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Roland Announces BOSS Effects Pedals Plug-In https://www.premierguitar.com/news/roland-boss-pedal-plugin?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=user/premierguitar&utm_medium=mastodon…

Experience Enhanced Sound with Roland BOSS Effects PlugIn
Introducing the BOSS Effects Pedals plug-in from Roland Cloud, bringing the iconic sound of BOSS compact pedals to your computer music production. With faithful recreations of classic models like the DS-1 Distortion and OD-1 OverDrive, this plug-in offers premium processing for guitar, bass, keyboar...

Memory Decoder: A Pretrained, Plug-and-Play Memory for Large Language Models
Jiaqi Cao, Jiarui Wang, Rubin Wei, Qipeng Guo, Kai Chen, Bowen Zhou, Zhouhan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09874

Memory Decoder: A Pretrained, Plug-and-Play Memory for Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong abilities in general language tasks, yet adapting them to specific domains remains a challenge. Current method like Domain Adaptive Pretraining (DAPT) requires costly full-parameter training and suffers from catastrophic forgetting. Meanwhile, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) introduces substantial inference latency due to expensive nearest-neighbor searches and longer context. This paper introduces Memory Decoder, a plug-and-play pretrained me…

Ah yes, nearly 2am and have finally got audio working on the new T480. Was it too much to ask that when you plug a headphone cable in, the sound gets routed to them? Apparently so!
On the other hand, I've got a new example of the old "Don't give me that stony-faced glare, I'm a user too" cartoon.
I present:

LLMC : Benchmarking Vision-Language Model Compression with a Plug-and-play Toolkit
Chengtao Lv, Bilang Zhang, Yang Yong, Ruihao Gong, Yushi Huang, Shiqiao Gu, Jiajun Wu, Yumeng Shi, Jinyang Guo, Wenya Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09981

LLMC+: Benchmarking Vision-Language Model Compression with a Plug-and-play Toolkit
Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit impressive multi-modal capabilities but suffer from prohibitive computational and memory demands, due to their long visual token sequences and massive parameter sizes. To address these issues, recent works have proposed training-free compression methods. However, existing efforts often suffer from three major limitations: (1) Current approaches do not decompose techniques into comparable modules, hindering fair evaluation across spatial and temporal r…

Plug it and Play on Logs: A Configuration-Free Statistic-Based Log Parser
Qiaolin Qin, Xingfang Wu, Heng Li, Ettore Merlo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09366 https://

Plug it and Play on Logs: A Configuration-Free Statistic-Based Log Parser
Log parsing is an essential task in log analysis, and many tools have been designed to accomplish it. Existing log parsers can be categorized into statistic-based and semantic-based approaches. In comparison to semantic-based parsers, existing statistic-based parsers tend to be more efficient, require lower computational costs, and be more privacy-preserving thanks to on-premise deployment, but often fall short in their accuracy (e.g., grouping or parsing accuracy) and generalizability. Therefo…

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

Arturia unveil Mix Drums https://www.soundonsound.com/news/arturia-unveil-mix-drums?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Indie Musician Tips&utm_…

I guess we had a little bit of water come in through a loading dock door at work. It soaked a box full of Cat5 cable, not too bad. It's a good thing I moved a UPS off the floor where it was and onto a small rolling dolly a few months ago.
Also, USB-C is great because you can plug a cable into two different ports of a USB hub! Looks like it destroyed the cable and the hub. (Not sure who did it but people were trying to help while I was out.)
Anyway, all is up and running again…

Whoa - it’s been running as a business this whole time? I thought they pulled the plug 30 yrs ago.
https://apple.news/A8NuSgkX9SmmdRqGsUOkAWg

AOL will pull the plug on dial-up internet, '90s nostalgia ensues — Mashable
Perfect day for a "You've Got Mail" rewatch.

A Parametric Study on the Pulsation of Burner-Stabilized CH4-O2 Flames Moderated by CO2 Addition -- Frequencies, Modes and Regime Diagrams
Xiangyu Nie, Shuoxun Zhang, Shengkai Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10905

A Parametric Study on the Pulsation of Burner-Stabilized CH4-O2 Flames Moderated by CO2 Addition -- Frequencies, Modes and Regime Diagrams
This study investigated the pulsating instability of burner-stabilized premixed CH4-O2 flames at various levels of CO2 dilution. Experiments were conducted using a water-cooled porous-plug burner of 18 mm diameter over a wide range of mixture compositions and flow rates, during which time-resolved measurements of flame chemiluminescence and gas temperature were obtained. The primary oscillation frequencies of the pulsating flames were determined using fast Fourier transform and harmonic power a…

zERExtractor:An Automated Platform for Enzyme-Catalyzed Reaction Data Extraction from Scientific Literature
Rui Zhou, Haohui Ma, Tianle Xin, Lixin Zou, Qiuyue Hu, Hongxi Cheng, Mingzhi Lin, Jingjing Guo, Sheng Wang, Guoqing Zhang, Yanjie Wei, Liangzhen Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09995

zERExtractor:An Automated Platform for Enzyme-Catalyzed Reaction Data Extraction from Scientific Literature
The rapid expansion of enzyme kinetics literature has outpaced the curation capabilities of major biochemical databases, creating a substantial barrier to AI-driven modeling and knowledge discovery. We present zERExtractor, an automated and extensible platform for comprehensive extraction of enzyme-catalyzed reaction and activity data from scientific literature. zERExtractor features a unified, modular architecture that supports plug-and-play integration of state-of-the-art models, including la…

Plug-and-Play Linear Attention for Pre-trained Image and Video Restoration Models
Srinivasan Kidambi, Pravin Nair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08520 https://…

