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SwiFT: Swin 4D fMRI Transformer

Neural Information Processing Systems

Modeling spatiotemporal brain dynamics from high-dimensional data, such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), is a formidable task in neuroscience. Existing approaches for fMRI analysis utilize hand-crafted features, but the process of feature extraction risks losing essential information in fMRI scans. To address this challenge, we present SwiFT (Swin 4D fMRI Transformer), a Swin Transformer architecture that can learn brain dynamics directly from fMRI volumes in a memory and computation-efficient manner. SwiFT achieves this by implementing a 4D window multi-head self-attention mechanism and absolute positional embeddings. We evaluate SwiFT using multiple large-scale resting-state fMRI datasets, including the Human Connectome Project (HCP), Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD), and UK Biobank (UKB) datasets, to predict sex, age, and cognitive intelligence.


Taylor Swift fans flock to German museum to see Ophelia painting

BBC News

Taylor Swift fans are driving a surge in popularity of a German museum exhibiting a portrait of the Shakespeare character Ophelia, recently reimagined in a song and music video from Swift's new album The Life of a Showgirl. The Hessische Landesmuseum in the central German city of Wiesbaden saw hundreds more visitors than usual over the weekend, as fans hoped to see the real version of the painting that opens the music video for The Fate of Ophelia. In the video, viewed more than 65 million times on Youtube, the painting comes alive, with Swift at its centre. We're really enjoying this attention - it's a lot of fun, museum spokesperson Susanne Hirschmann told the Associated Press. Hirschmann said that one family had travelled from the northern city of Hamburg, a five-hour drive away, while some of the visitors were Americans from an army base nearby.



Fans Call on Taylor Swift to 'Do Better' After Accusations of Using AI for Promo Videos

WIRED

Fans Call on Taylor Swift to'Do Better' After Accusations of Using AI for Promo Videos A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift's new album, resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign. Fans attend a screening of at a theater in Los Angeles. These were just some of the alleged clues that fans spotted in promo videos for Taylor Swift's new album,, this weekend. They were, to their eyes, telltale indicators that the videos were purportedly made with generative AI . "The first sign that it was AI was that it didn't look great," claims Marcela Lobo, a graphic designer in Brazil who has been a Swift fan since she was 12. "It was wonky, the shadows didn't match, the windows and the painted piano, it looked like shit, basically."


'Meteor' streaks through Britain's skies tonight leaving lucky gazers in awe

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Charlie Kirk leaked text confirms he was livid about'bullying' Jewish donors: 'I'm leaving pro-Israel cause' White House insider who says WAR with Venezuela is inevitable... as Trump's lethal options are laid out I've seen the real Victoria Beckham... her actions gave me PTSD, she shunned me and even banned me from glancing in her direction. Jimmy Kimmel's audience boom comes crashing down as he loses 71% of viewers in one week'Kissing Trump's a**': President mocks Canada's obsequious PM as he begs for tariff relief World's most invasive predator terrorizing East Coast is delicious and should be eaten to stop its spread, experts say I've had enough of the arrogant and entitled fat brigade. Bloodcurdling videos shows girl aged 12 subway surfing days before she and friend, 13, died during 3.10am stunt Another blow for Prince Harry as African country cuts ties with his'disrespectful' charity Friends fear for new CBS News boss Bari Weiss, claiming her wife thinks she sold out... and her new job will'consume her life' Keith Urban's guitarist Maggie once vowed to'never' date a tour mate... as she's accused of charming Nicole Kidman's ex Hollywood's favorite muscle car primed for return as America's No.1 automaker files secret paperwork AMANDA PLATELL: I never thought I'd feel sorry for Harry. There's one thing he'd do anything to defend... and now Meghan's trampled all over it Ben Affleck's VERY familiar whispers to Jennifer Lopez on the red carpet revealed... as their romantic new era sends fans into overdrive Jimmy Kimmel continues anti-Trump rants and says he's more popular with Americans than the president Brits have been left in awe after spotting what is believed to be a'meteor' glowing through the night sky. Lucky stargazers in Northfields and West Ealing, west London, have reported seeing a blue-ish green blob race through the city's sky tonight.


Swift: An Autoregressive Consistency Model for Efficient Weather Forecasting

Stock, Jason, Arcomano, Troy, Kotamarthi, Rao

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Diffusion models offer a physically grounded framework for probabilistic weather forecasting, but their typical reliance on slow, iterative solvers during inference makes them impractical for subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) applications where long lead-times and domain-driven calibration are essential. To address this, we introduce Swift, a single-step consistency model that, for the first time, enables autoregressive finetuning of a probability flow model with a continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) objective. This eliminates the need for multi-model ensembling or parameter perturbations. Results show that Swift produces skillful 6-hourly forecasts that remain stable for up to 75 days, running $39\times$ faster than state-of-the-art diffusion baselines while achieving forecast skill competitive with the numerical-based, operational IFS ENS. This marks a step toward efficient and reliable ensemble forecasting from medium-range to seasonal-scales.


Watch: New video of moment shooting suspect flees scene

BBC News

Utah authorities have released CCTV footage showing the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect fleeing the scene at Utah Valley University. The video shows a figure dressed in black running across a roof before dropping down to the ground and fleeing towards a wooded area. Authorities say the suspect was wearing Converse shoes, sunglasses and a distinctive black T-shirt with an American flag and an eagle. Watch: Key moments from RFK Jr's heated Senate hearing The US health secretary faced questions on Covid deaths and vaccines a week after firing the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The group said they are making their own list of Jeffrey Epstein's associates and called for the release of all files related to the investigation.


Watch: How the Charlie Kirk shooting unfolded

BBC News

Hundreds of people had gathered to hear right-wing activist Charlie Kirk speak at the Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The conservative activist and influential Trump ally was shot and killed while speaking. BBC Verify has been piecing together a timeline of how the incident unfolded. 'I would feel more worried' - Chicagoans on Trump's plan to deploy troops President Donald Trump says he will send the National Guard to Chicago to help fight crime but has not specified when that could occur. Officers in Michigan were responding to reports of a stolen vehicle, when they deployed a grappler device around one of the car's tires.


Witnesses describe shooting scene

BBC News

'Traumatising for everyone': Witnesses describe Charlie Kirk shooting scene Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has died after being shot while speaking to a crowd of hundreds on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday. Witnesses describe what happened on the scene before and after a single shot rang out. 'I would feel more worried' - Chicagoans on Trump's plan to deploy troops President Donald Trump says he will send the National Guard to Chicago to help fight crime but has not specified when that could occur. Officers in Michigan were responding to reports of a stolen vehicle, when they deployed a grappler device around one of the car's tires. In response to a reporter's question, the president said he was'very active' over the Labor Day weekend.