a possibly non-Bayesian, linguistic way to influenc…

Framed defects in ABJ(M)
Marco S. Bianchi, Luigi Castiglioni, Silvia Penati, Marcia Tenser, Diego Trancanelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21068 https://arxi…

Framed defects in ABJ(M)
We investigate the role of framing in a family of 1/24 BPS Wilson loops in ABJ(M) theory, which define flows of supersymmetric defect field theories, interpolating between the 1/6 BPS and the 1/2 BPS superconformal fixed points. We analyze in perturbation theory how framing affects both the expectation values of these operators and the correlation functions of local insertions on the defect, as well as its interplay with RG flow and the g-theorem. We obtain a non-trivial identity between the on…

Der Extremismus einer lebensmüden Ideologie, die unter dem Deckmantel-Framing von #Freiheit das Leben zig tausender Menschen riskiert und bereitwillig Leid und Elend akzeptiert, kennt keine Grenzen.
Die US Emergency Management Agency suspendiert Leute, die eben diese Gefahren anspricht. Ein Vorgehen, dass ich auch Leuten wie Dobrindt, Klöckner und ihren rechtsextremen Vortänzern bei der rec…

TTT3R: 3D Reconstruction as Test-Time Training
Xingyu Chen, Yue Chen, Yuliang Xiu, Andreas Geiger, Anpei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26645 https://arxi…

TTT3R: 3D Reconstruction as Test-Time Training
Modern Recurrent Neural Networks have become a competitive architecture for 3D reconstruction due to their linear-time complexity. However, their performance degrades significantly when applied beyond the training context length, revealing limited length generalization. In this work, we revisit the 3D reconstruction foundation models from a Test-Time Training perspective, framing their designs as an online learning problem. Building on this perspective, we leverage the alignment confidence betw…

Starting to set up the framing of the north wall of the new workshop. Two interesting problems here:
1. Am I going to want a large door in this wall? I think I can't have one, because I want either the east or the west wall to be removable to allow more light and space in summer; but I really need to think about this!
2. The shape of the foundation is very squint. Consequently, although the north and south walls will be parallel, the east and west won't. I have some int…

Off to Detroi to see Deltron 3030 at the Majestic!
We’re checked into the Ferry St. Inn, in this stately old mansion, one of four tucked behind the DIA. We’re in the maid’s quarters, a third story walk up. We’ve stayed here before.

Belachelijke framing van #nieuwsuur … “links is kleiner dan ooit”.
Toen D66 de vorige keer fors verloor hoorden ze bij het ‘verliezende links’. Nu ze winnen ineens niet meer?

Maps from knots to $2$-links, chord diagrams, and a way to enhance Vassiliev invariants
Vassily Olegovich Manturov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01971 https://

Maps from knots to $2$-links, chord diagrams, and a way to enhance Vassiliev invariants
In the present paper, we discuss a way of generalising Vassiliev knot invariants and weight systems to framed chord diagrams having framing 0 and 1.

Just watching 9 bodies in a Mexican Morgue and it's basically like someone wrote a framing narrative for a game of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)

Mafia (party game) - Wikipedia

As usual we watched the "Stoertebekker" stage play at Ralswiek on Rügen Island. The stage setups and wardrobes were as awesome as always. They really try to improve on that every year and come up with clever mechanisms to transform the building for the various acts of the play. The script this year left room for desire ;) Nevertheless a happing worth attending
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This framing doesn’t even touch the crucial forces of ego and identity formation and craving for belonging that are the bedrock of fascist movements like MAGA. Others are thinking productively about that, and it’s at least as important here!
That belief-as-identity phenomenon is also time-based. Somebody posted about those Young Republicans and their Telegram messages grooming and being groomed for fascism, and that’s right: it’s not just the existence of the fascist space; it’s the sustained process of drawing people in over time.
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Ich lese „Reiche gegen höhere Erbschaftssteuer“ und so sehr ich die Doppelbedeutung von „Reiche“ in dieser Überschrift genieße, so sehr ist die Überschrift an sich Framing.
Denn wir wollen nicht ganz generell eine höhere Erbschaftssteuer. Wir wollen eine „höhere Erbschaftssteuer für Stink-, Super- und Überreiche“ bzw daß diese Personengruppe endlich überhaupt einen angemessenen Anteil an Steuern zahlt.
#pol

