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I would like to listen to the clean broadcast play-by-play announcer audio with noise-cancelling headphones at a hockey game, rather than the often-incomprehensible booming echo over the arena's PA system mixed with screaming people.
That sounds a lot like an assistive technology.
Possibly once existing as a tiny AM radio station, BYOR.
Does it exist today?
#hockey #audio

Topological Structure of Infrared QCD
J. Gamboa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07455 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.07455 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.07455
arXiv:2511.07455v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate the infrared structure of QCD within the adiabatic approximation, where soft gluon configurations evolve slowly compared to the fermionic modes. In this formulation, the functional space of gauge connections replaces spacetime as the natural arena for the theory, and the long-distance behavior is encoded in quantized Berry phases associated with the infrared clouds. Our results suggest that the infrared sector of QCD exhibits features reminiscent of a \emph{topological phase}, similar to those encountered in condensed-matter systems, where topological protection replaces dynamical confinement at low energies. In this geometric framework, color-neutral composites such as quark--gluon and gluon--gluon clouds arise as topological bound states described by functional holonomies. Illustrative applications to hadronic excitations are discussed within this approach, including mesonic and baryonic examples. This perspective provides a unified picture of infrared dressing and topological quantization, establishing a natural bridge between non-Abelian gauge theory, adiabatic Berry phases, and the topology of the space of gauge configurations.
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LM Fight Arena: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models via Game Competition
Yushuo Zheng, Zicheng Zhang, Xiongkuo Min, Huiyu Duan, Guangtao Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08928 h…

LM Fight Arena: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models via Game Competition
Existing benchmarks for large multimodal models (LMMs) often fail to capture their performance in real-time, adversarial environments. We introduce LM Fight Arena (Large Model Fight Arena), a novel framework that evaluates LMMs by pitting them against each other in the classic fighting game Mortal Kombat II, a task requiring rapid visual understanding and tactical, sequential decision-making. In a controlled tournament, we test six leading open- and closed-source models, where each agent operat…

#RIP Thommy Price a real rawk drummer extraordinaire... I saw him play live many times with Joan Jett, whom he worked with for 3 decades... but also recall first seeing the Brooklyn bred beast in person strutting around the San Diego Hilton before his arena gig nearby with Billy Idol in tow back in the mid 80s on the glam punk icon's peak Rebel Yell tour...he also did stints with Mink DeVille, Robert Gordo…

State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain
A. Destexhe, J Goldman, N. Tort-Colet, A. Roques, J. Fousek, S. Petkoski, V. Jirsa, O. David, M. Jedynak, C. Capone, C. De Luca, G. De Bonis, P. S. Paolucci, E. Mikulan, Pigorini, M Massimini, A. Galluzzi, A. Pazienti, M. Mattia, A. Arena, B. E. Juel, E. Hagen, J. F. Storm, E. Montagni, F. Resta, F. S. Pavone, A. L. Allegra Mascaro, A. Dwarakanath, T. I. Panagiotaropoulos, J. Senk, M. Diesmann, A. Camassa, L.…

State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain
The objective of this paper is to review physiological and computational aspects of the responsiveness of the cerebral cortex to stimulation, and how responsiveness depends on the state of the system. This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (state-dependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level. At each scale, we review how quantitative methods can be used to characterize network states base…

Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today, and Vox Media join the Really Simple Licensing Collective AI licensing framework, which now has 50 partners to set AI terms (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/arena-group-buzzfeed…

Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co, Vox Media join RSL’s AI content licensing efforts
Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co and Vox Media are participating in the RSL Collective's efforts to license content to AI companies.

№ 20 Ruby van der Heide from Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J of the Columbia Lions at Cornell's Newman Arena this October 25
#photo #photography #sports

Drawing Conclusions from Draws: Rethinking Preference Semantics in Arena-Style LLM Evaluation
Raphael Tang, Crystina Zhang, Wenyan Li, Carmen Lai, Pontus Stenetorp, Yao Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02306

Drawing Conclusions from Draws: Rethinking Preference Semantics in Arena-Style LLM Evaluation
In arena-style evaluation of large language models (LLMs), two LLMs respond to a user query, and the user chooses the winning response or deems the "battle" a draw, resulting in an adjustment to the ratings of both models. The prevailing approach for modeling these rating dynamics is to view battles as two-player game matches, as in chess, and apply the Elo rating system and its derivatives. In this paper, we critically examine this paradigm. Specifically, we question whether a draw genuinely m…

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in long beach, opening 2 nights. fall ’85, show #14.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-11-16.sbd.18374.sbeok.shnf
b…

Quantum criticality at the end of a pseudogap phase in superconducting infinite-layer nickelates
C. Iorio-Duval, E. Beauchesne-Blanchet, F. Perreault, J. L. Santana Gonz\'alez, W. Sun, Y. F. Nie, A. Gourgout, G. Grissonnanche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12786

Quantum criticality at the end of a pseudogap phase in superconducting infinite-layer nickelates
In many unconventional superconductors, the strange-metal regime is thought to emerge from quantum criticality, yet in cuprates this link is obscured by the enigmatic pseudogap. Superconducting infinite-layer nickelates provide a new arena to test this paradigm but are constrained to thin films, precluding calorimetry. We use the Seebeck coefficient as a low-temperature proxy for entropy per carrier and uncover a clear quantum-critical thermodynamic signature: in La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$NiO$_2$ at the …

