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"Banking industry’s net zero alliance shuts down amid faltering climate commitments"
#NetZero #Finance #Banking

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Portishead:
🎵 Nylon Smile
#Portishead
https://vaaticanrecords.bandcamp.com/track/console-14-zero-zero-portishead-nylon-smile
https://open.spotify.com/track/67oK2xcjCuLe8i3OuUjEUr

Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025 (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-g…

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

You ask your roommate to buy toilet paper. They show you the receipt as proof. The next morning, when you need toilet paper, the drawer is actually empty. This is because they used an innovative new method called Lean Shopping, where instead of buying the things they just print out a receipt — saving time and money.
This is a story about the social nature of problem framing, and when "high velocity" becomes less productive.

Skipping alignment leads to zero-impact UX
Deliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion.

"We read Jet Zero as a gamble predicated on a series of technologies and policies that are highly unlikely to achieve their goals."
Full article: Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon Office (2008) - Read how my home office became zero-carbon in 2008, and the whole building zero-carbon from 2010! #lowCarbon #office #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon Office (2008)
Read how my home office became zero-carbon in 2008, and the whole building zero-carbon from 2010! #lowCarbon #office #microgen

Oh no, it infects the computer with a copy of Miss Congeniality. :party_try_not_to_cry:
https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/114995085010367720

Generative AI-Driven Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Zero-Touch Optical Networks
Yao Zhang, Yuchen Song, Shengnan Li, Yan Shi, Shikui Shen, Xiongyan Tang, Min Zhang, Danshi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05625

Generative AI-Driven Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Zero-Touch Optical Networks
The rapid development of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has catalyzed a transformative technological revolution across all walks of life. As the backbone of wideband communication, optical networks are expecting high-level autonomous operation and zero-touch management to accommodate their expanding network scales and escalating transmission bandwidth. The integration of GenAI is deemed as the pivotal solution for realizing zero-touch optical networks. However, the lifecycle managem…

"Academics say their net zero costing is being ‘misrepresented’ after Nationals repeat $9tn claim"
#Climate #ClimateChange #NetZero

Convex Formulation of the Zero Emission Vessel Route Planning Problem
Antti Ritari, Jani Romanoff, Kari Tammi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04313 https://arxi…

Convex Formulation of the Zero Emission Vessel Route Planning Problem
This paper focuses on the zero emission vessel route planning problem, which deals with cost-effective planning of battery-electric vessel services for predetermined routes. Vessel characteristics (including battery capacity), fleet size, cyclic schedule frequencies, sailing leg speeds, and shore charging infrastructure are jointly optimized. The problem is nonlinear and nonconvex in its original form, which makes it intractable for most real-world instances. The conventional approach in the li…

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
DAYNA: Orac with delusions of grandeur, Zen unable to control the ship. I'd say we've a lot of little problems on our hands.
AVON: Course deflection is zero zero five. Speed Standard by five and increasing. I'd say we have one large problem on our hands.
https://blake.torpidit…

Boomerang Distillation Enables Zero-Shot Model Size Interpolation
Sara Kangaslahti, Nihal V. Nayak, Jonathan Geuter, Marco Fumero, Francesco Locatello, David Alvarez-Melis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05064

Boomerang Distillation Enables Zero-Shot Model Size Interpolation
Large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed under diverse memory and compute constraints. Existing approaches build model families by training each size independently, which is prohibitively expensive and provides only coarse-grained size options. In this work, we identify a novel phenomenon that we call boomerang distillation: starting from a large base model (the teacher), one first distills down to a small student and then progressively reconstructs intermediate-sized models by re-in…

Zero-Shot Robustness of Vision Language Models Via Confidence-Aware Weighting
Nikoo Naghavian, Mostafa Tavassolipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02913 https://

Zero-Shot Robustness of Vision Language Models Via Confidence-Aware Weighting
Vision-language models like CLIP demonstrate impressive zero-shot generalization but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In this work, we propose Confidence-Aware Weighting (CAW) to enhance zero-shot robustness in vision-language models. CAW consists of two components: (1) a Confidence-Aware loss that prioritizes uncertain adversarial examples by scaling the KL divergence between clean and adversarial predictions, and (2) a feature alignment regularization that preserves semantic c…

«Google quietly vanishes its net zero carbon pledge»
Of course, gotta spend all the energy scraping the web to death and using that for training some "AI" that advises people to kill themselves. The Butlerian Jihad truly can't come fast enough…
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/05/google-quietly-vanishes-its-net-zero-carbon-commitment/

Either “the West” stops this bullshit right fucking now or they live with the blood of 2 million Palestinians on their hands. And more so with zero moral standing on any issue ever again. “European values?” You can’t even stop a genocide. Don’t make me fucking laugh.
https://www.

Shock and fear in Gaza after Israel announces occupation plan
Palestinians in Gaza City are fearful of being displaced yet again after Israel announced plans to occupy Gaza City.

