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⚖️ Weight loss alone not enough to boost men's fertility
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Weight loss alone not enough to boost men's fertility
How men lose weight could affect their chances of having a baby, with new research from the University of Adelaide revealing healthy lifestyle behaviors seem more beneficial for improving fertility than weight loss itself.

Text2Weight: Bridging Natural Language and Neural Network Weight Spaces
Bowen Tian, Wenshuo Chen, Zexi Li, Songning Lai, Jiemin Wu, Yutao Yue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13633 ht…

Text2Weight: Bridging Natural Language and Neural Network Weight Spaces
How far are we really from automatically generating neural networks? While neural network weight generation shows promise, current approaches struggle with generalization to unseen tasks and practical application exploration. To address this, we propose T2W, a diffusion transformer framework that generates task-specific weights conditioned on natural language descriptions. T2W hierarchically processes network parameters into uniform blocks, integrates text embeddings from CLIP via a prior atten…

Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Phoebe Bridgers:
🎵 Motion Sickness
#PhoebeBridgers
https://babyweight.bandcamp.com/track/phoebe-bridgers-motion-sickness-baby-weight-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xo8RrjJ9CVNrtRg2S3B1R

@… it isn’t quite a 1:1 match with the BenchNine web font weight we’re using on the web site

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

"the weight of the evidence": netter whodunit-krimi, der an einer fiktiven nordenglischen uni spielt, aus dem jahr 1944. #2025reads 📗🐧
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Innes…

I saw a post where some guy was like "I need advice on what to eat! I started riding an ebike to work every day but now I've lost 10 pounds."
Meanwhile I've been trying to ride every day for the past year, and started commuting to work (on an ebike) a month ago and I weight the exact fucking same.

As brachiosaurus could reach a height of 1216 meters, eh? That's like a quarter of Mount Everest

nor does it mean lazy, unhygienic, unattractive, or unintelligent (which are usually what fat jokes are meant to imply, some or all of those)
https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/115400572833437908

@… I like MX, but have been happier with Mint. But you'll probably want to use one of Mint's lighter weight DTEs, such as XFCE.

Peanuts: Health Benefits, Nutrients per Serving, How to Use, and More | WebMD
https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-peanuts

Health Benefits of Peanuts
Peanuts are a high-protein, nutrient-rich snack. Eating peanuts might help you live longer too. Learn how they can help everything from inflammation to weight loss.

Simplified Quantum Weight Reduction with Optimal Bounds
Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Xingjian Li, Ting-Chun Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09601 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Simplified Quantum Weight Reduction with Optimal Bounds
Quantum weight reduction is the task of transforming a quantum code with large check weight into one with small check weight. Low-weight codes are essential for implementing quantum error correction on physical hardware, since high-weight measurements cannot be executed reliably. Weight reduction also serves as a critical theoretical tool, which may be relevant to the quantum PCP conjecture. We introduce a new procedure for quantum weight reduction that combines geometric insights with coning…

The Blockwise Navarro Alperin Weight Conjecture for Double Covers of Symmetric and Alternating Groups
Yucong Du, Xin Huang, Jiping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13673 https:/…

The Blockwise Navarro Alperin Weight Conjecture for Double Covers of Symmetric and Alternating Groups
We prove the blockwise Navarro Alperin weight conjecture for double covers of symmetric and alternating groups.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tennis:
🎵 Weight Of Desire
#NowPlaying #Tennis
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zp5HptXyMMK1AqvL0DQlb

Snail Homing and Mating Search Algorithm for Weight Optimization of Stepped-Transmission Shaft
Kaustav Saha, Ishaan R Kale, Vivek Patel, Anand J Kulkarni, Puskaraj D Sonawwanay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13721

Snail Homing and Mating Search Algorithm for Weight Optimization of Stepped-Transmission Shaft
In this paper, the steeped-transmission shaft design problem is proposed for weight optimization. The bio-inspired search-based Snail Homing and Mating Search (SHMS) algorithm is utilized to solve the problem. It is inspired by the social behaviour of snails and their inherent nature of finding better homes, and mate. The proposed steeped-transmission shaft design problem is modelled considering the fatigue loading, combined bending, torsion loads, and the principle of Modified Goodman criteria…

