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The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

The EU's aim to triple AI data center capacity over the next five to seven years sparks water scarcity concerns, especially in water-stressed Southern Europe (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/water-ai-mega-projects-raise-alar…

Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions
Europe is planning to at least triple its data center capacity as part of a push to become a world-class AI hub.

Efficient Real-World Deblurring using Single Images: AIM 2025 Challenge Report
Daniel Feijoo, Paula Garrido-Mellado, Marcos V. Conde, Jaesung Rim, Alvaro Garcia, Sunghyun Cho, Radu Timofte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12788

Efficient Real-World Deblurring using Single Images: AIM 2025 Challenge Report
This paper reviews the AIM 2025 Efficient Real-World Deblurring using Single Images Challenge, which aims to advance in efficient real-blur restoration. The challenge is based on a new test set based on the well known RSBlur dataset. Pairs of blur and degraded images in this dataset are captured using a double-camera system. Participant were tasked with developing solutions to effectively deblur these type of images while fulfilling strict efficiency constraints: fewer than 5 million model para…

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"She took aim at changes in the regulatory framework which have allowed private capital access to 'Main Street investors’ pockets, including their retirement funds,' exposing them to more…

“By 2040, the Locational scenario could reduce the total system cost by 23 – 59 Bn. EUR annually. These savings are in the order of magnitude of those associated with the integration of European electricity markets.”
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/J…

Locational Price Signals in Europe
As Europe strives to become the first climate neutral continent, grid congestion is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, with the potential to lead to large-scale curtailment of renewables and undermine the system’s security. Accordingly, the Mission Letter to Commissioner for Energy and Affordable Housing Dan Jørgensen lists the task to improve locational price signals. These aim to ensure that investments occur where they are most beneficial to the system, while incentivizing an efficien…

Court hearing: UK prosecutors aim to confiscate ~$6.8B in bitcoin tied to a massive 2017 fraud in China and to pay back Chinese investors that were its victims (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

UK Moves to Return $6.8 Billion in Bitcoin to Victims of China Fraud
UK prosecutors are looking to confiscate Bitcoin worth about $6.8 billion tied to a massive fraud in China uncovered at criminal trials, as they plan a victim compensation plan to repay duped investors.

Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification
Giorgio Bacci (Aalborg University, Denmark), Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13258

Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification
This volume contains the proceedings of GandALF 2025, the Sixteenth International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. GandALF 2025 took place on 16-17th September 2025, in Valletta, Malta. The aim of GandALF 2025 is to bring together researchers from academia and industry who are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-…

Towards Inclusive Toxic Content Moderation: Addressing Vulnerabilities to Adversarial Attacks in Toxicity Classifiers Tackling LLM-generated Content
Shaz Furniturewala, Arkaitz Zubiaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12672

Towards Inclusive Toxic Content Moderation: Addressing Vulnerabilities to Adversarial Attacks in Toxicity Classifiers Tackling LLM-generated Content
The volume of machine-generated content online has grown dramatically due to the widespread use of Large Language Models (LLMs), leading to new challenges for content moderation systems. Conventional content moderation classifiers, which are usually trained on text produced by humans, suffer from misclassifications due to LLM-generated text deviating from their training data and adversarial attacks that aim to avoid detection. Present-day defence tactics are reactive rather than proactive, sinc…

Game Preview: Raiders aim to stack wins as they take on the Chiefs before the bye https://www.raiders.com/news/game-preview-las-vegas-raiders-vs-kansas-city-chiefs-patrick-mahomes-travis-kelce

Efficient Perceptual Image Super Resolution: AIM 2025 Study and Benchmark
Bruno Longarela, Marcos V. Conde, Alvaro Garcia, Radu Timofte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12765 https://…

Efficient Perceptual Image Super Resolution: AIM 2025 Study and Benchmark
This paper presents a comprehensive study and benchmark on Efficient Perceptual Super-Resolution (EPSR). While significant progress has been made in efficient PSNR-oriented super resolution, approaches focusing on perceptual quality metrics remain relatively inefficient. Motivated by this gap, we aim to replicate or improve the perceptual results of Real-ESRGAN while meeting strict efficiency constraints: a maximum of 5M parameters and 2000 GFLOPs, calculated for an input size of 960x540 pixels…

Classical and quantum aspects of perturbations in Primordial Universe
Alice Boldrin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13080 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13080

Classical and quantum aspects of perturbations in Primordial Universe
In this work, our aim is to obtain a Hamiltonian formulation suitable for canonical quantization. Moreover, we assume that the early Universe can be described with fewer initial symmetries, thus we abandon the isotropy assumption and instead explore anisotropic universes, beginning with the simplest one, namely Bianchi I (BI). The presence of small initial fluctuations in the early universe can be well described by perturbations around a homogeneous background. GR is a constrained system, and w…

Trump's Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition (Faiza Patel/Brennan Center for Justice)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trumps-orders-targeting-antifascism-aim-criminalize-opposition
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p108#a251010p108

Binary imposters: Mergers in massive hierarchical triple stars
F. Kummer, G. Simion, S. Toonen, A. de Koter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13009 https://arxiv.…

Binary imposters: Mergers in massive hierarchical triple stars
Massive stars are often born in triples, where gravitational dynamics and stellar interactions play a crucial role in shaping their evolution. One such pathway includes the merger of the inner binary, transforming the system to a binary with a distinct formation history. Therefore, the interpretation of observed binary properties and their inferred formation history may require the consideration of a potential triple origin. We aim to investigate the population of stellar mergers in massive hie…

Birkhoff attractors for dissipative symplectic billiards
Luca Baracco, Olga Bernardi, Anna Florio, Alessandra Nardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13086 https://

Birkhoff attractors for dissipative symplectic billiards
The aim of the present paper is to propose and study a dissipative variant of symplectic billiards within planar strictly convex domains. The associated billiard map is dissipative, thus it admits a compact invariant set, the so-called Birkhoff attractor. Its complexity depends on the rate of the dissipation as well as on the geometry of the billiard table. We prove that (a) for strong dissipation, the Birkhoff attractor is a normally contracted graph over the zero section; (b) for mild dissipa…

In 1987, a management consultancy concluded that the Netherlands should aim for a coal economy by 2050 ('cheap and abundant'). At Ecofys, we were surprised: can't be, we'd ruin our climate.
CO₂ concentration was at 350 ppm, global temperature increase at 0.6°C.
Now, 38 years later, I read: first tipping point reached.

