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We biked next to a section of the Menomonee River that has a railway bridge over it and you can see the debris left from the flood back in August. Yes, the river was as high as the bridge!
#mke #milwaukee #water

Hue Bridge Pro steuert 150 smarte Leuchtmittel und macht sie zu Bewegungsmeldern
Philips Hue bringt ein neues ZigBee-Gateway mit mehr Rechenpower und Softsensor-Tricks, ergänzt billige Birnen und welche mit Thread-Funk.

Can Large Language Models Bridge the Gap in Environmental Knowledge?
Linda Smail (College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Zayed University, UAE), David Santandreu Calonge (Department of Academic Development, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE), Firuz Kamalov (School of Engineering, Applied Science,Technology, Canadian University Dubai, UAE), Nur H. Orak (Department of Environmental Engineering, Marmara University, T\"urkiye)

Can Large Language Models Bridge the Gap in Environmental Knowledge?
This research investigates the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models to bridge the knowledge gap in environmental education among university students. By focusing on prominent large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-4o, Gemini, Claude Sonnet, and Llama 2, the study assesses their effectiveness in conveying environmental concepts and, consequently, facilitating environmental education. The investigation employs a standardized tool, the Environmental Knowledge Test (EK…

Philips Hue unveils a major product refresh at IFA 2025, including a $90 Hue Bridge Pro, updated $25 smart bulbs, and the $169 Hue Secure doorbell, its first (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ifa-berlin/769934

Philips Hue lights get bigger, brighter, and cheaper with a major product refresh
Philips Hue launches the Bridge Pro, Matter-ready bulbs, a low-cost Essential line, and a lotta light strips at IFA 2025.

Owners of cargo ship that crashed into Baltimore bridge sue company that built vessel | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/owners-of-cargo-ship-that-crashed-into-baltimore-bridge-sue-company-that-built-vessel

We biked next to a section of the Menomonee River that has a railway bridge over it and you can see the debris left from the flood back in August. Yes, the river was as high as the bridge!
#mke #milwaukee #water

"Sir Keir’s reshuffle looks less like renewal than a coup by Labour’s “modernising” clique. Ian Murray’s sacking severs a bridge to Anas Sarwar’s Scottish Labour, which had been tacking leftwards, just as the Holyrood election looms, while Lucy Powell’s removal sidelines one of the few cabinet allies of Ed Miliband, the soft left’s champion" -- in other words, Labour is tacking even more violently towards the dark side.

Progress!
STM32H750 Trion T20 setup is now able to:
* Initialize QUADSPI-connected flash on MCU board and use it for microkvs. Currently in x1 mode, quad will come later once I debug a bit
* Bootloader attempts to boot an image in QUADSPI flash, but it fails because there's no code there
* Connect to FPGA via FMC-APB bridge
* Identify FPGA via hardcoded IDCODE in device info block (there doesn't seem to be any ICAP-equivalent in Trion that lets you determi…

One thing that's bothered me about the aftermath of the loss at Stamford Bridge is the punditry acting like Cucurella's comment that they targeted the space behind Salah shows some sort of tactical brilliance by Maresca.
Literally EVERY team flings diagonal balls into space on that flank, a known risk and a calculation that Salah's lethality will negate a willingness for the LB to go forward and join the attack.
The real story is that he's not been dangerous and c…

This is only true for some flavors of "big accounts."
A number of the people I follow with thousands of followers are ONLY on the #Fediverse and most of the rest are only here and on Bluesky. I routinely block people here and on Bluesky (and across the bridge) who pull in the sewage from X and dump it in either place.
I'm not really interested in following people that wa…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Will Barnes Quartet:
🎵 Devil's Bridge
#WillBarnesQuartet
https://open.spotify.com/track/4lw9UZ8U54qHIexgwwQ9XO

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
ZEN: Confirmed. Main drive standing by. The ship is now in free space. Main drive activated.
TARRANT: Zen, standard by eight. Put the rear scanner on the main screen.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/377 B7B3

Things I'm still in love with on this guitar:
⁃ How well it intonates. It is unbelievably in tune, and it stays that way
⁃ I unblocked the Floyd Rose, and now I'm just having a ton of fun with it
⁃ Pulling on the tone knob sets the bridge humbucker to parallel, which gives just killer low gain Americana and country tones
⁃ Jumbo frets. I literally can never go back to anything else
#guitar

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Tacocat:
🎵 Bridge to Hawaii
#Tacocat
https://tacocat.bandcamp.com/track/bridge-to-hawaii
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RgUzbBzDYimNWvEbkQPIQ

They've changed the words enough to make it clear that Under the Bridge is now a love song to the All Saints' home town, not to RHCP's home town. But it just occured to me that I don't know where the All Saints' home town is. #TOTP #1998Watch

VideoGuard: Protecting Video Content from Unauthorized Editing
Junjie Cao, Kaizhou Li, Xinchun Yu, Hongxiang Li, Xiaoping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03480 https://

VideoGuard: Protecting Video Content from Unauthorized Editing
With the rapid development of generative technology, current generative models can generate high-fidelity digital content and edit it in a controlled manner. However, there is a risk that malicious individuals might misuse these capabilities for misleading activities. Although existing research has attempted to shield photographic images from being manipulated by generative models, there remains a significant disparity in the protection offered to video content editing. To bridge the gap, we pr…

FaST: Feature-aware Sampling and Tuning for Personalized Preference Alignment with Limited Data
Thibaut Thonet, Germ\'an Kruszewski, Jos Rozen, Pierre Erbacher, Marc Dymetman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04698

FaST: Feature-aware Sampling and Tuning for Personalized Preference Alignment with Limited Data
LLM-powered conversational assistants are often deployed in a one-size-fits-all manner, which fails to accommodate individual user preferences. Recently, LLM personalization -- tailoring models to align with specific user preferences -- has gained increasing attention as a way to bridge this gap. In this work, we specifically focus on a practical yet challenging setting where only a small set of preference annotations can be collected per user -- a problem we define as Personalized Preference A…

Grafitti-covered bridge in Monkey Run near sunset when the creek is in shadow but some of the surrounding hills are still illuminated.
#photo #photography #wideangle

