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Foreboding only intensified Monday,
when Trump applauded the idea of arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D),
followed by the mobilization of hundreds of active-duty Marines to augment the Guard members already in Los Angeles.

In a city that has increasingly found itself in the crosshairs of the federal government, turmoil can feel personal.
Local leaders accuse the Trump administration of ginning up a crisis for political gain,
and Angelenos from across …

‘He’s waging a war on us’: As Trump escalates, Angelenos defend their city
Across this vast metropolis, residents denounce what they consider an attack on the very fabric of their city — on their neighbors, co-workers, family members.

Frosty for partial synchrony
Stephen Buttolph, Andrew Lewis-Pye, Kevin Sekniqi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09823 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Frosty for partial synchrony
Snowman is the consensus protocol used by blockchains on Avalanche. Recent work has shown both how to augment Snowman with a `liveness' module called `Frosty' that protects against liveness attacks, and also how to modify Snowman so as to be consistent in partial synchrony. Since Frosty assumes (a strong form of) synchrony, the aim of this note is to show how to modify Frosty to deal with the partially synchronous version of Snowman.

DermaCon-IN: A Multi-concept Annotated Dermatological Image Dataset of Indian Skin Disorders for Clinical AI Research
Shanawaj S Madarkar, Mahajabeen Madarkar, Madhumitha V, Teli Prakash, Konda Reddy Mopuri, Vinaykumar MV, KVL Sathwika, Adarsh Kasturi, Gandla Dilip Raj, PVN Supranitha, Harsh Udai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06099…

DermaCon-IN: A Multi-concept Annotated Dermatological Image Dataset of Indian Skin Disorders for Clinical AI Research
Artificial intelligence is poised to augment dermatological care by enabling scalable image-based diagnostics. Yet, the development of robust and equitable models remains hindered by datasets that fail to capture the clinical and demographic complexity of real-world practice. This complexity stems from region-specific disease distributions, wide variation in skin tones, and the underrepresentation of outpatient scenarios from non-Western populations. We introduce DermaCon-IN, a prospectively cu…

Augment or Not? A Comparative Study of Pure and Augmented Large Language Model Recommenders
Wei-Hsiang Huang, Chen-Wei Ke, Wei-Ning Chiu, Yu-Xuan Su, Chun-Chun Yang, Chieh-Yuan Cheng, Yun-Nung Chen, Pu-Jen Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23053

Augment or Not? A Comparative Study of Pure and Augmented Large Language Model Recommenders
Large language models (LLMs) have introduced new paradigms for recommender systems by enabling richer semantic understanding and incorporating implicit world knowledge. In this study, we propose a systematic taxonomy that classifies existing approaches into two categories: (1) Pure LLM Recommenders, which rely solely on LLMs, and (2) Augmented LLM Recommenders, which integrate additional non-LLM techniques to enhance performance. This taxonomy provides a novel lens through which to examine the …

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Improving Heart Rejection Detection in XPCI Images Using Synthetic Data Augmentation
Accurate identification of acute cellular rejection (ACR) in endomyocardial biopsies is essential for effective management of heart transplant patients. However, the rarity of high-grade rejection cases (3R) presents a significant challenge for training robust deep learning models. This work addresses the class imbalance problem by leveraging synthetic data generation using StyleGAN to augment the limited number of real 3R images. Prior to GAN training, histogram equalization was applied to sta…

StARS DCM: A Sleep Stage-Decoding Forehead EEG Patch for Real-time Modulation of Sleep Physiology
William G. Coon, Preston Peranich, Griffin Milsap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03442

StARS DCM: A Sleep Stage-Decoding Forehead EEG Patch for Real-time Modulation of Sleep Physiology
The System to Augment Restorative Sleep (StARS) is a modular hardware/software platform designed for real-time sleep monitoring and intervention. Utilizing the compact DCM biosignal device, StARS captures electrophysiological signals (EEG, EMG, EOG) and synchronizes sensor data using the ezmsg real-time software framework. StARS supports interventions such as closed-loop auditory stimulation and dynamic thermal modulation guided by sleep-stage decoding via advanced neural network models and tra…

Improving the average dilation of a metric graph by adding edges
Sariel Har-Peled, Eliot W. Robson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04246 https://

Improving the average dilation of a metric graph by adding edges
For a graph $G$ spanning a metric space, the dilation of a pair of points is the ratio of their distance in the shortest path graph metric to their distance in the metric space. Given a graph $G$ and a budget $k$, a classic problem is to augment $G$ with $k$ additional edges to reduce the maximum dilation. In this note, we consider a variant of this problem where the goal is to reduce the average dilation for pairs of points in $G$. We provide an $O(k)$ approximation algorithm for this proble…

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LPrL: An Asynchronous Linear Time Hyper Logic
We present a novel asynchronous hyper linear time temporal logic named LPrL (Linear Time Predicate Logic) and establish its basic theory. LPrL is a natural first order extension of LTL (Linear time temporal logic), in which the predicates specify the properties of and the relationships between traces (infinite sequences of actions) using Boolean combinations of LTL formulas. To augment the expressive power of the logic, we introduce a simple language of terms and add the equality predicate t = …

Rethinking Contrastive Learning in Session-based Recommendation
Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Fenglong Ma, Zhizheng Wang, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05044

Rethinking Contrastive Learning in Session-based Recommendation
Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. With the ability in alleviating data sparsity, contrastive learning is prevailing in the task. However, we spot that existing contrastive learning based methods still suffer from three obstacles: (1) they overlook item-level sparsity and primarily focus on session-level sparsity; (2) they typically augment sessions using item IDs like crop, mask and reorder, failing to ensure the semantic consist…

LLM-Synth4KWS: Scalable Automatic Generation and Synthesis of Confusable Data for Custom Keyword Spotting
Pai Zhu, Quan Wang, Dhruuv Agarwal, Kurt Partridge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22995

LLM-Synth4KWS: Scalable Automatic Generation and Synthesis of Confusable Data for Custom Keyword Spotting
Custom keyword spotting (KWS) allows detecting user-defined spoken keywords from streaming audio. This is achieved by comparing the embeddings from voice enrollments and input audio. State-of-the-art custom KWS models are typically trained contrastively using utterances whose keywords are randomly sampled from training dataset. These KWS models often struggle with confusing keywords, such as "blue" versus "glue". This paper introduces an effective way to augment the training with confusable utt…