Kavli Affiliate: Jeevak M. Parpia | First 5 Authors: Benjamin K. Capistrant, Benjamin K. Capistrant, , , | Summary: M dwarfs are magnetically active stars that frequently produce flares, which have implications for both stellar evolution and exoplanet studies. Flare occurrence rates and activity levels of M dwarfs correlate with stellar characteristics such as age, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Darrell Schlom | First 5 Authors: Junwei Yu, Junwei Yu, , , | Summary: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) family has become a widely adopted vision foundation model, but its ability to control segmentation granularity remains limited. Users often need to refine results manually – by adding more prompts or selecting from pre-generated […]
Kavli Affiliate: Katja C. Nowack | First 5 Authors: Jianglong Ye, Jianglong Ye, , , | Summary: Human grasps can be roughly categorized into two types: power grasps and precision grasps. Precision grasping enables tool use and is believed to have influenced human evolution. Today’s multi-fingered robotic hands are effective in power grasps, but for […]
Kavli Affiliate: Frank W. Wise | First 5 Authors: Harold Haodong Chen, Harold Haodong Chen, , , | Summary: The rapid evolution of video generative models has shifted their focus from producing visually plausible outputs to tackling tasks requiring physical plausibility and logical consistency. However, despite recent breakthroughs such as Veo 3’s chain-of-frames reasoning, it […]
Kavli Affiliate: Chris Xu | First 5 Authors: Haichuan Wang, Haichuan Wang, , , | Summary: Researchers strategically choose where to submit their work in order to maximize its impact, and these publication decisions in turn determine venues’ impact factors. To analyze how individual publication choices both respond to and shape venue impact, we introduce […]
Kavli Affiliate: Zhiting Tian | First 5 Authors: Sydney Erickson, Sydney Erickson, , , | Summary: Strongly lensed Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with an observable time delay can be used to constrain the expansion history of the Universe through time-delay cosmography (TDC). As the sample of time-delay lenses grows to statistical size, with $mathcalO$(1000) lensed […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jin Suntivich | First 5 Authors: Dengyang Jiang, Dengyang Jiang, , , | Summary: Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) distills a pre-trained multi-step diffusion model to a few-step one to improve inference efficiency. However, the performance of the latter is often capped by the former. To circumvent this dilemma, we propose DMDR, a novel […]
Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | First 5 Authors: Noah B. Frank, Noah B. Frank, , , | Summary: Simulations of chaotic systems can only produce high-fidelity trajectories when the initial and boundary conditions are well specified. When these conditions are unknown but measurements are available, adjoint-variational state estimation can reconstruct a trajectory that is consistent […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kyle Shen | First 5 Authors: Kaiwen Xue, Kaiwen Xue, , , | Summary: Human-defined creativity is highly abstract, posing a challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to comprehend and assess creativity that aligns with human judgments. The absence of an existing benchmark further exacerbates this dilemma. To this end, we propose […]
Kavli Affiliate: Frank Wise | First 5 Authors: Rajesh Karmakar, Rajesh Karmakar, , , | Summary: We seek to design novel multiple testing procedures, which take into account a relevant notion of ”power” or true discovery on the one hand, and allow computationally efficient test design and application on the other. Towards this end we […]