Speak, Edit, Repeat: High-Fidelity Voice Editing and Zero-Shot TTS with Cross-Attentive Mamba
Baher Mohammad, Magauiya Zhussip, Stamatios Lefkimmiatis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04738

Speak, Edit, Repeat: High-Fidelity Voice Editing and Zero-Shot TTS with Cross-Attentive Mamba
We introduce MAVE (Mamba with Cross-Attention for Voice Editing and Synthesis), a novel autoregressive architecture for text-conditioned voice editing and high-fidelity text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, built on a cross-attentive Mamba backbone. MAVE achieves state-of-the-art performance in speech editing and very competitive results in zero-shot TTS, while not being explicitly trained on the latter task, outperforming leading autoregressive and diffusion models on diverse, real-world audio. By i…

Scale-Invariant Regret Matching and Online Learning with Optimal Convergence: Bridging Theory and Practice in Zero-Sum Games
Brian Hu Zhang, Ioannis Anagnostides, Tuomas Sandholm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04407

Scale-Invariant Regret Matching and Online Learning with Optimal Convergence: Bridging Theory and Practice in Zero-Sum Games
A considerable chasm has been looming for decades between theory and practice in zero-sum game solving through first-order methods. Although a convergence rate of $T^{-1}$ has long been established since Nemirovski's mirror-prox algorithm and Nesterov's excessive gap technique in the early 2000s, the most effective paradigm in practice is *counterfactual regret minimization*, which is based on *regret matching* and its modern variants. In particular, the state of the art across most benchmarks …

Unit 42: "commercial grade" spyware called Landfall, likely zero-click, was used in a hacking campaign aimed at Samsung Galaxy phones in the Middle East (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/landfall-spyware-middle-east-appears-commercia…

Newly identified Android spyware appears to be from a commercial vendor
Researchers spotted a 9-month-long campaign involving previously undiscovered spyware they call LANDFALL, which leveraged a zero-day bug in Samsung Galaxy phones.

The situation with climate change has already turned bad, but if we don't reduce emissions to (net) zero asap, it'll get a lot worse. Not pretty marketing-wise, but enough for adults to act upon.
And while taking climate action, we can get other stuff right, too, like reducing air pollution.

Constraint-Level Design of zkEVMs: Architectures, Trade-offs, and Evolution
Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi, Sanaz Taheri-Boshrooyeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05376 https://

Constraint-Level Design of zkEVMs: Architectures, Trade-offs, and Evolution
Zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zkEVMs) must reconcile a fundamental contradiction: the Ethereum Virtual Machine was designed for transparent sequential execution, while zero-knowledge proofs require algebraic circuit representations. This survey provides the first systematic analysis of how existing major production zkEVM implementations resolve this tension through distinct constraint engineering strategies. We develop a comparative framework that maps the design space across three …

A Transience Criterion for Uniformly Bounded Markov Chains with Asymptotically Zero Mean Drift
Dan Andrei Tudor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03937 https://ar…

A Transience Criterion for Uniformly Bounded Markov Chains with Asymptotically Zero Mean Drift
In this paper, we give an overview of mean drift conditions for the state-space classification of discrete-time Markov Chains and we present a new transience criterion for uniformly bounded Markov Chains with asymptotically zero drift. The criterion does not need a condition on the second-moment drifts and can be applied to certain chains for which other criteria fail.

Google warns that threat actors have been using an exposed ASP.NET machine key for remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Sitecore deployments.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/viewstate-deserialization-zero-…

ViewState Deserialization Zero-Day Vulnerability in Sitecore Products (CVE-2025-53690) | Google Cloud Blog
An active ViewState deserialization attack affecting Sitecore products, where attackers achieved remote code execution.

My bike came back earlier than expected so it's time to get a new winter virtual trainer subscription. I love(d) FulGaz: high-quality videos, great locales, zero gamification if you want it, good display. Has Rouvy broken that? Any similar alternatives? Otherwise I'm going to default back to them…

“Brain Cleaner” by Hidenori Shoji on the F-Zero GX soundtrack https://youtu.be/j4zuW2yD0vQ?si=UKSzTtLBV8FI8TqH

Zero to 100: The numbers behind the Cowboys' Week 1 game against the Eagles https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/zero-to-100-the-numbers-behind-the-cowboys-week-1-game-against-the-eagles

Für US-Regierung gedacht: Manager von L3Harris hat Zero-Days an Russen verkauft
Der Rüstungskonzern L3Harris arbeitet auch an Zero-Day-Exploits für die US-Regierung. Der dafür zuständige Manager hat sich damit aber persönlich bereichert.

Fermionic influence superoperator for transport through Majorana zero modes
Jia-Lin Pan, Zi-Fan Zhu, Shixuan Chen, Yu Su, Yao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04959 https://

Fermionic influence superoperator for transport through Majorana zero modes
In recent years, the study of Majorana signatures in quantum transport has become a central focus in condensed matter physics. Here, we present a rigorous and systematic derivation of the fermionic superoperator describing the open quantum dynamics of electron transport through Majorana zero modes, building on the techniques introduced in Phys. Rev. B 105, 035121 (2022). The numerical implementation of this superoperator is to construct its differential equivalence, the hierarchical equations o…

Multivariate Zero-Inflated Causal Model for Regional Mobility Restriction Effects on Consumer Spending
Taekwon Hong, Wenbin Lu, Shu Yang, Pulak Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03422

Multivariate Zero-Inflated Causal Model for Regional Mobility Restriction Effects on Consumer Spending
The COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges to both public health and the economy. Our objective is to examine how household expenditure, a significant component of private demand, reacts to changes in mobility. This investigation is crucial for developing policies that balance public health and the economic and social impacts. We utilize extensive scanner data from a major retail chain in India and Google mobility data to address this important question. However, there are a few challenges, incl…

