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AccessGuru: Leveraging LLMs to Detect and Correct Web Accessibility Violations in HTML Code
Nadeen Fathallah, Daniel Hern\'andez, Steffen Staab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19549

AccessGuru: Leveraging LLMs to Detect and Correct Web Accessibility Violations in HTML Code
The vast majority of Web pages fail to comply with established Web accessibility guidelines, excluding a range of users with diverse abilities from interacting with their content. Making Web pages accessible to all users requires dedicated expertise and additional manual efforts from Web page providers. To lower their efforts and promote inclusiveness, we aim to automatically detect and correct Web accessibility violations in HTML code. While previous work has made progress in detecting certain…

The Random Variables of the DNA Coverage Depth Problem
\c{S}eyma Bodur, Stefano Lia, Hiram H. L\'opez, Rati Ludhani, Alberto Ravagnani, Lisa Seccia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20645

The Random Variables of the DNA Coverage Depth Problem
DNA data storage systems encode digital data into DNA strands, enabling dense and durable storage. Efficient data retrieval depends on coverage depth, a key performance metric. We study the random access coverage depth problem and focus on minimizing the expected number of reads needed to recover information strands encoded via a linear code. We compute the asymptotic performance of a recently proposed code construction, establishing and refining a conjecture in the field by giving two independ…

Diving into the planetary system of Proxima with NIRPS -- Breaking the metre per second barrier in the infrared
Alejandro Su\'arez Mascare\~no, \'Etienne Artigau, Lucile Mignon, Xavier Delfosse, Neil J. Cook, Fran\c{c}ois Bouchy, Ren\'e Doyon, Jonay I. Gonz\'alez Hern\'andez, Thomas Vandal, Izan de Castro Le\~ao, Atanas K. Stefanov, Jo\~ao Faria, Charles Cadieux, Pierrot Lamontagne, Fr\'ed\'erique Baron, Susana C. C. Barros, Bj\"orn Benneke, Xavier Bonf…

Diving into the planetary system of Proxima with NIRPS -- Breaking the metre per second barrier in the infrared
We obtained 420 high-resolution spectra of Proxima, over 159 nights, using the Near Infra Red Planet Searcher (NIRPS). We derived 149 nightly binned radial velocity measurements with a standard deviation of 1.69 m/s and a median uncertainty of 55 cm/s, and performed a joint analysis combining radial velocities, spectroscopic activity indicators, and ground-based photometry, to model the planetary and stellar signals present in the data, applying multi-dimensional Gaussian process regression to …

OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/openai-bioweapons-risk

OpenAI warns models with higher bioweapons risk are imminent
Preventing harm means both the company, and society at large, need to be prepared.

Comparing performance of variational quantum algorithm simulations on HPC systems
Marco De Pascale, Tobias Valentin Bauer, Yaknan John Gambo, Mario Hern\'andez Vera, Stefan Huber, Burak Mete, Amit Jamadagni, Amine Bentellis, Marita Oliv, Luigi Iapichino, Jeanette Miriam Lorenz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17614

Comparing performance of variational quantum algorithm simulations on HPC systems
Variational quantum algorithms are of special importance in the research on quantum computing applications because of their applicability to current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. The main building blocks of these algorithms (among them, the definition of the Hamiltonian and of the ansatz, the optimizer) define a relatively large parameter space, making the comparison of results and performance between different approaches and software simulators cumbersome and prone to errors…

Strong thermoelectric response of nanoconfined weak electrolytes
Rajkumar Sarma, Steffen Hardt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20149 https://

Strong thermoelectric response of nanoconfined weak electrolytes
When dissolved, weak electrolytes only partially dissociate into ions in a temperature-dependent process. We show herein that such incomplete dissociation yields an enormous thermoelectric response in an electrolyte-filled nanochannel along which a temperature gradient is applied. For this purpose, an extended version of the Nernst-Planck equations is developed that takes into account the temperature-dependent dissociation-association equilibrium. The results indicate that in this way, Seebeck …

Should the Raiders Consider Adding This Veteran Free Agent? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-stephon-gilmore-pete-carroll-heremy-chin-eric-stokes

"Although police officers per capita are above the median among OECD countries, the U.S. is an outlier in having few police per homicide. [This] is explained not by police staffing levels but by high levels of bureaucratic shirking... inefficient allocation, low effort, and the avoidance of bodily harm. We show that U.S. officers are paid significantly more (in relative and absolute terms) while not being at greater risk... than their international counterparts."

Chain-of-Descriptions: Improving Code LLMs for VHDL Code Generation and Summarization
Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Apoorva Nitsure, Charles Mackin, Luyao Shi, Stefano Ambrogio, Arvind Haran, Viresh Paruthi, Ali Elzein, Dan Coops, David Beymer, Tyler Baldwin, Ehsan Degan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12308

Chain-of-Descriptions: Improving Code LLMs for VHDL Code Generation and Summarization
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become widely used across diverse NLP tasks and domains, demonstrating their adaptability and effectiveness. In the realm of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), LLMs show promise for tasks like Register-Transfer Level (RTL) code generation and summarization. However, despite the proliferation of LLMs for general code-related tasks, there's a dearth of research focused on evaluating and refining these models for hardware description languages (HDLs), notably VHD…