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Ukrainian "Flamingo" enters the game! Is the missile similar to the “Tomahawk”?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/ukrainian-quotflamingoquot-enters-the-game.html

Dimension Of Inhomogeneous Sub-Self-Similar Sets
Shivam Dubey, Saurabh Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18706 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18706

Dimension Of Inhomogeneous Sub-Self-Similar Sets
In this paper, we introduce the concept of Inhomogeneous sub-self-similar (ISSS) sets, building upon the foundations laid by Falconer (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347 (1995) 3121-3129) in the study of sub-self-similar sets and drawing inspiration from Barnsley's work on inhomogeneous self-similar sets (Proc. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A 399 (1985), no. 1817, 24). We explore a range of examples of ISSS sets and elucidate a method to construct ISSS sets. We also investigate the upper and lower box dimensi…

Find cities with similar climate
https://www.ecoclimax.com/2017/06/find-cities-with-similar-climate.html?m=1

Shopify updated a help page in May to tighten its rules against "hateful content" like racist merchandise, after removing a similar ban in July 2024 (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

7/25/75 cleveland: similar but different sets over 2 nights. both 1st sets open with covers, tonight FIRE ENGINE (last night PSYCHOTIC REACTION) & close with cracklin’ BREAKIN’ IN MY HEART (breakin’ 10 minutes, too). both 2nd sets end with same 5 & lotta fiery richard lloyd solos, capped by LITTLE JOHNNY JEWEL, FOXHOLE, & new show closer KINGDOM COME, one of my single favorite television performances. sparkling, tight. most/all later versions have drum solo.

from my link log —
Performance from architecture: comparing a RISC (MIPS) and a CISC (VAX) with similar hardware organization. (1991)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/106974.107003
saved 2025-09-26

Quick test board for STM32H750 UFBGA240 25 paired with the Trion T20 BGA256 FPGA devkit.
Goals:
* Validate my KiCAD symbol for STM32H750 in TFBGA240 25
* Bring up a basic BSP and stm32-cpp support for the STM32H750 (should be straightforward with most stuff very similar to the H735)
* Play with the H7 QUADSPI and see how it works for both XIP and copy-code-to-SRAM use cases
* Add QUADSPI flash driver for microkvs (which currently only supports internal flash)
*…

"it's for you." – #batmancontent & #squirrelcontent by dave coverly! :D
https://www.instagram.com/p/CV32Bcl…

Russian developer Yegor from yegor256.com uses a simple example of two similar approaches to modeling an action, and their implications from an object-oriented design and programming patterns perspective. One of the two approaches provides superior extensibility, data encapsulation, and more flexible error handling.
"remove(42) vs. find(42).remove()"

AudioRelay ist schon nett, aber die Art der Verbindung ist im Büro etwas ungünstig (nur Wifi oder USB tethering, was jedes Mal aktiviert werden muss und potentiell Nebeneffekte mit der Internetnutzung hat.
Daher mal bei scrcpy nen Featurewunsch aufgemacht ("Feature request: audio forwarding TO Android device (audio-output-direction) #6260")

The fact that Google may be ending sideloading apps on Android forever is another reason we should donate more to @…
With 1-2 more years of work, it could reach a state similar to Desktop Linux or Android ROMs, where everything works, at least on a good number of devices.
Can't donate? That's okay. What they really need is …

More paddling today. Maybe my best Gulf paddle ever. Time distance, and speed similar to yesterday on a windier / choppier day. But the entire outbound leg I was within 25 feet (sometimes as close as 10 feet) of 4 dolphins who were hunting near me. Amazing!

😿 Among aging adults, especially women, problematic alcohol use has become more common
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-aging-adults-women-problematic-alcohol.html

Among aging adults, especially women, problematic alcohol use has become more common
Hazardous and binge drinking are becoming more prevalent in older people, most notably women, according to a large study of alcohol use and aging in two Nordic countries that may illuminate similar trends in other Western populations.

Diffusiophoretic corner flows
Dobromir Nowak, Maciej Lisicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18233 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18233

Diffusiophoretic corner flows
We study flows induced in a two-dimensional corner by the chemical activity of the confining boundaries. A catalytic reaction on the surfaces drives the diffusiophoretic flow of viscous fluid in the whole domain. We show that phoretically active sectors can generate eddies in the corner, similar to Moffatt eddies, induced mechanically in a similar confinement. We analyse the exact solution of the diffusion problem in the wedge geometry, coupled to diffusiophoretic flow generation in the slip-ve…

About the University of Arkansas lockdown, or any similar lockdown:

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
KRANTOR: And when you have disposed of Travis, don't forget to bring me Docholli. [Cevedic departs.] Now, for our other problem. [Looks at mirror.] Tell the croupier to shut the wheel down, Toise. It has developed a mechanical fault.
[Travis leaves bar holding Docholli's surgical kit.]
https://

#Drumpf #DOJ's legal attack dogs come after #Democrat controlled state's that refused to turn over voter rolls to politicized fed "investigators"... Federal Gov wants data including voters’ full names, dates of birth, str…

Trump administration sues Minnesota secretary of state over refusal to hand over voter rolls
Lawsuit is similar to legal challenges filed by the DOJ against Oregon and Maine this month.