CLAW: A Vision-Language-Action Framework for Weight-Aware Robotic Grasping
Zijian An, Ran Yang, Yiming Feng, Lifeng Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14143 https://

CLAW: A Vision-Language-Action Framework for Weight-Aware Robotic Grasping
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic control, enabling end-to-end policies that ground natural language instructions into visuomotor actions. However, current VLAs often struggle to satisfy precise task constraints, such as stopping based on numeric thresholds, since their observation-to-action mappings are implicitly shaped by training data and lack explicit mechanisms for condition monitoring. In this work, we propose CLAW (CLIP-Languag…

Fair-GPTQ: Bias-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models
Irina Proskurina, Guillaume Metzler, Julien Velcin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15206 https://ar…

Fair-GPTQ: Bias-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models
High memory demands of generative language models have drawn attention to quantization, which reduces computational cost, memory usage, and latency by mapping model weights to lower-precision integers. Approaches such as GPTQ effectively minimize input-weight product errors during quantization; however, recent empirical studies show that they can increase biased outputs and degrade performance on fairness benchmarks, and it remains unclear which specific weights cause this issue. In this work, …

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

koboshi: A Base That Animates Everyday Objects
Yuta Sugiura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13509 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13509

koboshi: A Base That Animates Everyday Objects
We propose a base-shaped robot named "koboshi" that moves everyday objects. This koboshi has a spherical surface in contact with the floor, and by moving a weight inside using built-in motors, it can rock up and down, and side to side. By placing everyday items on this koboshi, users can impart new movement to otherwise static objects. The koboshi is equipped with sensors to measure its posture, enabling interaction with users. Additionally, it has communication capabilities, allowing multiple …

Eigenvalue Distribution of Large Weighted Random Sparse Uniform $q$-Hypergraphs
Valentin Vengerovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13297 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Eigenvalue Distribution of Large Weighted Random Sparse Uniform $q$-Hypergraphs
We study eigenvalue distribution of the adjacency matrix $A^{(N,p,q)}$ of weighted random uniform $q$-hypergraphs $Γ= Γ_{N,p,q}$. We assume that the graphs have $N$ vertices and the average number of hyperedges attached to one vertex is $(q-1)!\cdot p$. To each edge of the graph $e_{ij}$ we assign a weight given by a random variable $a_{ij}$ with all moments finite. We consider the moments of normalized eigenvalue counting function $σ_{N,p,q}$ of $A^{(N,p,q)}$. Assuming all moments of $a$ fi…

On our Tesla we have noticed that the design and construction has tried new methods to save weight, but that those methods have not withstood the test of time (or weather).
For example we've had to replace some of the ball joints in the front suspension because they were not water proof and ended up corroding - a problem solved back in the 1960s by other car makers.
And now there's this...
"Half of Tesla Model 3s Failed Their Mandatory Inspections in Finland&qu…

Half of Tesla Model 3s Failed Their Mandatory Inspections in Finland
The Tesla Model 3, Model S, and Model X all ranked among the bottom five performers in Finland's mandatory vehicle inspections of 4-year-old cars

Pentagon Pete Fires 'Fat' Soldiers as War on Weight Rages (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagons-pete-hegseth-fires-fat-soldiers-as-war-on-weight-rages/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p113#a251013p113

A Framework for Multi-source Prefetching Through Adaptive Weight
Yoseph Berhanu Alebachew, Mulugeta Libsie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13604 https://arxiv.o…

A Framework for Multi-source Prefetching Through Adaptive Weight
The World Wide Web has come to be a great part of our daily life, yet user observed latency is still a problem that needs a proper means of handling. Even though earlier attempts focused on caching as the chief solution to tackling this issue, its success was extremely limited. Prefetching has come to be the primary technique in supplementing caching towards soothing the latency problem associated with the contemporary Internet. However, existing approaches in prefetching are extremely limited …

Time-smoothed inverse probability weighted estimation of effects of generalized time-varying treatment strategies on repeated outcomes truncated by death
Sean McGrath, Takuya Kawahara, Joshua Petimar, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Iv\'an D\'iaz, Jason P. Block, Jessica G. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13971