Oh, well...
Dem proposal to end shutdown goes nowhere - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/11/07/dem-proposal-to-end-shutdown-goes-nowhere/

"I have made [PM Mark Carney] very popular”
"We're going to be talking about Gaza”
"We could have peace in the Middle East”
he jokes “The Merger of Canada and USA”
Carney: ‘that's not where I was going”
Carney looks bemused as The American Fascist talks about the ‘hell hole' that DC was.
he's talking about "zero" people coming through the south border.
... Carney doing his best to keep a straight face... the things that must be going through his mind as the Fascist rambles about Canada benefiting from Venezuelan boats being blown up.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #US

SF is learning the wrong lesson from speed cameras I'm afraid. There's no evidence these cameras are slowing drivers outside of the specific spots they're placed; that they'll slow outlier speeders most likely to kill; or that road diets wouldn't achieve better results for less money.

Commentary: Speed Cameras are a Good Start for Safe Streets - Streetsblog San Francisco
But all tools, not just speed cameras, must be used to achieve Vision Zero

This is a picture I took on this exact day 14 years ago. It shows compact electric vehicles for shared mobility in Berlin, Germany. The future was here — where did it go?
#OTD #EV

Tuning Magneto-Optical Zero-Reflection via Dual-Channel Hybrid Magnonics
Andrew Christy, Yujie Zhu, Yi Li, Yuzan Xiong, Tao Qu, Frank Tsui, James F. Cahoon, Binbin Yang, Jia-Mian Hu, Wei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05022

Tuning Magneto-Optical Zero-Reflection via Dual-Channel Hybrid Magnonics
Multi-channel coupling in hybrid systems makes an attractive testbed not only because of the distinct advantages entailed in each constituent mode, but also the opportunity to leverage interference among the various excitation pathways. Here, via combined analytical calculation and experiment, we demonstrate that the phase of the magnetization precession at the interface of a coupled yttrium iron garnet(YIG)/permalloy(Py) bilayer is collectively controlled by the microwave photon field torque a…

How stupid is the D-party?
This stupid:
"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Friday that Democrats would vote to end the government shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring ACA tax credits, "
Even if it were to be agreed upon by the House it would be vetoed by el-cheato and there is zero chance of a veto override.
In other words the D-party is willing to give up its one lever in exchange for a worthless promise.

Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown
Democrats could vote to end the shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring Obamacare tax credits.

Finally some proper science being done in orbit

Prospects for compact hexaquarks under the limitation imposed by quark confinement
Wen-Xuan Zhang, Wen-Nian Liu, Duojie Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04103 https://

Prospects for compact hexaquarks under the limitation imposed by quark confinement
The limitation of flavor constituents for compact multiquarks is crucial for understanding the strong interaction at the low energy scale. Utilizing the MIT bag model that incorporates perturbative interactions and confinement energy $E_{\rm CON}$, we derive a critical bag radius $R_c=5.61\,$GeV$^{-1}$ from the condition $E_{\rm CON} < 0$ at zero temperature and zero baryon density, which aligns with the string-breaking distance of 1.2--1.4$\,$fm. Applying this framework to 6-, 7-, and 8-quark …

Had to move my laser cutter to my garage where ventilation isn’t that great vs previous location.
Like air leaves the garage but there are houses around wouldn’t want to vent smoke out.
Wanted to test a Xiaomi hepa filter pre filter 600 cfm fan setup but was kind of not hopeful it would work.
Wow, zero smoke at all. Can just about smell some smoke smell (laser enclosure isn’t air tight).
Waiting for a proper VOC counter to come but so far impressed and I can u…

Capturing an Invisible Robber using Separators
Igor Potapov, Tymofii Prokopenko, John Sylvester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05024 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Capturing an Invisible Robber using Separators
We study the zero-visibility cops and robbers game, where the robber is invisible to the cops until they are caught. This differs from the classic game where full information about the robber's location is known at any time. A previously known solution for capturing a robber in the zero-visibility case is based on the pathwidth decomposition. We provide an alternative solution based on a separation hierarchy, improving capture time and space complexity without asymptotically increasing the zero…

CISA orders federal agencies to patch Sitecore zero-day following hacking reports https://therecord.media/cisa-orders-patch-for-sitecore-zero-day

Zero-Error Nash Equilibrium: Harnessing Nonlocal Correlation in Incomplete Information Games
Ambuj, Tushar, Siddharth R. Pandey, Ram Krishna Patra, Anandamay Das Bhowmik, Kuntal Som, Amit Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02947

Zero-Error Nash Equilibrium: Harnessing Nonlocal Correlation in Incomplete Information Games
Claude Shannon's zero-error communication paradigm reshaped our understanding of fault-tolerant information transfer. Here, we adapt this notion into game theory with incomplete information. We ask: can players with private information coordinate on a Nash equilibrium with zero probability of error? We identify Bayesian games in which such coordination is impossible classically, yet achievable by harnessing Bell nonlocal correlations. We formalize this requirement as zero-error Nash equilibrium…

AgenticRAG: Tool-Augmented Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Explainable Recommender Systems
Bo Ma, Hang Li, ZeHua Hu, XiaoFan Gui, LuYao Liu, Simon Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02668

