The European Parliament has approved an agreement with member states to narrow the scope of EU sustainability reporting and supply-chain due diligence rules.
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arXiv:2512.14187v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Task-based measures of image quality (IQ) are critical for evaluating medical imaging systems, which must account for randomness including anatomical variability. Stochastic object models (SOMs) provide a statistical description of such variability, b…

Two gunman opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney on Sunday, resulting in 15 dead and 40 injured

As Jewish Australians began to bury their dead in Sydney, questions mounted about intelligence failures over the “Islamic State-inspired” terrorist attack.

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arXiv:2504.15610v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The current study describes a cost-effective method for adapting large language models (LLMs) for academic advising with study-abroad contexts in mind and for application in low-resource methods for acculturation. With the Mistral-7B-Instruct mode…

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arXiv:2512.14560v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Image retrieval-based cross-view geo-localization (IRCVGL) aims to match images captured from significantly different viewpoints, such as satellite and street-level images. Existing methods predominantly rely on learning robust global representations …

Luxembourg-based OQ Technology said Dec. 17 it has connected a commercial IoT chipset directly to one of its LEO satellites, using internally developed software based on 3GPP mobile standards.
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arXiv:2512.13573v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The ability to perform multi-modal multi-hop reasoning by iteratively integrating information across various modalities and external knowledge is critical for addressing complex real-world challenges. However, existing Multi-modal Large Language M…

Top European officials including President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed Tuesday to set up an international body to decide on tens of billions of euros of eventual reparations to compensate Ukraine over Russia's invasion. The International Claims Commission for Ukraine, signed by 35 countries, will asse…

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Open letter to Reform UK leader expresses ‘dismay and anger’ at his response to racism and antisemitism allegationsNigel Farage has been told to apologise for his alleged teenage racism by 26 school contemporaries who have written an open letter telling of their “dismay and anger” at his response in…

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…

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:2512.13921v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-hybrid architectures are poised to take over language modeling due to better quality and performance. We introduce a hierarchical decomposition framework for linear recurrences that allows us to develop algorithms aligned with GPU memory hierarc…

arXiv:2512.14596v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The convergence behavior of classical iterative solvers for parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) is often highly sensitive to the domain and specific discretization of PDEs. Previously, we introduced hybrid solvers by combining the classic…

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…

This is the latest in a string of killings that have rocked the crime-ridden country in recent years.

Australian and Filipino authorities are investigating a recent trip to the southern Philippines by a father and son accused of gunning down 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

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

arXiv:2512.14083v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The practical deployment of Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) systems is fundamentally challenged by significant performance degradation in real-world environments, characterized by unpredictable acoustic noise and visual interference. This dis…

arXiv:2512.14442v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Affordance prediction, which identifies interaction regions on objects based on language instructions, is critical for embodied AI. Prevailing end-to-end models couple high-level reasoning and low-level grounding into a single monolithic pipeline and …

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…

Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey says he thought he edged the ball when he was given not out on review during day one of the third Ashes Test.

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…

Taiwanese actor Chang Chen has been elected chair of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, taking over from cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, who completes his four-year tenure. The position carries a two-year term with the possibility of one re-election. Lee, who assumed the …

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…

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arXiv:2512.14309v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-supervised Learning (SSL) has become a powerful paradigm for representation learning without manual annotations. However, most existing frameworks focus on global alignment and struggle to capture the hierarchical, multi-scale lesion patterns cha…

Fans of English novelist Jane Austen have been celebrating the anniversary of her birth 250 years ago.

England battle hard to stay in the Ashes as Alex Carey’s century leads Australia to 326-8 on the first day of the third Test.

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 …

University College London has been awarded more than £44,000 through the National Cup Recycling Scheme’s Beyond the Bin fund to investigate why paper cups continue to be missed by mainstream recycling systems. University College London (UCL) has been named the winner of the National Cup Recycling Sc…

The Salvation Army Trading Company has suspended the collection of donated textiles from household waste and recycling centres, citing rising donation volumes, increasing costs and wider economic pressures affecting the used clothing sector. The Salvation Army Trading Company (SATCoL) has suspended …

In a year when the Göteborg Film Festival will highlight the importance of truth, it will give its international Honorary Dragon Award to a director who has been doing that all her long, storied and multi-prized career: Poland’s Agnieszka Holland.  One of European cinema’s greats, Holland will prese…

Record-Breaking Cosmic Burst Caused by Stellar-Mass Black Hole Shredding Its CompanionQuoteUsing data gathered by a suite of space- and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered AT 2024wpp, the most luminous fast blue optical trans...

