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Information-Theoretic Storage Cost in Sentence Comprehension
arXiv:2602.18217v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time sentence comprehension imposes a significant load on working memory, as comprehenders must maintain contextual information to anticipate future input. While measures of such load have played an important role in psycholinguistic theories, they have largely been formalized using symbolic grammars, which assign discrete, uniform costs to syntactic predictions. This study proposes a measure of processing storage cost based on an information-theoretic formalization, as the amount of information previous words carry about future context, under uncertainty. Unlike previous discrete, grammar-based metrics, this measure is continuous, probabilistic, theory-neutral, and can be estimated from pre-trained neural language models. The validity of this approach is demonstrated through three analyses in English: our measure (i) recovers well-known processing asymmetries in center embeddings and relative clauses, (ii) correlates with a grammar-based storage cost in a syntactically-annotated corpus, and (iii) predicts reading-time variance in two large-scale naturalistic datasets over and above baseline models with traditional information-based predictors. Our code is available at https://github.com/kohei-kaji/info-storage.
Cooperative and Noncooperative Paradigms for Game-Theoretic Control of Socio-Technical Systems
arXiv:2605.17886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This tutorial presents cooperative and noncooperative game-theoretic frameworks for modeling, learning, and control in socio-technical systems, where human behavior, incentives, institutions, and social interactions are coupled with cyber-physical and networked infrastructures. The paper reviews strategic, dynamic, cooperative, matching, learning, and feedback-control approaches for analyzing how local decision-making, adaptation, and strategic interactions shape collective system outcomes. The tutorial further develops feedback-learning and incentive-design perspectives that connect equilibrium analysis with adaptation, distributed control, and mechanism design under information and coordination constraints. We also examine resilience and security challenges arising from adversarial behavior, misinformation, disruptions, and cascading failures in interconnected socio-technical networks. Finally, we discuss emerging research directions at the intersection of game theory, control, learning, and network science for resilient and adaptive socio-technical systems.
Distilling Tabular Foundation Models for Structured Health Data
arXiv:2605.18702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models (TFMs) achieve strong performance on health datasets, but their inference cost and infrastructure requirements limit practical use. We study whether their predictive behavior can be transferred to lightweight tabular models through knowledge distillation. Since in-context TFMs condition on the training set at inference time, naive distillation can introduce context leakage; we address this with stratified out-of-fold teacher labeling. Across $19$ healthcare datasets, $6$ TFM teachers, $4$ student families, and several multi-teacher ensembles, we find that distilled students retain at least $90\%$ of teacher AUC, outperforming teachers in some cases, while running at least $26\times$ faster on CPU and preserving calibration and fairness critical for health applications. Moreover, multi-teacher averaging does not consistently improve over the best single teacher. Leakage-aware distillation is thus a viable route for bringing TFM-quality predictions into inference-constrained health settings.
Mosaic: Towards Efficient Training of Multimodal Models with Spatial Resource Multiplexing
arXiv:2605.18710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the wide adoption of Multimodal Models (MMs) in real-world scenarios, it is significant to efficiently train emerging MMs that exhibit increasingly complex module architectures. For MM deployment, existing works allocate a GPU to only one MM module in a temporal-multiplexing manner; this compromises training efficiency because a single module often fails to achieve high GPU utilization. To improve GPU utilization and enable efficient MM training, we propose deploying MMs in a temporal-spatial multiplexing manner, allowing multiple MM modules to colocate on a GPU with well-controlled resource quotas. In this paper, we propose Apollo, an efficient MM training system that applies temporal-spatial multiplexing. We first develop a flexible and lightweight execution engine that supports MM training with arbitrary resource quotas, and then build a comprehensive and accurate performance model to estimate module execution time under different allocation plans. With the performance model, we further adopt effective heuristics to derive high-quality MM deployment plans efficiently. Testbed experiments confirm that Apollo effectively improves the training efficiency of popular MMs, with a training speedup of up to 1.31x.