AgenticRAG: Tool-Augmented Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Explainable Recommender Systems
Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence, yet their application in recommender systems remains limited by reasoning opacity and knowledge constraints. This paper introduces AgenticRAG, a novel framework that combines tool-augmented foundation models with retrieval-augmented generation for zero-shot explainable recommendations. Our approach integrates external tool invocation, knowledge retrieval, and chain-of-thought reasoning to create autonomous recommendation agents capa…

Neyman Pearson Detector for Multiple Ambient Backscatter Zero-Energy-Devices Beacons using Near-Perfect Code
Shanglin Yang, Jean-Marie Gorce, Muhammad Jehangir Khan, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Guillaume Villemaud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02785

Neyman Pearson Detector for Multiple Ambient Backscatter Zero-Energy-Devices Beacons using Near-Perfect Code
Recently, a novel ultra-low-power indoor localization system based on Zero-Energy Devices (ZEDs) has shown promising results in ambient backscatter communication. In this paper, we study detection of multiple coexisting ZEDs in ambient backscatter systems under interference and synchronization uncertainty. Building on a Neyman-Pearson (NP) formulation previously applied to single-tag detection, we introduce a detector tailored to multi-tag scenarios. The core idea is to use a Near-Perfect Code …

RE: #Udupi #Krishna (this and each of the last 3 days).
IMHO:
1. If you find this picture excellent, the sight in person is easily million times better.
2. If you see it in person, there's virtually zero chance you are satisfied with just one look.

One Patch to Caption Them All: A Unified Zero-Shot Captioning Framework
Lorenzo Bianchi, Giacomo Pacini, Fabio Carrara, Nicola Messina, Giuseppe Amato, Fabrizio Falchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02898 …

One Patch to Caption Them All: A Unified Zero-Shot Captioning Framework
Zero-shot captioners are recently proposed models that utilize common-space vision-language representations to caption images without relying on paired image-text data. To caption an image, they proceed by textually decoding a text-aligned image feature, but they limit their scope to global representations and whole-image captions. We present \frameworkName{}, a unified framework for zero-shot captioning that shifts from an image-centric to a patch-centric paradigm, enabling the captioning of a…

Model-Based Ranking of Source Languages for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer
Abteen Ebrahimi, Adam Wiemerslage, Katharina von der Wense
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03202 https://…

Model-Based Ranking of Source Languages for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer
We present NN-Rank, an algorithm for ranking source languages for cross-lingual transfer, which leverages hidden representations from multilingual models and unlabeled target-language data. We experiment with two pretrained multilingual models and two tasks: part-of-speech tagging (POS) and named entity recognition (NER). We consider 51 source languages and evaluate on 56 and 72 target languages for POS and NER, respectively. When using in-domain data, NN-Rank beats state-of-the-art baselines t…

Ravens trade Odafe Oweh to Chargers in exchange for safety Alohi Gilman: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6698102/2025/10/07/ravens-chargers-trade-odafe-oweh-alohi-gilman/

Casimir Stabilization of Fluctuating Electronic Nematic Order
Ola Carlsson, Sambuddha Chattopadhyay, Jonathan B. Curtis, Frieder Lindel, Lorenzo Graziotto, J\'er\^ome Faist, Eugene Demler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05088

Casimir Stabilization of Fluctuating Electronic Nematic Order
Vacuum cavity control of quantum materials is the engineering of quantum materials systems through electromagnetic zero-point fluctuations. In this work we articulate a generic mechanism for vacuum optical control of correlated electronic order: Casimir control, where the zero-point energy of the electromagnetic continuum, the Casimir energy, depends on the properties of the material system. To assess the experimental viability of this mechanism we focus on the Casimir stabilization of fluctuat…

#CanyonFire in #VenturaCounty reported on Thursday afternoon near Lake Piru, north of #LosAngeles, has burned nearly 5,000 acres as of Friday AM. 14,000 people in tentative evacuation zone as Zero % Contained

"Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/labour-must-fight-right-wing-billionaires-undermining-net-zero-ed-miliband

Cyclicity of Smooth Multipliers on the Unit Ball of $\mathbb{C}^n$: A Corona-Based Approach
Pouriya Torkinejad Ziarati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05189 https://

Cyclicity of Smooth Multipliers on the Unit Ball of $\mathbb{C}^n$: A Corona-Based Approach
We study the cyclicity of smooth multipliers in Dirichlet-type spaces $D_α(\mathbb{B}_n)$. Specifically, we show that a smooth multiplier $f$ on the unit ball, whose zero set on the unit sphere is a compact, smooth, complex tangential submanifold of real dimension $m \leq n - 1$, is cyclic in $D_α(\mathbb{B}_n)$ if and only if $α\leq \frac{2n - m}{2}$, where $m$ is the real dimension of the zero set of $f$ on the boundary. Our approach combines classical results on peak sets in $A^\infty(Ω)…

"Carbon removal to net-zero could cost up to $6trn a year, study finds"
#NetZero #Climate #ClimateChange

TelecomTS: A Multi-Modal Observability Dataset for Time Series and Language Analysis
Austin Feng, Andreas Varvarigos, Ioannis Panitsas, Daniela Fernandez, Jinbiao Wei, Yuwei Guo, Jialin Chen, Ali Maatouk, Leandros Tassiulas, Rex Ying
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06063