Plug-and-Play Linear Attention for Pre-trained Image and Video Restoration Models
Multi-head self-attention (MHSA) has become a core component in modern computer vision models. However, its quadratic complexity with respect to input length poses a significant computational bottleneck in real-time and resource constrained environments. We propose PnP-Nystra, a Nyström based linear approximation of self-attention, developed as a plug-and-play (PnP) module that can be integrated into the pre-trained image and video restoration models without retraining. As a drop-in replacemen…

Omnisoot: an object-oriented process design package for gas-phase synthesis of carbonaceous nanoparticles
Mohammad Adib, Sina Kazemi, M. Reza Kholghy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10879

Omnisoot: an object-oriented process design package for gas-phase synthesis of carbonaceous nanoparticles
A computational tool, Omnisoot, was developed utilizing the chemical kinetics capabilities of Cantera to model the formation of carbonaceous nanoparticles, such as soot and Carbon Black (CB), from the reactions of gaseous hydrocarbons. Omnisoot integrates constant volume, constant pressure, perfectly stirred, and plug flow reactor models with four inception models from the literature, as well as two population balance models: a monodisperse model and a sectional model. This package serves as an…

PAPRLE (Plug-And-Play Robotic Limb Environment): A Modular Ecosystem for Robotic Limbs
Obin Kwon, Sankalp Yamsani, Noboru Myers, Sean Taylor, Jooyoung Hong, Kyungseo Park, Alex Alspach, Joohyung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05555

PAPRLE (Plug-And-Play Robotic Limb Environment): A Modular Ecosystem for Robotic Limbs
We introduce PAPRLE (Plug-And-Play Robotic Limb Environment), a modular ecosystem that enables flexible placement and control of robotic limbs. With PAPRLE, a user can change the arrangement of the robotic limbs, and control them using a variety of input devices, including puppeteers, gaming controllers, and VR-based interfaces. This versatility supports a wide range of teleoperation scenarios and promotes adaptability to different task requirements. To further enhance configurability, we intro…

#FIRSTCON25 TLP:CLEAR sessions are now available for viewing. Shameless plug for my New ASNs talk included. Full play list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAUUhO…

Okay, Spinrite wont boot off of my JetKVM and won't boot off of a thumb drive. I think that it is safe to say that I need to pull all of the drives out of my home server and plug them into a donor computer. From there, I should be able to scan and ideally repair them, but I also hopped on eBay to try to find a replacement hard drive of the same type and size.

Belkin announces it is ending support for its Wemo devices and app on January 31, 2026; a limited number of devices will continue to function via HomeKit (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/10/belkin-wemo-smart-home-shutdown-list/

Belkin pulls the plug on Wemo smart home products which will stop working in 2026
Belkin has announced that it will shut down all services for its Wemo smart home products in early 2026, and there's a full list.

Deviation Inequalities for R\'{e}nyi Divergence Estimators via Variational Expression
Sreejith Sreekumar, Kengo Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09382 https://

Deviation Inequalities for Rényi Divergence Estimators via Variational Expression
Rényi divergences play a pivotal role in information theory, statistics, and machine learning. While several estimators of these divergences have been proposed in the literature with their consistency properties established and minimax convergence rates quantified, existing accounts of probabilistic bounds governing the estimation error are premature. Here, we make progress in this regard by establishing exponential deviation inequalities for smoothed plug-in estimators and neural estimators b…

CLIPin: A Non-contrastive Plug-in to CLIP for Multimodal Semantic Alignment
Shengzhu Yang, Jiawei Du, Shuai Lu, Weihang Zhang, Ningli Wang, Huiqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06434

CLIPin: A Non-contrastive Plug-in to CLIP for Multimodal Semantic Alignment
Large-scale natural image-text datasets, especially those automatically collected from the web, often suffer from loose semantic alignment due to weak supervision, while medical datasets tend to have high cross-modal correlation but low content diversity. These properties pose a common challenge for contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP): they hinder the model's ability to learn robust and generalizable representations. In this work, we propose CLIPin, a unified non-contrastive plug-in t…

Balkonkraftwerk is the German success story of plug-in solar energy (one or two solar panels, inverter with 🔌), which can be self-installed by apartment dwellers and has democratised solar energy. There are now officially over one million of these installations in Germany.
(cartoon ©️ Til Mette)
https://www.…

GENPLUGIN: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Long-Tail Generative Recommendation with Exposure Bias Mitigation
Kun Yang, Siyao Zheng, Tianyi Li, Xiaodong Li, Hui Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03568

GENPLUGIN: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Long-Tail Generative Recommendation with Exposure Bias Mitigation
Generative recommendation (GenRec) offers LLM integration, reduced embedding costs, and eliminates per-candidate scoring, attracting great attention. Despite its promising performance, this study reveals that it suffers from generation exposure bias and poor long-tail item generalization, two critical limitations overlooked by prior works on GenRec. To address these, we propose GENPLUGIN, a plug-and-play framework featuring a dual-encoder, shared-decoder architecture. During pre-training, it al…

House GOP probes whether NY Gov. Kathy Hochul pulled Medicaid funds to plug billion-dollar hole in state budget (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/02/us-news/house-gop-probes-kathy-hochul-over-hoarding-medicaid-funds-to-plug-billion-dollar-budget-hole/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p106#a250702p106

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
open mike eagle:
🎵 Contraband
#openmikeeagle
https://openmikeeagle.bandcamp.com/track/contraband-the-plug-has-bags-of-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/2KRZKArahBmvGWxu9HA2bz
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

Dude! A docking station under 50 euros allows me to use 3 external monitors in addition to the laptop. And all has worked out of the box, it has been just plug&play.
I'm amazed, but I must confess that I was expecting to have to fiddle around in Arch to get it.
#linux

