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The Three Hundred Project: deducing the stellar splashback structure of galaxy clusters from their orbiting profiles
Kris Walker, Aaron Ludlow, Chris Power, Alexander Knebe, Weiguang Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07232

The Three Hundred Project: deducing the stellar splashback structure of galaxy clusters from their orbiting profiles
We examine the splashback structure of galaxy clusters using hydrodynamical simulations from the GIZMO run of The Three Hundred Project, focusing on the relationship between the stellar and dark matter components. We dynamically decompose clusters into orbiting and infalling material and fit their density profiles. We find that the truncation radius $r_{\mathrm{t}}$, associated with the splashback feature, coincides for stars and dark matter, but the stellar profile exhibits a systematically st…

'Quite the thing to admit': Experts call Trump's new move 'page 1 of the fascist playbook' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-antifa-kristi-noem/

Schwarz-Rot in der Krise: Der Brosius-Gersdorf-Rückzug löst die Probleme nicht. Kommentar von Sabine am Orde.
https://taz.de/Schwarz-Rot-in-der-Krise/!6102598/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Juan Ramos:
🎵 Hard Bois ft. Kris Baha
#JuanRamos
https://kspan.bandcamp.com/track/hard-bois-ft-kris-baha

I love origin stories.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/me-and-bobby-mcgee-janis-joplin-kris-kristofferson-lyrics.html

The Unlikely Story of the Secretary Who Inspired One of Music’s Greatest Songs
“Me and Bobby McGee” was originally about a woman—Barbara “Bobbie” McKee. I talked to her.

I min organisation rustar vi för kris och ofred (istället för krig tycks vi ha gått till den norrländska seden att sätta ett o framför ett ord). Eller heter det ofred?

Downfolding a quantum many-body system: the quasi-1D Fermi polaron
Lovro Anto Bari\v{s}i\'c (LPENS), Giuliano Orso (MPQ), Fr\'ed\'eric Chevy (LPENS, IUF), Kris Van Houcke (LPENS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04934

Downfolding a quantum many-body system: the quasi-1D Fermi polaron
We investigate the properties of an impurity immersed in an ensemble of spin-polarized fermions confined in a tight quantum wire. We use a non-perturbative variational approach that accounts for virtual transverse excitations and regularizes the zero-range interaction. We compute the polaron's energy, effective mass, and spectral weight, and benchmark our results against the exactly solvable Yang-Gaudin model of a purely 1D system. While the two models agree in the weakly interacting regime, we…

A look at Intel's $28B Ohio chip factory, the largest economic development project in Ohio's history, initially set for a 2025 opening but now delayed till 2030 (Kris Maher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ohio-intel-chipma

WhiSQA: Non-Intrusive Speech Quality Prediction Using Whisper Encoder Features
George Close, Kris Hong, Thomas Hain, Stefan Goetze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02210 https://

WhiSQA: Non-Intrusive Speech Quality Prediction Using Whisper Encoder Features
There has been significant research effort developing neural-network-based predictors of SQ in recent years. While a primary objective has been to develop non-intrusive, i.e.~reference-free, metrics to assess the performance of SE systems, recent work has also investigated the direct inference of neural SQ predictors within the loss function of downstream speech tasks. To aid in the training of SQ predictors, several large datasets of audio with corresponding human labels of quality have been c…

"It's wiggity, wiggity, wiggity wack!"
It seems Kid1 has discovered Kris Kross.