That's the output of #GPT5 *HIGH* 😞
I get it now, if many people complain about GPT-5 🙄
and yes: i have never seen anything similar from sonnet.....
#ai #coding

Which reusable grocery bags passed, and failed, Marketplace's durability test?
https://flip.it/GKg9nN

WAFT: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Optical Flow
Yihan Wang, Jia Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21526 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

WAFT: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Optical Flow
We introduce Warping-Alone Field Transforms (WAFT), a simple and effective method for optical flow. WAFT is similar to RAFT but replaces cost volume with high-resolution warping, achieving better accuracy with lower memory cost. This design challenges the conventional wisdom that constructing cost volumes is necessary for strong performance. WAFT is a simple and flexible meta-architecture with minimal inductive biases and reliance on custom designs. Compared with existing methods, WAFT ranks 1s…

@… not necessarily a submission but a place to find new listings, there’s an instagram account called @pleasehatethesethings that posts very similar stuff and you might be able to pick some choice listings from their library :P

@… not necessarily a submission but a place to find new listings, there’s an instagram account called @pleasehatethesethings that posts very similar stuff and you might be able to pick some choice listings from their library :P

FreeBSD-Saigon-River
Another notch on the guitar. If you'd ever wanted to run the River window manager I've got you covered.
River’s window management style on Wayland is quite similar to dwm, xmonad, and other classic dynamic tiling X11 window managers. Windows are automatically arranged in a tiled layout and shifted around as windows are opened/closed.
Dots and setup are available on codeberg.org/thesaigoneer!

Playing CHESS with stars. I. Search for similar stars in large spectroscopic data sets
J. E. Mart\'inez Fern\'andez, S. \"Ozdemir, R. Smiljanic, M. L. L. Dantas, A. R. da Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19443

Playing CHESS with stars. I. Search for similar stars in large spectroscopic data sets
Context: Massive amounts of spectroscopic data obtained by stellar surveys are feeding an ongoing revolution in our knowledge of stellar and Galactic astrophysics. Analysing these data sets to extract the best possible astrophysical parameters on short time scales represents a considerable challenge. Aims: The differential analysis method is known to return the most precise results in the spectroscopic analyses of F-, G-, and K-type stars. However, it can only be applied to stars with similar p…

Enabling MoE on the Edge via Importance-Driven Expert Scheduling
Guoying Zhu, Meng Li, Haipeng Dai, Xuechen Liu, Weijun Wang, Keran Li, Jun xiao, Ligeng Chen, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18983 …

Enabling MoE on the Edge via Importance-Driven Expert Scheduling
The Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture has emerged as a key technique for scaling Large Language Models by activating only a subset of experts per query. Deploying MoE on consumer-grade edge hardware, however, is constrained by limited device memory, making dynamic expert offloading essential. Unlike prior work that treats offloading purely as a scheduling problem, we leverage expert importance to guide decisions, substituting low-importance activated experts with functionally similar ones a…

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Observation of hysteresis in an isolated quantum system of disordered Heisenberg spins
Moritz Hornung, Eduard J. Braun, Sebastian Geier, Titus Franz, Gerhard Z\"urn, Matthias Weidem\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18197

Observation of hysteresis in an isolated quantum system of disordered Heisenberg spins
We find energy-dependent hysteresis in an isolated Heisenberg quantum spin system, similar to thermomagnetic hysteresis in canonical spin glasses in contact with a thermal reservoir. Analogous to zero-field cooling and field cooling in conventional magnetic materials, an annealing protocol is devised to control the energy in an isolated system. Depending on the strength of disorder, the susceptibilities at zero field bifurcate at a specific energy, which signals the presence of different magnet…

Some 60 countries worldwide have security committees similar to the one about to be established in Germany.
[...]
"The [previous] German coalition government managed to draft a national security strategy [#NaSi] but failed to create a national security council [#NSR] in the proce…

KeyWorld: Key Frame Reasoning Enables Effective and Efficient World Models
Sibo Li, Qianyue Hao, Yu Shang, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21027 https://

KeyWorld: Key Frame Reasoning Enables Effective and Efficient World Models
Robotic world models are a promising paradigm for forecasting future environment states, yet their inference speed and the physical plausibility of generated trajectories remain critical bottlenecks, limiting their real-world applications. This stems from the redundancy of the prevailing frame-to-frame generation approach, where the model conducts costly computation on similar frames, as well as neglecting the semantic importance of key transitions. To address this inefficiency, we propose KeyW…

"TikTok, Do Your Thing": User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere
Meira Gilbert, Miranda Wei, Lindah Kotut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20884

"TikTok, Do Your Thing": User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere
'TikTok, Do Your Thing'' is a viral trend where users attempt to identify strangers they see in public via information crowd-sourcing. The trend started as early as 2021 and users typically engage with it for romantic purposes (similar to a ''Missed Connections'' personal advertisement). This practice includes acts of surveillance and identification in the public sphere, although by peers rather than governments or corporations. To understand users' reactions to this trend we conducted a quali�…

UniC-RAG: Universal Knowledge Corruption Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Runpeng Geng, Yanting Wang, Ying Chen, Jinyuan Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18652 https://…

UniC-RAG: Universal Knowledge Corruption Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are widely deployed in real-world applications in diverse domains such as finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, many studies showed that they are vulnerable to knowledge corruption attacks, where an attacker can inject adversarial texts into the knowledge database of a RAG system to induce the LLM to generate attacker-desired outputs. Existing studies mainly focus on attacking specific queries or queries with similar topics (or keywords). …

