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"Conspiracy thinking is also a trap because it contains feedback loops of positive reinforcement. If you reject authoritative sources of information as part of a conspiracy, then you will likely reject any information that can disprove the conspiracy. Any information that contradicts the conspiracy, or lack of information that would prove the conspiracy, are part of the conspiracy."

Bankrupt 23andMe is trying to sell Canadians' genetic information. Here's what you can do.
And... the CEO of the company buying the 'assets' is the CEO who was running 23andMe before it went under.
https://flip.it/tCuCYy

Behavioural surplus is the extra information that can be processed when we interact with an app, website or device, in order to be repackaged and sold as accurate predictions about us.
https://theprivacydad.com/what-is-behavioural-surplus/

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 232 nodes and 1283194 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Collective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address AI-Driven Power Concentration
Nicholas Vincent, Matthew Prewitt, Hanlin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10272

Collective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address AI-Driven Power Concentration
This position paper argues that there is an urgent need to restructure markets for the information that goes into AI systems. Specifically, producers of information goods (such as journalists, researchers, and creative professionals) need to be able to collectively bargain with AI product builders in order to receive reasonable terms and a sustainable return on the informational value they contribute. We argue that without increased market coordination or collective bargaining on the side of th…

#neu: "Handbook of Trends and Innovations Concerning Library and Information Science: A Multidisciplinary Approach"
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111443003

This week, we were discussing the central question Can we "predict" a word? as the basis for statistical language models in our #ISE2025 lecture. Of course, I wasx trying Shakespeare quotes to motivate the (international) students to complement the quotes with "predicted" missing words ;-)
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely...."

"The Agriculture Department will restore information about climate change that was scrubbed from its website" - Farmers Sued Over Deleted #Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back. - The New York Times

Measuring Semantic Information Production in Generative Diffusion Models
Florian Handke, F\'elix Koulischer, Gabriel Raya, Luca Ambrogioni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10433

Measuring Semantic Information Production in Generative Diffusion Models
It is well known that semantic and structural features of the generated images emerge at different times during the reverse dynamics of diffusion, a phenomenon that has been connected to physical phase transitions in magnets and other materials. In this paper, we introduce a general information-theoretic approach to measure when these class-semantic "decisions" are made during the generative process. By using an online formula for the optimal Bayesian classifier, we estimate the conditional ent…

A voice for minorities: diversity in approval-based committee elections under incomplete or inaccurate information
Feline Lindeboom, Martijn Brehm, Davide Grossi, Pradeep Murukannaiah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10843

A voice for minorities: diversity in approval-based committee elections under incomplete or inaccurate information
We study diversity in approval-based committee elections with incomplete or inaccurate information. As standard in the literature on approval-based multi-winner voting, we define diversity according to the maximum coverage problem, which is known to be NP-complete, with a best attainable polynomial time approximation ratio of $1-1/\e$. In the incomplete information model, voters can vote on only a small portion of the candidates. We suggest a greedy algorithm and a local search algorithm that q…

So much enjoying the rustweek! Fantastic information and meeting great folks! Thanks to @… for making it happen !

No one ever seems to mention how weirdly difficult the #WashingtonPost has made it to secure one's personal #privacy on their site.
☑️ Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information

In-Hand Object Pose Estimation via Visual-Tactile Fusion
Felix Nonnengie{\ss}er, Alap Kshirsagar, Boris Belousov, Jan Peters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10787

In-Hand Object Pose Estimation via Visual-Tactile Fusion
Accurate in-hand pose estimation is crucial for robotic object manipulation, but visual occlusion remains a major challenge for vision-based approaches. This paper presents an approach to robotic in-hand object pose estimation, combining visual and tactile information to accurately determine the position and orientation of objects grasped by a robotic hand. We address the challenge of visual occlusion by fusing visual information from a wrist-mounted RGB-D camera with tactile information from v…

GOLIATH: A Decentralized Framework for Data Collection in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Davide Maffiola, Stefano Longari, Michele Carminati, Mara Tanelli, Stefano Zanero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10665

GOLIATH: A Decentralized Framework for Data Collection in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) technology has advanced during the past years, and it is now used for several applications that require vehicles to exchange real-time data, such as in traffic information management. Traditionally, road traffic information has been collected using on-site sensors. However, crowd-sourcing traffic information from onboard sensors or smartphones has become a viable alternative. State-of-the-art solutions currently follow a centralized model where only the…

Mal wieder ein Btw. Inzwischen sind fast alle Ausgaben von Information Philosophie online: #Fachinformationsdienst

Memo: Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff in the knowledge and information organization, which includes core search and much of the ads organization (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-offers-buyouts-empl…

Google Offers Buyouts to Employees in Search and Ads Unit
Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in the knowledge and information organization, which includes the company’s core search and much of the ads organization, a senior executive told staff on Tuesday. The move comes as Google’s search business faces unprecedented threats from ...