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Xuan Xu, Haolun Li, Zhongliang Yang, Beilin Chu, Jia Song, Moxuan Xu, Linna Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03174

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Traditional topic models such as neural topic models rely on inference and generation networks to learn latent topic distributions. This paper explores a new paradigm for topic modeling in the era of large language models, framing TM as a long-form generation task whose definition is updated in this paradigm. We propose a simple but practical approach to implement LLM-based topic model tasks out of the box (sample a data subset, generate topics and representative text with our prompt, text assi…

One of my wife's friends is throwing herself a 50th birthday party in the style of "Prom". So, enjoy this picture of my wife and I all dressed to the nines.

89% Framing
81% Clouds
#iykyk

‘Het boerenbedrijf heeft geen grondrecht om de leefomgeving ongezond te maken’ | Opinie | De Stentor.nl
https://www.destentor.nl/opinie/het-boerenbedrijf-heeft-geen-grondrecht-om-de-leefomgeving-ongezond-te-maken~a2c4b277…

Green Prompt Engineering: Investigating the Energy Impact of Prompt Design in Software Engineering
Vincenzo De Martino, Mohammad Amin Zadenoori, Xavier Franch, Alessio Ferrari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22320

Green Prompt Engineering: Investigating the Energy Impact of Prompt Design in Software Engineering
Language Models are increasingly applied in software engineering, yet their inference raises growing environmental concerns. Prior work has examined hardware choices and prompt length, but little attention has been paid to linguistic complexity as a sustainability factor. This paper introduces Green Prompt Engineering, framing linguistic complexity as a design dimension that can influence energy consumption and performance. We conduct an empirical study on requirement classification using open-…

Man I hate the new language for a task one doesn't want to do — "aversive”.
Primary reason is that it externalizes the problem. It's fixed mindset framing, that something _else_ has to change to make the situation better, that it's the task's fault for being aversive, instead of our own for not working on the aversion to the needed task.
We have a bad habit lately of attributing relational traits to the party in a relationship, rather than to the relationship itself and it weakens our thinking about things. Noticing this pattern really changes how you think, because you can start attributing things better and noticing the contexts — and contexts are often things that can be changed!

Moody Urbanity - Urban surrealism 🕰️
情绪化城市 - 都市超现实主义 🕰️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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Hill on Baranski, 'The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution' …
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A Praxis of Influence: Framing the Observation and Measurement of Information Power
Chris Bronk, Jason Pittman, Carolyn Semmler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18482 https://

A Praxis of Influence: Framing the Observation and Measurement of Information Power
Information power is the capacity to convert data flows into durable shifts in attention, belief, and behavior. We argue that this power has migrated from broadcast persuasion to platform-ized, data-driven operations that fuse computational delivery with cognitive effects. In this context, we define and bound information power within international relations and the information environment while demonstrating why observing and measuring it demands an integrated lens that combines politics (goals…

Kicking off #a11yTOConf / #a11yTO day one with an impressive television display in the CBC atrium.
This year’s host is the puppet!

"...there isn’t enough new housing to make a dent on affordability. "
What I don't understand is why journalists keep framing this as a simple supply and demand - if only we let developers build, the price will come down.
When the reality is developers will build if and only if one condition is met: Buyers (or landords) will pay a price that meets the developers profit targets. And we see evidence of that in the timelines looking at selling price vs construction…

S.F. upzoning plan heads to committee for final amendments
At Monday's meeting, amendments will range from excluding historical buildings to increasing the percentage of larger, family-friendly units.

"...there isn’t enough new housing to make a dent on affordability. "
What I don't understand is why journalists keep framing this as a simple supply and demand - if only we let developers build, the price will come down.
When the reality is developers will build if and only if one condition is met: Buyers (or landords) will pay a price that meets the developers profit targets. And we see evidence of that in the timelines looking at selling price vs construction…

S.F. upzoning plan heads to committee for final amendments
At Monday's meeting, amendments will range from excluding historical buildings to increasing the percentage of larger, family-friendly units.

