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Zero-Shot Image Anomaly Detection Using Generative Foundation Models
Lemar Abdi, Amaan Valiuddin, Francisco Caetano, Christiaan Viviers, Fons van der Sommen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22692

Zero-Shot Image Anomaly Detection Using Generative Foundation Models
Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs is pivotal for deploying safe vision systems in open-world environments. We revisit diffusion models, not as generators, but as universal perceptual templates for OOD detection. This research explores the use of score-based generative models as foundational tools for semantic anomaly detection across unseen datasets. Specifically, we leverage the denoising trajectories of Denoising Diffusion Models (DDMs) as a rich source of texture and semantic inform…

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, Faith Leaders Denounce Trump Threat to Deploy National Guard to American Cities (Office of the District Attorney)
https://phillyda.org/news/philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner-faith-leaders-denounce-trump-threat-to-deploy-national-guard-to-american-cities/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p41#a250814p41

It could also be that Trump is a racist. Instead of just echoing chapters when language was used to paint with racist narratives.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-dc-takeover-race-39388597bad7e70085079888fe7fb57b…

Trump's DC police takeover echoes history of racist narratives about crime
President Donald Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention. The Republican president has taken control of Washington’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital. Guard troops arrived at their Washington headquarte…

Quantization Meets dLLMs: A Systematic Study of Post-training Quantization for Diffusion LLMs
Haokun Lin, Haobo Xu, Yichen Wu, Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang, Zhichao Lu, Ying Wei, Qingfu Zhang, Zhenan Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14896

Quantization Meets dLLMs: A Systematic Study of Post-training Quantization for Diffusion LLMs
Recent advances in diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have introduced a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs for natural language generation tasks, leveraging full attention and denoising-based decoding strategies. However, the deployment of these models on edge devices remains challenging due to their massive parameter scale and high resource demands. While post-training quantization (PTQ) has emerged as a widely adopted technique for compressing AR LLMs, its applicability to…

In Washington D.C. the National Guard arrived at their headquarters Tuesday
-- For many residents, the prospect of federal troops surging into neighborhoods represented an alarming violation of local agency.
It echoes uncomfortable historical chapters when politicians used racism to paint historically or predominantly Black cities and neighborhoods with bigoted narratives to shape public opinion and justify aggressive police action.

Trump's DC police takeover echoes history of racist narratives about crime
President Donald Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention. The Republican president has taken control of Washington’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital. Guard troops arrived at their Washington headquarte…

DynaGuide: Steering Diffusion Polices with Active Dynamic Guidance
Maximilian Du, Shuran Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13922 https://

DynaGuide: Steering Diffusion Polices with Active Dynamic Guidance
Deploying large, complex policies in the real world requires the ability to steer them to fit the needs of a situation. Most common steering approaches, like goal-conditioning, require training the robot policy with a distribution of test-time objectives in mind. To overcome this limitation, we present DynaGuide, a steering method for diffusion policies using guidance from an external dynamics model during the diffusion denoising process. DynaGuide separates the dynamics model from the base pol…

Diffusion Tensor MRI and Spherical-Deconvolution-Based Tractography on an Ultra-Low Field Portable MRI System
James Gholam, Phil Schmid, Joshua Ametepe, Alix Plumley, Leandro Beltrachini, Francesco Padormo, Rui Teixeira, Rafael OHalloran, Kaloian Petkov, Klaus Engel, Steven CR Williams, Sean Deoni, Mara Cercignani, Derek K Jones
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Diffusion Tensor MRI and Spherical-Deconvolution-Based Tractography on an Ultra-Low Field Portable MRI System
Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI is emerging as an alternative modality to high-field (HF) MRI due to its lower cost, minimal siting requirements, portability, and enhanced accessibility factors that enable large-scale deployment. Although ULF-MRI exhibits lower signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), advanced imaging and data-driven denoising methods enabled by high-performance computing have made contrasts like diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) feasible at ULF. This study investigates the potential and limitati…