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

found something cursed. battery charger by Bosch:
#vendorlockin #bosch #charger #battery

Oh, the arguments we had! There was a marketing person — quite a good one, and a good person too — who just couldn’t see it, who fought the dev team tooth and nail on this. She finally relented when @… wrote a brief positive plug for our app, and made her realize that the landscape had changed and her J2ME-world design instincts just didn’t work in this new iPhone market.
(I’m not sure that company ever really made the shift. They struggled with and eventually dropped their general consumer app, and concentrated quite successfully on some pro markets where features ruled all.)
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Dallas Cowboys might finally pull the plug on this fan favorite https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-might-finally-pull-the-plug-on-this-fan-favorite

I love it that years ago, Linux boasted things like, 'It has an office suite like in Windows!', and now it's, like, 'Plug in. Game on!' 🥰 ->
I FINALLY listened to you and tried Linux... Why did I wait so long? - JayzTwoCents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa8nMiEoti0

The Boiling-Frog Problem of Physics Education
Gerd Kortemeyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08842 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08842

The Boiling-Frog Problem of Physics Education
It is astonishing how rapidly general-purpose AI has crossed familiar thresholds in introductory physics. Comparing outputs from successive models, GPT-5 Thinking moves far beyond the plug-and-chug tendencies seen earlier: on a classic elevator problem it works symbolically, notes when variables cancel, and verifies results; attempts to prompt novice-like behavior mainly affect tone, not method. On representation translation, the model scores 24/26 (92.3%) on TUG-Kv4.0. In a card-sorting proxy …

@… put a Shelly Plug on it to power cycle it?

Fault Tolerant Multi-Agent Learning with Adversarial Budget Constraints
David Mguni, Yaqi Sun, Haojun Chen, Amir Darabi, Larry Olanrewaju Orimoloye, Yaodong Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08800

Fault Tolerant Multi-Agent Learning with Adversarial Budget Constraints
In multi-agent systems, the safe and reliable execution of tasks often depends on agents correctly coordinating their actions. However, in real-world deployments, failures of computational components are inevitable, presenting a critical challenge: ensuring that multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) policies remain effective even when some agents malfunction. We propose the Multi-Agent Robust Training Algorithm (MARTA), a plug-and-play framework for training MARL agents to be resilient to p…

Why do people link to comicsands.com? It is a website that is has more trackers than a golden stag on opening day of the hunting season.
My "privacy badger" and Ublock Origin plug-ins turn bright red should I visit that web site.

Plug. Play. Persist. Inside a Ready-to-Go Havoc C2 Infrastructure
Alessio Di Santo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00189 https://arxiv.org…

Plug. Play. Persist. Inside a Ready-to-Go Havoc C2 Infrastructure
This analysis focuses on a single Azure-hosted Virtual Machine at 52.230.23.114 that the adversary converted into an all-in-one delivery, staging and Command-and-Control node. The host advertises an out-of-date Apache 2.4.52 instance whose open directory exposes phishing lures, PowerShell loaders, Reflective Shell-Code, compiled Havoc Demon implants and a toolbox of lateral-movement binaries; the same server also answers on 8443/80 for encrypted beacon traffic. The web tier is riddled with publ…

A Navigation Framework Utilizing Vision-Language Models
Yicheng Duan, Kaiyu tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10172 https://arxiv.org/p…

A Navigation Framework Utilizing Vision-Language Models
Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) presents a complex challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate through visually rich, unfamiliar environments. Recent advances in large vision-language models (LVLMs), such as CLIP and Flamingo, have significantly improved multimodal understanding but introduced new challenges related to computational cost and real-time deployment. In this project, we propose a modular, plug-and-play navigation framework…

Ein paar Tricks, die mittlerweile zwischen Android und Linux echt leicht funktionieren (wenn man testen oder präsentieren will), darunter auch Bedienung mit Maus und Tastatur. Und Internet ohne Wifi (reverse tethering):
1. Android über Ethernet ins Internet verbinden mit USB-C-Ethernet-Adapter, z.B.
https://www.ebay.de/itm/3656612918…

Zuverlässiger USB-C Ethernet Adapter - Plug-and-Play für reibungsloses Streaming | eBay.de
Für Ultrabooks, Notebooks und MacBook Air. Genießen Sie reibungsloses Streaming und stabile Netzwerkverbindungen mit diesem kompakten USB-zu-Ethernet-Adapter, ideal für Computer und Tablets. Zuverlässiger USB-C Ethernet Adapter.

Wav2Sem: Plug-and-Play Audio Semantic Decoupling for 3D Speech-Driven Facial Animation
Hao Li, Ju Dai, Xin Zhao, Feng Zhou, Junjun Pan, Lei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23290

Wav2Sem: Plug-and-Play Audio Semantic Decoupling for 3D Speech-Driven Facial Animation
In 3D speech-driven facial animation generation, existing methods commonly employ pre-trained self-supervised audio models as encoders. However, due to the prevalence of phonetically similar syllables with distinct lip shapes in language, these near-homophone syllables tend to exhibit significant coupling in self-supervised audio feature spaces, leading to the averaging effect in subsequent lip motion generation. To address this issue, this paper proposes a plug-and-play semantic decorrelation …

It's neat that I can plug in a brand-new mouse to the 25-year old iBook and it just works, no driver installation or anything needed.