arXiv:2512.14061v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent diffusion-based one-step methods have shown remarkable progress in the field of image super-resolution, yet they remain constrained by three critical limitations: (1) inferior fidelity performance caused by the information loss from compression…

arXiv:2512.13726v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Unlike traditional recommendation tasks, finite user time budgets introduce a critical resource constraint, requiring the recommender system to balance item relevance and evaluation cost. For example, in a mobile shopping interface, users interact wit…

arXiv:2512.14541v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Cloud quantum platforms give users access to many backends with different qubit technologies, coupling layouts, and noise levels. The execution of a circuit, however, depends on internal allocation and routing policies that are not observable to the…

Alex Carey frustrates England as he scores 106, his third career Test century, and his first against England, to help Australia recover from 94-4 to 307-7 on day one of the third Ashes Test in Adelaide.

arXiv:2512.14557v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Causal inference plays a crucial role in scientific research across multiple disciplines. Estimating causal effects, particularly the average treatment effect (ATE), from observational data has garnered significant attention. However, computing the AT…

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French farmers are driving opposition to the massive transatlantic Mercosur trade deal. EU lawmakers voted on December 16 to advance the deal by adding new safeguards to, but delay is still expected due to protests. FRANCE 24's Armen Georgian tells us more.

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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

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.

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: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 …

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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: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…

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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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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

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

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

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Rescuers save six Palestinians, including two children, in Gaza City's Shati refugee camp after family home collapses.

In today’s newsletter: The BBC is bracing for a high-stakes legal fight after the US president sues over an edited Panorama clip, and questions mount about the broadcaster’s future funding and political vulnerabilityGood morning. On Tuesday, the UK woke to the news Donald Trump had filed his threate…

arXiv:2504.08349v5 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Linear logic (LL) is a resource-aware, abstract logic programming language that refines both classical and intuitionistic logic. Linear logic semantics is typically presented in one of two ways: by associating each formula with the set of all cont…

Alex Carey hit 106 off 143 balls to help Australia recover from 94-4 to 326-8 at stumps on the opening day of the third Ashes Test against England in Adelaide, in a must-win match for Ben Stokes' side if they're to keep the series alive.

arXiv:2409.19176v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Awodey, later with Newstead, showed how polynomial functors with extra structure (termed ``natural models'') hold within them the categorical semantics for dependent type theory. Their work presented these ideas clearly but ultimately led them out…

A brilliant history of psychiatric ideas suggests we are on the cusp of a transformation in our understanding of severe mental illnessIn 1973, an American psychologist called David Rosenhan published the results of a bold experiment. He’d arranged for eight “pseudo-patients” to attend appointments a…

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arXiv:2512.13729v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Various weather modelling problems (e.g., weather forecasting, optimizing turbine placements, etc.) require ample access to high-resolution, highly accurate wind data. Acquiring such high-resolution wind data, however, remains a challenging and expens…

The 2025 appeal is helping charities that bring divided communities together and promote toleranceThe Guardian’s Hope appeal has raised more than £350,000 for inspirational grassroots charities that bring divided communities together, promote tolerance and positive change, and tackle racism and hat…

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope

arXiv:2505.15208v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Transferring 2D textures to 3D modalities is of great significance for improving the efficiency of multimedia content creation. Existing approaches have rarely focused on transferring image textures onto 3D representations. 3D style transfer metho…

arXiv:2511.15656v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large community science platforms such as iNaturalist contain hundreds of millions of biodiversity images that often capture ecological context on behaviors, interactions, phenology, and habitat. Yet most ecological workflows rely on metadata filt…

arXiv:2512.13710v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Flooding is one of the most destructive natural hazards worldwide, posing serious risks to ecosystems, infrastructure, and human livelihoods. This study combines Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery with environmental and hydrological data to model …

arXiv:2512.14019v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cancer progression arises from interactions across multiple biological layers, especially beyond morphological and across molecular layers that remain invisible to image-only models. To capture this broader biological landscape, we present EXAONE Path…

Inflation figures were much more encouraging than the Monetary Policy Committee was expecting

arXiv:2512.14349v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a novel geometric port-Hamiltonian formulation of redundant manipulators performing a differential kinematic task $\eta=J(q)\dot{q}$, where $q$ is a point on the configuration manifold, $\eta$ is a velocity-like task space variable, and $J(…

arXiv:2512.14419v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper introduces a unified analysis framework of equal-order hybridized discontinuous finite element (HDG) methods. The general framework covers standard HDG, embedded discontinuous finite element, and embedded-hybridized discontinuous finite ele…