We kick off Berlin Buzzwords 2025 in a few hours with our Barcamp hosted by Nick Burch! Come around and join us! 
📅  3:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEST, Registration: from 2:30 pm CEST
📍  Palais Atelier, 2nd floor in Palais at Kulturbrauerei Berlin, Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin
More information: https://2025.berl…

Barcamp
Barcamp We are thrilled to announce that our barcamp, hosted by Nick Burch, will return this year to Berlin Buzzwords! The #bbuzz barcamp is a great opportunity to discuss relevant topics in a relaxed atmosphere, network with other attendees, or get feedback on your latest project you've been working on. Where and when? Date: Sunday, [...]

Seems pretty legit to me!

Information-Theoretic Detection of Unusual Source Code Changes
Adriano Torres, Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06508

Information-Theoretic Detection of Unusual Source Code Changes
The code base of software projects evolves essentially through inserting and removing information to and from the source code. We can measure this evolution via the elements of information - tokens, words, nodes - of the respective representation of the code. In this work, we approach the measurement of the information content of the source code of open-source projects from an information-theoretic standpoint. Our focus is on the entropy of two fundamental representations of code: tokens and ab…

Considering my options to evacuate from Vilnius if needed: via Suwalki, Klaipėda or Rīga.
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2589799/baltic-states-to-develop-joint-mass-evacuation-plans

Headlines like this really make me want to just give up (by which I mean move to one of those tiny offshore islands in the North Atlantic)
https://theconversation.com/ai-tools-collect-and-store-da…

AI tools collect and store data about you from all your devices – here’s how to be aware of what you’re revealing
AI tools that provide information to you also gather lots of information from you and may provide it to third parties.

Je mehr Handy-Verbot, desto weniger erfahren Eltern, Erzieher*innen, Lehrer*innen, Sozialarbeiter*innen.
Unfassbar wichtig wäre, Jugendlichen Information und Hilfe anzubieten. Als Schulauftrag.
Berliner Schulsozialarbeiterinnen: "Es gibt eine massive Verbreitung pornografischer Inhalte unter Schülern" | rbb24

Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee that the Federal Aviation Administration plans to replace its aging air traffic control systems
-- which still rely on floppy disks and Windows 95 computers!
The agency has issued a Request For Information to gather proposals from companies willing to tackle the massive infrastructure overhaul

US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks
Agency seeks contractors to modernize decades-old systems within four years.

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 4: Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes
Masahiro Yasuda, Binh Thien Nguyen, Noboru Harada, Romain Serizel, Mayank Mishra, Marc Delcroix, Shoko Araki, Daiki Takeuchi, Daisuke Niizumi, Yasunori Ohishi, Tomohiro Nakatani, Takao Kawamura, Nobutaka Ono
https://arxiv.org…

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 4: Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes
Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes (S5) aims to enhance technologies for sound event detection and separation from multi-channel input signals that mix multiple sound events with spatial information. This is a fundamental basis of immersive communication. The ultimate goal is to separate sound event signals with 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) information into dry sound object signals and metadata about the object type (sound event class) and representing spatial information, including d…

Age of Information in Unreliable Tandem Queues
Muthukrishnan Senthilkumar, Aresh Dadlani, Hina Tabassum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09245 https://

Age of Information in Unreliable Tandem Queues
Stringent demands for timely information delivery, driven by the widespread adoption of real-time applications and the Internet of Things, have established the age of information (AoI) as a critical metric for quantifying data freshness. Existing AoI models often assume multi-hop communication networks with fully reliable nodes, which may not accurately capture scenarios involving node transmission failures. This paper presents an analytical framework for two configurations of tandem queue syst…

High-Precision Acoustic Event Monitoring in Single-Mode Fibers Using Fisher Information
Catarina S. Monteiro, Tiago D. Ferreira, Nuno A. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10561

High-Precision Acoustic Event Monitoring in Single-Mode Fibers Using Fisher Information
Polarization optical fiber sensors are based on modifications of fiber birefringence by an external measurand (e.g. strain, pressure, acoustic waves). Yet, this means that different input states of polarization will result in very distinct behaviors, which may or may not be optimal in terms of sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio. To tackle this challenge, this manuscript presents an optimization technique for the input polarization state using the Fisher information formalism, which allows fo…

My sympathies to the data protection authority officer who's sending me information about one of my GDPR cases at 17 on a Friday (hopefully just before leaving for the weekend).

Indicator Functions: Distilling the Information from Gaussian Random Fields
Andrew Repp, Ravi K. Sheth, Istvan Szapudi, Yan-Chuan Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06668

Indicator Functions: Distilling the Information from Gaussian Random Fields
A random Gaussian density field contains a fixed amount of Fisher information on the amplitude of its power spectrum. For a given smoothing scale, however, that information is not evenly distributed throughout the smoothed field. We investigate which parts of the field contain the most information by smoothing and splitting the field into different levels of density (using the formalism of indicator functions), deriving analytic expressions for the information content of each density bin in the…

Stay frosty: "Accounts associated with extremist groups are sharing detailed information about protest organizers, including names and where they work"
‘Shoot a couple, the rest will go home’: Far-right groups are sharing scary messages ahead of ‘No Kings’ protests | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-protests-no-kings-far-right-b2769812.html

Downlink CSIT under Compressed Feedback: Joint vs. Separate Source-Channel Coding
Yi Song, Tianyu Yang, Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai, Giuseppe Caire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10554

