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Among the findings in this new Pew report: Most Americans don’t support AI playing a role in religion. https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans-view-ai-and-its-impact-on-people-and-society/

Do What? Teaching Vision-Language-Action Models to Reject the Impossible
Wen-Han Hsieh, Elvis Hsieh, Dantong Niu, Trevor Darrell, Roei Herzig, David M. Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16292

Do What? Teaching Vision-Language-Action Models to Reject the Impossible
Recently, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong performance on a range of robotic tasks. These models rely on multimodal inputs, with language instructions playing a crucial role -- not only in predicting actions, but also in robustly interpreting user intent, even when the requests are impossible to fulfill. In this work, we investigate how VLAs can recognize, interpret, and respond to false-premise instructions: natural language commands that reference objects or condit…

Video2Roleplay: A Multimodal Dataset and Framework for Video-Guided Role-playing Agents
Xueqiao Zhang, Chao Zhang, Jingtao Xu, Yifan Zhu, Xin Shi, Yi Yang, Yawei Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15233

Video2Roleplay: A Multimodal Dataset and Framework for Video-Guided Role-playing Agents
Role-playing agents (RPAs) have attracted growing interest for their ability to simulate immersive and interactive characters. However, existing approaches primarily focus on static role profiles, overlooking the dynamic perceptual abilities inherent to humans. To bridge this gap, we introduce the concept of dynamic role profiles by incorporating video modality into RPAs. To support this, we construct Role-playing-Video60k, a large-scale, high-quality dataset comprising 60k videos and 700k corr…

Continuous spin superparticle model
I. L. Buchbinder, S. A. Fedoruk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19709 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.19709…

Continuous spin superparticle model
We construct a new model of a particle propagating in $4D$, ${\cal N}=1$ superspace that describes the dynamics of a continuous spin irreducible representation of the Poincaré supergroup. The model is characterized by two-component Weyl spinor additional even variables playing the role of extra coordinates. A canonical formulation, specific local fermionic $κ$-symmetry, and a compete system of bosonic and fermionic constraints are derived. All bosonic constrains are first-class, while fermion…

BoSS: Beyond-Semantic Speech
Qing Wang, Zehan Li, Hang Lv, Hongjie Chen, Yaodong Song, Jian Kang, Jie Lian, Jie Li, Yongxiang Li, Zhongjiang He, Xuelong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17563

BoSS: Beyond-Semantic Speech
Human communication involves more than explicit semantics, with implicit signals and contextual cues playing a critical role in shaping meaning. However, modern speech technologies, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) often fail to capture these beyond-semantic dimensions. To better characterize and benchmark the progression of speech intelligence, we introduce Spoken Interaction System Capability Levels (L1-L5), a hierarchical framework illustrated the evolution…

Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-12604-4 "repetitive quasi-isochronous drumming enhanced mental imagery vividness, with a stronger effect observed when the drumming contained random micro-variat…

Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery - Scientific Reports
Music can shape the vividness, sentiment, and content of directed mental imagery. Yet, the role of specific musical features in these effects remains elusive. One important aspect of human musical performances is the presence of micro-variations—small deviations in timbre, pitch, and timing, driven by motor and attentional processes. These variations enhance perceived “naturalness” compared to mechanical playing without such variations. Here, we investigated whether random micro-variation…

RAGs to Riches: RAG-like Few-shot Learning for Large Language Model Role-playing
Timothy Rupprecht, Enfu Nan, Arash Akbari, Arman Akbari, Lei Lu, Priyanka Maan, Sean Duffy, Pu Zhao, Yumei He, David Kaeli, Yanzhi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12168

RAGs to Riches: RAG-like Few-shot Learning for Large Language Model Role-playing
Role-playing Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, education, and governance, where failures can directly impact user trust and well-being. A cost effective paradigm for LLM role-playing is few-shot learning, but existing approaches often cause models to break character in unexpected and potentially harmful ways, especially when interacting with hostile users. Inspired by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), we reformulate LLM role-pl…

George Pickens on playing with Dak Prescott, expanded route tree https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/george-pickens-on-playing-with-dak-prescott-expanded-route-tree

Precision optomechanical accelerometer via hybrid test mass integration
Nathaniel Bawden, Benjamin J. Carey, Poh-Meng Yeo, Nishta Arora, Leo Sementilli, Victor M. Valenzuela, Erick Romero, Glen I. Harris, Margaret Wegener, Warwick P. Bowen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16088

Precision optomechanical accelerometer via hybrid test mass integration
Accelerometers offer motion sensing capabilities across a wide range of areas, enabling navigational awareness in consumer goods and defense applications, and playing a key role in monitoring and control systems. To date, on-chip accelerometers have largely utilized a single device layer or substrate as a test mass. This constrains the test mass to the dimensions and density of the device layer or substrate, ultimately limiting the sensitivity of the device. We demonstrate a new approach which …