Time-smoothed inverse probability weighted estimation of effects of generalized time-varying treatment strategies on repeated outcomes truncated by death
Researchers are often interested in estimating effects of generalized time-varying treatment strategies on the mean of an outcome at one or more selected follow-up times of interest. For example, the Medications and Weight Gain in PCORnet (MedWeight) study aimed to estimate effects of adhering to flexible medication regimes on future weight change using electronic health records (EHR) data. This problem presents several methodological challenges that have not been jointly addressed in the prior…

Efficient Algorithms for Disjoint Shortest Paths Problem and its Extensions
Keerti Choudhary, Amit Kumar, Lakshay Saggi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14588 https://

Efficient Algorithms for Disjoint Shortest Paths Problem and its Extensions
We study the 2-Disjoint Shortest Paths (2-DSP) problem: given a directed weighted graph and two terminal pairs $(s_1,t_1)$ and $(s_2,t_2)$, decide whether there exist vertex-disjoint shortest paths between each pair. Building on recent advances in disjoint shortest paths for DAGs and undirected graphs (Akmal et al. 2024), we present an $O(mn \log n)$ time algorithm for this problem in weighted directed graphs that do not contain negative or zero weight cycles. This algorithm presents a signif…

libimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

Reflexive Partitions Induced by Rank Support and Non-Reflexive Partitions Induced by Rank Weight
Yang Xu, Haibin Kan, Guangyue Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11681 https://

Reflexive Partitions Induced by Rank Support and Non-Reflexive Partitions Induced by Rank Weight
In this paper, we study partitions of finite modules induced by rank support and rank weight. First, we show that partitions induced by rank support are mutually dual with respect to suitable non-degenerate pairings, and hence are reflexive; moreover, we compute the associated generalized Krawtchouk matrices. Similar results are established for partitions induced by isomorphic relation of rank support. These results generalize counterpart results established for row space partitions and rank pa…

AMQ: Enabling AutoML for Mixed-precision Weight-Only Quantization of Large Language Models
Sangjun Lee, Seung-taek Woo, Jungyu Jin, Changhun Lee, Eunhyeok Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12019

AMQ: Enabling AutoML for Mixed-precision Weight-Only Quantization of Large Language Models
To enable broader deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs), it is essential to identify the best-performing model under strict memory constraints. We present AMQ, Automated Mixed-Precision Weight-Only Quantization, a framework that assigns layer-wise quantization bit-widths to optimally balance model quality and memory usage. However, the combinatorial search space, with over 10^{100} possible configurations, makes conventional black-box optimization infeasible. AMQ overcomes this challenge t…

Simple, an AI-powered health coaching app to help users lose weight, raised a $35M Series B led by Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/kevin-harts-vc-firm-leads-35m-series-…

Kevin Hart’s VC firm leads $35M Series B for weight-loss app Simple | TechCrunch
Simple is an AI-powered health coaching app that helps people lose weight.

Weighted Kernel Functions on Planar Domains
Aakanksha Jain, Kaushal Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14016 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14016

Weighted Kernel Functions on Planar Domains
We study the variation of weighted Szegő and Garabedian kernels on planar domains as a function of the weight. A Ramadanov type theorem is shown to hold as the weights vary. As a consequence, we derive properties of the zeros of the weighted Szegő and Garabedian kernel for weights close to the constant function $1$ on the boundary. We further study the weighted Ahlfors map and strengthen results concerning its boundary behaviour. Explicit examples of the weighted kernels are presented for cer…

Estimates for pseudo-differential operators on the torus revisited. III
Duv\'an Cardona, Manuel Mart\'inez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13338 https://

Estimates for pseudo-differential operators on the torus revisited. III
This paper finishes the goal of the authors started in two previous manuscripts dedicated to revisiting the continuity properties of toroidal pseudo-differential operators with symbols in the Hörmander classes. Here we prove pointwise estimates in terms of the Fefferman-Stein sharp maximal function and of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function. Combining these estimates with the properties of Muckenhoupt's weight class $A_p$ we obtain boundedness theorems for pseudo-differential operators betwe…

Worst-case Nonparametric Bounds for the Student T-statistic
David Edelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13226 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13226

Worst-case Nonparametric Bounds for the Student T-statistic
We address the problem of finding worst-case nonparametric bounds for T-statistic bythe considering the extremal problem of maximising $\mathbb{P}(S(w)\ge t)$ over nonnegative weight vectors $w\in\mathbb{R}^n$ with $\|w\|_2=1$, where $S(w)=\sum_{i=1}^n w_i \varepsilon_i$ and $\varepsilon_i$ are independent Rademacher variables. While classical results of Hoeffding [1] and Chernoff [2] provide sub-Gaussian upper bounds, and optimal-order inequalities were later obtained by the author […

OpenAI bringt neues Open-Weight-Reasoning-Modell heraus
Das neue Modell von OpenAI ist spezialisiert für Aufgaben der Sicherheitsklassifizierung. Es läuft unter Apache 2.0-Lizenz.
https://www.

