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Hierarchical Retrieval with Evidence Curation for Open-Domain Financial Question Answering on Standardized Documents
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) based large language models (LLMs) are widely used in finance for their excellent performance on knowledge-intensive tasks. However, standardized documents (e.g., SEC filing) share similar formats such as repetitive boilerplate texts, and similar table structures. This similarity forces traditional RAG methods to misidentify near-duplicate text, leading to duplicate retrieval that undermines accuracy and completeness. To address these issues, we propose the …

A robust Likelihood Ratio Test for high-dimensional MANOVA -- with excellent performance
Carlos A. Coelho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01261 https://

A robust Likelihood Ratio Test for high-dimensional MANOVA -- with excellent performance
The present paper answers the following questions related with high-dimensional manova: (i) is it possible to develop a likelihood ratio test for high-dimensional manova? (ii) would such test perform well? (iii) would it be able to outperform existing tests? (iv) would it be applicable to extremely small samples? (v) would it be applicable to non-normal random variables, as uniform, extremely skewed distributions, or even heavy tailed distributions with success? (vi) would it have a nice, rathe…

Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT
Abdulkareem Alsudais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21825 https://

Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT
The rise and growing popularity of accessible large language models have raised questions about their impact on various aspects of life, including how scientists write and publish their research. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze a dataset consisting of all abstracts posted on arXiv.org between 2010 and June 7th, 2024, to assess the evolution of their readability and determine whether significant shifts occurred following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. Four standard re…

Maximal intrinsic randomness of noisy quantum measurements
Fionnuala Curran, Morteza Moradi, Gabriel Senno, Magdalena Stobinska, Antonio Ac\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22294

Maximal intrinsic randomness of noisy quantum measurements
Quantum physics exhibits an intrinsic and private form of randomness with no classical counterpart. Any setup for quantum randomness generation involves measurements acting on quantum states. In this work, we consider the following question: Given a quantum measurement, how much randomness can be generated from it? In real life, measurements are noisy and thus contain an additional, extrinsic form of randomness due to ignorance. This extrinsic randomness is not private since, in an adversarial …

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Texas Democrat exposes GOP hypocrisy in bill forcing Ten Commandments in classrooms
State Rep. James Talarico asked simple, effective questions to highlight how Republicans don't care about actually following the Commandments

Graphics4Science: Computer Graphics for Scientific Impacts
Peter Yichen Chen, Minghao Guo, Hanspeter Pfister, Ming Lin, William Freeman, Qixing Huang, Han-Wei Shen, Wojciech Matusik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15786

Graphics4Science: Computer Graphics for Scientific Impacts
Computer graphics, often associated with films, games, and visual effects, has long been a powerful tool for addressing scientific challenges--from its origins in 3D visualization for medical imaging to its role in modern computational modeling and simulation. This course explores the deep and evolving relationship between computer graphics and science, highlighting past achievements, ongoing contributions, and open questions that remain. We show how core methods, such as geometric reasoning an…

Automata on $S$-adic words
Val\'erie Berth\'e, Toghrul Karimov, Mihir Vahanwala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17460 https://arxi…

Automata on $S$-adic words
A fundamental question in logic and verification is the following: for which unary predicates $P_1, \ldots, P_k$ is the monadic second-order theory of $\langle \mathbb{N}; <, P_1, \ldots, P_k \rangle$ decidable? Equivalently, for which infinite words $α$ can we decide whether a given Büchi automaton $A$ accepts $α$? Carton and Thomas showed decidability in case $α$ is a fixed point of a letter-to-word substitution $σ$, i.e., $σ(α) = α$. However, abundantly more words, e.g., Sturmian wor…

On isomorphisms of semi-free Hamiltonian $S^1$-manifolds and fixed point data
Liat Kessler, Nikolas Wardenski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14000 https://

On isomorphisms of semi-free Hamiltonian $S^1$-manifolds and fixed point data
Following Gonzales, we answer the question of whether the isomorphism type of a semi-free Hamiltonian $S^1$-manifold of dimension six is determined by certain data on the critical levels. We first give counter examples showing that Gonzales' assumptions are not sufficient for a positive answer. Then we prove that it is enough to further assume that the reduced spaces of dimension four are symplectic rational surfaces and the interior fixed surfaces are restricted to at most one level. The addit…