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How a certain collective mentality produced Colts' biggest margin of victory in over a decade with Week 5 blowout win over Raiders https://www.colts.com/news/how-a-certain-collective-me…

Fostering Collective Discourse: A Distributed Role-Based Approach to Online News Commenting
Yoojin Hong, Yersultan Doszhan, Joseph Seering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02766 https…

Fostering Collective Discourse: A Distributed Role-Based Approach to Online News Commenting
Current news commenting systems are designed based on implicitly individualistic assumptions, where discussion is the result of a series of disconnected opinions. This often results in fragmented and polarized conversations that fail to represent the spectrum of public discourse. In this work, we develop a news commenting system where users take on distributed roles to collaboratively structure the comments to encourage a connected, balanced discussion space. Through a within-subject, mixed-met…

Observation of long-range collective flow in OO and NeNe collisions and implications for nuclear structure studies
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02580 https://

Observation of long-range collective flow in OO and NeNe collisions and implications for nuclear structure studies
The long-range collective flow of particles produced in oxygen-oxygen (OO) and neon-neon (NeNe) collisions is measured with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The data samples were collected at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.36 TeV, with integrated luminosities of 7 nb$^{-1}$ and 0.8 nb$^{-1}$ for OO and NeNe collisions, respectively. Two- and four-particle azimuthal correlations are measured over nearly five units of pseudorapidity. Significant elliptic ($v_2$) and triangular ($v…

Mycroft: Tracing Dependencies in Collective Communication Towards Reliable LLM Training
Yangtao Deng, Lei Zhang, Qinlong Wang, Xiaoyun Zhi, Xinlei Zhang, Zhuo Jiang, Haohan Xu, Lei Wang, Zuquan Song, Gaohong Liu, Yang Bai, Shuguang Wang, Wencong Xiao, Jianxi Ye, Minlan Yu, Hong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03018

Mycroft: Tracing Dependencies in Collective Communication Towards Reliable LLM Training
Reliability is essential for ensuring efficiency in LLM training. However, many real-world reliability issues remain difficult to resolve, resulting in wasted resources and degraded model performance. Unfortunately, today's collective communication libraries operate as black boxes, hiding critical information needed for effective root cause analysis. We propose Mycroft, a lightweight distributed tracing and root cause analysis system designed to address previously hidden reliability issues in c…

I share the general concern from DJB in #IETF payroll being subject to the whims of US agencies, there is a risk of policy…

Simulacra Naturae: Generative Ecosystem driven by Agent-Based Simulations and Brain Organoid Collective Intelligence
Nefeli Manoudaki, Mert Toka, Iason Paterakis, Diarmid Flatley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02924

Simulacra Naturae: Generative Ecosystem driven by Agent-Based Simulations and Brain Organoid Collective Intelligence
Simulacra Naturae is a data-driven media installation that explores collective care through the entanglement of biological computation, material ecologies, and generative systems. The work translates pre-recorded neural activity from brain organoids, lab-grown three-dimensional clusters of neurons, into a multi-sensory environment composed of generative visuals, spatial audio, living plants, and fabricated clay artifacts. These biosignals, streamed through a real-time system, modulate emergent …

Non-reciprocal Synchronization in Thermal Rydberg Ensembles
Yunlong Xue, Zhengyang Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03024 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03024

Non-reciprocal Synchronization in Thermal Rydberg Ensembles
Optical non-reciprocity is a fundamental phenomenon in photonics. It is crucial for developing devices that rely on directional signal control, such as optical isolators and circulators. However, most research in this field has focused on systems in equilibrium or steady states. In this work, we demonstrate a room-temperature Rydberg atomic platform where the unidirectional propagation of light acts as a switch to mediate time-crystalline-like collective oscillations through atomic synchronizat…

Adaptive Deception Framework with Behavioral Analysis for Enhanced Cybersecurity Defense
Basil Abdullah AL-Zahrani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02424 https://

Adaptive Deception Framework with Behavioral Analysis for Enhanced Cybersecurity Defense
This paper presents CADL (Cognitive-Adaptive Deception Layer), an adaptive deception framework achieving 99.88% detection rate with 0.13% false positive rate on the CICIDS2017 dataset. The framework employs ensemble machine learning (Random Forest, XGBoost, Neural Networks) combined with behavioral profiling to identify and adapt responses to network intrusions. Through a coordinated signal bus architecture, security components share real-time intelligence, enabling collective decision-making. …

A hacking collective calling itself "Scattered LapSus Hunters," has threatened to leak Google databases unless the company sacks two senior employees. Whilst the group has yet to provide any evidence that it holds Google data, Google has recently disclosed a third-party security breach involving Salesforce.

Hackers threaten Google with data leak unless company fires two threat intelligence employees
A hacking collective calling itself "Scattered LapSus Hunters," has threatened to leak Google databases unless the company sacks two senior employees. Whilst the group has ...

Collective is different: Information exchange and speed-accuracy trade-offs in self-organized patterning
Ashutosh Tripathi, J\"orn Dunkel, Dominic J. Skinner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01397

Collective is different: Information exchange and speed-accuracy trade-offs in self-organized patterning
During development, highly ordered structures emerge as cells collectively coordinate with each other. While recent advances have clarified how individual cells process and respond to external signals, understanding collective cellular decision making remains a major challenge. Here, we introduce a minimal, analytically tractable, model of cell patterning via local cell-cell communication. Using this framework, we identify a trade-off between the speed and accuracy of collective pattern formati…

Yeah, Jimmy “I’m actually quite in favour of business and capitalism and all that”* Wales, the surveillance capitalist and Fandom-president adtech man who once told me he doesn’t believe in any form of government regulation – not even in food standards or healthcare – can go fuck himself.
Find better heroes. Or even better yet, get over the whole stupid concept itself.
*

Why should I care about electing representatives when my immediate community faces urgent material and social needs that require direct, collective action and self-management?
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

"Let me say this clearly: nobody in this country is safe.
...
But proximity to suspected criminals now means everyone loses their Fourth Amendment rights.
This is collective punishment—the logic of occupation, not policing in a constitutional republic."
https://mastodon.opencloud.l…