Enlargements of complexes of fixed size
Claudia Chaio, Alfredo Gonzalez Chaio, Pamela Suarez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12374 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12…

Enlargements of complexes of fixed size
Let $A$ be an artin algebra. The aim of this work is to describe the enlargements of an indecomposable complex in $\mathbf{C}_{n}(\mbox{proj} \,A)$, and to study the irreducible morphisms between them. Precisely, we prove that any indecomposable complex in $\mathbf{C}_{[0,n]}(\mbox{proj} \,A)$ or in $\mathbf{C}_{n+1}(\mbox{proj} \,A)$ for $n$ a positive integer is a shift or an enlargement of an indecomposable complex in $\mathbf{C}_{n}(\mbox{proj} \,A)$. We also describe the entrances of the i…

BOWIE-ALIGN: Weak spectral features in KELT-7b's JWST NIRSpec/G395H transmission spectrum imply a high cloud deck or a low-metallicity atmosphere
Eva-Maria Ahrer, Charlotte Fairman, James Kirk, Hannah R. Wakeford, Joanna K. Barstow, Anna B. T. Penzlin, Lili Alderson, Richard A. Booth, Duncan A. Christie, Alastair B. Claringbold, Emma Esparza-Borges, Carlos Gasc\'on, Mercedes L\'opez-Morales, N. J. Mayne, Mason McCormack, Annabella Meech, Paul Molli\`ere, James E. Owen, Vats…

BOWIE-ALIGN: Weak spectral features in KELT-7b's JWST NIRSpec/G395H transmission spectrum imply a high cloud deck or a low-metallicity atmosphere
Hot Jupiters and their atmospheres are prime targets for transmission spectroscopy due to their extended atmospheres and the corresponding large signal-to-noise, providing the best possible constraints for the atmospheric carbon-to-oxygen (C/O) ratio and metallicity of exoplanets. Within BOWIE-ALIGN, we aim to compare JWST spectra of a sample of orbitally aligned and misaligned hot Jupiters orbiting F-type stars to probe the link between hot Jupiter atmospheres and planet formation history. Her…

George Pickens: Cowboys always 'buckled up', aim to dominate https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/george-pickens-cowboys-always-buckled-up-aim-to-dominate

Blow-up exponents and a semilinear elliptic equation for the fractional Laplacian on hyperbolic spaces
Tommaso Bruno, Effie Papageorgiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12349 https:/…

Blow-up exponents and a semilinear elliptic equation for the fractional Laplacian on hyperbolic spaces
Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the $n$-dimensional real hyperbolic space, $Δ$ its nonnegative Laplace--Beltrami operator whose bottom of the spectrum we denote by $λ_{0}$, and $σ\in (0,1)$. The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we determine the Fujita exponent for the fractional heat equation \[\partial_{t} u + Δ^σu = e^{βt}|u|^{γ-1}u,\] by proving that nontrivial positive global solutions exist if and only if $γ\geq 1 + β/ λ_{0}^σ$. On the other hand, we prove the ex…

Bar Evolution in Edge-on Galaxies: A Demographic Study of Boxy/Peanut Bulges
Atul A. Samanta, Ankit Kumar, Mousumi Das, M. Celeste Artale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13278 https:…

Bar Evolution in Edge-on Galaxies: A Demographic Study of Boxy/Peanut Bulges
Boxy/peanut and X-shaped (BP/X) bulges are prominent features in edge-on disk galaxies and are believed to be vertically thickened bars. Despite their relevance in bar evolution, a statistically robust census of these structures in large surveys has been lacking. We aim to provide the largest catalog of BP/X structures in edge-on galaxies to date, and to investigate their properties and role in shaping galaxy scaling relations. We selected a sample of 6684 edge-on galaxies from SDSS DR8 using G…

Artificial Intelligence Virtual Cells: From Measurements to Decisions across Modality, Scale, Dynamics, and Evaluation
Chengpeng Hu, Calvin Yu-Chian Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12498

Artificial Intelligence Virtual Cells: From Measurements to Decisions across Modality, Scale, Dynamics, and Evaluation
Artificial Intelligence Virtual Cells (AIVCs) aim to learn executable, decision-relevant models of cell state from multimodal, multiscale measurements. Recent studies have introduced single-cell and spatial foundation models, improved cross-modality alignment, scaled perturbation atlases, and explored pathway-level readouts. Nevertheless, although held-out validation is standard practice, evaluations remain predominantly within single datasets and settings; evidence indicates that transport acr…

Liquid Helium Cryogenic TEM below 1 {\AA}
Suk Hyun Sung, Maya Gates, Nishkarsh Agarwal, Yang Zhang, William Millsaps, Miti Shah, Emily Rennich, Cong Li, Pu Yu, Miaofang Chi, Benjamin H. Savitzky, Ismail El Baggari, Robert Hovden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12475

Liquid Helium Cryogenic TEM below 1 Å
Next-generation cryogenic transmission electron microscopes (TEM) aim to achieve high-resolution imaging at ultracold sample temperatures (< 90 K) and over extended hold times. Lower temperatures enable atomic-scale characterization with improved beam and dose resilience for organic specimens and access to emergent electronic phases in quantum materials. Side-entry liquid helium cooling stages presently lack the mechanical and thermal stability required to support sub-Angstrom information trans…

Representation-Based Exploration for Language Models: From Test-Time to Post-Training
Jens Tuyls, Dylan J. Foster, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Jordan T. Ash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11686

Representation-Based Exploration for Language Models: From Test-Time to Post-Training
Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to expand the capabilities of language models, but it is unclear if current RL techniques promote the discovery of novel behaviors, or simply sharpen those already present in the base model. In this paper, we investigate the value of deliberate exploration -- explicitly incentivizing the model to discover novel and diverse behaviors -- and aim to understand how the knowledge in pre-trained models can guide this search. Our main finding is that exploration wi…

Adobe launches AI agents tailored for B2B marketers within its Adobe Experience Platform, after launching AI agents aimed at consumer marketing in September (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/09/adobe-takes-aim-business-…

Adobe takes aim at business buyers with dedicated B2B AI agents - SiliconANGLE
Adobe takes aim at business buyers with dedicated B2B AI agents - SiliconANGLE

