Science News

A quantum trick helps trim bloated AI models

Machine learning techniques that make use of tensor networks could manipulate data more efficiently and help open the black ...
National Academies

DOE Should Develop AI-Based Foundation Models Fused with Traditional Computational Methods to Bring Paradigm Shift to Scientific Discovery

Foundation models are AI systems trained on vast amounts of data — often trillions of individual data points — and they are capable of learning new ways of modeling information and performing a range ...
InfoQ

Lyft Rearchitects ML Platform with Hybrid AWS SageMaker-Kubernetes Approach

Lyft has rearchitected its machine learning platform LyftLearn into a hybrid system, moving offline workloads to AWS ...

Machine learning offers growers a new tool for predicting crop water use

A new study shows that machine-learning models can accurately predict daily crop transpiration using direct plant ...

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 with hybrid MoE and Mamba-Transformer to drive efficient agentic AI

Nvidia is leaning on the hybrid Mamba-Transformer mixture-of-experts architecture its been tapping for models for its new ...
eLife

Continuous flashing suppression of V1 responses and the perceptual consequences revealed via two-photon calcium imaging and transformer modeling

Two-photon imaging and ocular dominance mapping. A. Optical windows for imaging of two macaques. Green crosses indicate the regions for viral vector injections, and yell ...
IEEE

Improved Modular Multiplication Algorithms Using Solely IEEE 754 Binary Floating-Point Operations

Abstract: In this paper, we propose three modular multiplication algorithms that use only the IEEE 754 binary floating-point operations. Several previous studies have used floating-point operations to ...
GitHub

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model (SLM) designed specifically for computer use. With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B is an ultra-compact Computer Use Agent (CUA) that ...
Hosted on MSN

Restaurants and bars prepare for use of Illinois mobile ID

Some restaurants will need to acquire new scanners to read the new digital IDs. Trump canceling GDP report comes under scrutiny Court official dismisses Justice Department's misconduct complaint ...
IEEE

Carbon Nanotube Schottky Diode With Broadband Nonlinear Equivalent Circuit Model for Millimeter-Wave Frequency Multiplication

Abstract: This letter presents a nonlinear model for carbon nanotube (CNT) Schottky diodes, integrating dc, small-signal, and large-signal parameters. A broadband equivalent model, spanning dc to 110 ...
Microsoft

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

In 2024, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers, starting with the release of Phi (opens in new tab) models on Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab), as well as deploying Phi ...
Autoblog

This Genius Button Bar Gives Tesla Owners the Buttons They’ve Been Missing

Available for the Model 3 and Model Y, this tactile button bar allows you to control over 30 commonly used functions without using the touchscreen. Startup offers a customizable button bar for Tesla ...