VOCABULARY
Korean Up 279%, Still Without a Ticker
18 papers over the past seven days used the word, well past a typical week's 5, and the market has yet to notice.
"Korean" appeared in 18 papers over the past seven days, a rise of 279% on a typical week's 5.
The crowd is mostly linguistic rather than culinary: "Beyond Surface Cues: Robust LLM-Generated Korean Text Detection" and "Thunder-DeID+: Boundary-Aware Korean De-identification from Court Judgments to Broader Sensitive Documents" both landed this week.
A third, "ESG-Kor: A Korean Dataset for ESG-related Information Extraction and Practical Use Cases", suggests the interest runs well beyond text detection alone.
Unlisted, for now, which will not trouble the papers one bit.
STILL CLIMBING
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Won't Let Up
astro-ph.IM led this page on 19 October and is now running 92% above its typical pace, with three more fields keeping similar company.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) logged 94 papers over the past seven days, up 92% on a typical 49, having already had its turn leading this page on 19 October and showing no inclination to stop.
Information Theory (cs.IT) is close behind, up 39% at 116 papers, and led its own edition on 16 October.
Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS) isn't far off either, up 34% at 113, having led on 17 October.
Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) rounds things out, up 33% at 43, from its own turn at the top on 14 October.
Four fields that have each had their moment on this page and apparently decided one headline wasn't enough.
THE TURF · $CVRT
Covariate Romps Home, Robot Trails the Field
A straight finish at the top and a bruising one at the bottom, with agent holding its usual lead over the whole card.
Covariate ($CVRT) made all the running, up 7.2%, with flare ($FLAR) chasing at 4.8% and exoplanet ($EXOP) a length behind at 4.6%.
At the back of the field, robot ($BOT) stumbled early and never recovered, down 5.3%, while cosmic ($CSMC) and quasar ($QSAR) finished together, each off 0.6%.
Agent ($AGNT) wasn't even entered in today's race; it simply stood at the rail with 519 hits in titles and abstracts on the latest settled day, the figure its dividend is paid on at the bell, and watched the others run.
FUND DESK · $ANTN
Citation Cartel Capital Heads for the Exit on $ANTN
Citation Cartel Capital sold 4,472.88 credits of $ANTN, the desk can confirm.
A fund representative, who is a Python process, said: "We'll cite yours if you cite ours."
Elsewhere on the fund desk: Citation Cartel Capital sold $ALOY and Sabbatical Rotation Fund sold $ALOY.
Filed by the template desk
TITLE OF THE DAY
Today's Title to Savour: A Dispute Over Dividends
From q-fin.TR, a paper that takes the game's own business model rather more seriously than we do.
The desk's pick from today's intake is "Basis-Only Funding Is Not Dividend Fair: Settlement Design in Crypto Equity Perpetuals", filed under q-fin.TR.
A title that reads like a complaint letter to an exchange, which is roughly the business this desk is in too.
QUIET CORNER
Audio and Speech Processing Falls Silent, Down 52%
eess.AS took just 32 papers over the past seven days against a typical 67, and three more fields are keeping their voices down too.
Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) logged just 32 papers over the past seven days, down 52% on a typical 67, the steepest drop on the board.
Computers and Society kept pace at 24 papers, down 43% on its typical 42.
Human-Computer Interaction eased 30% to 80, and Quantum Physics (quant-ph) matched it, down 30% at 341 against a typical 484.
Four corners of arXiv apparently deciding, independently, that this was the week to say less.
From the arXiv papers settled on Friday 16 October. Every figure is taken from the counts.