Tootfinder

Creation of Assault Troops in the Ukrainian Army: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/creation-of-assault-troops-in.html

Creating Through Limitations – Scales of Creation #creativeprocess

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Unmixing - separating logistics and creation
#RecordingStudio #CreativeProcess
https://muz…

Unmixing - separating logistics and creation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Pixel 10 series get a Gemini Nano-powered Journal app, music creation feature for recorder, NotebookLM integration for screenshots, Gboard Writing Tools, more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/pixel-10-journal-app/

Pixel 10 gets new Journal app, Recorder music creator, Gboard Smart Edit, more
With the Pixel 10, Google is introducing a new Journal app. There are also updates to Pixel Recorder, Screenshots, and Studio.

I derailed myself again, so I decided to set limits on it…
Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
#creativity #MusicTheory

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Pro tip: If you’re creating Mermaid sequence diagrams, you can order the elements by using the `participant` keyword at the start of the diagram definition.

Creating Through Limitations – Scales of Creation #creativeprocess

Dataset Creation for Visual Entailment using Generative AI
Rob Reijtenbach, Suzan Verberne, Gijs Wijnholds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11605 https://arxiv.o…

Dataset Creation for Visual Entailment using Generative AI
In this paper we present and validate a new synthetic dataset for training visual entailment models. Existing datasets for visual entailment are small and sparse compared to datasets for textual entailment. Manually creating datasets is labor-intensive. We base our synthetic dataset on the SNLI dataset for textual entailment. We take the premise text from SNLI as input prompts in a generative image model, Stable Diffusion, creating an image to replace each textual premise. We evaluate our datas…

An important piece of reporting from L.A. today. Kudos to MSNBC (and yes, I'm surprised to be saying that) for calling out ICE, the lies from the federal carceral forces denying the events that took place, and for deftly bringing in the terrible racist history behind the creation of Dodgers Stadium:

Friend Jon G. from Glasgow UK meditates on Psalm 25, God's wonderful world:
#creation

7Bench: a Comprehensive Benchmark for Layout-guided Text-to-image Models
Elena Izzo, Luca Parolari, Davide Vezzaro, Lamberto Ballan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12919 https://

7Bench: a Comprehensive Benchmark for Layout-guided Text-to-image Models
Layout-guided text-to-image models offer greater control over the generation process by explicitly conditioning image synthesis on the spatial arrangement of elements. As a result, their adoption has increased in many computer vision applications, ranging from content creation to synthetic data generation. A critical challenge is achieving precise alignment between the image, textual prompt, and layout, ensuring semantic fidelity and spatial accuracy. Although recent benchmarks assess text alig…

LLM Chatbot-Creation Approaches
Hemil Mehta, Tanvi Raut, Kohav Yadav, Edward F. Gehringer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13326 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13326…

LLM Chatbot-Creation Approaches
This full research-to-practice paper explores approaches for developing course chatbots by comparing low-code platforms and custom-coded solutions in educational contexts. With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and LLaMA, LLM-based chatbots are being integrated into teaching workflows to automate tasks, provide assistance, and offer scalable support. However, selecting the optimal development strategy requires balancing ease of use, customization, data privacy, and scalability…

"What if the 'material' of music could be something that transcends these more object-oriented forms? Can music, for instance, be a process, a way of relating, a way of listening, a way interacting? And if music can be de-coupled from objects, what might my role as a composer be in the creation of this music?"
— William Doherty — When Sound Becomes Like a Spaceship
#columbiacomposers

Sheffer Polynomials and the s-ordering of Exponential Boson Operators
Robert S. Maier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13094 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13094

Sheffer Polynomials and the s-ordering of Exponential Boson Operators
The s-ordered form of any product of single-mode boson creation and annihilation operators, containing only a single annihilator, is computed explicitly. The s-ordering concept originated in quantum optics, and subsumes normal, symmetric (Weyl), and anti-normal ordering for any two operators satisfying a canonical commutation relation. Because the s-ordering map can be viewed as producing a function of a complex variable, its inverse is a quantization map that takes such "classical" functions t…

New suite/EP of 5 instrumentals based on these limiting factors ...
coming on Tuesday - Mirlo and Bandcamp only for now -
#NewReleaseComing #CreativeProcess

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Design and Implementation of a Controlled Ransomware Framework for Educational Purposes Using Flutter Cryptographic APIs on Desktop PCs and Android Devices
James Gu, Ahmed Sartaj, Mohammed Akram Taher Khan, Rashid Hussain Khokhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11939

Design and Implementation of a Controlled Ransomware Framework for Educational Purposes Using Flutter Cryptographic APIs on Desktop PCs and Android Devices
This study focuses on the creation and implementation of ransomware for educational purposes that leverages Python's native cryptographic APIs in a controlled environment. Additionally, an Android version of the framework is implemented using Flutter and Dart. For both versions, open-source cryptographic libraries are utilized. With this framework, researchers can systematically explore the functionalities of ransomware, including file encryption processes, cryptographic key management, and vic…

Hilbert Space of Finite $N$ Multi-matrix Models
Robert de Mello Koch, Antal Jevicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11986 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11986

Hilbert Space of Finite $N$ Multi-matrix Models
We study the Hilbert space structure of gauge-invariant operators emergent in large-$N$ multi-matrix quantum mechanics. Building on the framework of \cite{deMelloKoch:2025ngs}, we identify a class of light single-trace operators that behave like free creation operators at low energy but saturate beyond a critical excitation level, ceasing to generate new states. This $q$-reducibility is a direct consequence of finite N trace identities and leads to a dramatic truncation of the high-energy spect…

