20+ AI Tools Every Startup Should Know in 2025
**Why AI Is a Startup’s Best Friend** Startups thrive on speed, agility, and innovation—but limited resources can slow growth. That’s where AI tools come in. From automating legal paperwork ...
All Politics is Local: Redistricting via Local Fairness
In this paper, we propose to use the concept of local fairness for auditing and ranking redistricting plans. Given a redistricting plan, a deviating group is a population-balanced contiguous region in which a majority of individuals are of the same i...
Votemandering: Strategies and Fairness in Political Redistricting
Gerrymandering, the deliberate manipulation of electoral district boundaries for political advantage, is a persistent issue in U.S. redistricting cycles. This paper introduces and analyzes a new phenomenon, 'votemandering'- a strategic blend of gerry...
Permutation cycles of hardcore Bose-Hubbard models on square and Kagome lattices
In this paper, we study the statistics of permutation cycles of ground-state hardcore lattice bosons described by various two-dimensional Bose-Hubbard-type models on both square and Kagome lattices. We find that it is possible to differentiate quantu...
Lingua Custodia's participation at the WMT 2021 Machine Translation using Terminologies sh…
This paper describes Lingua Custodia's submission to the WMT21 shared task on machine translation using terminologies. We consider three directions, namely English to French, Russian, and Chinese. We rely on a Transformer-based architecture as a buil...
Lingua Custodia at WMT'19: Attempts to Control Terminology
This paper describes Lingua Custodia's submission to the WMT'19 news shared task for German-to-French on the topic of the EU elections. We report experiments on the adaptation of the terminology of a machine translation system to a specific topic, ai...
A High-Precision Multi-Channel TAC and QAC Module for the Neutron Detection Wall
A single width NIM module that includes eight channels TAC (time-to-amplitude converter) and QAC (charge-to-amplitude converter) is introduced in the paper, which is designed for the large neutron wall detector to measure charge (energy) and time int...
PP-Tac: Paper Picking Using Tactile Feedback in Dexterous Robotic Hands
Robots are increasingly envisioned as human companions, assisting with everyday tasks that often involve manipulating deformable objects. Although recent advances in robotic hardware and embodied AI have expanded their capabilities, current systems s...
On Weakly von Neumann regular rings
In this paper, we define and study a particular case of von Neumann regular notion called a weak von Neumann regular ring. It shown that the polynomial ring $R[x]$ is weak von Neumann regular if and only if $R$ has exactly two idempotent elements....
Von Neumann Categories
In this paper, we introduce the notion of a von Neumann category, as a generalization and categorification of von Neumann algebra. A von Neumann category is a premonoidal category with compatible dagger structure which embeds as a double commutant in...
Degenerate soliton solutions and their dynamics in the nonlocal Manakov system: I Symmetry…
In this paper, we construct degenerate soliton solutions (which preserve $\cal{PT}$-symmetry/break $\cal{PT}$-symmetry) to the nonlocal Manakov system through a nonstandard bilinear procedure. Here by degenerate we mean the solitons that are present...
General two-component long-wave short-wave resonance interaction system: Non-degenerate ve…
In this paper, we demonstrate the emergence of non-degenerate bright solitons and summarize their several interesting features in a completely integrable two-component long-wave-short-wave resonance interaction model with a general form of nonlineari...
Nondegenerate soliton solutions in certain coupled nonlinear Schrödinger systems
In this paper, we report a more general class of nondegenerate soliton solutions, associated with two distinct wave numbers in different modes, for a certain class of physically important integrable two component nonlinear Schrödinger type equations...
Scalar and vector electromagnetic solitary waves in nonlinear hyperbolic media
In this paper, we investigate the problem of electromagnetic wave propagation in hyperbolic nonlinear media. To address this problem, we consider the scalar hyperbolic nonlinear Schrödinger system and its coupled version, namely hyperbolic Manakov t...
On Frequency Response Function Identification for Advanced Motion Control
A key step in control of precision mechatronic systems is Frequency Response Function (FRF) identification. The aim of this paper is to illustrate relevant developments and solutions for FRF identification for advanced motion control. Specifically de...
On a problem of Bharanedhar and Ponnusamy involving planar harmonic mappings
In this paper, we give a negative answer to a problem presented by Bharanedhar and Ponnusamy (Rocky Mountain J. Math. 44: 753--777, 2014) concerning univalency of a class of harmonic mappings. More precisely, we show that for all values of the involv...
Resolving Head-On Conflicts for Multi-Agent Path Finding with Conflict-Based Search
Conflict-Based Search (CBS) is a popular framework for solving the Multi-Agent Path Finding problem. Some of the conflicts incur a foreseeable conflict in one or both of the children nodes when splitting on them. This paper introduces a new technique...
Normative Conflicts and Shallow AI Alignment
The progress of AI systems such as large language models (LLMs) raises increasingly pressing concerns about their safe deployment. This paper examines the value alignment problem for LLMs, arguing that current alignment strategies are fundamentally i...
From Everyday to Existential -- The ethics of shifting the boundaries of health and data w…
Multimodal digital biomarkers (MDBs) integrate diverse physiological, behavioral, and contextual data to provide continuous representations of health. This paper argues that MDBs expand the concept of digital biomarkers along the dimensions of variab...
Raychaudhuri Equation from Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation : A Quantum Aspect
The paper deals with a suitable transformation related to the metric scalar of the hyper-surface so that the Raychaudhuri Equation (RE) can be written as a second order nonlinear differential equation. A first integral of this second order differenti...