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What is an "Abstract Reasoner"? Revisiting Experiments and Arguments about Large Language Models
Tian Yun, Chen Sun, Ellie Pavlick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22457 htt…

What is an "Abstract Reasoner"? Revisiting Experiments and Arguments about Large Language Models
Recent work has argued that large language models (LLMs) are not "abstract reasoners", citing their poor zero-shot performance on a variety of challenging tasks as evidence. We revisit these experiments in order to add nuance to the claim. First, we show that while LLMs indeed perform poorly in a zero-shot setting, even tuning a small subset of parameters for input encoding can enable near-perfect performance. However, we also show that this finetuning does not necessarily transfer across datas…

Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs: A Practitioner's Handbook
Clark Mingxuan Ju, Liam Collins, Leonardo Neves, Bhuvesh Kumar, Louis Yufeng Wang, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22224

Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs: A Practitioner's Handbook
Generative recommendation (GR) has gained increasing attention for its promising performance compared to traditional models. A key factor contributing to the success of GR is the semantic ID (SID), which converts continuous semantic representations (e.g., from large language models) into discrete ID sequences. This enables GR models with SIDs to both incorporate semantic information and learn collaborative filtering signals, while retaining the benefits of discrete decoding. However, varied mod…

Inducing ferromagnetism by structural engineering in a strongly spin-orbit coupled oxide
Ji Soo Lim, Carmine Autieri, Merit Spring, Martin Kamp, Amar Fakhredine, Pavel Potapov, Daniel Wolf, Sergii Pylypenko, Axel Lubk, Johannes Schultz, Nicolas Perez, B\"orge Mehlhorn, Louis Veyrat, Mario Cuoco, Fadi Choueikan, Philippe Ohresser, Bernd B\"uchner, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Ralph Claessen, Michael Sing

Inducing ferromagnetism by structural engineering in a strongly spin-orbit coupled oxide
Magnetic materials with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) are essential for the advancement of spin-orbitronic devices, as they enable efficient spin-charge conversion, complex magnetic structures, spin-valley physics, topological phases and other exotic phenomena. 5d transition-metal oxides such as SrIrO3 feature large SOC, but usually show paramagnetic behavior due to broad bands and a low density of states at the Fermi level, accompanied by a relatively low Coulomb repulsion. Here, we unveil …

Enabling Content Management Systems as an Information Source in Model-driven Projects
Joan Giner-Miguelez, Abel G\'omez, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19797 https:/…

Enabling Content Management Systems as an Information Source in Model-driven Projects
Content Management Systems (CMSs) are the most popular tool when it comes to create and publish content across the web. Recently, CMSs have evolved, becoming \emph{headless}. Content served by a \emph{headless CMS} aims to be consumed by other applications and services through REST APIs rather than by human users through a web browser. This evolution has enabled CMSs to become a notorious source of content to be used in a variety of contexts beyond pure web navigation. As such, CMS have become …

Scaling rules for multiphase flow in vertical Venturis
Meng-Ke Zhan, Cheng-Gang Xie, Jian-Jun Shu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23786 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Scaling rules for multiphase flow in vertical Venturis
Employing a suitable scaling rule in gas-liquid flow can produce dynamically comparable results, which helps in the development of flow models applicable to a wide range of flow conditions and reduces the carbon footprint; however, matching all dimensionless numbers in gas-liquid flow is a challenge. This study uses a computational fluid dynamics approach to identify key dimensionless numbers that can produce dimensionally equivalent results under a variety of flow conditions in the vertical Ve…

Cryogenic Materials Repository: A Public Resource and New Measurements for Cryogenic Research Applications
Henry E. Nachman (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics, Texas Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Austin, TX, USA), Oorie Desai (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics, Texas Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Austin, TX, USA), Nich…

Cryogenic Materials Repository: A Public Resource and New Measurements for Cryogenic Research Applications
Low-temperature systems play a vital role in a variety of scientific research applications, including the next generation of cosmology and astrophysics telescopes. More ambitious cryogenic applications require precise estimates of the thermal conductivity of materials and thermal joints to meet project goals. We present the development of the Cryogenic Material Repository (CMR), a public GitHub repository of cryogenic material properties data created to support and enable researchers across sci…

Sources: Paramount layoffs could affect 2,000 to 3,000 employees and are expected by early November; Paramount had 18,600 employees globally as of December 2024 (Brent Lang/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramoun…

Paramount Layoffs: Thousands of Job Cuts Expects by Early November
Paramount will enact steep layoffs by early November after closing its merger with Skydance.

The Transmission Line Model for 2D Materials and van der Waals Heterostructures
Tomer Eini, Anabel Atash Kahlon, Matan Meshulam, Thomas Poirier, James H. Edgar, Seth Ariel Tongay, Yarden Mazor, Itai Epstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22549

The Transmission Line Model for 2D Materials and van der Waals Heterostructures
Van der Waals heterostructures (VdWHs) composed of 2D materials have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their intriguing optical properties, such as strong light-matter interactions and large intrinsic anisotropy. In particular, VdWHs support a variety of polaritons-hybrid quasiparticles arising from the coupling between electromagnetic waves and material excitations-enabling the confinement of electromagnetic radiation to atomic scales. The ability to predict and simulate t…

Der Extremismus einer lebensmüden Ideologie, die unter dem Deckmantel-Framing von #Freiheit das Leben zig tausender Menschen riskiert und bereitwillig Leid und Elend akzeptiert, kennt keine Grenzen.
Die US Emergency Management Agency suspendiert Leute, die eben diese Gefahren anspricht. Ein Vorgehen, dass ich auch Leuten wie Dobrindt, Klöckner und ihren rechtsextremen Vortänzern bei der rec…

Overview of the ESCAPE Dark Matter Test Science Project for Astronomers
James Pearson, Hugh Dickinson, Sukanya Sinha, Stephen Serjeant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22609 https://

Overview of the ESCAPE Dark Matter Test Science Project for Astronomers
The search for dark matter has been ongoing for decades within both astrophysics and particle physics. Both fields have employed different approaches and conceived a variety of methods for constraining the properties of dark matter, but have done so in relative isolation of one another. From an astronomer's perspective, it can be challenging to interpret the results of dark matter particle physics experiments and how these results apply to astrophysical scales. Over the past few years, the ESCA…