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My slides on The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums #DH2025 panel on Openness in GLAM: Analysing, Reflecting, and D…

Prediction is not Explanation: Revisiting the Explanatory Capacity of Mapping Embeddings
Hanna Herasimchyk, Alhassan Abdelhalim, S\"oren Laue, Michaela Regneri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13729

Prediction is not Explanation: Revisiting the Explanatory Capacity of Mapping Embeddings
Understanding what knowledge is implicitly encoded in deep learning models is essential for improving the interpretability of AI systems. This paper examines common methods to explain the knowledge encoded in word embeddings, which are core elements of large language models (LLMs). These methods typically involve mapping embeddings onto collections of human-interpretable semantic features, known as feature norms. Prior work assumes that accurately predicting these semantic features from the wor…

DIT: Dimension Reduction View on Optimal NFT Rarity Meters
Dmitry Belousov, Yury Yanovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12671 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12671…

DIT: Dimension Reduction View on Optimal NFT Rarity Meters
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have become a significant digital asset class, each uniquely representing virtual entities such as artworks. These tokens are stored in collections within smart contracts and are actively traded across platforms on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana blockchains. The value of NFTs is closely tied to their distinctive characteristics that define rarity, leading to a growing interest in quantifying rarity within both industry and academia. While there are existing rarity mete…

Ontology-Guided Query Expansion for Biomedical Document Retrieval using Large Language Models
Zabir Al Nazi, Vagelis Hristidis, Aaron Lawson McLean, Jannat Ara Meem, Md Taukir Azam Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11784

Ontology-Guided Query Expansion for Biomedical Document Retrieval using Large Language Models
Effective Question Answering (QA) on large biomedical document collections requires effective document retrieval techniques. The latter remains a challenging task due to the domain-specific vocabulary and semantic ambiguity in user queries. We propose BMQExpander, a novel ontology-aware query expansion pipeline that combines medical knowledge - definitions and relationships - from the UMLS Metathesaurus with the generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to enhance retrieval effect…

:heart_trans: I just ordered a #TransFlag! :heart_trans:
https://butikk.oslopride.no/collections/alle-balkongflagg/products/balkongflagg-trans…

I wish that the flooding/drought situation could be communicated in a way similar to the UKHSA dashboard.
Defra-adjacent stuff tends to have either light information, or a level of detail that's too much for non-professionals.
I just want to see a map with regions coloured to show they're having problems, and maybe year-long time-series graphs that simply convey when a region has too much, or too little, water.

Water situation reports for England
Monthly water situation reports and weekly rainfall and river flow reports.

"The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) offers the opportunity for graduate students, predoctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and senior researchers to conduct independent research related to Smithsonian collections, facilities, and/or research interests of the Institution and its staff."
Due date Oct 15, 2025.

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications
David J. Moore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12683 https://

A Taxonomy of Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems: Design Patterns, Coordination Mechanisms, and Industrial Applications
Hierarchical multi-agent systems (HMAS) organize collections of agents into layered structures that help manage complexity and scale. These hierarchies can simplify coordination, but they also can introduce trade-offs that are not always obvious. This paper proposes a multi-dimensional taxonomy for HMAS along five axes: control hierarchy, information flow, role and task delegation, temporal layering, and communication structure. The intent is not to prescribe a single "best" design but to provi…

ScaleDoc: Scaling LLM-based Predicates over Large Document Collections
Hengrui Zhang, Yulong Hui, Yihao Liu, Huanchen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12610 https://

ScaleDoc: Scaling LLM-based Predicates over Large Document Collections
Predicates are foundational components in data analysis systems. However, modern workloads increasingly involve unstructured documents, which demands semantic understanding, beyond traditional value-based predicates. Given enormous documents and ad-hoc queries, while Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate powerful zero-shot capabilities, their high inference cost leads to unacceptable overhead. Therefore, we introduce \textsc{ScaleDoc}, a novel system that addresses this by decoupling predica…

"In a Tough Environment, How Should We Make—and Communicate—Collections Decisions?"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2025/how-should-we-communicate-collections-decisions
&quot…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://

White House officials said they would review the Smithsonian’s exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning and collections,
starting with eight museums
“The Smithsonian’s work is grounded in a deep commitment to scholarly excellence, rigorous research, and the accurate, factual presentation of history,”
a Smithsonian spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
“We are reviewing the letter with this commitment in mind and will continue to collaborate constr…

White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums
In a letter to the Smithsonian’s leader, White House officials said they would review exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning and collections starting with eight museums.