TelecomTS: A Multi-Modal Observability Dataset for Time Series and Language Analysis
Modern enterprises generate vast streams of time series metrics when monitoring complex systems, known as observability data. Unlike conventional time series from domains such as weather, observability data are zero-inflated, highly stochastic, and exhibit minimal temporal structure. Despite their importance, observability datasets are underrepresented in public benchmarks due to proprietary restrictions. Existing datasets are often anonymized and normalized, removing scale information and limi…

That’s a fascinating website by @…
https://nonzerosum.games/

NON-ZERO-SUM GAMES
~ a world-help site ~

Sailing Towards Zero-Shot State Estimation using Foundation Models Combined with a UKF
Tobin Holtmann, David Stenger, Andres Posada-Moreno, Friedrich Solowjow, Sebastian Trimpe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04213

Sailing Towards Zero-Shot State Estimation using Foundation Models Combined with a UKF
State estimation in control and systems engineering traditionally requires extensive manual system identification or data-collection effort. However, transformer-based foundation models in other domains have reduced data requirements by leveraging pre-trained generalist models. Ultimately, developing zero-shot foundation models of system dynamics could drastically reduce manual deployment effort. While recent work shows that transformer-based end-to-end approaches can achieve zero-shot performa…

REF-VC: Robust, Expressive and Fast Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Diffusion Transformers
Yuepeng Jiang, Ziqian Ning, Shuai Wang, Chengjia Wang, Mengxiao Bi, Pengcheng Zhu, Lei Xie, Zhonghua Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04996

REF-VC: Robust, Expressive and Fast Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Diffusion Transformers
In real-world voice conversion applications, environmental noise in source speech and user demands for expressive output pose critical challenges. Traditional ASR-based methods ensure noise robustness but suppress prosody, while SSL-based models improve expressiveness but suffer from timbre leakage and noise sensitivity. This paper proposes REF-VC, a noise-robust expressive voice conversion system. Key innovations include: (1) A random erasing strategy to mitigate the information redundancy inh…

Nowhere-zero 5-flow on signed ladders
Leila Parsaei-Majd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01716 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01716…

Nowhere-zero 5-flow on signed ladders
In 1983, Bouchet conjectured that every flow-admissible signed graph admits a nowhere-zero $6$-flow. In this paper, we prove that Bouchet's conjecture holds for all signed ladders, circular and Möbius ladders. In fact, all signed ladders, circular and Möbius ladders admit a nowhere-zero $5$-flow except for one case of signed circular ladders. Of course, the exception also has a nowhere-zero $6$-flow.

Mixture of Many Zero-Compute Experts: A High-Rate Quantization Theory Perspective
Yehuda Dar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03151 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03…

Mixture of Many Zero-Compute Experts: A High-Rate Quantization Theory Perspective
This paper uses classical high-rate quantization theory to provide new insights into mixture-of-experts (MoE) models for regression tasks. Our MoE is defined by a segmentation of the input space to regions, each with a single-parameter expert that acts as a constant predictor with zero-compute at inference. Motivated by high-rate quantization theory assumptions, we assume that the number of experts is sufficiently large to make their input-space regions very small. This lets us to study the app…

A symmetry approach to number tricks
H{\aa}kon Kolderup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04487 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04487

A symmetry approach to number tricks
We generalize the classical "1089-number trick", which states that a certain combination of addition, subtraction and swapping the digits of a three-digit number will always output 1089. More precisely, we show that any pair of zero divisors $f\circ g=0$ in the group ring ${\mathbb Z}[Σ_n]$ on the n-th symmetric group gives rise to a partition of the set of n-digit numbers into subsets $U_{\mathbf c}$ defined by linear inequalities, such that the zero divisors act constantly on each $U_{\mathb…

Robust Model Predictive Control Design for Autonomous Vehicles with Perception-based Observers
Nariman Niknejad, Gokul S. Sankar, Bahare Kiumarsi, Hamidreza Modares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05201

Robust Model Predictive Control Design for Autonomous Vehicles with Perception-based Observers
This paper presents a robust model predictive control (MPC) framework that explicitly addresses the non-Gaussian noise inherent in deep learning-based perception modules used for state estimation. Recognizing that accurate uncertainty quantification of the perception module is essential for safe feedback control, our approach departs from the conventional assumption of zero-mean noise quantification of the perception error. Instead, it employs set-based state estimation with constrained zonotop…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Ranger Zero:
🎵 Love Comes Back
#RangerZero
https://channeltubes.bandcamp.com/album/ranger-zero-love-comes-back-jonnygo-figure-dread-situation
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gPjUvsEycRF9xIs3bFcWg

Transformed $\ell_1$ Regularizations for Robust Principal Component Analysis: Toward a Fine-Grained Understanding
Kun Zhao, Haoke Zhang, Jiayi Wang, Yifei Lou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03624

Transformed $\ell_1$ Regularizations for Robust Principal Component Analysis: Toward a Fine-Grained Understanding
Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) aims to recover a low-rank structure from noisy, partially observed data that is also corrupted by sparse, potentially large-magnitude outliers. Traditional RPCA models rely on convex relaxations, such as nuclear norm and $\ell_1$ norm, to approximate the rank of a matrix and the $\ell_0$ functional (the number of non-zero elements) of another. In this work, we advocate a nonconvex regularization method, referred to as transformed $\ell_1$ (TL1), to im…

there's a non-zero chance windows 12 will actually be called copilot os

Automorphisms of valued fields: amalgamation and existential closedness
Jan Dobrowolski, Francesco Gallinaro, Rosario Mennuni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06021 https://

