Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Jun He, Jun He, , , | Summary: Urban development impacts over half of the global population, making human-centered understanding of its structural and perceptual changes essential for sustainable development. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across various domains, existing benchmarks that explore […]

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Feng Wang, Feng Wang, , , | Summary: High-order harmonic generation (HHG), a robust tabletop source for producing attosecond pulses, has been extensively utilized in attosecond metrology. Traditionally, HHG driven by classical laser fields involves two typical quantum paths (short and long quantum paths) contributing to harmonic […]

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Bingnan Li, Bingnan Li, , , | Summary: Despite steady progress in layout-to-image generation, current methods still struggle with layouts containing significant overlap between bounding boxes. We identify two primary challenges: (1) large overlapping regions and (2) overlapping instances with minimal semantic distinction. Through both qualitative examples […]

Kavli Affiliate: Archana Raja| Summary:Chalcogen vacancies in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as WS$_2$, play a crucial role in various applications ranging from optoelectronics and catalysis to quantum information science (QIS), making their identification and control essential. This study focuses on WS$_2$ single vacancy and vacancy pairs. Using first principles computations, we investigate their […]

Kavli Affiliate: Joel E. Moore | First 5 Authors: Jiarui Liu, Jiarui Liu, , , | Summary: Synchronization is a hallmark of nonlinear dynamics. It drives self-organized behavior across systems ranging from astronomy to chemistry. Among the simplest systems, the van der Pol oscillator captures the essence of limit-cycle behavior and forms the basis for […]

Kavli Affiliate: Joel Moore | Summary:Synchronization is a hallmark of collective behavior that emerges when nonlinear systems interact, spanning scales from mechanical oscillators to planetary orbits. As a universal phenomenon it underpins the study of complex systems and has far-reaching technological implications. While classical synchronization has a long and rich history, it has not been […]

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Min Liu, Min Liu, , , | Summary: Existing text-to-speech systems predominantly focus on single-sentence synthesis and lack adequate contextual modeling as well as fine-grained performance control capabilities for generating coherent multicast audiobooks. To address these limitations, we propose a context-aware and emotion controllable speech synthesis framework […]

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Xiao-Yong Liu, Xiao-Yong Liu, , , | Summary: Optical atomic clocks play a crucial role in fundamental physics, relativistic geodesy, and the future redefinition of the SI second. Standard operation relies on cyclic interrogation sequences, which alternate between atomic interrogation and dead time used for state preparation […]

Kavli Affiliate: Irfan Siddiqi | Summary:Decoherence errors arising from noisy environments remain a central obstacle to progress in quantum computation and information processing. Quantum error correction (QEC) based on the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) protocol offers a powerful strategy to overcome this challenge, with successful demonstrations in trapped ions, superconducting circuits, and photonics. Beyond active QEC, a […]

Kavli Affiliate: Feng Wang | First 5 Authors: Gang Cheng, Gang Cheng, , , | Summary: We introduce Wan-Animate, a unified framework for character animation and replacement. Given a character image and a reference video, Wan-Animate can animate the character by precisely replicating the expressions and movements of the character in the video to generate […]