Found a practical use for AI. When I write research papers I want all my references in Zotero and not just in the text. But if I upload my manuscript to CoPilot (usually sucks at most things) it can return the doi for most articles i cite and ISBN for most books. Then I only have to copy the doi into Zotero and add the reference. Practical if you only have articles as print outs (there is a browser plug in when showing an article in the browser, but not for print outs). Tip of the day and th…

Viscosity Stabilized Plug-and-Play Reconstruction
Arghya Sinha, Trishit Mukherjee, Kunal N. Chaudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01441 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Viscosity Stabilized Plug-and-Play Reconstruction
The plug-and-play (PnP) method uses a deep denoiser within a proximal algorithm for model-based image reconstruction (IR). Unlike end-to-end IR, PnP allows the same pretrained denoiser to be used across different imaging tasks, without the need for retraining. However, black-box networks can make the iterative process in PnP unstable. A common issue observed across architectures like CNNs, diffusion models, and transformers is that the visual quality and PSNR often improve initially but then de…

A Plug-and-Play Multi-Criteria Guidance for Diverse In-Betweening Human Motion Generation
Hua Yu, Jiao Liu, Xu Gui, Melvin Wong, Yaqing Hou, Yew-Soon Ong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01590

A Plug-and-Play Multi-Criteria Guidance for Diverse In-Betweening Human Motion Generation
In-betweening human motion generation aims to synthesize intermediate motions that transition between user-specified keyframes. In addition to maintaining smooth transitions, a crucial requirement of this task is to generate diverse motion sequences. It is still challenging to maintain diversity, particularly when it is necessary for the motions within a generated batch sampling to differ meaningfully from one another due to complex motion dynamics. In this paper, we propose a novel method, ter…

Plug and Play Splitting Techniques for Poisson Image Restoration
Alessandro Benfenati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19378 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19378

Plug and Play Splitting Techniques for Poisson Image Restoration
Plug and Play (PnP) methods achieve remarkable results in the framework of image restoration problems for Gaussian data. Nonetheless, the theory available for the Gaussian case cannot be extended to the Poisson case, due to the non-Lipschitz gradient of the fidelity function, the Kullback-Leibler functional, or the absence of closed-form solution for the proximal operator of such term, leading to employ iterative solvers for the inner subproblem. In this work we extend the idea of PIDSplit+ alg…

On G83-Lite: Solar Nanogeneration For Everyone (2009) - Learn how plug-in solar curtain linings could trim your home power bill and footprint... #solar #balconySolar #nanogeneration -

On G83-Lite: Solar Nanogeneration For Everyone (2009)
Learn how plug-in solar curtain linings could trim your home power bill and footprint... #solar #balconySolar #nanogeneration

In the closing words of BBCR4Today, Amol Rajan gave a bare-faced plug to James Orr and ReformUK. This was an egregious breach of BBC impartiality rules.
Listen from 2:52:10. or, skip the appalling James Orr and listen to Rajan's cock-up at 2:58:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gg6s…

Today - 31/07/2025 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Add N To X:
🎵 Plug Me In
#NowPlaying #AddNToX
https://vaaticanrecords.bandcamp.com/track/aleksi-per-l-rocking-chair-add-n-to-x-plug-me-in-telecom-jehovah-bang
https://open.spotify.com/track/5b9Riz6w7F2lhUVNlrAsnW

"The life-cycle emissions of BEVs in the European Union are estimated to be 73% lower than those of gasoline ICEVs."
#ICCT's latest report:
https://theicct.org/publica…

"Ask any developer working on Cloud, Mobile, or Web apps whether they would consider Windows a viable choice for their work, and their gasp would be heard from the Pitcairn Islands. And let us not even start talking about LLMs, AI, or other golden nuggets in vogue these days."
https://

Why Wait For The Best When I Could Have You?
Billions of people in this planet instinctively associate the concept of "operating system" to Microsoft Windows by antonomasia. Through perhaps resignation, corporate coercion, laziness, or just sheer ignorance, most cannot fathom a world in which laptops do not boot without a "Start" menu or do not randomly display a Blue Screen of Death every time they plug a new device.

Total number of fossil fuel cars in the Netherlands now starting to go down, but including plug-in hybrids it's still slightly increasing. We need a lot more EV sales to really make a dent.
Or, better still, less cars thanks to cycling, public transport, and car sharing.
https://mastodon.social…

Datagraver.com (@Datagraver@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Aantal geregistreerde personenauto's in Nederland naar brandstofsoort, vanaf 2000.

Steelers forge ahead at OTAs without Aaron Rodgers, say it's of little concern https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45452308/pittsburgh-steelers-otas-missing-aaron-rodgers-veterans

These things don’t /actually/ go together, they just look like it… I’m also missing a computer running MS-DOS in order to see if the disks are still viable; likely not, since v.2 of CorelDraw was released in 1991… And, even if I had a computer from that era, I’m pretty sure there would be no way to plug a USB into it.
I did also find a number of other disks during my clean-up today — helpfully labelled things like «Backup», «Miscellaneous», and «Fred’s disk». I might check them out som…

God damn it, why does Apple make it so hard to get files off the damn device!!!
I have some old procreate files from an old ipad that needs fixed and it's so frustrating I can't just plug it in, open a folder, and paste it into my PC. No, I have to use their dumb Apple devices app that crashes.

Which defensive legend could help the Cowboys the most in 2025? https://insidethestar.com/which-defensive-legend-could-help-the-cowboys-the-most-in-2025

A friend of mine (who is not a technology person) mailed me a thumb drive full of videos.
It took like a month to arrived. We were both convinced it was lost. I finally got it!
When I opened it I saw it had been "compressed" (not crushed) and I had to carefully bend the plastic back to plug it into a USB port.
Finally copying the files, which are 1990s era punk rock shows of local (and some touring) bands.
I'll probably publish them all at some point. Ma…

On the Estimation of Gaussian Moment Tensors
Omar Al-Ghattas, Jiaheng Chen, Daniel Sanz-Alonso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06166 https://

On the Estimation of Gaussian Moment Tensors
This paper studies two estimators for Gaussian moment tensors: the standard sample moment estimator and a plug-in estimator based on Isserlis's theorem. We establish dimension-free, non-asymptotic error bounds that demonstrate and quantify the advantage of Isserlis's estimator for tensors of even order $p>2$. Our bounds hold in operator and entrywise maximum norms, and apply to symmetric and asymmetric tensors.