In case you don't want any Microsoft AI to be trained ("improved") with your personal data and content from LinkedIn, you should probably toggle the according switch in your LinkedIn privacy settings to "Off". Default is set to "On".
#generativeAI #dataprivacy

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures (Amit Chowdhry/Pulse 2.0)
https://pulse2.com/higgsfield-50-million-series-a-raised-to-transform-ai-video-creation/

Higgsfield: $50 Million Series A Raised To Transform AI Video Creation
Higgsfield.ai, a rapidly growing company specializing in AI for video creation, has announced the successful close of its $50 million Series A funding round. The investment was led by GFT Ventures and joined by a group of firms, including BroadLight Capital, NextEquity Partners, AI Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Alpha Square Group, and other strategic backers. 

Tabularis Formatus: Predictive Formatting for Tables
Mukul Singh, Jos\'e Cambronero, Sumit Gulwani, Vu Le, Gust Verbruggen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11121 https://

Tabularis Formatus: Predictive Formatting for Tables
Spreadsheet manipulation software are widely used for data management and analysis of tabular data, yet the creation of conditional formatting (CF) rules remains a complex task requiring technical knowledge and experience with specific platforms. In this paper we present TaFo, a neuro-symbolic approach to generating CF suggestions for tables, addressing common challenges such as user unawareness, difficulty in rule creation, and inadequate user interfaces. TaFo takes inspiration from component …

„Donkey Kong Bananza is Nintendo going full galaxy brain.“
Can’t wait! 🫨
https://www.polygon.com/news/613165/switch-2-donkey-kong-bananza-creation-secrets-development

Nintendo’s Donkey Kong team sounds increasingly bananas
Many of the core ideas for the new Switch 2 game came from unexpected sources, Nintendo reveals

Good Vibrations? A Qualitative Study of Co-Creation, Communication, Flow, and Trust in Vibe Coding
Veronica Pimenova, Sarah Fakhoury, Christian Bird, Margaret-Anne Storey, Madeline Endres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12491

Good Vibrations? A Qualitative Study of Co-Creation, Communication, Flow, and Trust in Vibe Coding
Vibe coding, a term coined by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025, has quickly become a compelling and controversial natural language programming paradigm in AI-assisted software development. Centered on iterative co-design with an AI assistant, vibe coding emphasizes flow and experimentation over strict upfront specification. While initial studies have begun to explore this paradigm, most focus on analyzing code artifacts or proposing theories with limited empirical backing. There remains a need …

A special experiential presentation
August 24, 2025 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre & Green Room
https://cambriaarts.org/academy-program/#E351

SPG: Style-Prompting Guidance for Style-Specific Content Creation
Qian Liang, Zichong Chen, Yang Zhou, Hui Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11476 https://a…

SPG: Style-Prompting Guidance for Style-Specific Content Creation
Although recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models excel at aligning generated images with textual prompts, controlling the visual style of the output remains a challenging task. In this work, we propose Style-Prompting Guidance (SPG), a novel sampling strategy for style-specific image generation. SPG constructs a style noise vector and leverages its directional deviation from unconditional noise to guide the diffusion process toward the target style distribution. By integrating SPG with Clas…

What is a good flow chart creation program?

Symmetric tensor portals to dark matter I: creation of dark scalars
Brian Dignean, Alexander J. Magnus, Rainer Dick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11010 https://

Symmetric tensor portals to dark matter I: creation of dark scalars
We examine the creation of scalar dark matter through a symmetric tensor portal. We find that both freeze-in and thermal freeze-out through a symmetric tensor mediator can create scalar dark matter. The required tensor masses for freeze-in are much larger than for freeze-out for the same dark-matter mass, in agreement with the nonthermalization assumption in freeze-in scenarios.

My best "rubber duck" is whatever public support fora exist for whatever I'm bloodying my forehead on. I rarely actually get useful responses, but just asking does something, sometimes.
e.g. https://forum.opennebula.io/t/debugging-domain-creation/14158/1

Debugging domain creation
Executive Summary: OpenNebula environment grown over 12 years running OpenNebula v5.2, upgrading host OS breaks initial domain creation. Live migration works! Versions of the related components and OS (frontend, hypervisors, VMs): CentOS7 with qemu-kvm on 30 Intel-cpu (Supermicro) hosts. some hosts upgraded to Alma9, fully updated. VMs a mix of versions of FreeBSD, CentOS, Alma, Ubuntu, Windows. CentOS7 hosts have been operating properly for many years. Some Alma9 hosts are new, others are…

Overcoming Low-Resource Barriers in Tulu: Neural Models and Corpus Creation for OffensiveLanguage Identification
Anusha M D, Deepthi Vikram, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Parameshwar R Hegde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11166

Overcoming Low-Resource Barriers in Tulu: Neural Models and Corpus Creation for OffensiveLanguage Identification
Tulu, a low-resource Dravidian language predominantly spoken in southern India, has limited computational resources despite its growing digital presence. This study presents the first benchmark dataset for Offensive Language Identification (OLI) in code-mixed Tulu social media content, collected from YouTube comments across various domains. The dataset, annotated with high inter-annotator agreement (Krippendorff's alpha = 0.984), includes 3,845 comments categorized into four classes: Not Offens…