Smart Car Privacy: Survey of Attacks and Privacy Issues
Akshay Madhav Deshmukh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03413 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03413

Smart Car Privacy: Survey of Attacks and Privacy Issues
Automobiles are becoming increasingly important in our day to day life. Modern automobiles are highly computerized and hence potentially vulnerable to attack. Providing many wireless connectivity for vehicles enables a bridge between vehicles and their external environments. Such a connected vehicle solution is expected to be the next frontier for automotive revolution and the key to the evolution to next generation intelligent transportation systems. Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) are emer…

Lorentzian polynomials and matroids over triangular hyperfields 1: Topological aspects
Matthew Baker, June Huh, Mario Kummer, Oliver Lorscheid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02907 h…

Lorentzian polynomials and matroids over triangular hyperfields 1: Topological aspects
Lorentzian polynomials serve as a bridge between continuous and discrete convexity, connecting analysis and combinatorics. In this article, we study the topology of the space $\mathbb{P}\textrm{L}_J$ of Lorentzian polynomials on $J$ modulo $\mathbb{R}_{>0}$, which is nonempty if and only if $J$ is the set of bases of a polymatroid. We prove that $\mathbb{P}\textrm{L}_J$ is a manifold with boundary of dimension equal to the Tutte rank of $J$, and more precisely, that it is homeomorphic to a clos…

Quantum circuit complexity and unsupervised machine learning of topological order
Yanming Che, Clemens Gneiting, Xiaoguang Wang, Franco Nori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04486 htt…

Quantum circuit complexity and unsupervised machine learning of topological order
Inspired by the close relationship between Kolmogorov complexity and unsupervised machine learning, we explore quantum circuit complexity, an important concept in quantum computation and quantum information science, as a pivot to understand and to build interpretable and efficient unsupervised machine learning for topological order in quantum many-body systems. To span a bridge from conceptual power to practical applicability, we present two theorems that connect Nielsen's quantum circuit compl…

A minimization principle behind the diffusion bridge of diurnal fish migration
H. Yoshioka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03824 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0382…

A minimization principle behind the diffusion bridge of diurnal fish migration
Fish migration is a mass movement that affects the hydrosphere and ecosystems. While it occurs on multiple temporal scales, including daily and intraday fluctuations, the latter remains less studied. In this study, for a stochastic differential equation model of the intraday unit-time fish count at a fixed observation point, we demonstrate that the model can be derived from a minimization problem in the form of a stochastic control problem. The control problem assumes the form of the Schröding…

$NavA^3$: Understanding Any Instruction, Navigating Anywhere, Finding Anything
Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Yingbo Tang, Haoxiang Fu, Xinyu Zheng, Pengwei Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Wenbo Ding, Shanghang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04598

$NavA^3$: Understanding Any Instruction, Navigating Anywhere, Finding Anything
Embodied navigation is a fundamental capability of embodied intelligence, enabling robots to move and interact within physical environments. However, existing navigation tasks primarily focus on predefined object navigation or instruction following, which significantly differs from human needs in real-world scenarios involving complex, open-ended scenes. To bridge this gap, we introduce a challenging long-horizon navigation task that requires understanding high-level human instructions and perf…

Exponential convergence rate for Iterative Markovian Fitting
Kirill Sokolov, Alexander Korotin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02770 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Exponential convergence rate for Iterative Markovian Fitting
We consider the discrete-time Schrödinger bridge problem on a finite state space. Although it has been known that the Iterative Markovian Fitting (IMF) algorithm converges in Kullback-Leibler divergence to the ground truth solution, the speed of that convergence remained unquantified. In this work, we establish for the first time that IMF exhibits exponential convergence with an explicit contraction factor.

From TransLink
The Pattullo Bridge will be partially closed to traffic three nights in a row next week so crews can perform scheduled maintenance work.
The bridge will be closed to vehicles travelling southbound into Surrey for three consecutive nights from August 5 to 7 between 9 pm and 5 am.
During these nights equipment will be blocking some lanes of traffic requiring directional closures to vehicles. The bridge will remain open at all times for pedestrians, cyclists, an…

A planned protest across the Sydney Harbour Bridge has gone ahead after it was authorised by the Supreme Court just one day prior, in what organisers called a "historic" decision.
Tens of thousands turned out for the March for Humanity on Sunday despite torrential rain - with many carrying placards with messages to politicians to stop the war.
Tens of thousands turn out for Syndey Pro-Palestine march - BBC News

Tens of thousands turn out for Syndey Pro-Palestine march
The March for Humanity closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge after it was authorised by the Supreme Court hours earlier.

Yesterday I released new versions of https://thi.ng/wasm-api (and its add-on packages), a modular and extensible bridge API & toolchain for hybrid JS/TS/Zig/WebAssembly apps, now updated to be compatible with the latest Zig version 0.15.1...
The update addresses some of Zig's breaking syntax & build …

Generic, modular, extensible API bridge and infrastructure for hybrid JS & WebAssembly projects

in da u.p.

Data-Driven Stochastic Distribution System Hardening Based on Bayesian Online Learning
Wenlong Shi, Hongyi Li, Zhaoyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02485 https://

Data-Driven Stochastic Distribution System Hardening Based on Bayesian Online Learning
Extreme weather frequently cause widespread outages in distribution systems (DSs), demonstrating the importance of hardening strategies for resilience enhancement. However, the well-utilization of real-world outage data with associated weather conditions to make informed hardening decisions in DSs is still an open issue. To bridge this research gap, this paper proposes a data-driven stochastic distribution line (DL) hardening strategy. First, a deep neural network (DNN) regression model is deve…

Bixby Bridge in Big Sur California
-- Today
-- and as rapidly built by the WPA in 1932 (top: August & bottom: October)
-- The canyon at the north end is so steep you can't see the bottom here, but Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a cabin there (where Jack Kerouac stayed in 1961)

Cognitive Effort in the Two-Step Task: An Active Inference Drift-Diffusion Model Approach
Alvaro Garrido Perez, Viktor Lemoine, Amrapali Pednekar, Yara Khaluf, Pieter Simoens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04435