BigCodeArena: Unveiling More Reliable Human Preferences in Code Generation via Execution
Terry Yue Zhuo, Xiaolong Jin, Hange Liu, Juyong Jiang, Tianyang Liu, Chen Gong, Bhupesh Bishnoi, Vaisakhi Mishra, Marek Suppa, Noah Ziems, Saiteja Utpala, Ming Xu, Guangyu Song, Kaixin Li, Yuhan Cao, Bo Liu, Zheng Liu, Sabina Abdurakhmanova, Wenhao Yu, Mengzhao Jia, Jihan Yao, Kenneth Hamilton, Kumar Shridhar, Minh Chien Vu, Dingmin Wang, Jiawei Liu, Zijian Wang, Qian Liu, Binyuan Hui, Meg Risdal, …

BigCodeArena: Unveiling More Reliable Human Preferences in Code Generation via Execution
Crowdsourced model evaluation platforms, such as Chatbot Arena, enable real-time evaluation from human perspectives to assess the quality of model responses. In the coding domain, manually examining the quality of LLM-generated content is extremely challenging, as it requires understanding long chunks of raw code and deliberately simulating code execution. To this end, we introduce BigCodeArena, an open human evaluation platform for code generation backed by a comprehensive and on-the-fly execu…

Kyiv Independent reporter moderates a panel on Ukraine’s defense industry at IT Arena 2025: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/30/kyiv-independent-reporter-moderates-a.html

The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 (Sebastian Pellejero/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakin

A history of Croke Park, the NFL's latest venue across the Pond https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6542443/2025/09/26/croke-park-nfl-pittsburgh-steelers-minnesota-vikings/

Volleyball at Newman Arena: Columbia Lion № 9 Elena Maynulet from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
#photo #photography #sports

A *lot* has happened in the #comets arena in the past week: in #Lemmon, #SWAN and more.

Deep Associations, High Creativity: A Simple yet Effective Metric for Evaluating Large Language Models
Ziliang Qiu, Renfen Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12110 https://

Deep Associations, High Creativity: A Simple yet Effective Metric for Evaluating Large Language Models
The evaluation of LLMs' creativity represents a crucial research domain, though challenges such as data contamination and costly human assessments often impede progress. Drawing inspiration from human creativity assessment, we propose PACE, asking LLMs to generate Parallel Association Chains to Evaluate their creativity. PACE minimizes the risk of data contamination and offers a straightforward, highly efficient evaluation, as evidenced by its strong correlation with Chatbot Arena Creative Writ…

ARENA: A tool for measuring and analysing the energy efficiency of Android apps
Hina Anwar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01754 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0175…

ARENA: A tool for measuring and analysing the energy efficiency of Android apps
To build energy-efficient apps, there is a need to estimate and analyze their energy consumption in typical usage scenarios. The energy consumption of Android apps could be estimated via software-based and hardware-based approaches. Software-based approaches, while easier to implement, are not as accurate as hardware-based approaches. The process of measuring the energy consumption of an Android app via a hardware-based approach typically involves 1) setting up a measurement environment, 2) exe…

Fan hospitalized after fall at Penguins game, the third major fall this year at a Pittsburgh venue https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6755517/2025/10/27/pittsburgh-penguins-fan-fall-arena-blues/

Japanese retailer Askul confirms data leak after cyberattack claimed by Russia-linked group https://therecord.media/askul-confirms-data-breach-ransomware-incident

BrowserArena: Evaluating LLM Agents on Real-World Web Navigation Tasks
Sagnik Anupam, Davis Brown, Shuo Li, Eric Wong, Hamed Hassani, Osbert Bastani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02418

BrowserArena: Evaluating LLM Agents on Real-World Web Navigation Tasks
LLM web agents now browse and take actions on the open web, yet current agent evaluations are constrained to sandboxed environments or artificial tasks. We introduce BrowserArena, a live open-web agent evaluation platform that collects user-submitted tasks, runs Arena-style head-to-head comparisons, and uses step-level human feedback to surface failure modes. Collecting and analyzing step-level annotations on the agent traces, we identify three consistent failure modes: captcha resolution, pop-…

When Agents Trade: Live Multi-Market Trading Benchmark for LLM Agents
Lingfei Qian, Xueqing Peng, Yan Wang, Vincent Jim Zhang, Huan He, Hanley Smith, Yi Han, Yueru He, Haohang Li, Yupeng Cao, Yangyang Yu, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Peng Lu, Jian-Yun Nie, Guojun Xiong, Jimin Huang, Sophia Ananiadou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11695

When Agents Trade: Live Multi-Market Trading Benchmark for LLM Agents
Although Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used in financial trading, it remains unclear whether they can reason and adapt in live markets, as most studies test models instead of agents, cover limited periods and assets, and rely on unverified data. To address these gaps, we introduce Agent Market Arena (AMA), the first lifelong, real-time benchmark for evaluating LLM-based trading agents across multiple markets. AMA integrates verified trading data, expert-checked news, …

Emergent spacetime supersymmetry at 2D fractionalized quantum criticality
Zhengzhi Wu, Zhou-Quan Wan, Shao-Kai Jian, Hong Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07383 https://

Emergent spacetime supersymmetry at 2D fractionalized quantum criticality
While experimental evidence for spacetime supersymmetry (SUSY) in particle physics remains elusive, condensed matter systems offer a promising arena for its emergence at quantum critical points (QCPs). Although there have been a variety of proposals for emergent SUSY at symmetry-breaking QCPs, the emergence of SUSY at fractionalized QCPs remains largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate emergent space-time SUSY at a fractionalized QCP in the Kitaev honeycomb model with Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH)…

my showroom is quite the party 😂 @Arena Club #slabpacks #acpartner https://www.tiktok.com/@annieagar5/video/7