Intelligent Manufacturing Support: Specialized LLMs for Composite Material Processing and Equipment Operation
Gunnika Kapoor, Komal Chawla, Tirthankar Ghosal, Kris Villez, Dan Coughlin, Tyden Rucker, Vincent Paquit, Soydan Ozcan, Seokpum Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06734

Intelligent Manufacturing Support: Specialized LLMs for Composite Material Processing and Equipment Operation
Engineering educational curriculum and standards cover many material and manufacturing options. However, engineers and designers are often unfamiliar with certain composite materials or manufacturing techniques. Large language models (LLMs) could potentially bridge the gap. Their capacity to store and retrieve data from large databases provides them with a breadth of knowledge across disciplines. However, their generalized knowledge base can lack targeted, industry-specific knowledge. To this e…

Joint Adaptive Penalty for Unbalanced Mediation Pathways
Hanying Jiang, Kris Sankaran, Yinqiu He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25527 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Joint Adaptive Penalty for Unbalanced Mediation Pathways
Mediation analysis has been widely used to investigate how a treatment influences an outcome through intermediate variables, known as mediators. Analyzing a mediation mechanism typically requires assessing multiple model parameters that characterize distinct pathwise effects. Classical methods that estimate these parameters individually can be inefficient, particularly when the underlying pathwise effects exhibit substantial imbalance. To address this challenge, this work proposes a new joint a…

Teaching AI to Feel: A Collaborative, Full-Body Exploration of Emotive Communication
Esen K. T\"ut\"unc\"u, Lissette Lemus, Kris Pilcher, Holger Sprengel, Jordi Sabater-Mir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22168

Teaching AI to Feel: A Collaborative, Full-Body Exploration of Emotive Communication
Commonaiverse is an interactive installation exploring human emotions through full-body motion tracking and real-time AI feedback. Participants engage in three phases: Teaching, Exploration and the Cosmos Phase, collaboratively expressing and interpreting emotions with the system. The installation integrates MoveNet for precise motion tracking and a multi-recommender AI system to analyze emotional states dynamically, responding with adaptive audiovisual outputs. By shifting from top-down emotio…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ned and Kris:
🎵 Cats and Dogs
#NedandKris
https://medlar.bandcamp.com/album/ned-and-kris-cats-and-dogs
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JhR4I9dL9cJkDZINk5znv

Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality
Yixi Xu, Al-Rahim Habib, Graeme Crossland, Hemi Patel, Chris Perry, Kris Bock, Tony Lian, William B. Weeks, Rahul Dodhia, Juan Lavista Ferres, Narinder Pal Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18842…

Towards reliable use of artificial intelligence to classify otitis media using otoscopic images: Addressing bias and improving data quality
Ear disease contributes significantly to global hearing loss, with recurrent otitis media being a primary preventable cause in children, impacting development. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers promise for early diagnosis via otoscopic image analysis, but dataset biases and inconsistencies limit model generalizability and reliability. This retrospective study systematically evaluated three public otoscopic image datasets (Chile; Ohio, USA; Türkiye) using quantitative and qualitative methods.…

Replaced article(s) found for math.AG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.AG/new
[1/1]:
- Cohomologically tropical varieties
Edvard Aksnes, Omid Amini, Matthieu Piquerez, Kris Shaw

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[6/12]:
- Localized Graph-Based Neural Dynamics Models for Terrain Manipulation
Chaoqi Liu, Yunzhu Li, Kris Hauser

ATLAS: Decoupling Skeletal and Shape Parameters for Expressive Parametric Human Modeling
Jinhyung Park, Javier Romero, Shunsuke Saito, Fabian Prada, Takaaki Shiratori, Yichen Xu, Federica Bogo, Shoou-I Yu, Kris Kitani, Rawal Khirodkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15767

ATLAS: Decoupling Skeletal and Shape Parameters for Expressive Parametric Human Modeling
Parametric body models offer expressive 3D representation of humans across a wide range of poses, shapes, and facial expressions, typically derived by learning a basis over registered 3D meshes. However, existing human mesh modeling approaches struggle to capture detailed variations across diverse body poses and shapes, largely due to limited training data diversity and restrictive modeling assumptions. Moreover, the common paradigm first optimizes the external body surface using a linear basis…

On the Spatial Distribution of Luminous Blue Variables, B[e] Supergiants, and Wolf-Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
John C. Martin, Roberta M. Humphreys, Kris Davidson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17114

