Computer Sciences
The step size, often referred to as the learning rate, plays a pivotal role in optimizing the efficiency of the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm. In recent times, multiple step size strategies have emerged for ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Engineering
Imperial and chemical company BASF will reveal new techniques for optimizing experimental design at the machine learning conference NeurIPS.
Nov 1, 2022
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Robotics
Algae bloom, birds flock, and insects swarm. This en masse behavior by individual organisms can provide separate and collective good, such as improving chances of successful mating propagation or providing security. Now, ...
Sep 21, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A small team of researchers from the U.S., the U.K. and France has taken a fresh look at the possibility of using stochastic rounding (SR) in certain computer applications to reduce stagnation. In their paper published in ...
Computer Sciences
Identifying a malfunction in the nation's power grid can be like trying to find a needle in an enormous haystack. Hundreds of thousands of interrelated sensors spread across the U.S. capture data on electric current, voltage, ...
Feb 24, 2022
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Robotics
Anyone with children knows that while controlling one child can be hard, controlling many at once can be nearly impossible. Getting swarms of robots to work collectively can be equally challenging, unless researchers carefully ...
Apr 24, 2021
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Robotics
Humans are able to find objects in their surroundings and detect some of their properties simply by touching them. While this skill is particularly valuable for blind individuals, it can also help people with no visual impairments ...
Computer Sciences
How should people make decisions when the outcomes of their choices are uncertain, and the uncertainty is described by probability theory?
Sep 18, 2020
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Robotics
Training interactive robots may one day be an easy job for everyone, even those without programming expertise. Roboticists are developing automated robots that can learn new tasks solely by observing humans. At home, you ...
Mar 6, 2020
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Robotics
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have recently developed a chance-constrained motion planning system that can be applied to high degree-of-freedom (DOF) robots under motion uncertainty ...
