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Computer Sciences
Microsoft introduces rStar-Math, an SLM for math reasoning and problem solving
A team of math and AI researchers at Microsoft Asia has designed and developed a small language model (SLM) that can be used to solve math problems. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server outlining the ...
Jan 10, 2025
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Group activity recognition: A dataset with detailed annotation and rich semantics
Group activity recognition (GAR), which aims to identify activities performed collectively in videos, has gained significant attention recently. Existing GAR datasets typically annotate only a single Group Activity (GA) instance ...
Jan 10, 2025
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Machine learning algorithm enables faster, more accurate predictions on small tabular data sets
Filling gaps in data sets or identifying outliers—that's the domain of the machine learning algorithm TabPFN, developed by a team led by Prof. Dr. Frank Hutter from the University of Freiburg. This artificial intelligence ...
Jan 9, 2025
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New tool finds hidden biases in Wikipedia's multilingual content
Cultural and social biases significantly influence Wikipedia's multilingual content, according to a team of researchers that includes a computer scientist from Johns Hopkins University.
Jan 9, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Human-inspired AI model can produce and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds
Whether you're describing the sound of your faulty car engine or meowing like your neighbor's cat, imitating sounds with your voice can be a helpful way to relay a concept when words don't do the trick.
Jan 9, 2025
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New mathematical model could help protect privacy and ensure safer use of AI
AI tools are increasingly being used to track and monitor us both online and in-person, yet their effectiveness comes with big risks. Computer scientists at the Oxford Internet Institute, Imperial College London, and UCLouvain ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Hardware
Specialized hardware solves high-order optimization problems with in-memory computing
The rise of AI, graphic processing, combinatorial optimization and other data-intensive applications has resulted in data-processing bottlenecks, as ever greater amounts of data must be shuttled back and forth between the ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Evaluating how brains generalize: Data from macaque monkeys reveals flaws in deep neural networks
Among the marvels of the human brain is its ability to generalize. We see an object, like a chair, and we know it's a chair, even when it's a slightly different shape, or it's found in an unexpected place or in a dimly lit ...
Jan 8, 2025
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From logs to security: How process analysis is transforming access control
Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications have developed a framework for improving system security by analyzing business process logs. The research is published in the International Journal of Software Engineering ...
Jan 7, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Digital fingerprint: Cascading style sheets leaves users vulnerable to tracking
Processor type, IP address, browser in use, installed fonts—by collecting these and other characteristics of browser settings and the underlying operating system, it is possible to create a highly detailed and, in some ...
Jan 3, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Virtual platform enables real-time musical collaboration with avatars
Researchers are aiming to bring the magic of playing music in person to the virtual world. The Joint Active Music Sessions (JAMS) platform, created at the University of Birmingham, uses avatars created by individual musicians ...
Jan 3, 2025
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Computer Sciences
An AI system has reached human level on a test for 'general intelligence'—here's what that means
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure "general intelligence."
Dec 24, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Fake credentials offer novel solution to e-voting challenges
As we come to the end of a year in which half the world's population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Modern AI systems have achieved Turing's vision, but not exactly how he hoped
A recent perspective published Nov. 13 in Intelligent Computing, asserts that today's artificial intelligence systems have finally realized Alan Turing's vision from over 70 years ago: machines that can genuinely learn from ...
Dec 20, 2024
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AI-powered algorithm enables personalized age transformation for human faces
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland recently developed MyTimeMachine (MyTM), a new AI-powered method for personalized age transformation that can make human faces in images ...
Computer Sciences
AI 'Machine Psychology' could unlock human-level intelligence, says researcher
Artificial intelligence that is as intelligent as humans may become possible thanks to psychological learning models, combined with certain types of AI. This is the conclusion of Robert Johansson, who in his dissertation, ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?
When it comes to digital access and internet technologies, some languages are still more equal than others. Speakers of majority languages, who type in English or text in Korean, assume their message will be transmitted accurately. ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Biological computers could use far less energy than current technology by working more slowly
Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometer-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably and at a rate of millions of operations per second.
Dec 18, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Single-stream model enhances image translation efficiency
Among the many artificial intelligence and machine learning models available today for image translation, image-to-image translation models using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can change the style of images.
Dec 16, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Quantum algorithms can break generative AI bottlenecks
Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) have found that quantum algorithms could speed up generative artificial intelligence (AI) creation and usage.
Dec 12, 2024
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AI mirrors human biases: Study reveals 'us vs. them' tendencies in large language models
Research has long shown that humans are susceptible to "social identity bias"—favoring their group, whether that be a political party, a religion, or an ethnicity, and disparaging "outgroups." A new study by a team of scientists ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Coming soon—offline speech recognition on your phone
More than one in four people currently integrate speech recognition into their daily lives. A new algorithm developed by a University of Copenhagen researcher and his international colleagues makes it possible to interact ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Language database improves automatic speech recognition of Austrian German
Second-language speakers who come to Austria with a good knowledge of German usually find it difficult to understand the local dialects. Similarly, speech recognition systems often fail to decode regionally accented word ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Quantum computing's next step: New algorithm boosts multitasking
Quantum computers differ fundamentally from classical ones. Instead of using bits (0s and 1s), they employ "qubits," which can exist in multiple states simultaneously due to quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement.
Dec 10, 2024
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