Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao| Summary:Proactive task-oriented dialogue (TOD), such as outbound sales, demands a persuasive agent that actively probes the user’s concerns and steers the conversation toward acceptance within a bounded number of turns. Yet post-trained LLMs are inherently conservative, and reward-shaping RL (e.g., GRPO) struggles since it only re-weights what an already passive policy […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ya Blanter | Summary:Generating usable output-entanglement in continuous variable systems can serve as a viable resource for improving applications in quantum information science. In this work, we show how to generate steady-state output-entanglement in a two-stage conversion setup between optical and microwave photon which employs resonantly coupled magnetic and mechanical excitations, as proposed […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | Summary:Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) moiré bilayers have realized a wide range of strongly correlated and topological phenomena. The physics in these materials is often sensitive to the interlayer stacking order. Polarization-resolved optical second harmonic generation (SHG) is the most used technique for stacking order characterization but unverified for most heterobilayers. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Feng Long| Summary: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a powerful tool for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). This paper studies LoRA under a federated learning setting, enabling collaborative fine-tuning across clients while preserving parameter efficiency. We focus on a highly heterogeneous regime in which clients share only partial structure and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Feng Long| Summary: We develop an adaptive jump test for discretely observed high-frequency semimartingales by combining the A"it-Sahalia–Jacod ratio statistic (A"it-Sahalia and Jacod, 2009) and the Lee–Mykland extreme-return statistic (Lee and Mykland, 2008) with the Cauchy combination rule. Allowing stochastic It^o drift, volatility, and leverage, we show asymptotic independence under the continuous-path null […]
Kavli Affiliate: Feng Long| Summary: We develop an adaptive jump test for discretely observed high-frequency semimartingales by combining the A"it-Sahalia–Jacod ratio statistic (A"it-Sahalia and Jacod, 2009) and the Lee–Mykland extreme-return statistic (Lee and Mykland, 2008) with the Cauchy combination rule. Allowing stochastic It^o drift, volatility, and leverage, we show asymptotic independence under the continuous-path null […]
Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | Summary:In the standard thermal relic scenario, dark matter remains in chemical equilibrium with the Standard Model radiation bath until freeze-out occurs at $T sim m_X/20$, where $m_X$ is the dark matter mass. In this familiar class of models, the observed relic density is obtained for annihilation cross sections of order […]
Kavli Affiliate: Saul Rappaport | Summary:We present the discovery and characterization of TIC 295741342, a triply-eclipsing triple star system with a giant tertiary. The eclipsing binary consists of two similar main-sequence stars in a 4.75-day orbit. The binary is in a 412.8-day orbit with the giant tertiary. We found two degenerate solutions for the system: […]
Kavli Affiliate: Anthony Lasenby | Summary:For electromagnetism in Minkowski spacetime, the Bessel-Hagen method gives a particularly direct Noetherian derivation of the standard gauge-invariant energy-momentum tensor. The key step is to supplement the form variation generated by an infinitesimal coordinate transformation with a compensating electromagnetic gauge transformation. In this paper we ask whether the same idea […]
Kavli Affiliate: Huawei Zhang | Summary:Metal-poor stars are crucially important for understanding the early Galaxy, first stars, and the Universe. In this series of papers, we present a homogeneous non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) abundances analysis of 12 elements for 103 very/extremely metal-poor (VMP/EMP) stars with metallicity down to $-4.3$ dex. The sample was selected from […]