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Avoidance Decoding for Diverse Multi-Branch Story Generation
Kyeongman Park, Nakyeong Yang, Kyomin Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02170 https://arxiv.org/…

Avoidance Decoding for Diverse Multi-Branch Story Generation
Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate repetitive and monotonous outputs, especially in tasks like story generation, due to limited creative diversity when given the same input prompt. To address this challenge, we propose a novel decoding strategy, Avoidance Decoding, that modifies token logits by penalizing similarity to previously generated outputs, thereby encouraging more diverse multi-branch stories. This penalty adaptively balances two similarity measures: (1) Concept-level Similari…

Constrained Stabilization on the n-Sphere with Conic and Star-shaped Constraints
Mayur Sawant, Abdelhamid Tayebi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02487 https://a…

Constrained Stabilization on the n-Sphere with Conic and Star-shaped Constraints
The problem of constrained stabilization on the n-sphere under star-shaped constraints is considered. We propose a control strategy that allows to almost globally steer the state to a desired location while avoiding star-shaped constraints on the n-sphere. Depending on the state's proximity to the unsafe regions, the state is either guided towards the target location along the geodesic connecting the target to the state or steered towards the antipode of a predefined point lying in the interior…

Avoiding the sophomore slump: Three things to watch for as Bo Nix enters Year 2 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46139565/three-factors-success-denver-broncos-quarterback-bo-nix-2025-season

#vereinfachteSprache
Der #Klimawandel lässt den Boden in der #Arktis auftauen. Das führt zu großen Problemen. Warum sacken Häuser ab und Straßen werden unpassierbar? Welche Folgen ha…

Der Klimawandel taut den tief gefrorenen Boden in der Arktis und die Häuser gehen kaputt (vereinfachte Sprache)
Das Auftauen des Permafrostbodens hat bereits jetzt schwerwiegende Folgen für die Arktis, wie die Zerstörung von Infrastruktur. Wenn er auftaut, wird obendrein Kohlenstoff freigesetzt und trägt zur globalen Erwärmung...

Trump heads to Texas after catastrophic flooding, avoiding criticism he's heaped on other governors (Alexandra Hutzler/Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-heads-texas-after-catastrophic-flooding-avoiding-criticism/story?id=123650032
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p88#a250711p88

Bra av Cantwell. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolumnister/a/bmpew3/oisin-cantwell-viktigt-att-misstankta-krigsbrott-i-gaza-utreds

Viktigt att Sverige utreder misstänkta krigsbrott i Gaza
Att misstänkta krigsbrott i Gaza har börjat utredas i Stockholm är viktigt. De svenska brottsbekämpande myndigheterna visar än en gång att de håller hög intern

Das ist Brüssel: Dort gibt es nicht cht nur eine Straße, die an Kaiser Karl V. erinnert, sondern auch eine Straße, die an seine Abdankung erinnert: Rue de l'Abdication / Troonsafstandsstraat

Global Bifurcation of Spiral Wave Solutions to the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Carlos Garcia-Azpeitia, Ziad Ghanem, Wieslaw Krawcewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15098

Global Bifurcation of Spiral Wave Solutions to the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
We use the $\mathbb T^2$-equivariant degree to establish the existence of unbounded branches of rotating spiral wave solutions with any number of arms for the complex Ginzburg Landau equation GLe on the planar unit disc, leveraging the spatial symmetries inherent to the problem and avoiding limiting constraints encountered in previous studies (Dai 2021) that utilized the classical Leray-Schauder degree. Our results provide rigorous mathematical justification for the formation and persistence of…

Zero-Shot Metric Depth Estimation via Monocular Visual-Inertial Rescaling for Autonomous Aerial Navigation
Steven Yang, Xiaoyu Tian, Kshitij Goel, Wennie Tabib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08159

Zero-Shot Metric Depth Estimation via Monocular Visual-Inertial Rescaling for Autonomous Aerial Navigation
This paper presents a methodology to predict metric depth from monocular RGB images and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). To enable collision avoidance during autonomous flight, prior works either leverage heavy sensors (e.g., LiDARs or stereo cameras) or data-intensive and domain-specific fine-tuning of monocular metric depth estimation methods. In contrast, we propose several lightweight zero-shot rescaling strategies to obtain metric depth from relative depth estimates via the sparse 3D fe…

Consistent Updates for Scalable Microservices
Devora Chait-Roth, Kedar S. Namjoshi, Thomas Wies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04829 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Consistent Updates for Scalable Microservices
Online services are commonly implemented with a scalable microservice architecture, where isomorphic worker processes service client requests, recording persistent state in a backend data store. To maintain service, any modifications to the service functionality must be made on the fly -- i.e., as the service continues to process client requests -- but doing so is challenging. The central difficulty is that of avoiding potential inconsistencies caused by ''mixed mode'' operation, where workers …