Global training and the collaborative structure of elite U.S. science
arXiv:2605.18715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Globally trained scientific labor is a substantial component of U.S. universities, yet the organizational mechanisms linking foreign degree training to elite scientific output remain poorly understood. We link comprehensive U.S. faculty rosters to more than 12 million OpenAlex-indexed faculty-publication observations from 2011 to 2020. Faculty with non-U.S. degrees constitute one-tenth of the U.S. professoriate but account for larger shares of total publications and top-1% cited papers. This overrepresentation is concentrated in high-output disciplinary domains and research-intensive institutions. Within institution - domain - rank - year strata, however, differences in top-1% output, FWCI, and corresponding-author share attenuate sharply, indicating that much of the aggregate pattern reflects organizational placement rather than large within-context citation advantages. Collaboration structure further differentiates foreign- and domestically trained faculty: mixed domestic-foreign faculty teams exhibit substantially elevated elite-output rates, and the association attenuates strongly after accounting for team size, suggesting that collaboration scale is central to the pattern. Topic-distinctiveness analyses show little evidence that foreign-degree faculty occupy unusually rare research niches. Overall, foreign-degree training is best understood less as an individual productivity attribute than as a structural feature of elite U.S. science, operating through institutional concentration and collaborative integration.
DexHoldem: Playing Texas Hold'em with Dexterous Embodied System
arXiv:2605.18727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating embodied systems on real dexterous hardware requires more than isolated primitive skills: an agent must perceive a changing tabletop scene, choose a context-appropriate action, execute it with a dexterous hand, and leave the scene usable for later decisions. We introduce DexHoldem, a real-world system-level benchmark built around Texas Hold'em dexterous manipulation with a ShadowHand. DexHoldem provides 1,470 teleoperated demonstrations across 14 Texas Hold'em manipulation primitives, a standardized physical policy benchmark, and an agentic perception benchmark that tests whether agents can recover the structured game state needed for embodied decision making. On primitive execution, $\pi_{0.5}$ obtains the highest task completion rate ($61.2\%$), while $\pi_{0.5}$ and $\pi_0$ tie on scene-preserving success rate ($47.5\%$). On agentic perception, Opus 4.7 obtains the best strict problem-level accuracy ($34.3\%$), while GPT 5.5 obtains the best average field-wise accuracy ($66.8\%$), exposing a gap between isolated visual sub-capabilities and complete routing-relevant state recovery. Finally, we instantiate the full embodied-agent loop in three case studies, where waiting, recovery dispatches, human-help requests, and repeated primitive execution reveal how perception and policy errors accumulate during closed-loop deployment. DexHoldem therefore evaluates dexterous tabletop execution, agentic perception, and embodied decision routing in a shared physical setting. Project page: https://dexholdem.github.io/Dexholdem/.
A Readiness-Driven Runtime for Pipeline-Parallel Training under Runtime Variability
arXiv:2605.18750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pipeline parallelism is a key technique for scaling large-model training, but modern workloads exhibit runtime variability in computation and communication. Existing pipeline systems typically consume static, profiled, or adaptively generated schedules as pre-committed execution orders. When realized task readiness diverges from the pre-committed order, stages may wait for not-yet-ready work even though other executable work is available, creating stage misalignment, idle bubbles, and reduced utilization. We present Runtime-Readiness-First Pipeline (RRFP), a readiness-driven runtime for pipeline-parallel training. RRFP changes how schedules are consumed at runtime: instead of treating a schedule as a sequence that stages must wait to follow, it treats the schedule as a non-binding hint order for ranking currently ready work. To support this model, RRFP combines message-driven asynchronous communication, lightweight tensor-parallel coordination for collective consistency, and ready-set arbitration for low-overhead dispatch. We implement RRFP in a Megatron-based training framework and evaluate it on language-only and multimodal workloads at up to 128 GPUs. RRFP improves over fixed-order pipeline baselines across all settings. Using the BFW hint, RRFP achieves up to 1.77$\times$ speedup on language-only workloads and up to 2.77$\times$ on multimodal workloads. In cross-framework comparisons, RRFP with the default BF hint outperforms the faster available external system by up to 1.84$\times$ while preserving training correctness.