Automorphisms of valued fields: amalgamation and existential closedness
We study valued fields equipped with an automorphism. We prove that all of them have an extension admitting an equivariant cross-section of the valuation. In residual characteristic zero, and in the presence of such a cross-section, we show that amalgamation problems are solvable precisely when the induced residual problem is, characterise the existentially closed objects of this category, and prove that its positive theory does not have the tree property of the second kind. We prove analogous …

MAGA Land as graceful and dignified as usual after a bad night - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/11/07/maga-land-as-graceful-and-dignified-as-usual-after-a-bad-night/

“Notes on Being a Man”, by Scott Galloway. An interview by Jordan Klepper on The Daily Show.
Nearly one in five men in their 30s still live with their parents, and 15% report having no close friends. Men are also four times more likely to die by suicide than women.
“Guiding boys to become men is not a zero sum game. Everyone benefits.”
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Solving Skolem problem for negative indexed $k-$generalized Pell numbers
Monalisa Mohapatra, Pritam Kumar Bhoi, Gopal Krishna Panda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04503 https://

Solving Skolem problem for negative indexed $k-$generalized Pell numbers
In this paper, we address the Skolem problem for the $k-$Generalized Pell numbers ($P_n^{(k)}$) extended to negative indices. We focus on identifying and bounding the indices $n<0$ for which $P_n^{(k)}=0.$ In particular, we establish that the zero multiplicity is $ χ_k = 1 + (k(k-2)/4),$ if $k$ is even and $1 + ((k - 1)^2/4)$, if $k$ is odd for all $k \in [4, 500].$

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Big Banks joint the headlong rush to Armageddon.
"The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-backed initiative seeking carbon neutral investments by banks, announced Friday its immediate shutdown -- at a time of faltering climate commitments in the United States and Europe."
UN-backed Climate Banking Alliance Ceases Operations - Barron's

UN-backed Climate Banking Alliance Ceases Operations

Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions.
Zero. None.
This is First Amendment 101.
Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer
and Cybersecurity Subcommittee Chairwoman Nancy Mace
have decided otherwise.
In a letter to Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander,
these two Republicans are demanding that Wikipedia hand over editor identities,
internal communications,…

House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints
Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman J…

Flamed-TTS: Flow Matching Attention-Free Models for Efficient Generating and Dynamic Pacing Zero-shot Text-to-Speech
Hieu-Nghia Huynh-Nguyen, Huynh Nguyen Dang, Ngoc-Son Nguyen, Van Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02848

Flamed-TTS: Flow Matching Attention-Free Models for Efficient Generating and Dynamic Pacing Zero-shot Text-to-Speech
Zero-shot Text-to-Speech (TTS) has recently advanced significantly, enabling models to synthesize speech from text using short, limited-context prompts. These prompts serve as voice exemplars, allowing the model to mimic speaker identity, prosody, and other traits without extensive speaker-specific data. Although recent approaches incorporating language models, diffusion, and flow matching have proven their effectiveness in zero-shot TTS, they still encounter challenges such as unreliable synth…

CAZAC sequence generation of any length with iterative projection onto unit circle: principle and first results
Karine Amis, Eloi Boutillon, Emmanuel Boutillon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05097

CAZAC sequence generation of any length with iterative projection onto unit circle: principle and first results
Constant amplitude zero-autocorrelation (CAZAC) sequences are mainly used for synchronization in communication and radar applications. The state-of-the-art proposes analytical derivation of specific families whose major limitation comes from the alphabet which only represents a fraction of the whole, the longer the sequences, the smaller the fraction. The objective of the paper is threefold, first to present the construction of constant amplitude zero-circular autocorrelation sequences of any l…

Can Flipper Zero really steal your car? (Spoiler: NO)
https://blog.flipper.net/can-flipper-zero-steal-your-car/

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Xuan Xu, Haolun Li, Zhongliang Yang, Beilin Chu, Jia Song, Moxuan Xu, Linna Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03174

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Traditional topic models such as neural topic models rely on inference and generation networks to learn latent topic distributions. This paper explores a new paradigm for topic modeling in the era of large language models, framing TM as a long-form generation task whose definition is updated in this paradigm. We propose a simple but practical approach to implement LLM-based topic model tasks out of the box (sample a data subset, generate topics and representative text with our prompt, text assi…

Exponentially weighted moving average chart using zero-inflated negative binomial distribution
Ali Abbas, Sajid Ali, Ismail Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03304 https://…

Exponentially weighted moving average chart using zero-inflated negative binomial distribution
Zero-inflated models are frequently used to deal with data having many zeros. A commonly used model for over-dispersed data containing zeros is known as the zero-inflated Poisson model. However, to account for the heterogeneity of counts that leads to excess variance besides inflation of zeros in the data using a more flexible model than the zero-inflated Poisson model, a zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) is suggested. In the present study, Shewhart and exponentially weighted moving averag…

Newsom signs bill banning louder ads on streaming services - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/10/06/newsom-signs-bill-banning-louder-ads-on-streaming-services/

Commensurate-incommensurate Mott transition without magnetic field: emergence of nematic Luttinger liquid in XXZ chain
Julien Fitouchi, Natalia Chepiga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05988

