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Join us for two days of exciting talks, workshops and discussions, and of course our barcamp on Sunday! Berlin Buzzwords will take place as a hybrid conference online and in our venue Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin along with other members of Congress are asking a federal court to let them in
— without advance notice
— to facilities where the Trump administration is detaining immigrants facing deportation
so they can conduct lawful oversight,
according to a complaint filed Wednesday.
Raskin and 11 other Democratic members of Congress filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Lawmakers ar…

Raskin lawsuit challenges congressional restrictions at ICE facilities
The lawsuit comes days after members of Maryland’s federal delegation were denied a tour of Baltimore’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

MSQ: Memory-Efficient Bit Sparsification Quantization
Seokho Han, Seoyeon Yoon, Jinhee Kim, Dongwei Wang, Kang Eun Jeon, Huanrui Yang, Jong Hwan Ko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22349

MSQ: Memory-Efficient Bit Sparsification Quantization
As deep neural networks (DNNs) see increased deployment on mobile and edge devices, optimizing model efficiency has become crucial. Mixed-precision quantization is widely favored, as it offers a superior balance between efficiency and accuracy compared to uniform quantization. However, finding the optimal precision for each layer is challenging. Recent studies utilizing bit-level sparsity have shown promise, yet they often introduce substantial training complexity and high GPU memory requiremen…

Investigating Hallucination in Conversations for Low Resource Languages
Amit Das, Md. Najib Hasan, Souvika Sarkar, Zheng Zhang, Fatemeh Jamshidi, Tathagata Bhattacharya, Nilanjana Raychawdhury, Dongji Feng, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22720

Investigating Hallucination in Conversations for Low Resource Languages
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in generating text that closely resemble human writing. However, they often generate factually incorrect statements, a problem typically referred to as 'hallucination'. Addressing hallucination is crucial for enhancing the reliability and effectiveness of LLMs. While much research has focused on hallucinations in English, our study extends this investigation to conversational data in three languages: Hindi, Farsi, and Mandari…

Police in southern California arrested a man suspected of posing as a federal immigration officer this week, the latest in a series of such arrests, as masked, plainclothes immigration agents are deployed nationwide to meet the Trump administration’s mass deportation targets.
The man, Fernando Diaz, was arrested by Huntington Park police after officers said they found a loaded gun and official-looking documents with Department of Homeland Security headings in his SUV, according to NBC …

Early Assessment of Artificial Lower Extremity Sensory Response Times and Proprioceptive Acuity via Sensory Cortex Electrical Stimulation
Won Joon Sohn, Jeffrey Lim, Po T. Wang, Susan J. Shaw, Michelle Armacost, Hui Gong, Brian Lee, Darrin Lee, Payam Heydari, Richard A. Andersen, Charles Y. Liu, Zoran Nenadic, An H. Do
https://a…

Early Assessment of Artificial Lower Extremity Sensory Response Times and Proprioceptive Acuity via Sensory Cortex Electrical Stimulation
Bi-directional brain computer interfaces (BD-BCIs) may restore brain-controlled walking and artificial leg sensation after spinal cord injury. Current BD-BCIs provide only simplistic "tingling" feedback, which lacks proprioceptive information to perceive critical gait events (leg swing, double support). This information must also be perceived adequately fast to facilitate timely motor responses. Here, we investigated utilizing primary sensory cortex (S1) direct cortical electrical stimulation (…

3DGauCIM: Accelerating Static/Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting via Digital CIM for High Frame Rate Real-Time Edge Rendering
Wei-Hsing Huang (Celine), Cheng-Jhih Shih (Celine), Jian-Wei Su (Celine), Samuel Wade Wang (Celine), Vaidehi Garg (Celine), Yuyao Kong (Celine), Jen-Chun Tien (Celine), Nealson Li (Celine), Arijit Raychowdhury (Celine), Meng-Fan Chang (Celine), Yingyan (Celine), Lin, Shimeng Yu

3DGauCIM: Accelerating Static/Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting via Digital CIM for High Frame Rate Real-Time Edge Rendering
Dynamic 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) extends static 3DGS to render dynamic scenes, enabling AR/VR applications with moving objects. However, implementing dynamic 3DGS on edge devices faces challenges: (1) Loading all Gaussian parameters from DRAM for frustum culling incurs high energy costs. (2) Increased parameters for dynamic scenes elevate sorting latency and energy consumption. (3) Limited on-chip buffer capacity with higher parameters reduces buffer reuse, causing frequent DRAM access. (4)…

Axisymmetric Gyrokinetic Simulation of ASDEX-Upgrade Scrape-off Layer Using a Conservative Implicit BGK Collision Operator
D. Liu, J. Juno, G. W. Hammett, A. Hakim, A. Shukla, M. Francisquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22821

Axisymmetric Gyrokinetic Simulation of ASDEX-Upgrade Scrape-off Layer Using a Conservative Implicit BGK Collision Operator
Collisions play an important role in turbulence and transport of fusion plasmas. For kinetic simulations, as the collisionality increases in the domain of interest, the size of the time step to resolve the collisional physics can become overly restrictive in an explicit time integration scheme, leading to high computational cost. With the aim of overcoming such restriction, we have implemented an implicit Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision operator for use in the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) …

"Europe’s pledge to spend more on military will hurt climate and social programmes"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange

US immigration officers made false and misleading statements
in their reports about several Los Angeles protesters they arrested during the massive demonstrations that rocked the city in June,
according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.
The officers’ testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest.
The justice department has charged at least 26 people with “assaulting” and “impeding” federal off…