HistoryPalette: Supporting Exploration and Reuse of Past Alternatives in Image Generation and Editing
arXiv:2501.04163v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Creative tasks require creators to iteratively produce, select, and discard potentially useful ideas. Now, creativity tools include generative AI features (e.g., Photoshop Generative Fill) that increase the number of alternatives creators consider through rapid experiments with prompts and random generations. Creators use tedious manual systems for organizing their prior ideas by saving file versions or hiding layers, but they lack the support they want for reusing prior alternatives in personal work or in communication with others. We present HistoryPalette, a system that supports exploration and reuse of prior designs in generative image creation and editing. Using HistoryPalette, creators and their collaborators explore a "palette" of prior design alternatives organized by spatial position, topic category, and creation time. HistoryPalette enables creators to quickly preview and reuse their prior work. In creative professional and client collaborator user studies, participants generated and edited images by exploring and reusing past design alternatives with HistoryPalette.
Can These Views Be One Scene? Evaluating Multiview 3D Consistency when 3D Foundation Models Hallucinate
arXiv:2605.18754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiview 3D evaluation assumes that the images being scored are observations of one static 3D scene. This assumption can fail in NVS and sparse-view reconstruction: inputs or generated outputs may contain artifacts, outlier frames, repeated views, or noise, yet still receive high 3D consistency scores. Existing reference-based metrics require ground truth, while ground-truth-free metrics such as MEt3R depend on learned reconstruction backbones whose failure modes are poorly characterized. We study this reliability problem by comparing neural reconstruction priors with classical geometric verification. We introduce \benchmark, a controlled robustness benchmark for multiview 3D consistency, and a parametric family that decomposes neural metrics into backbone, residual, and aggregation components. This family recovers MEt3R and yields variants up to $3\times$ more robust. Our analysis shows that VGGT, MASt3R, DUSt3R, and Fast3R can hallucinate dense geometry and cross-view support for unrelated scenes, repeated images, and random noise. We introduce COLMAP-based metrics that use matches, registration, dense support, and reconstruction failure as failure-aware consistency signals. On real NVS outputs and a structured human study, these metrics achieve up to $4\times$ higher correlation with human judgments than MEt3R.
Fine-tuning vs. In-context Learning in Large Language Models: A Formal Language Learning Perspective
arXiv:2604.23267v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) operate in two fundamental learning modes - fine-tuning (FT) and in-context learning (ICL) - raising key questions about which mode yields greater language proficiency and whether they differ in their inductive biases. Prior studies comparing FT and ICL have yielded mixed and inconclusive results due to inconsistent experimental setups. To enable a rigorous comparison, we propose a formal language learning task - offering precise language boundaries, controlled string sampling, and no data contamination - and introduce a discriminative test for language proficiency, where an LLM succeeds if it assigns higher generation probability to in-language strings than to out-of-language strings. Empirically, we find that: (a) FT has greater language proficiency than ICL on in-distribution generalization, but both perform equally well on out-of-distribution generalization. (b) Their inductive biases, measured by the correlation in string generation probabilities, are similar when both modes partially learn the language but diverge at higher proficiency levels. (c) Unlike FT, ICL performance differs substantially across models of varying sizes and families and is sensitive to the token vocabulary of the language. Thus, our work demonstrates the promise of formal languages as a controlled testbed for evaluating LLMs, behaviors that are difficult to isolate in natural language datasets. Our source code is available at https://github.com/bishwamittra/formallm.
