The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

The new quantum computing algorithm, called "Quantum Echoes," is the first that can be independently verified by running it on another quantum computer. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, an Optimal Predictive Modeling of Nonlinear Transformations “OPMNT” method has been developed while using Orthogonal Nonnegative Matrix Factorization “ONMF” with the ...

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Learn the simplest explanation of layer normalization in transformers. Understand how it stabilizes training, improves convergence, and why it’s essential in deep learning models like BERT and GPT.

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Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

1 College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China 2 Provincial Key Laboratory for Information Technology of Wisdom Mining of Shandong ...

L2 normalization is typically applied to vision and text features before computing similarity scores, especially in retrieval-style tasks where cosine similarity is appropriate. However, in purely ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...