AI model builder Eric Hartford unpacks the results of the September 25, 2025 NIST report on DeepSeek ("Evaluation of DeepSeek AI Models") and reports that the lack of evidence of malicious code, backdoors or data exfiltration, should lead to questions about the report's motives, framing and implications.
"The Demonization of DeepSeek -
How NIST Turned Open Science into a Security Scare"

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Promptable Longitudinal Lesion Segmentation in Whole-Body CT
Yannick Kirchhoff, Maximilian Rokuss, Fabian Isensee, Klaus H. Maier-Hein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00613 https://

Promptable Longitudinal Lesion Segmentation in Whole-Body CT
Accurate segmentation of lesions in longitudinal whole-body CT is essential for monitoring disease progression and treatment response. While automated methods benefit from incorporating longitudinal information, they remain limited in their ability to consistently track individual lesions across time. Task 2 of the autoPET/CT IV Challenge addresses this by providing lesion localizations and baseline delineations, framing the problem as longitudinal promptable segmentation. In this work, we exte…

https://pivotnine.com/blog/open-source-has-too-many-parasocial-relationships/ is an excellent distillation of the "software supply chain attack" discussion, and why I feel like that framing does nothing to prevent the kind of security flaws that get labeled as such

A Markovian Framing of WaveFunctionCollapse for Procedurally Generating Aesthetically Complex Environments
Franklin Yiu, Mohan Lu, Nina Li, Kevin Joseph, Tianxu Zhang, Julian Togelius, Timothy Merino, Sam Earle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09919

A Markovian Framing of WaveFunctionCollapse for Procedurally Generating Aesthetically Complex Environments
Procedural content generation often requires satisfying both designer-specified objectives and adjacency constraints implicitly imposed by the underlying tile set. To address the challenges of jointly optimizing both constraints and objectives, we reformulate WaveFunctionCollapse (WFC) as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), enabling external optimization algorithms to focus exclusively on objective maximization while leveraging WFC's propagation mechanism to enforce constraint satisfaction. We emp…

Vizings Conjecture: A Density-Based Re-framing
Noah Hosking
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10473 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10473

Vizings Conjecture: A Density-Based Re-framing
We recast Vizing's conjecture γ(G \square H) \ge γ(G)γ(H) through a simple domination-density lens. Defining ρ_X = γ(X)/|V(X)|, the conjecture becomes ρ_{G \square H} \ge ρ_G ρ_H. Many classical estimates admit this normalized form; if we select valid upper bounds ρ_G \le \tildeρ_G, ρ_H \le \tildeρ_H and a product lower bound ρ_{G \square H} \ge \tildeρ_{G \square H}, then the single test \tildeρ_{G \square H} \ge \tildeρ_G \tildeρ_H certifies Vizing's. Instantiations…

Musing on this post from @…: “Shared reality” is a direly important idea right now, but agreed: it’s missing something, hiding something.
A more useful framing might involve •time•. How long does it take for an idea to meet empirical challenge? What is the convergence time for differing understandings? What is the FA-to-FO latency?
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Cognitive Cybersecurity for Artificial Intelligence: Guardrail Engineering with CCS-7
Yuksel Aydin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10033 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Cognitive Cybersecurity for Artificial Intelligence: Guardrail Engineering with CCS-7
Language models exhibit human-like cognitive vulnerabilities, such as emotional framing, that escape traditional behavioral alignment. We present CCS-7 (Cognitive Cybersecurity Suite), a taxonomy of seven vulnerabilities grounded in human cognitive security research. To establish a human benchmark, we ran a randomized controlled trial with 151 participants: a "Think First, Verify Always" (TFVA) lesson improved cognitive security by +7.9% overall. We then evaluated TFVA-style guardrails across 1…

Source-Condition Analysis of Kernel Adversarial Estimators
Antonio Olivas-Martinez, Andrea Rotnitzky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17181 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Source-Condition Analysis of Kernel Adversarial Estimators
In many applications, the target parameter depends on a nuisance function defined by a conditional moment restriction, whose estimation often leads to an ill-posed inverse problem. Classical approaches, such as sieve-based GMM, approximate the restriction using a fixed set of test functions and may fail to capture important aspects of the solution. Adversarial estimators address this limitation by framing estimation as a game between an estimator and an adaptive critic. We study the class of Re…