I am a responsible person and can be trusted with decorating a house.
:netkitty: https://www.everwallpaper.co.uk/collections/cat-wallpaper
:blobcatcool: 

Cat Mural Wallpaper for Room

#DH2025 Listening to Victoria and Thea on 'Building a FAIR data future at the Journal of Open Humanities' - I'm hoping you'll see a lot more British Library data papers over time, as along with datasheets for datasets it's a big part of making our open collections findable and usable

Overview of the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
Dawn Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14355 h…

Overview of the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
The principal goal of the TREC Neural Cross-Language Information Retrieval (NeuCLIR) track is to study the effect of neural approaches on cross-language information access. The track has created test collections containing Chinese, Persian, and Russian news stories and Chinese academic abstracts. NeuCLIR includes four task types: Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) from news, Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR) from news, Report Generation from news, and CLIR from technical docume…

US customs duties top $100 billion for first time in a fiscal year (David Lawder/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/trumps-tariff-collections-expected-grow-june-us-budget-data-2025-07-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p103#a250711p103

Nicht die Leute, von denen ich guten Wein erwartet hätte, aber dieser 0,0% Riesling war heute Abend - sommerlich warm - genau der richtige. Starke Säure und voll genug im Geschmack. #alkoholfrei 😊 von Joko Winterscheidt und Matthias Schweighöfer.

III FREUNDE Riesling Null

Absolutely no reason at all why we should be looking at this book right now. Pure coincidence.
https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-08-11/george-orwell-1984-manuscript

Minimal balanced collections and their applications to core stability and other topics of game theory
Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Michel Grabisch, Peter Sudh\"olter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05898

Minimal balanced collections and their applications to core stability and other topics of game theory
Minimal balanced collections are a generalization of partitions of a finite set of n elements and have important applications in cooperative game theory and discrete mathematics. However, their number is not known beyond n = 4. In this paper we investigate the problem of generating minimal balanced collections and implement the Peleg algorithm, permitting to generate all minimal balanced collections till n = 7. Secondly, we provide practical algorithms to check many properties of coalitions and…

Libraries - Punk as Fuck!
"This digital collection offers 2,091 images of punk flyers held by Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections."
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/punkflyers

Taming Uncertainty via Automation: Observing, Analyzing, and Optimizing Agentic AI Systems
Dany Moshkovich, Sergey Zeltyn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11277 …

Taming Uncertainty via Automation: Observing, Analyzing, and Optimizing Agentic AI Systems
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed within agentic systems-collections of interacting, LLM-powered agents that execute complex, adaptive workflows using memory, tools, and dynamic planning. While enabling powerful new capabilities, these systems also introduce unique forms of uncertainty stemming from probabilistic reasoning, evolving memory states, and fluid execution paths. Traditional software observability and operations practices fall short in addressing these challenges…

Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections
Ying-Hsiang Huang, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961 …

Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections
We present Digital Collections Explorer, a web-based, open-source exploratory search platform that leverages CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) for enhanced visual discovery of digital collections. Our Digital Collections Explorer can be installed locally and configured to run on a visual collection of interest on disk in just a few steps. Building upon recent advances in multimodal search techniques, our interface enables natural language queries and reverse image searches over dig…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 67963 nodes and 3710420 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://…

from my link log —
Type inference zoo.
https://zoo.cuichen.cc/research
saved 2025-06-18 https://dotat.at/:/QG9V1.html

ArchiveGPT: A human-centered evaluation of using a vision language model for image cataloguing
Line Abele, Gerrit Anders, Tolgahan Ayd{\i}n, J\"urgen Buder, Helen Fischer, Dominik Kimmel, Markus Huff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07551

ArchiveGPT: A human-centered evaluation of using a vision language model for image cataloguing
The accelerating growth of photographic collections has outpaced manual cataloguing, motivating the use of vision language models (VLMs) to automate metadata generation. This study examines whether Al-generated catalogue descriptions can approximate human-written quality and how generative Al might integrate into cataloguing workflows in archival and museum collections. A VLM (InternVL2) generated catalogue descriptions for photographic prints on labelled cardboard mounts with archaeological co…

Our slides for 'The Universal Viewer: radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage' for #DH2025 are available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16040930

Rigid Spheres Rising at Constant Speed Through Collections of Hydrogels
Tom Mullin, Tommaso Pettinari, Joshua A. Dijksman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03964 …

Rigid Spheres Rising at Constant Speed Through Collections of Hydrogels
We present the results of an experimental investigation into buoyant rigid spheres rising through concentrated collections of hydrated hydrogel particles. The volume fraction of particles is such that the mechanical properties of the material are intermediate between a very viscous fluid and a soft solid. Despite the non-Newtonian character of these hydrogels, we find that when the surface of the material is free, an immersed buoyant sphere rises with a constant speed. The effects of the motion…

AI is flooding libraries with generated content just as budgets and staff are at their most precarious. This Thursday at 10am EDT my ASIS&T webinar asks if we need to ban it, label it, absorb it—or rethink the library itself.
https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/webi

This is pretty awesome, well done #Pembrokeshire CC!
Small electrical items now accepted in kerbside #recycling collections
https://newsroom.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/news/small-electrical-items-now-accepted-in-kerbside-recycling-collections

Domainnamen wie beim Friseur:
RosDok bei Uni Rostock
https://rosdok.uni-rostock.de/

Just made a back to school collection on my Threadless store to suggest stuff I think people should get for the students in their lives, or themselves. So basically some shameless self promotion.
Enjoy: https://davidaugust.threadless.com/collections/back-to-school…

Shop the Back to School Collection on David August's Artist Shop | Featuring custom t-shirts, prints, and more
Whether you're heading to class, or just want to learn stuff this year, here's some inspiration by me.