Downlink CSIT under Compressed Feedback: Joint vs. Separate Source-Channel Coding
The acquisition of Downlink (DL) channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) is known to be a challenging task in multiuser massive MIMO systems when uplink/downlink channel reciprocity does not hold (e.g., in frequency division duplexing systems). From a coding viewpoint, the DL channel state acquired at the users via DL training can be seen as an information source that must be conveyed to the base station via the UL communication channels. The transmission of a source through a chann…

"New File Format Research and Documentation on the Sustainability of Digital Formats" | The Signal https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/06/new-file-format-research/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06197 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Metainformation in Quantum Guessing Games
Quantum guessing games offer a structured approach to analyzing quantum information processing, where information is encoded in quantum states and extracted through measurement. An additional aspect of this framework is the influence of partial knowledge about the input on the optimal measurement strategies. This kind of side information can significantly influence the guessing strategy and earlier work has shown that the timing of such side information, whether revealed before or after the mea…

Under Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.

WMATA | Metro to launch Automatic Train Operation on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines on June 15
Metro news and service information for the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

Exploring the Convergence of HCI and Evolving Technologies in Information Systems
Rajan Das Gupta, Ashikur Rahman, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Yeasin Rahat, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08549

Exploring the Convergence of HCI and Evolving Technologies in Information Systems
Modern technology driven information systems are part of our daily lives. However, this deep integration poses new challenges to the human computer interaction (HCI) professionals. With the rapid growth of mobile and cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), the demand for HCI specialists to design user-friendly and adaptable interfaces has never been more pressing. Especially for diverse user groups such as children, the elderly and people with disabilities who need interfaces tailored…

Cannot even find where i read it but because i first read about an alleged breach of data from the Israeli government held by the Iranian government (on Mossad agents, recordings from secret cameras installed by Netanyahu to get compromising info on potential rivals, and much more, apparently all from a 2024 hack or leak) i have not been able to shake the twisted thought that the war Israel has now started against Iran is the new worst ever fallout for bad information security.

Kudos to @… here, demonstrating how to report on a press release without parroting it. That extends to the headline, arguably the most important place not to just swallow the PR dept’s framing:
After AI setbacks, Meta bets billions on undefined “superintelligence”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/06/after-ai-setbacks-meta-bets-billions-on-undefined-superintelligence/

Interesting, "GPT-style models have a fixed memorization capacity of approximately 3.6 bits per parameter."
https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-much-information-do-llms-really-memorize-now-we-know-thanks-to-met…

How much information do LLMs really memorize? Now we know, thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornell
Using a clever solution, researchers find GPT-style models have a fixed memorization capacity of approximately 3.6 bits per parameter.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11386 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

MutualNeRF: Improve the Performance of NeRF under Limited Samples with Mutual Information Theory
This paper introduces MutualNeRF, a framework enhancing Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) performance under limited samples using Mutual Information Theory. While NeRF excels in 3D scene synthesis, challenges arise with limited data and existing methods that aim to introduce prior knowledge lack theoretical support in a unified framework. We introduce a simple but theoretically robust concept, Mutual Information, as a metric to uniformly measure the correlation between images, considering both macro…

On the Virtues of Information Security in the UK Climate Movement
Mikaela Brough, Rikke Bjerg Jensen, Martin R. Albrecht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09719 h…

On the Virtues of Information Security in the UK Climate Movement
We report on an ethnographic study with members of the climate movement in the United Kingdom (UK). We conducted participant observation and interviews at protests and in various activist settings. Reporting on the findings as they relate to information security, we show that members of the UK climate movement wrestled with (i) a fundamental tension between openness and secrecy; (ii) tensions between autonomy and collective interdependence in information-security decision-making; (iii) conflict…

EU's Frontex has published a children's book for children who are about to be deported
😲
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6eea0e99-e464-11ef-be2a-01aa75ed71a1
Official PDFs availabl…

Toolbox for children in return - Publications Office of the EU
Addressing the return of unaccompanied minors or children within families is a delicate matter that demands a humane approach. This approach must not only respect fundamental rights but also prioritise the child's best interests. Additionally, clear and comprehensive information about the return procedures is essential for those involved, enabling them to prepare as effectively as possible. One of the primary objectives of Frontex is to assist MS throughout all stages of the return procedures. …

WDMIR: Wavelet-Driven Multimodal Intent Recognition
Weiyin Gong, Kai Zhang, Yanghai Zhang, Qi Liu, Xinjie Sun, Junyu Lu, Linbo Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10011

WDMIR: Wavelet-Driven Multimodal Intent Recognition
Multimodal intent recognition (MIR) seeks to accurately interpret user intentions by integrating verbal and non-verbal information across video, audio and text modalities. While existing approaches prioritize text analysis, they often overlook the rich semantic content embedded in non-verbal cues. This paper presents a novel Wavelet-Driven Multimodal Intent Recognition(WDMIR) framework that enhances intent understanding through frequency-domain analysis of non-verbal information. To be more spe…

Vending machines at the University of Waterloo violated privacy act
https://flip.it/23eUXQ

The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-dis…

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

holy shit, the STM32 reference manual contains information presented so much better than ADIv5.2