Analysis of Personal Data Exposure in Thailand
arXiv:2604.23538v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the digital era, personal data, particularly sensitive identifiers such as the Social Security Number and National Identification Number, has become a highly valuable asset, raising significant concerns regarding privacy and security. This study examines the risks associated with the online exposure of the Thai National Identification Number, a key element of identity verification in both governmental and commercial transactions. Similar to the Social Security Number in the United States, this unique identifier is crucial for various legal, financial, and welfare-related activities. However, the increasing digitization of personal records has heightened its vulnerability to unauthorized access and misuse, particularly through search engines that inadvertently index sensitive information. This research identifies publicly exposed Thai National Identification Numbers across major search engines, assessing the potential threats to individual privacy and national security. The study reveals the exposure of over 1.2 million unique National Identification Numbers, along with other highly sensitive personal data, e.g., addresses, contact details, employment status, disability status, and health information. Notably, the analysis indicates that a significant majority of these exposures originate from the Thai government sector websites, highlighting critical vulnerabilities in public data management practices. This widespread exposure not only increases the risk of identity theft and financial fraud but also underscores the urgent need for enhanced cybersecurity measures, stricter regulatory enforcement, and improved data governance within government agencies to prevent future breaches. Addressing these issues is essential to safeguarding citizens' personal information and ensuring compliance with Thailand's data protection laws in an increasingly digitized world.
Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
arXiv:2604.24763v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unified multimodal models typically rely on pretrained vision encoders and use separate visual representations for understanding and generation, creating misalignment between the two tasks and preventing fully end-to-end optimization from raw pixels. We introduce Tuna-2, a native unified multimodal model that performs visual understanding and generation directly based on pixel embeddings. Tuna-2 drastically simplifies the model architecture by employing simple patch embedding layers to encode visual input, completely discarding the modular vision encoder designs such as the VAE or the representation encoder. Experiments show that Tuna-2 achieves state-of-the-art performance in multimodal benchmarks, demonstrating that unified pixel-space modelling can fully compete with latent-space approaches for high-quality image generation. Moreover, while the encoder-based variant converges faster in early pretraining, Tuna-2's encoder-free design achieves stronger multimodal understanding at scale, particularly on tasks requiring fine-grained visual perception. These results show that pretrained vision encoders are not necessary for multimodal modelling, and end-to-end pixel-space learning offers a scalable path toward stronger visual representations for both generation and perception.
Microdroplets Fail to Retain Exhaled Volatile Biomarkers within a Single Breath
arXiv:2605.16356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) contains volatile metabolites and is promising for non-invasive disease diagnosis, but after decades of research spanning over 100 biomarkers and 10 diseases, no EBC-based test has reached clinical use. The measurement variability that can span orders of magnitude, far exceeding the clinically required 10%, has long been attributed to biological factors. Here, we reveal a fundamentally different origin: the collected microdroplets themselves fail to retain volatile biomarkers. By isolating volatile co-condensation and transient evaporation from biological interference, we show that EBC microdroplets smaller than 100 {\mu}m lose clinically significant volatile content within a single breath cycle. This challenges the implicit assumption underlying decades of EBC research, that condensate faithfully reflects airway lining fluid. We develop and validate a physics-based model that predicts this loss across disease-relevant biomarkers and establishes the conditions for reliable EBC sampling. This work reframes EBC variability as a solvable engineering problem rather than an inherent biological limitation.
Learning Displacement-Aware WiFi Representations for Weakly Supervised Relative Localization
arXiv:2605.16357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: WiFi fingerprint-based indoor localization has been widely studied, but most existing approaches focus on absolute positioning and rely on dense coordinate annotations, which are costly to obtain at scale. In this paper, we study a fundamentally different problem: relative localization, where the goal is to directly estimate the displacement between two WiFi fingerprint traces without predicting their absolute positions. To reduce annotation overhead, we adopt weak supervision in the form of stepwise motion vectors obtained from inertial sensing. We propose Intersection Pathway (IP), a cross-modal learning framework that aligns fingerprint traces (f-traces) and displacement traces (d-traces) in a shared latent space. The key idea is to enforce an additive structure in the latent space, such that latent addition and subtraction correspond to physical motion composition, enabling direct relative-displacement inference. Experiments on a synthesized dataset derived from real measurements demonstrate that the proposed method learns displacement-aware WiFi representations and achieves accurate relative localization across varying displacement ranges. Furthermore, the learned model can be extended to few-shot absolute localization with sparse anchors.