A marking graph for finite-type Artin groups
Kaitlin Ragosta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10394 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10394

A marking graph for finite-type Artin groups
Clean markings on surfaces were a key component in Masur and Minsky's hierarchy machinery, which proved to be a powerful tool in the study of mapping class groups. We construct a marking graph for irreducible finite-type Artin groups which is quasi-isometric to the group modulo its center, i.e., an element of $A_Γ/Z(A_Γ)$ is determined up to finite error by its action on one of our markings. To construct this graph, we construct suitable collections of transverse parabolic subgroups which ext…

For anyone who wants to self-host their catalog of book video game or movie collections, Koillection is a good open-source option.
It can also be installed using Docker, which can speed up the setup process.
I've only been using this tool for a couple of days, and it looks promising. The only thing that doesn't seem very intuitive at the moment is the scraping system, although its developer has commented on GitHub that they are working on it.

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs - Open for research #dataset - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-data.html

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs
Open for research #dataset

AmpliconHunter: A Scalable Tool for PCR Amplicon Prediction from Microbiome Samples
Rye Howard-Stone, Ion Mandiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13300 https://…

AmpliconHunter: A Scalable Tool for PCR Amplicon Prediction from Microbiome Samples
Sequencing of PCR amplicons generated using degenerate primers (typically targeting a region of the 16S ribosomal gene) is widely used in metagenomics to profile the taxonomic composition of complex microbial samples. To reduce taxonomic biases in primer selection it is important to conduct in silico PCR analyses of the primers against large collections of up to millions of bacterial genomes. However, existing in silico PCR tools have impractical running time for analyses of this scale. In this…

Witzig/Kreyenbühl: Datenexport (Metadaten und Quellen) direkt aus Recherchen in swiss collections sehr anschaulich präsentiert. Danke für den Einblick! #bibliocon25
Edit: natürlich Swiss collections, nicht swissbib sorry

Additive systems for $\mathbb{Z}$ are undecidable
Andrei Zabolotskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17285 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17285

Additive systems for $\mathbb{Z}$ are undecidable
What are the collections of sets ${A}_i\subset\mathbb{Z}$ such that any $n\in\mathbb{Z}$ has exactly one representation as $n=a_0+a_1+\dotsb$ with $a_i\in{A}_i$? The answer for $\mathbb{N}_0$ instead of $\mathbb{Z}$ is given by a theorem of de Bruijn. We describe a family of natural candidate collections for $\mathbb{Z}$, which we call canonical collections. Translating the problem into the language of dynamical systems, we show that the question of whether the sumset of a canonical collection …

Proof-theoretic Semantics for Second-order Logic
Alexander V. Gheorghiu, David J. Pym
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07786 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07786

Proof-theoretic Semantics for Second-order Logic
We develop a proof-theoretic semantics (P-tS) for second-order logic (S-oL), providing an inferentialist alternative to both full and Henkin model-theoretic interpretations. Our approach is grounded in base-extension semantics (B-eS), a framework in which meaning is determined by inferential roles relative to atomic systems -- collections of rules that encode an agent's pre-logical inferential commitments. We show how both classical and intuitionistic versions of S-oL emerge from this set-up by…

"Draw me a curator" Examining the visual stereotyping of a cultural services profession by generative AI
Dirk HR Spennemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07132 https://…

"Draw me a curator" Examining the visual stereotyping of a cultural services profession by generative AI
Based on 230 visualisations, this paper examines the depiction of museum curators by the popular generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, ChatGPT4o. While the AI-generated representations do not reiterate popular stereotypes of curators as nerdy, conservative in dress and stuck in time rummaging through collections, they contrast sharply with real-world demographics. AI-generated imagery extremely underrepresents women (3.5% vs 49% to 72% in reality) and disregards ethnic communities othe…

Interesting early version release of iconclass-vlm, a specialised small vision language model that automatically generates ICONCLASS metadata for cultural heritage collections by Daniel van Strien
iconclass-vlm: https://huggingface.co/davanstrien/iconclass-vlm
model evaluatio…

Generating systems, generalized Thomsen collections and derived categories of toric varieties
Xiaodong Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23531 https://

Generating systems, generalized Thomsen collections and derived categories of toric varieties
Bondal claims that for a smooth toric variety $X$, its bounded derived category of coherent sheaves $D_{c}^{b}(X)$ is generated by the Thomsen collection $T(X)$ of line bundles obtained as direct summands of the pushforward of $\mathcal{O}_{X}$ along a Frobenius map with sufficiently divisible degree. The claim is confirmed recently. In this article, we consider a generalized Thomsen collection of line bundles $T(X,D)$ with a $\mathbb{Q}$-divisor $D$ as an auxiliary input, and we prove $T(X,D)$…

