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Material Synthesis 2025 (MatSyn25) Dataset for 2D Materials
Chengbo Li, Ying Wang, Qianying Wang, Zhizhi Tan, Haiqing Jia, Yi Liu, Li Qian, Nian Ran, Jianjun Liu, Zhixiong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00776

Material Synthesis 2025 (MatSyn25) Dataset for 2D Materials
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have shown broad application prospects in fields such as energy, environment, and aerospace owing to their unique electrical, mechanical, thermal and other properties. With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the discovery and design of novel 2D materials have been significantly accelerated. However, due to the lack of basic theories of material synthesis, identifying reliable synthesis processes for theoretically designed materials is a challenge. Th…

You’ll still get your social security and Medicare.

Flights will keep going, but with unpaid and possibly limited staff.

Most parks will remain open, but will probably be under-maintained.

Smithsonian museums and the National zoo are open through at least 6 October.

Federal workers are the hardest hit, withmany being unpaid or furloughed.

Consumer protections, which have already been hit hard by cuts, are at risk of incapacity.

Probing the Black Hole Interior with Holographic Entanglement Entropy and the Role of AdS/BCFT Correspondence
Fabiano F. Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21224 https://

Probing the Black Hole Interior with Holographic Entanglement Entropy and the Role of AdS/BCFT Correspondence
This work explores the black hole information loss paradox, a fundamental challenge in theoretical physics. It proposes insights using Holographic Entanglement Entropy (HEE) and the AdS/BCFT correspondence within Horndeski gravity. The work revisits the time-dependent behavior of HEE to probe black hole interiors and examines its implications for the Page curve, which describes the entropy evolution of Hawking radiation. It also discusses the relationship between conformal field theory (CFT) mi…

VoiceAssistant-Eval: Benchmarking AI Assistants across Listening, Speaking, and Viewing
Ke Wang, Houxing Ren, Zimu Lu, Mingjie Zhan, Hongsheng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22651

VoiceAssistant-Eval: Benchmarking AI Assistants across Listening, Speaking, and Viewing
The growing capabilities of large language models and multimodal systems have spurred interest in voice-first AI assistants, yet existing benchmarks are inadequate for evaluating the full range of these systems' capabilities. We introduce VoiceAssistant-Eval, a comprehensive benchmark designed to assess AI assistants across listening, speaking, and viewing. VoiceAssistant-Eval comprises 10,497 curated examples spanning 13 task categories. These tasks include natural sounds, music, and spoken di…

Scientists Discovered Bats Group Hugging and It’s Adorable https://www.404media.co/scientists-discovered-bats-group-hugging-and-its-adorable/

If you're free Wednesday night in SF, check out this panel on social housing at 518 Valencia. Sounds like it'll be good (I unfortunately can't make it):
Wed, Oct 22, 7:30pm
Social Housing: Challenging YIMBYs and NIMBYs
"What we’re doing on housing isn’t working. We’ve upzoned, streamlined, deregulated. And still, the crisis deepens. There is a movement waiting to be built—...rooted in care, solidarity, and the belief that everyone deserves a place to live.&qu…

Arbeiderklassens frigjŸring må være arbeidernes eget verk. En slik frigjŸring handler om å virkeliggjŸre demokrati i vårt daglige liv, noe som forutsetter en desentralisering av makten og av de Ÿkonomiske midlene.
Selvstyre og fŸderalisme i klubber, foreninger og samorganisasjoner innebærer ikke at vi kan se bort fra de vedtakene vi i fellesskap har sluttet oss til, slik som vedtekter, kongressbeslutninger og andre felles beslutninger.
En reell desentralisering av makt må alltid …

Visual-CoG: Stage-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Chain of Guidance for Text-to-Image Generation
Yaqi Li, Peng Chen, Mingyang Han, Bu Pi, Haoxiang Shi, Runzhou Zhao, Yang Yao, Xuan Zhang, Jun Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18032

Visual-CoG: Stage-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Chain of Guidance for Text-to-Image Generation
Despite the promising progress of recent autoregressive models in text-to-image (T2I) generation, their ability to handle multi-attribute and ambiguous prompts remains limited. To address these limitations, existing works have applied chain-of-thought (CoT) to enable stage-aware visual synthesis and employed reinforcement learning (RL) to improve reasoning capabilities. However, most models provide reward signals only at the end of the generation stage. This monolithic final-only guidance makes…

WEST: LLM based Speech Toolkit for Speech Understanding, Generation, and Interaction
Binbin Zhang, Chengdong Liang, Shuai Wang, Xuelong Geng, Zhao Guo, Haoyu Li, Hao Yin, Xipeng Yang, Pengshen Zhang, Changwei Ma, Lei Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19902

WEST: LLM based Speech Toolkit for Speech Understanding, Generation, and Interaction
In this paper, we present WEST(WE Speech Toolkit), a speech toolkit based on a large language model (LLM) for speech understanding, generation, and interaction. There are three key features of WEST: 1) Fully LLM-based: Standing on the shoulders of giants by reusing mature architectures, ecosystems (e.g., Hugging Face), and methods (e.g., sequence packing) from large models. 2) Full-stack: Supports tasks such as recognition, synthesis, understanding, dialogue, and multimodal capabilities, with e…