Measurement of Substructure from the Kinematics of the GD-1 Stellar Stream

Kavli Affiliate: David Spergel | Summary:Stellar streams are sensitive tracers of low-mass dark matter subhalos and provide a means to test the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm on small scales. In this work, we connect the intrinsic velocity dispersion of the GD-1 stream to the number density and internal structure of dark matter subhalos in […]


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Measurement of Dark Matter Substructure from the Kinematics of the GD-1 Stellar Stream

Kavli Affiliate: David Spergel | Summary:Stellar streams are sensitive tracers of low-mass dark matter subhalos and provide a means to test the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm on small scales. In this work, we connect the intrinsic velocity dispersion of the GD-1 stream to the number density and internal structure of dark matter subhalos in […]


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Measurement of Dark Matter Substructure from the Kinematics of the GD-1 Stellar Stream

Kavli Affiliate: David N. Spergel | First 5 Authors: Jacob Nibauer, Jacob Nibauer, , , | Summary: Stellar streams are sensitive tracers of low-mass dark matter subhalos and provide a means to test the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm on small scales. In this work, we connect the intrinsic velocity dispersion of the GD-1 stream […]


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Demystifying the Roles of LLM Layers in Retrieval, Knowledge, and Reasoning

Kavli Affiliate: Li Xin Li| First 5 Authors: [#item_custom_name[1, [#item_custom_name[2, [#item_custom_name[3, [#item_custom_name[4, [#item_custom_name[5| Summary:Recent studies suggest that the deeper layers of Large Language Models (LLMs) contribute little to representation learning and can often be removed without significant performance loss. However, such claims are typically drawn from narrow evaluations and may overlook important aspects of model […]


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Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the Frontier of Generalist Robots with Advanced Embodied Reasoning, Thinking, and Motion Transfer

Kavli Affiliate: P. C. Joss| First 5 Authors: Gemini Robotics Team, Gemini Robotics Team, , , | Summary:General-purpose robots need a deep understanding of the physical world, advanced reasoning, and general and dexterous control. This report introduces the latest generation of the Gemini Robotics model family: Gemini Robotics 1.5, a multi-embodiment Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model, and […]


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Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the Frontier of Generalist Robots with Advanced Embodied Reasoning, Thinking, and Motion Transfer

Kavli Affiliate: P. C. Joss| First 5 Authors: Gemini Robotics Team, Gemini Robotics Team, , , | Summary:General-purpose robots need a deep understanding of the physical world, advanced reasoning, and general and dexterous control. This report introduces the latest generation of the Gemini Robotics model family: Gemini Robotics 1.5, a multi-embodiment Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model, and […]


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Resonant production of sterile neutrino dark matter with a refined numerical scheme

Kavli Affiliate: Masahiro Kawasaki | Summary:The existence of a large primordial neutrino asymmetry is an intriguing possibility, both observationally and theoretically. Such an asymmetry can lead to the resonant production of $mathrmkeV$-scale sterile neutrinos, which are a fascinating candidate for dark matter. In this paper, we comprehensively revisit the resonant production processes with a refined […]


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High five from ASTEP: Three validated planets and two eclipsing binaries in a diverse set of long-period candidates

Kavli Affiliate: Sara Seager | Summary:We present the analysis of five long-period TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs), all orbiting Sun-like stars, with orbital periods exceeding one month. Initially identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), we extensively monitored these targets with the Antarctic Search for Transiting Exoplanets (ASTEP), supported by other facilities in the […]


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Local linearization for estimating the diffusion parameter of nonlinear stochastic wave equations with spatially correlated noise

Kavli Affiliate: Ran Wang | First 5 Authors: Guoping Liu, Guoping Liu, , , | Summary: We study the bi-parameter local linearization of the one-dimensional nonlinear stochastic wave equation driven by a Gaussian noise, which is white in time and has a spatially homogeneous covariance structure of Riesz-kernel type. We establish that the second-order increments […]


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VLA-R1: Enhancing Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models

Kavli Affiliate: Zheng Zhu | First 5 Authors: Angen Ye, Angen Ye, , , | Summary: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to unify perception, language understanding, and action generation, offering strong cross-task and cross-scene generalization with broad impact on embodied AI. However, current VLA models often lack explicit step-by-step reasoning, instead emitting final actions without considering […]


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