Development of Turbulence in Post-shock Regions
Michael M. Foley, Philip Mocz, Blakesley Burkhart, Lars Hernquist, Alyssa Goodman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13291 https://

Development of Turbulence in Post-shock Regions
Supersonic isothermal turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. This work presents high-resolution AREPO hydrodynamical simulations of isolated shocks moving through supersonic turbulence to study the development and evolution of turbulence in the pre- and post-shock regions. We find that shocks can amplify turbulent energy in the post-shock region while inducing a preferential orientation for the vorticity. This results in the creation of anisotropic turbulence in the post-shock reg…

This is a fan creation of "Requiem", the never-before-seen final episode (based on the actual script) of the animated series, "Dungeons & Dragons".
▶️ Dungeons & Dragons Animated Series: Requiem The Final Episode (A fan made production revised)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=…

ADHO (adho.org) updates at the opening of #DH2025 from Diane and Michael - the Italian Digital Humanities association officially joins ADHO, and announces awards including the Zampoli prize to Stylo software, the conference bursaries winners and Fortier prize nominees. Also note the Code of Conduct!

Is it just me or is the one thing missing on the Microsoft #Windows10 ISO download page the ISO download? 🤔
"You’ve been routed to this page because the operating system you’re using won’t support the Windows 10 media creation tool and we want to make sure you can download Windows 10. To use the media creation tool, visit the Microsoft Software Download Windows 10 page from a Windows 7…

Amazon debuts a chatbot-style assistant to help advertisers use AI to make ads, which can run across Amazon's ad inventory and platforms that have Amazon deals (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-aims-t

Ideal Fermi gas in the Dunkl formalism
Djamel Eddine Zenkhri, Abdelhakim Benkrane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11806 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11806

Ideal Fermi gas in the Dunkl formalism
This paper investigates the thermodynamic properties of an ideal Fermi gas within the framework of the Dunkl formalism, which incorporates deformation effects through reflection symmetric differential operators. The formalism is applied to reformulate the creation and annihilation operators, leading to modified expressions for the fundamental thermodynamic quantities while preserving the underlying Fermi Dirac statistics. We derived modified expressions for the main thermodynamic quantities. In…

Quantum state engineering of maximally entangled photon pairs by path identity
Richard Bernecker, Baghdasar Baghdasaryan, Stephan Fritzsche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13638 http…

Quantum state engineering of maximally entangled photon pairs by path identity
Cutting-edge quantum technologies lean on sources of high-dimensional entangled states (HDES) that reliably prepare high-fidelity target states. The idea to overlap photon paths from distinct but indistinguishable sources was recently introduced for the creation of HDES, known as entanglement by path identity. In this regard, the use of orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes is promising, as they offer a high-dimensional and discrete Hilbert space to encode information. While entanglement by path…

Join us today for 'Relational Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: A Workshop of the Epistemic Justice Network', following from the UNESCO Chairs Forum in Dakar.
UKFIET Conference in Oxford, Wednesday, 17 September, 13:30-15:00
We will brainstorm actionable ideas for achieving epistemic justice as we face broader global challenges of opposition, to imagine visions and learn from lived experiences of reparative partnerships for research and knowledge co-creation.

On quantum creation of a toroidal universe
Alan H. Guth, Alexander Vilenkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08747 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08747

On quantum creation of a toroidal universe
We consider the quantum creation of a universe with flat spatial sections and the topology of a 3-torus, taking into account the effect of Casimir energy. We show that the corresponding instantons are singular. Since these instantons describe universes originating in a state of infinite energy, we argue that they cannot be interpreted as quantum creation from `nothing'. If quantum corrections to the energy-momentum tensor are neglected, the spacetime of the toroidal universe reduces to de Sitte…

Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality
Yanming Xiu, Joshua Chilukuri, Shunav Sen, Maria Gorlatova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12498

Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality
As augmented reality (AR) applications increasingly require 3D content, generative pipelines driven by natural input such as speech offer an alternative to manual asset creation. In this work, we design a modular, edge-assisted architecture that supports both direct text-to-3D and text-image-to-3D pathways, enabling interchangeable integration of state-of-the-art components and systematic comparison of their performance in AR settings. Using this architecture, we implement and evaluate four rep…

FlightDiffusion: Revolutionising Autonomous Drone Training with Diffusion Models Generating FPV Video
Valerii Serpiva, Artem Lykov, Faryal Batool, Vladislav Kozlovskiy, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Dzmitry Tsetserukou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14082

FlightDiffusion: Revolutionising Autonomous Drone Training with Diffusion Models Generating FPV Video
We present FlightDiffusion, a diffusion-model-based framework for training autonomous drones from first-person view (FPV) video. Our model generates realistic video sequences from a single frame, enriched with corresponding action spaces to enable reasoning-driven navigation in dynamic environments. Beyond direct policy learning, FlightDiffusion leverages its generative capabilities to synthesize diverse FPV trajectories and state-action pairs, facilitating the creation of large-scale training …

Doubling bifurcations of invariant closed curves in 3D maps
Sayanho Biswas, Soumitro Banerjee, Viktor Avrutin, Iryna Sushko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12943 https://

Doubling bifurcations of invariant closed curves in 3D maps
Numerous studies have reported two types of doubling of invariant closed curves (ICCs) in dynamical systems: (a) the creation of two disjoint ICCs such that iterations flip between them; and (b) the creation of a single ICC of double the length of the original ICC. Various methods have been proposed to analyze such bifurcations. We show that the methods proposed so far are not always adequate for analyzing and predicting these bifurcations. We propose a new method to overcome the difficulties.