PSA: when somebody says that you shouldn't protest the #AfD because that plays into their victim role, be kind.
They're obviously very ill and forgetful, since that's the only possible reason for not recalling the last ten years of AfD playing the victim, with or without #omasgegenrechts

Technical report: Impact of Duration Prediction on Speaker-specific TTS for Indian Languages
Isha Pandey, Pranav Gaikwad, Amruta Parulekar, Ganesh Ramakrishnan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16875

Technical report: Impact of Duration Prediction on Speaker-specific TTS for Indian Languages
High-quality speech generation for low-resource languages, such as many Indian languages, remains a significant challenge due to limited data and diverse linguistic structures. Duration prediction is a critical component in many speech generation pipelines, playing a key role in modeling prosody and speech rhythm. While some recent generative approaches choose to omit explicit duration modeling, often at the cost of longer training times. We retain and explore this module to better understand i…

Hourglass Sorting: A novel parallel sorting algorithm and its implementation
Daniel Bascones, Borja Morcillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16326 https://

Hourglass Sorting: A novel parallel sorting algorithm and its implementation
Sorting is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Playing a role in many processes, it has a lower complexity bound imposed by $\mathcal{O}(n\log{n})$ when executing on a sequential machine. This limit can be brought down to sub-linear times thanks to parallelization techniques that increase the number of comparisons done in parallel. This, however, increases the cost of implementation, which limits the application of such techniques. Moreover, as the size of the arrays increases,…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
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- Video2Roleplay: A Multimodal Dataset and Framework for Video-Guided Role-playing Agents
Xueqiao Zhang, Chao Zhang, Jingtao Xu, Yifan Zhu, Xin Shi, Yi Yang, Yawei Luo

»Solo RPGs: A Breakdown of Single Player Role-Playing Games«
You don't always have to be online or watch TV to entertain yourself ;)
🎲 https://wizardsrespite.com/2024/02/13/solo-rpgs-a-breakdown-of-single-player-role-playi…

Solo RPGs: A Breakdown of Single Player Role-Playing Games - Wizard's Respite
Take a close look at the solo RPGs. Discover their history, how they evolved over the years, and what they are today.

Playing telephone with generative models: "verification disability," "compelled reliance," and accessibility in data visualization
Frank Elavsky, Cindy Xiong Bearfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12192

Playing telephone with generative models: "verification disability," "compelled reliance," and accessibility in data visualization
This paper is a collaborative piece between two worlds of expertise in the field of data visualization: accessibility and bias. In particular, the rise of generative models playing a role in accessibility is a worrying trend for data visualization. These models are increasingly used to help author visualizations as well as generate descriptions of existing visualizations for people who are blind, low vision, or use assistive technologies such as screen readers. Sighted human-to-human bias has a…

Social influence on complex networks as a perturbation to individual behavior
Dhruv Mittal, Fl\'avio L. Pinheiro, V\'itor V. Vasconcelos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17948

Social influence on complex networks as a perturbation to individual behavior
Cooperation is fundamental to the functioning of biological and social systems in both human and animal populations, with the structure of interactions playing a crucial role. Previous studies have used networks to describe interactions and explore the evolution of cooperation, but with limited transposability to social settings due to biologically relevant assumptions. Exogenous processes -- that affect the individual and are not derived from social interactions -- even if unbiased, have a rol…

"OwO What's this?" explained by a german news broadcaster.
What a time to be alive.
Translated quote:
It's a reference to an internet joke that's been circulating for years, originally from a "furry" role-playing, in which people dress up in furry costumes and take on the role of anthropomorphised animals.
The phrase means "Notices a bulge in your crotch," with "OwO" standing for an emoticon meant to express cute surp…

A stochastic heat engine driven using a nonlinear protocol
Amrutayani Panda, Biswajit Das, Shuvojit Paul, Arnab Saha, Ayan Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15992 https://

A stochastic heat engine driven using a nonlinear protocol
A colloidal particle confined in a time-dependent optical trap can function as a microscopic heat engine, with optimization strategies playing a crucial role in enhancing its performance. In this study, we numerically investigate a Stirling heat engine operating in both passive and active environments using a protocol inspired by the Engineered Swift Equilibration (ESE) method. This approach differs from the standard process and focuses on enhancing engine efficiency, particularly at short time…

I'm not sure what Exodus is as it's a Book, a Desktop D&D variant and all marketing a video game with a Founder's deadline of the end of this month,
I've read the novel which was interesting and entertaining but I don't think the characters have that much to do with the video game, though the classes of characters do.
Anyhow I can't recommend the game as it doesn't seem to be released yet but here's a link which gets you the Founder's site.…

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review
Anthony Howell, Jieshu Wang, Luyu Du, Julia Melkers, Varshil Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122 https://

