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Connectivity Management in Satellite-Aided Vehicular Networks with Multi-Head Attention-Based State Estimation
Ibrahim Althamary, Chen-Fu Chou, Chih-Wei Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01060

Connectivity Management in Satellite-Aided Vehicular Networks with Multi-Head Attention-Based State Estimation
Managing connectivity in integrated satellite-terrestrial vehicular networks is critical for 6G, yet is challenged by dynamic conditions and partial observability. This letter introduces the Multi-Agent Actor-Critic with Satellite-Aided Multi-head self-attention (MAAC-SAM), a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning framework that enables vehicles to autonomously manage connectivity across Vehicle-to-Satellite (V2S), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I), and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) links. Our key i…

“Assuming we steward it safely and responsibly into the world…”—Right, bro, as if.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/04/demis-hassabis-ai-future-10-times-bigger-than-industrial-revolution…

Even here in Norway, so-called freedom is an illusion, I'm still bound to a boss and forced to sell my labor just to keep a roof over my head.
Real liberty can't exist while our lives are dictated by wage slavery and the demands of the capitalist system!
#AntiCapitalism #Anarchism

MPC in the Quantum Head (or: Superposition-Secure (Quantum) Zero-Knowledge)
Andrea Coladangelo, Ruta Jawale, Dakshita Khurana, Giulio Malavolta, Hendrik Waldner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22961

MPC in the Quantum Head (or: Superposition-Secure (Quantum) Zero-Knowledge)
The MPC-in-the-head technique (Ishai et al., STOC 2007) is a celebrated method to build zero-knowledge protocols with desirable theoretical properties and high practical efficiency. This technique has generated a large body of research and has influenced the design of real-world post-quantum cryptographic signatures. In this work, we present a generalization of the MPC-in-the-head paradigm to the quantum setting, where the MPC is running a quantum computation. As an application of our framework…

This July 4, Americans are planning to retire their Independence Day barbecues
and instead head to the streets in protest against Donald Trump and his Administration.
The collective demonstrations will be the latest in a long line of protests that have taken place since Trump returned to the White House for a second term.
Ahead of the big day, Trump had warned that “people that want to protest will be met with big force,” saying participants are “people that hate our countr…

#birdsOfMastodon #birds #naturePhotography
A cormorant standing on rocks at the edge of a pond. June 2025

The head wave transform
Maarten V. de Hoop, Antti Kykk\"anen, Rohit Kumar Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01623 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01623

The head wave transform
We introduce and study a new integral ray transform called the head wave transform. The head wave transform integrates a function along a piecewise linear (in general geodesic) path consisting of three parts. The geometry of such paths corresponds to ray paths of head waves propagating in a medium with sharp changes in sound speed. The middle part of the ray paths corresponds to gliding along the so-called gliding surface. As our main results, we prove inversion formulas and kernel characteriza…

Join us for a casual Scrappy Hour bike ride on Sunday, August 31st. 🚴‍♀️
We'll roll out from Rocket Baby just after 9am and head to the Domes... There's about four or five of us so far but we welcome anyone to join us! 🚴
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNvbxVRXHS1/

Scrappy Hour on Instagram: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW Cactus Club- meet 8:30a; wheels up 9:00a EAST SIDE/RW The Daily Bird-meet 9:00a; wheels up 9:15a TOSA Rocket Baby- meet 9:00; wheels up 9:15a Then, we SHBBQ at South Shore Park! We’ll bring some dogs and veggie alternatives. A couple sides. And a cooler of mixed bevies. We’ll bring a couple grills too. Last year our gang showed up with some really delightful offerings! There was homemade bread, and baked goods and side salads. It ruled. So feel free to bring what ever you would like to share with everyone. It will be much appreciated. Bring a baseball mitt and we’ll have a catch. Have a frisbee, bring that too. If it’s hot, good luck keeping me out of that lake, so bring your suit. If you have any questions, as always hit us up and we’ll try to answer. All our love, SH ✌️🚲🏃‍♂️☕️ #coffeeoutsidemke #scrappyhourmke"
107 likes, 8 comments - scrappyhourmke on August 24, 2025: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW …

Exploiting Information Redundancy in Attention Maps for Extreme Quantization of Vision Transformers
Lucas Maisonnave, Karim Haroun, Tom Pegeot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16311 h…

Exploiting Information Redundancy in Attention Maps for Extreme Quantization of Vision Transformers
Transformer models rely on Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) mechanisms, where each attention head contributes to the final representation. However, their computational complexity and high memory demands due to MHSA hinders their deployment at the edge. In this work, we analyze and exploit information redundancy in attention maps to accelerate model inference. By quantifying the information captured by each attention head using Shannon entropy, our analysis reveals that attention heads with lowe…

New Scientist: Bad news? Our brain doesn't actually reorganise itself after an amputation https://www.newscientist.com/article/2493367-our-brain-doesnt-actually-reorganise-itself-after-an-amputation/

Our brain doesn't actually reorganise itself after an amputation
Previous research in macaques suggests that part of the brain reorganises itself when a limb is removed, but now a study in people has turned that idea on its head

(x-post FB, original post at https://www.facebook.com/wesarkitsap/posts/pfbid02S2z7MXFpJaAvePFYEEC9EuhX8dzgGkVMYmKooRsW5XnV7DQwhN3wfm16K7i1f1ZVl)
Our Suquamish subject was safely located and extracted! …

Assessing Medical Training Skills via Eye and Head Movements
Kayhan Latifzadeh, Luis A. Leiva, Klen \v{C}opi\v{c} Pucihar, Matja\v{z} Kljun, Iztok Devetak, Lili Steblovnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16819

Assessing Medical Training Skills via Eye and Head Movements
We examined eye and head movements to gain insights into skill development in clinical settings. A total of 24 practitioners participated in simulated baby delivery training sessions. We calculated key metrics, including pupillary response rate, fixation duration, or angular velocity. Our findings indicate that eye and head tracking can effectively differentiate between trained and untrained practitioners, particularly during labor tasks. For example, head-related features achieved an F1 score …

Speculative politics
As an anarchist (okay, maybe not in practice), I'm tired of hearing why we have to suffer X and Y indignity to "preserve the rule of law" or "maintain Democratic norms." So here's an example of what representative democracy (a form of government that I believe is inherently flawed) could look like if its proponents had even an ounce of imagination, and/or weren't actively trying to rig it to favor a rich donor class:
1. Unicameral legislature, where representatives pass laws directly. Each state elects 3 statewide representatives: the three most-popular candidates in a statewide race where each person votes for one candidate (ranked preference voting would be even better but might not be necessary, and is not a solution by itself). Instead of each representative getting one vote in the chamber, they get N votes, where N is the number of people who voted for them. This means that in a close race, instead of the winner getting all the power, the power is split. Having 3 representatives trades off between leisure size and ensuring that two parties can't dominate together.
2. Any individual citizen can contact their local election office to switch or withdraw their vote at any time (maybe with a 3-day delay or something). Voting power of representatives can thus shift even without an election. They are limited to choosing one of the three elected representatives, or "none of the above." If the "none of the above" fraction exceeds 20% of eligible voters, a new election is triggered for that state. If turnout is less than 80%, a second election happens immediately, with results being final even at lower turnout until 6 months later (some better mechanism for turnout management might be needed).
3. All elections allow mail-in ballots, and in-person voting happens Sunday-Tuesday with the Monday being a mandatory holiday. (Yes, election integrity is not better in this system and that's a big weakness.)
4. Separate nationwide elections elect three positions for head-of-state: one with diplomatic/administrative powers, another with military powers, and a third with veto power. For each position, the top three candidates serve together, with only the first-place winner having actual power until vote switches or withdrawals change who that is. Once one of these heads loses their first-place status, they cannot get it again until another election, even if voters switch preferences back (to avoid dithering). An election for one of these positions is triggered when 20% have withdrawn their votes, or if all three people initially elected have been disqualified by losing their lead in the vote count.
5. Laws that involve spending money are packaged with specific taxes to pay for them, and may only be paid for by those specific revenues. Each tax may be opted into or out of by each taxpayer; where possible opting out of the tax also opts you out of the service. (I'm well aware of a lot of the drawbacks of this, but also feel like they'd not necessarily be worse than the drawbacks of our current system.) A small mandatory tax would cover election expenses.
6. I'm running out of attention, but similar multi-winner elections could elect panels of judges from which a subset is chosen randomly to preside in each case.
Now I'll point out once again that this system, in not directly confronting capitalism, racism, patriarchy, etc., is probably doomed to the same failures as our current system. But if you profess to want a "representative democracy" as opposed to something more libratory, I hope you'll at least advocate for something like this that actually includes meaningful representation as opposed to the current US system that's engineered to quash it.
Key questions: "Why should we have winner-take-all elections when winners-take-proportionately-to-votes is right there?" and "Why should elected officials get to ignore their constituents' approval except during elections, when vote-withdrawal or -switching is possible?"
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#Democracy

