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Xueyun Li

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"Not in My Backyard": LLMs Uncover Online and Offline Social Biases Against Homelessness

Homelessness is a persistent social challenge, impacting millions worldwide. Over 876,000 people experiencing homelessness (PEH) were recorded in the U.S. in 2025. Social bias is a significant barrier to alleviating homelessness, shaping public perception and influencing policymaking. Because online textual media and offline city council discourse both reflect and influence public opinion, they provide valuable signals for identifying and tracking social biases against PEH. We release the first multi-domain PEH bias corpus with a 16-category multi-label taxonomy: a 1,698-item stratified gold-standard set annotated by partner-trained raters, plus 48,389 GPT-4.1-labeled texts, drawn from Reddit, X (formerly Twitter), news, and council meeting transcripts across ten U.S. cities (2015-2025). We benchmark six prompted LLMs on the gold-standard set and complement F1 with prevalence-gap audits. Moderate F1 coexists with large miscalibration: every model over-tags "not in my backyard" (NIMBY) (+11.5 pp) and under-detects factual claims (-30.5 pp). Error analysis on consensus false positives reveals that models treat housing vocabulary and question form as opposition proxies, producing NIMBY false positives on pro-service text. The corpus and audit protocol support municipal PEH stigma monitoring without treating teacher labels as ground truth.

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Sculpting Topological Modes on Photonic Chips by Artificial Gauge Fields

Significant efforts have been devoted to manipulating topological states, which often manifest as localized modes at interfaces between distinct topological phases. In this work, we demonstrate a versatile approach to sculpting topological modes (TMs) into any desired shapes by incorporating various artificial gauge fields (AGFs), including scalar, vector, and imaginary gauge potentials, and leveraging the power of artificial neural networks (ANNs). These AGFs enable precise tuning of the dissipation of the TMs across that of bulk modes, facilitating a transition from localized to fully delocalized states. Moreover, ANNs allow precise engineering of these eigenmodes to achieve tailored profiles of topological states, which remain spectrally isolated within the bandgap and exhibit minimal loss compared to other modes. Our theoretical results are experimentally validated on silicon photonic platforms, demonstrating flexible manipulation of TM profiles. This approach enables the design of topological states with customized properties, offering significant potential for diverse applications in photonics and beyond.

physics.optics

Fast-speed and low-power-consumption optical phased array based on thin-film lithium niobate platform

Fast scanning-speed and low-power-consumption are becoming progressively more and more important in realizing high-performance chiplet optical phased arrays (OPAs). Here, we establish an integrated OPA based on thin-film lithium niobate-on-insulator (LNOI) platform to access these outstanding performances. Significantly, a lithium niobate (LN) OPA chip is implemented by 32/48 channels LN waveguides enabled by electro-optic modulations, which showcases the low power consumption (1.11nJ/π}) and fast operation speed (14.4 ns) promising the advantage of the LNOI platform for integrated OPAs. As results, we experimentally achieved a beam steering with a 62.2°*8.8° field of view (FOV) and a beam divergence of 2.4°*1.2°. Moreover, by employing sparse aperiodic arrays in waveguides design we obtained a significant reduction of lateral divergence to 0.33° for the radiation beam. This work demonstrate that remarkable advantage of LNOI platform for power-saving and scalable OPA chips for various applications.

physics.optics

Nanoparticles manipulation in 3D nanotips excited with plasmonic vortex

Recent advances in nanotechnologies have prompted the need for tools to accurately and non invasively manipulate individual nanoobjects. Among the possible strategies, optical forces have been widely used to enable nano optical tweezers capable of trapping or moving a specimen with unprecedented accuracy. Here, we propose an architecture consisting of a nanotip excited with a plasmonic vortex enabling effective dynamical control of nanoparticles in three dimensions. The optical field generated by the structure can be used to manipulate single dielectric nanoparticles acting on the total angular momentum of light used to illuminate the structure. We demonstrate that it is possible to stably trap or force the beaming of the particle from specific points, thus enabling a new platform for nanoparticle manipulation and sorting.

physics.optics