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review
Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human decision-making. We adapt a resume-style audit to scientific publishing, developing a multi-role LLM simulation (editor/reviewer) that evaluates a representative set of high-quality manuscripts across the physical, biological, and social sciences under randomized author identities (institutional pres…

Intermediate-temperature specific heat of solids and the rationale behind the Maier-Kelley empirical formula
Valmir Ribeiro, Fernando Parisio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15009 ht…

Intermediate-temperature specific heat of solids and the rationale behind the Maier-Kelley empirical formula
The heat capacity of solids at intermediate-to-high temperatures is of fundamental importance to several fields ranging from geology to material science. It depends on a variety of factors, with anharmonicity and, ultimately, melting playing a pivotal role. In this work we develop a first-principles model from an analytically tractable semi-harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian. The resulting specific heat expression depends not only on the Einstein temperature of the material but also on other physi…

Coach: Jags to be 'flexible' with Hunter dual role https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46167436/coach-jaguars-flexible-playing-travis-hunter-ways

MOOM: Maintenance, Organization and Optimization of Memory in Ultra-Long Role-Playing Dialogues
Weishu Chen, Jinyi Tang, Zhouhui Hou, Shihao Han, Mingjie Zhan, Zhiyuan Huang, Delong Liu, Jiawei Guo, Zhicheng Zhao, Fei Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11860

MOOM: Maintenance, Organization and Optimization of Memory in Ultra-Long Role-Playing Dialogues
Memory extraction is crucial for maintaining coherent ultra-long dialogues in human-robot role-playing scenarios. However, existing methods often exhibit uncontrolled memory growth. To address this, we propose MOOM, the first dual-branch memory plugin that leverages literary theory by modeling plot development and character portrayal as core storytelling elements. Specifically, one branch summarizes plot conflicts across multiple time scales, while the other extracts the user's character profil…

Molecular Gas Distribution toward the Inner and Outer Galaxy Revealed by MWISP -- the Galactic Longitude 45\deg--60\deg and 120\deg--130\deg
Xin Zhou, Ji Yang, Yan Sun, Qing-Zeng Yan, Lixia Yuan, Yang Su, Xuepeng Chen, Shaobo Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14547

Molecular Gas Distribution toward the Inner and Outer Galaxy Revealed by MWISP -- the Galactic Longitude 45°--60°and 120°--130°
Molecular clouds (MCs) are cradles of star and planet formation, thereby playing an important role in the evolution of galaxies. Based on the unbiased Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) survey data of $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O (J=1--0) line emission in two regions toward the inner and outer Galaxy, i.e. the G50 ($44.75°\le l \le 60.25°$) and G120 ($119.75°\le l \le 130.25°$) regions, the distribution of molecular gas is studied. Both regions have Galactic latitudes of $…

Kid1 is at fantasy role-playing camp this week. He basically has a full-time job playing DnD. I might be jealous.
#TTRPG #DND

Full Professor Position, of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals, at Division of Environmental Geosciences, Uni Vienna (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) #geology #Austria #Österreich

We are hiring: Full Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals
Human activities are driving rapid environmental change on a global scale, with pollutants playing a critical role in pushing planetary systems beyond safe limits. These changes have profound consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human health.

Do Role-Playing Agents Practice What They Preach? Belief-Behavior Consistency in LLM-Based Simulations of Human Trust
Amogh Mannekote, Adam Davies, Guohao Li, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, ChengXiang Zhai, Bonnie J Dorr, Francesco Pinto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02197

Do Role-Playing Agents Practice What They Preach? Belief-Behavior Consistency in LLM-Based Simulations of Human Trust
As LLMs are increasingly studied as role-playing agents to generate synthetic data for human behavioral research, ensuring that their outputs remain coherent with their assigned roles has become a critical concern. In this paper, we investigate how consistently LLM-based role-playing agents' stated beliefs about the behavior of the people they are asked to role-play ("what they say") correspond to their actual behavior during role-play ("how they act"). Specifically, we establish an evaluation …

Jamal Adams a step closer to earning starting role on Las Vegas Raiders https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/jamal-adams-step-closer-earning-starting-role-las-vegas-raiders/007…

this kind of conversation plays out way too often:
Them: “I’m feeling hopeless and like the world is just getting worse”
Me: “You know, there might be a way to help things get better, have you tried A or B?”
Them: “WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT EVERYTHING SUCKS THERE IS NO PATH TO FIXING THIS”
Me: 👁️👄👁️ okay then…..
(Admittedly sometimes I’m playing the role of “them” in this dynamic)

Balanced Spanning Tree Distributions Have Separation Fairness
Harry Chen, Kamesh Munagala, Govind S. Sankar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15137 https://arxiv.…

Balanced Spanning Tree Distributions Have Separation Fairness
Sampling-based methods such as ReCom are widely used to audit redistricting plans for fairness, with the balanced spanning tree distribution playing a central role since it favors compact, contiguous, and population-balanced districts. However, whether such samples are truly representative or exhibit hidden biases remains an open question. In this work, we introduce the notion of separation fairness, which asks whether adjacent geographic units are separated with at most a constant probability …