NFL decision-makers' predictions for 2025: Joe Burrow goes nuclear, Lions stumble and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6584048/2025/09/01/nfl-predictions-2025-awards-poll-joe-burrow/

Data-Efficient Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation Pipeline for Unimproved Roads
Andrew Yarovoi, Christopher R. Valenta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20135 https://

Data-Efficient Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation Pipeline for Unimproved Roads
In this case study, we present a data-efficient point cloud segmentation pipeline and training framework for robust segmentation of unimproved roads and seven other classes. Our method employs a two-stage training framework: first, a projection-based convolutional neural network is pre-trained on a mixture of public urban datasets and a small, curated in-domain dataset; then, a lightweight prediction head is fine-tuned exclusively on in-domain data. Along the way, we explore the application of …

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity -- our last daily newsletter before a two-week summer break -- for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds crack down on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex,
--US seeks to seize $2.8m from ransomware actor's wallet,
--Polish city fended off likely Russian attack on water supply,
--Iranian hackers infiltrated former Israeli justice minister's phone…

US feds crack down on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex
US seeks to seize $2.8m from ransomware actor's wallet, Polish city fended off likely Russian attack on water supply, Iranian hackers infiltrated former Israeli justice minister's phone, BtcTurk lost $48m in hack, Odin.fun exploited for $7m, Duo pleads guilty in stolen data pandemic fraud, much more

Pig unions are a unifying structure of America's Freikorps. Just as the dismantling of the Wehrmacht left a whole lot of trained thugs with nothing to do in Germany, our falling crime rates have left cops in a similar position of idleness, except that they mostly still have jobs where they can create their own work. https://

Jess👾 (@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image "Head of Police Union Said" ... Okay I'm just gonna stop you right there. If a police union head said police officers are human beings, I'd start stockpiling wooden stakes, garlic, and holy water. Those motherfuckers make Fox News look trustworthy.

IT'S PRIDE MONTH, SSR!! We will be riding slow as usual, meeting new people, and enjoying an educational tour of some historical queer sites between the Castro, Mission, and SOMA.
Start Location: Dolores Park, 19th Street
Meetup: 10:30am Saturday, June 28th
Rollout: 11:00am

Trump is recklessly shredding our economic advantages in the global economy.
Companies that are looking to make investments shouldn’t have to worry if Trump has cooked the books on economic data--but that’s exactly what’s happening following his decision.
-- Katie Porter

Firing of labor statistics head undermines trust in key data, ex-Trump official warns
President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report. The president dismissed the data as “rigged” and “manipulated for political purposes.” Geoff Bennett discussed more with William Beach, the commissioner of labor statistics during the first Trump term.

Generation of Real-time Robotic Emotional Expressions Learning from Human Demonstration in Mixed Reality
Chao Wang, Michael Gienger, Fan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08999 h…

Generation of Real-time Robotic Emotional Expressions Learning from Human Demonstration in Mixed Reality
Expressive behaviors in robots are critical for effectively conveying their emotional states during interactions with humans. In this work, we present a framework that autonomously generates realistic and diverse robotic emotional expressions based on expert human demonstrations captured in Mixed Reality (MR). Our system enables experts to teleoperate a virtual robot from a first-person perspective, capturing their facial expressions, head movements, and upper-body gestures, and mapping these b…

Microsoft Windows head Pavan Davuluri says the next Windows version will be more ambient, pervasive and multi-modal, with voice becoming more important (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface
In a new video, Microsoft CVP and Windows boss Pavan Davuluri has teased that the future of Windows will consist of a truly ambient and multi-modal experience made possible by AI that will redefine our usage of computers.