What's in the Box: Ergonomic and Expressive Capture Tracking over Generic Data Structures (Extended Version)
Yichen Xu, Oliver Bra\v{c}evac, Cao Nguyen Pham, Martin Odersky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07609

What's in the Box: Ergonomic and Expressive Capture Tracking over Generic Data Structures (Extended Version)
Capturing types in Scala unify static effect and resource tracking with object capabilities, enabling lightweight effect polymorphism with minimal notational overhead. However, their expressiveness has been insufficient for tracking capabilities embedded in generic data structures, preventing them from scaling to the standard collections library -- an essential prerequisite for broader adoption. This limitation stems from the inability to name capabilities within the system's notion of box type…

@… @… unbelievable. It can't be so ancient.
I'm here to tell you that it's unmistakbly the face of the late, great Joyce Grenfell.
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"Maryland House of Delegates Majority Leader David Moon (D) told host Alicia Menendez that two bills he's introduced would enable his state to begin withholding state funds meant for the federal government. Moon defended the bills as necessary due to the Trump administration's recent announcement withholding $7 billion from K-12 schools across the country."
'Act like a collections agency': Democrat reveals blue states' secret weapon against Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/blue-states-trump/

Why oh why am I trawling through massive archival collections when I could just do a close reading or two?

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CE/new
[1/1]:
- Mining Intraday Risk Factor Collections via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning based on Transfer...
Wenyan Xu, Jiayu Chen, Dawei Xiang, Chen Li, Yonghong Hu, Zhonghua Lu

Semantic-Augmented Latent Topic Modeling with LLM-in-the-Loop
Mengze Hong, Chen Jason Zhang, Di Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08498 https://

Semantic-Augmented Latent Topic Modeling with LLM-in-the-Loop
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a prominent generative probabilistic model used for uncovering abstract topics within document collections. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of augmenting topic models with Large Language Models (LLMs) through integration into two key phases: Initialization and Post-Correction. Since the LDA is highly dependent on the quality of its initialization, we conduct extensive experiments on the LLM-guided topic clustering for initializing the Gibbs sampl…

Gentle Object Retraction in Dense Clutter Using Multimodal Force Sensing and Imitation Learning
Dane Brouwer, Joshua Citron, Heather Nolte, Jeannette Bohg, Mark Cutkosky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19476

Gentle Object Retraction in Dense Clutter Using Multimodal Force Sensing and Imitation Learning
Dense collections of movable objects are common in everyday spaces -- from cabinets in a home to shelves in a warehouse. Safely retracting objects from such collections is difficult for robots, yet people do it easily, using non-prehensile tactile sensing on the sides and backs of their hands and arms. We investigate the role of such sensing for training robots to gently reach into constrained clutter and extract objects. The available sensing modalities are (1) "eye-in-hand" vision, (2) propri…

I saw that @… is trying to sell off the last of their stuff on https://store.thatconference.com/collections/that-closeout/ before shutting down. I wish I could find something that fits. Clark did something amazing with that conference and I want to help.

Joint reductions and mixed Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicities of modules and a joint-reduction-number-zero theorem
Daniel Katz, Vijay Kodiyalam, J. K. Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07437

Joint reductions and mixed Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicities of modules and a joint-reduction-number-zero theorem
We offer new definitions of joint reductions and mixed Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicity for certain collections of modules over a Noetherian local ring and illustrate their application to give two different proofs of a joint-reduction-number-zero theorem for integrally closed modules over two-dimensional regular local rings. We also relate the mixed Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicity of modules to the Euler-Poincaré characteristic of a natural Koszul complex and relate it to the mixed Buchsbaum-Rim multipli…

almost impressive that this detailed 1960 map of greenwich village is missing virtually all of the jazz/folk clubs, but still awed by the departed book row on 4th ave. https://mastodon.social/@nypl/115116897220367127

New York (from NYPL Archives) (@nypl@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images Map of the Greenwich Village section of New York City. (New York City, New York) From Digital Collections of New York Public Library http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b877700d-5db1-1490-e040-e00a1806637d #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography

Personalized Recommendation of Dish and Restaurant Collections on iFood
Fernando F. Granado, Davi A. Bezerra, Iuri Queiroz, Nathan Oliveira, Pedro Fernandes, Bruno Schock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03670

Personalized Recommendation of Dish and Restaurant Collections on iFood
Food delivery platforms face the challenge of helping users navigate vast catalogs of restaurants and dishes to find meals they truly enjoy. This paper presents RED, an automated recommendation system designed for iFood, Latin America's largest on-demand food delivery platform, to personalize the selection of curated food collections displayed to millions of users. Our approach employs a LightGBM classifier that scores collections based on three feature groups: collection characteristics, user-…

Very cool looking company! Gorgeous microphones, audio geekery. Glad to have them on my radar 🧐 https://musicians.today/@arendleejessurun/114792116804285326

Point3R: Streaming 3D Reconstruction with Explicit Spatial Pointer Memory
Yuqi Wu, Wenzhao Zheng, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02863 https…