ADR: An Agentic Detection System for Enterprise Agentic AI Security
arXiv:2605.17380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the Agentic AI Detection and Response (ADR) system, the first large-scale, production-proven enterprise framework for securing AI agents operating through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). We identify three persistent challenges in this domain: (1) limited observability -- existing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools see file writes but not the agent reasoning, prompts, or causal chains linking intent to execution; (2) insufficient robustness -- static defenses constrained by pre-defined rules fail to generalize across diverse attack techniques and enterprise contexts; and (3) high detection costs -- LLM-based inference is prohibitively expensive at scale. ADR addresses these challenges via three components: the ADR Sensor for high-fidelity agentic telemetry, the ADR Explorer for systematic pre-deployment red teaming and hard-example generation, and the ADR Detector for scalable, two-tier online detection combining fast triage with context-aware reasoning. Deployed at Uber for over ten months, ADR has sustained reliable detection in production with growing adoption reaching over 7,200 unique hosts and processing over 10,000 agent sessions daily, uncovering hundreds of credential exposures across 26 categories and enabling a shift-left prevention layer (97.2% precision, 206 detected credentials). To validate the approach and enable community adoption, we introduce ADR-Bench (302 tasks, 17 techniques, 133 MCP servers), where ADR achieves zero false positives while detecting 67% of attacks -- outperforming three state-of-the-art baselines (ALRPHFS, GuardAgent, LlamaFirewall) by 2--4x in F1-score. On AgentDojo (public prompt injection benchmark), ADR detects all attacks with only three false alarms out of 93 tasks.
PlantPose: Universal Plant Skeleton Estimation via Tree-constrained Graph Generation
arXiv:2605.17773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate estimation of plant skeletal structures (e.g., branching structures) from images is essential for smart agriculture and plant science. Unlike human skeletons with fixed topology, plant skeleton estimation presents a unique challenge, i.e., estimating arbitrary tree graphs from images. To address this problem, we introduce PlantPose, a universal plant skeleton estimator via tree-constrained graph generation. PlantPose combines learning-based graph generation with traditional graph algorithms to enforce tree constraints during the training loop. To enhance the model's generalization capability, we curate a large and diverse dataset comprising real-world and synthetic plant images, along with simplified representations (e.g., sketches and abstract drawings). This dataset enables the generalized model to adapt to diverse input styles and categories of plant images while preserving topological consistency. Our approach demonstrates robust and accurate plant skeleton estimation across multiple domains, including previously unseen out-of-domain scenarios. Further analyses highlight the method's strengths and limitations in handling complex, heterogeneous data distributions. All implementations and datasets are available at https://github.com/huntorochi/PlantPose/.
Evidence-Guided Unknown Rejection for High-Confidence Near-Known Unknowns
arXiv:2605.17818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-set recognition systems face a neglected failure mode: high-confidence near-known unknowns, which lie outside the known label set but are close enough to known classes that a closed-set classifier accepts them with high confidence. We show that this failure is widespread across scalar-threshold methods, including recent post-hoc detectors, and that stronger encoders can amplify rather than remove the risk. We propose EGUR-A, which changes the decision from ``is this sample's score high enough?'' to ``does this predicted known class have sufficient evidence to accept this sample?'' EGUR-A combines class-conditional local acceptance evidence with global residual evidence, and selects their relative weight from known-sample statistics without unknown validation data. Across CUB, FGVC-Aircraft, and ImageNet-hard, EGUR-A substantially reduces high-confidence false known acceptance at matched known-rejection operating points. The result is not a stronger threshold; it is a different question: whether a known class is entitled to accept a sample.