PLUS: Plug-and-Play Enhanced Liver Lesion Diagnosis Model on Non-Contrast CT Scans
Jiacheng Hao, Xiaoming Zhang, Wei Liu, Xiaoli Yin, Yuan Gao, Chunli Li, Ling Zhang, Le Lu, Yu Shi, Xu Han, Ke Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03872

PLUS: Plug-and-Play Enhanced Liver Lesion Diagnosis Model on Non-Contrast CT Scans
Focal liver lesions (FLL) are common clinical findings during physical examination. Early diagnosis and intervention of liver malignancies are crucial to improving patient survival. Although the current 3D segmentation paradigm can accurately detect lesions, it faces limitations in distinguishing between malignant and benign liver lesions, primarily due to its inability to differentiate subtle variations between different lesions. Furthermore, existing methods predominantly rely on specialized …

The NTSB meeting summary on the missing Boeing door plug is out; the bolts were missing.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA24MA063 Board Meeting Summary.pdf

There's obviously something like a Rule 34-C: no matter what your fetish is, there's a crowdfunding for a device to help you enjoy it.
Groove Thing | The World's First Internal Music Player https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/groov…

Hierarchical Lexical Graph for Enhanced Multi-Hop Retrieval
Abdellah Ghassel, Ian Robinson, Gabriel Tanase, Hal Cooper, Bryan Thompson, Zhen Han, Vassilis N. Ioannidis, Soji Adeshina, Huzefa Rangwala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08074

Hierarchical Lexical Graph for Enhanced Multi-Hop Retrieval
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds large language models in external evidence, yet it still falters when answers must be pieced together across semantically distant documents. We close this gap with the Hierarchical Lexical Graph (HLG), a three-tier index that (i) traces every atomic proposition to its source, (ii) clusters propositions into latent topics, and (iii) links entities and relations to expose cross-document paths. On top of HLG we build two complementary, plug-and-play ret…

Efficient Seismic Data Interpolation via Sparse Attention Transformer and Diffusion Model
Xiaoli Wei, Chunxia Zhang, Baisong Jiang, Anxiang Di, Deng Xiong, Jiangshe Zhang, Mingming Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07923

Efficient Seismic Data Interpolation via Sparse Attention Transformer and Diffusion Model
Seismic data interpolation is a critical pre-processing step for improving seismic imaging quality and remains a focus of academic innovation. To address the computational inefficiencies caused by extensive iterative resampling in current plug-and-play diffusion interpolation methods, we propose the diffusion-enhanced sparse attention transformer (Diff-spaformer), a novel deep learning framework. Our model integrates transformer architectures and diffusion models via a Seismic Prior Extraction …

Dismantling the sawmill motor to investigate an ignition failure. Changing the spark plug didn't help. It could be the HT lead but my local small engine guru says probably the coil.
Getting to the coil requires dismantling a whole lot of stuff...

Hat irgendwer von Euch die #Shelly Plug S Gen3 #Steckdose?
Lt. Datenblatt hat die < 1 Watt #Eigenverbrauch. Hat jemand mal nachgemessen und kann mir genaueres sagen?

the plumbing for the bog/wetland filter is nearly complete.
The last item I needed was some 6" PVC pipe for a cleanout. It'll go down through the milk crate so I can send a vaccuum hose down there.
It isn't easy to find this size at stores, but a friend of a friend came through with some free cutoffs. They'll work perfectly. Probably $50 worth of pipe! I only had to buy the plug ($40).
Befriend a tradesperson! 😀
#freepipe #diy #itPaysToKnowPeople #poolpond #BackyardProject #portAlberni

PASC-Net:Plug-and-play Shape Self-learning Convolutions Network with Hierarchical Topology Constraints for Vessel Segmentation
Xiao Zhang, Zhuo Jin, Shaoxuan Wu, Fengyu Wang, Guansheng Peng, Xiang Zhang, Ying Huang, JingKun Chen, Jun Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04008

PASC-Net:Plug-and-play Shape Self-learning Convolutions Network with Hierarchical Topology Constraints for Vessel Segmentation
Accurate vessel segmentation is crucial to assist in clinical diagnosis by medical experts. However, the intricate tree-like tubular structure of blood vessels poses significant challenges for existing segmentation algorithms. Small vascular branches are often overlooked due to their low contrast compared to surrounding tissues, leading to incomplete vessel segmentation. Furthermore, the complex vascular topology prevents the model from accurately capturing and reconstructing vascular …

Comment on "Average Hazard as Harmonic Mean" by Chiba
Hajime Uno, Lu Tian, Miki Horiguchi, Satoshi Hattori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15985 https…

Comment on "Average Hazard as Harmonic Mean" by Chiba
In a recent article published in Pharmaceutical Statistics, Chiba proposed a reinterpretation of the average hazard as a harmonic mean of the hazard function and questioned the validity of the Kaplan-Meier plug-in estimator when the truncation time does not coincide with an observed event time. In this commentary, we examine the arguments presented and highlight several points that warrant clarification. Through simulation studies, we further show that the plug-in estimator provides reliable es…