Classical Algebraic Geometry and Discrete Integrable Systems
Gessica Alecci, Michele Graffeo, Alexander Stokes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12647 https://arx…

Classical Algebraic Geometry and Discrete Integrable Systems
The aim of these notes is to present an accessible overview of some topics in classical algebraic geometry which have applications to aspects of discrete integrable systems. Precisely, we focus on surface theory on the algebraic geometry side, which is applied to differential and discrete Painlevé equations on the integrable systems side. Along the way we also discuss the theory of resolution of indeterminacies, which is applied to the cohomological computation of algebraic entropy of biration…

How Raiders Will Measure Progress With Wins Nowhere in Sight https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-measure-progress-wins-nowhere-sight

Trump takes aim at Putin’s oil lifeline — China and India still hold the key: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/trump-takes-aim-at-putins.html

SAIL-Embedding Technical Report: Omni-modal Embedding Foundation Model
Lin Lin, Jiefeng Long, Zhihe Wan, Yuchi Wang, Dingkang Yang, Shuang Yang, Yueyang Yao, Xu Chen, Zirui Guo, Shengqiang Li, Weiran Li, Hanyu Li, Yaling Mou, Yan Qiu, Haiyang Yu, Xiao Liang, Hongsheng Li, Chao Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12709

SAIL-Embedding Technical Report: Omni-modal Embedding Foundation Model
Multimodal embedding models aim to yield informative unified representations that empower diverse cross-modal tasks. Despite promising developments in the evolution from CLIP-based dual-tower architectures to large vision-language models, prior works still face unavoidable challenges in real-world applications and business scenarios, such as the limited modality support, unstable training mechanisms, and industrial domain gaps. In this work, we introduce SAIL-Embedding, an omni-modal embedding …

Contrastive Dimension Reduction: A Systematic Review
Sam Hawke, Eric Zhang, Jiawen Chen, Didong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11847 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Contrastive Dimension Reduction: A Systematic Review
Contrastive dimension reduction (CDR) methods aim to extract signal unique to or enriched in a treatment (foreground) group relative to a control (background) group. This setting arises in many scientific domains, such as genomics, imaging, and time series analysis, where traditional dimension reduction techniques such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) may fail to isolate the signal of interest. In this review, we provide a systematic overview of existing CDR methods. We propose a pipeline …

New Classes of Non-monotone Variational Inequality Problems Solvable via Proximal Gradient on Smooth Gap Functions
Lei Zhao, Daoli Zhu, Shuzhong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12105

New Classes of Non-monotone Variational Inequality Problems Solvable via Proximal Gradient on Smooth Gap Functions
In this paper, we study the local linear convergence behavior of proximal-gradient (PG) descent algorithm on a parameterized gap-function reformulation of a smooth but non-monotone variational inequality problem (VIP). The aim is to solve the non-monotone VI problem without assuming the existence of a Minty-type solution. We first introduce and study various error bound conditions for the gap functions in relation to the VI model. In particular, we show that uniform type error bounds imply leve…

Efficient and accurate tensor network algorithm for Anderson impurity problems
Zhijie Sun, Zhenyu Li, Chu Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11459 https://arxi…

Efficient and accurate tensor network algorithm for Anderson impurity problems
The Anderson impurity model (AIM) is of fundamental importance in condensed matter physics to study strongly correlated effects. However, accurately solving its long-time dynamics still remains a great numerical challenge. An emergent and rapidly developing numerical strategy to solve the AIM is to represent the Feynman-Vernon influence functional (IF), which encodes all the bath effects on the impurity dynamics, as a matrix product state (MPS) in the temporal domain. The computational cost of …

Enhancing Dual Network Based Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation with Uncertainty-Guided Pseudo-Labeling
Yunyao Lu, Yihang Wu, Ahmad Chaddad, Tareef Daqqaq, Reem Kateb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13084

Enhancing Dual Network Based Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation with Uncertainty-Guided Pseudo-Labeling
Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using unlabeled data through pseudo-label generation. Yet, existing semi-supervised segmentation methods still suffer from noisy pseudo-labels and insufficient supervision within the feature space. To solve these challenges, this paper proposes a novel semi-superv…

😅 Chasing a winning streak: A new way to trigger responses in the body by simulating psychological pressure
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-streak-trigger-responses-body-simulating.html

Chasing a winning streak: A new way to trigger responses in the body by simulating psychological pressure
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed an experimental method to induce a strong physiological response linked to psychological pressure by making participants aim for a streak of success in a task.

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Lectures on stochastic sewing with applications
Oleg Butkovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12165 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12165

Lectures on stochastic sewing with applications
These are lecture notes for a mini-course on stochastic sewing, taught at the University of Edinburgh and Beijing Institute of Technology in Spring/Summer 2025. The aim is to introduce the reader to stochastic sewing techniques and to show how they can be successfully applied to study various problems in stochastic analysis, including: regularization by noise for stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motion or fractional Brownian motion, well-posedness of stochastic PDEs with irr…

SusBench: An Online Benchmark for Evaluating Dark Pattern Susceptibility of Computer-Use Agents
Longjie Guo, Chenjie Yuan, Mingyuan Zhong, Robert Wolfe, Ruican Zhong, Yue Xu, Bingbing Wen, Hua Shen, Lucy Lu Wang, Alexis Hiniker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11035

SusBench: An Online Benchmark for Evaluating Dark Pattern Susceptibility of Computer-Use Agents
As LLM-based computer-use agents (CUAs) begin to autonomously interact with real-world interfaces, understanding their vulnerability to manipulative interface designs becomes increasingly critical. We introduce SusBench, an online benchmark for evaluating the susceptibility of CUAs to UI dark patterns, designs that aim to manipulate or deceive users into taking unintentional actions. Drawing nine common dark pattern types from existing taxonomies, we developed a method for constructing believab…

‘Discriminatory And Unlawful Executive Orders’: State AGs Take Aim at Trump Edicts
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/discriminatory-and-unlawful-executive

LLMAtKGE: Large Language Models as Explainable Attackers against Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Ting Li, Yang Yang, Yipeng Yu, Liang Yao, Guoqing Chao, Ruifeng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11584

