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Efforts to back fill some of the cuts to U.S. foreign aid by the Trump administration raised over $125 million in eight ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

This is the official implementation of our ICLR 2025 paper "UniCO: On Unified Combinatorial Optimization via Problem Reduction to Matrix-Encoded General TSP". Fig 1. The 3-step workflow of the UniCO ...

A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial optimization problems. These are common in real-world applications such as ...

This post was sponsored by Peec AI. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. The first step of any good GEO campaign is creating something that LLM-driven answer machines actually ...

Abstract: Evolutionary algorithms have been proven effective in solving complex optimization problems. This paper proposes a production shape optimization framework, and a data-driven and ...

We present OPT-BENCH, a benchmark comprising 20 machine learning tasks and 10 NP problems, specifically designed to assess large language models’ (LLMs) ability to solve problems with large search ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we consider a more general bi-level optimization problem, where the inner objective function is consisted of three convex functions, involving a smooth and two non-smooth ...

Tech expert says ‘we’ve got problems’ if new Chinese robots can do this ‘The Cyberguy’ Kurt Knutsson discusses the creation of a robot in China that can reportedly build cars and do everyday tasks on ...