On the Spatial Distribution of Luminous Blue Variables, B[e] Supergiants, and Wolf-Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
We examine the spatial distributions of LBV's, B[e] supergiants, and W-R stars in the LMC, to clarify their relative ages, evolutionary states, and relationships. This survey employs a reference catalog that was not available for previous work, comprising more than 3900 of the LMC's most luminous stars. Our analysis shows that LBV's, B[e] supergiants, and WR's have spatial distributions like normal stars with the same spectral types and luminosities. Most LBV's are not isolated, nor do they req…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Kris Kross:
🎵 Jump
#KrisKross
https://djpaulharwoodremixes.bandcamp.com/track/kris-kross-jump-dj-paul-harwood-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/27AHAtAirQapVldIm4c9ZX

With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers (Kris Maher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/can-pittsburgh…

Noem’s Spending Rule Causes Delays at Homeland Security Dept. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/kristi-noem-spending-contracts-homeland-security-department.html

Design and initial results from the "Junior" Levitated Dipole Experiment
Craig S. Chisholm, Thomas Berry, Darren T. Garnier, Rodney A. Badcock, Gabriel Bioletti, Konstantinos Bouloukakis, Emily-Kei Brewerton, Mike A. Buchanan, Pierce J. Burt, Eleanor V. W. Chambers, Kris B. Chappell, Patrick Coulson, Ryan J. Davidson, Josh P. M. Ellingham, Piet Geursen, Kent Hamilton, Raymond Hu, Emily Hunter, Joseph P. Jones, Plaso Kusay, Zvonko Lazi\'c, Bradley Leuw, Matthew Lynch, Ratu…

Design and initial results from the "Junior" Levitated Dipole Experiment
OpenStar Technologies is a private fusion company exploring the levitated dipole concept for commercial fusion energy production. OpenStar has manufactured a new generation of levitated dipole experiment, called "Junior", leveraging recent advances made in high-temperature superconducting magnet technologies. Junior houses a ~5.6 T REBCO high-temperature superconducting magnet in a 5.2 m vacuum chamber, with plasma heating achieved via < 50 kW of electron cyclotron resonance heating power. Impo…

Whilter: A Whisper-based Data Filter for "In-the-Wild" Speech Corpora Using Utterance-level Multi-Task Classification
William Ravenscroft, George Close, Kit Bower-Morris, Jamie Stacey, Dmitry Sityaev, Kris Y. Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21642

Whilter: A Whisper-based Data Filter for "In-the-Wild" Speech Corpora Using Utterance-level Multi-Task Classification
Large-scale in-the-wild speech datasets have become more prevalent in recent years due to increased interest in models that can learn useful features from unlabelled data for tasks such as speech recognition or synthesis. These datasets often contain undesirable features, such as multiple speakers, non-target languages, and music, which may impact model learning. The Whilter model is proposed as a multitask solution to identify these undesirable samples. Whilter uses a Whisper encoder with an a…

Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA): Advancing the U.S. Priorities in Gravitational-wave and Lunar Science
Karan Jani, Matthew Abernathy, Emanuele Berti, Valerio Boschi, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Alice Cocoros, John W. Conklin, Teviet Creighton, Simone Dell'Agnello, Jean-Claude Diels, Stephen Eikenberry, T. Marshall Eubanks, Kiranjyot Gill, Jonathan E. Grindlay, Kris Izquierdo, Jaesung Lee, Abraham Loeb, Philippe Lognonn\'e, Francesco Longo, Manuel Pichardo Marcano, Mark Panni…

Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA): Advancing the U.S. Priorities in Gravitational-wave and Lunar Science
The Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA) is a next-generation gravitational-wave (GW) facility on the Moon. By harnessing the Moon's unique environment, LILA fills a critical observational gap in the mid-band GW spectrum ($0.1 - 10$ Hz) between terrestrial detectors (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA) and the future space mission LISA. Observations enabled by LILA will fundamentally transform multi-messenger astrophysics and GW probes of fundamental physics. LILA will measure the lunar deep interior bett…