LLMAtKGE: Large Language Models as Explainable Attackers against Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Adversarial attacks on knowledge graph embeddings (KGE) aim to disrupt the model's ability of link prediction by removing or inserting triples. A recent black-box method has attempted to incorporate textual and structural information to enhance attack performance. However, it is unable to generate human-readable explanations, and exhibits poor generalizability. In the past few years, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated powerful capabilities in text comprehension, generation, and reas…

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On the Design and Evaluation of Human-centered Explainable AI Systems: A Systematic Review and Taxonomy
Aline Mangold, Juliane Zietz, Susanne Weinhold, Sebastian Pannasch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12201

On the Design and Evaluation of Human-centered Explainable AI Systems: A Systematic Review and Taxonomy
As AI becomes more common in everyday living, there is an increasing demand for intelligent systems that are both performant and understandable. Explainable AI (XAI) systems aim to provide comprehensible explanations of decisions and predictions. At present, however, evaluation processes are rather technical and not sufficiently focused on the needs of human users. Consequently, evaluation studies involving human users can serve as a valuable guide for conducting user studies. This paper presen…

Analytic results in conformal field theory
Philine van Vliet, Emilio Trevisani, Ingo Runkel, Bernardo Zan, Yifei He, Xin Sun, Volker Schomerus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09868 h…

Analytic results in conformal field theory
Since the 1980s, many exact results have been discovered in $2d$ CFT, from critical exponents to correlation functions to complete solutions of certain models. In $d>2$, there is a wealth of numerical results as well as promising analytic approaches, but comparably fewer exact answers. The aim of this conference was to review the most promising analytic methods and results in CFT in any dimension. In particular we tried to understand to which extent the $2d$ methods can be extended to $d>2$, …

Lagrange-Hamilton geometry applied to a Lotka-Volterra dynamical system
Ana-Maria Boldeanu, Mircea Neagu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09843 https://arxiv.org…

Lagrange-Hamilton geometry applied to a Lotka-Volterra dynamical system
The aim of this paper is to develop, via the least squares variational method, the Lagrange-Hamilton geometry (in the sense of nonlinear connections, d-torsions and Lagrangian Yang-Mills electromagnetic-like energy) produced by a Lotka-Volterra dynamical system, a simple model of the population dynamics of species competing for some common resource. From a geometrical point of view, the Jacobi stability of this system is discussed.

Improving Decision Trees through the Lens of Parameterized Local Search
Juha Harviainen, Frank Sommer, Manuel Sorge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12726 https://

Improving Decision Trees through the Lens of Parameterized Local Search
Algorithms for learning decision trees often include heuristic local-search operations such as (1) adjusting the threshold of a cut or (2) also exchanging the feature of that cut. We study minimizing the number of classification errors by performing a fixed number of a single type of these operations. Although we discover that the corresponding problems are NP-complete in general, we provide a comprehensive parameterized-complexity analysis with the aim of determining those properties of the pr…

A Schauder Basis for Multiparameter Persistence
Peter Bubenik, Zachariah Ross
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10347

A Schauder Basis for Multiparameter Persistence
Certain classes of multiparameter persistence modules may be encoded as signed barcodes, represented as points in a polyhedral subset of Euclidean space, we refer to as signed persistence diagrams. These signed persistence diagrams exist in the dual space of compactly supported, Lipschitz functionals on a polyhedral pair. In the interest of statistics and machine learning on multiparameter persistence modules, we aim to embed these signed persistence diagrams into Banach or Hilbert space. We us…

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A Representer Theorem for Hawkes Processes via Penalized Least Squares Minimization
Hideaki Kim, Tomoharu Iwata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08916 https://ar…

A Representer Theorem for Hawkes Processes via Penalized Least Squares Minimization
The representer theorem is a cornerstone of kernel methods, which aim to estimate latent functions in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) in a nonparametric manner. Its significance lies in converting inherently infinite-dimensional optimization problems into finite-dimensional ones over dual coefficients, thereby enabling practical and computationally tractable algorithms. In this paper, we address the problem of estimating the latent triggering kernels--functions that encode the interac…

Active IRS Assisted Joint Uplink and Downlink Communications
Qiaoyan Peng, Qingqing Wu, Guangji Chen, Wen Chen, Shaodan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10045 https://

Active IRS Assisted Joint Uplink and Downlink Communications
In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication system, where active IRSs (AIRSs) are deployed to assist communication between a base station (BS) and users of both the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL). We aim to maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) of UL and DL communications through joint optimization of BS, AIRS beamforming, and AIRS element allocation. First, we study three deployment schemes, namely distributed AIRSs, BS-side AIRS, and user-s…

Certifying Quantum Gates via Automata Advantage
Anna Schroeder, Lucas B. Vieira, Jan N\"oller, Nikolai Miklin, Mariami Gachechiladze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09575 https:…

Certifying Quantum Gates via Automata Advantage
There is growing interest in developing rigorous tests of quantumness that are feasible even before practical quantum advantages become a reality. Such tests not only aim to certify the quantum nature of a system but also serve as benchmarks for precise quantum control. In this work, we argue that promise problems, studied in the theory of finite automata, provide a natural framework for designing sound tests of quantum gate quality. Soundness, the property that only implementations of sufficie…

House Republicans unveiled a new health care proposal Friday
as they aim to address concerns about rising health insurance costs just weeks before enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expire.

The legislation would codify and expand health plans for small businesses, fund reductions of premiums for low-income people in the individual health insurance market and increase transparency in prescription drug pricing, according to House Republican leadership aides.

The proposal …

House Republicans unveil health care plan, set up vote for next week
House Republicans unveiled a plan to address rising health insurance costs and extend Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Structured identification of multivariable modal systems
Maarten van der Hulst, Rodrigo A. Gonz\'alez, Koen Classens, Paul Tacx, Nick Dirkx, Jeroen van de Wijdeven, Tom Oomen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10820

Structured identification of multivariable modal systems
Physically interpretable models are essential for next-generation industrial systems, as these representations enable effective control, support design validation, and provide a foundation for monitoring strategies. The aim of this paper is to develop a system identification framework for estimating modal models of complex multivariable mechanical systems from frequency response data. To achieve this, a two-step structured identification algorithm is presented, where an additive model is first …

India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.c…

India notifies its first data protection law to strengthen privacy, security
India has officially notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, establishing a framework for data processing, protection, and governance. These rules, enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, introduce verifiable consent, breach notification mandates, and data retention limits. They aim to enhance individual control and foster safer digital ecosystems.