Mapping Students' AI Literacy Framing and Learning through Reflective Journals
Ashish Hingle, Aditya Johri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15112 https://arx…

Mapping Students' AI Literacy Framing and Learning through Reflective Journals
This research paper presents a study of undergraduate technology students' self-reflective learning about artificial intelligence (AI). Research on AI literacy proposes that learners must develop five competencies associated with AI: awareness, knowledge, application, evaluation, and development. It is important to understand what, how, and why students learn about AI so formal instruction can better support their learning. We conducted a reflective journal study where students described their …

this is a very cool record store
#OldVinyl #vinyl #vinylrecords

Vision-driven River Following of UAV via Safe Reinforcement Learning using Semantic Dynamics Model
Zihan Wang, Nina Mahmoudian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09971 https://

Vision-driven River Following of UAV via Safe Reinforcement Learning using Semantic Dynamics Model
Vision-driven autonomous river following by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is critical for applications such as rescue, surveillance, and environmental monitoring, particularly in dense riverine environments where GPS signals are unreliable. We formalize river following as a coverage control problem in which the reward function is submodular, yielding diminishing returns as more unique river segments are visited, thereby framing the task as a Submodular Markov Decision Process. First, we introduce Ma…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/4]:
- Retain or Reframe? A Computational Framework for the Analysis of Framing in News Articles and Rea...
Matteo Guida, Yulia Otmakhova, Eduard Hovy, Lea Frermann

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ZeroGR: A Generalizable and Scalable Framework for Zero-Shot Generative Retrieval
Weiwei Sun, Keyi Kong, Xinyu Ma, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Maarten de Rijke, Zhaochun Ren, Yiming Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10419

ZeroGR: A Generalizable and Scalable Framework for Zero-Shot Generative Retrieval
Generative retrieval (GR) reformulates information retrieval (IR) by framing it as the generation of document identifiers (docids), thereby enabling an end-to-end optimization and seamless integration with generative language models (LMs). Despite notable progress under supervised training, GR still struggles to generalize to zero-shot IR scenarios, which are prevalent in real-world applications. To tackle this challenge, we propose \textsc{ZeroGR}, a zero-shot generative retrieval framework th…

Harmonic maps and framed $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C})$-representations
Subhojoy Gupta, Gobinda Sau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10335 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Harmonic maps and framed $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C})$-representations
We show that given an element $X$ of the enhanced Teichmüller space $\mathcal{T}^\pm(\mathbb{S}, \mathbb{M})$ and a type-preserving framed $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C})$-representation $\hatρ = (ρ,β)$, there is a $ρ$-equivariant harmonic map $f:\mathbb{H}^2 \to \mathbb{H}^3$ that is asymptotic to the framing $β$. Here, the domain is the universal cover of the punctured Riemann surface obtained from a conformal completion of $X$. Moreover, such a harmonic map is unique if one prescribes, in …

Synergetic Empowerment: Wireless Communications Meets Embodied Intelligence
Hongtao Liang, Yihe Diao, YuHang Wu, Fuhui Zhou, Qihui Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10481 https://…

Synergetic Empowerment: Wireless Communications Meets Embodied Intelligence
Wireless communication is evolving into an agent era, where large-scale agents with inherent embodied intelligence are not just users but active participants. The perfect combination of wireless communication and embodied intelligence can achieve a synergetic empowerment and greatly facilitate the development of agent communication. An overview of this synergetic empowerment is presented, framing it as a co-evolutionary process that transforms wireless communication from a simple utility into t…

Learning from Preferences and Mixed Demonstrations in General Settings
Jason R Brown, Carl Henrik Ek, Robert D Mullins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14027 https://

Learning from Preferences and Mixed Demonstrations in General Settings
Reinforcement learning is a general method for learning in sequential settings, but it can often be difficult to specify a good reward function when the task is complex. In these cases, preference feedback or expert demonstrations can be used instead. However, existing approaches utilising both together are often ad-hoc, rely on domain-specific properties, or won't scale. We develop a new framing for learning from human data, \emph{reward-rational partial orderings over observations}, designed …