AdaptiveLoad: Towards Efficient Video Diffusion Transformer Training
arXiv:2605.17923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In video generation models, particularly world models, training large-scale video diffusion Transformers (such as DiT and MMDiT) poses significant computational challenges due to the extreme variance in sequence lengths within mixed-mode datasets. Existing bucket-based data loading strategies typically rely on "equal token length" constraints. This approach fails to account for the quadratic complexity of self-attention mechanisms, leading to severe load imbalance and underutilization of GPU resources. This paper proposes \textit{AdaptiveLoad}, an integrated optimization framework consisting of two core components: (1) A dual-constraint adaptive load balancing system, which eliminates long-sequence bottlenecks by simultaneously limiting memory consumption and computational load ($B \times S^p \le M_{\text{comp}}$); (2) A fused LayerNorm-Modulate CUDA kernel, which utilizes a D-tile coalesced reduction strategy to increase throughput and alleviate memory pressure. Experimental results on the Wan 2.1 world model demonstrate that our method reduces the computational imbalance rate from 39\% to 18.9\%, improves peak VRAM utilization efficiency by 22.7\%, and achieves an overall training throughput increase of 27.2\%.
LLM-Based Static Verification of Code Against Natural-Language Requirements: An Industrial Experience Report
arXiv:2605.17926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate requirements specifications, design documents, code, and test cases. In contrast, much less attention has been given to a more difficult assurance problem: statically verifying whether implemented code satisfies requirements written in natural language. Conventional static analysis tools are effective at detecting coding defects and known vulnerability patterns, but they cannot determine whether program behavior matches intended business logic. Detecting such defects requires reasoning over the specification rather than the code alone. Software testing can expose some of these mismatches, but its effectiveness depends heavily on test design, executable artifacts, and runtime environments. This article presents a two-stage LLM-based workflow for addressing this challenge in an intelligent-vehicle cybersecurity case study. In the first stage, an AI-based rule miner extracts verifiable rules from natural-language requirements while explicitly identifying ambiguity, self-contradiction, and other non-verifiable statements. In the second stage, an AI-based code auditor checks implementation evidence against the extracted rules. Instead of asking a single LLM to directly verify code against lengthy natural-language specifications, the workflow introduces a structured intermediate representation to reduce hallucination, output variability, limited explainability, and context loss. The resulting approach is a requirement-aware and semantics-aware form of static analysis that complements software testing. By analyzing requirements and source code without requiring compilation, execution, or runtime environments, the method shifts verification and validation activities left in the development lifecycle. This LLM-based static analysis is also a new approach to addressing the test oracle problem.
Beyond Square Roots: Explicit Memory-Efficient Factorization for Multi-Epoch Private Learning
arXiv:2605.18379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Correlated-noise mechanisms are among the most promising approaches for improving the utility of differentially private model training, but rigorous guarantees require explicit, analyzable factorizations, and practical deployment requires memory efficiency. Recent works have developed banded inverse factorizations, which address both requirements by exploiting a banded structure in the correlation matrix. The bandwidth controls the size of the noise buffer used to correlate noise across iterations, and thus governs the tradeoff between utility and memory cost. Existing factorizations highlight this tradeoff: DP-$\lambda$CGD achieves high memory efficiency by using only a one-step noise buffer, but this limits its utility gains, while the banded inverse square root (BISR) factorization exploits larger correlation windows and is asymptotically optimal for large bandwidths but performs poorly at low bandwidths. We propose $\gamma$-BIFR, a unified generalization of both factorizations. In the low-memory, low-bandwidth regime, $\gamma$-BIFR significantly improves RMSE, amplified RMSE, and private training performance, while yielding tighter theoretical guarantees for multi-participation error in multi-epoch training.
Physics in the Public Square: University Extension as a Strategy for Integrating Physics Education and Science Communication
arXiv:2605.18384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: University extension activities play a fundamental role in bridging the gap between academia and society by fostering the socialization of scientific knowledge. This study reports and analyzes an outreach activity conducted in a public space, involving undergraduate students enrolled in Physics I, Physics III, and Physics IV courses within the Physics Teacher Education Program at the State University of the Tocantina Region of Maranhao (UEMASUL). The activity was developed through the design and presentation of didactic experiments using low-cost materials. Its main objectives were to disseminate fundamental physics concepts to the community, stimulate public interest in science, and provide pre-service teachers with a formative experience integrating theory, practice, and social responsibility. Data were collected from questionnaires adminisvelopment of communication skills, and the strengthening of the university's social role, while also fostering scientific curitered to visitors (n = 52). The results indicate that the activity significantly contributed to student learning, the deosity among participants.
