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Behind RoPE: How Does Causal Mask Encode Positional Information?
Junu Kim, Xiao Liu, Zhenghao Lin, Lei Ji, Yeyun Gong, Edward Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21042 https://

Behind RoPE: How Does Causal Mask Encode Positional Information?
While explicit positional encodings such as RoPE are a primary source of positional information in Transformer decoders, the causal mask also provides positional information. In this work, we prove that the causal mask can induce position-dependent patterns in attention scores, even without parameters or causal dependency in the input. Our theoretical analysis indicates that the induced attention pattern tends to favor nearby query-key pairs, mirroring the behavior of common positional encoding…

Efficient In-Memory Acceleration of Sparse Block Diagonal LLMs
Jo\~ao Paulo Cardoso de Lima, Marc Dietrich, Jeronimo Castrillon, Asif Ali Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11192 h…

Efficient In-Memory Acceleration of Sparse Block Diagonal LLMs
Structured sparsity enables deploying large language models (LLMs) on resource-constrained systems. Approaches like dense-to-sparse fine-tuning are particularly compelling, achieving remarkable structured sparsity by reducing the model size by over 6.7x, while still maintaining acceptable accuracy. Despite this reduction, LLM inference, especially the decode stage being inherently memory-bound, is extremely expensive on conventional Von-Neumann architectures. Compute-in-memory (CIM) architectur…

Hidden Figures of Globular Clusters: Integrated Stellar Populations Impacted by Hot Subdwarfs
Thayse A. Pacheco, Paula R. T. Coelho, Lucimara P. Martins, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Erik V. R. de Lima, Marcos P. Diaz, Domenico Nardiello, Ronaldo S. Levenhagen, Rogerio Riffel, Charles J. Bonatto, Ana L. Chies-Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.1232…

Hidden Figures of Globular Clusters: Integrated Stellar Populations Impacted by Hot Subdwarfs
Globular clusters (GCs) are fundamental for understanding the integrated light of old stellar populations and galaxy assembly processes. However, the role of hot, evolved stars, such as horizontal branch (HB), extreme HB, and blue stragglers, remains poorly constrained. These stars are often underrepresented or entirely excluded from stellar population models, despite their dominant contribution to the ultraviolet (UV) flux. Their presence can bias age estimates by mimicking the spectral signat…

Two Possible Optical--X-Ray Anti-Correlations of PSR J1023 0038
Ka-Yui Au, Kwan-Lok Li, Albert K. H. Kong, Jumpei Takata, Chung-Yue Hui, Lupin C. C. Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07763

Two Possible Optical--X-Ray Anti-Correlations of PSR J1023+0038
X-ray emission is generally believed to be one of the major heating sources for the optical modulation in redback pulsar binaries as we have seen similar phenomena in many low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). While, e.g., MeV/GeV gamma-rays from the neutron stars are also possible heating sources, X-ray observations are currently much more sensitive, and therefore, joint optical--X-ray data are observationally unique on the irradiation mechanism investigation. Using 18 X-ray/B-band simultaneous XMM…

Utility-Scale Quantum State Preparation: Classical Training using Pauli Path Simulation
Cheng-Ju Lin, Hrant Gharibyan, Vincent P. Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02428 https://

Utility-Scale Quantum State Preparation: Classical Training using Pauli Path Simulation
We use Pauli Path simulation to variationally obtain parametrized circuits for preparing ground states of various quantum many-body Hamiltonians. These include the quantum Ising model in one dimension, in two dimensions on square and heavy-hex lattices, and the Kitaev honeycomb model, all at system sizes of one hundred qubits or more, beyond the reach of exact state-vector simulation, thereby reaching utility scale. We benchmark the Pauli Path simulation results against exact ground-state energ…

Improved Streaming Algorithm for Fair $k$-Center Clustering
Longkun Guo, Zeyu Lin, Chaoqi Jia, Chao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05937 https://arxiv.org…