MATA (m\=ata): Mindful Assessment of the Telugu Abilities of Large Language Models
Chalamalasetti Kranti, Sowmya Vajjala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13526 https://

MATA (māta): Mindful Assessment of the Telugu Abilities of Large Language Models
In this paper, we introduce MATA, a novel evaluation dataset to assess the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Telugu language, comprising 729 carefully curated multiple-choice and open-ended questions that span diverse linguistic dimensions. We evaluate 11 open-weight and closed-source LLMs on our dataset and present a fine-grained analysis of their performance. Further, we empirically show how LLMs rely on superficial heuristics such as answer position and distractor patterns for multi…

libimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

Perhaps we should have more than one relatively fast trans-Canada option for travel!?
#accessibility #Transportation #Affordability #trains #rail #westjet
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-power-wheelchair-weight-limit-9.6982990

Non-associative structures in extended geometry
Martin Cederwall, Jakob Palmkvist
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14215 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14215

Non-associative structures in extended geometry
We consider a generalisation of vector fields on a vector space, where the vector space is generalised to a highest-weight module over a Kac-Moody algebra. The generalised vector field is an element in a non-associative superalgebra defined by the module and the Kac-Moody algebra. Also the Lie derivative of a vector field parameterised by another is generalised and expressed in a simple way in terms of this superalgebra. It reproduces the generalised Lie derivative in the general framework of e…

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Orthogonality between cellulose nanocrystals and a low-molecular weight gelator
Thuy-Linh Phi (LCMCP-SMiLES), Eero Kontturi (LCMCP-SMiLES), Niki Baccile (LCMCP-SMiLES)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10020 …

Orthogonality between cellulose nanocrystals and a low-molecular weight gelator
The development of multicomponent hydrogels has gained a lot of attention in the field of soft matter, as precise tuning of the chemical nature and colloidal properties of each component brings mechanical and functional benefits compared to one-component gels. Within the field, orthogonality between a self-assembled low-molecular weight gelator (LMWG) and a colloid is a domain that has received little attention. In this study, orthogonal LMWG-colloid hydrogels were developed with the additional…

Dynamic Weight-based Temporal Aggregation for Low-light Video Enhancement
Ruirui Lin, Guoxi Huang, Nantheera Anantrasirichai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09450 https://

Dynamic Weight-based Temporal Aggregation for Low-light Video Enhancement
Low-light video enhancement (LLVE) is challenging due to noise, low contrast, and color degradations. Learning-based approaches offer fast inference but still struggle with heavy noise in real low-light scenes, primarily due to limitations in effectively leveraging temporal information. In this paper, we address this issue with DWTA-Net, a novel two-stage framework that jointly exploits short- and long-term temporal cues. Stage I employs Visual State-Space blocks for multi-frame alignment, reco…

Dimension-Free Minimax Rates for Learning Pairwise Interactions in Attention-Style Models
Shai Zucker, Xiong Wang, Fei Lu, Inbar Seroussi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11789 https:…

Dimension-Free Minimax Rates for Learning Pairwise Interactions in Attention-Style Models
We study the convergence rate of learning pairwise interactions in single-layer attention-style models, where tokens interact through a weight matrix and a non-linear activation function. We prove that the minimax rate is $M^{-\frac{2β}{2β+1}}$ with $M$ being the sample size, depending only on the smoothness $β$ of the activation, and crucially independent of token count, ambient dimension, or rank of the weight matrix. These results highlight a fundamental dimension-free statistical efficie…

Gr\"obner bases and the second generalized Hamming weight of a linear code
Hern\'an de Alba (SECIHTI, Universidad Aut\'onoma de Zacatecas), Cecilia Mart\'inez-Reyes (Universidad Aut\'onoma de Zacatecas)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09917