TriagerX: Dual Transformers for Bug Triaging Tasks with Content and Interaction Based Rankings
Md Afif Al Mamun, Gias Uddin, Lan Xia, Longyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16860

TriagerX: Dual Transformers for Bug Triaging Tasks with Content and Interaction Based Rankings
Pretrained Language Models or PLMs are transformer-based architectures that can be used in bug triaging tasks. PLMs can better capture token semantics than traditional Machine Learning (ML) models that rely on statistical features (e.g., TF-IDF, bag of words). However, PLMs may still attend to less relevant tokens in a bug report, which can impact their effectiveness. In addition, the model can be sub-optimal with its recommendations when the interaction history of developers around similar bug…

@… similar vibe https://youtu.be/Xojr6DKkwkA

Upper bounds on class numbers of real quadratic fields
Riccardo Bernardini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21301 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Upper bounds on class numbers of real quadratic fields
We prove that, for any $\varepsilon>0$, the number of real quadratic fields $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{d})$ of discriminant $d

New Hampshire and Vermont working on plug-in solar bills to make solar systems more accessible for residents. Utah has already passed similar legislation, with other states considering the same. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Plug-in solar bills are in the works in New Hampshire and Vermont
DIY "balcony" solar kits, which can save residents money and give them more independence, are piquing interest from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

Efficient and Reuseable Cloud Configuration Search Using Discovery Spaces
Michael Johnston, Burkhard Ringlein, Christoph Hagleitner, Alessandro Pomponio, Vassilis Vassiliadis, Christian Pinto, Srikumar Venugopal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21467

Efficient and Reuseable Cloud Configuration Search Using Discovery Spaces
Finding the optimal set of cloud resources to deploy a given workload at minimal cost while meeting a defined service level agreement is an active area of research. Combining tens of parameters applicable across a large selection of compute, storage, and services offered by cloud providers with similar numbers of application-specific parameters leads to configuration spaces with millions of deployment options. In this paper, we propose Discovery Space, an abstraction that formalizes the descr…

A similar trend is reported in Italy. Is violent crime becoming more violent and international? Is "someone" (a state actor perhaps?) flooding the black market with weapons?
Overall violent crime has been falling for decades pretty much everywhere in Europe so it's interesting to see these trends

Differentiating Through a Quadratic Cone Program
Quill Healey, Parth Nobel, Stephen Boyd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17522 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17522

Differentiating Through a Quadratic Cone Program
Quadratic cone programs are rapidly becoming the standard canonical form for convex optimization problems. In this paper we address the question of differentiating the solution map for such problems, generalizing previous work for linear cone programs. We follow a similar path, using the implicit function theorem applied to the optimality conditions for a homogenous primal-dual embedding. Along with our proof of differentiability, we present methods for efficiently evaluating the derivative ope…

Disentangling network dependence among multiple variables
Zhejia Dong, Corwin Zigler, Youjin Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20974 https://

Disentangling network dependence among multiple variables
When two variables depend on the same or similar underlying network, their shared network dependence structure can lead to spurious associations. While statistical associations between two variables sampled from interconnected subjects are a common inferential goal across various fields, little research has focused on how to disentangle shared dependence for valid statistical inference. We revisit two different approaches from distinct fields that may address shared network dependence: the pre-…

The interstellar heritage of comets
Karen Willacy, Liton Majumdar, Boncho Bonev, Erika Gibb, Neil Dello Russo, Michael DiSanti, Ronald J. Vervack Jr, Nathan X Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20530

The interstellar heritage of comets
Comets have similar compositions to interstellar medium ices, suggesting at least some of their molecules maybe inherited from an earlier stage of evolution. To investigate the degree to which this might have occurred we compare the composition of individual comets to that of the well-studied protostellar region IRAS 16293-2422B. We show that the observed molecular abundance ratios in several comets correlate well with those observed in the protostellar source. However, this does not necessaril…

RecCoT: Enhancing Recommendation via Chain-of-Thought
Shuo Yang, Jiangxia Cao, Haipeng Li, Yuqi Mao, Shuchao Pang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21032 https://…

RecCoT: Enhancing Recommendation via Chain-of-Thought
In real-world applications, users always interact with items in multiple aspects, such as through implicit binary feedback (e.g., clicks, dislikes, long views) and explicit feedback (e.g., comments, reviews). Modern recommendation systems (RecSys) learn user-item collaborative signals from these implicit feedback signals as a large-scale binary data-streaming, subsequently recommending other highly similar items based on users' personalized historical interactions. However, from this collaborat…

WoW: A Window-to-Window Incremental Index for Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
Ziqi Wang, Jingzhe Zhang, Wei Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18617 https://

WoW: A Window-to-Window Incremental Index for Range-Filtering Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
Given a hybrid dataset where every data object consists of a vector and an attribute value, for each query with a target vector and a range filter, range-filtering approximate nearest neighbor search (RFANNS) aims to retrieve the most similar vectors from the dataset and the corresponding attribute values fall in the query range. It is a fundamental function in vector database management systems and intelligent systems with embedding abilities. Dedicated indices for RFANNS accelerate query spee…