Cognitive Effort in the Two-Step Task: An Active Inference Drift-Diffusion Model Approach
High-level theories rooted in the Bayesian Brain Hypothesis often frame cognitive effort as the cost of resolving the conflict between habits and optimal policies. In parallel, evidence accumulator models (EAMs) provide a mechanistic account of how effort arises from competition between the subjective values of available options. Although EAMs have been combined with frameworks like Reinforcement Learning to bridge the gap between high-level theories and process-level mechanisms, relatively les…

Exact integral formulas for volumes of two-bridge knot cone-manifolds
Anh T. Tran, Nisha Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02095 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

Exact integral formulas for volumes of two-bridge knot cone-manifolds
We provide exact integral formulas for hyperbolic and spherical volumes of cone-manifolds whose underlying space is the $3$-sphere and whose singular set belongs to three infinite families of two-bridge knots: $C(2n,2)$ (twist knots), $C(2n,3)$, and $C(2n,-2n)$ for any non-zero integer $n$. Our formulas express volumes as integrals of explicit rational functions involving Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind, with integration limits determined by roots of algebraic equations. This extends p…

Bayesian Surrogates for Risk-Aware Pre-Assessment of Aging Bridge Portfolios
Sophia V. Kuhn, Rafael Bischof, Marius Weber, Antoine Binggeli, Michael A. Kraus, Walter Kaufmann, Fernando P\'erez-Cruz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25031

Bayesian Surrogates for Risk-Aware Pre-Assessment of Aging Bridge Portfolios
Aging infrastructure portfolios pose a critical resource allocation challenge: deciding which structures require intervention and which can safely remain in service. Structural assessments must balance the trade-off between cheaper, conservative analysis methods and accurate but costly simulations that do not scale portfolio-wide. We propose Bayesian neural network (BNN) surrogates for rapid structural pre-assessment of worldwide common bridge types, such as reinforced concrete frame bridges. T…

Hm...
This seems interesting.
https://codeberg.org/rozodru/Bridge

Bridge
A Privacy focused and Fediverse integrated fork of Firefox

This app for exploring SwiftUI UI elements is adorable!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sixd-swiftui-x-design/id6448773500

‎SixD: SwiftUI x Design
‎SixD (SwiftUI & Interaction Design). Designed and developed by Haolun Yang. Awarded by Apple WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge. SixD creates a bridge between designers and developers. It empowers people to design and prototype with SwiftUI and develop apps with great design. In SixD, you can: • Learn…

VoiceBridge: Designing Latent Bridge Models for General Speech Restoration at Scale
Chi Zhang, Zehua Chen, Kaiwen Zheng, Jun Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25275 https://…

VoiceBridge: Designing Latent Bridge Models for General Speech Restoration at Scale
Bridge models have recently been explored for speech enhancement tasks such as denoising, dereverberation, and super-resolution, while these efforts are typically confined to a single task or small-scale datasets, with constrained general speech restoration (GSR) capability at scale. In this work, we introduce VoiceBridge, a GSR system rooted in latent bridge models (LBMs), capable of reconstructing high-fidelity speech at full-band (\textit{i.e.,} 48~kHz) from various distortions. By compressi…

#marchforhumanity

Bird's eye view of pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

ARMs: Adaptive Red-Teaming Agent against Multimodal Models with Plug-and-Play Attacks
Zhaorun Chen, Xun Liu, Mintong Kang, Jiawei Zhang, Minzhou Pan, Shuang Yang, Bo Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02677

ARMs: Adaptive Red-Teaming Agent against Multimodal Models with Plug-and-Play Attacks
As vision-language models (VLMs) gain prominence, their multimodal interfaces also introduce new safety vulnerabilities, making the safety evaluation challenging and critical. Existing red-teaming efforts are either restricted to a narrow set of adversarial patterns or depend heavily on manual engineering, lacking scalable exploration of emerging real-world VLM vulnerabilities. To bridge this gap, we propose ARMs, an adaptive red-teaming agent that systematically conducts comprehensive risk ass…

Data Humanism Decoded: A Characterization of its Principles to Bridge Data Visualization Researchers and Practitioners
Ibrahim Al-Hazwani, Ke Er Zhang, Laura Garrison, J\"urgen Bernard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00440

Data Humanism Decoded: A Characterization of its Principles to Bridge Data Visualization Researchers and Practitioners
Data Humanism is a human-centered design approach that emphasizes the personal, contextual, and imperfect nature of data. Despite its growing influence among practitioners, the 13 principles outlined in Giorgia Lupi's visual manifesto remain loosely defined in research contexts, creating a gap between design practice and systematic application. Through a mixed-methods approach, including a systematic literature review, multimedia analysis, and expert interviews, we present a characterization of…

Remember my long rant about the network guy that wouldn't carry DMZ and internal VLANs on the same trunk because "Its insecure", so I had to add extra cards to my VM server to offer internal and DMZ servers? I found out today that same person used a desktop with two network cards to bridge a secure and an insecure network. And its been like that for at least a year.
:picardfacepalm:

Coupling Generative Modeling and an Autoencoder with the Causal Bridge
Ruolin Meng, Ming-Yu Chung, Dhanajit Brahma, Ricardo Henao, Lawrence Carin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25599

Coupling Generative Modeling and an Autoencoder with the Causal Bridge
We consider inferring the causal effect of a treatment (intervention) on an outcome of interest in situations where there is potentially an unobserved confounder influencing both the treatment and the outcome. This is achievable by assuming access to two separate sets of control (proxy) measurements associated with treatment and outcomes, which are used to estimate treatment effects through a function termed the em causal bridge (CB). We present a new theoretical perspective, associated assumpt…

My non-exhaustive test of @… triggered through @ap.brid.gy bridge between Bluesky and Fediverse has these results:
Bluesky reply to Fediverse post = no joy

Measuring Physical-World Privacy Awareness of Large Language Models: An Evaluation Benchmark
Xinjie Shen, Mufei Li, Pan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02356 https://

