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Self : Merging Human and AI for Co-Determined XR Living in the Metaverse
Thammathip Piumsomboon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10967 https://

Self++: Merging Human and AI for Co-Determined XR Living in the Metaverse
This position paper introduces Self++, a novel nine-level framework for co-determined living in the Metaverse, grounded in Self-Determination Theory. Self++ prioritises human flourishing by progressively cultivating competence, autonomy, and relatedness through dynamic human-AI collaboration in extended reality (XR). Unlike technologically deterministic approaches, Self++ emphasises user empowerment by enhancing competency, mitigating cognitive biases and leveraging XR's immersive capabilities.…

windsurfers: Windsurfers network (1986)
A network of interpersonal contacts among windsurfers in southern California during the Fall of 1986. The edge weights indicate the perception of social affiliations majored by the tasks in which each individual was asked​ to sort cards with other surfer’s name in the order of closeness.
This network has 43 nodes and 336 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Modeling Non-Uniform Hypergraphs Using Determinantal Point Processes
Yichao Chen, Jingfei Zhang, Ji Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12028 https://arxiv.org/…

Modeling Non-Uniform Hypergraphs Using Determinantal Point Processes
Most statistical models for networks focus on pairwise interactions between nodes. However, many real-world networks involve higher-order interactions among multiple nodes, such as co-authors collaborating on a paper. Hypergraphs provide a natural representation for these networks, with each hyperedge representing a set of nodes. The majority of existing hypergraph models assume uniform hyperedges (i.e., edges of the same size) or rely on diversity among nodes. In this work, we propose a new hy…

Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?
Reed Essick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11849 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11849

Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?
Yes, it can. Catalogs produced by networks of Gravitational-wave interferometers are subject to complicated selection effects, and the gold-standard remains direct measurements of the detection probability through large injection campaigns. I leverage public data products from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' 3rd and 4th observing runs to show that there are non-trivial temporal variations within the detection probability that are well-described by a weekly cycle. There are clear differen…

Search for Quantum Decoherence with 10.7 years of atmospheric $\nu_\mu$ events in IceCube
Tanvi Krishnan (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12316

Search for Quantum Decoherence with 10.7 years of atmospheric $ν_μ$ events in IceCube
In order to develop a consistent quantum theory of gravity, we must understand the nature of spacetime at the Planck scale. In particular if it exhibits quantum fluctuations, they may cause propagating particles to evolve in an apparently non-unitary manner. Neutrinos, which interact only via the weak force and gravity, maintain quantum coherence while propagating over large distances. Thus, neutrino oscillations serve as a precise interferometer to search for Planck-scale fluctuations of space…

Dimers with layered disorder
Quentin Moulard (TU Wien), Fabio Toninelli (TU Wien)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11964 https://arxiv.org/…

Dimers with layered disorder
We study the dimer model on the square grid, with quenched random edge weights. Randomness is chosen to have a layered structure, similar to that of the celebrated McCoy-Wu disordered Ising model. Disorder has a highly non-trivial effect and it produces an essential singularity of the free energy, with $e^{-\sqrt{\rm distance}}$ decay of dimer-dimer correlations, at a point of the ``liquid'' (or ``massless'') phase where the homogeneous dimer model has instead a real analytic free energy and co…

gNB-based Local Breakout for URLLC in industrial 5G
Rajendra Paudyal, Rajendra Upadhyay, Al Nahian Bin Emran, Duminda Wijesekera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10617 https://…

gNB-based Local Breakout for URLLC in industrial 5G
Industrial URLLC workloads-coordinated robotics, automated guided vehicles, machine-vision collaboration require sub-5 ms latency and five-nines reliability. In standardized 5G Multicast/Broadcast Services, intra-cell group traffic remains anchored in the core using MB-SMF/MB-UPF, and the Application Function. This incurs a core network path and packet delay that is avoidable when data transmitters and receivers share a cell. We propose a gNB-local multicast breakout that pivots eligible uplink…

Shoutout on International Non-Binary People’s Day! 💛🤍💜🖤
Celebrating all the amazing non-binary folks out there, especially my favorite LGBTQIA content creator, Lynn Saga!
https://www.youtube.com/@lynnsaga1397
🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Generalizable Federated Learning using Client Adaptive Focal Modulation
Tajamul Ashraf, Iqra Altaf Gillani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10840 https://arxiv.o…

Generalizable Federated Learning using Client Adaptive Focal Modulation
Federated learning (FL) has proven essential for privacy-preserving, collaborative training across distributed clients. Our prior work, TransFed, introduced a robust transformer-based FL framework that leverages a learn-to-adapt hypernetwork to generate personalized focal modulation layers per client, outperforming traditional methods in non-IID and cross-domain settings. In this extended version, we propose AdaptFED, where we deepen the investigation of focal modulation in generalizable FL by …

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12282

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken between 24 May 2023 and 16 January 2024. The GW signals targeted by this search are the so-called "long-duration" (> 1 s) transients expected from a variety of astrophysical processes, including non-axisymmetric deformations in magnetars or eccentric binary coalescences. We make minimal assumptions on the emitted GW …