Weak Lensing Approximation of Wave-optics Effects from General Symmetric Lens Profiles
Zhao-Feng Wu, Otto A. Hannuksela, Martin Hendry, Quynh Lan Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17486

Weak Lensing Approximation of Wave-optics Effects from General Symmetric Lens Profiles
Gravitational lensing of electromagnetic (EM) waves has yielded many profound discoveries across fundamental physics, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Similar to EM waves, gravitational waves (GWs) can also be lensed. When their wavelength is comparable to the characteristic scale of the lens, wave-optics (WO) effects manifest as frequency-dependent modulations in the GW waveform. These WO features encode valuable information about the lensing system but are challenging to model, especia…

Transiting Planetary Debris near the Roche Limit of a White Dwarf on a 4.97$\,$hr Orbit -- and its Vanishing
Joseph A. Guidry, Zachary P. Vanderbosch, J. J. Hermes, Dimitri Veras, Mark A. Hollands, Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, Ilaria Caiazzo, Kareem El-Badry, Malia L. Kao, Lou Baya Ould Rouis, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Jan van Roestel
https://arx…

Transiting Planetary Debris near the Roche Limit of a White Dwarf on a 4.97$\,$hr Orbit -- and its Vanishing
We present the discovery of deep, irregular, periodic transits towards the white dwarf ZTF$\,$J1944$+$4557 using follow-up time-series photometry and spectroscopy from Palomar, Keck, McDonald, Perkins, and Lowell observatories. We find a predominant period of 4.9704$\,$hr, consistent with an orbit near the Roche limit of the white dwarf, with individual dips over 30$\%$ deep and lasting between 15 and 40 minutes. Similar to the first known white dwarf with transiting debris, WD$\,$1145$+$017, t…

Hits to Higgs: Reconstruction-Free Higgs Classification from Raw LHC Detector Data Using Higgsformers
Sascha Caron, Polina Moskvitina, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Eugene Shalugin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19190

Hits to Higgs: Reconstruction-Free Higgs Classification from Raw LHC Detector Data Using Higgsformers
We present a comparative study of Higgs event classification at the Large Hadron Collider that bypasses the traditional reconstruction chain. As a benchmark, we focus on distinguishing \( t\bar{t}H \) from \( t\bar{t} \) events with \( H \to b\bar{b} \), a particularly challenging task due to their similar final-state topologies. Our pipeline begins with event generation in \texttt{Pythia8}, fast simulation with ACTS/Fatras, and classification directly from raw detector hits. We show for the …

Just finished "The Courageous Princess" by Rod Espinosa. It's... bad. I was really looking forward to it because I recently read "Castle Waiting" by Linda Medley, and it seemed from the cover like it might be from a similar epoch in comics and/or have similar vibes, but it's both a very bland story, and extremely into royalty apologetics, which is the opposite of Castle Waiting and which galls me immensely. It breaks exactly one genre convention (the princess gets fed up with waiting for a prince and rescues herself) but doesn't systematize that into even an ounce of feminism.
"Dealing With Dragon"s by Patricia Wrede is the actually amazing version of this story, although it's not a graphic novel.
#AmReading

PeakNetFP: Peak-based Neural Audio Fingerprinting Robust to Extreme Time Stretching
Guillem Cort\`es-Sebasti\`a, Benjamin Martin, Emilio Molina, Xavier Serra, Romain Hennequin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21086

PeakNetFP: Peak-based Neural Audio Fingerprinting Robust to Extreme Time Stretching
This work introduces PeakNetFP, the first neural audio fingerprinting (AFP) system designed specifically around spectral peaks. This novel system is designed to leverage the sparse spectral coordinates typically computed by traditional peak-based AFP methods. PeakNetFP performs hierarchical point feature extraction techniques similar to the computer vision model PointNet++, and is trained using contrastive learning like in the state-of-the-art deep learning AFP, NeuralFP. This combination allow…

Stable self-similar singularity formation for infinite energy solutions of the incompressible porous medium equations
Charles Collot, Christophe Prange, Jin Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17381

Stable self-similar singularity formation for infinite energy solutions of the incompressible porous medium equations
We consider a special class of infinite energy solutions to the inviscid incompressible porous medium equations (IPM), introduced in Castro-Córdoba-Gancedo-Orive [9]. The (IPM) equations then reduce to a one-dimensional nonlocal nonlinear equation, for which an explicit self-similar blow-up solution is found in [9]. We show the stability of this explicit blow-up solution by smooth enough perturbations, and identity a sharp regularity threshold below which it is unstable. The heart of our proof…

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Better Indexing for Rectangular Pattern Matching
Pawe{\l} Gawrychowski, Adam G\'orkiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17365 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1…

Better Indexing for Rectangular Pattern Matching
We revisit the complexity of building, given a two-dimensional string of size $n$, an indexing structure that allows locating all $k$ occurrences of a two-dimensional pattern of size $m$. While a structure of size $\mathcal{O}(n)$ with query time $\mathcal{O}(m+k)$ is known for this problem under the additional assumption that the pattern is a square [Giancarlo, SICOMP 1995], a popular belief was that for rectangular patterns one cannot achieve such (or even similar) bounds, due to a lower boun…

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Interesting sidenote: the US ambassador to France is a convicted felon who served two years in prison.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/08/24/us-ambassador-accuses-fr…

US ambassador accuses France of 'lack of sufficient action' on antisemitism
Charles Kusher, the new United States ambassador to France, sent a letter to President Emmanuel Macron criticizing France's plan to recognize the State of Palestine, days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a similar move.