Framing Migration: A Computational Analysis of UK Parliamentary Discourse
Vahid Ghafouri, Robert McNeil, Teodor Yankov, Madeleine Sumption, Luc Rocher, Scott A. Hale, Adam Mahdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14197

Framing Migration: A Computational Analysis of UK Parliamentary Discourse
We present a large-scale computational analysis of migration-related discourse in UK parliamentary debates spanning over 75 years and compare it with US congressional discourse. Using open-weight LLMs, we annotate each statement with high-level stances toward migrants and track the net tone toward migrants across time and political parties. For the UK, we extend this with a semi-automated framework for extracting fine-grained narrative frames to capture nuances of migration discourse. Our findi…

Anti-Regulatory AI: How "AI Safety" is Leveraged Against Regulatory Oversight
Rui-Jie Yew, Brian Judge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22872 https://a…

Anti-Regulatory AI: How "AI Safety" is Leveraged Against Regulatory Oversight
AI companies increasingly develop and deploy privacy-enhancing technologies, bias-constraining measures, evaluation frameworks, and alignment techniques -- framing them as addressing concerns related to data privacy, algorithmic fairness, and AI safety. This paper examines the ulterior function of these technologies as mechanisms of legal influence. First, we examine how encryption, federated learning, and synthetic data -- presented as enhancing privacy and reducing bias -- can operate as mech…

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it was a great day: the no kings rally was inspiring, the wolverines triumphed, PSG came back from down 3–1 to pull out a draw (yesterday, but watched today), and j.b. threw a terrific 40th fête d'anniversaire. perfect conditions for a #LateNightDanceParty!
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- Framing AI System Benchmarking as a Learning Task: FlexBench and the Open MLPerf Dataset
Grigori Fursin, Daniel Altunay

Geopolitical Parallax: Beyond Walter Lippmann Just After Large Language Models
Mehmet Can Yavuz, Humza Gohar Kabir, Aylin \"Ozkan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19492 https://

Geopolitical Parallax: Beyond Walter Lippmann Just After Large Language Models
Objectivity in journalism has long been contested, oscillating between ideals of neutral, fact-based reporting and the inevitability of subjective framing. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), these tensions are now mediated by algorithmic systems whose training data and design choices may themselves embed cultural or ideological biases. This study investigates geopolitical parallax-systematic divergence in news quality and subjectivity assessments-by comparing article-level embeddi…

The $r$-matrix structure on the moduli space of framed Higgs pairs
M. Bertola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11408 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11408

The $r$-matrix structure on the moduli space of framed Higgs pairs
On the space of matrices with rational (trigonometric/elliptic) entries there is a well-known Lie-Poisson $r$-matrix structure. The known $r$-matrices are defined on the Riemann sphere (rational), the cylinder (trigonometric), or the torus (elliptic). We extend the formalism to the case of a Riemann surface $\mathcal C$ of higher genus $g$: we consider the moduli space of framed vector bundles of rank $n$ and degree $ng$, where the framing consists in a choice of basis of $n$ independent holomo…

STRIDE: Scalable and Interpretable XAI via Subset-Free Functional Decomposition
Chaeyun Ko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09070 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0907…

STRIDE: Scalable and Interpretable XAI via Subset-Free Functional Decomposition
Most explainable AI (XAI) frameworks face two practical limitations: the exponential cost of reasoning over feature subsets and the reduced expressiveness of summarizing effects as single scalar values. We present STRIDE, a scalable framework that aims to mitigate both issues by framing explanation as a subset-enumeration-free, orthogonal functional decomposition in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS). Rather than focusing only on scalar attributions, STRIDE computes functional components…

AIM-Bench: Evaluating Decision-making Biases of Agentic LLM as Inventory Manager
Xuhua Zhao, Yuxuan Xie, Caihua Chen, Yuxiang Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11416 https://

AIM-Bench: Evaluating Decision-making Biases of Agentic LLM as Inventory Manager
Recent advances in mathematical reasoning and the long-term planning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have precipitated the development of agents, which are being increasingly leveraged in business operations processes. Decision models to optimize inventory levels are one of the core elements of operations management. However, the capabilities of the LLM agent in making inventory decisions in uncertain contexts, as well as the decision-making biases (e.g. framing effect, etc.) of th…