Role-Playing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Support Framework for Detecting and Addressing Family Communication Bias
Rushia Harada, Yuken Kimura, Keito Inoshita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11210

Role-Playing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Support Framework for Detecting and Addressing Family Communication Bias
Well-being in family settings involves subtle psychological dynamics that conventional metrics often overlook. In particular, unconscious parental expectations, termed ideal parent bias, can suppress children's emotional expression and autonomy. This suppression, referred to as suppressed emotion, often stems from well-meaning but value-driven communication, which is difficult to detect or address from outside the family. Focusing on these latent dynamics, this study explores Large Language Mod…

Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers are trapped in a digital cage,
barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes
by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.
Most of this technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide -- the United States.
⚠️ Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state,…

How Silicon Valley enabled China's digital police state
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a b…

FreeGAD: A Training-Free yet Effective Approach for Graph Anomaly Detection
Yunfeng Zhao, Yixin Liu, Shiyuan Li, Qingfeng Chen, Yu Zheng, Shirui Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10594

FreeGAD: A Training-Free yet Effective Approach for Graph Anomaly Detection
Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes that deviate from the majority within a graph, playing a crucial role in applications such as social networks and e-commerce. Despite the current advancements in deep learning-based GAD, existing approaches often suffer from high deployment costs and poor scalability due to their complex and resource-intensive training processes. Surprisingly, our empirical findings suggest that the training phase of deep GAD methods, commonly perceived as cr…

VisionLaw: Inferring Interpretable Intrinsic Dynamics from Visual Observations via Bilevel Optimization
Jailing Lin, Shu Jiang, Qingyuan Zeng, Zhenzhong Wang, Min Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13792

VisionLaw: Inferring Interpretable Intrinsic Dynamics from Visual Observations via Bilevel Optimization
The intrinsic dynamics of an object governs its physical behavior in the real world, playing a critical role in enabling physically plausible interactive simulation with 3D assets. Existing methods have attempted to infer the intrinsic dynamics of objects from visual observations, but generally face two major challenges: one line of work relies on manually defined constitutive priors, making it difficult to generalize to complex scenarios; the other models intrinsic dynamics using neural networ…

https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
“Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built …

How Silicon Valley enabled China's digital police state
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a b…

Urban Green Governance: IoT-Driven Management and Enhancement of Urban Green Spaces in Campobasso
Antonio Salis, Gabriele Troina, Gianluca Boanelli, Marco Ottaviano, Paola Fortini, Soraya Versace
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12106

Urban Green Governance: IoT-Driven Management and Enhancement of Urban Green Spaces in Campobasso
The efficient design and management of public green spaces is a key factor in promoting the health and well-being of urban population, as emphasized by the WHO, UNEP, and EEA. These areas serve as the "green lungs" of the urban ecosystem, playing a vital role in enhancing quality of life thanks to the provision of ecosystem services. In this context, the Smart Green City use case in Campobasso municipality, funded by the Italian Ministry of Enterprises (MIMIT), emerges as an innovative model fo…

CPO: Addressing Reward Ambiguity in Role-playing Dialogue via Comparative Policy Optimization
Xinge Ye, Rui Wang, Yuchuan Wu, Victor Ma, Feiteng Fang, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09074

CPO: Addressing Reward Ambiguity in Role-playing Dialogue via Comparative Policy Optimization
Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning (RLFT) has achieved notable success in tasks with objectively verifiable answers (e.g., code generation, mathematical reasoning), yet struggles with open-ended subjective tasks like role-playing dialogue. Traditional reward modeling approaches, which rely on independent sample-wise scoring, face dual challenges: subjective evaluation criteria and unstable reward signals.Motivated by the insight that human evaluation inherently combines explicit criteria with i…

Disco Elysium – The Final Cut is 3.99 € on Steam.
Without exaggeration, this is one of the best games I’ve ever played.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/

Save 75% on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut on Steam
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Out-of-Sight Trajectories: Tracking, Fusion, and Prediction
Haichao Zhang, Yi Xu, Yun Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15219 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15219

Out-of-Sight Trajectories: Tracking, Fusion, and Prediction
Trajectory prediction is a critical task in computer vision and autonomous systems, playing a key role in autonomous driving, robotics, surveillance, and virtual reality. Existing methods often rely on complete and noise-free observational data, overlooking the challenges associated with out-of-sight objects and the inherent noise in sensor data caused by limited camera coverage, obstructions, and the absence of ground truth for denoised trajectories. These limitations pose safety risks and hin…

Feed-O-Meter: Fostering Design Feedback Skills through Role-playing Interactions with AI Mentee
Hyunseung Lim, Dasom Choi, DaEun Choi, Sooyohn Nam, Hwajung Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07424

