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arXiv:2512.14617v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Many practical decision-making problems involve tasks whose success depends on the entire system history, rather than on achieving a state with desired properties. Markovian Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches are not suitable for such tasks, while…

A new microscopy technique allows scientists to see single-atom-thick boron nitride by making it glow under infrared light. Researchers from the Physical Chemistry and Theory departments at the Fritz Haber Institute have developed a new way to visualize boron nitride layers that are just one atom th…

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Nuno FG Loureiro, 47, was shot multiple times at his home, and no details about a suspect or motive have been releasedThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) community is grieving after the “shocking” shooting death of the director of its plasma science and fusion center, according to offici…

arXiv:2512.04013v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As augmented large language models (LLMs) with external tools become increasingly popular in web applications, improving augmented LLM inference serving efficiency and optimizing service-level objectives (SLOs) are critical for enhancing user expe…

Fifty-nine charges are being introduced after the deadly shooting that also wounded dozens of others.

arXiv:2512.14576v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This tutorial (https://tum-nlp.github.io/low-resource-tutorial) is designed for NLP practitioners, researchers, and developers working with multilingual and low-resource languages who seek to create more equitable and socially impactful language techn…

arXiv:2512.14601v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we propose FakeRadar, a novel deepfake video detection framework designed to address the challenges of cross-domain generalization in real-world scenarios. Existing detection methods typically rely on manipulation-specific cues, perform…

arXiv:2512.13840v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce MoLingo, a text-to-motion (T2M) model that generates realistic, lifelike human motion by denoising in a continuous latent space. Recent works perform latent space diffusion, either on the whole latent at once or auto-regressively over mul…

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arXiv:2512.14440v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In recent years, the state-of-the-art in unsupervised video instance segmentation has heavily relied on synthetic video data, generated from object-centric image datasets such as ImageNet. However, video synthesis by artificially shifting and scaling …

Tech giant plans to roll out new AgeKey technology across multiple countries next year

The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school.

Scrub screencaps from JAXA webcast.  I saw no ignition.

Bonds have risen sharply to the highest level since 2019 as the Trump administration increases pressure on Maduro

Audit finds on average adults wait twice as long as children for assessment and more than 10 times as long to be treatedAdults with eating disorders in England are waiting up to 700 days for vital treatment, according to a report.The stark figures were revealed in the first report of the National Au…

arXiv:2512.13047v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: File systems are critical OS components that require constant evolution to support new hardware and emerging application needs. However, the traditional paradigm of developing features, fixing bugs, and maintaining the system incurs significant overhe…

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, the authorities say.

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Members of Franz Ferdinand, Del Amitri and more call for pause to schedule shake-up aimed at foregrounding ‘mainstream, easy-listening tracks’Musicians including Eddi Reader, Nadine Shah, Hamish Hawk and members of Franz Ferninand, Del Amitri, Idlewild and more have voiced disapproval at planned cha…

Quote from: Coastal Ron on Today at 05:18 amQuote from: mikelepage on Today at 04:59 amSo... rotating space stations full of server racks for AI? Must admit that wasn't on my ...

arXiv:2507.00629v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Understanding the generalization abilities of neural networks for simple input-output distributions is crucial to account for their learning performance on real datasets. The classical teacher-student setting, where a network is trained from…

US President Donald Trump's administration has warned that it could impose fees or restrictions on European service providers, escalating a transatlantic dispute over what Washington describes as discriminatory EU actions targeting US companies.

Emmanuel Macron is in Marseille a month after the assassination of the brother of a young anti-drugs activist, a suspected intimidation tactic. In 2021, the French president had pledged significant resources to help France's second largest city modernise and curb the drug crime afflicting it. Now, h…

China Vanke Co., once the nation’s biggest homebuilder and now at the epicenter of the years-long property crisis, is set to meet in Shenzhen with some insurance firms and commercial banks on Wednesday, people familiar with the matter said.

Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him The unthinkable has happened. The US is Europe’s adversary. The stark, profound betrayal contained in the Trump administration’s national security strategy should stop any…

"Cavalier and casual" Australia give England a helping hand with soft dismissals on day one of the third Ashes Test in Adelaide.

arXiv:2512.14098v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present Cornserve, an efficient online serving system for an emerging class of multimodal models called Any-to-Any models. Any-to-Any models accept combinations of text and multimodal data (e.g., image, video, audio) as input and also generate comb…

arXiv:2504.02195v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Modern recommendation systems fuse user behavior graphs and review texts but often encounter a "Fusion Gap" caused by False Negatives, Popularity Bias, and Signal Ambiguity. We propose SymCERE (Symmetric NCE), a contrastive learning framework brid…

Once labeled “uninvestable,” China’s markets have rebounded this year. Stocks, onshore bonds, and the yuan are trending higher, signaling renewed investor confidence. Still, investors say a boost in economic growth is needed to keep up the momentum as the equity rally starts to lose steam and the pr…

arXiv:2508.05223v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The discourse about sustainable technology has emerged from the acknowledgment of the environmental collapse we are facing. In this paper, we argue that addressing this crisis requires more than the development of sustainable alternatives to curre…

arXiv:2510.09767v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Graph Transformers have recently achieved remarkable progress in graph representation learning by capturing long-range dependencies through self-attention. However, their quadratic computational complexity and inability to effectively model hetero…

arXiv:2512.13739v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) assisting image production triggers controversy in journalism while attracting attention from media agencies. Key issues involve misinformation, authenticity, semantic fidelity, and interpretability. Mo…

arXiv:2509.23800v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Modern generative AI models like diffusion and flow matching can sample from rich data distributions, but many downstream tasks - such as experimental design or creative content generation - require a higher level of control than unconstrain…

arXiv:2312.04960v5 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a fundamental architecture and serve as the backbone of modern vision-language models. Despite their impressive performance, ViTs exhibit notable vulnerability to evasion attacks, necessitating the develo…

IEA forecasts a decline in years to 2030 despite ‘many uncertainties’

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic Homo erectus, the face and teeth resemble much older human ancestors. This discovery challenges long-he…

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arXiv:2512.14699v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The core challenge for streaming video generation is maintaining the content consistency in long context, which poses high requirement for the memory design. Most existing solutions maintain the memory by compressing historical frames with predefined …

Ivanhoe Atlantic project would supply iron ore to America and allies but faces opposition in west Africa — and Washington

Nepenthes khasiana oozes an enticing liquid on the rim of its pitchers that tempts its prey into a deadly trapA carnivorous pitcher plant has recently been found to use a chemical nerve agent to drug its prey and lead them to a deadly end, being consumed in digestive juices at the bottom of the pitc…

ESA supplied a launch highlight video replay.

Australian authorities on Wednesday charged a suspect in the Bondi Beach shooting with 59 offenses, including terrorism and murder

Government efforts to recruit examiners fail again with average test slot wait now at 22 weeks, report saysPlans to cut the wait for a driving test to seven weeks by the end of the year will not be achieved until November 2027, an audit report has found.Only a net 83 more driving test examiners have…

arXiv:2512.14341v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent approaches employing imperceptible perturbations in input images have demonstrated promising potential to counter malicious manipulations in diffusion-based image editing systems. However, existing methods suffer from limited transferability in…

One month after the stunning assassination of the brother of an anti-gangland activist, French president Emmanuel Macron returning to the Mediterranean port for an update on the government’s xx-euro plan to win back the streets and offer hope to fed-up citizens of France’s second largest city. The w…

arXiv:2511.20577v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Real-world time series often exhibit strong non-stationarity, complex nonlinear dynamics, and behaviour expressed across multiple temporal scales, from rapid local fluctuations to slow-evolving long-range trends. However, many contemporary archite…

Owned and run by the Cassegrain family, Longchamp is flying high after being embraced by Gen Z

Howls of protest over a modest penalty from the EU contrast with Europe’s silence over far bigger punishments levied on its banks by America

arXiv:2512.13699v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study investigates ``us versus them'' bias, as described by Social Identity Theory, in large language models (LLMs) under both default and persona-conditioned settings across multiple architectures (GPT-4.1, DeepSeek-3.1, Gemma-2.0, Grok-3.0, and…