Commensurate-incommensurate Mott transition without magnetic field: emergence of nematic Luttinger liquid in XXZ chain
We investigate the zero-magnetization phase diagram of a spin-1/2 chain with competing ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor and antiferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbor exchange couplings in the strongly interacting regime. Using density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) simulations, we discover two successive commensurate-incommensurate transitions of the non-conformal Pokrovsky-Talapov universality class, occurring (even) at zero magnetic field. The first transition marks the condensation of bound…

No undefeated teams in NFL heading into Week 6 for first time since 2014 https://www.nfl.com/news/no-undefeated-teams-in-nfl-heading-into-week-6-for-first-time-since-2014

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[2/8]:
- Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Offensive and Defensive Agents in a Simulated Zero-Sum Net...
Abrar Shahid, Ibteeker Mahir Ishum, AKM Tahmidul Haque, M Sohel Rahman, A. B. M. Alim Al Islam

Transmon-assisted high-fidelity controlled-Z gates for integer fluxonium qubits
J. -H. Wang, H. Xiong, J. -Z. Yang, H. -Y. Zhang, Y. -P. Song, L. -M. Duan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04776

Transmon-assisted high-fidelity controlled-Z gates for integer fluxonium qubits
Fluxoniums, as partially-protected superconducting qubits are promising to be employed to build high-performance large-scale quantum processor. The recently proposed ``integer fluxonium" operates at zero external flux bias, with a frequency of approximately 3 GHz. Single-qubit gate fidelity has been demonstrated to exceed $99.9\%$, while two-qubit gate schemes and scalable architectures remain underexplored. In this work, we investigate a fluxonium-transmon-fluxonium (FTF) coupling architecture…

Solving Zero-Sum Games with Fewer Matrix-Vector Products
Ishani Karmarkar, Liam O'Carroll, Aaron Sidford
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04426 https://arxiv…

Solving Zero-Sum Games with Fewer Matrix-Vector Products
In this paper we consider the problem of computing an $ε$-approximate Nash Equilibrium of a zero-sum game in a payoff matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ with $O(1)$-bounded entries given access to a matrix-vector product oracle for $A$ and its transpose $A^\top$. We provide a deterministic algorithm that solves the problem using $\tilde{O}(ε^{-8/9})$-oracle queries, where $\tilde{O}(\cdot)$ hides factors polylogarithmic in $m$, $n$, and $ε^{-1}$. Our result improves upon the state-of-the…

NER Retriever: Zero-Shot Named Entity Retrieval with Type-Aware Embeddings
Or Shachar, Uri Katz, Yoav Goldberg, Oren Glickman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04011 https://

NER Retriever: Zero-Shot Named Entity Retrieval with Type-Aware Embeddings
We present NER Retriever, a zero-shot retrieval framework for ad-hoc Named Entity Retrieval, a variant of Named Entity Recognition (NER), where the types of interest are not provided in advance, and a user-defined type description is used to retrieve documents mentioning entities of that type. Instead of relying on fixed schemas or fine-tuned models, our method builds on internal representations of large language models (LLMs) to embed both entity mentions and user-provided open-ended type desc…

Efficient Navigation in Unknown Indoor Environments with Vision-Language Models
D. Schwartz, K. Kondo, J. P. How
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04991 https://a…

Efficient Navigation in Unknown Indoor Environments with Vision-Language Models
We present a novel high-level planning framework that leverages vision-language models (VLMs) to improve autonomous navigation in unknown indoor environments with many dead ends. Traditional exploration methods often take inefficient routes due to limited global reasoning and reliance on local heuristics. In contrast, our approach enables a VLM to reason directly about an occupancy map in a zero-shot manner, selecting subgoals that are likely to lead to more efficient paths. At each planning st…

ZeroShotOpt: Towards Zero-Shot Pretrained Models for Efficient Black-Box Optimization
Jamison Meindl, Yunsheng Tian, Tony Cui, Veronika Thost, Zhang-Wei Hong, Johannes D\"urholt, Jie Chen, Wojciech Matusik, Mina Konakovi\'c Lukovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03051

ZeroShotOpt: Towards Zero-Shot Pretrained Models for Efficient Black-Box Optimization
Global optimization of expensive, derivative-free black-box functions requires extreme sample efficiency. While Bayesian optimization (BO) is the current state-of-the-art, its performance hinges on surrogate and acquisition function hyper-parameters that are often hand-tuned and fail to generalize across problem landscapes. We present ZeroShotOpt, a general-purpose, pretrained model for continuous black-box optimization tasks ranging from 2D to 20D. Our approach leverages offline reinforcement …

"Darknet Diaries Deutsch": Zero Day-Forscherin Maddie
Maddie Stone ist Sicherheitsforscherin bei Googles Project Zero. In dieser Folge berichtet sie, wie sie Zero-Day-Sicherheitslücken entdeckt und bekämpft.
ht…

Bondi non-denies FBI having very incriminating pics of Trump - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/10/07/bondi-doesnt-non-denies-fbi-has-very-incriminating-pics-of-trump/

Training-Free Time Series Classification via In-Context Reasoning with LLM Agents
Songyuan Sui, Zihang Xu, Yu-Neng Chuang, Kwei-Herng Lai, Xia Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05950

Training-Free Time Series Classification via In-Context Reasoning with LLM Agents
Time series classification (TSC) spans diverse application scenarios, yet labeled data are often scarce, making task-specific training costly and inflexible. Recent reasoning-oriented large language models (LLMs) show promise in understanding temporal patterns, but purely zero-shot usage remains suboptimal. We propose FETA, a multi-agent framework for training-free TSC via exemplar-based in-context reasoning. FETA decomposes a multivariate series into channel-wise subproblems, retrieves a few s…