Feed-O-Meter: Fostering Design Feedback Skills through Role-playing Interactions with AI Mentee
Effective feedback, including critique and evaluation, helps designers develop design concepts and refine their ideas, supporting informed decision-making throughout the iterative design process. However, in studio-based design courses, students often struggle to provide feedback due to a lack of confidence and fear of being judged, which limits their ability to develop essential feedback-giving skills. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) suggest that role-playing with AI agents can…

LLMs vs. Chinese Anime Enthusiasts: A Comparative Study on Emotionally Supportive Role-Playing
Lanlan Qiu, Xiao Pu, Yeqi Feng, Tianxing He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06388 https…

LLMs vs. Chinese Anime Enthusiasts: A Comparative Study on Emotionally Supportive Role-Playing
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in role-playing conversations and providing emotional support as separate research directions. However, there remains a significant research gap in combining these capabilities to enable emotionally supportive interactions with virtual characters. To address this research gap, we focus on anime characters as a case study because of their well-defined personalities and large fan bases. This choice enables us to effectively ev…

Electricity in international comparison - Future technologies in power generation
Axel Kleidon, Harald Lesch, Russ Conser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14365 https://

Electricity in international comparison - Future technologies in power generation
Which technologies are currently booming in power generation? The answer can clearly be seen in the trends in global electricity generation data. Analysing this data using the theory of diffusion of innovations reveals how photovoltaics and wind power are gaining ground worldwide. Other technologies - especially coal and nuclear power - are being displaced, with Germany playing a pioneering role.

Lyman-Alpha Emission from K and M Dwarfs: Intrinsic Profiles, Variability, and Flux in the Habitable Zone
Sarah Peacock, Travis S. Barman, R. O. Parke Loyd, Adam C. Schneider, Allison Youngblood, Kenneth G. Carpenter, Evgenya L. Shkolnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09029

Lyman-Alpha Emission from K and M Dwarfs: Intrinsic Profiles, Variability, and Flux in the Habitable Zone
Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) is the most prominent ultraviolet emission line in low-mass stars, playing a crucial role in exoplanet atmospheric photochemistry, heating, and escape. However, interstellar medium (ISM) absorption typically obscures most of the Ly$α$ profile, requiring reconstructions that introduce systematic uncertainties. We present intrinsic Ly$α$ profiles for 12 high radial velocity K and M dwarfs, where Doppler shifting minimizes ISM contamination, allowing direct measurements of $\…

"‘It’s cheap but it’s not disposable’: why fast tech is a growing waste problem"
#Technology #EWaste

US investors in spyware firms nearly tripled in 2024: report https://therecord.media/us-investors-in-spyware-tripled-in-2024

Quantum Neural Network applications to Protein Binding Affinity Predictions
Erico Souza Teixeira, Lucas Barros Fernandes, Yara Rodrigues In\'acio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03446

Quantum Neural Network applications to Protein Binding Affinity Predictions
Binding energy is a fundamental thermodynamic property that governs molecular interactions, playing a crucial role in fields such as healthcare and the natural sciences. It is particularly relevant in drug development, vaccine design, and other biomedical applications. Over the years, various methods have been developed to estimate protein binding energy, ranging from experimental techniques to computational approaches, with machine learning making significant contributions to this field. Altho…

Multimodal Foundation Model-Driven User Interest Modeling and Behavior Analysis on Short Video Platforms
Yushang Zhao, Yike Peng, Li Zhang, Qianyi Sun, Zhihui Zhang, Yingying Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04751

Multimodal Foundation Model-Driven User Interest Modeling and Behavior Analysis on Short Video Platforms
With the rapid expansion of user bases on short video platforms, personalized recommendation systems are playing an increasingly critical role in enhancing user experience and optimizing content distribution. Traditional interest modeling methods often rely on unimodal data, such as click logs or text labels, which limits their ability to fully capture user preferences in a complex multimodal content environment. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a multimodal foundation model-based…

CARPO: Leveraging Listwise Learning-to-Rank for Context-Aware Query Plan Optimization
Wenrui Zhou, Qiyu Liu, Jingshu Peng, Aoqian Zhang, Lei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03102

CARPO: Leveraging Listwise Learning-to-Rank for Context-Aware Query Plan Optimization
Efficient data processing is increasingly vital, with query optimizers playing a fundamental role in translating SQL queries into optimal execution plans. Traditional cost-based optimizers, however, often generate suboptimal plans due to flawed heuristics and inaccurate cost models, leading to the emergence of Learned Query Optimizers (LQOs). To address challenges in existing LQOs, such as the inconsistency and suboptimality inherent in pairwise ranking methods, we introduce CARPO, a generic fr…

Lower Bounds on Tree Covers
Yu Chen, Zihan Tan, Hangyu Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10376 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10376

