From traces to measures: Large language models as a tool for psychological measurement from text

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Joseph J. P. Simons, Wong Liang Ze, Prasanta Bhattacharya, Brandon Siyuan Loh, Wei Gao | Summary: Digital trace data provide potentially valuable resources for understanding human behaviour, but their value has been limited by issues of unclear measurement. The growth of large language models provides an opportunity […]


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From traces to measures: Large language models as a tool for psychological measurement from text

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Joseph J. P. Simons, Wong Liang Ze, Prasanta Bhattacharya, Brandon Siyuan Loh, Wei Gao | Summary: Large language models are increasingly being used to label or rate psychological features in text data. This approach helps address one of the limiting factors of digital trace data – their […]


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Crystal-like thermal transport in amorphous carbon

Kavli Affiliate: Zhiting Tian | First 5 Authors: Jaeyun Moon, Zhiting Tian, , , | Summary: Thermal transport properties of amorphous carbon has attracted increasing attention due to its extreme thermal properties: It has been reported to have among the highest thermal conductivity for bulk amorphous solids up to $sim$ 37 Wmtextsuperscript{-1}Ktextsuperscript{-1}, comparable to crystalline […]


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Overcoming systematic softening in universal machine learning interatomic potentials by fine-tuning

Kavli Affiliate: Kristin A. Persson | First 5 Authors: Bowen Deng, Yunyeong Choi, Peichen Zhong, Janosh Riebesell, Shashwat Anand | Summary: Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have introduced a new paradigm for atomic simulations. Recent advancements have seen the emergence of universal MLIPs (uMLIPs) that are pre-trained on diverse materials datasets, providing opportunities for both […]


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Super-Resolving Blurry Images with Events

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Chi Zhang, Mingyuan Lin, Xiang Zhang, Chenxu Jiang, Lei Yu | Summary: Super-resolution from motion-blurred images poses a significant challenge due to the combined effects of motion blur and low spatial resolution. To address this challenge, this paper introduces an Event-based Blurry Super Resolution Network (EBSR-Net), which […]


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Narrow-Path, Dynamic Walking Using Integrated Posture Manipulation and Thrust Vectoring

Kavli Affiliate: Morteza Gharib | First 5 Authors: Kaushik Venkatesh Krishnamurthy, Chenghao Wang, Shreyansh Pitroda, Adarsh Salagame, Eric Sihite | Summary: This research concentrates on enhancing the navigational capabilities of Northeastern Universitys Husky, a multi-modal quadrupedal robot, that can integrate posture manipulation and thrust vectoring, to traverse through narrow pathways such as walking over pipes […]


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Power-law entanglement and Hilbert space fragmentation in non-reciprocal quantum circuits

Kavli Affiliate: Joel E. Moore | First 5 Authors: Kai Klocke, Joel E. Moore, Michael Buchhold, , | Summary: Quantum circuits utilizing measurement to evolve a quantum wave function offer a new and rich playground to engineer unconventional entanglement dynamics. Here we introduce a hybrid, non-reciprocal setup featuring a quantum circuit, whose updates are conditioned […]


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Anomalous properties of spark plasma sintered boron nitride solids

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Abhijit Biswas, Peter Serles, Gustavo A. Alvarez, Jesse Schimpf, Michel Hache | Summary: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is brittle, however, its atomic-scale structural engineering can lead to unprecedented physical properties. Here we report the bulk synthesis of high-density crystalline h-BN solids by using high-temperature spark plasma sintering […]


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Anomalous properties of spark plasma sintered boron nitride solids

Kavli Affiliate: Xiang Zhang | First 5 Authors: Abhijit Biswas, Peter Serles, Gustavo A. Alvarez, Jesse Schimpf, Michel Hache | Summary: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is brittle, however, its atomic-scale structural engineering can lead to unprecedented physical properties. Here we report the bulk synthesis of high-density crystalline h-BN solids by using high-temperature spark plasma sintering […]


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Atomic layer etching of SiO$_2$ using sequential exposures of Al(CH$_3$)$_3$ and H$_2$/SF$_6$ plasma

Kavli Affiliate: Austin Minnich | First 5 Authors: David Catherall, Azmain Hossain, Austin Minnich, , | Summary: On-chip photonic devices based on SiO$_2$ are of interest for applications such as microresonator gyroscopes and microwave sources. Although SiO$_2$ microdisk resonators have achieved quality factors exceeding one billion, this value remains an order of magnitude less than […]


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