Precise boron abundance in a sample of metal-poor stars from far-ultraviolet lines
Monique Spite, Beatriz Barbuy, Kefeng Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11594 https://

Precise boron abundance in a sample of metal-poor stars from far-ultraviolet lines
The light elements beryllium (Be; $Z=4$) and boron (B; $Z=5$) are mainly produced by spallation reactions between cosmic rays and carbon (C; $Z=6$), nitrogen (N; $Z=7$), and oxygen (O; $Z=8$) nuclei. Only traces of Be or B would have been produced in the Big Bang, but there could be a contribution from the $ν$-process in type II supernovae. Their abundances at very low metallicities have been debated in the literature, with the aim of understanding their origin. Our aim is to derive the bo…

Seahawks vs. Cardinals prediction: Sam Darnold, Seattle aim for third straight win against shorthanded Arizona

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawk…

Proportional and Pareto-Optimal Allocation of Chores with Subsidy
Jugal Garg, Eklavya Sharma, Xiaowei Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10335 https://arxiv.org…

Proportional and Pareto-Optimal Allocation of Chores with Subsidy
We consider the problem of allocating $m$ indivisible chores among $n$ agents with possibly different weights, aiming for a solution that is both fair and efficient. Specifically, we focus on the classic fairness notion of proportionality and efficiency notion of Pareto-optimality. Since proportional allocations may not always exist in this setting, we allow the use of subsidies (monetary compensation to agents) to ensure agents are proportionally-satisfied, and aim to minimize the total subsid…

Evidence of Physiological Co-Modulation During Human-Animal Interaction: A Systematic Review
G. Bargigli, L. Frassineti, A. Lanata', P. Baragli, C. Scopa, A. Vignoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10559

Evidence of Physiological Co-Modulation During Human-Animal Interaction: A Systematic Review
This review examines the evidence in the literature for physiological co-modulation during human-animal interaction. The aim of this work is to identify studies that assessed co-modulation via simultaneous measurement of physiological signals in both species, performing quantitative comparisons, and evaluate the consistency of the findings.\\ We searched PubMed, EM-BASE, Scopus, Google Scholar, Animal Studies Repository, and the ''Consensus app'' tool between June and August 2025 (last search: …

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How an NYT reporter almost fell for a scam,
--Hackers increasingly take aim at small-town water systems,
--Citizens must shift their threat models under Trump's regime,
--Even the most innocent AI model can spew out dark material,

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 9/20/25
How an NYT reporter almost fell for a scam, Hackers increasingly take aim at small-town water systems, Citizens must shift their threat models under Trump's regime, Even the most innocent AI model can spew out dark material, Building a pipeline for scraping CTI content from Telegram

A look at the "explosion" of LA media upstarts, like the LA Local News Initiative, which has $18M in funding, SFGate's Southland, and nonprofit LA Public Press (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/…

“More of everything”: In Los Angeles, an “explosion” of new efforts aim to up the city’s local news game
A well-funded coalition building out neighborhood news, a new newsletter from an expanding for-profit site, and a nonprofit breaking through on social media are just a few examples of the latest bids to deliver more local news to the city.

Automatically describe data and models as text using the {report} package. #rstats

Replaced article(s) found for physics.bio-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.bio-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Weak transcription factor clustering at binding sites can facilitate information transfer from mo...
Tamara Mijatovi\'c, Aim\'ee R. Kok, Merlijn Br\"uggen, Jos W. Z…

Job insecurity and equilibrium determinacy in a rational expectations, New Keynesian model with asymmetric information. A theoretical analysis
Luca Vota, Luisa Errichiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11125

Job insecurity and equilibrium determinacy in a rational expectations, New Keynesian model with asymmetric information. A theoretical analysis
Despite the importance of this variable in the macroeconomic context, current research on job insecurity remains mainly confined to its non-systemic dimension. The research aim of this paper is to identify the short-run and long-run macroeconomic determinants of job insecurity in the presence of asymmetric information between public and private agents, informative shocks, and different degrees of institutional communication transparency. To accomplish this goal, a small-scale, rational expectat…

I expect this thread to piss off absolutely •everyone•. Whatever.
It’s essential in these times of horror to see as clearly as we can, and aim true with our criticism.
/end

A Survey on Parallel Reasoning
Ziqi Wang, Boye Niu, Zipeng Gao, Zhi Zheng, Tong Xu, Linghui Meng, Zhongli Li, Jing Liu, Yilong Chen, Chen Zhu, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Enhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12164

A Survey on Parallel Reasoning
With the increasing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), parallel reasoning has emerged as a new inference paradigm that enhances reasoning robustness by concurrently exploring multiple lines of thought before converging on a final answer. It has become a significant trend to explore parallel reasoning to overcome the fragility of standard sequential methods and improve practical performance. In this paper, we aim to survey and summarize the progress and challenges of parallel reasonin…

Representations
Paul Brunet (UPEC UP12, LACL)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11419 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11419

Representations
The formal analysis of automated systems is an important and growing industry. This activity routinely requires new verification frameworks to be developed to tackle new programming features, or new considerations (bugs of interest). Often, one particular property can prove frustrating to establish: completeness of the logic with respect to the semantics. In this paper, we try and make such developments easier, with a particular attention on completeness. Towards that aim, we propose a formal (…

Inferring cosmological parameters from galaxy and dark sirens cross-correlation
Giona Sala, Alessandro Cuoco, Julien Lesgourgues, Kostantinos-Rafail Revis, Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi, Santiago Casas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08699

Inferring cosmological parameters from galaxy and dark sirens cross-correlation
The number of observed gravitational wave (GW) events is growing fast thanks to rapidly improving detector sensitivities. GWs from compact binary coalescences like Black Holes or Neutron Stars behave like standard sirens and can be used as cosmological probes. To this aim, generally, the observation of an electromagnetic counterpart and the measurement of the redshift are needed. However, even when those are not available, it is still possible to exploit these "dark sirens" via statistical meth…

Ab initio study on photocatalytic properties of PtSSe-WXY Janus heterostructures
Shivprasad S. Shastri, Antonio Cammarata, Tomas Polcar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09587 https://…

Ab initio study on photocatalytic properties of PtSSe-WXY Janus heterostructures
Semiconductor photocatalysis offers a sustainable route for converting solar energy into chemical energy, enabling the production of clean fuels and valuable chemical products. To this aim, we explore van der Waals heterostructures made up of Janus PtSSe and WXY (X, Y $=$ S, Se, Te and X $\neq$Y), in the context of photocatalytic applications. The redox capabilities of various heterostructure configurations (atom facing types and stacking orders) are evaluated by aligning the absolute band edge…

"Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown"
#Brazil #Environment

Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in Amazon mining crackdown
Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in one of the largest coordinated crackdowns in the Amazon. The raids targeted criminal networks behind environmental crimes and were supported by officers from six Amazon countries. Authorities collected forensic samples to trace pollutants, while follow-up investigations aim to dismantle the illicit gold trade’s financial networks.