Quintessential dark energy crossing the phantom divide
Ruiqi Chen, James M. Cline, Varun Muralidharan, Benjamin Salewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19101 https://

Quintessential dark energy crossing the phantom divide
Motivated by recent results from the DESI collaboration, we explore two classes of quintessence models that can give rise to crossing of the dark energy equation of state through the ``phantom divide'' $w=-1$. These are models with Lagrangians that involve higher powers of the kinetic energy $\dotϕ^2$, or where the dark matter (DM) mass is a function of $ϕ$. Both have similar features with respect to the reconstructed redshift-dependent $w(z)$: moderate tuning of parameters is required to ach…

We all perform tasks in our day-to-day work that are considered 'non-promotable' – these are crucial for project success, but they won't get you promoted. This is commonly known as 'glue work', a term coined by Tanya Reilly. At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Fatima Taj shared her personal experience of narrowly avoiding the trap of being permanently stuck with glue work and explained how to handle similar situations.
Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/YJE8x6vzTCA?si=aE4Ogrp9t_oHdlhZ

Junctional-Fluctuation-Mediated Fluidisation of Multi-Phase Field Epithelial Monolayers
James N. Graham, Jan Rozman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18987 https://

Junctional-Fluctuation-Mediated Fluidisation of Multi-Phase Field Epithelial Monolayers
We analyse a multi-phase field model for an epithelial monolayer with pairwise adhesions between neighbouring cells following an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, representing the stochastic turnover of junctional molecular motors. These fluctuations in junctional adhesion result in rearrangements in the tissue, fluidising it and producing diffusive cell motion. Similar junctional fluctuations have proven a very useful tool in the vertex model literature, and we hope they will be equally helpful to t…

EnGraf-Net: Multiple Granularity Branch Network with Fine-Coarse Graft Grained for Classification Task
Riccardo La Grassa, Ignazio Gallo, Nicola Landro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21061

EnGraf-Net: Multiple Granularity Branch Network with Fine-Coarse Graft Grained for Classification Task
Fine-grained classification models are designed to focus on the relevant details necessary to distinguish highly similar classes, particularly when intra-class variance is high and inter-class variance is low. Most existing models rely on part annotations such as bounding boxes, part locations, or textual attributes to enhance classification performance, while others employ sophisticated techniques to automatically extract attention maps. We posit that part-based approaches, including automatic…

Enhancing Reference-based Sketch Colorization via Separating Reference Representations
Dingkun Yan, Xinrui Wang, Zhuoru Li, Suguru Saito, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Jiaxian Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17620

Enhancing Reference-based Sketch Colorization via Separating Reference Representations
Reference-based sketch colorization methods have garnered significant attention for the potential application in animation and digital illustration production. However, most existing methods are trained with image triplets of sketch, reference, and ground truth that are semantically and spatially similar, while real-world references and sketches often exhibit substantial misalignment. This mismatch in data distribution between training and inference leads to overfitting, consequently resulting …

A subbase property for describing edge-end spaces
Lucas Real
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17424 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17424

A subbase property for describing edge-end spaces
In a previous joint work with Aurichi and Magalhães Jr., we showed that the topological spaces arising from the edge-end structure of infinite graphs define a proper subfamily of those obtained through the well-known (vertex-)ends. This result was later recovered by a more general approach due to Pitz, who also stated the problem of finding a purely topological characterization for the class of edge-end spaces. His question reads as an edge-related version of a similar conjecture posed by Dies…

Failure Modes of Maximum Entropy RLHF
\"Omer Veysel \c{C}a\u{g}atan, Bar{\i}\c{s} Akg\"un
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20265 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Failure Modes of Maximum Entropy RLHF
In this paper, we show that Simple Preference Optimization (SimPO) can be derived as Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning with length-normalized temperature, providing a theoretical foundation for this reference-free method. Motivated by SimPO's strong performance in offline preference optimization, we investigate whether Maximum Entropy RL can achieve similar results in online RLHF settings. Our experiments find that Maximum Entropy RL consistently exhibits overoptimization and unstable KL d…

Toward Federated DeePC: borrowing data from similar systems
Gert Vankan, Valentina Breschi, Simone Formentin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17610 https://arxiv…

Toward Federated DeePC: borrowing data from similar systems
Data-driven predictive control approaches, in general, and Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC), in particular, exploit matrices of raw input/output trajectories for control design. These data are typically gathered only from the system to be controlled. Nonetheless, the increasing connectivity and inherent similarity of (mass-produced) systems have the potential to generate a considerable amount of information that can be exploited to undertake a control task. In light of this, we propose a…