A single multi-configuration Direct Electron Detector for various electron imaging and diffraction-based techniques in SEM
arXiv:2605.18386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Addressing the need for efficient and integrated multiscale crystallographic and defect analyses of advanced materials, this paper presents the implementation of a new multi-configuration detection system, integrating a single Timepix3-based direct electron detector (DED) in a scanning electron microscope (SEM). By combining precise translation and rotation movements, this system enables, for the first time, the use of the same detector to realize all principal diffraction geometries. These include conventional Electron BackScatter Diffraction (EBSD), off-axis Reflexion Kikuchi Diffraction (RKD), and Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (TKD) in on-, off- and near-axis configurations. Furthermore, transitions between all these geometries are accomplished without hardware modification. On the other hand, this work presents efficient reconstruction of electron images using the detector data-driven feature, extending thus its applicability to BackScattered Electron imaging (BSE), Electron Channelling Contrast Imaging (ECCI) and Scanning Transmission Electron Imaging in SEM (STEM-in-SEM) characterizations. High-quality Kikuchi patterns easily indexable were acquired across all geometries as well as micrographs of dislocations in both reflection and transmission modes. This is achieved thanks to the flexibility of the implemented detector, the optimizations made in acquisition parameters, such as energy filtering settings, and the efficiency of the developed custom approach used for electron data post-processing. Through this work, it is demonstrated that with a single DED assisted by an orientable support, it is possible to perform multiple advanced microstructural characterizations of both bulk samples and thin foils in the same SEM.
Generalize cross-ratios in n-dimensional Plane-Based Geometric Algebra
arXiv:2605.18398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop a complete theory of projective cross-ratios in n-dimensional Plane-Based Geometric Algebra (PGA), R(n,0,1), covering geometric objects of every grade: finite and ideal points, hyperplanes, and intermediate flats. For each object type and configuration, we establish an explicit cross-ratio formula, prove that it recovers the appropriate classical invariant, and identify the canonical pairwise measurement operator. A systematic duality analysis further revealed that all eight configurations organize into four dual pairs under the Hodge dual, and that all measurement operators reduce to either the commutator or the commutator dual, depending solely on the geometric configuration rather than on object grade. In each case the formula recovers the appropriate classical invariant: signed distance ratios for parallel configurations and sine cross-ratios for secant ones. These results establish the cross-ratio as a grade-agnostic projective invariant within PGA, and provide a constructive foundation for defining n-dimensional homographies directly from prescribed invariants.
Generative Adversarial Learning from Deterministic Processes
arXiv:2605.18425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI is being successfully applied to data which does not follow the traditional paradigm of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) samples. In fact, physical AI is often trained on data which is not random at all, and is instead derived from chaotic dynamical systems like turbulence. We aim to explain the empirical success of these methods using the example of generative adversarial networks (GANs), whose statistical learning theory under the i.i.d. assumption is generally well understood. We prove that it is possible, using an infinite-dimensional model of generative adversarial learning (GAL), to learn the invariant distribution of a sufficiently chaotic dynamical system from a single deterministically evolving time series of its states or measurements thereof, and give explicit rates for the convergence to the solution in terms of the Jensen-Shannon divergence.
A Dataset for the Recognition of Historical and Handwritten Music Scores in Western Notation
arXiv:2605.18436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A large amount of musical heritage has been digitised by memory institutions: libraries, museums, and archives. Nevertheless, the field of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has struggled with making this music machine-readable, despite advances in deep learning, mostly because no datasets for training systems in realistic conditions were available. The MusiCorpus dataset aims to remedy this situation by providing 1,309 pages of historical sheet music, primarily handwritten, with MusicXML transcriptions and symbol annotations. It is the largest dataset of handwritten music to date and the first dataset containing a realistic and representative sample of musical document collections from memory institutions, suitable for training and evaluating both end-to-end and object detection-based OMR systems and comparing their performance.