Point3R: Streaming 3D Reconstruction with Explicit Spatial Pointer Memory
Dense 3D scene reconstruction from an ordered sequence or unordered image collections is a critical step when bringing research in computer vision into practical scenarios. Following the paradigm introduced by DUSt3R, which unifies an image pair densely into a shared coordinate system, subsequent methods maintain an implicit memory to achieve dense 3D reconstruction from more images. However, such implicit memory is limited in capacity and may suffer from information loss of earlier frames. We …

"Vape waste: Recycling giants call for separate collections to stop battery fires"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Recycling #Batteries

Replaced article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- HINTs: Sensemaking on large collections of documents with Hypergraph visualization and INTelligen...
Sam Yu-Te Lee, Kwan-Liu Ma

“a Roman mosaic (first century BCE) from Pompeii, now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, showing the wheel of fate which oscillates between wealth and poverty (represented by the cloth suspended on either side). The skull in the center on which the scales balance is a reminder that death in this balance is universal and never far off.” Via

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 402660 nodes and 69679427 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://

Of the top 20 UK albums right now, 11 are "best of", collections or re-masters. If you need any evidence of the state that the music sector is in right now, here it is. The algorithm is only making money for the incumbents.

Taking Language Embedded 3D Gaussian Splatting into the Wild
Yuze Wang, Yue Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19830 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19830

Taking Language Embedded 3D Gaussian Splatting into the Wild
Recent advances in leveraging large-scale Internet photo collections for 3D reconstruction have enabled immersive virtual exploration of landmarks and historic sites worldwide. However, little attention has been given to the immersive understanding of architectural styles and structural knowledge, which remains largely confined to browsing static text-image pairs. Therefore, can we draw inspiration from 3D in-the-wild reconstruction techniques and use unconstrained photo collections to create a…

Mastodon UK #GLAM hive mind:
Do non-museum collections need some sort of #Ivory register?
Not selling, advertising, etc. just checking about necessary due diligence and documentation for items with historic provenance later than 1918.
I've checked the UK government website and I…

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track
Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz, Daniel Campos, Jimmy Lin, Ellen M. Voorhees, Ian Soboroff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10865

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track
This is the fourth year of the TREC Deep Learning track. As in previous years, we leverage the MS MARCO datasets that made hundreds of thousands of human annotated training labels available for both passage and document ranking tasks. In addition, this year we also leverage both the refreshed passage and document collections that were released last year leading to a nearly $16$ times increase in the size of the passage collection and nearly four times increase in the document collection size. U…

Spirits in the Stacks: A Ghostly Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives
https://ift.tt/Hqa35Ut
Conference> Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: From Three Treatises to Five Schools, 7-8 August 2025,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Fast Collection Operations from Indexed Stream Fusion
Scott Kovach, Praneeth Kolichala, Kyle A. Miller, David Broman, Fredrik Kjolstad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06456

Fast Collection Operations from Indexed Stream Fusion
We present a system of efficient methods for traversing and combining associative collection data structures. A distinguishing feature of the system is that, like traditional sequential iterator libraries, it does not require specialized compiler infrastructure or staged compilation for efficiency and composability. By using a representation based on indexed streams, the library can express complex joins over input collections while using no intermediate allocations. We implement the library fo…

Extension Monads: Some Structure Theorems
Danielle Bowerman, Matt Insall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05828 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05828

Extension Monads: Some Structure Theorems
We investigate the behavior of extension monads, introduced in the 1990s by the second author, in terms of structure results for infinitely many finitary operations and common constructions in varieties or categories of algebras. Specifically, we see that for finite collections of algebras of the same signature there the extension monad operation commutes with the direct product operation, and that the only retractions from an enlargement or extension monad are trivial.

TableVault: Managing Dynamic Data Collections for LLM-Augmented Workflows
Jinjin Zhao, Sanjay Krishnan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18257 https://

TableVault: Managing Dynamic Data Collections for LLM-Augmented Workflows
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for automating and executing complex data tasks. However, their integration into more complex data workflows introduces significant management challenges. In response, we present TableVault - a data management system designed to handle dynamic data collections in LLM-augmented environments. TableVault meets the demands of these workflows by supporting concurrent execution, ensuring reproducibility, maintaining robust data versioning, a…

@… https://www.bejaardecomputers.nl/index-en.html is 404 , it's linked into your other collections page

Eddy #Merckx ;-)
Ferrovelo Cycle Works. Vintage and Classic bicycle projects. Builds | Restorations | Collections.
#colnago #ferrovelocycleworks

Confidence sequences with informative, bounded-influence priors
Stefano Cortinovis, Valentin Kilian, Fran\c{c}ois Caron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22925 ht…

Confidence sequences with informative, bounded-influence priors
Confidence sequences are collections of confidence regions that simultaneously cover the true parameter for every sample size at a prescribed confidence level. Tightening these sequences is of practical interest and can be achieved by incorporating prior information through the method of mixture martingales. However, confidence sequences built from informative priors are vulnerable to misspecification and may become vacuous when the prior is poorly chosen. We study this trade-off for Gaussian o…