Inferring processes within dynamic forest models using hybrid modeling
Maximilian Pichler, Yannek K\"aber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01228 https://arx…

Inferring processes within dynamic forest models using hybrid modeling
Modeling forest dynamics under novel climatic conditions requires a careful balance between process-based understanding and empirical flexibility. Dynamic Vegetation Models (DVM) represent ecological processes mechanistically, but their performance is prone to misspecified assumptions about functional forms. Inferring the structure of these processes and their functional forms correctly from data remains a major challenge because current approaches, such as plug-in estimators, have proven ineff…

Whenever I can I try to plug WIkidata and then ... I tried...
#Wikidata

How Far Are We from Predicting Missing Modalities with Foundation Models?
Guanzhou Ke, Yi Xie, Xiaoli Wang, Guoqing Chao, Bo Wang, Shengfeng He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03530

How Far Are We from Predicting Missing Modalities with Foundation Models?
Multimodal foundation models have demonstrated impressive capabilities across diverse tasks. However, their potential as plug-and-play solutions for missing modality prediction remains underexplored. To investigate this, we categorize existing approaches into three representative paradigms, encompassing a total of 42 model variants, and conduct a comprehensive evaluation in terms of prediction accuracy and adaptability to downstream tasks. Our analysis reveals that current foundation models oft…

Grid-Connected, Data-Driven Inverter Control, Theory to Hardware
Sebastian Graf, Keith Moffat, Anurag Mohapatra, Alessandro Chiuso, Florian D\"orfler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02325

Grid-Connected, Data-Driven Inverter Control, Theory to Hardware
Grid-connected inverter control is challenging to implement due to the difficulty of obtaining and maintaining an accurate grid model. Direct Data-Driven Predictive Control provides a model-free alternative to traditional model-based control methods. This paper describes how the recently-proposed Transient Predictive Control (TPC) can be used for real-world, plug-and-play inverter control. The following hypotheses were tested: 1) The TPC algorithm can be run online using standard hardware, and …

I feel invincible.
I feel like I can make everything.
I finally squeezed some time to lean #freecad. It's awesome.
This is a project that I try to get rid of a proprietary plug from a Technics turntable my grandpa left us.
It's not perfect, but man I feel powerful right now

FMPlug: Plug-In Foundation Flow-Matching Priors for Inverse Problems
Yuxiang Wan, Ryan Devera, Wenjie Zhang, Ju Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00721 https://

FMPlug: Plug-In Foundation Flow-Matching Priors for Inverse Problems
We present FMPlug, a novel plug-in framework that enhances foundation flow-matching (FM) priors for solving ill-posed inverse problems. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on domain-specific or untrained priors, FMPlug smartly leverages two simple but powerful insights: the similarity between observed and desired objects and the Gaussianity of generative flows. By introducing a time-adaptive warm-up strategy and sharp Gaussianity regularization, FMPlug unlocks the true potential of domain-a…

I'm mad at websites that use code that make Firefox unusable. I'd prefer to use one browser, but at some sites I've found that links don't work as soon as one link have been clicked. All links are unclickable when I go back to an earlier side in the browser. Hi cromium, and thus, hi second set of plug-ins/extensions...

LCB-CV-UNet: Enhanced Detector for High Dynamic Range Radar Signals
Yanbin Wang, Xingyu Chen, Yumiao Wang, Xiang Wang, Chuanfei Zang, Guolong Cui, Jiahuan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23454

LCB-CV-UNet: Enhanced Detector for High Dynamic Range Radar Signals
We propose the LCB-CV-UNet to tackle performance degradation caused by High Dynamic Range (HDR) radar signals. Initially, a hardware-efficient, plug-and-play module named Logarithmic Connect Block (LCB) is proposed as a phase coherence preserving solution to address the inherent challenges in handling HDR features. Then, we propose the Dual Hybrid Dataset Construction method to generate a semi-synthetic dataset, approximating typical HDR signal scenarios with adjustable target distributions. Si…

On G83-Lite: Solar Nanogeneration For Everyone (2009) - Learn how plug-in solar curtain linings could trim your home power bill and footprint... #solar #balconySolar #nanogeneration -

On G83-Lite: Solar Nanogeneration For Everyone (2009)
Learn how plug-in solar curtain linings could trim your home power bill and footprint... #solar #balconySolar #nanogeneration

Choosing which Cowboys all-time great makes a return https://insidethestar.com/choosing-which-cowboys-all-time-great-makes-a-return

Microgravity-assisted off-axis spin vortex in a $^{87}$Rb dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
Hui Tang, Wenxian Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15389 …

Microgravity-assisted off-axis spin vortex in a $^{87}$Rb dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
The generation of the ground state of a spin vortex in a $^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein condensate with the assistance of an optical plug has been studied. However, gravity is everywhere, and this potential linear dependence on the spatial position will destroy the axisymmetric structure of the system with the optical plug. In this case, the question of whether the spin vortex ground state still exists remains unresolved. The present study aims to explore the impact of microgravity on the formation of…

GRASPing Anatomy to Improve Pathology Segmentation
Keyi Li, Alexander Jaus, Jens Kleesiek, Rainer Stiefelhagen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03374 https://arx…

GRASPing Anatomy to Improve Pathology Segmentation
Radiologists rely on anatomical understanding to accurately delineate pathologies, yet most current deep learning approaches use pure pattern recognition and ignore the anatomical context in which pathologies develop. To narrow this gap, we introduce GRASP (Guided Representation Alignment for the Segmentation of Pathologies), a modular plug-and-play framework that enhances pathology segmentation models by leveraging existing anatomy segmentation models through pseudolabel integration and featur…

