Davis & Elkins College (D&E) is a small private liberal arts college in Elkins, West Virginia..
Growing evidence suggests that layer attention mechanisms, which enhance interaction among layers in deep neural networks, have significantly advanced network architectures. However, existing layer attention methods suffer from redundancy, as attention weights learned by adjacent layers often become highly similar. This redundancy causes multiple layers to extract nearly identical features, reducing the model's representational capacity and increasing training time. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach to quantify redundancy by leveraging the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between adjacent layers. Additionally, we introduce an Enhanced Beta Quantile Mapping (EBQM) method that accurately identifies and skips redundant layers, thereby maintaining model stability. Our proposed Efficient Layer Attention (ELA) architecture, improves both training efficiency and overall performance, achieving a 30
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in visual understanding tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering. However, they remain susceptible to hallucinations, generating content that is inconsistent with the actual visual input. Existing methods primarily intervene at the decoding stage, while overlooking a critical source of hallucinations: irrelevant or noisy visual tokens that mislead the decoding process. To address this issue, we propose SeeMe, a training-free framework that introduces the concept of feature engineering from traditional machine learning into LVLMs. SeeMe restructures visual tokens through a three-stage token engineering process to suppress hallucination sources while preserving informative visual evidence. Experiments on MME, POPE, and AMBER benchmarks across four LVLMs demonstrate that SeeMe consistently reduces hallucinations and improves output consistency, providing a novel perspective for mitigating hallucinations in LVLMs.
Organizations are, in hindsight, facing an economic crisis due to quiet quitting. This is a quantitative cross-sectional study on the antecedents of quiet quitting: perceived organizational justice (distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational), work engagement, and organizational commitment (affective, normative, and continuance). A total of 229 samples were collected from five private primary and secondary educational institutions in the Philippines, of which 180 qualified for data analysis. Data were collected from employees with 12 months of service in their institution. Multiple linear regression using JASP was utilized for data analysis. The results show that low work engagement, low affective commitment, and high continuance commitment are the predictors most likely to predict quiet quitting, whereas perceived distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice, as well as normative commitment, are not. This study contributes to new knowledge on the antecedents of quiet quitting in the context of education. The results of this study serve as input for policy development and interventions of school administrators and human resource practitioners.
de Broglie-Bohm theory (dBBT), treating quantum particles as point objects moving along well defined (Bohmian) trajectories, offers an appealing solution of the measurement problem in quantum mechanics; it has, however, problems relating to spin, relativity and lack of proper integration with the Hilbert space based framework. In this work, we present a consistent Hilbert space based formalism which has the traditional state-observable framework integrated with the desirable features of dBBT. We adopt ensemble interpretation for the Schr ö dinger wave function ψ . Using a fixed time wave function ψ _0 to make the system configuration space M (= ℝ^n) a probability space ℳ_0 = (ℝ^n, |ψ _0|^2 dx) , we introduce a stochastic process ξ (t) such that its expectation value in ℳ_0 equals that of the Heisenberg position operator X_H(t) in the Heisenberg state |ψ _H⟩ corresponding to ψ _0 . This condition leads to the de Broglie-Bohm guidance equation for the sample paths of the process ξ (t) which are, therefore, Bohmian trajectories supposedly representing time-evolutions of individual members of the ψ _0 -ensemble. Stochastic processes and Bohmian trajectories corresponding to observables with discrete eigenvalues (in particular spin) are treated by extending the configuration space to the spectral space of the commutative algebra obtained by adding appropriate discrete observables to the position observables. Pauli’s equation (the Schr ö dinger equation for a nonrelativistic charged spin half particle) is treated as an example. A straightforward derivation of von Neumann’s projection rule employing the Schr ö dinger - Bohm evolution of individual systems along their Bohmian trajectories is given. Some comments on the potential application of the formalism developed here to quantum mechanics of the universe are included.
The taxonomy and phylogeny of several clades of the genus Entoloma were revised using morphological and molecular genetic methods. Phylogenetic relationships among European species of the clades /Alboleptonia, /Caeruleopolitum, /Claudopus, /Griseorubidum, /Leptonia, /Olivaceotinctum, /Omphaliopsis, /Pouzarella, /Prunuloides, /Sphagneti, /Turfosa, /Undulatosporum, /Velenovskyi, and /Vinaceum were inferred using 694 newly generated sequences derived from the nrDNA ITS region including 80 sequences from type specimens. Anticipating the second volume of a completely revised monograph of the genus Entoloma in Europe, the following names are neotypified or epitypes are designated where, in case holotypes or lectotypes appeared unsuitable for molecular studies, viz. E. araneosum, E. byssisedum, E. griseorubidum, E. hirtum, E. lanicum, E. neglectum, E. ollare, E. opacum, E. plebejum, E. resutum, E. rusticoides, E. sericellum, E. triste, E. undatum, E. velenovskyi, and E. versatile. New type sequences for E. alliodorum, E. asperum, E. brunneoflocculosum, E. caeruleopolitum, E. calaminare, E. canosericeum, E. cettoi, E. cuboidoalbum, E. indutoides, E. iodiolens, E. jahnii, E. milleri, E. moguntinum, E. olivaceotinctum, E. ostreatum, E. politoflavipes, E. polyangulatum, E. pseudoconferendum, E. pseudonigellum, E. pseudosericeoides, E. ritae, E. sericeoides, E. sordidolamellatum, and E. undulatosporum have been generated and deposited in GenBank. Twenty-nine species new to science are described and illustrated, viz. E. albostriatum, E. amabile, E. assimile, E. bresadolae, E. brunneostrigosum, E. chloridicolor, E. cassiopeia, E. chioneum, E. cognatum, E. cornatum, E. eborinum, E. ermineum, E. fraudans, E. fusconigrum, E. griseopulchrum, E. hirsutum, E. ludwigii, E. nanoalbum, E. nix, E. olivaceovirens, E. ostreatum, E. paraindutoides, E. peraraneosum, E. pilosum, E. pumilionis, E. skadiae, E. umbrinotinctum, E. vilae, and E. weiriorum, and Entoloma sect. Atricoloria is described as new to science. The name E. myochroum is validated and the replacement name E. cobaltichlorum is proposed. Morphological and molecular studies made it necessary to provide new, amended descriptions for E. alliodorum, E. anthracinum, E. araneosum, E. brunneoflocculosum, E. byssisedum, E. calaminare, E. canosericeum, E. dysthaloides, E. griseorubidum, E. flocculosum, E. indutoides, E. inopiliforme, E. hirtum, E. lanicum, E. lidbergii, E. milleri, E. myochroum, E. neglectum, E. olivaceotinctum, E. ollare, E. opacum, E. plebejum, E. polyangulatum, E. pseudonigellum, E. pseudoparasiticum, E. pseudosericeoides, E. pseudoturbidum, E. resutum, E. rusticoides, E. sericellum, E. sericeoides, E. sordidolamellatum, E. triste, E. undatum, E. undulatosporum, E. velenovskyi, and E. versatile. Citation: Noordeloos ME, Reschke K, Morozova O, Jordal JB, Jansen GM, Brandrud TE, Bendiksen E, Larsson E, Karich A, Krisai-Greilhuber I, Ainsworth AM, Nuytinck J, Borovička J, van der Vegte MJC, Frøslev TG, Dima B (2026). The genus Entoloma (Basidiomycota, Agaricales) in Europe: new taxa and amended species concepts in a phylogenetic context; neo-, lecto- and epitypifications of classical names. Persoonia 56: 200-307. doi: 10.3114/persoonia.2026.56.03.
