New papers on Other computing
36 new papers on other computing in the last 7 days, within Computing. These are the 36 Pipette rates most worth reading, with the main result in the authors' own words.
The best of the week
The ecological collapse of color: photoreceptor number buys a geometric hue manifold that natural spectra never fill
Crucially, the study reveals that the "ecological color manifold", the colors actually created by natural reflectance spectra under natural light, falls dramatically short of these geometric capabilities.
PreprintBroad interestClaims a big stepBeyond Provenance: The Economics and Governance of Personalized AI Memory
We develop a unified model in which memory use is non-rival, while refresh, the maintenance of continued validity, is relationally co-produced by the represented individual and the platform.
PreprintReal-world useDeceptionAnalyser: A Web-Based AI Tool for Performing Structured Deception Analysis with Argumentation Schemes and LLMs
In doing so, we introduce the first dedicated library of argumentation schemes specifically designed for deception analysis, providing a structured foundation for systematically modelling and analysing deception in narrative text.
PreprintScientific capabilities and deployment sustainability of small-scale LLMs in biological wastewater treatment
These findings highlight domain-specialized small-scale LLMs as a promising pathway towards scientifically capable, computationally efficient, and sustainably deployable artificial intelligence for wastewater treatment.
PreprintBold claims, read criticallyReal-world useDetecting Agitation Before Behavioral Escalation in Autistic Youth Through Multimodal Wearable Sensing
Individualized agitation is therefore detectable, including in unannotated windows preceding the annotated onset, using foundation-model transfer with one shared model rather than one per child.
PreprintReal-world useCan Labor Markets Function in the Age of AI? The Evaluation Bottleneck in Hiring
Our results show how AI can shift the central friction in hiring from submitting applications to obtaining credible evaluation, creating entry barriers for high-fit workers without prior experience.
PreprintCognitive behavior emerging in mechanical systems through reservoir encoding and active inference
Drawing inspiration from biological cognition, we introduce a computational framework enabling mechanical systems to learn, adapt, and make decisions through interactions with partially observable environments.
PreprintBold claims, read criticallyScoring Grant Applications with Large Language Models
Findings: Although the LLM scores are individually inaccurate, when averaged and converted to ranks they correlate positively with expert average scores.
PreprintSurgGraph: Quantitative Laparoscopic Video Understanding via Geometry-Grounded Scene Graphs
We present SurgGraph, a training-free pipeline that generates quantitative scene graphs from surgical videos.
PreprintReal-world useTowards clinical adoption of voice and speech as measures of health: the need for harmonization
As a first step, we therefore provide definitions, physiological correlates, and computational implementations for a minimal, clinically interpretable set of core speech measures spanning respiration, phonation, articulation, and fluency.
PreprintReal-world useFrom Smarter to Hungrier: the Role of Energy Efficiency in Software-defined Vehicles
We underscore the need for novel tools to measure, manage, and optimise energy consumption and other sustainability indicators, with design guidance and actionable recommendations.
PreprintReal-world useEasy to readThe illusion of neutrality in metric-based research evaluation
Among 795 respondents whose choices were largely internally consistent, choices placed nearly equal aggregate weight on the two signals.
PreprintEasy to readOpen Science, Closed Models: How Funding Shapes AI in Science
As public funding contracts and industry compute provision expands, scientific AI work shifts toward closed proprietary infrastructure.
PreprintBold claims, read criticallySelf-Evolving Multimedia Verification through Memory Consolidation of Contestation Experiences
We present SEMV (Self-Evolving Multimedia Verification), a self-evolving multi-agent framework that treats provenance-bearing arguments as the interface between evidence, reasoning, human contestation, and memory.
PreprintUniCASE: A Unified 16-bit Floating-Point Format with Criticality-Aware Selective ECC for Efficient DNN Protection
We propose UniCASE, a unified 16-bit floating-point (FP) format that jointly optimizes data representation and error protection for reliable DNN execution.
Preprint with a published versionReal-world useSmall Cues, Big Consequences: Learning Pivotal Cues for Multimodal Meme Classification
Cross-dataset and ablation results further show that explicit pivotal-evidence modeling improves robustness and contributes meaningfully beyond global multimodal representations.
PreprintCode availableReal-Validated UAV Audition Under Rotor Ego-Noise for Low-False-Alarm Human Detection
The main contribution is therefore a real-validated benchmark and evaluation protocol showing that honest progress in UAV audition requires real, group-level validation rather than synthetic scores alone.
PreprintReal-world useAgent-based Modeling: Equilibrium, Echo Chambers, and Efficiency in Hybrid Coevolutionary Opinion Games
The pooled Price of Anarchy is for purely Type-L populations, compared with for purely Type-C populations.