RLGS: Reinforcement Learning-Based Adaptive Hyperparameter Tuning for Gaussian Splatting
Zhan Li, Huangying Zhan, Changyang Li, Qingan Yan, Yi Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04078

RLGS: Reinforcement Learning-Based Adaptive Hyperparameter Tuning for Gaussian Splatting
Hyperparameter tuning in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a labor-intensive and expert-driven process, often resulting in inconsistent reconstructions and suboptimal results. We propose RLGS, a plug-and-play reinforcement learning framework for adaptive hyperparameter tuning in 3DGS through lightweight policy modules, dynamically adjusting critical hyperparameters such as learning rates and densification thresholds. The framework is model-agnostic and seamlessly integrates into existing 3DGS pip…

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

Convergence of empirical Gromov-Wasserstein distance
Kengo Kato, Boyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03985 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03985

Convergence of empirical Gromov-Wasserstein distance
We study rates of convergence for estimation of the Gromov-Wasserstein distance. For two marginals supported on compact subsets of $\R^{d_x}$ and $\R^{d_y}$, respectively, with $\min \{ d_x,d_y \} > 4$, prior work established the rate $n^{-\frac{2}{\min\{d_x,d_y\}}}$ for the plug-in empirical estimator based on $n$ i.i.d. samples. We extend this fundamental result to marginals with unbounded supports, assuming only finite polynomial moments. Our proof techniques for the upper bounds can be adap…

Enhancing Safety of Foundation Models for Visual Navigation through Collision Avoidance via Repulsive Estimation
Joonkyung Kim, Joonyeol Sim, Woojun Kim, Katia Sycara, Changjoo Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03834

Enhancing Safety of Foundation Models for Visual Navigation through Collision Avoidance via Repulsive Estimation
We propose CARE (Collision Avoidance via Repulsive Estimation), a plug-and-play module that enhances the safety of vision-based navigation without requiring additional range sensors or fine-tuning of pretrained models. While recent foundation models using only RGB inputs have shown strong performance, they often fail to generalize in out-of-distribution (OOD) environments with unseen objects or variations in camera parameters (e.g., field of view, pose, or focal length). Without fine-tuning, th…

AFPM: Alignment-based Frame Patch Modeling for Cross-Dataset EEG Decoding
Xiaoqing Chen, Siyang Li, Dongrui Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11911 https://

AFPM: Alignment-based Frame Patch Modeling for Cross-Dataset EEG Decoding
Electroencephalogram (EEG) decoding models for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) struggle with cross-dataset learning and generalization due to channel layout inconsistencies, non-stationary signal distributions, and limited neurophysiological prior integration. To address these issues, we propose a plug-and-play Alignment-Based Frame-Patch Modeling (AFPM) framework, which has two main components: 1) Spatial Alignment, which selects task-relevant channels based on brain-region priors, aligns EEG…

Far beyond the Lounge, with Lounge Lizard EP-5’s new physical modeling
#MusicianTips #MusicTech

Far beyond the Lounge, with Lounge Lizard EP-5's new physical modeling - CDM Create Digital Music
AAS' Lounge Lizard EP-5 refreshes one of the definitive electric keyboards in software with a redesigned physical modeling core for tine and reed instruments. What sets this particular plug-in apart is deep modeling and diverse presets, which can take the instrument way beyond the lounge. Yes, it can be an accurate electric keyboard, but it can also imagine new keyboard instrument sounds that you've never heard before.

Enhanced zeta potentials caused by surface ion mobilities
Evgeny S. Asmolov, Elena F. Silkina, Olga I. Vinogradova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02915 https:/…

Enhanced zeta potentials caused by surface ion mobilities
The electro-hydrodynamics near conducting walls is revisited. Attention is focused on the impact of an explicit diffuse Stern layer, which permittivity and viscosity differ from the bulk values, on the velocity of an electro-osmotic plug flow. To solve this problem we propose an approach of mapping the flow in the Stern layer to the surface dividing the Stern and diffuse layer, where an effective electro-hydrodynamic slip boundary condition is imposed. The latter implies that an effective surfa…

Neutralizing Token Aggregation via Information Augmentation for Efficient Test-Time Adaptation
Yizhe Xiong, Zihan Zhou, Yiwen Liang, Hui Chen, Zijia Lin, Tianxiang Hao, Fan Zhang, Jungong Han, Guiguang Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03388

Neutralizing Token Aggregation via Information Augmentation for Efficient Test-Time Adaptation
Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) has emerged as an effective solution for adapting Vision Transformers (ViT) to distribution shifts without additional training data. However, existing TTA methods often incur substantial computational overhead, limiting their applicability in resource-constrained real-world scenarios. To reduce inference cost, plug-and-play token aggregation methods merge redundant tokens in ViTs to reduce total processed tokens. Albeit efficient, it suffers from significant performan…

Poverty Targeting with Imperfect Information
Juan C. Yamin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18188 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18188

Poverty Targeting with Imperfect Information
A key challenge for targeted antipoverty programs in developing countries is that policymakers must rely on estimated rather than observed income, which leads to substantial targeting errors. I propose a statistical decision framework in which a benevolent planner, subject to a budget constraint and equipped only with noisy income estimates, allocates cash transfers to the poorest individuals. In this setting, the commonly used plug-in rule, which allocates transfers based on point estimates, i…

"UK government unveils solar roadmap, outlines steps to 47 GW by 2030"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy

UK government unveils solar roadmap, outlines steps to 47 GW by 2030
The UK government has published its plan to support solar deployment to 2030 and beyond. Policies include updating the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, a safety review of plug-in solar for balconies and rooftops, consulting on car park solar, and engaging with industry on skills and training.