By corporate policy you're not allowed to cuss at the Google AI

Florida officials threaten librarians with criminal prosecution over Judy Blume book (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/florida-officials-threaten-librarians
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p8#a250612p8

Emergent Holographic Spacetime from Quantum Information
Tadashi Takayanagi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06595 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Emergent Holographic Spacetime from Quantum Information
Holographic duality describes gravitational theories in terms of quantum many-body systems. In holography, quantum information theory provides a crucial tool that directly connects microscopic structures of these systems to the geometries of gravitational spacetimes. One manifestation is that the entanglement entropy in quantum many-body systems can be calculated from the area of an extremal surface in the corresponding gravitational spacetime. This implies that a gravitational spacetime can em…

That seems a bit far-fetched: £211 a year in savings would supposedly see 49% of people switch to EVs. The headline is missing the word 'sooner', as well as information on how much sooner.
https://transportandenergy.com/2025/06/12/public-…

Public charging VAT cut would see 49% switch to EVs
Half (49%) of UK drivers would switch to EVs sooner if public charging carried the same VAT rate as charging at home.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14839 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfi…

Multi-Task Dynamic Pricing in Credit Market with Contextual Information
We study the dynamic pricing problem faced by a broker seeking to learn prices for a large number of credit market securities, such as corporate bonds, government bonds, loans, and other credit-related securities. A major challenge in pricing these securities stems from their infrequent trading and the lack of transparency in over-the-counter (OTC) markets, which leads to insufficient data for individual pricing. Nevertheless, many securities share structural similarities that can be exploited.…

"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/

preset-repo-api.prusa3d.com ist wohl down und führt aktuell zu Fehlern bei der nutzung von #PrusaSlicer
#Prusa

MLLM-Based UI2Code Automation Guided by UI Layout Information
Fan Wu, Cuiyun Gao, Shuqing Li, Xin-Cheng Wen, Qing Liao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10376 htt…

MLLM-Based UI2Code Automation Guided by UI Layout Information
Converting user interfaces into code (UI2Code) is a crucial step in website development, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. The automation of UI2Code is essential to streamline this task, beneficial for improving the development efficiency. There exist deep learning-based methods for the task; however, they heavily rely on a large amount of labeled training data and struggle with generalizing to real-world, unseen web page designs. The advent of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs…

When a WhatsApp message says "Forwarded many times", in India it often means the message has been forwarded (tens/hundreds of) millions of times. 😳
The speed and scale are both just mind numbing.
#technology #information

Replaced article(s) found for math.CT. https://arxiv.org/list/math.CT/new/
[1/1]:
Dilations and information flow axioms in categorical probability

Research Knowledge Graphs: the Shifting Paradigm of Scholarly Information Representation
Matth\"aus Zloch, Danilo Dess\`i, Jennifer D'Souza, Leyla Jael Castro, Benjamin Zapilko, Saurav Karmakar, Brigitte Mathiak, Markus Stocker, Wolfgang Otto, S\"oren Auer, Stefan Dietze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07285

Research Knowledge Graphs: the Shifting Paradigm of Scholarly Information Representation
Sharing and reusing research artifacts, such as datasets, publications, or methods is a fundamental part of scientific activity, where heterogeneity of resources and metadata and the common practice of capturing information in unstructured publications pose crucial challenges. Reproducibility of research and finding state-of-the-art methods or data have become increasingly challenging. In this context, the concept of Research Knowledge Graphs (RKGs) has emerged, aiming at providing an easy to u…

Here's a poster of my institutional research, more information can be found at the following link (although the poster listed there has a typo with incorrect institutions): https://spacegrant.oregonstate.edu/posters/facing-pyrocene-amateur-radio-and-distributed-wireless-sensor-networks

S-shaped Utility Maximization with VaR Constraint and Partial Information
Dongmei Zhu, Ashley Davey, Harry Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10103 https://

S-shaped Utility Maximization with VaR Constraint and Partial Information
We study S-shaped utility maximisation with VaR constraint and unobservable drift coefficient. Using the Bayesian filter, the concavification principle, and the change of measure, we give a semi-closed integral representation for the dual value function and find a critical wealth level that determines if the constrained problem admits a unique optimal solution and Lagrange multiplier or is infeasible. We also propose three algorithms (Lagrange, simulation, deep neural network) to solve the prob…

Tightly-Coupled LiDAR-IMU-Leg Odometry with Online Learned Leg Kinematics Incorporating Foot Tactile Information
Taku Okawara, Kenji Koide, Aoki Takanose, Shuji Oishi, Masashi Yokozuka, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09548

Tightly-Coupled LiDAR-IMU-Leg Odometry with Online Learned Leg Kinematics Incorporating Foot Tactile Information
In this letter, we present tightly coupled LiDAR-IMU-leg odometry, which is robust to challenging conditions such as featureless environments and deformable terrains. We developed an online learning-based leg kinematics model named the neural leg kinematics model, which incorporates tactile information (foot reaction force) to implicitly express the nonlinear dynamics between robot feet and the ground. Online training of this model enhances its adaptability to weight load changes of a robot (e.…

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/11/public-health-bodies-urged-launch-period-tracking-apps-protect-data
Public health bodies urged to launch period tracking apps to protect data

Some information about the upcoming #Fairphone 6 has been leaked. The TL;DR: super modular, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB storage, price 549.99 euros, rumoured for a June 25th launch.
"Fairphone 6: 'Faires' Smartphone with modular design - Price & Picture".