Southwest Research Institute's novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft has successfully collected first-light data. IMAP launched in September to help researchers better understand the boundary of t…

BYD, Chery and other Chinese automakers are winning over drivers in Britain, where tariffs are low and buyers are open to new brands.

arXiv:2512.14681v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-token generation has emerged as a promising paradigm for accelerating transformer-based large model inference. Recent efforts primarily explore diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) for parallel decoding to reduce inference latency. To achieve…

MetaX Integrated Circuits surged as much as 755% in its Shanghai debut as investors bet on national champions that could emerge as viable local competitors to Nvidia. The company manufactures graphics processing units, a rapidly growing industry as more consumers and businesses adopt AI services. (S…

India’s rupee strengthened the most in seven months versus the dollar after the central bank sold dollars aggressively to support the currency.

How to watch FIFA Intercontinental Cup for free. Live stream PSG vs. Flamengo in the FIFA Intercontinental Cup final for free.

An international team of researchers co-led by Professor Christine Stauber in the Georgia State University School of Public Health is empowering residents of low-income communities to improve sanitation in their neighborhoods through an innovative mobile app.

Bundestag asked to sign off on multibillion contracts, including a €21bn order for soldiers’ protective equipment

arXiv:2407.15226v5 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In this work, we propose a method for tracking multiple extended targets or unresolvable group targets in a clutter environment. Firstly, based on the Random Matrix Model (RMM), the joint state of the target is modeled as the Gamma Gaussian …

arXiv:2501.15693v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The performance of AI models on safety benchmarks does not indicate their real-world performance after deployment. This opaqueness of AI models impedes existing regulatory frameworks constituted on benchmark performance, leaving them incapable of …

arXiv:2502.07040v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In this work, we introduce high-order Basis-Update & Galerkin (BUG) integrators based on explicit Runge-Kutta methods for large-scale matrix differential equations. These dynamical low-rank integrators extend the BUG integrator to arbitrary explic…

The actor died on Tuesday following a battle with cancer

arXiv:2508.11849v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce LocoMamba, a vision-driven cross-modal DRL framework built on selective state-space models, specifically leveraging Mamba, that achieves near-linear-time sequence modeling, effectively captures long-range dependencies, and enables eff…

arXiv:2512.13580v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Simulation of fermionic Hamiltonians with gate-based quantum computers requires the selection of an encoding from fermionic operators to quantum gates, the most widely used being the Jordan-Wigner transform. Many alternative encodings exist, with qu…

arXiv:2503.06109v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Daily operations in large campuses depend on how efficiently people \emph{move} through space and time. In this sense, course timetables are more than administrative schedules: they act as mobility policies that orchestrate thousands of trajectori…

A New York intellectual and onetime liberal stalwart, his Commentary magazine became his platform as his political and social view turned sharply rightward.

In successful challenge, X argued the video wasn’t excessively offensive and was an objective record of a ‘public event of historical and political significance’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian classification review board has overturned a decision to block Au…

The $0.1310–$0.1315 zone is now a resistance area, with further downside likely if volume remains high on declines.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Monday that "the dam is breaking” on President Trump’s influence over the Republican Party. “I think the dam is breaking. Many Republicans may not have called him out, but last week, 13 Republicans voted with Democrats to overturn one of President Trump's exe…

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Howls of protest over a modest penalty from the EU contrast with Europe’s silence over far bigger punishments levied on its banks by America

Hate preachers and potential terrorists could be targeted and deported by officials pursuing their tax and immigration records under a new approach to tackling extremism.

China is selling large volumes of soybeans from its state reserves, as it steps up purchases from the US to fulfill an apparent agreement between the two countries in late October.

The move followed multiple failed attempts to sustain momentum above recent resistance, leaving XRP vulnerable once support levels were tested again.

Costa Rica’s legislature on Monday rejected a second request to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his legal immunity, blocking an effort by the country’s electoral authority to make the leader face charges that he has been using his power to meddle in ...