FloodVision: Urban Flood Depth Estimation Using Foundation Vision-Language Models and Domain Knowledge Graph
Zhangding Liu, Neda Mohammadi, John E. Taylor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04772

FloodVision: Urban Flood Depth Estimation Using Foundation Vision-Language Models and Domain Knowledge Graph
Timely and accurate floodwater depth estimation is critical for road accessibility and emergency response. While recent computer vision methods have enabled flood detection, they suffer from both accuracy limitations and poor generalization due to dependence on fixed object detectors and task-specific training. To enable accurate depth estimation that can generalize across diverse flood scenarios, this paper presents FloodVision, a zero-shot framework that combines the semantic reasoning abilit…

Tunisian man sentenced to death for mocking president online - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/10/06/tunisian-man-sentenced-to-death-for-mocking-president-online/

DeepMind: video models like Veo 3 could become general purpose foundation models for vision, like LLMs for text, using zero-shot "chain-of-frames" reasoning (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/27/v…

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners
Fascinating new paper from Google DeepMind which makes a very convincing case that their Veo 3 model - and generative video models in general - serve a similar role in …

One-Embedding-Fits-All: Efficient Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasting by a Model Zoo
Hao-Nan Shi, Ting-Ji Huang, Lu Han, De-Chuan Zhan, Han-Jia Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04208

One-Embedding-Fits-All: Efficient Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasting by a Model Zoo
The proliferation of Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) has significantly advanced zero-shot forecasting, enabling predictions for unseen time series without task-specific fine-tuning. Extensive research has confirmed that no single TSFM excels universally, as different models exhibit preferences for distinct temporal patterns. This diversity suggests an opportunity: how to take advantage of the complementary abilities of TSFMs. To this end, we propose ZooCast, which characterizes each model…

Alignment Games
Pedro Cesar Lopes Gerum, Thomas Lidbetter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04509 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04509

Alignment Games
This paper introduces alignment games, a new class of zero-sum games modeling strategic interventions where effectiveness depends on alignment with an underlying hidden state. Motivated by operational problems in medical diagnostics, economic sanctions, and resource allocation, this framework features two players, a Hider and a Searcher, who choose subsets of a given space. Payoffs are determined by their misalignment (symmetric difference), explicitly modeling the trade-off between commission …

"Zero Parades": ZA/UM stellt inoffiziellen Nachfolger von "Disco Elysium" vor
Mit "Zero Parades" will ZA/UM offensichtlich an den Erfolg von "Disco Elysium" anknüpfen. Doch die Kreativköpfe haben das Studio längst verlassen.

Heinz Ketchup partners with Smoothie King in what's probably some harbinger of irreversible decline of human civilization - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/08/07/heinz-ketchup-partners-with-smoothie-king-in-whats-probably-some-harbinger-of-irreversible-decline-of-human-civilization/

"Zero-Emissions Ferryboat to Glide Commuters Up and Down Historic River in European Capital"
#Europe #Emissions

Zero-Emissions Ferryboat to Glide Commuters Up and Down Historic River in European Capital
Lithuania’s capital Vilnius recently debuted a new electric ferryboat for transit up and down the River Neris. Called the Lašiša, it joins a trend of electric ferryboats on the famous rivers and bays of Europe such as the Elbe or the Copenhagen harbor. Tickets can be bought online and through an app for just €3, […]

HyPINO: Multi-Physics Neural Operators via HyperPINNs and the Method of Manufactured Solutions
Rafael Bischof, Michal Piovar\v{c}i, Michael A. Kraus, Siddhartha Mishra, Bernd Bickel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05117

HyPINO: Multi-Physics Neural Operators via HyperPINNs and the Method of Manufactured Solutions
We present HyPINO, a multi-physics neural operator designed for zero-shot generalization across a broad class of parametric PDEs without requiring task-specific fine-tuning. Our approach combines a Swin Transformer-based hypernetwork with mixed supervision: (i) labeled data from analytical solutions generated via the Method of Manufactured Solutions (MMS), and (ii) unlabeled samples optimized using physics-informed objectives. The model maps PDE parametrizations to target Physics-Informed Neura…

WhatsApp fixed a zero-click bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used, alongside a now-fixed Apple flaw, to hack into devices of "specific targeted users" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/what…

WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple users with spyware | TechCrunch
A spyware vendor was behind a recent campaign that abused a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deliver an exploit capable of hacking into iPhones and Macs.

Plot'n Polish: Zero-shot Story Visualization and Disentangled Editing with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Kiymet Akdemir, Jing Shi, Kushal Kafle, Brian Price, Pinar Yanardag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04446

Plot'n Polish: Zero-shot Story Visualization and Disentangled Editing with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated significant capabilities to generate diverse and detailed visuals in various domains, and story visualization is emerging as a particularly promising application. However, as their use in real-world creative domains increases, the need for providing enhanced control, refinement, and the ability to modify images post-generation in a consistent manner becomes an important challenge. Existing methods often lack the flexibility to apply fine or coars…

QAnon Shaman disconcertingly continues to make sense - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/11/05/qanon-shaman-disconcertingly-continues-to-make-sense/