PreprintPrompting Against Persona Drift: Comparing Intervention Timing and Content in LLM-Simulated Conversations
Relative to no intervention, reinjection reduced the modeled rate of LLM-rated drift by 35--38%, reflective reminders by 22--27%, and behavior-specific instruction by 87%. None eliminated drift.
PreprintDynamic Slack-Aware Clocking for Near-Threshold Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)
We propose Dynamic Slack-Aware Clocking (DSAC), a proactive framework that replaces worst-case timing with operation-specific adjustments.
Preprint with a published versionReal-world useEra by Eon: Benchmarking Enterprise Agents on Hidden Knowledge
We add eight question templates that depend on hidden facts.
PreprintCausal graph rewriting
Our main result concerns sequential composition: locality extends from single rule applications to arbitrary valid sequences, as any local rule is automatically -local and -extensive.
PreprintAn Open-Source Standard-Cell Library for IHP 130nm Developed by Students
This paper presents VLSI 5, a graduate-level course at ETH Zurich in which students design, lay out, characterize, and integrate their own standard cells using IHP's open-source 130nm SG13G2 process design kit.
PreprintBeyond HBM-on-GPU: Thermal Design Envelope for 3D Volumetric DRAM-on-GPU Integration
This work establishes the thermal design envelope for 3D volumetric DRAM-on-GPU integration, in which vertically oriented DRAM dies and interleaved cooling cavities reshape heat flow and memory interfacing above the GPU.
PreprintReal-world useLogics of Filter Bubbles
We provide sound and strongly complete axiomatizations for the static and dynamic logics and prove their decidability.
PreprintToward Multi-kW Power Delivery Methodologies for Advanced 3D Heterogeneous Integration
This paper overviews approaches to building design methodologies that overcome this problem, through the design of multistage distributed power delivery systems, optimized for performance and reliability, and built to coexist within stringent performance, thermal, and reliability constraints.
PreprintReal-world useCostly Voting in the Hotelling-Downs Model
We find that the main predictor of polarization is the reverse-hazard-rate of the cost distribution, indicating that the driver of polarization under our model is the willingness of voters to respond to changes in positions of candidates.
PreprintNPU Accelerator: Quantized Real-Time Vehicle Detection on PYNQ-Z1 Using FINN
The results show that low-bit QAT, architectural slimming, FINN folding and FIFO optimization, and moderate clock scaling can jointly provide a practical real-time detector on a small Zynq FPGA.
PreprintReal-world useCircuit-Architecture-Training Co-Design with Regenerative-SA Similarity Sensing for Aggressive SAR Skipping in Analog Compute-in-Memory
This work presents a circuit-architecture-training co-design framework that exploits sense-amplifier (SA) regeneration to detect analog-output similarity and reduce SAR comparisons in compute-in-memory (CIM) systems.
PreprintReal-world useIntegrating Approximate Logic Synthesis into Approximate High-Level Synthesis
To bridge this gap, we propose to integrate ALS into the flow of approximate HLS.
Preprint with a published versionEnergy-Oriented CGLA Mapping of a Memory-Polynomial Digital Predistortion Kernel
The RTX 4090 baseline has the lowest end-to-end latency at 0.484 ms. Under model-based platform power accounting and the stated power assumptions, the projected IMAX configuration gives 169.1 times smaller modeled end-to-end energy per batch than the RTX 4090 baseline.
PreprintBold claims, read criticallyReal-world useThe Sources of Unknowability and Self-refutation in Epistemic and Dynamic Epistemic Logic
We first show that any unbelievable formula is a fixed point of the Moore function defined by Our main result shows that in S5, the static notions of unknowability and unbelievability in epistemic logic, and the dynamic notions of always informativeness and eventual self-refutation in dynamic epistemic logic are all equivalent to "Moorean phenomena." We also generalize the result to the multi-agent case, showing that although all unknowable formulas still manifest Moorean phenomena, new mechanisms arise due to their interactive nature.
PreprintAcceptance & Rejection
In this paper, we argue that acceptance and rejection are classical speech acts that express two opposite polar positions toward propositional content and can be systematically represented within a classically outlined bilateral formal model.
PreprintElement-dependent buckling loads of stiffened panels under cantilevered shear
The linearized buckling load of a stiffened panel depends on the stress stiffness its shell element assembles.
PreprintEventual and Strong Eventual Notions in Public Announcements
In this paper, we introduce eventual and strong eventual versions of these notions, as well as their transfinite versions, which allow transfinite iteration of announcements.
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