Symmetry breaking in collective decision-making through higher-order interactions
David March-Pons, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, M. Carmen Miguel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00853 h…

Symmetry breaking in collective decision-making through higher-order interactions
Collective decision-making is a widespread phenomenon in both biological and artificial systems, where individuals reach a consensus through social interactions. While traditional models of opinion dynamics and contagion focus on pairwise interactions, recent research emphasizes the importance of including higher-order group interactions and autonomous behavior to better reflect real-world complexity. In this work, we introduce a collective decision-making model inspired by social insects. In o…

Understanding Collective Social Behavior in OSS Communities: A Co-editing Network Analysis of Activity Cascades
Lisi Qarkaxhija, Maximilian Carparo, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Ingo Scholtes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26173

Understanding Collective Social Behavior in OSS Communities: A Co-editing Network Analysis of Activity Cascades
Understanding the collective social behavior of software developers is crucial to model and predict the long-term dynamics and sustainability of Open Source Software (OSS) communities. To this end, we analyze temporal activity patterns of developers, revealing an inherently ``bursty'' nature of commit contributions. To investigate the social mechanisms behind this phenomenon, we adopt a network-based modelling framework that captures developer interactions through co-editing networks. Our frame…

“Resistance is futile.” Why Star Trek: TNG’s Borg Collective Is the Perfect Monster for Our Time https://reactormag.com/star-trek-tng-borg-collective-is-the-perfect-monster-for-our-time/

“Resistance is futile.” Why Star Trek: TNG’s Borg Collective Is the Perfect Monster for Our Time - Reactor
35 years on, what can we learn from the Borg and "The Best of Both Worlds"?

Crosslisted article(s) found for hep-ex. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-ex/new
[1/1]:
- Observation of long-range collective flow in OO and NeNe collisions and implications for nuclear ...
CMS Collaboration

A look at how the Canadian Journalism Collective has distributed Google's annual CA$100M payment under the Online News Act; 400 outlets have received funds (Gretel Kahn/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

Magnetic Worms: Oscillatory Bimeron Pairing And Collective Transport In Patterned Stripes
Jose Toledo-Marin, Mario Castro, David Galvez-Poblete, Bruno Grossi, Sebasti\'an Castillo-Sep\'ulveda, Alvaro S. Nunez, Sebastian Allende
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02384

Magnetic Worms: Oscillatory Bimeron Pairing And Collective Transport In Patterned Stripes
Magnetic bimerons in a domain wall provide a practical route for current driven transport in patterned magnetic stripes. However, coupling between bimerons and pinning by defects complicate reliable motion. Here we show that a periodic array of edge defects both stabilizes transport of multiple bimerons and gives rise to a distinctive collective state, the magnetic worm. A single bimeron travels at constant speed; defects lower this speed while preserving an approximately linear relation betwee…

Chiral Graviton Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall States
Yi-Hsien Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04408 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04408

Chiral Graviton Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall States
Recent polarized Raman scattering experiments indicate that fractional quantum Hall systems host a chiral spin-2 neutral collective mode, the long-wavelength limit of the magnetoroton, which behaves as a condensed-matter graviton. We present a nonlinear, gauge-invariant effective theory by gauging area-preserving diffeomorphisms (APDs) with a unimodular spatial metric as the gauge field. A Stueckelberg construction introduces an APD-invariant local potential that aligns the dynamical metric wit…

Trump orders more agencies to nix collective bargaining agreements (Drew Friedman/Federal News Network)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2025/08/trump-orders-more-agencies-to-nix-collective-bargaining-agreements/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250829/p10#a250829p10

This afternoon I will start a project that I postponed all summer: Figuring out how to move my club collective's web stuff to a new provider. (*shakes fist at Hosteurope which should burn in hell for switching their mail service to bloody Microsoft 365 model with a monthly fee per every single email adress*) Last time I did this was 15 years ago and I can't wait to relearn / see what has changed and is more complicated today! 😅

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.MA. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.MA/new
[1/1]:
- Cooperative Grasping for Collective Object Transport in Constrained Environments
David Alvear, George Turkiyyah, Shinkyu Park

Collecting, Collected, Collective: Working With Hopkins https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/28/collecting-collected-collective-working-with-hopkins

Background Suppression in Quantum Sensing of Dark Matter via $W$ State Projection
Shion Chen, Hajime Fukuda, Yutaro Iiyama, Yuya Mino, Takeo Moroi, Mikio Nakahara, Tatsumi Nitta, Thanaporn Sichanugrist
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01816

Background Suppression in Quantum Sensing of Dark Matter via $W$ State Projection
We show that measuring dark matter signal by projecting quantum sensors in the collective excited state can highly suppress the non-collective noise background, hence improving the sensitivity significantly. We trace the evolution of the sensors' state in the presence of both dark matter effect and sensors' decoherence effects, optimizing the protocol execution time, and show that the suppression of background by a factor equal to the number of sensors is possible. This method does not require …

👭 The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together
#sports

Detection of collective and point anomalies at the presence of trend and seasonality
Yiyin Zhang, Florian Pein, Idris Eckley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21128 https://

Detection of collective and point anomalies at the presence of trend and seasonality
Detecting anomalies in time series data is a challenging task with broad relevance in many applications. Existing methods work effectively only under idealized conditions, typically focusing on point anomalies or assuming a constant baseline. Our approach overcomes these limitations by detecting both collective and point anomalies, while allowing for polynomial trends and seasonal patterns. We establish statistical theory demonstrating that our method accurately decomposes the time series into …

Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives
Claudio Battiloro, Pietro Greiner, Bret Nestor, Oumaima Amezgar, Francesca Dominici
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19149 http…

Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives
As learning systems increasingly influence everyday decisions, user-side steering via Algorithmic Collective Action (ACA)-coordinated changes to shared data-offers a complement to regulator-side policy and firm-side model design. Although real-world actions have been traditionally decentralized and fragmented into multiple collectives despite sharing overarching objectives-with each collective differing in size, strategy, and actionable goals, most of the ACA literature focused on single collec…