Measuring Physical-World Privacy Awareness of Large Language Models: An Evaluation Benchmark
The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in embodied agents creates an urgent need to measure their privacy awareness in the physical world. Existing evaluation methods, however, are confined to natural language based scenarios. To bridge this gap, we introduce EAPrivacy, a comprehensive evaluation benchmark designed to quantify the physical-world privacy awareness of LLM-powered agents. EAPrivacy utilizes procedurally generated scenarios across four tiers to test an agent's ability to ha…

So they are taking apart the bridge outside my window

SecoustiCodec: Cross-Modal Aligned Streaming Single-Codecbook Speech Codec
Chunyu Qiang, Haoyu Wang, Cheng Gong, Tianrui Wang, Ruibo Fu, Tao Wang, Ruilong Chen, Jiangyan Yi, Zhengqi Wen, Chen Zhang, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang, Jianhua Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02849

SecoustiCodec: Cross-Modal Aligned Streaming Single-Codecbook Speech Codec
Speech codecs serve as a crucial bridge in unifying speech and text language models. Existing codec methods face several challenges in semantic encoding, such as residual paralinguistic information (e.g., timbre, emotion), insufficient semantic completeness, limited reconstruction capability, and lack of support for streaming. To address these challenges, we propose SecoustiCodec, a cross-modal aligned low-bitrate streaming speech codec that disentangles semantic and paralinguistic information …

Failure-Aware Multi-Robot Coordination for Resilient and Adaptive Target Tracking
Peihan Li, Jiazhen Liu, Yuwei Wu, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Vijay Kumar, Lifeng Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02529

Failure-Aware Multi-Robot Coordination for Resilient and Adaptive Target Tracking
Multi-robot coordination is crucial for autonomous systems, yet real-world deployments often encounter various failures. These include both temporary and permanent disruptions in sensing and communication, which can significantly degrade system robustness and performance if not explicitly modeled. Despite its practical importance, failure-aware coordination remains underexplored in the literature. To bridge the gap between idealized conditions and the complexities of real-world environments, we…

Cosmic-Quantum Connections: Assessing the Viability of Weak Gravity and Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjectures in Kerr-Newman-Kiselev-Letelier Black Hole
Saeed Noori Gashti, Behnam Pourhassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01487

Cosmic-Quantum Connections: Assessing the Viability of Weak Gravity and Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjectures in Kerr-Newman-Kiselev-Letelier Black Hole
This paper addresses a potential validation of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) with the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC), as a significant challenge in quantum gravity. We explore the viability of the WGC and WCCC in the context of the Kerr-Newman-Kiselev-Letelier (KNKL) black hole. Although these conjectures appear unrelated, but surprising connection between these conjectures, It establishes a bridge between the quantum and the cosmic. By imposing specific constraints on the black h…

Experimental Investigation of Skew Wind Effects on Vortex-Induced Vibration of Typical Bridge Decks
Guangzhong Gao, Pengwei Zhang, Wenkai Du, Yonghui Xie, Pengjie Ren, Xiaofeng Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01772

Experimental Investigation of Skew Wind Effects on Vortex-Induced Vibration of Typical Bridge Decks
This study explores the skew wind effects on vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of two typical bridge decks-a closed-box girder and a twin-edge girder-through spring-suspended oblique section model tests. Experiments were conducted at various wind yaw angles and angles of attack. Results indicate that VIV amplitudes and lock-in ranges exhibit a clear variation with yaw angles, rendering the Independence Principle (IP) unsuitable for these configurations. A heave-torsion coupling phenomenon was obse…

Hawking tunneling radiation with thermodynamic pressure
Cheng Hu, Xiao-Xiong Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03552 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03552

Hawking tunneling radiation with thermodynamic pressure
Hawking radiation elucidates black holes as quantum thermodynamic systems, thereby establishing a conceptual bridge between general relativity and quantum mechanics through particle emission phenomena. While conventional theoretical frameworks predominantly focus on classical spacetime configurations, recent advancements in Extended Phase Space thermodynamics have redefined cosmological parameters (such as the $Λ$-term) as dynamic variables. Notably, the thermodynamics of Anti-de Sitter (AdS) …

Spontaneous emission as a bridge from Lindbladian to nonreciprocal reservoirs
C. J. Bolech, T. Giamarchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00689 https://arxiv.org…

Spontaneous emission as a bridge from Lindbladian to nonreciprocal reservoirs
We study an out-of-equilibrium quantum system in which a state connecting two reservoirs is also coupled by stimulated and spontaneous emission of photons to an antitrapped state, thus implementing particle loss. After revisiting the spontaneous emission process, we show that the proper effective description of such a system requires one to go beyond the usual Lindbladian formalism and includes a nonreciprocal (``non-Hermitian'') coupling to the reservoir modeling the untrapped state. The prese…

Hubness Reduction with Dual Bank Sinkhorn Normalization for Cross-Modal Retrieval
Zhengxin Pan, Haishuai Wang, Fangyu Wu, Peng Zhang, Jiajun Bu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02538 …

Hubness Reduction with Dual Bank Sinkhorn Normalization for Cross-Modal Retrieval
The past decade has witnessed rapid advancements in cross-modal retrieval, with significant progress made in accurately measuring the similarity between cross-modal pairs. However, the persistent hubness problem, a phenomenon where a small number of targets frequently appear as nearest neighbors to numerous queries, continues to hinder the precision of similarity measurements. Despite several proposed methods to reduce hubness, their underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. To bridge thi…

The Land Bridge
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Geometry 📐
在路上 - 去西安/ 几何 📐
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Data Dependency Inference for Industrial Code Generation Based on UML Sequence Diagrams
Wenxin Mao, Zhitao Wang Long Wang, Sirong Chen, Cuiyun Gao, Luyang Cao, Ziming Liu, Qiming Zhang, Jun Zhou, Zhi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03379

Data Dependency Inference for Industrial Code Generation Based on UML Sequence Diagrams
Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating code from natural language (NL) descriptions. However, the plain textual descriptions are inherently ambiguous and often fail to capture complex requirements like intricate system behaviors, conditional logic, and architectural constraints; implicit data dependencies in service-oriented architectures are difficult to infer and handle correctly. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel step-by-step code generation framework named UML2Dep by leveragi…

@… Sweet. I have a wireless-to-wired bridge I’m not using right now so I think I’ll repurpose it for this. As it’s going to be a server, I don’t need Wi-Fi, or the camera.