Bridging Offline and Online Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
Jack Lanchantin, Angelica Chen, Janice Lan, Xian Li, Swarnadeep Saha, Tianlu Wang, Jing Xu, Ping Yu, Weizhe Yuan, Jason E Weston, Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, Ilia Kulikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21495 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21495 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.21495
arXiv:2506.21495v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate the effectiveness of reinforcement learning methods for finetuning large language models when transitioning from offline to semi-online to fully online regimes for both verifiable and non-verifiable tasks. Our experiments cover training on verifiable math as well as non-verifiable instruction following with a set of benchmark evaluations for both. Across these settings, we extensively compare online and semi-online Direct Preference Optimization and Group Reward Policy Optimization objectives, and surprisingly find similar performance and convergence between these variants, which all strongly outperform offline methods. We provide a detailed analysis of the training dynamics and hyperparameter selection strategies to achieve optimal results. Finally, we show that multi-tasking with verifiable and non-verifiable rewards jointly yields improved performance across both task types.
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Do Multi-Structural One-Off FRBs Trace Similar Cosmology History with Repeaters?
Yu-Hao Zhu, Chen-Hui Niu, Xiang-Han Cui, Di Li, Yi-Feng, Chao-Wei Tsai, Pei Wang, Yong-Kun Zhang, Fanyi Meng, Zheng Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17708

Do Multi-Structural One-Off FRBs Trace Similar Cosmology History with Repeaters?
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration transient events that are typically observed at radio wavelengths and cosmological distances but their origin remains unclear. Furthermore, most FRB origin models are related to the processes at stellar scales, involving neutron stars, blackholes, supernovae, etc. In this paper, our purpose is to determine whether multi-structural one-off FRBs and repeaters share similarities. To achieve this, we focus on analyzing the relationship between the F…

Dispersion interaction of two graphene sheets
Michael Davidovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17999 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17999

Dispersion interaction of two graphene sheets
The Casimir method for determining the dispersive force by varying zero vacuum energy fluctuations is applied to two graphene sheets in the approximation of the Drude model for surface conductivity. As an alternative, the Van Kampen summation method is used. The force is determined for small and for large distances between the sheets. The results of both models are quite similar. Precisely, at large distances, the attractive force decreases inversely proportional to the fourth power of the dist…

Tangent structures for divided power algebras
Sacha Ikonicoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16302 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16302

Tangent structures for divided power algebras
We build a tangent structure on the category of divided power algebras using a particular notion of semidirect product. We show that this tangent structure admits an adjoint tangent structure, which involves a version of Kähler differentials, and which is similar to the Zariski cotangent space for affine schemes. We study vector fields and differential bundles for these two structures, which correspond respectively to a notion of special derivation, and to the category of modules over the unde…

https://bsky.app/profile/adamcsharp.bsky.social/post/3lze7s3tdzs2i

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social)
In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

If you want to hide your company on the public internet, you might want to name it “Syntax Error”, “Terminal Window”, “Command Line” or similar. #justthinkin
Thoughts while listening to the latest @… podcast episode.

X is testing using Community Notes to highlight posts that are liked by users with different perspectives (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/x-to-test-using-community-notes-to-find-the-posts-everyone-likes/

X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes | TechCrunch
X is piloting a new feature that will help to identify the platform's best posts. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works.

#StephenMiller us telling us he's trying to redo the #Holocaust. He plagiarized #JosephGoebbels' eulogy of

'Scary as all hell': Onlookers horrified as Stephen Miller parrots Nazi speech
Stephen Miller delivered a venomous speech at right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's memorial service that bore a close resemblance to one given by a notorious Nazi leader at a similar event, according to reports.The White House deputy chief of staff and top adviser to President Donald Trump called on m...

Radiation of "breathing" vortex electron packets in magnetic field
G. V. Zmaga, G. K. Sizykh, D. V. Grosman, Qi Meng, Liping Zou, Pengming Zhang, D. V. Karlovets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21195

Radiation of "breathing" vortex electron packets in magnetic field
When a vortex electron with an orbital angular momentum (OAM) enters a magnetic field, its quantum state is described with a nonstationary Laguerre-Gaussian (NSLG) state rather than with a stationary Landau state. A key feature of these NSLG states is oscillations of the electron wave packet's root-mean-square (r.m.s.) radius, similar to betatron oscillations. Classically, such an oscillating charge distribution is expected to emit photons. This raises a critical question: does this radiation c…

"She’d seen a guerilla bench effort take off in Berkeley, Calif. and wondered if they could pull off something similar in Nashville. They built a dozen or so benches based on a simple design and put them at bus stops."
https://nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/22

"Nobody should control the end user": Exploring Privacy Perspectives of Indian Internet Users in Light of DPDPA
Sana Athar, Devashish Gosain, Anja Feldmann, Mannat Kaur, Ha Dao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17962

"Nobody should control the end user": Exploring Privacy Perspectives of Indian Internet Users in Light of DPDPA
With the rapid increase in online interactions, concerns over data privacy and transparency of data processing practices have become more pronounced. While regulations like the GDPR have driven the widespread adoption of cookie banners in the EU, India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) promises similar changes domestically, aiming to introduce a framework for data protection. However, certain clauses within the DPDPA raise concerns about potential infringements on user privacy, giv…

Provenance Analysis of Archaeological Artifacts via Multimodal RAG Systems
Tuo Zhang, Yuechun Sun, Ruiliang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20769 https://ar…

Provenance Analysis of Archaeological Artifacts via Multimodal RAG Systems
In this work, we present a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-based system for provenance analysis of archaeological artifacts, designed to support expert reasoning by integrating multimodal retrieval and large vision-language models (VLMs). The system constructs a dual-modal knowledge base from reference texts and images, enabling raw visual, edge-enhanced, and semantic retrieval to identify stylistically similar objects. Retrieved candidates are synthesized by the VLM to generate structured…