An Efficient, Reliable and Observable Collective Communication Library in Large-scale GPU Training Clusters
Ziteng Chen (Infrawaves), Xiaohe Hu (Infrawaves), Menghao Zhang (Beihang University), Yanmin Jia (Infrawaves), Yan Zhang (Infrawaves), Mingjun Zhang (Infrawaves), Da Liu (Infrawaves), Fangzheng Jiao (Beihang University), Jun Chen (Infrawaves), He Liu (Infrawaves), Aohan Zeng (Tsinghua University), Shuaixing Duan (Zhipu AI), Ruya Gu (Infrawaves), Yang Jing (Infrawaves), Bowen Han …

An Efficient, Reliable and Observable Collective Communication Library in Large-scale GPU Training Clusters
Large-scale LLM training requires collective communication libraries to exchange data among distributed GPUs. As a company dedicated to building and operating large-scale GPU training clusters, we encounter several challenges when using NCCL in production, including 1) limited efficiency with costly and cumbersome P2P communication, 2) poor tolerance to frequent RNIC port failures, and 3) insufficient observability of transient collective communication anomalies. To address these issues, we pro…

Toward an Unbiased Collective Memory for Efficient LLM-Based Agentic 6G Cross-Domain Management
Hatim Chergui, Miguel Catalan Cid, Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Daniel Camps Mur, Christos Verikoukis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26200

Toward an Unbiased Collective Memory for Efficient LLM-Based Agentic 6G Cross-Domain Management
This paper introduces a novel framework for proactive cross-domain resource orchestration in 6G RAN-Edge networks, featuring large language model (LLM)-augmented agents. The system comprises specialized RAN (energy efficiency) and Edge (latency assurance) agents that engage in iterative negotiation, supported by advanced reasoning and planning capabilities. Agents dynamically interact with a digital twin (DT) to test their proposals and leverage a long-term collective memory where their joint s…

Emergent Rotational Order and Re-entrant Global Order of Vicsek Agents in a Complex Noise Environment
Mohd Yasir Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01036 https://

Emergent Rotational Order and Re-entrant Global Order of Vicsek Agents in a Complex Noise Environment
Noisy pursuit in complex environments drives emergent collective behaviors in active matter systems. A compelling platform to study the impact of environment cues is provided by the standard Vicsek model for studying flocking and swarming phenomena. In this study, we explore the collective dynamics of Vicsek agents in a complex noise environment, featuring a noiseless circular region ($η_{\text{c}} = 0.0$) surrounded by a noisy outer region ($η_{\text{b}} = 1.0$, tunable), with a mutually rep…

Oh great, another newcomer asserting that fascism can be abolished through electoral means. As if electoralism changes anything, only the proletariat, through collective class struggle and revolutionary self-emancipation, can genuinely overthrow the capitalist system that sustains fascist and oppressive conditions.
#Fascism

Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out.
And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labor-d…

Trump 2.0 is a disaster for workers
Don't be gaslit when he says "Happy Labor Day!"

I love this: 'At the Sycamore Collective we believe technology should give people more power to shape their lives not less' https://sycamore-collective.org/how-can-the-we-strengthen-the-role-of-people-and-communities-…

Homophily-induced Emergence of Biased Structures in LLM-based Multi-Agent AI Systems
Aliakbar Mehdizadeh, Martin Hilbert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02637 https://

Homophily-induced Emergence of Biased Structures in LLM-based Multi-Agent AI Systems
This study examines how interactions among artificially intelligent (AI) agents, guided by large language models (LLMs), drive the evolution of collective network structures. We ask LLM-driven agents to grow a network by informing them about current link constellations. Our observations confirm that agents consistently apply a preferential attachment mechanism, favoring connections to nodes with higher degrees. We systematically solicited more than a million decisions from four different LLMs, …

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Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Arianna Pera, Veronica Jude, Ceren Budak, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as representation elections. This study addresses the gap by combining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data with 158k Facebook posts published by U.S. labor unions between 2015 and 2024. We focused on five discourse frames widely recognized in labor and social movement communication res…

guerrilla bus benches are the Best of the Bay!
https://48hills.org/2025/09/best-of-the-bay-2025-editors-pick-san-francisco-bay-area-bench-collective/

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective - 48 hills
Group's guerrilla seating makes solid statement about accessibility and humane public infrastructure.

SYK collective field theory as complex Liouville gravity
Andreas Blommaert, Damiano Tietto, Herman Verlinde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18462 https://arxiv.…

The PIMMUR Principles: Ensuring Validity in Collective Behavior of LLM Societies
Jiaxu Zhou, Jen-tse Huang, Xuhui Zhou, Man Ho Lam, Xintao Wang, Hao Zhu, Wenxuan Wang, Maarten Sap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18052

The PIMMUR Principles: Ensuring Validity in Collective Behavior of LLM Societies
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for social simulation, where populations of agents are expected to reproduce human-like collective behavior. However, we find that many recent studies adopt experimental designs that systematically undermine the validity of their claims. From a survey of over 40 papers, we identify six recurring methodological flaws: agents are often homogeneous (Profile), interactions are absent or artificially imposed (Interaction), memory is discarded (Memor…

"On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which the federal government created to honour 'the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities,' members of the Active History editorial collective offer suggestions on scholarship and resources they have found helpful in their own work and learning journeys."

On the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued its final report on the history of residential schools in Canada. Mandated to “inform all Canadians about what happened in reside…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3InConcert
Florence Price & Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective:
🎵 Piano Quintet in A Minor (3rd mvt)
#FlorencePrice #KaleidoscopeChamberCollective

Theory of dynamical superradiance in organic materials
Lukas Freter, Piper Fowler-Wright, Javier Cuerda, Brendon W. Lovett, Jonathan Keeling, P\"aivi T\"orm\"a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03067

Theory of dynamical superradiance in organic materials
We develop the theory of dynamical superradiance -- the collective exchange of energy between an ensemble of initially excited emitters and a single-mode cavity -- for organic materials where electronic states are coupled to vibrational modes. We consider two models to capture the vibrational effects: first, vibrations treated as a Markovian bath for two-level emitters, via a pure dephasing term in the Lindblad master equation for the system; second, vibrational modes directly included in the s…

A gauge theory of complex adaptive systems
Gueorgui M. Mihaylov, Sergio L. Cacciatori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01581 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01581