What Does Information Science Offer for Data Science Research?: A Review of Data and Information Ethics Literature
Brady D. Lund, Ting Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03165

What Does Information Science Offer for Data Science Research?: A Review of Data and Information Ethics Literature
This paper reviews literature pertaining to the development of data science as a discipline, current issues with data bias and ethics, and the role that the discipline of information science may play in addressing these concerns. Information science research and researchers have much to offer for data science, owing to their background as transdisciplinary scholars who apply human-centered and social-behavioral perspectives to issues within natural science disciplines. Information science resea…

trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12690 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Preference Robust Ordinal Priority Approach with Preference Elicitation under Incomplete Information for Multi-Attribute Robust Ranking and Selection
Ordinal Priority Approach (OPA) has recently been proposed to determine the weights of experts, attributes, and alternatives using ordinal preference without precise information for multi-attribute ranking and selection (MARS). This study extends OPA with preference elicitation under incomplete information to counter the parametric and preference uncertainty within MARS. Specifically, we propose Preference Robust Ordinal Priority Approach (OPA-PR) within a two-stage optimization framework to ge…

"Applications of the Critical Incident Technique in Library and Information Science Research: A Literature Review" https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2024-0065

PAL: Probing Audio Encoders via LLMs -- A Study of Information Transfer from Audio Encoders to LLMs
Tony Alex, Wish Suharitdamrong, Sara Atito, Armin Mustafa, Philip J. B. Jackson, Imran Razzak, Muhammad Awais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10423

PAL: Probing Audio Encoders via LLMs -- A Study of Information Transfer from Audio Encoders to LLMs
The integration of audio perception capabilities into Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled significant advances in Audio-LLMs. Although application-focused developments, particularly in curating training data for specific capabilities e.g., audio reasoning, have progressed rapidly, the underlying mechanisms that govern efficient transfer of rich semantic representations from audio encoders to LLMs remain under-explored. We conceptualize effective audio-LLM interaction as the LLM's ability t…

Last week, our students learned how to conduct a proper evaluation for an NLP experiment. To this end, we introduced a small textcorpus with sentences about Joseph Fourier, who counts as one of the discoverers of the greenhouse effect, responsible for global warming.

Upper Bound on Quantum Fisher Information in Pseudo-Hermitian Systems
Ievgen I. Arkhipov, F. Nori, \c{S}. K. \"Ozdemir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09763

Upper Bound on Quantum Fisher Information in Pseudo-Hermitian Systems
Non-Hermitian systems have attracted considerable interest over the last few decades due to their unique spectral and dynamical properties not encountered in Hermitian counterparts. An intensely debated question is whether non-Hermitian systems, described by pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians with real spectra, can offer enhanced sensitivity for parameter estimation when they are operated at or close to exceptional points. However, much of the current analysis and conclusions are based on mathematic…

Current and former employees of OpenAI have sold nearly $3B worth of shares in tender offers since 2021, with $1.5B going to SoftBank alone (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-employees-cashed-3-bil…

OpenAI Employees Have Cashed Out $3 Billion in Shares
My colleague Sri Muppidi broke the news Wednesday of OpenAI’s latest fundraising talks as it seeks to raise an unprecedented $40 billion. One previously unreported detail is that SoftBank bought about $240 million in shares from a small group of current and former employees this spring.That deal ...

Hybrid Beamforming Optimization for MIMO ISAC Exploiting Prior Information: A PCRB-based Approach
Yizhuo Wang, Shuowen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07869

Hybrid Beamforming Optimization for MIMO ISAC Exploiting Prior Information: A PCRB-based Approach
This paper considers a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a multi-antenna base station (BS) with transceiver hybrid analog-digital arrays transmits dual-functional signals to communicate with a multi-antenna user and simultaneously sense the unknown and random location information of a target based on the reflected echo signals and the prior distribution information on the target's location. Under transceiver hybrid arrays, we charact…

Seamless and Efficient Interactions within a Mixed-Dimensional Information Space
Chen Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04545 https://a…

Seamless and Efficient Interactions within a Mixed-Dimensional Information Space
Mediated by today's visual displays, information space allows users to discover, access and interact with a wide range of digital and physical information. The information presented in this space may be digital, physical or a blend of both, and appear across different dimensions - such as texts, images, 3D content and physical objects embedded within real-world environment. Navigating within the information space often involves interacting with mixed-dimensional entities, visually represented i…

Using Language and Road Manuals to Inform Map Reconstruction for Autonomous Driving
Akshar Tumu, Henrik I. Christensen, Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, Chikao Tsuchiya, Dhaval Bhanderi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10317

Using Language and Road Manuals to Inform Map Reconstruction for Autonomous Driving
Lane-topology prediction is a critical component of safe and reliable autonomous navigation. An accurate understanding of the road environment aids this task. We observe that this information often follows conventions encoded in natural language, through design codes that reflect the road structure and road names that capture the road functionality. We augment this information in a lightweight manner to SMERF, a map-prior-based online lane-topology prediction model, by combining structured road…

