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Nile-Chat: Egyptian Language Models for Arabic and Latin Scripts
Guokan Shang, Hadi Abdine, Ahmad Chamma, Amr Mohamed, Mohamed Anwar, Abdelaziz Bounhar, Omar El Herraoui, Preslav Nakov, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Eric Xing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04569

Nile-Chat: Egyptian Language Models for Arabic and Latin Scripts
We introduce Nile-Chat-4B, 3x4B-A6B, and 12B, a collection of LLMs for Egyptian dialect, uniquely designed to understand and generate texts written in both Arabic and Latin scripts. Specifically, with Nile-Chat-3x4B-A6B, we introduce a novel language adaptation approach by leveraging the Branch-Train-MiX strategy to merge script-specialized experts, into a single MoE model. Our Nile-Chat models significantly outperform leading multilingual and Arabic LLMs, such as LLaMa, Jais, and ALLaM, on our…

LumApps, which makes intranet software, agrees to merge with frontline staff communication app Beekeeper in a deal valuing the combined entity at about $1.1B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace

Je me demande quel outil serait le plus pratique pour moi pour propager "facilement" des changements dans plusieurs "stacked Merge Request" en cours de review.
#GitStack, #GitBranchLess, #StacketGit

Split-Merge Revisited: A Scalable Approach to Generalized Eigenvalue Problems
Xiaozhi Liu, Yong Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02389 https://

Split-Merge Revisited: A Scalable Approach to Generalized Eigenvalue Problems
The generalized eigenvalue problem (GEP) serves as a cornerstone in a wide range of applications in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing. However, traditional approaches that aim to maximize the classical Rayleigh quotient often suffer from numerical instability and limited computational efficiency, especially in large-scale settings. In this work, we explore an alternative difference-based formulation of GEP by minimizing a structured quadratic polynomial objective, which enables …

The Trump administration has expanded #Palantir’s work with the government,
spreading the company’s technology
— which could easily merge data on Americans
— throughout more agencies.
The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Trump took office, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department …

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Ming Li, Wendi Cheng, Jiahe Wei, Xueqiang Shan, Liu Weikai, Xiaonan Zhao, Xiao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04678

BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Modern data-intensive applications increasingly store and process big-value items, such as multimedia objects and machine learning embeddings, which exacerbate storage inefficiencies in Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM)-based key-value stores. This paper presents BVLSM, a Write-Ahead Log (WAL)-time key-value separation mechanism designed to address three key challenges in LSM-Tree storage systems: write amplification, poor memory utilization, and I/O jitter under big-value workloads. Unlike state…

Merge Hijacking: Backdoor Attacks to Model Merging of Large Language Models
Zenghui Yuan, Yangming Xu, Jiawen Shi, Pan Zhou, Lichao Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23561

Merge Hijacking: Backdoor Attacks to Model Merging of Large Language Models
Model merging for Large Language Models (LLMs) directly fuses the parameters of different models finetuned on various tasks, creating a unified model for multi-domain tasks. However, due to potential vulnerabilities in models available on open-source platforms, model merging is susceptible to backdoor attacks. In this paper, we propose Merge Hijacking, the first backdoor attack targeting model merging in LLMs. The attacker constructs a malicious upload model and releases it. Once a victim user …

DC Steve Wilks collaborating with Aaron Glenn to make Jets more aggressive, physical https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45392937/new-york-jets-steve-wilks-aaron-glenn-collaborating-scheme

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.gxiw.J6H-w4YDQCIZ&a…

Accelerating GNN Training through Locality-aware Dropout and Merge
Gongjian Sun, Mingyu Yan, Dengke Han, Runzhen Xue, Duo Wang, Xiaochun Ye, Dongrui Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21414

Accelerating GNN Training through Locality-aware Dropout and Merge
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant success in graph learning and are widely adopted across various critical domains. However, the irregular connectivity between vertices leads to inefficient neighbor aggregation, resulting in substantial irregular and coarse-grained DRAM accesses. This lack of data locality presents significant challenges for execution platforms, ultimately degrading performance. While previous accelerator designs have leveraged on-chip memory and data a…

Thanks to @…, I've deleted my toot on #PostgreSQL 18 since after verification, it claimed "unverified" capabilities.
…

STOCK ANALYSTS: Ignore Musk’s behavior, geniuses are just eccentric sometimes, it’s OK, his repeated failures will soon give way to 10000x growth
MUSK: After listening to Ace of Base on repeat for 72 hours straight while huffing jet fuel, I now understand that I am destined to merge with the AI resurrection of Hitler to become Machine Jesus who saves the white race after 1000 years of continuous stock market crashes, which are of course necessary and a good idea. Libturds have hidden this truth from your mind