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DPad: Efficient Diffusion Language Models with Suffix Dropout
Xinhua Chen, Sitao Huang, Cong Guo, Chiyue Wei, Yintao He, Jianyi Zhang, Hai "Hellen" Li, Yiran Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14148

DPad: Efficient Diffusion Language Models with Suffix Dropout
Diffusion-based Large Language Models (dLLMs) parallelize text generation by framing decoding as a denoising process, but suffer from high computational overhead since they predict all future suffix tokens at each step while retaining only a small fraction. We propose Diffusion Scratchpad (DPad), a training-free method that restricts attention to a small set of nearby suffix tokens, preserving fidelity while eliminating redundancy. DPad integrates two strategies: (i) a sliding window, which mai…

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Sociotechnical Imaginaries of ChatGPT in Higher Education: The Evolving Media Discourse
Yinan Sun, Ali Unlu, Aditya Johri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14692 https://

Sociotechnical Imaginaries of ChatGPT in Higher Education: The Evolving Media Discourse
This study investigates how U.S. news media framed the use of ChatGPT in higher education from November 2022 to October 2024. Employing Framing Theory and combining temporal and sentiment analysis of 198 news articles, we trace the evolving narratives surrounding generative AI. We found that the media discourse largely centered on institutional responses; policy changes and teaching practices showed the most consistent presence and positive sentiment over time. Conversely, coverage of topics su…

Stands to Reason: Investigating the Effect of Reasoning on Idiomaticity Detection
Dylan Phelps, Rodrigo Wilkens, Edward Gow-Smith, Thomas Pickard, Maggie Mi, Aline Villavicencio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13365

Stands to Reason: Investigating the Effect of Reasoning on Idiomaticity Detection
The recent trend towards utilisation of reasoning models has improved the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) across many tasks which involve logical steps. One linguistic task that could benefit from this framing is idiomaticity detection, as a potentially idiomatic expression must first be understood before it can be disambiguated and serves as a basis for reasoning. In this paper, we explore how reasoning capabilities in LLMs affect idiomaticity detection performance and examine the …

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Funding AI for Good: A Call for Meaningful Engagement
Hongjin Lin, Anna Kawakami, Catherine D'Ignazio, Kenneth Holstein, Krzysztof Gajos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12455 htt…

Funding AI for Good: A Call for Meaningful Engagement
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good (AI4SG) is a growing area exploring AI's potential to address social issues like public health. Yet prior work has shown limited evidence of its tangible benefits for intended communities, and projects frequently face inadequate community engagement and sustainability challenges. Funding agendas play a crucial role in framing AI4SG initiatives and shaping their approaches. Through a qualitative analysis of 35 funding documents -- representing about $410 m…

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Stated Preference for Interaction and Continued Engagement (SPICE): Evaluating an LLM's Willingness to Re-engage in Conversation
Thomas Manuel Rost, Martina Figlia, Bernd Wallraff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09043

Stated Preference for Interaction and Continued Engagement (SPICE): Evaluating an LLM's Willingness to Re-engage in Conversation
We introduce and evaluate Stated Preference for Interaction and Continued Engagement (SPICE), a simple diagnostic signal elicited by asking a Large Language Model a YES or NO question about its willingness to re-engage with a user's behavior after reviewing a short transcript. In a study using a 3-tone (friendly, unclear, abusive) by 10-interaction stimulus set, we tested four open-weight chat models across four framing conditions, resulting in 480 trials. Our findings show that SPICE sharply d…

Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Scratch Programming Tutorials
Isabella Gra{\ss}l, Benedikt Fein, Gordon Fraser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11064 https://arx…

Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Scratch Programming Tutorials
Gender stereotypes in introductory programming courses often go unnoticed, yet they can negatively influence young learners' interest and learning, particularly under-represented groups such as girls. Popular tutorials on block-based programming with Scratch may unintentionally reinforce biases through character choices, narrative framing, or activity types. Educators currently lack support in identifying and addressing such bias. With large language models~(LLMs) increasingly used to generate …

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