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Learning the Topic, Not the Language: How LLMs Classify Online Immigration Discourse Across Languages
Andrea Nasuto, Stefano Maria Iacus, Francisco Rowe, Devika Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06435

Learning the Topic, Not the Language: How LLMs Classify Online Immigration Discourse Across Languages
Large language models (LLMs) are transforming social-science research by enabling scalable, precise analysis. Their adaptability raises the question of whether knowledge acquired through fine-tuning in a few languages can transfer to unseen languages that only appeared during pre-training. To examine this, we fine-tune lightweight LLaMA 3.2-3B models on monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual data sets to classify immigration-related tweets from X/Twitter across 13 languages, a domain character…

Eh les gars, presque toutes les comparaisons avec l'Allemagne sont louches. Quand on nous dit que seulement 5% d'affections longue durée dans la sécu en Allemagne contre 20% en France, ils oublient de dire que la sécu allemande rembourse 100% et non pas 70% comme en France (et 90% en Alsace/Moselle). Donc on compare des pommes et des poires. Donc, le coût de la maladie longue durée pour l'individu est totalement différent.

Budget 2026 : 20% des Français sont-ils concernés par des affections de longue durée contre 5% des Allemands,
Pour justifier certaines mesures d'économies envisagées dans le domaine de la santé, le Premier ministre a comparé des données concernant la prise en charge des malades chroniques.

Interessanter Beitrag dazu, dass in unserer Welt vieles auf Männer ausgerichtet ist. Diesmal: Fußball
Da Frauen im Schnitt 15 % kleiner sind als Männer u. weniger Muskelmasse haben, müssten Spielfeld und Tor um 15 % verkleinert und die Spielzeit entsprechend verkürzt werden.
Das Experiment wurde tatsächlich gemacht, allerdings anders rum: Alles wurde vergrößert u. verlängert (der Ball wurde zudem schwerer) und dann haben die Männer unter diesen Bedingungen gespielt 🧵

All Proof of Work But No Proof of Play
Hayder Tirmazi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23435 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23435

All Proof of Work But No Proof of Play
Speedrunning is a competition that emerged from communities of early video games such as Doom (1993). Speedrunners try to finish a game in minimal time. Provably verifying the authenticity of submitted speedruns is an open problem. Traditionally, best-effort speedrun verification is conducted by on-site human observers, forensic audio analysis, or a rigorous mathematical analysis of the game mechanics. Such methods are tedious, fallible, and, perhaps worst of all, not cryptographic. Motivated b…

D\'ej\`a Vu: Efficient Video-Language Query Engine with Learning-based Inter-Frame Computation Reuse
Jinwoo Hwang, Daeun Kim, Sangyeop Lee, Yoonsung Kim, Guseul Heo, Hojoon Kim, Yunseok Jeong, Tadiwos Meaza, Eunhyeok Park, Jeongseob Ahn, Jongse Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14107

Déjà Vu: Efficient Video-Language Query Engine with Learning-based Inter-Frame Computation Reuse
Recently, Video-Language Models (VideoLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, offering significant potential for flexible and powerful video query systems. These models typically rely on Vision Transformers (ViTs), which process video frames individually to extract visual embeddings. However, generating embeddings for large-scale videos requires ViT inferencing across numerous frames, posing a major hurdle to real-world deployment and necessitating solutions for integration into scalabl…

An Efficient Network-aware Direct Search Method for Influence Maximization
Matteo Bergamaschi, Sara Venturini, Francesco Tudisco, Francesco Rinaldi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12164

An Efficient Network-aware Direct Search Method for Influence Maximization
Influence Maximization (IM) is a pivotal concept in social network analysis, involving the identification of influential nodes within a network to maximize the number of influenced nodes, and has a wide variety of applications that range from viral marketing and information dissemination to public health campaigns. IM can be modeled as a combinatorial optimization problem with a black-box objective function, where the goal is to select $B$ seed nodes that maximize the expected influence spread.…

Nonlinear Joint Spectral Radius
Piero Deidda, Nicola Guglielmi, Francesco Tudisco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11314 https://arxiv.org/…

Nonlinear Joint Spectral Radius
We introduce a nonlinear extension of the joint spectral radius (JSR) for switched discrete-time dynamical systems governed by sub-homogeneous and order-preserving maps acting on cones. We show that this nonlinear JSR characterizes both the asymptotic stability of the system and the divergence or convergence rate of trajectories originating from different points within the cone. Our analysis establishes upper and lower bounds on the nonlinear JSR of a sub-homogeneous family via the JSRs of two …