Designing lensless imaging systems to maximize information capture
Leyla A. Kabuli, Henry Pinkard, Eric Markley, Clara S. Hung, Laura Waller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08513

Designing lensless imaging systems to maximize information capture
Mask-based lensless imaging uses an optical encoder (e.g. a phase or amplitude mask) to capture measurements, then a computational decoding algorithm to reconstruct images. In this work, we evaluate and design encoders based on the information content of their measurements using mutual information estimation. With this approach, we formalize the object-dependent nature of lensless imaging and study the interdependence between object sparsity, encoder multiplexing, and noise. Our analysis reveal…

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.
https://www.wired.com/story/bill-atkinson-apple-engineer-dies/

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.

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Information Leakage Detection through Approximate Bayes-optimal Prediction
In today's data-driven world, the proliferation of publicly available information raises security concerns due to the information leakage (IL) problem. IL involves unintentionally exposing sensitive information to unauthorized parties via observable system information. Conventional statistical approaches rely on estimating mutual information (MI) between observable and secret information for detecting ILs, face challenges of the curse of dimensionality, convergence, computational complexity, an…

Refining ensemble $N$-representability of one-body density matrices from partial information
Julia Liebert, Anna O. Schouten, Irma Avdic, Christian Schilling, David A. Mazziotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09960

Refining ensemble $N$-representability of one-body density matrices from partial information
The $N$-representability problem places fundamental constraints on reduced density matrices (RDMs) that originate from physical many-fermion quantum states. Motivated by recent developments in functional theories, we introduce a hierarchy of ensemble one-body $N$-representability problems that incorporate partial knowledge of the one-body reduced density matrices (1RDMs) within an ensemble of $N$-fermion states with fixed weights $w_i$. Specifically, we propose a systematic relaxation that redu…

Microservices and Real-Time Processing in Retail IT: A Review of Open-Source Toolchains and Deployment Strategies
Aaditaa Vashisht (Department of Information Science,Engineering, RV College of Engineering, India), Rekha B S (Department of Information Science,Engineering, RV College of Engineering, India)
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Microservices and Real-Time Processing in Retail IT: A Review of Open-Source Toolchains and Deployment Strategies
With the rapid pace of digital transformation, the retail industry is increasingly depending on real-time, scalable, and resilient systems to manage financial transactions, analyze customer behavior, and streamline order processing. This literature review explores how modern event-driven and microservices-based architectures, particularly those leveraging Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, MongoDB, and Kubernetes are transforming retail and financial systems. By systematically reviewing academic public…

What is the Cost of Differential Privacy for Deep Learning-Based Trajectory Generation?
Erik Buchholz, Natasha Fernandes, David D. Nguyen, Alsharif Abuadbba, Surya Nepal, Salil S. Kanhere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09312

What is the Cost of Differential Privacy for Deep Learning-Based Trajectory Generation?
While location trajectories offer valuable insights, they also reveal sensitive personal information. Differential Privacy (DP) offers formal protection, but achieving a favourable utility-privacy trade-off remains challenging. Recent works explore deep learning-based generative models to produce synthetic trajectories. However, current models lack formal privacy guarantees and rely on conditional information derived from real data during generation. This work investigates the utility cost of e…

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

Last leg on our brief history of NLP (so far) is the advent of large language models with GPT-3 in 2020 and the introduction of learning from the prompt (aka few-shot learning).
T. B. Brown et al. (2020). Language models are few-shot learners. NIPS'20
https://…

Sources: Meta's Scale AI deal was motivated by Mark Zuckerberg's desire to find new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, relationship with Alexandr Wang, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-betting-n…

Why Meta is Betting Nearly $15 Billion on Alexandr Wang
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months. His company’s large language model, Llama, was falling behind competitors and struggling to perform as well as models from OpenAI, particularly on complex tasks. Increasingly, Zuckerberg turned ...

A General Coding Framework for Adaptive Private Information Retrieval
Jinbao Zhu, Xiaohu Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07787 https://

A General Coding Framework for Adaptive Private Information Retrieval
The problem of $T$-colluding private information retrieval (PIR) enables the user to retrieve one out of $M$ files from a distributed storage system with $N$ servers without revealing anything about the index of the desired file to any group of up to $T$ colluding servers. In the considered storage system, the $M$ files are stored across the $N$ distributed servers in an $X$-secure $K$-coded manner such that any group of up to $X$ colluding servers learns nothing about the files; the storage ov…

Black hole/quantum machine learning correspondence
Jae-Weon Lee, Zae Young Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09678 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Black hole/quantum machine learning correspondence
We explore a potential connection between the black hole information paradox and the double descent phenomenon in quantum machine learning. Information retrieval from Hawking radiation can be viewed through the lens of quantum linear regression over black hole microstates, with the Page time corresponding to the interpolation threshold, beyond which test error decreases despite overparameterization. Using the Marchenko-Pastur law, we derive the variance in test error for the quantum linear regr…

Information-guided optimization of image-based sensorless adaptive optics methods
Biwei Zhang, Martin J. Booth, Qi Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07482 http…