Improved Streaming Algorithm for Fair $k$-Center Clustering
Many real-world applications pose challenges in incorporating fairness constraints into the $k$-center clustering problem, where the dataset consists of $m$ demographic groups, each with a specified upper bound on the number of centers to ensure fairness. Focusing on big data scenarios, this paper addresses the problem in a streaming setting, where data points arrive one by one sequentially in a continuous stream. Leveraging a structure called the $λ$-independent center set, we propose a one-p…

JCMT detection of HCN emission from 3I/ATLAS at 2.1 AU
Iain M. Coulson, Yi-Jehng Kuan, Steven B. Charnley, Martin A. Cordiner, Yo-Ling Chuang, Yueh-Ning Lee, Min-Kai Lin, Stefanie N. Milam, Bannawit Pimpanuwat, Nathan X. Roth, Micha{\l} \.Z\'o{\l}towski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02817

JCMT detection of HCN emission from 3I/ATLAS at 2.1 AU
We report the detection of HCN ($J=3-2$) rotational emission from comet 3I/ATLAS at a heliocentric distance of 2.13 AU with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Observations were conducted from 07 August 2025 (UT) using the $^{\prime}\overline U^{\prime}\overline u$ heterodyne receiver and ACSIS spectroscopic backend. The HCN line was detected at $>5σ$ on 14 Sep 2025 (UT) and a production rate of $Q({\rm HCN})=(4.0\pm1.7)\times10^{25}\ {\rm s}^{-1}$ was derived by non-LTE radiative transf…

Microstructure and phase stability within the AlMoNbTiZr system: design tools and compositional boundaries for a high-entropy alloy
Mariano Casas-Luna, Dalibor Preisler, Ji\v{r}\'i Kozl\'ik, Josef Str\'ask\'y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08417

Microstructure and phase stability within the AlMoNbTiZr system: design tools and compositional boundaries for a high-entropy alloy
This study explores Ti-containing complex concentrated alloys (CCAs) within the AlMoNbTiZr system, focusing on compositions located in regions of the Bo-Md diagram characterized by low bond order (Bo) and d-orbital energy level (Md). Four alloys were designed near the line predicting stress-induced martensite formation in conventional Ti alloys, then cast, annealed at 1200°C, and water quenched. Their microstructures and phases were analyzed and compared against phase prediction tools commonly…

A GLIMPSE into the very faint-end of the H$\beta$ [OIII]$\lambda\lambda$4960,5008 luminosity function at z=7-9 behind Abell S1063
Damien Korber, Iryna Chemerynska, Lukas J. Furtak, Hakim Atek, Ryan Endsley, Daniel Schaerer, John Chisholm, Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Angela Adamo, Julian B. Mu\~noz, Pascal A. Oesch, Romain Meyer, Rui Marques-Chaves, Seiji Fujimoto
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A GLIMPSE into the very faint-end of the H$β$+[OIII]$λλ$4960,5008 luminosity function at z=7-9 behind Abell S1063
We use the ultra-deep GLIMPSE JWST/NIRCam survey to constrain the faint-end of the H$β$+[OIII]$λλ$4960,5008 luminosity function (LF) down to $10^{39}$ erg/s at z=7-9 behind the lensed Hubble Frontier Field Abell S1063. We perform SED fitting on a Lyman-Break Galaxy sample, measuring combined H$β$+[OIII] fluxes to construct the emission-line LF. The resulting LF ($α$=-1.55 to -1.78) is flatter than the UV LF ($α<-2$), indicating a lower number density of low H$β$+[OIII] emitters at fixed …

Beyond diagnostic-diagrams: A critical exploration on the classification of ionization processes
S. F. S\'anchez, C. Mu\~noz-Tu\~n\'on, J. S\'anchez Almeida, O. Gonz\'alez-Mart\'in, E. P\'erez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07256

Beyond diagnostic-diagrams: A critical exploration on the classification of ionization processes
Optical emission-line diagnostic diagrams, such as the classical BPT, are widely used to identify ionisation mechanisms in galaxies but often suffer from degeneracies, especially when multiple sources coexist. We critically evaluate the effectiveness of these diagnostics in distinguishing star-forming galaxies, retired galaxies (RGs), and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and propose refined methods to reduce misclassifications. Using a large sample of nearby galaxies from the NASA-Sloan Atlas cro…