Lower Bounds on Tree Covers
Given an $n$-point metric space $(X,d_X)$, a tree cover $\mathcal{T}$ is a set of $|\mathcal{T}|=k$ trees on $X$ such that every pair of vertices in $X$ has a low-distortion path in one of the trees in $\mathcal{T}$. Tree covers have been playing a crucial role in graph algorithms for decades, and the research focus is the construction of tree covers with small size $k$ and distortion. When $k=1$, the best distortion is known to be $Θ(n)$. For a constant $k\ge 2$, the best distorti…

Virtual local area network over HTTP for launching an insider attack
Yuksel Arslan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19055 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19055…

Virtual local area network over HTTP for launching an insider attack
Computers and computer networks have become integral to virtually every aspect of modern life, with the Internet playing an indispensable role. Organizations, businesses, and individuals now store vast amounts of proprietary, confidential, and personal data digitally. As such, ensuring the security of this data from unauthorized access is critical. Common security measures, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and antivirus software, are cons…

Experimental demonstration of the clock asynchrony model in space-borne gravitational wave detection
Ming-Yang Xua, Yu-Jie Tan, Ning Ma, Ao-Ting Fang, Yi-Jun Xia, Cheng-Gang Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02286

Experimental demonstration of the clock asynchrony model in space-borne gravitational wave detection
Space-borne gravitational wave detection will open the observation window in the 0.1 mHz$-$1 Hz bandwidth, playing a crucial role in the development of cosmology and physics. Precise clock synchronization among satellites is essential for the accurate detection of gravitational wave signals. However, the independent clock counting mechanisms of each satellite pose a significant challenge. This work reports the mathematical model of clock asynchrony, which is mainly dominated by the constant ter…

VoxRole: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Speech-Based Role-Playing Agents
Weihao Wu, Liang Cao, Xinyu Wu, Zhiwei Lin, Rui Niu, Jingbei Li, Zhiyong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03940

VoxRole: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Speech-Based Role-Playing Agents
Recent significant advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have greatly propelled the development of Role-Playing Conversational Agents (RPCAs). These systems aim to create immersive user experiences through consistent persona adoption. However, current RPCA research faces dual limitations. First, existing work predominantly focuses on the textual modality, entirely overlooking critical paralinguistic features including intonation, prosody, and rhythm in speech, which are essential for con…

China is leading the way in the electric car market, playing a crucial role in the shift towards sustainable transportation and reducing emissions. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Video: How China is Dominating the Electric Car Market
Somini Sengupta, The Times’s international climate reporter, explains China’s auto ambitions in Brazil and the world.

Consistency analysis and nuclear data validation for two series of beryllium reflector critical benchmark experiments
Shengli Chen, Tianxiang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12757

Consistency analysis and nuclear data validation for two series of beryllium reflector critical benchmark experiments
Neutron-induced nuclear reaction data on beryllium playing a crucial role in nuclear application. However, discrepancies have been observed in two closely related series of beryllium-reflector fast-spectrum critical benchmark experiments, HMF-058 and HMF-066, which are widely used in current nuclear data validation. In this work, we address these inconsistencies by improving the secondary angular distributions of the (n,n) and (n,2n) reactions of beryllium, thereby making the theoretical calcul…

IndusGCC: A Data Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for GUI-Based General Computer Control in Industrial Automation
Xiaoran Yang, Yuyang Du, Kexin Chen, Soung Chang Liew, Jiamin Lu, Ziyu Guo, Xiaoyan Liu, Qun Yang, Shiqi Xu, Xingyu Fan, Yuchen Pan, Taoyong Cui, Hongyu Deng, Boris Dudder, Jianzhang Pan, Qun Fang, Pheng Ann Heng
https://arxi…

IndusGCC: A Data Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for GUI-Based General Computer Control in Industrial Automation
As Industry 4.0 progresses, flexible manufacturing has become a cornerstone of modern industrial systems, with equipment automation playing a pivotal role. However, existing control software for industrial equipment, typically reliant on graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that require human interactions such as mouse clicks or screen touches, poses significant barriers to the adoption of code-based equipment automation. Recently, Large Language Model-based General Computer Control (LLM-GCC) has e…

Chiral symmetry and its breaking
Alexey Nefediev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22502 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22502

Chiral symmetry and its breaking
In addition to fundamental symmetries playing a crucial role for establishing the Standard Model of fundamental interactions, approximate symmetries provide essential insight into the respective phenomena and shed light on the underlying physics. Here we give a brief pedagogical introduction to chiral symmetry as an approximate but still rather accurate symmetry of strong interactions and its spontaneous breaking in the vacuum of Quantum Chromodynamics. Special attention is paid to a microscopi…

Unraveling the Molecular Structure of Lipid Nanoparticles through in-silico Self-Assembly for Rational Delivery Design
Xuan Bai, Yu Lu, Tianhao Yu, Kangjie Lv, Cai Yao, Feng Shi, Andong Liu, Kai Wang, Wenshou Wang, Chris Lai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01843