A continuum mechanics approach for the deformation of non-Euclidean origami generated by piecewise constant nematic director fields
Linjuan Wang, Fan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01309

A continuum mechanics approach for the deformation of non-Euclidean origami generated by piecewise constant nematic director fields
We merge classical origami concepts with active actuation by designing origami patterns whose panels undergo prescribed metric changes. These metric changes render the system non-Euclidean, inducing non-zero Gaussian curvature at the vertices after actuation. Such patterns can be realized by programming piecewise constant director fields in liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) sheets. In this work, we address the geometric design of both compatible reference director patterns and their corresponding …

On The Impact of Merge Request Deviations on Code Review Practices
Samah Kansab, Francis Bordeleau, Ali Tizghadam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08860 https://…

On The Impact of Merge Request Deviations on Code Review Practices
Code review is a key practice in software engineering, ensuring quality and collaboration. However, industrial Merge Request (MR) workflows often deviate from standardized review processes, with many MRs serving non-review purposes (e.g., drafts, rebases, or dependency updates). We term these cases deviations and hypothesize that ignoring them biases analytics and undermines ML models for review analysis. We identify seven deviation categories, occurring in 37.02% of MRs, and propose a few-sh…

Sources: Palantir's Foundry is now deployed in at least four federal agencies, after Trump signed an EO calling for the government to share data across agencies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

And from the [not] #freemarket annals: 
"And of course, patients don't get to merge to monopoly (that's what governments are for, and we know how Blue Cross feels about single payer care). Workers don't get to merge to monopoly either (that's what unions are for, and no one hates a union more than a health care monopolist)."
PS: CEO says "authorization never sa…

AAM: The Washington Post's paid average daily circulation is now just 97,000, dropping below 100,000 for the first time and down from 250,000 five years ago (Vince Morris/Washington City Paper)
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article…

Washington Post to Merge Metro Coverage Into Sports and Style Sections
The print edition will publish its final stand-alone Metro section on Sunday, as Post average circulation drops below 100,000 for the first time in more than 55 years.

An anomalous particle-exchange mechanism for two isolated Bose gases merged into one
Q. H. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22478 https://

An anomalous particle-exchange mechanism for two isolated Bose gases merged into one
In an isolated ideal Bose system with a fixed energy, the number of microstates depends solely on the configurations of bosons in excited states, implying zero entropy for particles in the ground state. When two such systems merge, the resulting entropy is less than the sum of the individual entropies. This entropy decrease is numerically shown to arise from an effectively but anomalous exchange of particles in excited states, where $\overline{N}!/(\overline{N}_{1}!\overline{N}_{2}!)<1$. Here, …

The Algebraic Structure of Morphosyntax
Isabella Senturia, Matilde Marcolli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00244 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

The Algebraic Structure of Morphosyntax
Within the context of the mathematical formulation of Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis, we present a mathematical model of the morphology-syntax interface. In this setting, morphology has compositional properties responsible for word formation, organized into a magma of morphological trees. However, unlike syntax, we do not have movement within morphology. A coproduct decomposition exists, but it requires extending the set of morphological trees beyond those which are generated solely by …

Today, as an evening amusement, I fixed a very nast Bug in the #Koha test suite, that did not occure when running only the affected test file, but only when also running some other tests: https://bugs.koh…

from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

arse; I've just spent a few hours bisecting and ended up at a commit titled 'massive merge' - arse. It's right as well '8470 insertions( ), 6883 deletions(-)'.
arse.

Around 90% of Dutch green (GroenLinks) and social-democrat (PvdA) party members voted to merge both parties, already working closely together in parliament. https://nos.nl/l/2570889

De leden hebben besloten: PvdA en GroenLinks gaan volgend jaar fuseren
De nieuwe partij komt er niet voor de komende Kamerverkiezingen, maar de GroenLinks en PvdA doen daar wel samen aan mee.

Elon should not go back to Tesla. Tesla should merge with Rivian and give the CEO position to RJ Scaringe with Musk out of any role. Tesla is where Apple was prior to the acquisition of NeXT, dead in the water without a brain transplant.