From Variability To Accuracy: Conditional Bernoulli Diffusion Models with Consensus-Driven Correction for Thin Structure Segmentation
Jinseo An, Min Jin Lee, Kyu Won Shim, Helen Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12985

From Variability To Accuracy: Conditional Bernoulli Diffusion Models with Consensus-Driven Correction for Thin Structure Segmentation
Accurate segmentation of orbital bones in facial computed tomography (CT) images is essential for the creation of customized implants for reconstruction of defected orbital bones, particularly challenging due to the ambiguous boundaries and thin structures such as the orbital medial wall and orbital floor. In these ambiguous regions, existing segmentation approaches often output disconnected or under-segmented results. We propose a novel framework that corrects segmentation results by leveragin…

Interesting French government analysis on alternatives to diesel trucks. Battery-electric superior to alternatives on many points (energy efficiency, CO2 reduction, local value creation in production 100% French energy). Upfront TCO costs still higher.
https://www.

Creating Through Limitations – Scales of Creation
#CreativeProcess #composing
https://mu…

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

LD-LAudio-V1: Video-to-Long-Form-Audio Generation Extension with Dual Lightweight Adapters
Haomin Zhang, Kristin Qi, Shuxin Yang, Zihao Chen, Chaofan Ding, Xinhan Di
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11074

LD-LAudio-V1: Video-to-Long-Form-Audio Generation Extension with Dual Lightweight Adapters
Generating high-quality and temporally synchronized audio from video content is essential for video editing and post-production tasks, enabling the creation of semantically aligned audio for silent videos. However, most existing approaches focus on short-form audio generation for video segments under 10 seconds or rely on noisy datasets for long-form video-to-audio zsynthesis. To address these limitations, we introduce LD-LAudio-V1, an extension of state-of-the-art video-to-audio models and it …

A Multi-To-One Interview Paradigm for Efficient MLLM Evaluation
Ye Shen, Junying Wang, Farong Wen, Yijin Guo, Qi Jia, Zicheng Zhang, Guangtao Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14886

A Multi-To-One Interview Paradigm for Efficient MLLM Evaluation
The rapid progress of Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has spurred the creation of numerous benchmarks. However, conventional full-coverage Question-Answering evaluations suffer from high redundancy and low efficiency. Inspired by human interview processes, we propose a multi-to-one interview paradigm for efficient MLLM evaluation. Our framework consists of (i) a two-stage interview strategy with pre-interview and formal interview phases, (ii) dynamic adjustment of interviewer weights …

Activist investor Elliott announces a $2B stake in Workday and says the company's new multi-year plan will drive "substantial long-term value creation" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/workday-stock-elliott-activist.html

Workday stock climbs as activist investor Elliott takes $2 billion stake
Elliott Investment Management announced it a $2 billion stake in Workday.

I have to agree with Hofmann, LSD really lets you connect with nature in a way that’s unlike anything else. It’s not just seeing trees or animals differently, it’s like the walls between you and the world around you come down, and you feel everything’s alive and connected.
That experience makes it impossible to ignore how fragile and important all of this is, the plants, animals, the earth itself, and us too. It’s a reminder that we’re part of something bigger, and that caring for natu…

@… IIRC there's no error at the time of creation.
Old notes to self (I'll not attempt to decipher them, now):
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/

Circuit Partitioning for the Quantum Internet
Leo S\"unkel, Thomas Gabor, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14413 https://arxiv.org/p…

Circuit Partitioning for the Quantum Internet
In a quantum internet, quantum processing units (QPUs) with varying architectures and capabilities may be connected through quantum communication channels, enabling new applications such as distributed quantum computing (DQC), a paradigm in which multiple QPUs execute a single circuit. However, remote operations between QPUs are expensive as they require the creation and distribution of entanglement throughout the network. It is therefore crucial to assign qubits to QPUs and partition circuits …

Automated Creation of the Legal Knowledge Graph Addressing Legislation on Violence Against Women: Resource, Methodology and Lessons Learned
Claudia dAmato, Giuseppe Rubini, Francesco Didio, Donato Francioso, Fatima Zahra Amara, Nicola Fanizzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06368

Automated Creation of the Legal Knowledge Graph Addressing Legislation on Violence Against Women: Resource, Methodology and Lessons Learned
Legal decision-making process requires the availability of comprehensive and detailed legislative background knowledge and up-to-date information on legal cases and related sentences/decisions. Legal Knowledge Graphs (KGs) would be a valuable tool to facilitate access to legal information, to be queried and exploited for the purpose, and to enable advanced reasoning and machine learning applications. Indeed, legal KGs may act as knowledge intensive component to be used by pre-dictive machine le…

Automated Creation and Enrichment Framework for Improved Invocation of Enterprise APIs as Tools
Prerna Agarwal, Himanshu Gupta, Soujanya Soni, Rohith Vallam, Renuka Sindhgatta, Sameep Mehta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11626