A gauge theory of complex adaptive systems
We introduce a geometric construction of a gauge field theory of a complex adaptive system. It is based on a suitable simplicial formulation of a discrete geometry that manifests relevant properties valid in the classical differentiable case. Bundles' non-triviality naturally arises from local collective interactions between agents. Key elements of the theory of principal and associated bundles, such as local obstructions for triviality and characteristic classes, are opportunely defined in thi…

Fairness for the People, by the People: Minority Collective Action
Omri Ben-Dov, Samira Samadi, Amartya Sanyal, Alexandru \c{T}ifrea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15374 https://

Fairness for the People, by the People: Minority Collective Action
Machine learning models often preserve biases present in training data, leading to unfair treatment of certain minority groups. Despite an array of existing firm-side bias mitigation techniques, they typically incur utility costs and require organizational buy-in. Recognizing that many models rely on user-contributed data, end-users can induce fairness through the framework of Algorithmic Collective Action, where a coordinated minority group strategically relabels its own data to enhance fairne…

Algorithms for Collaborative Harmonization
Eyal Briman, Eyal Leizerovich, Nimrod Talmon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00120 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00120…

Algorithms for Collaborative Harmonization
We consider a specific scenario of text aggregation, in the realm of musical harmonization. Musical harmonization shares similarities with text aggregation, however the language of harmony is more structured than general text. Concretely, given a set of harmonization suggestions for a given musical melody, our interest lies in devising aggregation algorithms that yield an harmonization sequence that satisfies the following two key criteria: (1) an effective representation of the collective sugg…

God grant me the serenity to accept that some problems are best solved by collective action, the courage to know that some problems are best solved by individual effort, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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Animal Collective:
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#AnimalCollective
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Rotational Symmetry-Breaking effects in the Kuramoto model
Antonio Mihara, Rene O. Medrano-T
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04157 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04…

Rotational Symmetry-Breaking effects in the Kuramoto model
We study the bifurcations and phase diagram for a network of identical Kuramoto oscillators with a coupling that explicitly breaks the rotational symmetry of the equations. Applying the Watanabe-Strogatz ansatz, the original N-dimensional dynamics of the network collapses to a system of dimension two. Our analytical exploration uncovers bifurcation mechanisms, including transcritical, saddle-node, heteroclinic, Hopf, and Bogdanov-Takens bifurcations, that dictate transitions between collective …

From diamond to BC8 to simple cubic and back: kinetic pathways to post-diamond carbon phases from metadynamics
Roman Marto\v{n}\'ak, Sergey Galitskiy, Azat Tipeev, Joseph M. Gonzalez, Ivan I. Oleynik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00423

From diamond to BC8 to simple cubic and back: kinetic pathways to post-diamond carbon phases from metadynamics
The experimental observation of elusive post-diamond carbon phases at extreme pressures remains a major challenge in high-pressure science. Using metadynamics with coordination-number-based collective variables and SNAP machine-learned interatomic potential, we uncover atomistic mechanisms governing the transformation of cubic and hexagonal diamond into post-diamond phases above 1.5 TPa. The transition initiates via homogeneous nucleation of nanoscale liquid droplets, which rapidly crystallize …

Day 7: Brenda Romero
I hinted yesterday I'd be moving beyond a narrow definition of "author," so of course that means I'm going to include game designers. I'll definitely get back to some more traditional authors before I hit 20, but I wanted to mix things up early.
Brenda Romero is something of a celebrity in the niche culture that is the Game Developers Coherence, I like to imagine. Of course the misogyny there likely means many just pay attention to who her husband is, but she's a terrific designer in her own right, if not prolific.
Content warning: the Holocaust
To me her most outstanding game has always been "Train," which is an exhibition tabletop game in which players collaborate to load and unload cargo and move train cars around a board, with the stated objective of efficiently delivering cargo to meet certain collective goals. However, through both physical cues and in-game reveals, it becomes clear to players that the game they are playing stimulates the Holocaust, and the cargo they're moving is people being brought to extermination camps. The actual goal of the game is for the players to stop playing and walk away, or perhaps to play against the stated objective and gridlock the trains. Romero supervised play at the expos where it was presented, and intervened to stop the game if the players continued too far (in some cases not picking up on the hints offered because they had very little knowledge of the Holocaust as a historical event). I've never played the game myself; just heard Romero give a report about it, but the sheer genius of designing a game meant not to be played to help educate about a system within which defying the rules was the only ethical action earned her instant respect from me. Romero has a whole series of games in this vein about didn't historical events (not necessarily all designed to not be played), although last I checked in most are just at prototyping stages.
I've got other non-man game designers that will appear on this list, but Romero stood out to go first because she's a good example that you don't need to be someone prolific or widely-known to do great work; I'd bet most people have an author or two they respect who is not widely known (and I'll include at least one more from that category on this list).
#20AuthorsNoMen

Global Sumud Flotilla 🍉
Launch Dates: Barcelona – August 31
Tunis & Sicily – September 4
#flotilla

Notorious hacking group Crimson Collective has claimed responsibility for a major breach of Nintendo's internal systems.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/crimson-collective-claims-nintendo-hack

Crimson Collective claims to have hacked Nintendo
Notorious hacking group Crimson Collective has claimed responsibility for a major breach of Nintendo's internal systems.

Beyond Ensembles: Simulating All-Atom Protein Dynamics in a Learned Latent Space
Aditya Sengar, Ali Hariri, Pierre Vandergheynst, Patrick Barth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02196 …

Beyond Ensembles: Simulating All-Atom Protein Dynamics in a Learned Latent Space
Simulating the long-timescale dynamics of biomolecules is a central challenge in computational science. While enhanced sampling methods can accelerate these simulations, they rely on pre-defined collective variables that are often difficult to identify. A recent generative model, LD-FPG, demonstrated that this problem could be bypassed by learning to sample the static equilibrium ensemble as all-atom deformations from a reference structure, establishing a powerful method for all-atom ensemble g…

LLM-Assisted Iterative Evolution with Swarm Intelligence Toward SuperBrain
Li Weigang, Pedro Carvalho Brom, Lucas Ramson Siefert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00510 https://…

LLM-Assisted Iterative Evolution with Swarm Intelligence Toward SuperBrain
We propose a novel SuperBrain framework for collective intelligence, grounded in the co-evolution of large language models (LLMs) and human users. Unlike static prompt engineering or isolated agent simulations, our approach emphasizes a dynamic pathway from Subclass Brain to Superclass Brain: (1) A Subclass Brain arises from persistent, personalized interaction between a user and an LLM, forming a cognitive dyad with adaptive learning memory. (2) Through GA-assisted forward-backward evolution, …

If you're cocktail minded and in #Glasgow I'd head to this! I know how much hard work has gone in to it and can vouch for how skilled the lads are.
https://www.

