AsynFusion: Towards Asynchronous Latent Consistency Models for Decoupled Whole-Body Audio-Driven Avatars

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Kavli Affiliate: Zheng Zhu | First 5 Authors: Tianbao Zhang, Tianbao Zhang, , , | Summary: Whole-body audio-driven avatar pose and expression generation is a critical task for creating lifelike digital humans and enhancing the capabilities of interactive virtual agents, with wide-ranging applications in virtual reality, digital entertainment, and remote communication. Existing approaches often generate […]


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AsynFusion: Towards Asynchronous Latent Consistency Models for Decoupled Whole-Body Audio-Driven Avatars

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Kavli Affiliate: Zheng Zhu | First 5 Authors: Tianbao Zhang, Jian Zhao, Yuer Li, Zheng Zhu, Ping Hu | Summary: Whole-body audio-driven avatar pose and expression generation is a critical task for creating lifelike digital humans and enhancing the capabilities of interactive virtual agents, with wide-ranging applications in virtual reality, digital entertainment, and remote communication. […]


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Superconducting vacancy-ordered rock-salt NbO films

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Kavli Affiliate: Joseph Falson | Summary:We report molecular beam epitaxy synthesis of vacancy-ordered rocksalt NbO thin films which display superconductivity. A comparative study of substrates identifies Al$_2$O$_3$ (0001) as the optimal platform for realizing high-quality, single-phase films when growing at temperatures exceeding 1000 $^circ$C. The controlled NbO films exhibit superconductivity with critical temperatures up to […]


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Single-Cell Epigenomics Uncovers Heterochromatin Instability and Transcription Factor Dysfunction during Mouse Brain Aging

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Kavli Affiliate: Michael Miller | Authors: Maria Luisa Amaral, Sainath Mamde, Michael Miller, Xiaomeng Hou, Jessica Arzavala, Julia Osteen, Elizabeth Walker Smoot, Qian Yang, Emily Eisner, Qiurui Zeng, Cindy Tatiana Baez-Becerra, Jacqueline Olness, Joseph Colin Kern, Jonathan Rink, Nicholas Johnson, Ariana Barcoma, Silvia Cho, Stella Cao, Nora Emerson, Jasper Lee, Jackson Willier, Timothy Loe, Henry […]


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The Long Road to Alignment: Measuring Black Hole Spin Orientation with Expanding Gravitational-Wave Datasets

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Kavli Affiliate: Salvatore Vitale | Summary:Measuring the distribution of spin tilts-the angles between the spin vectors and the binary orbital angular momentum-in stellar-mass binary black holes detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA would provide valuable insight into their astrophysical origins. Analyses of the 69 binary black holes detected through LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA’s third observing run yielded model-dependent conclusions, particularly regarding […]


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This Time is Different: An Observability Perspective on Time Series Foundation Models

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Kavli Affiliate: Chris Xu | First 5 Authors: Ben Cohen, Ben Cohen, , , | Summary: We introduce Toto, a time series forecasting foundation model with 151 million parameters. Toto uses a modern decoder-only architecture coupled with architectural innovations designed to account for specific challenges found in multivariate observability time series data. Toto’s pre-training corpus […]


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Dynamic Resting-State Network Markers of Disruptive Behavior Problems in Youth

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Kavli Affiliate: Martin Lindquist | Authors: Heather Shappell, Zhiyuan Liu, Mohammadreza Khodaei, George He, Dylan Gee, Martin Lindquist, Denis G. Sukhodolsky, Gregory McCarthy and Karim Ibrahim | Summary: Background Childhood disruptive behavior problems are linked to aberrant integrity within large-scale cognitive control networks. However, it is unclear if transitory or dynamic variation in the functional […]


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Engineering the Kondo impurity problem with alkaline-earth atom arrays

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Kavli Affiliate: Nelson Darkwah Oppong| Summary:We propose quantum simulation experiments of the Kondo impurity problem using cold alkaline-earth(-like) atoms (AEAs) in a combination of optical lattice and optical tweezer potentials. Within an ab initio model for atomic interactions in the optical potentials, we analyze hallmark signatures of the Kondo effect in a variety of observables […]


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Spin Pumping into two-dimensional systems

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Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:In this review, we present recent theoretical developments on spin transport phenomena probed by ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) modulation in two-dimensional systems coupled to magnetic materials. We first address FMR linewidth enhancements induced by spin pumping at interfaces, emphasizing their potential as sensitive probes of superconducting pairing symmetries in two-dimensional superconductors. […]


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First Identification and Precise Spectral Measurement of the Proton Component in the Cosmic-Ray `Knee’

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Kavli Affiliate: Zhuo Li | First 5 Authors: The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, , , | Summary: We report the first high-purity identification of cosmic-ray (CR) protons and a precise measurement of their energy spectrum from 0.15 to 12 PeV using the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). Abundant event statistics, combined with the […]


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