Automated Creation and Enrichment Framework for Improved Invocation of Enterprise APIs as Tools
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) has lead to the development of agents capable of complex reasoning and interaction with external tools. In enterprise contexts, the effective use of such tools that are often enabled by application programming interfaces (APIs), is hindered by poor documentation, complex input or output schema, and large number of operations. These challenges make tool selection difficult and reduce the accuracy of payload formation by up to 25%. We propose AC…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[2/2]:
- SPG: Style-Prompting Guidance for Style-Specific Content Creation
Qian Liang, Zichong Chen, Yang Zhou, Hui Huang

Democrats are calling for the creation of a state equivalent of the National Institutes of Health,
but first state lawmakers and then voters would need to approve it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/cali

California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research
Democrats are calling for the creation of a state equivalent of the National Institutes of Health, but first state lawmakers and then voters would need to approve it.

tag yourself

Somebody at Apple had a meeting and came out of it saying, “Yes. Put Freeform in the dock by default. On every Mac.” #imaginethemeeting

wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…

Creation and destruction often come hand in hand.
On my free Substack, I write about holding tension without falling apart—and building something beautiful in the midst of unraveling. https://substack.com/@bricchapman

Bri Chapman | Substack
climate solutions enthusiast, machine learning engineer, recovering perfectionist, sailor, and aspiring jazz guitarist

New Artillery Brigade Insignia Unveiled: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/new-artillery-brigade-insignia-unveiled.html

Variable Selection Using Relative Importance Rankings
Tien-En Chang, Argon Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10853 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10853

Variable Selection Using Relative Importance Rankings
Although conceptually related, variable selection and relative importance (RI) analysis have been treated quite differently in the literature. While RI is typically used for post-hoc model explanation, this paper explores its potential for variable ranking and filter-based selection before model creation. Specifically, we anticipate strong performance from the RI measures because they incorporate both direct and combined effects of predictors, addressing a key limitation of marginal correlation…

- 📹 SRT subtitle creation
- 🔄 Workflow automation

IAB survey: 86% of digital ad buyers use or plan to use generative AI for video ad creation, and expect it will account for 40% of all video ads by 2026 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/07/iab-generative-ai-ctv-advertising-report/

IAB: Generative AI, connected TV platforms influencing ad production
More than half of advertisers are using generative AI to create spots, the IAB concludes in its latest report.

Who Decides How Knowing Becomes Doing? Redistributing Authority in Human-AI Music Co-Creation
Zhejing Hu, Yan Liu, Zhi Zhang, Gong Chen, Bruce X. B. Yu, Jiannong Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10331

Who Decides How Knowing Becomes Doing? Redistributing Authority in Human-AI Music Co-Creation
In the era of human-AI co-creation, the maxim "knowing is easy, doing is hard" is redefined. AI has the potential to ease execution, yet the essence of "hard" lies in who governs the translation from knowing to doing. Mainstream tools often centralize interpretive authority and homogenize expression, suppressing marginal voices. To address these challenges, we introduce the first systematic framework for redistributing authority in the knowing-doing cycle, built on three principles, namely cont…

Testing chatbots on the creation of encoders for audio conditioned image generation
Jorge E. Le\'on, Miguel Carrasco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09717 https://

Testing chatbots on the creation of encoders for audio conditioned image generation
On one hand, recent advances in chatbots has led to a rising popularity in using these models for coding tasks. On the other hand, modern generative image models primarily rely on text encoders to translate semantic concepts into visual representations, even when there is clear evidence that audio can be employed as input as well. Given the previous, in this work, we explore whether state-of-the-art conversational agents can design effective audio encoders to replace the CLIP text encoder from …

Non-commutative creation operators for symmetric polynomials
A. Mironov, A. Morozov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07255 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07255

Non-commutative creation operators for symmetric polynomials
We reconsider in modern terms the old discovery by A. Kirillov and M. Noumi, who devised peculiar operators adding columns to Young diagrams enumerating the Schur, Jack and Macdonald polynomials. In this sense, these are a kind of ``creation'' operators, representing Pieri rules in a maximally simple form, when boxes are added to Young diagrams in a regular way and not to arbitrary ``empty places'' around the diagram. Instead the operators do not commute, and one should add columns of different…

Gravitational collapse with torsion and universe in a black hole
Nikodem Pop{\l}awski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11468 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11468

Gravitational collapse with torsion and universe in a black hole
We consider gravitational collapse of a fluid sphere with torsion generated by spin, which forms a black hole. We use the Tolman metric and the Einstein$-$Cartan field equations with a relativistic spin fluid as a source. We show that gravitational repulsion of torsion prevents a singularity, replacing it with a nonsingular bounce. Quantum particle creation during contraction prevents shear from overcoming torsion. Particle creation during expansion can generate a finite period of inflation and…

Amazon debuts a chatbot-style assistant to help advertisers use AI to make ads, which can run across Amazon's ad inventory and platforms that have Amazon deals (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-aims-t

Creating Through Limitations – Scales of Creation
#MusicTheory #CreativeProcess
https://

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

CraftMesh: High-Fidelity Generative Mesh Manipulation via Poisson Seamless Fusion
James Jincheng, Youcheng Cai, Ligang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13688 https://

CraftMesh: High-Fidelity Generative Mesh Manipulation via Poisson Seamless Fusion
Controllable, high-fidelity mesh editing remains a significant challenge in 3D content creation. Existing generative methods often struggle with complex geometries and fail to produce detailed results. We propose CraftMesh, a novel framework for high-fidelity generative mesh manipulation via Poisson Seamless Fusion. Our key insight is to decompose mesh editing into a pipeline that leverages the strengths of 2D and 3D generative models: we edit a 2D reference image, then generate a region-specif…