Unraveling the Molecular Structure of Lipid Nanoparticles through in-silico Self-Assembly for Rational Delivery Design
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are a leading platform in the delivery of RNA-based therapeutics, playing a pivotal role in the clinical success of mRNA vaccines and other nucleic acid drugs. Their performance in RNA encapsulation and delivery is critically governed by the molecular structure of ionizable lipids and the overall formulation composition. However, mechanistic insight into how these factors govern LNP architecture and function remains limited, primarily owing to the challenges of captur…

Linear and Second-order-cone Valid Inequalities for Problems with Storage
Juan M. Morales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21470 https://ar…

Linear and Second-order-cone Valid Inequalities for Problems with Storage
Batteries are playing an increasingly central role as distributed energy resources in the shift toward power systems dominated by renewable energy sources. However, existing battery models must invariably rely on complementarity constraints to prevent simultaneous charging and discharging, rendering models of a disjunctive nature and NP-hard. In this paper, we analyze the disjunctive structure of the battery's feasible operational set and uncover a submodularity property in its extreme power tr…

Temperature-Dependent Evolution of Coherence, Entropy, and Photon Statistics in Photoluminescence
Tomer Bar Lev, Carmel Rotschild
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01953 https://

Temperature-Dependent Evolution of Coherence, Entropy, and Photon Statistics in Photoluminescence
Photoluminescence (PL) is a fundamental light-matter interaction in which absorbed photons are re-emitted, playing a key role in science and engineering. It is commonly modeled by introducing a non-zero chemical potential into Planck's law to capture its deviation from thermal emission. In this work, we establish, for the first time to our knowledge, a fundamental relationship that expresses the chemical potential as a function of temperature, material properties, and excitation conditions, ena…

CreditARF: A Framework for Corporate Credit Rating with Annual Report and Financial Feature Integration
Yumeng Shi, Zhongliang Yang, DiYang Lu, Yisi Wang, Yiting Zhou, Linna Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02738

CreditARF: A Framework for Corporate Credit Rating with Annual Report and Financial Feature Integration
Corporate credit rating serves as a crucial intermediary service in the market economy, playing a key role in maintaining economic order. Existing credit rating models rely on financial metrics and deep learning. However, they often overlook insights from non-financial data, such as corporate annual reports. To address this, this paper introduces a corporate credit rating framework that integrates financial data with features extracted from annual reports using FinBERT, aiming to fully leverage…

Equivalent of Multivariate Polynomial Matrix
Jinwang Liu, Tao Wu, Jiancheng Guan, Ying Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02574 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.025…

Equivalent of Multivariate Polynomial Matrix
The equivalence of multidimensional systems is closely related to the reduction of multivariate polynomial matrices, with the Smith normal form of matrices playing a key role. So far, the problem of reducing multivariate polynomial matrices into Smith normal form has not been fully solved. This article investigates the Smith normal form of quasi weakly linear multivariate polynomial matrices. Breaking through previous limitations, providing sufficient and necessary conditions.

A Therapeutic Role-Playing VR Game for Children with Intellectual Disabilities
Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, WenChun Chen, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19114 https://

A Therapeutic Role-Playing VR Game for Children with Intellectual Disabilities
Virtual Reality (VR) offers promising avenues for innovative therapeutic interventions in populations with intellectual disabilities (ID). This paper presents the design, development, and evaluation of Space Exodus, a novel VR-based role-playing game specifically tailored for children with ID. By integrating immersive gameplay with therapeutic task design, Space Exodus aims to enhance concentration, cognitive processing, and fine motor skills through structured hand-eye coordination exercises. …

Universal Configuration for Optimizing Complexity in Variational Distributed Quantum Circuits
J. Montes, F. Borondo, Gabriel G. Carlo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04464 https://…

Universal Configuration for Optimizing Complexity in Variational Distributed Quantum Circuits
Distributed quantum computing represents at present one of the most promising approaches to scaling quantum processors. Current implementations typically partition circuits into multiple cores, each composed of several qubits, with inter-core connectivity playing a central role in ensuring scalability. Identifying the optimal configuration -- defined as the arrangement that maximizes circuit complexity with minimal depth -- thus constitutes a fundamental design challenge. In this work, we demon…

Hybrid Matrix Factorization Based Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation System
Hao Chen, Wenming Ma, Zihao Chu, Mingqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05115 https://

Hybrid Matrix Factorization Based Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation System
In recent years, methods that combine contrastive learning with graph neural networks have emerged to address the challenges of recommendation systems, demonstrating powerful performance and playing a significant role in this domain. Contrastive learning primarily tackles the issue of data sparsity by employing data augmentation strategies, effectively alleviating this problem and showing promising results. Although existing research has achieved favorable outcomes, most current graph contrasti…