Delayed phase mixing in the self-gravitating Galactic disc
T. Asano, T. Antoja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11801 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11801

Delayed phase mixing in the self-gravitating Galactic disc
The Gaia phase spiral is considered to work as a dynamical clock for dating past perturbations, but most of the previous studies neglected the disc's self-gravity, potentially biasing estimates of the phase spiral's excitation time. We aim to evaluate the impact of self-gravitating effects on the evolution of vertical phase spirals and to quantify the bias introduced in estimating their excitation time when such effects are ignored. We analysed a high-resolution, self-consistent $N$-body simula…

MVP4D: Multi-View Portrait Video Diffusion for Animatable 4D Avatars
Felix Taubner, Ruihang Zhang, Mathieu Tuli, Sherwin Bahmani, David B. Lindell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12785

MVP4D: Multi-View Portrait Video Diffusion for Animatable 4D Avatars
Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating photorealistic human avatars is expensive and time-consuming, requiring large camera capture rigs and significant manual effort from professional 3D artists. With the advent of capable image and video generation models, recent methods enable automatic rendering o…

Concept-Based Generic Programming in C
Bjarne Stroustrup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08969 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08969…

Concept-Based Generic Programming in C++
We present programming techniques to illustrate the facilities and principles of C++ generic programming using concepts. Concepts are C++'s way to express constraints on generic code. As an initial example, we provide a simple type system that eliminates narrowing conversions and provides range checking without unnecessary notational or run-time overheads. Concepts are used throughout to provide user-defined extensions to the type system. The aim is to show their utility and the fundamental ide…

R2RGEN: Real-to-Real 3D Data Generation for Spatially Generalized Manipulation
Xiuwei Xu, Angyuan Ma, Hankun Li, Bingyao Yu, Zheng Zhu, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08547

R2RGEN: Real-to-Real 3D Data Generation for Spatially Generalized Manipulation
Towards the aim of generalized robotic manipulation, spatial generalization is the most fundamental capability that requires the policy to work robustly under different spatial distribution of objects, environment and agent itself. To achieve this, substantial human demonstrations need to be collected to cover different spatial configurations for training a generalized visuomotor policy via imitation learning. Prior works explore a promising direction that leverages data generation to acquire a…

On actions and split extensions in varieties of hoops: the case of strong section
Manuel Mancini, Giuseppe Metere, Federica Piazza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06886 https://

On actions and split extensions in varieties of hoops: the case of strong section
The aim of this article is to investigate internal actions and split extensions in the variety of hoops. We provide a characterization of split extensions with strong section in terms of strong external actions. Beyond the general setting of hoops, the study is extended to the subvarieties of basic hoops, Wajsberg hoops, Gödel hoops and product hoops. Within the setting of basic hoops and their bounded counterparts, BL-algebras, the double negation yields a significant example of split extensi…

Comparative Explanations via Counterfactual Reasoning in Recommendations
Yi Yu, Zhenxing Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10920 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.109…

Comparative Explanations via Counterfactual Reasoning in Recommendations
Explainable recommendation through counterfactual reasoning seeks to identify the influential aspects of items in recommendations, which can then be used as explanations. However, state-of-the-art approaches, which aim to minimize changes in product aspects while reversing their recommended decisions according to an aggregated decision boundary score, often lead to factual inaccuracies in explanations. To solve this problem, in this work we propose a novel method of Comparative Counterfactual E…

Mathematical Modeling of Networks in Strength of Materials
Ioannis Dassios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10132 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10132

Mathematical Modeling of Networks in Strength of Materials
We study a material modeled as a network of nodes connected by edges. Using a discrete approach, we build a nonlinear algebraic system that connects applied forces to internal forces and node positions. The model can describe elasticity, plasticity, and possibly cracking. The goal is to solve this system and understand how the material responds. Students are asked to start with a simple triangle example and then apply the method to larger structures. The final aim is to solve the full system an…

Resource-sensitive but language-blind: Community size and not grammatical complexity better predicts the accuracy of Large Language Models in a novel Wug Test
Nikoleta Pantelidou, Evelina Leivada, Paolo Morosi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12463

Resource-sensitive but language-blind: Community size and not grammatical complexity better predicts the accuracy of Large Language Models in a novel Wug Test
The linguistic abilities of Large Language Models are a matter of ongoing debate. This study contributes to this discussion by investigating model performance in a morphological generalization task that involves novel words. Using a multilingual adaptation of the Wug Test, six models were tested across four partially unrelated languages (Catalan, English, Greek, and Spanish) and compared with human speakers. The aim is to determine whether model accuracy approximates human competence and whethe…

On the twisted Osborne conjecture
Chang Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09975 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09975

On the twisted Osborne conjecture
We aim to prove a twisted version of the Osborne conjecture obtained by Hecht and Schmid in their 1983 Acta Mathematica paper. Bergeron and Clozel (2013) have considered a special case, and we generalize their method to our setting.