Cascade Crack in Chain of Beads
Meysam Bagheri, Thorsten P\"oschel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01288 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01288

Cascade Crack in Chain of Beads
We consider a homogeneous chain of spheres linked by liquid bridges under tension. The rupture of a single liquid bridge leads to a fragmentation cascade driven by the inverse relation between the capillary force and the sphere distances. The initial length of the liquid bridges determines the number and size of the fragments and the velocity of the fragmentation front.

A Parallel Algorithm for Finding Robust Spanners in Large Social Networks
Arindam Khanda, Satyaki Roy, Prithwiraj Roy, Sajal K. Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01485 https://

A Parallel Algorithm for Finding Robust Spanners in Large Social Networks
Social networks, characterized by community structures, often rely on nodes called structural hole spanners to facilitate inter-community information dissemination. However, the dynamic nature of these networks, where spanner nodes may be removed, necessitates resilient methods to maintain inter-community communication. To this end, we introduce robust spanners (RS) as nodes uniquely equipped to bridge communities despite disruptions, such as node or edge removals. We propose a novel scoring te…

BRIDGE - Building Reinforcement-Learning Depth-to-Image Data Generation Engine for Monocular Depth Estimation
Dingning Liu, Haoyu Guo, Jingyi Zhou, Tong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25077

BRIDGE - Building Reinforcement-Learning Depth-to-Image Data Generation Engine for Monocular Depth Estimation
Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a foundational task for computer vision. Traditional methods are limited by data scarcity and quality, hindering their robustness. To overcome this, we propose BRIDGE, an RL-optimized depth-to-image (D2I) generation framework that synthesizes over 20M realistic and geometrically accurate RGB images, each intrinsically paired with its ground truth depth, from diverse source depth maps. Then we train our depth estimation model on this dataset, employing a hybri…

oops, well, too late for the deadcast, but just found the lost spanish bridge to "franklin's tower" among steve brown's papers. robert hunter actually sang this in his semi-lost (& part-improvised) "independence day"; around 1:08 into this '78 version. https://archive…

Bridge Micro-Deformation Monitoring Scheme with Integrated Sensing and Communications
Boxuan Sun, Hongliang Luo, Shaodan Ma, Feifei Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17983 https://…

Bridge Micro-Deformation Monitoring Scheme with Integrated Sensing and Communications
In this paper, we propose a novel integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) scheme to perform bridge micro-deformation monitoring (BMDM) in complex environments. We first provide an excitation-bridge coupling model to represent the micro-deformation process of the bridge. Next, we design a novel frame structure for BMDM applications, and construct the OFDM echo channel model for basic scene of BMDM, including micro-deformation, dynamic objects, and static environment. Then, we develop a phas…

I know many of our systems are breaking down but I asked the City of Wauwatosa about this intersection w/no lights or safe pedestrian/bike crossing. Here's what they said:
"The Wisconsin DOT is planning to raise the Mayfair Road bridge over Menomonee River in the Year 2026. The project will include a bicycle/pedestrian underpass as well as improved lines of sight for the Mayfair & Menomonee River Parkway intersection."
This is great news!

Work Zones challenge VLM Trajectory Planning: Toward Mitigation and Robust Autonomous Driving
Yifan Liao, Zhen Sun, Xiaoyun Qiu, Zixiao Zhao, Wenbing Tang, Xinlei He, Xinhu Zheng, Tianwei Zhang, Xinyi Huang, Xingshuo Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02803

Work Zones challenge VLM Trajectory Planning: Toward Mitigation and Robust Autonomous Driving
Visual Language Models (VLMs), with powerful multimodal reasoning capabilities, are gradually integrated into autonomous driving by several automobile manufacturers to enhance planning capability in challenging environments. However, the trajectory planning capability of VLMs in work zones, which often include irregular layouts, temporary traffic control, and dynamically changing geometric structures, is still unexplored. To bridge this gap, we conduct the \textit{first} systematic study of VLM…

Enhancing interfacial thermal conductance in Si/Diamond heterostructures by phonon bridge
Ershuai Yin, Qiang Li, Wenzhu Luo, Lei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22490 https://…

Enhancing interfacial thermal conductance in Si/Diamond heterostructures by phonon bridge
This study investigates the mechanism of enhancing interfacial thermal transport performance in Silicon/Diamond (Si/Diamond) heterostructures using the phonon bridge. A heat transfer model for three-layer heterostructures is developed by combining First-principles calculations with the Monte Carlo method. The temperature distribution, spectral heat conductance, and interfacial thermal conductance are compared for Si/Diamond heterostructures with and without a silicon carbide (SiC) interlayer. T…

I once again confused a US Customs bridge troll by knowing the declaration form off from memory and clearly having a better grasp on USCBP ag biosecurity requirements than he did. I detest bureaucracy, but as a necessity of my former career, I'm very goddamn fucking good at it.

Viking longship in London! moored "on the north side of the Thames next to London Bridge, will head into St Katherine Docks at 4:30pm [Wed 27 Aug] ... until Sunday... open to visitors."
https://bsky.app/profile/ianvisits.co.uk/post/3lxdhynnzik2d

ianVisits (@ianvisits.co.uk)
The Saga Farmann has moored up on the north side of the Thames next to London Bridge, will head into St Katherine Docks tomorrow at 4:30pm and be there until Sunday, and will be open to visitors.

The bridge index and the braid index for twist positive knots
Keisuke Himeno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23252 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23252

The bridge index and the braid index for twist positive knots
In this paper, we study the relationship between the bridge index and the braid index for twist positive knots. A knot is said to be twist positive if it admits a positive braid representative that contains at least one full twist. Motivated by a conjecture of Krishna and Morton, we investigate this relationship via the knot Floer torsion order. As a consequence, we show that the bridge index and the braid index coincide for all twist positive knots.

This weekend is the last chance to say goodbye to our local West Montrose Covered Bridge ("Kissing Bridge"). The historic 145 year old span of the Grand River is the last remaining original one in #Ontario. It will be replaced over the next 2 years by a rebuilt covered bridge, with hopefully many of the original elements reused.