Collective of bartenders to host birthday cocktail pop up for east end this weekend
Bartender collective called Flat Five are hosting their first birthday event this weekend (Friday, Octonber 10 to Sunday, October 12) at Mesa on Duke Street in Dennistoun.

Anharmonic Collective Oscillations in Isotropic Spin Systems and their Spectroscopic Signatures
Anna Fancelli, Mat\'ias G. Gonzalez, Subhankar Khatua, Bella Lake, Michel J. P. Gingras, Jeffrey G. Rau, Johannes Reuther
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21211

Anharmonic Collective Oscillations in Isotropic Spin Systems and their Spectroscopic Signatures
Spin waves are the fundamental excitations in magnetically ordered spin systems and are ubiquitously observed in magnetic materials. However, the standard understanding of spin waves as collective spin oscillations in an effective harmonic potential does not consider the possibility of soft modes, such as those due to an effective quartic potential. In this work, we show that such quartic potentials arise under very general conditions in a broad class of isotropic spin systems without a fine-tu…

Podcasts as a Medium for Participation in Collective Action: A Case Study of Black Lives Matter
Theodora Moldovan, Arianna Pera, Davide Vega, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13197

Podcasts as a Medium for Participation in Collective Action: A Case Study of Black Lives Matter
We study how participation in collective action is articulated in podcast discussions, using the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a case study. While research on collective action discourse has primarily focused on text-based content, this study takes a first step toward analyzing audio formats by using podcast transcripts. Using the Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC), we investigated spoken language expressions of participation in collective action, categorized as problem-solution,…

Networked Control and Mean Field Problems Under Diagonal Dominance: Decentralized and Social Optimality
Vivek Khatana, Duo Wang, Petros Voulgaris, Nicola Elia, Naira Hovakimyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01067

Networked Control and Mean Field Problems Under Diagonal Dominance: Decentralized and Social Optimality
In this article, we employ an input-output approach to expand the study of cooperative multi-agent control and optimization problems characterized by mean-field interactions that admit decentralized and selfish solutions. The setting involves $n$ independent agents that interact solely through a shared cost function, which penalizes deviations of each agent from the group's average collective behavior. Building on our earlier results established for homogeneous agents, we extend the framework t…

Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress https://www.404media.co/red-hat-investigating-breach-impacting-as-many-as-28-000-customers-including-the-navy-and-congress…

Collective transport efficiency of microswimmer swarms optimized by tactic run-tumble dynamics
Maggie Liu, Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25068 https://…

Collective transport efficiency of microswimmer swarms optimized by tactic run-tumble dynamics
The collective motion of microorganisms and microrobots can be used for particle delivery, especially when guided by external magnetic fields, phototaxis, or chemotaxis. This cargo transport is enhanced significantly by hydrodynamic entrainment, where the surrounding fluid and any dissolved molecules or suspended cargo particles are dragged along with a collectively moving swarm. However, it remains unclear how this directed entrainment is affected by stochastic run-tumble motion, and how such …

Beyond Individuals: Collective Predictive Coding for Memory, Attention, and the Emergence of Language
Tadahiro Taniguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15859 https://

Beyond Individuals: Collective Predictive Coding for Memory, Attention, and the Emergence of Language
This commentary extends the discussion by Parr et al. on memory and attention beyond individual cognitive systems. From the perspective of the Collective Predictive Coding (CPC) hypothesis -- a framework for understanding these faculties and the emergence of language at the group level -- we introduce a hypothetical idea: that language, with its embedded distributional semantics, serves as a collectively formed external representation. CPC generalises the concepts of individual memory and atten…

🙈 Valve Blames ‘NSFW’ Crackdown For Why Some Steam Players Can No Longer Use PayPal To Buy Games Like Cyberpunk 2077
https://kotaku.com/steam-paypal-sex-censorship-collective-shout-valve-cyberpunk-2000617819

Sex Game Censorship Campaign Blamed For New Steam PayPal Issues
Only six currencies are currently supported after a sex game crackdown

come happen with the heads at the next heads happening, 9/11 at mama tried in #brooklyn, feat. geologist from animal collective (solo hurdy gurdy!), rare NYCing by tom carter/pat murano, & yr very own sloppy heads, plus dj sets by james mcnew! amazing flyer by abraham. #nyc

Dynamics of a bricklayer model: multi-walker realizations of true self-avoiding motion
A. C. Maggs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00975 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Dynamics of a bricklayer model: multi-walker realizations of true self-avoiding motion
We consider a multi-walker generalization of the true self-avoiding walk, the bricklayer model. We perform stochastic simulations and solve the continuum partial differential equations that describe the collective evolution of $N$ bricklayers/walkers. These equations were previously derived from hydrodynamic considerations. In the large-$N$ limit, the results from simulation agree with the solutions of the partial differential equations.

