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Computer Sciences
Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language
As we mature from childhood, our vocabulary—as well as the ways we use it—grows, and our experiences become richer, allowing us to think, reason, and interact with others with specificity and intention. Accordingly, our ...
Apr 15, 2025
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Computer Sciences
New model can generate audio and music tracks from diverse data inputs
In recent years, computer scientists have created various highly performing machine learning tools to generate texts, images, videos, songs and other content. Most of these computational models are designed to create content ...
Apr 14, 2025
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Over-training large language models may make them harder to fine-tune
A small team of AI researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, Harvard University and Princeton University, all in the U.S., has found that if large language models are over-trained, it might make them ...
VR can take users for a sneaky spin without making them sick, research shows
Surprising new research has revealed that people's perception of motion can be radically manipulated in passive virtual reality environments without making them feel unwell.
Apr 14, 2025
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Dynamic model can generate realistic human motions and edit existing ones
When exploring their surroundings, communicating with others and expressing themselves, humans can perform a wide range of body motions. The ability to realistically replicate these motions, applying them to human and humanoid ...
Computer Sciences
Diminished reality: Making objects disappear in real time in live recordings
Researchers at the Institute of Visual Computing have made it possible to remove objects from live recordings of three-dimensional environments without time delay while the camera remains in motion.
Apr 10, 2025
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Computer Sciences
New method efficiently safeguards sensitive AI training data
Data privacy comes with a cost. There are security techniques that protect sensitive user data, like customer addresses, from attackers who may attempt to extract them from AI models—but they often make those models less ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Wavelet-based adversarial training: Cybersecurity system protects medical digital twins from attacks
A digital twin is an exact virtual copy of a real-world system. Built using real-time data, they provide a platform to test, simulate, and optimize the performance of their physical counterpart. In health care, medical digital ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Computer Sciences
How to build trustworthy AI without trusted data
Today, almost everybody has heard of AI and millions around the world already use, or are exposed, to it—from ChatGPT writing our emails, to helping with medical diagnosis.
Apr 10, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Using virtual reality to connect players with ocean ecosystems
Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Transformational Play are hoping a virtual trip into the watery ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Engineering
Engineers bring sign language to 'life' using AI to translate in real-time
For millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals around the world, communication barriers can make everyday interactions challenging. Traditional solutions, like sign language interpreters, are often scarce, expensive ...
Apr 9, 2025
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Hardware
Photonic chips boost computing speed and efficiency to address growing demand
Computer chips that combine the use of light and electricity are shown to increase computational performance, while reducing energy consumption, compared with conventional electronic chips. The photonic computing chips, described ...
Apr 9, 2025
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Computer Sciences
3D streaming gets leaner by seeing only what matters
A new approach to streaming technology may significantly improve how users experience virtual reality and augmented reality environments, according to a study from NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Apr 9, 2025
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Computer Sciences
AI with, for and by everyone can help maximize its benefits
Humans' ability to learn from one another across cultures over generations drives our success as a species as much as our individual intelligence. This collective cultural brain has led to new innovations and developed bodies ...
Apr 9, 2025
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Computer Sciences
How neural networks represent data: A potential unifying theory for key deep learning phenomena
How do neural networks work? It's a question that can confuse novices and experts alike. A team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) says that understanding these representations, as well as ...
Apr 1, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Experiments show adding CoT windows to chatbots teaches them to lie less obviously
Over the past year, AI researchers have found that when AI chatbots such as ChatGPT find themselves unable to answer questions that satisfy users' requests, they tend to offer false answers. In a new study, as part of a program ...
Computer Sciences
Humans as hardware: Computing with biological tissue
Most computers run on microchips, but what if we've been overlooking a simpler, more elegant computational tool all this time? In fact, what if we were the computational tool?
Mar 27, 2025
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Engineering
Novel algorithm can enhance modeling for autonomous vehicles, robotics and satellites
Researchers at Kumamoto University have made a significant advance in the field of control engineering by developing a highly accurate mathematical modeling technique for linear periodically time-varying (LPTV) systems. This ...
Mar 27, 2025
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Computer Sciences
BAFT AI autosave system can cut training losses by 98%
A research collaboration between Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Qi Zhi Institution, and Huawei Technologies has introduced BAFT, a cutting-edge autosave system for AI training that minimizes downtime and optimizes ...
Mar 27, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Neural network learns to hesitate for improved accuracy
Researchers from the Skoltech AI Center, together with colleagues from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, have developed a method that allows neural networks to more accurately ...
Mar 26, 2025
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Software
Supercomputing memory management tool makes data storage more efficient
Researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new application to increase efficiency in memory systems for high-performance computing.
Mar 26, 2025
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Software
A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers
Bar graphs and other charts provide a simple way to communicate data, but are, by definition, difficult to translate for readers who are blind or low-vision. Designers have developed methods for converting these visuals into ...
Mar 25, 2025
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Business
Perseus: A tool for tracking the coordination of pump-and-dump crypto coin schemes
A team of computer scientists and financial specialists at University College London has developed a tool to track the coordination efforts of pump-and-dump crypto coin scheme manipulators. They have published a paper on ...
Computer Sciences
New AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches
The ability to generate high-quality images quickly is crucial for producing realistic simulated environments that can be used to train self-driving cars to avoid unpredictable hazards, making them safer on real streets.
Mar 20, 2025
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Robotics
From robot swarms to human societies, good decisions rely on the right mix of perspectives
When groups make decisions—whether it's humans aligning on a shared idea, robots coordinating tasks, or fish deciding where to swim—not everyone contributes equally. Some individuals have more reliable information, whereas ...
Mar 19, 2025
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