"Fallout 2" is full of game details. From Pip-Boys to power armor, the Prime Video series is a fan's Wasteland. Here's a guide.

New multi-temperature coronal mass ejection observations might help us better understand how life emerged and evolved on Earth
The post Plasma bursts from young stars could shed light on the early life of the Sun appeared first on Physics World.

Warner Bros will reportedly advise its shareholders to vote against the offer as early as Wednesday.

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Gar O’Rourke joins the likes of Frederick Wiseman with an immersive observational documentary that takes a sensitive look at a community attempting to relax under conditions of growing unease. Though O’Rourke is an Irish filmmaker, working with majority Irish funding, his chosen location is Ukraine,…

Revealing details too small and too fast to study otherwise.

arXiv:2512.13559v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Verifying rumors on social media is critical for mitigating the spread of false information. The stances of conversation replies often provide important cues to determine a rumor's veracity. However, existing models struggle to jointly capture semanti…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has expressed full support for Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee, praising his administration’s performance after a year defined by a deadly fire, a financial turnaround and the conviction of the city’s top national security target.

arXiv:2512.13631v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Quasi-periodic trajectories with two or more incommensurate frequencies are ubiquitous in nonlinear dynamics, yet the classical Fourier-based time-spectral method is tied to strictly periodic responses. We introduce a torus time-spectral method that l…

The Singapore insurer has begun rolling out Salesforce Agentforce to assist customer service teams, with plans to extend the use of the technology to financial advisers and direct customer interactions

Update: Link for alternative live coverage site:Here is a consolidated post of available video links for this launch:SpaceX's direct live broadcast onWebsite:  https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-15-13 Twitter:  https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1BdGYZoZzj...

Copper gained as investors await the US inflation data that could impact the Federal Reserve’s stance on further rate cuts.

arXiv:2511.03909v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The weighted Euler characteristic transform (WECT) and Euler characteristic function (ECF) have proven to be useful tools in a variety of applications. However, current methods for computing these functions are either not optimized for speed or do…

The Russian strategy of exporting chaos to provoke extremism only works if liberals succumb to cynicism and despair I once spent an exasperating week showing a Russian friend around London. He insisted on seeing everything and admiring nothing. Museums, monuments, shops – all compared unfavourably w…

Zoe Ball and Alison Steadman help the TV cook in the kitchen. Plus: what happened to Mozart’s musical prodigy sister Maria Anna? Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC One Mary Berry celebrated her 90th birthday this year but she shows no sign of slowing down in the kitchen this Christmas. Pigs i…

arXiv:2512.14531v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has achieved remarkable performance, but it also leads to prohibitive memory costs. Existing parameter-efficient approaches such as pruning and quantization mainly compress pretrained models without en…

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arXiv:2509.24979v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Generating RGB-A videos, which include alpha channels for transparency, has wide applications. However, current methods often suffer from low quality due to confusion between RGB and alpha. In this paper, we address this problem by learning shifta…

The friends dug up the 15.34-carat gem-quality diamond in central India.

Price of turkey jumps as much as £15 compared with 2024, while chocolate has steepest mark-upShoppers are paying up to 70% more for Christmas chocolate treats compared with last year, while the price of a turkey has jumped by as much as £15, according to the consumer champion Which?The group analyse…

On Thursday night the BBC will honour the heroes. But here are the year’s best dark, devious and downright dumb sporting storiesAnother year, another raft of sporting cheating scandals for our annual anti‑Spoty awards. Where the BBC Sports Personality ceremony this week rewards the cream of athletic…

She plans to take them to the US to see her family at Christmas

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the US will impose a blockade on all “sanctioned oil tankers” entering or leaving Venezuela, dramatically escalating his administration’s campaign against President Nicolás Maduro. The move follows the recent seizure of an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coas…

Avner’s Bakery told customers that ‘it is no longer possible to make outwardly, publicly, proudly Jewish places and events safe in Australia’Full report: Bondi terror attack Victims of Bondi beach shootingWhat we know so far about the Bondi terror attack Follow the latest live updatesA Jewish bakery…