The slow drip of science discovery & health, #microplastic version:
1) oh, look what we found: lots of small plastic particles are showing up.
(Collective yawning)
2) oh, this is interesting - they cover the full range of sizes from the visible to sub-micron scale.
(Collective yawning, continued)
3)Oh look, they are everywhere, and the really small ones show up ev…

The slow drip of science discovery & health, #microplastic version:
1) oh, look what we found: lots of small plastic particles are showing up.
(Collective yawning)
2) oh, this is interesting - they cover the full range of sizes from the visible to sub-micron scale.
(Collective yawning, continued)
3)Oh look, they are everywhere, and the really small ones show up ev…

I post a picture of me in IKEA.
The picture was taken last weekend. In posting it today, the collective consciousness of my followers transpose the event into the present. In 30 days time, when the CCTV in-store cycles, the only record of the visit will be that image.
1/2

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Collective Soul:
🎵 Shine
#NowPlaying #CollectiveSoul
https://medikalrecordz.bandcamp.com/track/collective-soul-shine
https://open.spotify.com/track/77YKoNCjP5hWqiXMRG2839

Game Theory to Study Cooperation in Human-Robot Mixed Groups: Exploring the Potential of the Public Good Game
Giulia Pusceddu, Sara Mongile, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24530

Game Theory to Study Cooperation in Human-Robot Mixed Groups: Exploring the Potential of the Public Good Game
In this study, we explore the potential of Game Theory as a means to investigate cooperation and trust in human-robot mixed groups. Particularly, we introduce the Public Good Game (PGG), a model highlighting the tension between individual self-interest and collective well-being. In this work, we present a modified version of the PGG, where three human participants engage in the game with the humanoid robot iCub to assess whether various robot game strategies (e.g., always cooperate, always free…

Balaton Borders: Data Ceramics for Ecological Reflection
Hajnal Gyeviki, Mih\'aly Mink\'o, Mary Karyda, Damla \c{C}ay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02284 https://

Balaton Borders: Data Ceramics for Ecological Reflection
Balaton Borders translates ecological data from Lake Balaton into ceramic tableware that represents human impact on the landscape, from reedbed reduction to shoreline modification and land erosion. Designed for performative dining, the pieces turn shared meals into multisensory encounters where food and data ceramics spark collective reflection on ecological disruption.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EarlierWithJoolsHolland
Luise Adolpha Le Beau & Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective:
🎵 Piano Quartet in F minor, Op 28 (2nd mvt, Adagio)
#LuiseAdolphaLeBeau #KaleidoscopeChamberCollective
https://open.spotify.com/track/23M0kaRGgFyHbi4djcAzXB

Nearly 200 employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) signed an extraordinary letter sent to Congress on August 25,
denouncing the current administration’s erosion of their work
and warning that it risks the occurrence of another Hurricane Katrina-sized disaster.
More than 30 provided their names; the rest signed anonymously.
Named the "Katrina Declaration",
the letter was one of the most powerful written so far by beleaguered federal …

FEMA Employees Speak Out After Attacks on Workers Warning of Looming Disaster
“The danger posed to our collective communities … is very real,” said one employee who signed a public letter.

Fairness of Energy Distribution Mechanisms in Collective Self-Consumption Schemes
Benoit Couraud, Valentin Robu, Sonam Norbu, Merlinda Andoni, Yann Rozier, Si Chen, Erwin Franquet, Pierre-Jean Barre, Satria Putra Kanugrahan, Benjamin Berthou, David Flynn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16819

Fairness of Energy Distribution Mechanisms in Collective Self-Consumption Schemes
In several European countries, regulatory frameworks now allow households to form energy communities and trade energy locally via local energy markets (LEMs). While multiple mechanisms exist to allocate locally produced energy among members, their fairness remains insufficiently understood despite energy justice being a key concern for communities. This paper first provides a thorough description of the collective self-consumption process in France, offering a real world framework for researche…

Structuring Collective Action with LLM-Guided Evolution: From Ill-Structured Problems to Executable Heuristics
Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Graham Alexander Watt, Yuri Leonenko, Juan Moreno-Cruz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20412

Structuring Collective Action with LLM-Guided Evolution: From Ill-Structured Problems to Executable Heuristics
Collective action problems, which require aligning individual incentives with collective goals, are classic examples of Ill-Structured Problems (ISPs). For an individual agent, the causal links between local actions and global outcomes are unclear, stakeholder objectives often conflict, and no single, clear algorithm can bridge micro-level choices with macro-level welfare. We present ECHO-MIMIC, a computational framework that converts this global complexity into a tractable, Well-Structured Pro…

Kid2 had pizza day yesterday. The school decided to order from a new place that offers "healthy pizza." The kids apparently poured onto the playground after lunch, having barely touched the stuff, chanting "We want [corporate pizza chain]!" While I may not agree with their taste in pizza, I'll take collective action any day. And the kids won! The school sent around an email last night saying they were going back to the old place and that they'd pay for a pizza par…

PICO: Performance Insights for Collective Operations
Saverio Pasqualoni, Lorenzo Piarulli, Daniele De Sensi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16809 https://arxiv.…

PICO: Performance Insights for Collective Operations
Collective operations are cornerstones of both HPC application and large-scale AI training and inference. Yet, comprehensive, systematic and reproducible performance evaluation and benchmarking of said operations is not straightforward. Existing frameworks do not provide sufficiently detailed profiling information, nor they ensure reproducibility and extensibility. In this paper, we present PICO (Performance Insights for Collective Operations), a novel lightweight, extensible framework built wi…

The (PXP)$^2$ model: long-range quantum scars in optical cavities
Hossein Hosseinabadi, Riccardo J. Valencia-Tortora, Aleksandr N. Mikheev, Darrick E. Chang, Johannes Zeiher, Roderich Moessner, Jamir Marino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02246

The (PXP)$^2$ model: long-range quantum scars in optical cavities
Rydberg-cavity systems are emerging as promising platforms for quantum simulation and quantum information processing. These hybrid architectures combine two complementary interaction mechanisms: cavity photons mediate collective long-range couplings, while Rydberg excitations generate strong short-range interactions. Together, they offer a setting for engineering many-body phases characterized by a hierarchy of interactions across widely different length scales. In this work, we introduce a min…

Electromagnetic responses of bilayer excitonic insulators
Yuelin Shao, Hao Shi, Xi Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02142 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02142

Electromagnetic responses of bilayer excitonic insulators
We investigate the electromagnetic responses of a bilayer excitonic insulators (EI) and identify two types of collective modes: (1) Two gapped plasmon modes couple to the layer symmetric gauge field. The transverse mode is nearly dispersionless in the long-wavelength limit, while the longitudinal mode, accounting for total charge fluctuations, has a linear dispersion with velocity proportional to two dimensional (2D) electrical polarizability. (2) A gapless phase (Goldstone) mode and a gapp…