Geometric Algebras and Fermion Quantum Field Theory
Stan Gudder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20394 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20394

Geometric Algebras and Fermion Quantum Field Theory
Corresponding to a finite dimensional Hilbert space $H$ with $\dim H=n$, we define a geometric algebra $\gscript (H)$ with $\dim\sqbrac{\gscript (H)}=2^n$. The algebra $\gscript (H)$ is a Hilbert space that contains $H$ as a subspace. We interpret the unit vectors of $H$ as states of individual fermions of the same type and $\gscript (H)$ as a fermion quantum field whose unit vectors represent states of collections of interacting fermions. We discuss creation operators on $\gscript (H)$ and pro…

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Journeys In Film (@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social)
Angehängt: 1 Bild Announcing the new Journeys in Film website! We rebuilt it from the ground up to make it easier for you to find what you need and download what you want. - 1-click downloads: no login or checkout required! - Growing collection of single-lesson downloads. - Library sortable by elementary, middle school, high school, higher ed/adult ed and lesson collections. - Filters to search materials by subject, grade, resource type and theme. - Filters to search films by rating and run…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CG/new
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- Unbent Collections of Orthogonal Drawings
Anti\'c, Liotta, Masa\v{r}\'ik, Ortali, Pfretzschner, Stumpf, Wolff, Zink

Do Large Language Models Favor Recent Content? A Study on Recency Bias in LLM-Based Reranking
Hanpei Fang, Sijie Tao, Nuo Chen, Kai-Xin Chang, Tetsuya Sakai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11353

Do Large Language Models Favor Recent Content? A Study on Recency Bias in LLM-Based Reranking
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in information systems, including being used as second-stage rerankers in information retrieval pipelines, yet their susceptibility to recency bias has received little attention. We investigate whether LLMs implicitly favour newer documents by prepending artificial publication dates to passages in the TREC Deep Learning passage retrieval collections in 2021 (DL21) and 2022 (DL22). Across seven models, GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT-4o, GPT-4, LLaMA-3 8…

The Financial Connectome: A Brain-Inspired Framework for Modeling Latent Market Dynamics
Yuda Bi, Vince D Calhoun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02012 https://…

Cross-Dataset Semantic Segmentation Performance Analysis: Unifying NIST Point Cloud City Datasets for 3D Deep Learning
Alexander Nikitas Dimopoulos, Joseph Grasso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00822

Cross-Dataset Semantic Segmentation Performance Analysis: Unifying NIST Point Cloud City Datasets for 3D Deep Learning
This study analyzes semantic segmentation performance across heterogeneously labeled point-cloud datasets relevant to public safety applications, including pre-incident planning systems derived from lidar scans. Using NIST's Point Cloud City dataset (Enfield and Memphis collections), we investigate challenges in unifying differently labeled 3D data. Our methodology employs a graded schema with the KPConv architecture, evaluating performance through IoU metrics on safety-relevant features. Resul…

MODE: Mixture of Document Experts for RAG
Rahul Anand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00100 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00100

MODE: Mixture of Document Experts for RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) often relies on large vector databases and cross-encoders tuned for large-scale corpora, which can be excessive for small, domain-specific collections. We present MODE (Mixture of Document Experts), a lightweight alternative that replaces fine-grained nearest-neighbor search with cluster-and-route retrieval. Documents are embedded, grouped into semantically coherent clusters, and represented by cached centroids. At query time, we route to the top centroid(s)…

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GCR Curatorial Specialist
Job TitleGCR Curatorial Specialist Agency Texas A&M University Department International Ocean Discovery Program Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job LocationCollege Station, Texas Job TypeStaff Job Description Our Commitment Texas A&M University is committed to enriching the learning and working environment by promoting a culture that respects all perspectives, talents & lived experiences. Embracing varying opinions and perspectives strengthens our core values which are: Respect, Excellence,…

Convolution semigroups for automorphism dynamics
Kyle Gannon, Daniel Max Hoffmann, Krzysztof Krupi\'nski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23503 https://arxiv…

Convolution semigroups for automorphism dynamics
Initially motivated by Hrushovski's paper on definability patterns, we obtain homeomorphisms between Ellis semigroups related to natural actions of the automorphism groups of first order structures and certain collections of types and Keisler measures. Thus, we can transfer the semigroup operation from these Ellis semigroups to the corresponding collections of types and Keisler measures. By generalizing this transferred product, we obtain a new convolution operation for invariant types and meas…

Demonstrating Narrative Pattern Discovery from Biomedical Literature
Hermann Kroll, Pascal Sackhoff, Bill Matthias Thang, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Wolf-Tilo Balke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09687

Demonstrating Narrative Pattern Discovery from Biomedical Literature
Digital libraries maintain extensive collections of knowledge and need to provide effective access paths for their users. For instance, PubPharm, the specialized information service for Pharmacy in Germany, provides and develops access paths to their underlying biomedical document collection. In brief, PubPharm supports traditional keyword-based search, search for chemical structures, as well as novel graph-based discovery workflows, e.g., listing or searching for interactions between different…

