Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | First 5 Authors: Zeqi Gu, Difan Liu, Timothy Langlois, Matthew Fisher, Abe Davis | Summary: Recent diffusion-based methods have achieved impressive results on animating images of human subjects. However, most of that success has built on human-specific body pose representations and extensive training with labeled real videos. In this work, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Giordano Scappucci | First 5 Authors: Yuta Matsumoto, Maxim De Smet, Larysa Tryputen, Sander L. de Snoo, Sergey V. Amitonov | Summary: The scalability and power of quantum computing architectures depend critically on high-fidelity operations and robust and flexible qubit connectivity. In this respect, mobile qubits are particularly attractive as they enable dynamic […]
Kavli Affiliate: David T. Limmer | First 5 Authors: Sam Oaks-Leaf, David T. Limmer, , , | Summary: We present a dynamical model of crystal growth, in which it is possible to reliably achieve asymmetric products, beginning from symmetric initial conditions and growing within an isotropic environment. The asymmetric growth is the result of a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ting Xu | First 5 Authors: Qiang Li, Ting Xu, Vince D. Calhoun, , | Summary: The world of beauty is deeply connected to the visual cortex, as perception often begins with vision in both humans and marmosets. Quantifying functional correspondences in the visual cortex across species can help us understand how information […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ke Wang | First 5 Authors: Estrid He, Tabinda Sarwar, Ibrahim Khalil, Xun Yi, Ke Wang | Summary: The past a few years have witnessed the great success of large language models, demonstrating powerful capabilities in comprehending textual data and generating human-like languages. Large language models achieve success by being trained on vast […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jing Wang | First 5 Authors: NVIDIA, :, Johan Bjorck, Fernando Castañeda, Nikita Cherniadev | Summary: General-purpose robots need a versatile body and an intelligent mind. Recent advancements in humanoid robots have shown great promise as a hardware platform for building generalist autonomy in the human world. A robot foundation model, trained on […]
Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh | First 5 Authors: Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya M. Anche, Christopher B. Mendillo, Jessica Gersh-Range, Justin Hom | Summary: NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) concept and the 2020 Decadal Survey’s recommendation to develop a large space telescope to "detect and characterize Earth-like extrasolar planets" requires new starlight suppression technologies to probe […]
Kavli Affiliate: Tom Melia | First 5 Authors: Qiuyue Liang, Tom Melia, , , | Summary: We define a relativistic version of the global symmetries responsible for the restricted mobility of fracton quasiparticles. The theories have a symmetry current that is proportional to a vector field that spontaneously breaks Lorentz boost symmetry. We argue that […]
Kavli Affiliate: Katja C. Nowack | First 5 Authors: Ruiheng Bai, Aliakbar Sepehri, Yen-Lee Loh, Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano, Anna Herr | Summary: We use scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscopy to image vortices in superconducting strips fabricated from NbTiN thin films. We repeatedly cool superconducting strips with different width in an applied magnetic field and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kent Irwin | First 5 Authors: Erminia Calabrese, J. Colin Hill, Hidde T. Jense, Adrien La Posta, Irene Abril-Cabezas | Summary: We use new cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) to test foundational assumptions of the standard cosmological model […]