We have a slate of jobs opening up - apologies, only have a LinkedIn link for now: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delyno-dutoit_city-of-cape-town-jobs-linkedin-activity-7361684604451221504-hJb1
Will update and do a lon…

New positions in the City of Cape Town Data Analytics Hub! | Delyno du Toit
New positions in the City of Cape Town Data Analytics Hub! The Hub is the next chapter for our highly successful Data Science team, expanding its mission to be the nerve center for data-driven strategy and innovation across our entire organization. What if your next data product could help manage a City's water supply or your models make public transport more efficient? We are looking for curious and talented individuals to join us. We have several open positions: -) Head: Data Science -) H…

We have about 5000 miles on our Polestar 3 now, and like it a lot, especially as an upgrade from a Tesla. Its controls and interior are Tesla-like to drive (one big screen) but with head-up display, much better build quality, very quiet, one of the best sound systems (by B&W) available in any car. It competes more with the Model X than the smaller Y. The software issues that bugged us in the early days were fixed with 1.3.x upgrade last June. Also it looks cool…

Binaural Target Speaker Extraction using HRTFs and a Complex-Valued Neural Network
Yoav Ellinson, Sharon Gannot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19369 https://ar…

Binaural Target Speaker Extraction using HRTFs and a Complex-Valued Neural Network
In this work, we aim to imitate the human ability to selectively attend to a single speaker, even in the presence of multiple simultaneous talkers. We propose a novel approach for binaural target speaker extraction that leverages the listener's Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) to isolate the desired speaker. Notably, our method does not rely on speaker embeddings, making it speaker-independent and enabling strong generalization across multiple speech datasets in different languages. We e…

We’ve received a notice in our mailbox that dear little Gemma next door has lost a tooth. 🦷
My wife put a card congratulating her in their mailbox. Let joy feed joy.