Reminder: It was Netanyahu who ended the previous ceasefire, 6 months ago, presumably with Trump's permission.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-pale

Why Netanyahu ended the Gaza ceasefire with surprise strikes
The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January. Since the start of the war, Netanyahu has faced dueling, possibly incompatible pressures. Families of the hostages want him to cut a deal with Hamas to free them. His far-right coalition partners want to continue the war with the aim of annihilating the milita…

Movable Antenna Enhanced Covert Dual-Functional Radar-Communication: Joint Beamforming and Antenna Position Optimization
Ran Yang, Zheng Dong, Peng Cheng, Lin Zhang, Wanting Lyu, Yue Xiu, Ning Wei, Chadi Assi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09949

Movable Antenna Enhanced Covert Dual-Functional Radar-Communication: Joint Beamforming and Antenna Position Optimization
Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to flexibly reconfigure wireless channels by adjusting antenna placement. In this paper, we study a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system enhanced with movable antennas. To ensure communication security, we aim to maximize the achievable sum rate by jointly optimizing the transmit beamforming vectors, receiving filter, and antenna placement, subject to radar signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance and transmission covertness…

Nonlocal Games Through Communication Complexity and Quantum Cryptography
Pierre Botteron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09457 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09457

Nonlocal Games Through Communication Complexity and Quantum Cryptography
This thesis explores foundational aspects of quantum information theory and quantum cryptography. First, we investigate quantum correlations in interactive settings, including the CHSH and graph isomorphism games. We aim to distinguish quantum correlations from non-signaling correlations by leveraging the principle of communication complexity. To this end, we employ techniques such as distributed computation, majority-function-based distillation protocols, the algebraic and geometric properti…

On the Use of Hierarchical Vision Foundation Models for Low-Cost Human Mesh Recovery and Pose Estimation
Shuhei Tarashima, Yushan Wang, Norio Tagawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12660

On the Use of Hierarchical Vision Foundation Models for Low-Cost Human Mesh Recovery and Pose Estimation
In this work, we aim to develop simple and efficient models for human mesh recovery (HMR) and its predecessor task, human pose estimation (HPE). State-of-the-art HMR methods, such as HMR2.0 and its successors, rely on large, non-hierarchical vision transformers as encoders, which are inherited from the corresponding HPE models like ViTPose. To establish baselines across varying computational budgets, we first construct three lightweight HMR2.0 variants by adapting the corresponding ViTPose mode…

Leveraging Photometry for Deconfusion of Directly Imaged Multi-Planet Systems
Samantha N. Hasler, Leonid Pogorelyuk, Riley Fitzgerald, Kerri Cahoy, Rhonda Morgan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09841

Leveraging Photometry for Deconfusion of Directly Imaged Multi-Planet Systems
Planned and future missions, including the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will aim to directly image Earth-like exoplanets around Sun-like stars in reflected light. Determining whether an exoplanet is in the habitable zone of its star may be difficult in multi-planet systems when the observer does not know in advance which point source detection corresponds to which planet. This "confusion" problem will be a concern for future missions due to the high occurrence rate of multi-planet system…

Hydrodynamics of degenerate Fermi gases on spherical Fermi surfaces
Benjamin Anwasia, Diogo Ars\'enio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10897 https://arxiv.or…

Hydrodynamics of degenerate Fermi gases on spherical Fermi surfaces
We consider the description of a Fermi gas of free electrons given by the Boltzmann--Fermi--Dirac equation, and aim at providing a precise mathematical understanding of the Fermi ground state and its first-order approximation of excited states on the Fermi sphere. In order to achieve that, using the framework of hydrodynamic limits in collisional kinetic theory, we identify the low-temperature regimes in which charge-density fluctuations concentrate on the Fermi sphere. In three spatial dimen…

CFP — Women’s Voices (KU, May 18–20, 2026)
https://ift.tt/N6te8Zf
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/UKD6cyd

Colts' Jonathan Taylor, Raiders' Ashton Jeanty aim to use similar styles to help their teams rebound https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/colts-jonathan-taylor-raiders-ashton-jeanty-aim-to-use-simila…

On the negativity of the top Lyapunov exponent for stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion
Alexandra Blessing Neam\c{t}u, Mazyar Ghani Varzaneh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11531

On the negativity of the top Lyapunov exponent for stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion
We provide sign information for the top Lyapunov exponent for a stochastic differential equation driven by fractional Brownian motion.~To this aim we analyze the stochastic dynamical system generated by such an equation, obtain a random dynamical system and construct an appropriate invariant measure.~Suitable estimates for its density together with Birkhoff's ergodic theorem imply the negativity of the top Lyapunov exponent by increasing the noise intensity.

NV3D: Leveraging Spatial Shape Through Normal Vector-based 3D Object Detection
Krittin Chaowakarn, Paramin Sangwongngam, Nang Htet Htet Aung, Chalie Charoenlarpnopparut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11632

NV3D: Leveraging Spatial Shape Through Normal Vector-based 3D Object Detection
Recent studies in 3D object detection for autonomous vehicles aim to enrich features through the utilization of multi-modal setups or the extraction of local patterns within LiDAR point clouds. However, multi-modal methods face significant challenges in feature alignment, and gaining features locally can be oversimplified for complex 3D object detection tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel model, NV3D, which utilizes local features acquired from voxel neighbors, as normal vectors computed p…

U-Turn: Enhancing Incorrectness Analysis by Reversing Direction
Flavio Ascari, Roberto Bruni, Roberta Gori, Azalea Raad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09292 https://

U-Turn: Enhancing Incorrectness Analysis by Reversing Direction
O'Hearn's Incorrectness Logic (IL) has sparked renewed interest in static analyses that aim to detect program errors rather than prove their absence, thereby avoiding false alarms -- a critical factor for practical adoption in industrial settings. As new incorrectness logics emerge to capture diverse error-related properties, a key question arises: can the combination of (in)correctness techniques enhance precision, expressiveness, automation, or scalability? Notable frameworks, such as outcome…

The Golden Globes' inaugural best podcast award nominations avoided controversy by passing on popular politics-related podcasts and personalities like Joe Rogan (Mark Kennedy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/golden-globes-podcast-cat…

Golden Globes' inaugural best podcast award nominees avoid politics
The Golden Globes have introduced a best podcast category that's likely to spark conversations. On Monday, the Globes announced six nominees, including “Armchair Expert” and “SmartLess.” They represented a mix of news, advice and celebrity interviews. Notably absent are politically oriented podcasts like “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “Pod Save America.” Experts suggest the Globes aim to avoid controversy by focusing on entertainment. The selection process has raised questions, …

PAH Spectral Diversity in NGC 7027 and the Evolution of Aromatic Carriers
Charlotte Smith-Perez, Aidan Hembruff, Els Peeters, Alexander G. G. M. Tielens, Alessandra Ricca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09972

PAH Spectral Diversity in NGC 7027 and the Evolution of Aromatic Carriers
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) constitute a significant fraction of the Universe's carbon budget, playing a key role in the cosmic carbon cycle and dominating the mid-infrared spectra of astrophysical environments in which they reside. Although PAHs are known to form in the circumstellar envelopes of post-AGB stars, their formation and evolution are still not well-understood. We aim to understand how pristine complex hydrocarbons and PAHs in circumstellar environments transition to the…

Vectorial Bernoulli Problems and Free Boundary Systems
Giorgio Tortone, Bozhidar Velichkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09875 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0987…

Vectorial Bernoulli Problems and Free Boundary Systems
In this survey we go through some of the recent results about the regularity of vectorial free boundary problems of Bernoulli type and free boundary systems. The aim is to illustrate the general methodologies as well as to outline a selection of notable open questions.

