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Grapheme-Coherent Phonemic and Prosodic Annotation of Speech by Implicit and Explicit Grapheme Conditioning
Hien Ohnaka, Yuma Shirahata, Byeongseon Park, Ryuichi Yamamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04527

Grapheme-Coherent Phonemic and Prosodic Annotation of Speech by Implicit and Explicit Grapheme Conditioning
We propose a model to obtain phonemic and prosodic labels of speech that are coherent with graphemes. Unlike previous methods that simply fine-tune a pre-trained ASR model with the labels, the proposed model conditions the label generation on corresponding graphemes by two methods: 1) Add implicit grapheme conditioning through prompt encoder using pre-trained BERT features. 2) Explicitly prune the label hypotheses inconsistent with the grapheme during inference. These methods enable obtaining p…

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
DAYNA: And if we agree?
ULTRA 1: We shall reconsider the fate of your friends. And, of course, yourselves.
TARRANT: Is that the best you can do? No deal.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/506 B7B5

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Esoteric Language Models
Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Zhihan Yang, Yash Akhauri, Johnna Liu, Deepansha Singh, Zhoujun Cheng, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric Xing, John Thickstun, Arash Vahdat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01928

Esoteric Language Models
Diffusion-based language models offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) models by enabling parallel and controllable generation. Among this family of models, Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) achieve the strongest performance but still underperform AR models in perplexity and lack key inference-time efficiency features--most notably, KV caching. In this work, we introduce Eso-LMs, a new family of models that fuses AR and MDM paradigms, enabling smooth interpolation between their perp…

Diversity of Cold Worlds: A Near Complete Spectral Energy Distribution for 2MASS J04151954-0935066 using JWST
Sherelyn Alejandro Merchan, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Genaro Su\'arez, Kelle L. Cruz, Adam J. Burgasser, Jonathan Gagn\'e, Callie E. Hood, Eileen C. Gonzales, Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi, Jolie L'Heureux, Johanna M. Vos, Adam C. Schneider, Aaron M. Meisner, Caroline Morley, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Federico Marocco, Rocio Kiman, Charles A. Beichman, Ben Burningham, Dan …

Diversity of Cold Worlds: A Near Complete Spectral Energy Distribution for 2MASS J04151954-0935066 using JWST
We present the a near complete spectral energy distribution (SED) for an extrasolar world: the T8 brown dwarf 2MASS~J04151954$-$0935066. Spanning from optical to mid-infrared (0.7--20.4 micron) wavelengths, the SED for this substellar atmosphere is constructed from new JWST NIRSpec G395H ($R\sim$2700) and Magellan FIRE echelle ($R\sim$8000) near-infrared spectra, along with MIRI mid-infrared photometry complemented by spectra from Keck I, IRTF, Magellan, AKARI, Spitzer and photometry from vario…

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
DAYNA: And if we agree?
ULTRA 1: We shall reconsider the fate of your friends. And, of course, yourselves.
TARRANT: Is that the best you can do? No deal.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/506 B7B5

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Predicting protein folding dynamics using sequence information
Ezequiel A. Galpern, Federico Caama\~no, Diego U. Ferreiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17237 …

Predicting protein folding dynamics using sequence information
Natural protein sequences somehow encode the structural forms that these molecules adopt. Recent developments in structure-prediction are agnostic to the mechanisms by which proteins fold and represent them as static objects. However, the amino acid sequences also encode information about how the folding process can happen, and how variations in the sequences impact on the populations of the distinct structural forms that proteins acquire. Here we present a method to infer protein folding dynam…

Critics of DEI often argue, that these programs promote hires purely on ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation while the qualification gets neglected.
If this was truely the case, then I would agree with them. These distinctive features should not play a role. However, the reality was (and apparently still is), that these factors do play a role and DEI measurements are an instrument to battle these, not to intensify them. The following example shows this best:
In 1942 - 1945 Nav…