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FiRe: Fixed-points of Restoration Priors for Solving Inverse Problems
Selecting an appropriate prior to compensate for information loss due to the measurement operator is a fundamental challenge in imaging inverse problems. Implicit priors based on denoising neural networks have become central to widely-used frameworks such as Plug-and-Play (PnP) algorithms. In this work, we introduce Fixed-points of Restoration (FiRe) priors as a new framework for expanding the notion of priors in PnP to general restoration models beyond traditional denoising models. The key ins…

Can One Safety Loop Guard Them All? Agentic Guard Rails for Federated Computing
Narasimha Raghavan Veeraragavan, Jan Franz Nyg{\aa}rd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20000

Can One Safety Loop Guard Them All? Agentic Guard Rails for Federated Computing
We propose Guardian-FC, a novel two-layer framework for privacy preserving federated computing that unifies safety enforcement across diverse privacy preserving mechanisms, including cryptographic back-ends like fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and multiparty computation (MPC), as well as statistical techniques such as differential privacy (DP). Guardian-FC decouples guard-rails from privacy mechanisms by executing plug-ins (modular computation units), written in a backend-neutral, domain-spe…

Soundtoys Donating 100% Of Sales On June 25 & 26 To Supporting LGBTQIA Civil Rights https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/06/25/soundtoys-donating-100-of-sales-on-june-25-26-to-supporting-lgbtqia-civi…

Soundtoys Donating 100% Of Sales On June 25 & 26 To Supporting LGBTQIA+ Civil Rights
Customers who purchase any Soundtoys plug-in, bundle, or upgrade during the campaign period will help support Lambda Legal’s legal advocacy, public policy work, and impact litigation efforts across…

Fast Equivariant Imaging: Acceleration for Unsupervised Learning via Augmented Lagrangian and Auxiliary PnP Denoisers
Guixian Xu, Jinglai Li, Junqi Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06764

Fast Equivariant Imaging: Acceleration for Unsupervised Learning via Augmented Lagrangian and Auxiliary PnP Denoisers
We propose Fast Equivariant Imaging (FEI), a novel unsupervised learning framework to efficiently train deep imaging networks without ground-truth data. From the perspective of reformulating the Equivariant Imaging based optimization problem via the method of Lagrange multipliers and utilizing plug-and-play denoisers, this novel unsupervised scheme shows superior efficiency and performance compared to vanilla Equivariant Imaging paradigm. In particular, our PnP-FEI scheme achieves an order-of-m…

Soundtoys Donating 100% Of Sales On June 25 & 26 To Supporting LGBTQIA Civil Rights https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/06

Soundtoys Donating 100% Of Sales On June 25 & 26 To Supporting LGBTQIA+ Civil Rights
Customers who purchase any Soundtoys plug-in, bundle, or upgrade during the campaign period will help support Lambda Legal’s legal advocacy, public policy work, and impact litigation efforts across…

Plug-and-Play with 2.5D Artifact Reduction Prior for Fast and Accurate Industrial Computed Tomography Reconstruction
Haley Duba-Sullivan, Aniket Pramanik, Venkatakrishnan Singanallur, Amirkoushyar Ziabari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14719

Plug-and-Play with 2.5D Artifact Reduction Prior for Fast and Accurate Industrial Computed Tomography Reconstruction
Cone-beam X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is an essential imaging technique for generating 3D reconstructions of internal structures, with applications ranging from medical to industrial imaging. Producing high-quality reconstructions typically requires many X-ray measurements; this process can be slow and expensive, especially for dense materials. Recent work incorporating artifact reduction priors within a plug-and-play (PnP) reconstruction framework has shown promising results in improving i…

Leveraging Bi-Directional Channel Reciprocity for Robust Ultra-Low-Rate Implicit CSI Feedback with Deep Learning
Zhenyu Liu, Yi Ma, Rahim Tafazolli, Zhi Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12301

Leveraging Bi-Directional Channel Reciprocity for Robust Ultra-Low-Rate Implicit CSI Feedback with Deep Learning
Deep learning-based implicit channel state information (CSI) feedback has been introduced to enhance spectral efficiency in massive MIMO systems. Existing methods often show performance degradation in ultra-low-rate scenarios and inadaptability across diverse environments. In this paper, we propose Dual-ImRUNet, an efficient uplink-assisted deep implicit CSI feedback framework incorporating two novel plug-in preprocessing modules to achieve ultra-low feedback rates while maintaining high enviro…

Semiparametric Learning of Integral Functionals on Submanifolds
Xiaohong Chen, Wayne Yuan Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12673 https://

Semiparametric Learning of Integral Functionals on Submanifolds
This paper studies the semiparametric estimation and inference of integral functionals on submanifolds, which arise naturally in a variety of econometric settings. For linear integral functionals on a regular submanifold, we show that the semiparametric plug-in estimator attains the minimax-optimal convergence rate $n^{-\frac{s}{2s+d-m}}$, where $s$ is the Hölder smoothness order of the underlying nonparametric function, $d$ is the dimension of the first-stage nonparametric estimation, $m$ is …

IDFace: Face Template Protection for Efficient and Secure Identification
Sunpill Kim, Seunghun Paik, Chanwoo Hwang, Dongsoo Kim, Junbum Shin, Jae Hong Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12050

IDFace: Face Template Protection for Efficient and Secure Identification
As face recognition systems (FRS) become more widely used, user privacy becomes more important. A key privacy issue in FRS is protecting the user's face template, as the characteristics of the user's face image can be recovered from the template. Although recent advances in cryptographic tools such as homomorphic encryption (HE) have provided opportunities for securing the FRS, HE cannot be used directly with FRS in an efficient plug-and-play manner. In particular, although HE is functionally c…