Nondegenerate hyperplane covers of the hypercube
Lisa Sauermann, Zixuan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00773 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Nondegenerate hyperplane covers of the hypercube
We consider collections of hyperplanes in $\mathbb{R}^n$ covering all vertices of the $n$-dimensional hypercube $\{0,1\}^n$, which satisfy the following nondegeneracy condition: For every $v\in \{0,1\}^n$ and every $i=1,\dots,n$, we demand that there is a hyperplane $H$ in the collection with $v\in H$ such that the variable $x_i$ appears with a non-zero coefficient in the hyperplane equation describing $H$. We prove that every collection $\mathcal{H}$ of hyperplanes in $\mathbb{R}^n$ covering $…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 67963 nodes and 3710420 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://…

Cropping outperforms dropout as an augmentation strategy for training self-supervised text embeddings
Rita Gonz\'alez-M\'arquez, Philipp Berens, Dmitry Kobak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03453

Cropping outperforms dropout as an augmentation strategy for training self-supervised text embeddings
Text embeddings, i.e. vector representations of entire texts, play an important role in many NLP applications, such as retrieval-augmented generation, sentiment analysis, clustering, or visualizing collections of texts for data exploration. Currently, top-performing embedding models are derived from pre-trained language models via extensive supervised fine-tuning using curated text pairs. This contrasts with computer vision, where self-supervised training based on data augmentations has demonst…

An Efficient and Adaptive Watermark Detection System with Tile-based Error Correction
Xinrui Zhong, Xinze Feng, Jingwei Zuo, Fanjiang Ye, Yi Mu, Junfeng Guo, Heng Huang, Myungjin Lee, Yuke Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02447

An Efficient and Adaptive Watermark Detection System with Tile-based Error Correction
Efficient and reliable detection of generated images is critical for the responsible deployment of generative models. Existing approaches primarily focus on improving detection accuracy and robustness under various image transformations and adversarial manipulations, yet they largely overlook the efficiency challenges of watermark detection across large-scale image collections. To address this gap, we propose QRMark, an efficient and adaptive end-to-end method for detecting embedded image water…

Navigating Speech Recording Collections with AI-Generated Illustrations
Sirina H{\aa}land, Trond Karlsen Str{\o}m, Petra Galu\v{s}\v{c}\'akov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04182

Navigating Speech Recording Collections with AI-Generated Illustrations
Although the amount of available spoken content is steadily increasing, extracting information and knowledge from speech recordings remains challenging. Beyond enhancing traditional information retrieval methods such as speech search and keyword spotting, novel approaches for navigating and searching spoken content need to be explored and developed. In this paper, we propose a novel navigational method for speech archives that leverages recent advances in language and multimodal generative mode…

On the mirrors of low-degree del Pezzo surfaces
Giulia Gugiatti, Franco Rota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21758 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

On the mirrors of low-degree del Pezzo surfaces
We compare different constructions of mirrors of del Pezzo surfaces, focusing on degree $d \leq 3$. In particular, we extract Lefschetz fibrations, with associated exceptional collections, from the mirrors obtained via the Hori-Vafa and Fanosearch program constructions, which we relate to one another. We show with geometric methods that the Lefschetz fibrations define categorical mirrors. With a more explicit approach, we give a sequence of (numerical) mutations relating the exceptional collect…

Architecting Distributed Quantum Computers: Design Insights from Resource Estimation
Dmitry Filippov, Peter Yang, Prakash Murali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19160 https://…

Architecting Distributed Quantum Computers: Design Insights from Resource Estimation
To enable practically useful quantum computing, we require hundreds to thousands of logical qubits (collections of physical qubits with error correction). Current monolithic device architectures have scaling limits beyond few tens of logical qubits. To scale up, we require architectures that orchestrate several monolithic devices into a distributed quantum computing system. Currently, resource estimation, which is crucial for determining hardware needs and bottlenecks, focuses exclusively on mo…

Spirits in the Stacks: A Ghostly Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives
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Conference> Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: From Three Treatises to Five Schools, 7-8 August 2025,…
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Overview of the TREC 2021 deep learning track
Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz, Daniel Campos, Jimmy Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08191 https:/…

Overview of the TREC 2021 deep learning track
This is the third year of the TREC Deep Learning track. As in previous years, we leverage the MS MARCO datasets that made hundreds of thousands of human annotated training labels available for both passage and document ranking tasks. In addition, this year we refreshed both the document and the passage collections which also led to a nearly four times increase in the document collection size and nearly $16$ times increase in the size of the passage collection. Deep neural ranking models that em…

EventTracer: Fast Path Tracing-based Event Stream Rendering
Zhenyang Li, Xiaoyang Bai, Jinfan Lu, Pengfei Shen, Edmund Y. Lam, Yifan Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18071 https:…