Epstein shit and adjacent, Rural America, Poverty, Abuse
Everyone who's not a pedophile thinks pedophiles are bad, but there's this special obsessed hatred you'll find among poor rural Americans. The whole QAnon/Epstein obsession may not really make sense to folks raised in cities. Like, why do these people think *so much* about pedophiles? Why do they think that everyone in power is a pedophile? Why would the Pizzagate thing make sense to anyone? What is this unhinged shit? A lot of folks (who aren't anarchists) might be inclined to ask "why can't these people just let the cops take care of it?"
I was watching Legal Eagle's run down on the Trump Epstein thing earlier today and I woke up thinking about something I don't know if I've ever talked about. Now that I'm not in the US, I'm not at any risk of talking about it. I don't know how much I would have been before, but that's not something I'm gonna dig into right now. So let me tell you a story that might explain a few things.
I'm like 16, maybe 17. I have my license, so this girl I was dating/not dating/just friends with/whatever would regularly convince me to drive her and her friends around. I think she's like 15 at the time. Her friends are younger than her.
She tells me that there's a party we can go to where they have beer. She was told to invite her friends, so I can come too. We're going to pick her friends up (we regularly fill the VW Golf well beyond the legal limit and drive places) and head to the party.
So I take these girls, at least is 13 years old, down to this party. I'm already a bit sketched out bringing a 13 year old to a party. We drive out for a while. It's in the country. We drive down a long dark road. Three are some barrel fires and a shack. This is all a bit strange, but not too abnormal for this area. We're a little ways outside of a place called Mill City (in Oregon).
We park and walk towards the shack. This dude who looks like a rat comes up and offers us beer. He laughs and talks to the girl who invited me, "What's he doing here? You're supposed to bring your girl friends." She's like, "He's our ride." I don't remember if he offered me a beer or not.
We go over to this shed and everyone starts smoking, except me because I didn't smoke until I turned 18. The other girls start talking about the rat face dude, who's wandered over by the fire with some other guys. They're mainly teasing one of the 13 year old girls about having sex with him a bunch of times. They say he's like, 32 or something. The other girls joke about him only having sex with 13 year olds because he's too ugly to have sex with anyone closer to his own age.
Somewhere along the line it comes out that he's a cop. I never forgot that, it's absolutely seared in to my memory. I can picture his face perfectly still, decades later, and them talking about how he's a deputy, he was in his 30's, and he was having sex with a 13 year old girl. I was the only boy there, but there were a few older men. This was a chunk of the good ol' boys club of the town. I think there were a couple of cops besides the one deputy, and a judge or the mayor or some kind of big local VIP.
I kept trying to get my friend to leave, but she wanted to stay. Turns out under age drinking with cops seems like a great deal if you're a kid because you know you won't get busted. I left alone, creeped the fuck out.
I was told later that I wasn't invited and that I couldn't talk about it, I've always been good at compartmentalization, so I never did.
Decades later it occurred to me what was actually happening. I'm pretty sure that cop was giving meth he'd seized as evidence to these kids. This wasn't some one-off thing. It was regular. Who knows how many decades it went on after I left, or how many decades it had been going on before I found out. I knew this type of thing had happened at least a few times before because that's how that 13 year old girl and that 32 year old cop had hooked up in the first place.
Hearing about Epstein's MO, targeting these teenage girls from fucked up backgrounds, it's right there for me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in sex trafficking of minors or some shit like that... but who would you call if you found out? Half the sheriff's department was there and the other half would cover for them.
You live in the city and shit like that doesn't happen, or at least you don't think it happens. But rural poor folks have this intuition about power and abuse. It's right there and you know it.
Trump is such a familiar character for me, because he's exactly that small town mayor or sheriff. He'll will talk about being tough on crime and hunting down pedophiles, while hanging out at a party that exists so people can fuck 8th graders.
The problem with the whole thing is that rural folks will never break the cognitive dissonance between "kill the peods" and "back the blue." They'll never go kill those cops. No, the pedos must be somewhere else. It must be the elites. It must be outsiders. It can't be the cops and good ol' boys everyone respects. It can't be the mayor who rigs the election to win every time. It can't be the "good upstanding" sheriff. Nah, it's the Clintons.
To be fair, it's probably also the Clitnons, a bunch of other politicians, billionaires, etc. Epstein was exactly who everyone thought he was, and he didn't get away with it for so long without a whole lot of really powerful help.
There are still powerful people who got away with involvement with #Epstein. #Trump is one of them, but I don't really believe that he's the only one.
#USPol #ACAB

Don't Forget Imagination!
Evgenii E. Vityaev, Andrei Mantsivoda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06062 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06062

Don't Forget Imagination!
Cognitive imagination is a type of imagination that plays a key role in human thinking. It is not a ``picture-in-the-head'' imagination. It is a faculty to mentally visualize coherent and holistic systems of concepts and causal links that serve as semantic contexts for reasoning, decision making and prediction. Our position is that the role of cognitive imagination is still greatly underestimated, and this creates numerous problems and diminishes the current capabilities of AI. For instance, wh…

StreamME: Simplify 3D Gaussian Avatar within Live Stream
Luchuan Song, Yang Zhou, Zhan Xu, Yi Zhou, Deepali Aneja, Chenliang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17029

StreamME: Simplify 3D Gaussian Avatar within Live Stream
We propose StreamME, a method focuses on fast 3D avatar reconstruction. The StreamME synchronously records and reconstructs a head avatar from live video streams without any pre-cached data, enabling seamless integration of the reconstructed appearance into downstream applications. This exceptionally fast training strategy, which we refer to as on-the-fly training, is central to our approach. Our method is built upon 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), eliminating the reliance on MLPs in deformable 3…

Visual Perception Engine: Fast and Flexible Multi-Head Inference for Robotic Vision Tasks
Jakub {\L}ucki, Jonathan Becktor, Georgios Georgakis, Robert Royce, Shehryar Khattak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11584

