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CRDTs are built on an elegant kernel, but offer a leaky abstraction that misleads a lot of developers and researchers.
https://jhellerstein.github.io/blog/crdt-intro/
saved 2025-08-29

Replicated liquid theory in $1 \infty$ dimensions
Yukihiro Tomita, Hajime Yoshino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21639 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21639

Replicated liquid theory in $1+\infty$ dimensions
We develop a replicated liquid theory for structural glasses which exhibit spatial variation of physical quantities along one axis, say $z$-axis. The theory becomes exact with infinite transverse dimension $d-1 \to \infty$. It provides an exact free-energy functional with space-dependent glass order parameter $Δ_{ab}(z)$. As a first application of the scheme, we study diverging lengths associated with dynamic/static glass transitions of hardspheres with/without confining cavity. The exponents …

Symmetric Private Information Retrieval (SPIR) on Graph-Based Replicated Systems
Shreya Meel, Sennur Ulukus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17736 https://arxiv.…

Symmetric Private Information Retrieval (SPIR) on Graph-Based Replicated Systems
We introduce the problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) on replicated databases modeled by a simple graph. In this model, each vertex corresponds to a server, and a message is replicated on two servers if and only if there is an edge between them. We consider the setting where the server-side common randomness necessary to accomplish SPIR is also replicated at the servers according to the graph, and we call this as message-specific common randomness. In this setting, we estab…

I often find it gut-wrenching to watch the snail’s pace at which established scientific knowledge trickles into the public consciousness.
The study of income inequality is a good example.
In 2001, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez published a landmark paper which showed, for the first time, that US top income shares had been on the rise since the 1980s.
Piketty and Saez’s work has since been replicated and expanded numerous times.
In short, scientists know that the US …

Partisan Politics and the Road to Plutocracy – Economics from the Top Down
In this essay, I take a deep dive into the history of American plutocracy and its conspicuously Republican roots.

Wait-free Replicated Data Types and Fair Reconciliation
Petr Kuznetsov, Maxence Perion, Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18193 https://ar…

Wait-free Replicated Data Types and Fair Reconciliation
Replication is a standard way to maintain availability of shared data in fault-prone distributed systems. To make sure that the data replicas are up-to-date, they need to synchronize, which typically means engaging the replicas in waiting for coherent responses from each other. The amount of waiting depends on the consistency and availability guarantees we impose on the system. The folklore CAP theory states that strong consistency (the set of replicas create an illusion of one correct server) …

Controlling IER and EER in replicated regular two-level factorial experiments
Pengfei Li, Oludotun J. Akinlawon, Shengli Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13621

Controlling IER and EER in replicated regular two-level factorial experiments
Replicated regular two-level factorial experiments are very useful for industry. The goal of these experiments is to identify active effects that affect the mean and variance of the response. Hypothesis testing procedures are widely used for this purpose. However, the existing methods give results that are either too anticonservative or conservative in controlling the individual and experimentwise error rates (IER and EER). In this paper, we propose {a Monte Carlo method} and an exact-variance …

Synthetic Founders: AI-Generated Social Simulations for Startup Validation Research in Computational Social Science
Jorn K. Teutloff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02605 https://

Synthetic Founders: AI-Generated Social Simulations for Startup Validation Research in Computational Social Science
We present a comparative docking experiment that aligns human-subject interview data with large language model (LLM)-driven synthetic personas to evaluate fidelity, divergence, and blind spots in AI-enabled simulation. Fifteen early-stage startup founders were interviewed about their hopes and concerns regarding AI-powered validation, and the same protocol was replicated with AI-generated founder and investor personas. A structured thematic synthesis revealed four categories of outcomes: (1) Co…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
SERVALAN: Daughter? Surely the man would have replicated in his own image.
GINKA: It seems she was born while he was still developing the process.
SERVALAN: Ah. Born of natural birth.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/262 B7B2

Self-Stabilizing Replicated State Machine Coping with Byzantine and Recurring Transient Faults
Shlomi Dolev, Amit Hendin, Maurice Herlihy, Maria Potop Butucaru, Elad Michael Schiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12900

Self-Stabilizing Replicated State Machine Coping with Byzantine and Recurring Transient Faults
The ability to perform repeated Byzantine agreement lies at the heart of important applications such as blockchain price oracles or replicated state machines. Any such protocol requires the following properties: (1) \textit{Byzantine fault-tolerance}, because not all participants can be assumed to be honest, (2) r\textit{ecurrent transient fault-tolerance}, because even honest participants may be subject to transient ``glitches'', (3) \textit{accuracy}, because the results of quantitative queri…

ForeSight: A Predictive-Scheduling Deterministic Database
Junfang Huang, Yu Yan, Hongzhi Wang, Yingze Li, Jinghan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17375 https://