EventTracer: Fast Path Tracing-based Event Stream Rendering
Simulating event streams from 3D scenes has become a common practice in event-based vision research, as it meets the demand for large-scale, high temporal frequency data without setting up expensive hardware devices or undertaking extensive data collections. Yet existing methods in this direction typically work with noiseless RGB frames that are costly to render, and therefore they can only achieve a temporal resolution equivalent to 100-300 FPS, far lower than that of real-world event data. In…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://

Setting The Table with Intent: Intent-aware Schema Generation and Editing for Literature Review Tables
Vishakh Padmakumar, Joseph Chee Chang, Kyle Lo, Doug Downey, Aakanksha Naik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19521

Setting The Table with Intent: Intent-aware Schema Generation and Editing for Literature Review Tables
The increasing volume of academic literature makes it essential for researchers to organize, compare, and contrast collections of documents. Large language models (LLMs) can support this process by generating schemas defining shared aspects along which to compare papers. However, progress on schema generation has been slow due to: (i) ambiguity in reference-based evaluations, and (ii) lack of editing/refinement methods. Our work is the first to address both issues. First, we present an approach…

Spirits in the Stacks: A Ghostly Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives
https://ift.tt/mb4RdeS
ANN: New Book on Matriculture, Shamanism, and the Authority of Women: The Powers That Be Linnéa…
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From Few to Many Emitters Cavity QED: Energy Levels and Emission Spectra From Weak to Deep-Strong Coupling
Andrea Zappal\'a, Alberto Mercurio, Daniele Lamberto, Samuel Napoli, Omar Di Stefano, Salvatore Savasta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18763

From Few to Many Emitters Cavity QED: Energy Levels and Emission Spectra From Weak to Deep-Strong Coupling
We present a systematic study of the properties of systems composed of $N$ two-level quantum emitters coupled to a single cavity mode, for light-matter interaction strengths ranging from the weak to the ultrastrong and deep-strong coupling regimes. Beginning with an analysis of the energy spectrum as a function of the light-matter coupling strength, we examine systems with varying numbers of emitters, from a pair to large collections, approaching the thermodynamic limit ($N \to \infty$). Additi…

A Study of Synchronization Methods for Concurrent Size
Hen Kas-Sharir, Gal Sela, Erez Petrank
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16350 https://

A Study of Synchronization Methods for Concurrent Size
The size of collections, maps, and data structures in general, constitutes a fundamental property. An implementation of the size method is required in most programming environments. Nevertheless, in a concurrent environment, integrating a linearizable concurrent size introduces a noticeable overhead on all operations of the data structure, even when the size method is not invoked during the execution. In this work we present a study of synchronization methods in an attempt to improve the perfor…

Image-Conditioned 3D Gaussian Splat Quantization
Xinshuang Liu, Runfa Blark Li, Keito Suzuki, Truong Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15372 https://arxiv.…

Image-Conditioned 3D Gaussian Splat Quantization
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has attracted considerable attention for enabling high-quality real-time rendering. Although 3DGS compression methods have been proposed for deployment on storage-constrained devices, two limitations hinder archival use: (1) they compress medium-scale scenes only to the megabyte range, which remains impractical for large-scale scenes or extensive scene collections; and (2) they lack mechanisms to accommodate scene changes after long-term archival. To address these l…

Toward Efficient and Scalable Design of In-Memory Graph-Based Vector Search
Ilias Azizi, Karima Echihab, Themis Palpanas, Vassilis Christophides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05750

Toward Efficient and Scalable Design of In-Memory Graph-Based Vector Search
Vector data is prevalent across business and scientific applications, and its popularity is growing with the proliferation of learned embeddings. Vector data collections often reach billions of vectors with thousands of dimensions, thus, increasing the complexity of their analysis. Vector search is the backbone of many critical analytical tasks, and graph-based methods have become the best choice for analytical tasks that do not require guarantees on the quality of the answers. Although several…

Holistic Evaluations of Topic Models
Thomas Compton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23364 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23364…

Holistic Evaluations of Topic Models
Topic models are gaining increasing commercial and academic interest for their ability to summarize large volumes of unstructured text. As unsupervised machine learning methods, they enable researchers to explore data and help general users understand key themes in large text collections. However, they risk becoming a 'black box', where users input data and accept the output as an accurate summary without scrutiny. This article evaluates topic models from a database perspective, drawing insight…

PentaRAG: Large-Scale Intelligent Knowledge Retrieval for Enterprise LLM Applications
Abu Hanif Muhammad Syarubany, Chang Dong Yoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21593

PentaRAG: Large-Scale Intelligent Knowledge Retrieval for Enterprise LLM Applications
Enterprise deployments of large-language model (LLM) demand continuously changing document collections with sub-second latency and predictable GPU cost requirements that classical Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines only partially satisfy. We present PentaRAG, a five-layer module that routes each query through two instant caches (fixed key-value and semantic), a memory-recall mode that exploits the LLM's own weights, an adaptive session memory, and a conventional retrieval-augmentati…