Rotational modulation and long-term evolution of the small-scale magnetic fields of M dwarfs observed with SPIRou
P. I. Cristofari, J. -F. Donati, S. Bellotti, \'E. Artigau, A. Carmona, C. Moutou, X. Delfosse, P. Petit, B. Finociety, J. Dias do Nascimento
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04569

Rotational modulation and long-term evolution of the small-scale magnetic fields of M dwarfs observed with SPIRou
M dwarfs are known to host magnetic fields, impacting exoplanet studies and playing a key role in stellar and planetary formation and evolution. Observations revealed the long-term evolution of the large-scale magnetic field reconstructed with Zeeman-Doppler imaging, and a diversity of their topologies. These large-scale magnetic fields only account for a small amount of the unsigned magnetic flux that can be probed by directly modeling the Zeeman broadening of spectral lines in unpolarized spe…

Formation and Regulation of Calcium Sparks on a Nonlinear Spatial Network of Ryanodine Receptors
Tian-Tian Li, Zhong-Xue Gao, Zuo-Ming Ding, Han-Yu Jiang, Jun He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08258

Formation and Regulation of Calcium Sparks on a Nonlinear Spatial Network of Ryanodine Receptors
Accurate regulation of calcium release is essential for cellular signaling, with the spatial distribution of ryanodine receptors (RyRs) playing a critical role. In this study, we present a nonlinear spatial network model that simulates RyR spatial organization to investigate calcium release dynamics by integrating RyR behavior, calcium buffering, and calsequestrin (CSQ) regulation. The model successfully reproduces calcium sparks, shedding light on their initiation, duration, and termination me…

ReGate: Enabling Power Gating in Neural Processing Units
Yuqi Xue, Jian Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02536 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02536

ReGate: Enabling Power Gating in Neural Processing Units
The energy efficiency of neural processing units (NPU) is playing a critical role in developing sustainable data centers. Our study with different generations of NPU chips reveals that 30%-72% of their energy consumption is contributed by static power dissipation, due to the lack of power management support in modern NPU chips. In this paper, we present ReGate, which enables fine-grained power-gating of each hardware component in NPU chips with hardware/software co-design. Unlike conventional p…

Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald suggests plans for backup QB Jalen Milroe to have packages with starting offense

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- VoxRole: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Speech-Based Role-Playing Agents
Weihao Wu, Liang Cao, Xinyu Wu, Zhiwei Lin, Rui Niu, Jingbei Li, Zhiyong Wu

REMOTE: A Unified Multimodal Relation Extraction Framework with Multilevel Optimal Transport and Mixture-of-Experts
Xinkui Lin, Yongxiu Xu, Minghao Tang, Shilong Zhang, Hongbo Xu, Hao Xu, Yubin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04844

REMOTE: A Unified Multimodal Relation Extraction Framework with Multilevel Optimal Transport and Mixture-of-Experts
Multimodal relation extraction (MRE) is a crucial task in the fields of Knowledge Graph and Multimedia, playing a pivotal role in multimodal knowledge graph construction. However, existing methods are typically limited to extracting a single type of relational triplet, which restricts their ability to extract triplets beyond the specified types. Directly combining these methods fails to capture dynamic cross-modal interactions and introduces significant computational redundancy. Therefore, we p…

Human-AI Collaborative Bot Detection in MMORPGs
Jaeman Son, Hyunsoo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20578 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20578

Human-AI Collaborative Bot Detection in MMORPGs
In Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), auto-leveling bots exploit automated programs to level up characters at scale, undermining gameplay balance and fairness. Detecting such bots is challenging, not only because they mimic human behavior, but also because punitive actions require explainable justification to avoid legal and user experience issues. In this paper, we present a novel framework for detecting auto-leveling bots by leveraging contrastive representation learni…

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Equilibrium distribution of the liquid phase in an unsaturated granular material
Lazar Loredana, Clavaud C\'ecile, Amon Axelle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00751

Equilibrium distribution of the liquid phase in an unsaturated granular material
In an unsaturated granular material, the spatial distribution of the liquid phase results from the competition between gravity and capillary forces. We show that, in the funicular regime, it can be described by a Boltzmann law, with static disorder playing the role of thermal agitation. We propose an approach based on a Langevin equation to derive this distribution, and compare our predictions with conductivity measurements giving the local water content as a function of height in a wet granula…

Do What? Teaching Vision-Language-Action Models to Reject the Impossible
Wen-Han Hsieh, Elvis Hsieh, Dantong Niu, Trevor Darrell, Roei Herzig, David M. Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16292

Do What? Teaching Vision-Language-Action Models to Reject the Impossible
Recently, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong performance on a range of robotic tasks. These models rely on multimodal inputs, with language instructions playing a crucial role -- not only in predicting actions, but also in robustly interpreting user intent, even when the requests are impossible to fulfill. In this work, we investigate how VLAs can recognize, interpret, and respond to false-premise instructions: natural language commands that reference objects or condit…