Information-guided optimization of image-based sensorless adaptive optics methods
Adaptive optics (AO) are reconfigurable devices that compensate for wavefront distortions or aberrations in optical systems such as microscopes, telescopes and ophthalmoscopes. Aberrations have detrimental effects that can reduce imaging quality and compromise scientific information. Sensorless AO methods were introduced to correct aberrations without a separate wavefront sensor, inferring wavefront-related information directly from phase-diverse sample images. Most sensorless AO control system…

A Modular Haptic Display with Reconfigurable Signals for Personalized Information Transfer
Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Benjamin A. Christie, Dylan P. Losey, Laura H. Blumenschein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05648

A Modular Haptic Display with Reconfigurable Signals for Personalized Information Transfer
We present a customizable soft haptic system that integrates modular hardware with an information-theoretic algorithm to personalize feedback for different users and tasks. Our platform features modular, multi-degree-of-freedom pneumatic displays, where different signal types, such as pressure, frequency, and contact area, can be activated or combined using fluidic logic circuits. These circuits simplify control by reducing reliance on specialized electronics and enabling coordinated actuation …

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Multi-View Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Information Retrieval Based Fault Localization
Most studies focused on information retrieval-based techniques for fault localization, which built representations for bug reports and source code files and matched their semantic vectors through similarity measurement. However, such approaches often ignore some useful information that might help improve localization performance, such as 1) the interaction relationship between bug reports and source code files; 2) the similarity relationship between bug reports; and 3) the co-citation relations…

Sources: OpenAI talked with Saudi Arabia's PIF, India's Reliance, and the UAE's MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40B round led by SoftBank (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Money From Saudi Arabia, Indian Investors
OpenAI has talked to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and existing shareholder United Arab Emirates’ MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40 billion financing led by SoftBank, according to two people familiar with the fundraise. The ...

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

Metainformation in Quantum Guessing Games
Teiko Heinosaari, Hanwool Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06197 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0…

Metainformation in Quantum Guessing Games
Quantum guessing games offer a structured approach to analyzing quantum information processing, where information is encoded in quantum states and extracted through measurement. An additional aspect of this framework is the influence of partial knowledge about the input on the optimal measurement strategies. This kind of side information can significantly influence the guessing strategy and earlier work has shown that the timing of such side information, whether revealed before or after the mea…

PrivTru: A Privacy-by-Design Data Trustee Minimizing Information Leakage
Lukas Gehring, Florian Tschorsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06124 https://

PrivTru: A Privacy-by-Design Data Trustee Minimizing Information Leakage
Data trustees serve as intermediaries that facilitate secure data sharing between independent parties. This paper offers a technical perspective on Data trustees, guided by privacy-by-design principles. We introduce PrivTru, an instantiation of a data trustee that provably achieves optimal privacy properties. Therefore, PrivTru calculates the minimal amount of information the data trustee needs to request from data sources to respond to a given query. Our analysis shows that PrivTru minimizes i…

Grasp Prediction based on Local Finger Motion Dynamics
Dimitar Valkov, Pascal Kockwelp, Florian Daiber, Antonio Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10818

Grasp Prediction based on Local Finger Motion Dynamics
The ability to predict the object the user intends to grasp offers essential contextual information and may help to leverage the effects of point-to-point latency in interactive environments. This paper explores the feasibility and accuracy of real-time recognition of uninstrumented objects based on hand kinematics during reach-to-grasp actions. In a data collection study, we recorded the hand motions of 16 participants while reaching out to grasp and then moving real and synthetic objects. Our…

Spatio-Temporal Information Freshness for Remote Source Monitoring in IoT Systems
Andrea Munari, Federico Chiariotti, Leonardo Badia, Petar Popovski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04804

Spatio-Temporal Information Freshness for Remote Source Monitoring in IoT Systems
The widespread adoption of age of information (AoI) as a meaningful and analytically tractable information freshness metric has led to a wide body of work on the timing performance of Internet of things (IoT) systems. However, the spatial correlation inherent to environmental monitoring has been mostly neglected in the recent literature, due to the significant modeling complexity it introduces. In this work, we address this gap by presenting a model of spatio-temporal information freshness, con…

Private Memorization Editing: Turning Memorization into a Defense to Strengthen Data Privacy in Large Language Models
Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Giancarlo A. Xompero, Davide Venditti, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10024

Private Memorization Editing: Turning Memorization into a Defense to Strengthen Data Privacy in Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) memorize, and thus, among huge amounts of uncontrolled data, may memorize Personally Identifiable Information (PII), which should not be stored and, consequently, not leaked. In this paper, we introduce Private Memorization Editing (PME), an approach for preventing private data leakage that turns an apparent limitation, that is, the LLMs' memorization ability, into a powerful privacy defense strategy. While attacks against LLMs have been performed exploiting previou…

High-Performance Heterodyne Receiver for Quantum Information Processing in a Laser Written Integrated Photonic Platform
Andrea Peri, Giulio Gualandi, Tommaso Bertapelle, Mattia Sabatini, Giacomo Corrielli, Yoann Pi\'etri, Davide Giacomo Marangon, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Villoresi, Roberto Osellame, Marco Avesani
https://arxi…

