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Ja, nein, aber: Die Reduktion der Kosten für die Vergabe von Forschungsmitteln ist halt auch nur ein Ziel, das gegen andere abzuwägen wäre (z.B. im Fall der Vergabe durch Lotterie, durch den Wert der Fairness und den evtl. demotivierenden Effekt).
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

dHPR: A Distributed Halpern Peaceman--Rachford Method for Non-smooth Distributed Optimization Problems
Zhangcheng Feng, Defeng Sun, Yancheng Yuan, Guojun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10069 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10069 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10069
arXiv:2511.10069v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper introduces the distributed Halpern Peaceman--Rachford (dHPR) method, an efficient algorithm for solving distributed convex composite optimization problems with non-smooth objectives, which achieves a non-ergodic $O(1/k)$ iteration complexity regarding Karush--Kuhn--Tucker residual. By leveraging the symmetric Gauss--Seidel decomposition, the dHPR effectively decouples the linear operators in the objective functions and consensus constraints while maintaining parallelizability and avoiding additional large proximal terms, leading to a decentralized implementation with provably fast convergence. The superior performance of dHPR is demonstrated through comprehensive numerical experiments on distributed LASSO, group LASSO, and $L_1$-regularized logistic regression problems.
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Tiny birds, and their tiny superfood, could decline due to ‘irreversible’ effects of Vancouver port expansion
The Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion at Canada’s busiest cargo port could be fast-tracked by the federal government. It’s a major stop for 3.5 million western sandpipers to eat and recharge while travelling the entire Pacific
From The Narwhal

Port of Vancouver expansion threatens superfood ecocsystem | The Narwhal
Roberts Bank Terminal 2 could lead to ‘irreversible’ change in the Fraser estuary, a critical feeding ground for western sandpiper flocks

Fast Visuomotor Policy for Robotic Manipulation
Jingkai Jia, Tong Yang, Xueyao Chen, Chenhuan Liu, Wenqiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12483 https://…

Fast Visuomotor Policy for Robotic Manipulation
We present a fast and effective policy framework for robotic manipulation, named Energy Policy, designed for high-frequency robotic tasks and resource-constrained systems. Unlike existing robotic policies, Energy Policy natively predicts multimodal actions in a single forward pass, enabling high-precision manipulation at high speed. The framework is built upon two core components. First, we adopt the energy score as the learning objective to facilitate multimodal action modeling. Second, we int…

Towards Fast Coarse-graining and Equation Discovery with Foundation Inference Models
Manuel Hinz, Maximilian Mauel, Patrick Seifner, David Berghaus, Kostadin Cvejoski, Ramses J. Sanchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12618

Towards Fast Coarse-graining and Equation Discovery with Foundation Inference Models
High-dimensional recordings of dynamical processes are often characterized by a much smaller set of effective variables, evolving on low-dimensional manifolds. Identifying these latent dynamics requires solving two intertwined problems: discovering appropriate coarse-grained variables and simultaneously fitting the governing equations. Most machine learning approaches tackle these tasks jointly by training autoencoders together with models that enforce dynamical consistency. We propose to decou…