@… and no passkeys support. This is the one with ready to merge branch and the developer busy with something else.
inb4: a FOSS developer CAN be busy with something else, it is none of our business, it's fine

Electrostatics overcome acoustic collapse to assemble, adapt, and activate levitated matter
Sue Shi, Maximilian C. H\"ubl, Galien P. Grosjean, Carl P. Goodrich, Scott R. Waitukaitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01739

Electrostatics overcome acoustic collapse to assemble, adapt, and activate levitated matter
Acoustic levitation provides a unique method for manipulating small particles as it completely evades effects from gravity, container walls, or physical handling. These advantages make it a tantalizing platform for studying complex phenomena in many-particle systems, save for one severe limitation -- particles suspended by sound interact via acoustic scattering forces, which cause them to merge into a single dense object. To overcome this "acoustic collapse", we have developed a strategy that c…

Sources: Palmer Luckey's stablecoin startup Atticus raised ~$250M at a $2.25B valuation, and will merge into Erebor, formed by Luckey to get a banking license (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/13/palmer-luckey-er…

Scoop: New details on Palmer Luckey's crypto unicorn
Atticus will merge into Erebor, recently formed by Luckey with plans to get a banking license.

#Filament 4 Beta Released with New #Tiptap Rich Editor 🎉
• 🏷️ Merge Tags with dynamic data integration using {{}} syntax and searchable previews for #Laravel applications
🧵 👇

Zarah Sultana (UKPol)
"Zarah Sultana MP resigns from Labour to lead new party with Jeremy Corbyn"
!
Nice article from LBC including her own statement.
#ZarahSultana #JeremyCorbyn #LabourParty #UK #UKPol

Trump has ordered the US government to consolidate its wildland firefighting force into a single program,
despite warnings from former federal officials that it could be costly and increase the risk of catastrophic blazes in the middle of peak wildfire season.
The order aims to centralize firefighting efforts,
which are now split among five agencies and two cabinet departments.
Trump’s proposed budget for next year calls for the creation of a new Federal Wildland Fire…

Elon should not go back to Tesla. Tesla should merge with Rivian and give the CEO position to RJ Scaringe with Musk out of any role. Tesla is where Apple was prior to the acquisition of NeXT, dead in the water without a brain transplant.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SD. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SD/new
[1/1]:
- MERGE -- A Bimodal Audio-Lyrics Dataset for Static Music Emotion Recognition
Pedro Lima Louro, Hugo Redinho, Ricardo Santos, Ricardo Malheiro, Renato Panda, Rui Pedro Paiva

Is Keepass on Android really dead? On Apple devices there's Strongbox that is up to date and native UI/UX. On Linux, KeepassXC does the job well.
And Android has two apps, both of them are unmaintained. One of them, the maintainer can't even merge the Passkeys support and release.
Someone™ should make a commercial version of it.
#keepass

Progress toward the detection of the gravitational-wave background from stellar-mass binary black holes: a mock data challenge
Xiao-Xiao Kou, Muhammed Saleem, Vuk Mandic, Colm Talbot, Eric Thrane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14179

Progress toward the detection of the gravitational-wave background from stellar-mass binary black holes: a mock data challenge
While the third LIGO--Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog includes 90 signals, it is believed that ${\cal O}(10^5)$ binary black holes merge somewhere in the Universe every year. Although these signals are too weak to be detected individually with current observatories, they combine to create a stochastic background, which is potentially detectable in the near future. LIGO--Virgo searches for the gravitational-wave background using cross-correlation have so far yielded upper limits. Howe…

Non-coalescence and in-plane momentum generation in sessile droplet clusters
Gopal Chandra Pal, Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Chander Shekhar Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13942

Non-coalescence and in-plane momentum generation in sessile droplet clusters
Intuitively, droplets in proximity merge when brought into contact. However, under certain conditions, they may not coalesce due to the entrapment of an interstitial gas film. Droplet non-coalescence has so far been observed in various scenarios, such as during interactions between droplets moving with relative bulk velocity, droplets with opposite charges and size differences, and Leidenfrost droplets due to continuous vapor generation. Although non-coalescence has been reported for droplets o…

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.

Odd coloring graphs with linear neighborhood complexity
James Davies, Meike Hatzel, Kolja Knauer, Rose McCarty, Torsten Ueckerdt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08926

Odd coloring graphs with linear neighborhood complexity
We prove that any class of bipartite graphs with linear neighborhood complexity has bounded odd chromatic number. As a result, if $\mathcal{G}$ is the class of all circle graphs, or if $\mathcal{G}$ is any class with bounded twin-width, bounded merge-width, or a forbidden vertex-minor, then $\mathcal{G}$ is $χ_{odd}$-bounded.