Puppeteer: Rig and Animate Your 3D Models
Chaoyue Song, Xiu Li, Fan Yang, Zhongcong Xu, Jiacheng Wei, Fayao Liu, Jiashi Feng, Guosheng Lin, Jianfeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10898

Puppeteer: Rig and Animate Your 3D Models
Modern interactive applications increasingly demand dynamic 3D content, yet the transformation of static 3D models into animated assets constitutes a significant bottleneck in content creation pipelines. While recent advances in generative AI have revolutionized static 3D model creation, rigging and animation continue to depend heavily on expert intervention. We present Puppeteer, a comprehensive framework that addresses both automatic rigging and animation for diverse 3D objects. Our system fi…

Findings of the Third Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) Challenge
Kartik Shinde, Laurent Besacier, Ondrej Bojar, Thibaut Thonet, Tirthankar Ghosal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13814 ht…

Findings of the Third Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) Challenge
This paper presents the third edition of AutoMin, a shared task on automatic meeting summarization into minutes. In 2025, AutoMin featured the main task of minuting, the creation of structured meeting minutes, as well as a new task: question answering (QA) based on meeting transcripts. The minuting task covered two languages, English and Czech, and two domains: project meetings and European Parliament sessions. The QA task focused solely on project meetings and was available in two settings: …

Spirals, vortices, and helicity entanglements in dynamical Sauter-Schwinger pair creation
M. M. Majczak, K. Krajewska, A. Bechler, J. Z. Kami\'nski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08720

Spirals, vortices, and helicity entanglements in dynamical Sauter-Schwinger pair creation
We study helicity correlations of electron-positron pairs created by a homogeneous time-dependent electric field in the Sauter-Schwinger scenario. Our analysis is based on solving the Dirac equation with the Feynman or anti-Feynman boundary conditions, which is equivalent to the scattering matrix approach widely used in high energy physics. Most importantly, both these methods allow to fully account for the helicity (or, more generally, spin) correlations of created particles. The influence of …

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Local nanoscale probing of electron spins using NV centers in diamond
Sergei Trofimov, Christos Thessalonikios, Victor Deinhart, Alexander Spyrantis, Lucas Tsunaki, Kseniia Volkova, Katja H\"oflich, Boris Naydenon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13295

Local nanoscale probing of electron spins using NV centers in diamond
Substitutional nitrogen atoms in a diamond crystal (P1 centers) are, on one hand, a resource for creation of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, that have been widely employed as nanoscale quantum sensors. On the other hand, P1's electron spin is a source of paramagnetic noise that degrades the NV's performance by shortening its coherence time. Accurate quantification of nitrogen concentration is therefore essential for optimizing diamond-based quantum devices. However, bulk characterization methods…

Understanding the Video Content Creation Journey of Creators with Sensory Impairment in Kenya
Lan Xiao, Maryam Bandukda, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Mark Colley, Catherine Holloway
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08108

Understanding the Video Content Creation Journey of Creators with Sensory Impairment in Kenya
Video content creation offers vital opportunities for expression and participation, yet remains largely inaccessible to creators with sensory impairments, especially in low-resource settings. We conducted interviews with 20 video creators with visual and hearing impairments in Kenya to examine their tools, challenges, and collaborative practices. Our findings show that accessibility barriers and infrastructural limitations shape video creation as a staged, collaborative process involving truste…

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AutoMashup: Automatic Music Mashups Creation
Marine Delabaere (IMT Atlantique), L\'ea Miqueu (IMT Atlantique), Michael Moreno (IMT Atlantique), Gautier Bigois (IMT Atlantique), Hoang Duong (IMT Atlantique), Ella Fernandez (IMT Atlantique), Flavie Manent (IMT Atlantique), Maria Salgado-Herrera (IMT Atlantique), Bastien Pasdeloup (Lab\_STICC\_BRAIn, IMT Atlantique - MEE, IMT Atlantique), Nicolas Farrugia (Lab\_STICC\_BRAIn, IMT Atlantique - MEE, IMT Atlantique), Axel Marmoret (Lab\_S…

AutoMashup: Automatic Music Mashups Creation
We introduce AutoMashup, a system for automatic mashup creation based on source separation, music analysis, and compatibility estimation. We propose using COCOLA to assess compatibility between separated stems and investigate whether general-purpose pretrained audio models (CLAP and MERT) can support zero-shot estimation of track pair compatibility. Our results show that mashup compatibility is asymmetric -- it depends on the role assigned to each track (vocals or accompaniment) -- and that cur…

Op-Fed: Opinion, Stance, and Monetary Policy Annotations on FOMC Transcripts Using Active Learning
Alisa Kanganis, Katherine A. Keith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13539 https://…

Op-Fed: Opinion, Stance, and Monetary Policy Annotations on FOMC Transcripts Using Active Learning
The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) regularly discusses and sets monetary policy, affecting the borrowing and spending decisions of millions of people. In this work, we release Op-Fed, a dataset of 1044 human-annotated sentences and their contexts from FOMC transcripts. We faced two major technical challenges in dataset creation: imbalanced classes -- we estimate fewer than 8% of sentences express a non-neutral stance towards monetary policy -- and inter-sentence dependence -- 65% of …

Mubi's founder and CEO responds to criticism of Mubi's acceptance of Sequoia funding, after some directors criticized it over Sequoia's ties to Israeli military (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/mubi-ceo-re…

Mubi CEO Responds to Backlash Over Sequoia Investment
Mubi's Efe Cakarel has issued a letter detailing its relationship with Sequoia, and unveiled the creation of a watchdog body and fund for artists.