High-Performance Heterodyne Receiver for Quantum Information Processing in a Laser Written Integrated Photonic Platform
Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD) and Quantum Random Number Generation (CV-QRNG) are critical technologies for secure communication and high-speed randomness generation, exploiting shot-noise-limited coherent detection for their operation. Integrated photonic solutions are key to advancing these protocols, as they enable compact, scalable, and efficient system implementations. In this work, we introduce Femtosecond Laser Micromachining (FLM) on borosilicate glass as a novel …

Salesforce is restricting third-party companies from long-term indexing and storing of Slack messages, which would hamper rival enterprise AI firms like Glean (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/salesforce-blocks-ai-rivals…

Salesforce Blocks AI Rivals From Using Slack Data
Slack, an instant-messaging service popular with businesses, recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages even if their customers permit them to do so, according to a public disclosure from Slack’s owner, Salesforce. The move, which hasn’t previously been ...

Evaluation empirique de la s\'ecurisation et de l'alignement de ChatGPT et Gemini: analyse comparative des vuln\'erabilit\'es par exp\'erimentations de jailbreaks
Rafa\"el Nouailles (GdR)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10029

Evaluation empirique de la sécurisation et de l'alignement de ChatGPT et Gemini: analyse comparative des vulnérabilités par expérimentations de jailbreaks
Large Language models (LLMs) are transforming digital usage, particularly in text generation, image creation, information retrieval and code development. ChatGPT, launched by OpenAI in November 2022, quickly became a reference, prompting the emergence of competitors such as Google's Gemini. However, these technological advances raise new cybersecurity challenges, including prompt injection attacks, the circumvention of regulatory measures (jailbreaking), the spread of misinformation (hallucinat…

Experimental Verification of Entangled States in the Adversarial Scenario
Wen-Hao Zhang, Zihao Li, Gong-Chu Li, Xu-Song Hong, Huangjun Zhu, Geng Chen, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10655

Experimental Verification of Entangled States in the Adversarial Scenario
Efficient verification of entangled states is crucial to many applications in quantum information processing. However, the effectiveness of standard quantum state verification (QSV) is based on the condition of independent and identical distribution (IID), which impedes its applications in many practical scenarios. Here we demonstrate a defensive QSV protocol, which is effective in all kinds of non-IID scenarios, including the extremely challenging adversarial scenario. To this end, we build a …

Explicit C*-algebraic Protocol for Exact Universal Embezzlement of Entanglement
Li Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10736 https://arxiv…

Explicit C*-algebraic Protocol for Exact Universal Embezzlement of Entanglement
We present an explicit construction of a universal embezzlement protocol in the C*-algebraic model of quantum information, that is equivalent to the commuting operator model. Our protocol enables exact embezzlement of arbitrary bipartite pure states using a single, fixed catalyst state. Unlike prior constructions that achieve only approximate embezzlement or require state-dependent catalysts, our approach is both exact and state-independent. The construction is explicit, based on simple *-autom…

Landauer Principle and Thermodynamics of Computation
Pritam Chattopadhyay, Avijit Misra, Tanmoy Pandit, Goutam Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10876 https:…

Landauer Principle and Thermodynamics of Computation
According to the Landauer principle, any logically irreversible process accompanies entropy production, which results in heat dissipation in the environment. Erasing of information, one of the primary logically irreversible processes, has a lower bound on heat dissipated into the environment, called the Landauer bound (LB). However, the practical erasure processes dissipate much more heat than the LB. Recently, there have been a few experimental investigations to reach this bound both in the cl…

Ultrahigh threshold nonstabilizer nonlinear quantum error correcting code
Maga Grafe, Kaixuan Zhou, Zaman Tekin, Zhiyuan Lin, Sen Li, Fengquan Zhang, Valentin Ivannikov, Tim Byrnes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10445

Ultrahigh threshold nonstabilizer nonlinear quantum error correcting code
We introduce a novel type of quantum error correcting code, called the spinor code, based on spaces defined by total spin. The code is a nonstabilizer code, and is also a nonlinear quantum error correcting code, meaning that quantum information is encoded in a parameterized family of quantum states, rather than a linear superposition of code words. Syndrome measurements are performed by projecting on states with differing total spin, with an associated correction to map states back to the maxim…

Quantum secret sharing in a triangular superconducting quantum network
Haoxiong Yan, Allen Zang, Joel Grebel, Xuntao Wu, Ming-Han Chou, Gustav Andersson, Christopher R. Conner, Yash J. Joshi, Shiheng Li, Jacob M. Miller, Rhys G. Povey, Hong Qiao, Eric Chitambar, Andrew N. Cleland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10878

Quantum secret sharing in a triangular superconducting quantum network
We present a three-node quantum communication testbed with a triangular topology, each side of the triangle formed by a 1.3-meter-long transmission line. We demonstrate state transfer and entanglement generation between any two nodes, generate genuine multipartite entangled GHZ states, and implement quantum secret sharing (QSS) of classical information. Our experiments show that the QSS protocol can effectively detect eavesdropping, ensuring the secure sharing of secrets. This device forms a te…