Gröbner bases and the second generalized Hamming weight of a linear code
It is known that for binary codes one can use Gröbner bases to obtain a subset of codewords of minimal support that can be used to determine the second generalized Hamming weight of the code. In this paper we establish conditions on a nonbinary code under which the same property holds. We also construct a family of codes over any nonbinary finite field where the property does not hold. Furthermore, we prove that whenever the subset obtained via Gröbner basis suffices to determine the second g…

Minimizing the Weighted Number of Tardy Jobs: Data-Driven Heuristic for Single-Machine Scheduling
Nikolai Antonov, Pr\v{e}mysl \v{S}\r{u}cha, Mikol\'a\v{s} Janota, Jan H\r{u}la
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13703

Minimizing the Weighted Number of Tardy Jobs: Data-Driven Heuristic for Single-Machine Scheduling
Existing research on single-machine scheduling is largely focused on exact algorithms, which perform well on typical instances but can significantly deteriorate on certain regions of the problem space. In contrast, data-driven approaches provide strong and scalable performance when tailored to the structure of specific datasets. Leveraging this idea, we focus on a single-machine scheduling problem where each job is defined by its weight, duration, due date, and deadline, aiming to minimize the …

Nutritionsstudier med helt fantastiska resultat är oftast usla nutritionsstudier
Journal retracts study linking apple cider vinegar to weight loss https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250924-journal-retracts-study-linking-ap…

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

"Carmina Burana: Songs From The Original Manuscript" - Studio der Frühen Musik (1968)
#NowPlaying #StudioDerFruhenMusik #ThomasBinkley

JND-Guided Light-Weight Neural Pre-Filter for Perceptual Image Coding
Chenlong He, Zijing Dong, Min Li, Zhijian Hao, Leilei Huang, Xiaoyang Zeng, Yibo Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10648

JND-Guided Light-Weight Neural Pre-Filter for Perceptual Image Coding
Just Noticeable Distortion (JND)-guided pre-filter is a promising technique for improving the perceptual compression efficiency of image coding. However, existing methods are often computationally expensive, and the field lacks standardized benchmarks for fair comparison. To address these challenges, this paper introduces a twofold contribution. First, we develop and open-source FJNDF-Pytorch, a unified benchmark for frequency-domain JND-Guided pre-filters. Second, leveraging this platform, we …

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.RT. https://arxiv.org/list/math.RT/new
[1/1]:
- The Blockwise Navarro Alperin Weight Conjecture for Double Covers of Symmetric and Alternating Gr...
Yucong Du, Xin Huang, Jiping Zhang

Human Body Weight Estimation Through Music-Induced Bed Vibrations
Yuyan Wu, Jiale Zhang, Moon Lee, Cherrelle Smith, Xinyi Li, Ankur Senapati, Pei Zhang, Hae Young Noh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06257

Human Body Weight Estimation Through Music-Induced Bed Vibrations
Rapid and accurate body weight estimation is critical in emergency medical care, as it directly influences treatment decisions, such as drug dosing, defibrillation energy selection, and fluid resuscitation. Traditional methods such as stand-on scales, length-based tapes, or transfer-based weighing scales are often impractical for immobilized patients, inaccurate, or labor-intensive and time-consuming. This paper introduces MelodyBedScale, a non-intrusive and rapid on-bed weight estimation syste…

One of the guests at Donald Trump’s press conference on weight loss drugs passed out during the event
Trump Just Stood There After The Man Collapses During Press Conference
https://newrepublic.com/post/202825/donald-trump-novo-nordisk-executive-c…

Trump Just Stands There After Man Collapses During Press Conference
One of the guests at Donald Trump’s press conference on weight loss drugs passed out during the event.