Origin of gas in the Magellanic Bridge: MeerKAT detection of HI 21-cm absorption
A. P. M. Morelli, J. Kerp, N. Gupta, F. Combes, S. A. Balashev, P. Noterdaeme, H. Chen, K. L. Emig, E. Momjian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21970

Origin of gas in the Magellanic Bridge: MeerKAT detection of HI 21-cm absorption
HI 21-cm absorption lines are investigated to determine the origin of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) of the Magellanic Bridge (MB). Using the MeerKat Absorption Line Survey (MALS) data we report the detection of an HI absorption line at a peak signal-to-noise ratio of 10 caused by MB gas against the radio source J033242.97-724904.5. In combination with earlier data obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) our new detected HI line permits the exploration of the MB atomic hydr…

China set to open world’s tallest bridge, expanding infrastructure push
China will open the world’s tallest bridge this month,
besting its own record with a structure that can fit almost two Eiffel Towers beneath it.

The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwestern Guizhou,
one of China’s poorest provinces,
stands a staggering 2,050 feet above ground,
making it almost twice the height of Paris’s landmark tower.

It stretches 9,481 feet end to end, ac…

China set to open world’s tallest bridge, expanding infrastructure push
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge can fit almost two Eiffel Towers under it and will be touted as evidence of China’s engineering prowess when it opens this month.

Excitonic Energy Transfer in Red Algal Photosystem I Reveals an Evolutionary Bridge between Cyanobacteria and Plants
Mengyuan Cui, Zihui Liu, Miriam Izzo, Junhua Zhou, Enhu He, Vandana Tiwari, Petar H. Lambrev, R. J. Dwayne Miller, Joanna Kargu, Fulu Zheng, Ajay Jha, Hong-GuangDuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24271

Excitonic Energy Transfer in Red Algal Photosystem I Reveals an Evolutionary Bridge between Cyanobacteria and Plants
Photosystem I converts light into chemical energy with near-unity quantum efficiency,yet its energy-transfer and charge-separation mechanisms remain debated. Evolution has diversified PSI architectures. The unicellular red algae Cyanidioschyzon merolae represents a key evolutionary intermediate,featuring a cyanobacterial-like monomeric core surrounded by three to five LHCR subunits. This hybrid organization provides a unique system to bridge mechanistic models across lineages. We applied two-di…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Pete Seeger:
🎵 John Henry
#PeteSeeger
https://peteseeger.bandcamp.com/track/you-can-all-join-in-it-takes-everybody-to-build-this-land-indian-deer-hunting-yankee-doodle-old-chisholm-trail-the-farmer-is-the-man-erie-canal-low-bridge-john-henry
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ujUeX97taQeH1Lb3M9ykD

From MAS to MARS: Coordination Failures and Reasoning Trade-offs in Hierarchical Multi-Agent Robotic Systems within a Healthcare Scenario
Yuanchen Bai, Zijian Ding, Shaoyue Wen, Xiang Chang, Angelique Taylor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04691

From MAS to MARS: Coordination Failures and Reasoning Trade-offs in Hierarchical Multi-Agent Robotic Systems within a Healthcare Scenario
Multi-agent robotic systems (MARS) build upon multi-agent systems by integrating physical and task-related constraints, increasing the complexity of action execution and agent coordination. However, despite the availability of advanced multi-agent frameworks, their real-world deployment on robots remains limited, hindering the advancement of MARS research in practice. To bridge this gap, we conducted two studies to investigate performance trade-offs of hierarchical multi-agent frameworks in a s…

Stripe launches Open Issuance, a stablecoin issuance platform built on Stripe's Bridge, which lets companies create their own stablecoins with minimal coding (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/…

Stripe Unveils Stablecoin Issuance Tool With Phantom's Token, Expands Into AI Commerce with OpenAI
With Open Issuance and AI payment standards, Stripe is doubling down on its bet on the rising role of blockchain and digital agents in payments.

L3Cube-IndicHeadline-ID: A Dataset for Headline Identification and Semantic Evaluation in Low-Resource Indian Languages
Nishant Tanksale, Tanmay Kokate, Darshan Gohad, Sarvadnyaa Barate, Raviraj Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02503

L3Cube-IndicHeadline-ID: A Dataset for Headline Identification and Semantic Evaluation in Low-Resource Indian Languages
Semantic evaluation in low-resource languages remains a major challenge in NLP. While sentence transformers have shown strong performance in high-resource settings, their effectiveness in Indic languages is underexplored due to a lack of high-quality benchmarks. To bridge this gap, we introduce L3Cube-IndicHeadline-ID, a curated headline identification dataset spanning ten low-resource Indic languages: Marathi, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Odia, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu, Bengali and Engli…

On The Road - To Xi’An 🏯
在路上 - 去西安 🏯
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
ZEN: Confirmed. [Oppressive noise. The crew all sink to their knees, hands over ears.]
ZEN: Information. Ship's velocity now in excess of design limitations. Force wall collapse imminent. [Distortion effect. Dayna, Vila, Cally unconcious. Avon struggles towards the seating. Tarrant rouses and crawls towards Avon. Avon removes spacesuit from storage compartment, starts to pull it on.]

Droplet Removal by Capillary Lifting
Ke Sun, Jack R. Panter, Alvin C. M. Shek, Yonas Gizaw, Kislon Vo\"itchovsky, Halim Kusumaatmaja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02481 https:…

Droplet Removal by Capillary Lifting
The removal of liquid droplets from solid surfaces is central to cleaning, coatings and oil recovery. Here we investigate liquid droplets capillary lifted by an immiscible working liquid. The rising working liquid triggers the formation of a capillary bridge between the solid and the air interface, which can lead to full, partial, or no droplet dewetting. Our theoretical model predicts, and experiments confirm, that the effectiveness of droplet removal can be tuned by manipulating the droplet c…

NeuroBridge: Using Generative AI to Bridge Cross-neurotype Communication Differences through Neurotypical Perspective-taking
Rukhshan Haroon, Kyle Wigdor, Katie Yang, Nicole Toumanios, Eileen T. Crehan, Fahad Dogar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23434