Weakly Supervised Phonological Features for Pathological Speech Analysis
Jenthe Thienpondt, Geoffroy Vanderreydt, Abdessalem Hammami, Kris Demuynck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19879

Weakly Supervised Phonological Features for Pathological Speech Analysis
Paralinguistic properties of speech are essential in analyzing and choosing optimal treatment options for patients with speech disorders. However, automatic modeling of these characteristics is difficult due to the lack of labeled speech datasets describing paralinguistic properties, especially at the frame-level. In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised training method which exploits the known acoustic properties of phonemes by training an ASR model with an interpretable frame-level phono…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TrainTracks
Phil Gaston, Donald Shaw, Kris Drever, Kris Drever & Kate Rusby:
🎵 Navigator (with locomotive outro)
#PhilGaston #DonaldShaw #KrisDrever #KateRusby

A decision-theoretic framework for uncertainty quantification in epidemiological modelling
Nicholas Steyn, Freddie Bickford Smith, Cathal Mills, Vik Shirvaikar, Christl A Donnelly, Kris V Parag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20013

A decision-theoretic framework for uncertainty quantification in epidemiological modelling
Estimating, understanding, and communicating uncertainty is fundamental to statistical epidemiology, where model-based estimates regularly inform real-world decisions. However, sources of uncertainty are rarely formalised, and existing classifications are often defined inconsistently. This lack of structure hampers interpretation, model comparison, and targeted data collection. Connecting ideas from machine learning, information theory, experimental design, and health economics, we present a fi…

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
David Hunter, Pablo Botin, Emily Snode-Brenneman, Amy Stevermer, Becca Hatheway, Dillon Amaya, Eddie Goldstein, Wayne A Seltzer, Mark D Gross, Kris Karnauskas, Daniel Leithinger, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13039

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
We describe a multidisciplinary collaboration to iteratively design an interactive exhibit for a public science center on paleoclimate, the study of past climates. We created a data physicalisation of mountains and ice sheets that can be tangibly manipulated by visitors to interact with a wind simulation visualisation that demonstrates how the climate of North America differed dramatically between now and the peak of the last ice age. We detail the system for interaction and visualisation plus …

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.SR. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.SR/new
[1/1]:
- On the Spatial Distribution of Luminous Blue Variables, B[e] Supergiants, and Wolf-Rayet stars in...
John C. Martin, Roberta M. Humphreys, Kris Davidson

Fundamental limits on taming infectious disease epidemics
Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, Xiaodong Cheng, Kris V. Parag, Ioannis Lestas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11764 https://…

Fundamental limits on taming infectious disease epidemics
Epidemic control frequently relies on adjusting interventions based on prevalence. But designing such policies is a highly non-trivial problem due to uncertain intervention effects, costs and the difficulty of quantifying key transmission mechanisms and parameters. Here, using exact mathematical and computational methods, we reveal a fundamental limit in epidemic control in that prevalence feedback policies are outperformed by a single optimally chosen constant control level. Specifically, we f…

Harmonic Summation-Based Robust Pitch Estimation in Noisy and Reverberant Environments
Anup Singh, Kris Demuynck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16480 https://a…

Harmonic Summation-Based Robust Pitch Estimation in Noisy and Reverberant Environments
Accurate pitch estimation is essential for numerous speech processing applications, yet it remains challenging in high-distortion environments. This paper proposes a robust pitch estimation method that delivers robust pitch estimates in challenging noise environments. Our approach computes the Normalized Average Magnitude Difference Function (NAMDF), transforms it into a likelihood function, and generates probabilistic pitch states for frames at each sample shift. To enhance noise robustness, w…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Kris Davis:
🎵 Softly, as You Wake / First Steps
#KrisDavis