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AI-assisted JSON Schema Creation and Mapping
Felix Neubauer, J\"urgen Pleiss, Benjamin Uekermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05192 https://arxiv.org/pd…

AI-assisted JSON Schema Creation and Mapping
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) places models at the core of system and data engineering processes. In the context of research data, these models are typically expressed as schemas that define the structure and semantics of datasets. However, many domains still lack standardized models, and creating them remains a significant barrier, especially for non-experts. We present a hybrid approach that combines large language models (LLMs) with deterministic techniques to enable JSON Schema creation, m…

Phase-Induced Particle Creation in the Kappa-Gamma Vacuum
Arash Azizi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05299 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.052…

Phase-Induced Particle Creation in the Kappa-Gamma Vacuum
We introduce a two-parameter ($κ, γ$) family of field modes in flat spacetime that generalizes the recently developed $κ$-plane wave modes, which correspond to real squeezing. By incorporating a phase parameter, $γ$, our new kappa gamma plane wave modes describe a vacuum state, $| 0_{κ,γ} \rangle$, characterized by continuous-mode phase squeezing, where $κ$ governs the squeezing magnitude and $γ$ sets its angle. This generalization reveals a novel physical effect: particle creation…

Spacetime Grand Unified Theory
Gon\c{c}alo M. Quinta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11564 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11564

Spacetime Grand Unified Theory
The Standard Model of particle physics is derived from first principles starting from the free Dirac Lagrangian. All known fermionic particle species plus three right handed neutrinos are obtained from ideals of a $C\ell_{8}$ algebra, with gauge symmetries arising as rotations of creation-annihilation operators and vacua. Triality originates both the strong force and three particle families with a mass hierarchy. Lorentz and gauge transformations are unified while avoiding the Coleman-Mandula t…

Nvidia unveils Rubin CPX, a new chip system designed for AI tasks like video generation and software creation, set to launch at the end of 2026 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/nvidia-unve…

The Creation of Particles in an Expanding Universe
Leonard E. Parker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05372 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.0537…

The Creation of Particles in an Expanding Universe
This document is the Ph.D. thesis of Leonard Parker, submitted to Harvard University in 1966. Over the decades, several generations of physicists have been introduced to the concept of particle creation by gravitational fields, a phenomenon that has become a cornerstone in exploring the interplay between gravitation and quantum theory. Yet, the foundational breakthrough that led to the prediction and understanding of this phenomenon remains unfamiliar to many. In the interest of historical accu…

LazyDrag: Enabling Stable Drag-Based Editing on Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers via Explicit Correspondence
Zixin Yin, Xili Dai, Duomin Wang, Xianfang Zeng, Lionel M. Ni, Gang Yu, Heung-Yeung Shum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12203

LazyDrag: Enabling Stable Drag-Based Editing on Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers via Explicit Correspondence
The reliance on implicit point matching via attention has become a core bottleneck in drag-based editing, resulting in a fundamental compromise on weakened inversion strength and costly test-time optimization (TTO). This compromise severely limits the generative capabilities of diffusion models, suppressing high-fidelity inpainting and text-guided creation. In this paper, we introduce LazyDrag, the first drag-based image editing method for Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers, which directly elim…

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Comment on "Properties and dynamics of generalized squeezed states"
Rub\'en Gordillo, Ricardo Puebla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12250 https:/…

Comment on "Properties and dynamics of generalized squeezed states"
A recent article [S. Ashhab and M. Ayyash, New J. Phys. 27, 054104 (2025)] has reported unexpected oscillatory dynamics in generalized squeezed states of order higher than two as their squeezing parameter increases. This behaviour, observed through numerical simulations using truncated bosonic annihilation and creation operators, appeared in several properties of these states, including their average photon number. The authors argued that these oscillations reflect a genuine physical effect. He…

Empowering LLMs with Parameterized Skills for Adversarial Long-Horizon Planning
Sijia Cui, Shuai Xu, Aiyao He, Yanna Wang, Bo Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13127 https://…

Empowering LLMs with Parameterized Skills for Adversarial Long-Horizon Planning
Recent advancements in Large Language Models(LLMs) have led to the development of LLM-based AI agents. A key challenge is the creation of agents that can effectively ground themselves in complex, adversarial long-horizon environments. Existing methods mainly focus on (1) using LLMs as policies to interact with the environment through generating low-level feasible actions, and (2) utilizing LLMs to generate high-level tasks or language guides to stimulate action generation. However, the former s…

Hardness, Structural Knowledge, and Opportunity: An Analytical Framework for Modular Performance Modeling
Omid Gheibi, Christian K\"astner, Pooyan Jamshidi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11000

Hardness, Structural Knowledge, and Opportunity: An Analytical Framework for Modular Performance Modeling
Performance-influence models are beneficial for understanding how configurations affect system performance, but their creation is challenging due to the exponential growth of configuration spaces. While gray-box approaches leverage selective "structural knowledge" (like the module execution graph of the system) to improve modeling, the relationship between this knowledge, a system's characteristics (we call them "structural aspects"), and potential model improvements is not well understood. Thi…