ForeSight: A Predictive-Scheduling Deterministic Database
Deterministic databases enable scalable replicated systems by executing transactions in a predetermined order. However, existing designs fail to capture transaction dependencies, leading to insufficient scheduling, high abort rates, and poor resource utilization. By addressing these challenges with lightweight conflict prediction and informed scheduling, we present ForeSight, a high-performance deterministic database system. Our system has three core improvements: (1) We design an Association S…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.dis-nn. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.dis-nn/new
[1/1]:
- Replicated liquid theory in $1 \infty$ dimensions
Yukihiro Tomita, Hajime Yoshino

An adaptive procedure for detecting replicated signals with $k$-family-wise error rate control
Ninh Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15363 https://arxiv.org…

An adaptive procedure for detecting replicated signals with $k$-family-wise error rate control
Partial conjunction (PC) hypothesis testing is widely used to assess the replicability of scientific findings across multiple comparable studies. In high-throughput meta-analyses, testing a large number of PC hypotheses with k-family-wise error rate (k-FWER) control often suffers from low statistical power due to the multiplicity burden. The state-of-the-art AdaFilter-Bon procedure by Wang et al. (2022, Ann. Stat., 50(4), 1890-1909) alleviates this problem by filtering out hypotheses unlikely t…

Hand by Hand: LLM Driving EMS Assistant for Operational Skill Learning
Wei Xiang, Ziyue Lei, Haoyuan Che, Fangyuan Ye, Xueting Wu, Lingyun Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06000 h…

Hand by Hand: LLM Driving EMS Assistant for Operational Skill Learning
Operational skill learning, inherently physical and reliant on hands-on practice and kinesthetic feedback, has yet to be effectively replicated in large language model (LLM)-supported training. Current LLM training assistants primarily generate customized textual feedback, neglecting the crucial kinesthetic modality. This gap derives from the textual and uncertain nature of LLMs, compounded by concerns on user acceptance of LLM driven body control. To bridge this gap and realize the potential o…

Bloch Waves, Magnetization and Domain Walls: The Case of the Gluon Propagator
Attilio Cucchieri, Tereza Mendes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07730 https://

Bloch Waves, Magnetization and Domain Walls: The Case of the Gluon Propagator
We expand our previous study [1] of replicated gauge configurations in lattice SU(Nc) Yang-Mills theory -- employing Bloch's theorem, from condensed-matter physics -- to construct gauge-fixed field configurations on significantly larger lattices than the original, or primitive, one. We present a comprehensive discussion of the general gauge-fixing problem, identifying advantages of the replicated-lattice approach. In particular, the consideration of Bloch waves leads us to a visualization of th…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DC/new
[1/1]:
- Picsou: Enabling Replicated State Machines to Communicate Efficiently
Frank, Murray, Tankuranand, Yoo, Xu, Crooks, Gupta, Kapritsos

Functional Multi-Reference Alignment via Deconvolution
Omar Al-Ghattas, Anna Little, Daniel Sanz-Alonso, Mikhail Sweeney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12201 h…

Functional Multi-Reference Alignment via Deconvolution
This paper studies the multi-reference alignment (MRA) problem of estimating a signal function from shifted, noisy observations. Our functional formulation reveals a new connection between MRA and deconvolution: the signal can be estimated from second-order statistics via Kotlarski's formula, an important identification result in deconvolution with replicated measurements. To design our MRA algorithms, we extend Kotlarski's formula to general dimension and study the estimation of signals with v…

Modality-AGnostic Image Cascade (MAGIC) for Multi-Modality Cardiac Substructure Segmentation
Nicholas Summerfield, Qisheng He, Alex Kuo, Ahmed I. Ghanem, Simeng Zhu, Chase Ruff, Joshua Pan, Anudeep Kumar, Prashant Nagpal, Jiwei Zhao, Ming Dong, Carri K. Glide-Hurst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10797

Modality-AGnostic Image Cascade (MAGIC) for Multi-Modality Cardiac Substructure Segmentation
Cardiac substructures are essential in thoracic radiation therapy planning to minimize risk of radiation-induced heart disease. Deep learning (DL) offers efficient methods to reduce contouring burden but lacks generalizability across different modalities and overlapping structures. This work introduces and validates a Modality-AGnostic Image Cascade (MAGIC) for comprehensive and multi-modal cardiac substructure segmentation. MAGIC is implemented through replicated encoding and decoding branches…

Resilience through Automated Adaptive Configuration for Distribution and Replication
Scott D. Stoller, Balaji Jayasankar, Yanhong A. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10248

Resilience through Automated Adaptive Configuration for Distribution and Replication
This paper presents a powerful automated framework for making complex systems resilient under failures, by optimized adaptive distribution and replication of interdependent software components across heterogeneous hardware components with widely varying capabilities. A configuration specifies how software is distributed and replicated: which software components to run on each computer, which software components to replicate, which replication protocols to use, etc. We present an algorithm that,…