A perspective on inelastic light scattering spectroscopy for probing transport of collective acoustic excitations
Hyemin Kim, Hyungseok Kim, Taeyong Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20599

A perspective on inelastic light scattering spectroscopy for probing transport of collective acoustic excitations
Understanding and manipulating nanoscale energy transport and conversion processes are essential for diverse applications, ranging from thermoelectrics and energy harvesting to thermal management of microelectronics. While it has long been recognized that acoustic and thermal properties in condensed matters are primarily due to microscopic transport of phonons as quasiparticles, probing thermal acoustic excitations particularly at sub-THz remains a challenge primarily due to limitations in expe…

Cell clusters sense their global shape to drive collective migration
Joan T\'ermens, Irina Pi-Jaum\`a, Ido Lavi, Marija Matej\v{c}i\'c, Isabela Corina Fortunato, Xavier Trepat, Jaume Casademunt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15910

Cell clusters sense their global shape to drive collective migration
The collective migration of epithelial groups of cells plays a central role in processes such as embryo development, wound healing, and cancer invasion. While finite cell clusters are known to collectively migrate in response to external gradients, the competing effect of possible endogenous cues is largely unknown.Here, we demonstrate that the polarization of peripheral cells that pull the cluster's edge outward is sufficient to induce and sustain the collective migration of confluent clusters…

Bine Trees: Enhancing Collective Operations by Optimizing Communication Locality
Daniele De Sensi, Saverio Pasqualoni, Lorenzo Piarulli, Tommaso Bonato, Seydou Ba, Matteo Turisini, Jens Domke, Torsten Hoefler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17311

Bine Trees: Enhancing Collective Operations by Optimizing Communication Locality
Communication locality plays a key role in the performance of collective operations on large HPC systems, especially on oversubscribed networks where groups of nodes are fully connected internally but sparsely linked through global connections. We present Bine (binomial negabinary) trees, a family of collective algorithms that improve communication locality. Bine trees maintain the generality of binomial trees and butterflies while cutting global-link traffic by up to 33%. We implement eight Bi…

Five former Observer journalists launch the Nerve, a culture publication partly funded with their redundancy money, as part of Beehiiv's Media Collective (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-observer…

Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

Haymarket Books has ebooks on sale for $2 until Nov. 7. Some of my favorite books published by them are:
Abolish Rent: on the potential of tenant organizing
Let This Radicalize You: a guide to activism over the long haul
No Cop City, No Cop World: lessons from Atlanta's Cop City fight
Perfect Victims: unpacks anti-Palestinian narratives you may not realize you've internalized

Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe that collective study plays a crucial role in sustaining engaged, effective, and durable left-wing organizations and communities. To that end, we aim to make our books accessible to anyone who might find them valuable. Until Friday, November 7th, ALL Haymarket ebooks are 80% Off. That means …

As fascism descends, you are going to need easy to access and use alternatives to Big Tech (aka Fascist Tech).
So maybe bookmark the Chatons collective site initiated by our friends at Framasoft with hosted versions of free-software services for collaborative writing, video conferencing, scheduling appointments, collaborative spreadsheets, file sharing, picture sharing, etc.

Cultural tightness and social cohesion under evolving norms
Filippo Zimmaro, Jacopo Grilli, Mirta Galesic, Alexander J. Stewart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01848 https://

Cultural tightness and social cohesion under evolving norms
Successful collective action on issues from climate change to the maintenance of democracy depends on societal properties such as cultural tightness and social cohesion. How these properties evolve is not well understood because they emerge from a complex interplay between beliefs and behaviors that are usually modeled separately. Here we address this challenge by developing a game-theoretical framework incorporating norm-utility models to study the coevolutionary dynamics of cooperative action…

Optimal distillation of photonic indistinguishability
Francesco Hoch, Anita Camillini, Giovanni Rodari, Eugenio Caruccio, Gonzalo Carvacho, Taira Giordani, Riccardo Albiero, Niki Di Giano, Giacomo Corrielli, Francesco Ceccarelli, Roberto Osellame, Marco Robbio, Leonardo Novo, Nicol\`o Spagnolo, Ernesto F. Galv\~ao, Fabio Sciarrino
https://…

Optimal distillation of photonic indistinguishability
Imperfect photons' indistinguishability limits the performance of photonic quantum communication and computation . Distillation protocols, inspired by entanglement purification, enhance photons' indistinguishability by leveraging quantum interference in linear optical circuits. In this work, we present a three-photon distillation protocol optimized to achieve the maximum visibility gain, which requires consideration of multi-photon effects such as collective photonic phases. We employ interfero…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- An anthemic release from Queenstown Collective
Guitarist Jamie Leeming is back with a second Flowers pick of the week.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jt3j

Collective Recourse for Generative Urban Visualizations
Rashid Mushkani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11487 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11487

Collective Recourse for Generative Urban Visualizations
Text-to-image diffusion models help visualize urban futures but can amplify group-level harms. We propose collective recourse: structured community "visual bug reports" that trigger fixes to models and planning workflows. We (1) formalize collective recourse and a practical pipeline (report, triage, fix, verify, closure); (2) situate four recourse primitives within the diffusion stack: counter-prompts, negative prompts, dataset edits, and reward-model tweaks; (3) define mandate thresholds via a…

Impact of Collective Behaviors of Autonomous Vehicles on Urban Traffic Dynamics: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Ahmet Onur Akman, Anastasia Psarou, Zolt\'an Gy\"orgy Varga, Grzegorz Jamr\'oz, Rafa{\l} Kucharski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22216

Impact of Collective Behaviors of Autonomous Vehicles on Urban Traffic Dynamics: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
This study examines the potential impact of reinforcement learning (RL)-enabled autonomous vehicles (AV) on urban traffic flow in a mixed traffic environment. We focus on a simplified day-to-day route choice problem in a multi-agent setting. We consider a city network where human drivers travel through their chosen routes to reach their destinations in minimum travel time. Then, we convert one-third of the population into AVs, which are RL agents employing Deep Q-learning algorithm. We define a…