Plant-Centric Metaverse: A Biocentric-Creation Framework for Ecological Art and Digital Symbiosis
Ze Gao, Mengyao Guo, Zheng Wang, Xiaolin Zhang, Sihuang Man
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04391

Plant-Centric Metaverse: A Biocentric-Creation Framework for Ecological Art and Digital Symbiosis
Digital ecological art represents an emergent frontier where biological media converge with virtual environments. This study examines the paradigm shift from anthropocentric to plant-centered artistic narratives within the metaverse, contextualizing how digital platforms transform ecological expression. However, current frameworks fail to systematically guide artists in leveraging plant agency for digital symbiosis that transcends human-centered creation. We propose the Biocentric-Creation Tran…

AutoStub: Genetic Programming-Based Stub Creation for Symbolic Execution
Felix M\"achtle, Nils Loose, Jan-Niclas Serr, Jonas Sander, Thomas Eisenbarth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08524

AutoStub: Genetic Programming-Based Stub Creation for Symbolic Execution
Symbolic execution is a powerful technique for software testing, but suffers from limitations when encountering external functions, such as native methods or third-party libraries. Existing solutions often require additional context, expensive SMT solvers, or manual intervention to approximate these functions through symbolic stubs. In this work, we propose a novel approach to automatically generate symbolic stubs for external functions during symbolic execution that leverages Genetic Programmi…

DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling
Jiangnan Xu, Haeseul Cha, Gosu Choi, Gyu-cheol Lee, Yeo-Jin Yoon, Zucheul Lee, Konstantinos Papangelis, Dae Hyun Kim, Juho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11628

DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling
An interactive vignette is a popular and immersive visual storytelling approach that invites viewers to role-play a character and influences the narrative in an interactive environment. However, it has not been widely used by everyday storytellers yet due to authoring complexity, which conflicts with the immediacy of everyday storytelling. We introduce DiaryPlay, an AI-assisted authoring system for interactive vignette creation in everyday storytelling. It takes a natural language story as inpu…

Hierarchical Fine-grained Preference Optimization for Physically Plausible Video Generation
Harold Haodong Chen, Haojian Huang, Qifeng Chen, Harry Yang, Ser-Nam Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10858

Hierarchical Fine-grained Preference Optimization for Physically Plausible Video Generation
Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the creation of high-quality, visually compelling videos. However, generating videos that adhere to the laws of physics remains a critical challenge for applications requiring realism and accuracy. In this work, we propose PhysHPO, a novel framework for Hierarchical Cross-Modal Direct Preference Optimization, to tackle this challenge by enabling fine-grained preference alignment for physically plausible video generation. PhysHPO optimizes vid…

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Symphony of Creation: Understanding What It Takes To Compose
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Adiabatically driven dissipative many-body quantum spin systems
Paulo J. Paulino, Stefan Teufel, Federico Carollo, Igor Lesanovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12075 https://

Adiabatically driven dissipative many-body quantum spin systems
We explore the evolution of a strongly interacting dissipative quantum Ising spin chain that is driven by a slowly varying time-dependent transverse field. This system possesses an extensive number of instantaneous (adiabatic) stationary states which are coupled through non-adiabatic transitions. We analytically calculate the generator of the ensuing slow dynamics and analyze the creation of coherences through non-adiabatic processes. For a certain choice of the transverse field shape, we show …

Exploring Collaboration Patterns and Strategies in Human-AI Co-creation through the Lens of Agency: A Scoping Review of the Top-tier HCI Literature
Shuning Zhang, Hui Wang, Xin Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06000

Exploring Collaboration Patterns and Strategies in Human-AI Co-creation through the Lens of Agency: A Scoping Review of the Top-tier HCI Literature
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an active collaborator in co-creation, understanding the distribution and dynamic of agency is paramount. The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) perspective is crucial for this analysis, as it uniquely reveals the interaction dynamics and specific control mechanisms that dictate how agency manifests in practice. Despite this importance, a systematic synthesis mapping agency configurations and control mechanisms within the HCI/CSCW literature is…

Few-Part-Shot Font Generation
Masaki Akiba, Shumpei Takezaki, Daichi Haraguchi, Seiichi Uchida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10006 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Few-Part-Shot Font Generation
This paper proposes a novel model of few-part-shot font generation, which designs an entire font based on a set of partial design elements, i.e., partial shapes. Unlike conventional few-shot font generation, which requires entire character shapes for a couple of character classes, our approach only needs partial shapes as input. The proposed model not only improves the efficiency of font creation but also provides insights into how partial design details influence the entire structure of the in…

Generative AI-Enabled Adaptive Learning Platform: How I Can Help You Pass Your Driving Test?
Riya Gill, Ievgeniia Kuzminykh, Maher Salem, Bogdan Ghita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11438

Generative AI-Enabled Adaptive Learning Platform: How I Can Help You Pass Your Driving Test?
This study aims to develop an adaptive learning platform that leverages generative AI to automate assessment creation and feedback delivery. The platform provides self-correcting tests and personalised feedback that adapts to each learners progress and history, ensuring a tailored learning experience. The study involves the development and evaluation of a web-based application for revision for the UK Driving Theory Test. The platform generates dynamic, non-repetitive question sets and offers ad…

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I bargained with myself: "OK. If you're going to take this detour from your big project, you must set limits."
Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
https://muz4now.com/2025/creating-through-limitations-scales-of-creation/…

Creating Through Limitations - Scales of Creation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now