Embedding Font Impression Word Tags Based on Co-occurrence
Yugo Kubota, Seiichi Uchida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18825 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18825

Embedding Font Impression Word Tags Based on Co-occurrence
Different font styles (i.e., font shapes) convey distinct impressions, indicating a close relationship between font shapes and word tags describing those impressions. This paper proposes a novel embedding method for impression tags that leverages these shape-impression relationships. For instance, our method assigns similar vectors to impression tags that frequently co-occur in order to represent impressions of fonts, whereas standard word embedding methods (e.g., BERT and CLIP) yield very diff…

Self-embeddings of homogeneous self-similar sets generated by three maps
Zhiqiang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18202 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18202

Self-embeddings of homogeneous self-similar sets generated by three maps
For $0< ρ< 1/3$ and $ρ\le λ\le 1-2ρ$, let $E$ be the self-similar set generated by the iterated function system $$Φ= \big\{ φ_1(x) = ρx ,\; φ_2(x) = ρx + λ, \; φ_3(x) = ρx + 1- ρ\big\}.$$ All contractive similitudes $f$ with $f(E) \subset E$ are characterized: one can find $i_1, i_2, \ldots, i_n \in \{1,2,3\}$ such that \[ f(E)=φ_{i_1} \circ φ_{i_2} \circ \cdots \circ φ_{i_n} (E). \]

Optical Spectroscopy Reveals Hidden Neutron-capture Elemental Abundance Differences among APOGEE-identified Chemical Doppelg\"angers
Catherine Manea, Melissa Ness, Keith Hawkins, Greg Zeimann, David W. Hogg, Carrie Filion, Emily J. Griffith, Kathryn Johnston, Andrew Casey, Zoe Hackshaw, Tyler Nelson, Micah Marks
https://arxiv.org/abs/…

Optical Spectroscopy Reveals Hidden Neutron-capture Elemental Abundance Differences among APOGEE-identified Chemical Doppelgängers
Grouping stars by chemical similarity has the potential to reveal the Milky Way's evolutionary history. The APOGEE stellar spectroscopic survey has the resolution and sensitivity for this task. However, APOGEE lacks access to strong lines of neutron-capture elements ($Z > 28$) which have nucleosynthetic origins that are distinct from those of the lighter elements. We assess whether APOGEE abundances are sufficient for selecting chemically similar disk stars by identifying 25 pairs of chemical `…

Self-similar blowup for mass supercritical Schr\"odinger equations
Roland Donninger, Lorenz Lichtnecker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16600 https://arxiv…

Self-similar blowup for mass supercritical Schrödinger equations
We consider the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in three spatial dimensions with powers close to three and prove the existence of a self-similar solution. This generalizes a previous result on the cubic case and shows that self-similar blowup is stable under perturbations of the equation.

Exact Kerr--Schild spacetimes from linearized kinetic gravity braiding
Bence Juh\'asz, L\'aszl\'o \'Arp\'ad Gergely
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20576 https://…

Exact Kerr--Schild spacetimes from linearized kinetic gravity braiding
We generalize our recent work on k-essence sourcing Kerr--Schild spacetimes to kinetic gravity braiding scalar field. For k-essence, in order a perturbative Kerr--Schild type solution to become exact, the k-essence Lagrangian was either linear in the kinetic term (with the Kerr--Schild congruence autoparallel) or unrestricted, provided the scalar gradient along the congruence vanishes. A similar reasoning for the pure kinetic braiding contribution leads to either a vanishing Lagrangian or a sca…

Higgs pole inflation with loop corrections in light of ACT results
Jeonghak Han, Hyun Min Lee, Jun-Ho Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21189 https://…

Higgs pole inflation with loop corrections in light of ACT results
We present the Coleman-Weinberg potential for the inflaton in the pole inflation scenarios such as the Higgs pole inflation and the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) pole inflation. The loop corrections stem from the Standard Model particles and extra singlet scalar fields in the former case, making the quartic coupling for the Higgs inflaton modified by the inflaton-dependent power corrections during inflation. We also obtain similar power corrections to the quartic coupling for the PQ inflaton, depending on …

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

Time-adaptive H\'enonNets for separable Hamiltonian systems
Konrad Janik, Peter Benner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20212 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.2021…

Time-adaptive HénonNets for separable Hamiltonian systems
Measurement data is often sampled irregularly, i.e., not on equidistant time grids. This is also true for Hamiltonian systems. However, existing machine learning methods, which learn symplectic integrators, such as SympNets [1] and HénonNets [2] still require training data generated by fixed step sizes. To learn time-adaptive symplectic integrators, an extension to SympNets called TSympNets is introduced in [3]. The aim of this work is to do a similar extension for HénonNets. We propose a nov…

Odd relaxation in three-dimensional Fermi liquids
Seth Musser, Sankar Das Sarma, Johannes Hofmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18342 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Odd relaxation in three-dimensional Fermi liquids
Recent theoretical works predict a hierarchy of long-lived, non-hydrodynamic modes in two-dimensional Fermi liquids arising from the feature -- supposedly unique to two dimensions -- that relaxation by head-on scattering is not efficient in the presence of Pauli blocking. This leads to a parity-based separation of scattering rates, with odd-parity modes relaxing much more slowly than even-parity ones. In this work, we establish that a similar effect exists in isotropic three-dimensional Fermi l…