TOI-3288 b and TOI-4666 b: two gas giants transiting low-mass stars characterised by NIRPS
Yolanda G. C. Frensch, Fran\c{c}ois Bouchy, Gaspare Lo Curto, Alexandrine L'Heureux, Roseane de Lima Gomes, Jo\~ao Faria, Xavier Dumusque, Lison Malo, Marion Cointepas, Avidaan Srivastava, Xavier Bonfils, Elisa Delgado-Mena, Nicola Nari, Khaled Al Moulla, Romain Allart, Jose M. Almenara, \'Etienne Artigau, Khalid Barkaoui, Fr\'ed\'erique Baron, Susana C. C. Barros, Bj\"orn Be…

TOI-3288 b and TOI-4666 b: two gas giants transiting low-mass stars characterised by NIRPS
Gas giant planets orbiting low-mass stars are uncommon outcomes of planet formation. Increasing the sample of well-characterised giants around early M dwarfs will enable population-level studies of their properties, offering valuable insights into their formation and evolutionary histories. We aim to characterise giant exoplanets transiting M dwarfs identified by TESS. High-resolution spectroscopic data are obtained in the optical and nIR, combining HARPS and NIRPS. We derive RVs via the cross-…

AIM 2025 Challenge on Real-World RAW Image Denoising
Feiran Li, Jiacheng Li, Marcos V. Conde, Beril Besbinar, Vlad Hosu, Daisuke Iso, Radu Timofte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06601

AIM 2025 Challenge on Real-World RAW Image Denoising
We introduce the AIM 2025 Real-World RAW Image Denoising Challenge, aiming to advance efficient and effective denoising techniques grounded in data synthesis. The competition is built upon a newly established evaluation benchmark featuring challenging low-light noisy images captured in the wild using five different DSLR cameras. Participants are tasked with developing novel noise synthesis pipelines, network architectures, and training methodologies to achieve high performance across different …

The JWST-NIRCam View of Sagittarius C. III. The Extinction Curve
Luc\'ia Bravo Ferres, Francisco Nogueras-Lara, Rainer Sch\"odel, Rub\'en Fedriani, Adam Ginsburg, Samuel Crowe, Jonathan C. Tan, Morten Andersen, Joseph Armstrong, Yu Cheng, Zhi-Yun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10749

The JWST-NIRCam View of Sagittarius C. III. The Extinction Curve
Determining the infrared extinction curve towards the Galactic centre is crucial for accurately correcting observed data and deriving the underlying stellar populations. However, extinction curves reported in the literature often show discrepancies. We aim to derive the infrared extinction curve towards the Galactic centre based on JWST-NIRCam data for the first time, using observations of the Sagittarius C region in the 1-5 $μ$m range. We determined extinction ratios using two different metho…

Colorado voters overwhelmingly supported a pair of ballot measures that aim to ensure every public school child in the state is able to access free meals at their schools.
Proposition MM increases taxes on wealthy households earning more than $300,000 annually.
The measure supplements a previously passed referendum from 2022 that also called for increases in taxes in order to help fund schools, but which fell short of its funding goals.
The tax increases will affect around …

Colorado Passes Measures to Feed All Public School Kids by Taxing the Wealthy
Excess funds from the school meals program would be redirected toward the state-managed SNAP program.

The US FDA qualifies the first AI drug development tool, AIM-NASH, to help doctors assess a severe form of fatty liver disease in drug trials (Sahil Pandey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar

On the approximation of finite-time Lyapunov exponents for the stochastic Burgers equation
Alexandra Blessing, Dirk Bl\"omker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09460 https://

On the approximation of finite-time Lyapunov exponents for the stochastic Burgers equation
We analyze stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with quadratic nonlinearities close to a change of stability. To this aim we compute finite-time Lyapunov exponents (FTLEs), observing a change of sign based on the interplay between the distance towards the bifurcation and the noise intensity. A technical challenge is to provide a suitable control of the nonlinear terms coupling the dominant and stable modes of the SPDE and of the corresponding linearization. In order to illustrate o…

MaNGA AGN dwarf galaxies (MAD) -- IV. Revealing hidden AGN in dwarf galaxies with radio observations
I. Flores, M. Mezcua, V. Rodr\'iguez Morales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09754

MaNGA AGN dwarf galaxies (MAD) -- IV. Revealing hidden AGN in dwarf galaxies with radio observations
Low-mass black holes hosted by dwarf galaxies offer valuable insights into galaxy formation and the growth of the massive black holes found in massive galaxies. Their detection as AGN is challenging due to their low luminosity and compact size. This can be circumvented employing multi-wavelength observational strategies, such as combining optical and radio observations, which enables the detection of AGN features that may be hidden in single-wavelength analyses We aim to detect any jet-like emi…

My aim for this Digest is to share the insights from my mental health journey,
from my travels and experiences;
to bring enchantment back into a disenchanted world,
to engage our sensory literacy
and help provide counter-narratives for polarised times.
There are many nuanced layers to the past and to us, as human beings. We can learn and grow from that.

From Breakdown to New Vocation: My Genius Loci Digest Journey
In the late 1990's I had a breakdown that ultimately led me, through a journey that took me away from depression, to a new career in photography. But what was the spark that ignited my journey?

Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is more than 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip config (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/google-unveils-ironwood-seventh-gener…

Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom silicon
Google says Ironwood, the seventh generation of its Tensor Processing Unit, is more than four times faster than its predecessor chip.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism. 
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protec…

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order