October 2025 – Page 2 – Kavli Institute Pre-Print Publications

Object-IR: Leveraging Object Consistency and Mesh Deformation for Self-Supervised Image Retargeting

Posted by klaurent October 31, 2025November 10, 2025Peking

Kavli Affiliate: Ran Wang | First 5 Authors: Tianli Liao, Tianli Liao, , , | Summary: Eliminating geometric distortion in semantically important regions remains an intractable challenge in image retargeting. This paper presents Object-IR, a self-supervised architecture that reformulates image retargeting as a learning-based mesh warping optimization problem, where the mesh deformation is guided by […]

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Observation of the radiative decay $D_s (2317)^+ to D_s^* γ$

Posted by klaurent October 31, 2025November 12, 2025Tokyo

Kavli Affiliate: T. Higuchi | First 5 Authors: Belle II Collaboration, Belle II Collaboration, , , | Summary: We observe the radiative decay $D^*_s0(2317)^+ to D_s^*+ gamma$ for the first time, with a significance exceeding $10$ standard deviations. The signal is found in the continuum $e^+ e^- to cbarc$ process with the combined data samples […]

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How Do Proteins Fold?

Posted by klaurent October 31, 2025Berkeley

Kavli Affiliate: Carlos Bustamante | Summary:How proteins fold remains a central unsolved problem in biology. While the idea of a folding code embedded in the amino acid sequence was introduced more than 6 decades ago, this code remains undefined. While we now have powerful predictive tools to predict the final native structure of proteins, we […]

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Direct multi-model dark-matter search with gravitational-wave interferometers using data from the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

Posted by klaurent October 30, 2025Caltech

Kavli Affiliate: G. Ravichandran| First 5 Authors: [#item_custom_name[1, [#item_custom_name[2, [#item_custom_name[3, [#item_custom_name[4, [#item_custom_name[5| Summary:Gravitational-wave detectors can probe the existence of dark matter with exquisite sensitivity. Here, we perform a search for three kinds of dark matter — dilatons (spin-0), dark photons (spin-1) and tensor bosons (spin-2) — using three independent methods on the first part of […]

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Direct multi-model dark-matter search with gravitational-wave interferometers using data from the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

Posted by klaurent October 30, 2025MIT

Kavli Affiliate: George Clark| First 5 Authors: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, , , | Summary:Gravitational-wave detectors can probe the existence of dark matter with exquisite sensitivity. Here, we perform a search for three kinds of dark matter — dilatons (spin-0), dark photons (spin-1) and tensor bosons (spin-2) — using three independent […]

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Analytic Computation of Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectra Using Configuration Interaction Methods

Posted by klaurent October 30, 2025Chicago

Kavli Affiliate: Thomas Crawford| First 5 Authors: Brendan M. Shumberger, Brendan M. Shumberger, , , | Summary:In this work, we present the first derivation and implementation of analytic gradient methods for the computation of the atomic axial tensors (AATs) required for simulations of vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra using configuration interaction methods including double (CID) […]

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Thermoelectricity of moiré heavy fermions in MoTe2/WSe2 bilayers

Posted by klaurent October 30, 2025Cornell

Kavli Affiliate: Kinfai Mak | First 5 Authors: Yichi Zhang, Yichi Zhang, , , | Summary: Tunable Kondo lattice and heavy fermion physics have been recently reported in moiré materials, but most of the studies have focused on the electrical and magnetic properties. Quantitative thermoelectric measurements, which can reveal entropic information of the heavy fermions, […]

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Thermoelectricity of moiré heavy fermions in MoTe2/WSe2 bilayers

Posted by klaurent October 30, 2025November 10, 2025Cornell

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Yichi Zhang, Yichi Zhang, , , | Summary: Tunable Kondo lattice and heavy fermion physics have been recently reported in moir’e materials, but most of the studies have focused on the electrical and magnetic properties. Quantitative thermoelectric measurements, which can reveal entropic information of the heavy fermions, […]

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Shared Molecular Landscape of Human Brain Structure and Systemic Metabolism

Posted by dbos October 30, 2025November 10, 2025UCSD / Salk

Kavli Affiliate: Anders Dal | Authors: Dennis van der Meer, Jakub Kopal, Sara Stinson, Olav Smeland, Alexey Shadrin, Julian Fuhrer, Jaroslav Rokicki, Tiril Gurholt, Ida Sonderby, Ibrahim Akkouh, Oleksandr Frei, Kevin O’Connell, Lars T. Westlye, Srdjan Djurovic, Anders Dale and Ole Andreassen | Summary: The human brain is metabolically demanding, yet the causal interplay between […]

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The Denario project: Deep knowledge AI agents for scientific discovery

Posted by klaurent October 30, 2025Tokyo

Kavli Affiliate: David Spergel | Summary:We present Denario, an AI multi-agent system designed to serve as a scientific research assistant. Denario can perform many different tasks, such as generating ideas, checking the literature, developing research plans, writing and executing code, making plots, and drafting and reviewing a scientific paper. The system has a modular architecture, […]

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