Two Agents, One Prompt, and Your Weight
Elchanan Mossel, Amnon Schrieber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08232 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08232

Two Agents, One Prompt, and Your Weight
We investigate a quantitative variant of the classic Two Doors logic puzzle, in which the answer space is no longer binary, for example when the goal is to recover a numerical fact (such as one's true weight) rather than choose between two doors. The puzzle retains the original structure: one agent always tells the truth, the other always lies. Our central contribution is to identify a class of self-referential prompts that successfully extract the correct quantitative answer under minimal assu…

An expanded evaluation matrix for the entropy-weight TODIM method to reduce the rank reversal probability and its application in selecting energy storage technology
Lisheng Jiang, Tianyu Zhang, Shiyu Yan, Ran Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08236

An expanded evaluation matrix for the entropy-weight TODIM method to reduce the rank reversal probability and its application in selecting energy storage technology
The TODIM method (an acronym in Portuguese for interactive and multiple criteria decision-making) with entropy weights is influenced by rank reversal, a phenomenon where the order of two alternatives changes following the addition of another alternative. Research on rank reversal has predominantly focused on single decision-making methods. To the best of our knowledge, the reduction of rank reversal probability in hybrid methods, such as the entropy-weight TODIM method, remains an unresolved ch…

Helping clean up from the #AustinDay #OpenStreet. #BikeNYC @…

BitROM: Weight Reload-Free CiROM Architecture Towards Billion-Parameter 1.58-bit LLM Inference
Wenlun Zhang, Xinyu Li, Shimpei Ando, Kentaro Yoshioka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08542

BitROM: Weight Reload-Free CiROM Architecture Towards Billion-Parameter 1.58-bit LLM Inference
Compute-in-Read-Only-Memory (CiROM) accelerators offer outstanding energy efficiency for CNNs by eliminating runtime weight updates. However, their scalability to Large Language Models (LLMs) is fundamentally constrained by their vast parameter sizes. Notably, LLaMA-7B - the smallest model in LLaMA series - demands more than 1,000 cm2 of silicon area even in advanced CMOS nodes. This paper presents BitROM, the first CiROM-based accelerator that overcomes this limitation through co-design with B…

residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Staple Singers:
🎵 The Weight
#TheStapleSingers
https://thestaplesingers.bandcamp.com/track/the-weight-6
https://open.spotify.com/track/00bOhb4584JjyfTiXX81mO

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 15 nodes and 50 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

Applying Hurlbert's Linear Optimization Technique to Establish Bounds on Pebbling Numbers
Lingwen Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11024 https://arxiv.org…

Applying Hurlbert's Linear Optimization Technique to Establish Bounds on Pebbling Numbers
This paper explores the application of Hurlbert's Linear Optimization Technique to determine bounds on pebbling numbers. By applying Hurlbert's weight functions and optimization methods, we derive upper bounds for specific graph families. The study provides a comprehensive analysis of these bounds and contributes to a broader understanding of pebbling numbers in graph theory. In particular, the weight function lemma is applied to calculate upper bounds for graphs such as the Petersen graph, the…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Structured Sparsity and Weight-adaptive Pruning for Memory and Compute efficient Whisper models
Prasenjit K Mudi, Anshi Sachan, Dahlia Devapriya, Sheetal Kalyani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12666

Structured Sparsity and Weight-adaptive Pruning for Memory and Compute efficient Whisper models
Whisper models have achieved remarkable progress in speech recognition; yet their large size remains a bottleneck for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. This paper proposes a framework to design fine-tuned variants of Whisper which address the above problem. Structured sparsity is enforced via the Sparse Group LASSO penalty as a loss regularizer, to reduce the number of FLOating Point operations (FLOPs). Further, a weight statistics aware pruning algorithm is proposed. We also des…

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…

Modular, On-Site Solutions with Lightweight Anomaly Detection for Sustainable Nutrient Management in Agriculture
Abigail R. Cohen, Yuming Sun, Zhihao Qin, Harsh S. Muriki, Zihao Xiao, Yeonju Lee, Matthew Housley, Andrew F. Sharkey, Rhuanito S. Ferrarezi, Jing Li, Lu Gan, Yongsheng Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12247

Modular, On-Site Solutions with Lightweight Anomaly Detection for Sustainable Nutrient Management in Agriculture
Efficient nutrient management is critical for crop growth and sustainable resource consumption (e.g., nitrogen, energy). Current approaches require lengthy analyses, preventing real-time optimization; similarly, imaging facilitates rapid phenotyping but can be computationally intensive, preventing deployment under resource constraints. This study proposes a flexible, tiered pipeline for anomaly detection and status estimation (fresh weight, dry mass, and tissue nutrients), including a comprehen…