PCCL: Photonic circuit-switched collective communication for distributed ML
Abhishek Vijaya Kumar, Arjun Devraj, Rachee Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15450 https://

PCCL: Photonic circuit-switched collective communication for distributed ML
Modern distributed ML suffers from a fundamental gap between the theoretical and realized performance of collective communication algorithms due to congestion and hop-count induced dilation in practical GPU clusters. We present PCCL, a Photonic Collective Communication Library that reconfigures the network topology to match the communication patterns of collective algorithms, thereby eliminating congestion and dilation by creating direct, contention-free circuits between communicating GPUs. Unl…

Toxicity in Online Platforms and AI Systems: A Survey of Needs, Challenges, Mitigations, and Future Directions
Smita Khapre, Melkamu Abay Mersha, Hassan Shakil, Jonali Baruah, Jugal Kalita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25539

Toxicity in Online Platforms and AI Systems: A Survey of Needs, Challenges, Mitigations, and Future Directions
The evolution of digital communication systems and the designs of online platforms have inadvertently facilitated the subconscious propagation of toxic behavior. Giving rise to reactive responses to toxic behavior. Toxicity in online content and Artificial Intelligence Systems has become a serious challenge to individual and collective well-being around the world. It is more detrimental to society than we realize. Toxicity, expressed in language, image, and video, can be interpreted in various …

Dispersion of collective modes in spinful fractional quantum Hall states on the sphere
Rakesh K. Dora, Ajit C. Balram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13100 https://

Dispersion of collective modes in spinful fractional quantum Hall states on the sphere
Collective modes capture the dynamical aspects of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) fluids. Depending on the active degrees of freedom, different types of collective modes can arise in a FQH state. In this work, we consider spinful FQH states in the lowest Landau level (LLL) along the Jain sequence of fillings $ν{=}n/(2n{\pm}1)$ and compute the Coulomb dispersion of their spin-flip and spin-conserving collective modes in the spherical geometry. We use the LLL-projected density-wave and composite f…

Q-Learning--Driven Adaptive Rewiring for Cooperative Control in Heterogeneous Networks
Yi-Ning Weng, Hsuan-Wei Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01057 https://

Q-Learning--Driven Adaptive Rewiring for Cooperative Control in Heterogeneous Networks
Cooperation emergence in multi-agent systems represents a fundamental statistical physics problem where microscopic learning rules drive macroscopic collective behavior transitions. We propose a Q-learning-based variant of adaptive rewiring that builds on mechanisms studied in the literature. This method combines temporal difference learning with network restructuring so that agents can optimize strategies and social connections based on interaction histories. Through neighbor-specific Q-learni…

Quantum Simulation of Collective Neutrino Oscillations in Dense Neutrino Environment
Shvetaank Tripathi, Sandeep Joshi, Garima Rajpoot, Prashant Shukla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11610

Quantum Simulation of Collective Neutrino Oscillations in Dense Neutrino Environment
Inside dense neutrino gases, such as neutron star mergers or core-collapse supernovae, collective neutrino effects cause the transformation of one neutrino flavour into another. Due to strong neutrino self-interactions in these environments, there is prevalence of flavour swapping. Considering these environments to be isotropic and homogeneous, we present a study of collective neutrino oscillations by simulating such a system on a noisy quantum simulator (Qiskit AerSimulator) and a quantum proc…

Collective Voice: Recovered-Peer Support Mediated by An LLM-Based Chatbot for Eating Disorder Recovery
Ryuhaerang Choi, Taehan Kim, Subin Park, Seohyeon Yoo, Jennifer G. Kim, Sung-Ju Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15289

Collective Voice: Recovered-Peer Support Mediated by An LLM-Based Chatbot for Eating Disorder Recovery
Peer recovery narratives provide unique benefits beyond professional or lay mentoring by fostering hope and sustained recovery in eating disorder (ED) contexts. Yet, such support is limited by the scarcity of peer-involved programs and potential drawbacks on recovered peers, including relapse risk. To address this, we designed RecoveryTeller, a chatbot adopting a recovered-peer persona that portrays itself as someone recovered from an ED. We examined whether such a persona can reproduce the sup…

Collective communication in a transparent world: Phase transitions in a many-body Potts model and social-quantum duality
Pawat Akarapipattana, Sergei Nechaev, Bogdan Slavov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20267

Collective communication in a transparent world: Phase transitions in a many-body Potts model and social-quantum duality
We consider the Schelling-like social competition reflected in "dynamics of opinions" among groups of agents ("communities") in a highly transparent world. Specifically, we investigate a $q$-state Potts spin system with competing two- and three-body interactions on a complete graph. Agents interact through pairwise repulsion (opposing opinions) between different communities and three-body attraction (shared opinions) within the same community. In the thermodynamic limit, we identify variants of…

ClusterFusion: Expanding Operator Fusion Scope for LLM Inference via Cluster-Level Collective Primitive
Xinhao Luo, Zihan Liu, Yangjie Zhou, Shihan Fang, Ziyu Huang, Yu Feng, Chen Zhang, Shixuan Sun, Zhenzhe Zheng, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18850

ClusterFusion: Expanding Operator Fusion Scope for LLM Inference via Cluster-Level Collective Primitive
Large language model (LLM) decoding suffers from high latency due to fragmented execution across operators and heavy reliance on off-chip memory for data exchange and reduction. This execution model limits opportunities for fusion and incurs significant memory traffic and kernel launch overhead. While modern architectures such as NVIDIA Hopper provide distributed shared memory and low-latency intra-cluster interconnects, they expose only low-level data movement instructions, lacking structured …

Cognition in Superposition: Quantum Models in AI, Finance, Defence, Gaming and Collective Behaviour
Ivan S. Maksymov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20098 https://

Cognition in Superposition: Quantum Models in AI, Finance, Defence, Gaming and Collective Behaviour
At first glance, quantum mechanics and behavioural science seem worlds apart -- one rooted in equations and particles, the other in thoughts and choices. Yet, emerging research reveals a profound and unexpected bridge between them. This chapter explores that bridge through quantum models of cognition and decision-making, showing how principles from quantum mechanics can help understand, and even predict, the complexities of human perception, behaviour and societal dynamics. We introduce a compu…