Large language models (LLMs) have made remarkable strides in many tasks, with their capacity to reason forming a vital aspect of their development. However, the main drivers behind these advancements remain unclear. Current measures to boost reasoning primarily involve increasing the model's size and extending the context length with methods such as the chain of…
Accurate magnetic hysteresis modeling remains a challenging task that is crucial for optimizing the performance of magnetic devices. Traditional methods, such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, and gated recurrent units (GRUs), have limitations when it comes to generalizing novel magnetic fields. This generalization is vital for real-world applications.
A team of…
In the rapidly advancing field of quantum computing, managing tasks efficiently and effectively is a complex challenge. Traditional models often struggle due to their heuristic approach, which fails to adapt to the intricacies of quantum computing and can lead to inefficient system performance. Task scheduling, therefore, is critical to minimizing time wastage and optimizing resource…
Protein sequence design is a significant part of protein engineering for drug discovery, involving the exploration of vast amino acid sequence combinations. To overcome the limitations of traditional methods like evolutionary strategies, researchers have proposed utilizing reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to facilitate the creation of new protein sequences. This progress comes as advancements in protein…
A group of New England Innovation Academy students have developed a mobile app that highlights deforestation trends in Massachusetts as part of a project for the Day of AI, a curriculum developed by the MIT Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) initiative. The TreeSavers app aims to educate users about the effects of…
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have long been used in artificial intelligence but are often criticized for their static structure which struggles to adapt to changing circumstances. This has restricted their use in areas such as real-time adaptive systems or robotics. In response to this, researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen have designed an innovative…
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), while transformative, have traditional shortcomings in terms of adaptability and plasticity. This lack of flexibility poses a significant challenge for their applicability in dynamic and unpredictable environments. It also inhibits their effectiveness in real-time applications like robotics and adaptive systems, making real-time learning and adaptation a crucial achievement for artificial intelligence…
Google's research team is working on developing an optimized machine learning (ML) method known as "boosting." Boosting involves creating high performing models using a "weak learner oracle" which gives classifiers a performance slightly better than random guessing. Over the years, boosting has evolved into a first-order optimization setting. However, some in the industry erroneously define…
Boosting, a highly effective machine learning (ML) optimization setting, has evolved from a model that did not require first-order loss information into a method that necessitates this knowledge. Despite this transformation, few investigations have been made into boosting, even as machine learning witnesses a surge in zeroth-order optimization - methods that bypass the use of…
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) represent a great promise in current machine learning approaches. Yet a key challenge facing their implementation is scalability, which becomes more complicated as networks become more sizeable and intricate. New research from the University College London presents a novel understanding of common learning patterns across different neural network structures.
The researchers behind…