On measure-valued solutions for a structured population model with transfers
Pierre Magal (IMB), Ga\"el Raoul (CMAP, MERGE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13225

On measure-valued solutions for a structured population model with transfers
We consider a transfer operator where two interacting cells carrying non-negative traits transfer a random fraction of their trait to each other. These transfers can lead to population having singular distributions in trait. We extend the definition of the transfer operator to non-negative measures with a finite second moment, and we discuss the regularity of the fixed distributions of that transfer operator. Finally, we consider a dynamic transfer model where an initial population distribution…

Reimagining Target-Aware Molecular Generation through Retrieval-Enhanced Aligned Diffusion
Dong Xu, Zhangfan Yang, Ka-chun Wong, Zexuan Zhu, Jiangqiang Li, Junkai Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14488

Reimagining Target-Aware Molecular Generation through Retrieval-Enhanced Aligned Diffusion
Breakthroughs in high-accuracy protein structure prediction, such as AlphaFold, have established receptor-based molecule design as a critical driver for rapid early-phase drug discovery. However, most approaches still struggle to balance pocket-specific geometric fit with strict valence and synthetic constraints. To resolve this trade-off, a Retrieval-Enhanced Aligned Diffusion termed READ is introduced, which is the first to merge molecular Retrieval-Augmented Generation with an SE(3)-equivari…

Spin-orbit misalignment and residual eccentricity are evidence that neutron star-black hole mergers form through triple star evolution
Jakob Stegmann, Jakub Klencki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09121

Spin-orbit misalignment and residual eccentricity are evidence that neutron star-black hole mergers form through triple star evolution
There is growing evidence that a substantial fraction of the neutron star-black holes (NSBHs) detected through gravitational waves merge with non-zero eccentricity or large BH spin-orbit misalignment. This is in tension with the leading formation scenarios to date. Residual eccentricity rules out formation through isolated binary star evolution, while NS natal kicks and the unequal masses of NSBHs inhibit efficient pairing in dense stellar environments. Here, we report that all observed propert…

Entropy-Driven Pre-Tokenization for Byte-Pair Encoding
Yifan Hu, Frank Liang, Dachuan Zhao, Jonathan Geuter, Varshini Reddy, Craig W. Schmidt, Chris Tanner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15889

Entropy-Driven Pre-Tokenization for Byte-Pair Encoding
Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) has become a widely adopted subword tokenization method in modern language models due to its simplicity and strong empirical performance across downstream tasks. However, applying BPE to unsegmented languages such as Chinese presents significant challenges, as its frequency-driven merge operation is agnostic to linguistic boundaries. To address this, we propose two entropy-informed pre-tokenization strategies that guide BPE segmentation using unsupervised information-th…

Internal memo: Paramount Global is cutting its US-based staff by 3.5% and may also reduce its workforce outside of the US over time (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/paramount-to-cut-3percent-of-us-workfo…

Paramount to cut 3% of U.S. workforce as it deepens cost-cutting
It's the latest round of layoffs at Paramount as it contends with cord-cutting and prepares to merge with Skydance Media.

DiscoSG: Towards Discourse-Level Text Scene Graph Parsing through Iterative Graph Refinement
Shaoqing Lin, Chong Teng, Fei Li, Donghong Ji, Lizhen Qu, Zhuang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15583

DiscoSG: Towards Discourse-Level Text Scene Graph Parsing through Iterative Graph Refinement
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) now generate discourse-level, multi-sentence visual descriptions, challenging text scene graph parsers originally designed for single-sentence caption-to-graph mapping. Current approaches typically merge sentence-level parsing outputs for discourse input, often missing phenomena like cross-sentence coreference, resulting in fragmented graphs and degraded downstream VLM task performance. To address this, we introduce a new task, Discourse-level text Scene Graph pars…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04678 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDB_…

BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Modern data-intensive applications increasingly store and process big-value items, such as multimedia objects and machine learning embeddings, which exacerbate storage inefficiencies in Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM)-based key-value stores. This paper presents BVLSM, a Write-Ahead Log (WAL)-time key-value separation mechanism designed to address three key challenges in LSM-Tree storage systems: write amplification, poor memory utilization, and I/O jitter under big-value workloads. Unlike state…

@rustaceans@mastodon.social Here's my take on the challenge from issue 62!
@… Didn't benchmark or anything, but the algo only goes over the list once to sort it (worst case `O(n * log(n))`) and then once to merge the ranges (`O(n)`).
Run on the playground: #RustLang #rust #algorithm #RustBytes

Colloid-like scale-free cluster-cluster aggregation during polymer collapse
Suman Majumder, Saikat Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06801 https://

Colloid-like scale-free cluster-cluster aggregation during polymer collapse
An extended polymer collapses to form a globule when subjected to a quench below the collapse transition temperature. The process begins with the formation of clusters of monomers or ``pearls''. The nascent clusters merge, resulting in growth of the average cluster size $C_s$, eventually leading to a single globule. The aggregation of the clusters are known to be analogous to droplet coalescence. This suggests a striking resemblance between such an aggregation and cluster-cluster aggregation in…