NeuroBridge: Using Generative AI to Bridge Cross-neurotype Communication Differences through Neurotypical Perspective-taking
Communication challenges between autistic and neurotypical individuals stem from a mutual lack of understanding of each other's distinct, and often contrasting, communication styles. Yet, autistic individuals are expected to adapt to neurotypical norms, making interactions inauthentic and mentally exhausting for them. To help redress this imbalance, we build NeuroBridge, an online platform that utilizes large language models (LLMs) to simulate: (a) an AI character that is direct and literal, a …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Frank Bridge & Gottlieb Wallisch:
🎵 The Turtle's Retort, H. 147
#FrankBridge #GottliebWallisch
https://open.spotify.com/track/4O1oNxVM1uJrGbk3IujBp2

Trump started the verbal war with Canada shortly after the 2024 election.
He invited Prime Minister Trudeau to dine with him at Mar-a-Lago on November 29.
Trump said then that Canada should be the fifty-first state and that Trudeau should be its governor. (Later, Trump switched to Gretzky.)
“I look forward to seeing the governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on tariffs and trade,” Trump posted on social media.
To this, Trudeau responded:
…

The New Detroit-Windsor Bridge Can’t Repair the Damage Trump Has Done
The opening of the Gordie Howe bridge has been delayed. It’s an apt metaphor for where U.S.-Canada relations have gone under Trump 2.0.

RecBase: Generative Foundation Model Pretraining for Zero-Shot Recommendation
Sashuai Zhou, Weinan Gan, Qijiong Liu, Ke Lei, Jieming Zhu, Hai Huang, Yan Xia, Ruiming Tang, Zhenhua Dong, Zhou Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03131

RecBase: Generative Foundation Model Pretraining for Zero-Shot Recommendation
Recent advances in LLM-based recommendation have shown promise, yet their cross-domain generalization is hindered by a fundamental mismatch between language-centric pretraining and the recommendation task. Existing methods, relying on language-level knowledge, fail to capture dynamic, item-level user interests across domains. To bridge this gap, we propose RecBase, a domain-agnostic foundational model pretrained with a recommendation-oriented objective. RecBase leverages a large-scale, heteroge…

Kauffman bracket polynomials, perfect matchings and cluster variables
Weiqing Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02535 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02535…

Kauffman bracket polynomials, perfect matchings and cluster variables
We introduce a class of links whose bracket polynomials admit an expansion over perfect matchings of a plane bipartite graph. This class includes 2-bridge links, pretzel links, and Montesinos links. Our first main result (Theorem A) provides a partial answer to a question posed by Kauffman concerning the connection between spanning tree expansions of the Jones polynomial and the Clock Theorem. Building on Theorem A, we apply our framework to cluster theory and prove in Theorem B that the bracke…

Faster and Better: Reinforced Collaborative Distillation and Self-Learning for Infrared-Visible Image Fusion
Yuhao Wang, Lingjuan Miao, Zhiqiang Zhou, Yajun Qiao, Lei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02424

Faster and Better: Reinforced Collaborative Distillation and Self-Learning for Infrared-Visible Image Fusion
Infrared and visible image fusion plays a critical role in enhancing scene perception by combining complementary information from different modalities. Despite recent advances, achieving high-quality image fusion with lightweight models remains a significant challenge. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel collaborative distillation and self-learning framework for image fusion driven by reinforcement learning. Unlike conventional distillation, this approach not only enables the student model t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Lonnie Liston Smith:
🎵 Bridge Through Time
#LonnieListonSmith
https://rockyriverabeatrock.bandcamp.com/track/bridge-through-time-lonnie-liston-smith
https://open.spotify.com/track/3WmH2tJbogJcrVSrtdlMPO

Cat-state-like non-Gaussian entanglement in magnon systems
Zeyu Zhang, Clemens Gneiting, Zheng-Yang Zhou, Ai-Xi Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03239 https://

Cat-state-like non-Gaussian entanglement in magnon systems
Magnons can serve as a bridge between spin, phonon, and photon systems, which renders them suitable for constructing hybrid systems. An important application of such hybrid systems is generating entanglement between different platforms. As magnons can support a broad variety of states, e.g., Fock states, squeezed states, or coherent states, and hybrid states can be produced with cavities or spins, there are many different kinds of entangled states in magnon systems. In this paper, we consider t…

GRAM-R$^2$: Self-Training Generative Foundation Reward Models for Reward Reasoning
Chenglong Wang, Yongyu Mu, Hang Zhou, Yifu Huo, Ziming Zhu, Jiali Zeng, Murun Yang, Bei Li, Tong Xiao, Xiaoyang Hao, Chunliang Zhang, Fandong Meng, Jingbo Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02492

GRAM-R$^2$: Self-Training Generative Foundation Reward Models for Reward Reasoning
Significant progress in reward modeling over recent years has been driven by a paradigm shift from task-specific designs towards generalist reward models. Despite this trend, developing effective reward models remains a fundamental challenge: the heavy reliance on large-scale labeled preference data. Pre-training on abundant unlabeled data offers a promising direction, but existing approaches fall short of instilling explicit reasoning into reward models. To bridge this gap, we propose a self-t…

Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI raised a $125M Series C bridge round from Korea Development Bank, Industrial Bank of Korea, and others at a $735M valuation (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: Check the outer hatch in case someone decides to try and join us.
RAIKER: I want a boarding crew kitted out and ready to follow me over.
[Technician nods.]
[Switch to Blake, trying to push/pull the hatch closed.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/651

The Incomplete Bridge: How AI Research (Mis)Engages with Psychology
Han Jiang, Pengda Wang, Xiaoyuan Yi, Xing Xie, Ziang Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22847 https://

The Incomplete Bridge: How AI Research (Mis)Engages with Psychology
Social sciences have accumulated a rich body of theories and methodologies for investigating the human mind and behaviors, while offering valuable insights into the design and understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Focusing on psychology as a prominent case, this study explores the interdisciplinary synergy between AI and the field by analyzing 1,006 LLM-related papers published in premier AI venues between 2023 and 2025, along with the 2,544 psychology publications they cite. T…

Omnidirectional Spatial Modeling from Correlated Panoramas
Xinshen Zhang, Tongxi Fu, Xu Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02164 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0…