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

SAGE:State-Aware Guided End-to-End Policy for Multi-Stage Sequential Tasks via Hidden Markov Decision Process
BinXu Wu, TengFei Zhang, Chen Yang, JiaHao Wen, HaoCheng Li, JingTian Ma, Zhen Chen, JingYuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19853

SAGE:State-Aware Guided End-to-End Policy for Multi-Stage Sequential Tasks via Hidden Markov Decision Process
Multi-stage sequential (MSS) robotic manipulation tasks are prevalent and crucial in robotics. They often involve state ambiguity, where visually similar observations correspond to different actions. We present SAGE, a state-aware guided imitation learning framework that models tasks as a Hidden Markov Decision Process (HMDP) to explicitly capture latent task stages and resolve ambiguity. We instantiate the HMDP with a state transition network that infers hidden states, and a state-aware action…

The pin 1 mark of the beast
The package will have dots in two of three possible locations. Only one of these means pin 1.

An interview with Alex Kachkine, who shook the art world in June with a research paper in Nature on restoring paintings using AI, as he works to refine the tech (Ephrat Livni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/…

The Hobbyist Restorer Who Rocked the Art World With an A.I. Innovation
Alex Kachkine spends his days working on microchip research — a skill set surprisingly similar to that needed for restoration.

Recognisability for generalised hierarchical patterns and pattern spaces of finite local complexity
James J. Walton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21001 https://

Recognisability for generalised hierarchical patterns and pattern spaces of finite local complexity
We explore an extended notion of a tiling of translational finite local complexity (FLC) being substitutional, or hierarchical, to Euclidean `patterns' and define, more generally, a similar notion for spaces of patterns. We prove recognisability results for these, relating injectivity of substitution to aperiodicity, with no minimality requirements. More precisely, for a suitable power of the substitution map, we determine the size of fibre over any pattern to be the index of its inflated (tran…

MIT bag in non-smooth convex domains
Konstantin Pankrashkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20958 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20958

MIT bag in non-smooth convex domains
The Dirac operator with MIT bag boundary condition in a bounded convex domain is shown to be always self-adjoint in the $H^1$-setting. This allows one to show that such operators appear as limit of Dirac operators with large positive mass outside the domain. Similar results were previously known for smooth domains only.

ConViS-Bench: Estimating Video Similarity Through Semantic Concepts
Benedetta Liberatori, Alessandro Conti, Lorenzo Vaquero, Yiming Wang, Elisa Ricci, Paolo Rota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19245

ConViS-Bench: Estimating Video Similarity Through Semantic Concepts
What does it mean for two videos to be similar? Videos may appear similar when judged by the actions they depict, yet entirely different if evaluated based on the locations where they were filmed. While humans naturally compare videos by taking different aspects into account, this ability has not been thoroughly studied and presents a challenge for models that often depend on broad global similarity scores. Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) with video understanding capabilities open new opportunit…

Martingale Projections and Quantum Decoherence
Lane P. Hughston, Levent A. Meng\"ut\"urk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19491 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Martingale Projections and Quantum Decoherence
We introduce so-called super/sub-martingale projections as a family of endomorphisms defined on unions of Polish spaces. Such projections allow us to identify martingales as collections of transformations that relate path-valued random variables to each other under conditional expectations. In this sense, super/sub-martingale projections are random functionals that (i) are boundedness preserving and (ii) satisfy a conditional expectation criterion similar to that of the classical martingale the…

AWS shuts down its Shanghai AI research lab, following similar moves by other US tech groups, including Microsoft and IBM, to scale back China-based R&D efforts (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a7cdb3bf-9c9d-40ef-951e-3c9f5bafe41d

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Through the Looking Glass: A Dual Perspective on Weakly-Supervised Few-Shot Segmentation
Jiaqi Ma, Guo-Sen Xie, Fang Zhao, Zechao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16159 https://

Through the Looking Glass: A Dual Perspective on Weakly-Supervised Few-Shot Segmentation
Meta-learning aims to uniformly sample homogeneous support-query pairs, characterized by the same categories and similar attributes, and extract useful inductive biases through identical network architectures. However, this identical network design results in over-semantic homogenization. To address this, we propose a novel homologous but heterogeneous network. By treating support-query pairs as dual perspectives, we introduce heterogeneous visual aggregation (HA) modules to enhance complementa…

On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including "Taste Match" playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/yout

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify | TechCrunch
YouTube Music is rolling out taste match playlists, comments, badges and more.

foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted

PerFace: Metric Learning in Perceptual Facial Similarity for Enhanced Face Anonymization
Haruka Kumagai, Leslie W\"ohler, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20281

PerFace: Metric Learning in Perceptual Facial Similarity for Enhanced Face Anonymization
In response to rising societal awareness of privacy concerns, face anonymization techniques have advanced, including the emergence of face-swapping methods that replace one identity with another. Achieving a balance between anonymity and naturalness in face swapping requires careful selection of identities: overly similar faces compromise anonymity, while dissimilar ones reduce naturalness. Existing models, however, focus on binary identity classification "the same person or not", making it dif…

Ethereum's "low-risk DeFi" applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business (Vitalik Buterin/Vitalik Buterin's website)
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/lo…