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Optimal binary codes from $\mathcal{C}_{D}$-codes over a non-chain ring
Ankit Yadav, Ritumoni Sarma, Anuj Kumar Bhagat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09057 https://

Optimal binary codes from $\mathcal{C}_{D}$-codes over a non-chain ring
In \cite{shi2022few-weight}, Shi and Li studied $\mathcal{C}_D$-codes over the ring $\mathcal{R}:=\mathbb{F}_2[x,y]/\langle x^2, y^2, xy-yx\rangle$ and their binary Gray images, where $D$ is derived using certain simplicial complexes. We study the subfield codes $\mathcal{C}_{D}^{(2)}$ of $\mathcal{C}_{D}$-codes over $\mathcal{R},$ where $D$ is as in \cite{shi2022few-weight} and more. We find the Hamming weight distribution and the parameters of $\mathcal{C}_D^{(2)}$ for various $D$, and identi…

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

Trump Negotiating Deal With Ozempic Maker to Sell Some Weight-Loss Drugs for $149 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/trump-negotiating-deal-with-ozempic-maker-to-sell-some-weight-loss-drugs-for-149-1eb49286
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p176#a251104p176

Weight Initialization and Variance Dynamics in Deep Neural Networks and Large Language Models
Yankun Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09423 https://arxiv.org…

Weight Initialization and Variance Dynamics in Deep Neural Networks and Large Language Models
Weight initialization governs signal propagation and gradient flow at the start of training. This paper offers a theory-grounded and empirically validated study across two regimes: compact ReLU multilayer perceptrons and GPT-2-style transformers. First, a logarithmic sweep of the initial standard deviation maps vanishing and exploding regimes and identifies a broad stability band with standard deviations between 1e-2 and 1e-1. Second, a controlled comparison shows that Kaiming (fan-in) initiali…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Band:
🎵 The Weight
#TheBand
https://davidbakermusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-band-the-weight-instrumental-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0P7DoyGrr4Wp9w5TotEtUC

Learning to Interpret Weight Differences in Language Models
Avichal Goel, Yoon Kim, Nir Shavit, Tony T. Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05092 https://arxiv…

Learning to Interpret Weight Differences in Language Models
Finetuning (pretrained) language models is a standard approach for updating their internal parametric knowledge and specializing them to new tasks and domains. However, the corresponding model weight changes ("weight diffs") are not generally interpretable. While inspecting the finetuning dataset can give a sense of how the model might have changed, these datasets are often not publicly available or are too large to work with directly. Towards the goal of comprehensively understanding weight di…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Midlake:
🎵 This Weight
#Midlake
https://open.spotify.com/track/5OQ2saWhs5HKvp7wtQgTrM

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

Instance-Optimal Matrix Multiplicative Weight Update and Its Quantum Applications
Weiyuan Gong, Tongyang Li, Xinzhao Wang, Zhiyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08911 https://

Instance-Optimal Matrix Multiplicative Weight Update and Its Quantum Applications
The Matrix Multiplicative Weight Update (MMWU) is a seminal online learning algorithm with numerous applications. Applied to the matrix version of the Learning from Expert Advice (LEA) problem on the $d$-dimensional spectraplex, it is well known that MMWU achieves the minimax-optimal regret bound of $O(\sqrt{T\log d})$, where $T$ is the time horizon. In this paper, we present an improved algorithm achieving the instance-optimal regret bound of $O(\sqrt{T\cdot S(X||d^{-1}I_d)})$, where…

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 19 nodes and 132 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 33 nodes and 61 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

ambassador: Philippines Ambassador bombing (2000)
A temporal network representing snapshots of relationships among individuals directly or indirectly associated with Philippines Ambassador Residence Bombing 2000, Jakarta. Nodes are people, and an edge exists if they are associated with each other. Definition of the edge weight is unknown.
This network has 16 nodes and 50 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal

wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
https://

libimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 27 nodes and 96 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 238 nodes and 3755 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 121 nodes and 1793 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

libimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 40 nodes and 188 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

libimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…

ambassador: Philippines Ambassador bombing (2000)
A temporal network representing snapshots of relationships among individuals directly or indirectly associated with Philippines Ambassador Residence Bombing 2000, Jakarta. Nodes are people, and an edge exists if they are associated with each other. Definition of the edge weight is unknown.
This network has 16 nodes and 1 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…