Omnidirectional Spatial Modeling from Correlated Panoramas
Omnidirectional scene understanding is vital for various downstream applications, such as embodied AI, autonomous driving, and immersive environments, yet remains challenging due to geometric distortion and complex spatial relations in 360° imagery. Existing omnidirectional methods achieve scene understanding within a single frame while neglecting cross-frame correlated panoramas. To bridge this gap, we introduce \textbf{CFpano}, the \textbf{first} benchmark dataset dedicated to cross-frame co…

Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming rights group
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-28/isolated-amazon-tribe-seen-near-logging-bridge-site-alarming-rights-group

Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming watchdog
Members of Peru’s Mashco Piro tribe have been seen entering another Indigenous groups village in the Amazon as a logging company operates heavy equipment near their territory, according to an Indigenous group

A Context-Aware Dual-Metric Framework for Confidence Estimation in Large Language Models
Mingruo Yuan, Shuyi Zhang, Ben Kao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00600 https://

A Context-Aware Dual-Metric Framework for Confidence Estimation in Large Language Models
Accurate confidence estimation is essential for trustworthy large language models (LLMs) systems, as it empowers the user to determine when to trust outputs and enables reliable deployment in safety-critical applications. Current confidence estimation methods for LLMs neglect the relevance between responses and contextual information, a crucial factor in output quality evaluation, particularly in scenarios where background knowledge is provided. To bridge this gap, we propose CRUX (Context-awar…

BridgeShield: Enhancing Security for Cross-chain Bridge Applications via Heterogeneous Graph Mining
Dan Lin, Shunfeng Lu, Ziyan Liu, Jiajing Wu, Junyuan Fang, Kaixin Lin, Bowen Song, Zibin Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20517

BridgeShield: Enhancing Security for Cross-chain Bridge Applications via Heterogeneous Graph Mining
Cross-chain bridges play a vital role in enabling blockchain interoperability. However, due to the inherent design flaws and the enormous value they hold, they have become prime targets for hacker attacks. Existing detection methods show progress yet remain limited, as they mainly address single-chain behaviors and fail to capture cross-chain semantics. To address this gap, we leverage heterogeneous graph attention networks, which are well-suited for modeling multi-typed entities and relations,…

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
AVON: [Moves next to Tarrant at Main pilot's console] Anything on the star charts?
TARRANT: Not within this quadrant. Nothing listed, not even a Federation beacon.
AVON: It couldn't be that?
TARRANT: Why not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/6

D3: Training-Free AI-Generated Video Detection Using Second-Order Features
Chende Zheng, Ruiqi suo, Chenhao Lin, Zhengyu Zhao, Le Yang, Shuai Liu, Minghui Yang, Cong Wang, Chao Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00701

D3: Training-Free AI-Generated Video Detection Using Second-Order Features
The evolution of video generation techniques, such as Sora, has made it increasingly easy to produce high-fidelity AI-generated videos, raising public concern over the dissemination of synthetic content. However, existing detection methodologies remain limited by their insufficient exploration of temporal artifacts in synthetic videos. To bridge this gap, we establish a theoretical framework through second-order dynamical analysis under Newtonian mechanics, subsequently extending the Second-ord…

Out-of-time-order correlators bridge classical transport and quantum dynamics
Sophia N. Fricke, Haiyan Mao, Manas Sajjan, Ashok Ajoy, Velencia Witherspoon, Sabre Kais, Jeffrey A. Reimer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20235

Out-of-time-order correlators bridge classical transport and quantum dynamics
The out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) has emerged as a central tool for quantifying decoherence across wide-ranging physical platforms. Here we demonstrate its direct measurement in a classical ensemble using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with a modulated gradient spin echo (MGSE) sequence and extend the method into a multidimensional correlation to track exchange phenomena. Position is encoded through magnetic field gradients and momentum through the velocity autocorrelation function, ena…

Incorporating Pre-trained Diffusion Models in Solving the Schr\"odinger Bridge Problem
Zhicong Tang, Tiankai Hang, Shuyang Gu, Dong Chen, Baining Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18095

Incorporating Pre-trained Diffusion Models in Solving the Schrödinger Bridge Problem
This paper aims to unify Score-based Generative Models (SGMs), also known as Diffusion models, and the Schrödinger Bridge (SB) problem through three reparameterization techniques: Iterative Proportional Mean-Matching (IPMM), Iterative Proportional Terminus-Matching (IPTM), and Iterative Proportional Flow-Matching (IPFM). These techniques significantly accelerate and stabilize the training of SB-based models. Furthermore, the paper introduces novel initialization strategies that use pre-trained…

Generalized Parallel Scaling with Interdependent Generations
Harry Dong, David Brandfonbrener, Eryk Helenowski, Yun He, Mrinal Kumar, Han Fang, Yuejie Chi, Karthik Abinav Sankararaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01143

Generalized Parallel Scaling with Interdependent Generations
Parallel LLM inference scaling involves sampling a set of $N>1$ responses for a single input prompt. However, these $N$ parallel responses tend to be generated independently from each other, partitioning compute resources and leaving potentially useful information in one generation untapped by others. This is in contrast to response length scaling where past computation is used in all future steps. For higher quality responses and response sets, we propose Bridge to generate interdependent resp…

Security Tensors as a Cross-Modal Bridge: Extending Text-Aligned Safety to Vision in LVLM
Shen Li, Liuyi Yao, Wujia Niu, Lan Zhang, Yaliang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20994 h…

Security Tensors as a Cross-Modal Bridge: Extending Text-Aligned Safety to Vision in LVLM
Large visual-language models (LVLMs) integrate aligned large language models (LLMs) with visual modules to process multimodal inputs. However, the safety mechanisms developed for text-based LLMs do not naturally extend to visual modalities, leaving LVLMs vulnerable to harmful image inputs. To address this cross-modal safety gap, we introduce security tensors - trainable input vectors applied during inference through either the textual or visual modality. These tensors transfer textual safety al…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[4/4]:
- SeMoBridge: Semantic Modality Bridge for Efficient Few-Shot Adaptation of CLIP
Christoph Timmermann, Hyunse Lee, Woojin Lee