Visual Perception Engine: Fast and Flexible Multi-Head Inference for Robotic Vision Tasks
Deploying multiple machine learning models on resource-constrained robotic platforms for different perception tasks often results in redundant computations, large memory footprints, and complex integration challenges. In response, this work presents Visual Perception Engine (VPEngine), a modular framework designed to enable efficient GPU usage for visual multitasking while maintaining extensibility and developer accessibility. Our framework architecture leverages a shared foundation model backb…

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Attention with Trained Embeddings Provably Selects Important Tokens
Token embeddings play a crucial role in language modeling but, despite this practical relevance, their theoretical understanding remains limited. Our paper addresses the gap by characterizing the structure of embeddings obtained via gradient descent. Specifically, we consider a one-layer softmax attention model with a linear head for binary classification, i.e., $\texttt{Softmax}( p^\top E_X^\top ) E_X v = \frac{ \sum_{i=1}^T \exp(p^\top E_{x_i}) E_{x_i}^\top v}{\sum_{j=1}^T \exp(p^\top E_{x_{j…

At least the CBC is properly naming and shaming now right there in the sub-head.
"The oilsands continue to pump out more crude and more greenhouse gas”
This must be stopped. We must transition our workers and our economy. We must set a date and wind down the industry while winding up renewable production.
#ABPoli #CanPoli #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bakx-s-p-oilsands-alberta-record-2025-1.7569272

Game-Theoretic and Reinforcement Learning-Based Cluster Head Selection for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Network
Mehrshad Eskandarpour, Saba Pirahmadian, Parham Soltani, Hossein Soleimani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12707

Game-Theoretic and Reinforcement Learning-Based Cluster Head Selection for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Network
Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is critical to network lifetime and data delivery. However, the primary impediment to the durability and dependability of these sensor nodes is their short battery life. Currently, power-saving algorithms such as clustering and routing algorithms have improved energy efficiency in standard protocols. This paper proposes a clustering-based routing approach for creating an adaptive, energy-efficient mechanism. Our system employs a multi-step clustering st…

Evaluating Joint Attention for Mixed-Presence Collaboration on Wall-Sized Displays
Adrien Coppens, Val\'erie Maquil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15443 ht…

Evaluating Joint Attention for Mixed-Presence Collaboration on Wall-Sized Displays
To understand and quantify the quality of mixed-presence collaboration around wall-sized displays, robust evaluation methodologies are needed, that are adapted for a room-sized experience and are not perceived as obtrusive. In this paper, we propose our approach for measuring joint attention based on head gaze data. We describe how it has been implemented for a user study on mixed presence collaboration with two wall-sized displays and report on the insights we gained so far from its implementa…

Symmetry-Constrained Multi-Scale Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Graphene Electronic Band Structure Prediction
Wei Shan Lee, I Hang Kwok, Kam Ian Leong, Chi Kiu Althina Chau, Kei Chon Sio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10718

Symmetry-Constrained Multi-Scale Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Graphene Electronic Band Structure Prediction
Accurate prediction of electronic band structures in two-dimensional materials remains a fundamental challenge, with existing methods struggling to balance computational efficiency and physical accuracy. We present the Symmetry-Constrained Multi-Scale Physics-Informed Neural Network (SCMS-PINN) v35, which directly learns graphene band structures while rigorously enforcing crystallographic symmetries through a multi-head architecture. Our approach introduces three specialized ResNet-6 pathways -…

Speech Quality Assessment Model Based on Mixture of Experts: System-Level Performance Enhancement and Utterance-Level Challenge Analysis
Xintong Hu, Yixuan Chen, Rui Yang, Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06116

Speech Quality Assessment Model Based on Mixture of Experts: System-Level Performance Enhancement and Utterance-Level Challenge Analysis
Automatic speech quality assessment plays a crucial role in the development of speech synthesis systems, but existing models exhibit significant performance variations across different granularity levels of prediction tasks. This paper proposes an enhanced MOS prediction system based on self-supervised learning speech models, incorporating a Mixture of Experts (MoE) classification head and utilizing synthetic data from multiple commercial generation models for data augmentation. Our method buil…

Ex-Raiders HC Jon Gruden vs. NFL's Roger Goodell, Nightmare Situation: Revisiting Our Reporting From 3 Years Ago https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/jon-gruden-las-vegas-roger-goodell-dan-snyder-washington-commanders