Leaner large language models could enable efficient local use on phones and laptops

Credit: Limon Das from Pexels Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly automating tasks like translation, text classification and customer service. But tapping into an LLM’s power typically requires users to…

New open-source Python package developed for efficient multi-source evidence fusion

Scientists from Peking University developed a new Python package for efficient implementation of the Evidential Reasoning approach for multi-source evidence fusion. Credit: Guilan Kong, Peking University Researchers from Peking University…

New research could optimize the quiz bowl

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A quiz bowl is usually an academic competition in which teams of students, typically from high schools or universities, compete by answering questions across a variety…

New algorithm reveals hidden influences

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Getting to the heart of causality is central to understanding the world around us. What causes one variable—be it a biological species, a voting region, a…

Large-scale programmable logic array achieves complex computations

Large-scale optical programmable logic array for two-dimensional cellular automata. Credit: Wenkai Zhang Huazhong University of Science and Technology Researchers have long sought to harness the power of light for computing,…

Solving computationally hard problems with 3D integrated photonics

Computing results of the SSP instances where the set is {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17} and {2, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17}, respectively. (a) and (c) The experimental…

New tool makes songs unlearnable to generative AI

llustration of the threat model where the attacker scrapes music posted online by victim musicians to train their music generative models. Credit: Jian Liu et al Nearly 200 years after…

New algorithm advances graph mining for complex networks

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Nikolaos Sidiropoulos has introduced a breakthrough in graph mining with the development of a new computational…

Researchers develop method enabling LLMs to answer questions more concisely and accurately

Credit: AI-generated image Large language models (LLMs) are machine-learning models designed to understand and generate human language. State-of-the-art LLMs have demonstrated outstanding potential in open-domain question answering (ODQA), where the…

AI-powered software narrates surroundings for visually impaired in real time

As a user scans their phone camera around a room, WorldScribe will create brief audio descriptions of the objects recorded by the camera. Credit: Shen-Yun Lai, used with permission A…