arXiv:2509.19029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pipeline-parallel distributed optimization is essential for large-scale machine learning but is challenged by significant communication overhead from transmitting high-dimensional activations and gradients between workers. Existing approaches often depend on impractical unbiased gradient assumptions or incur…
arXiv:2509.18155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate proton dose calculation using Monte Carlo (MC) is computationally demanding in workflows like robust optimisation, adaptive replanning, and probabilistic inference, which require repeated evaluations. To address this, we develop a neural surrogate that integrates…
Google Research introduces in-context fine-tuning (ICF) for time-series forecasting named as ‘TimesFM-ICF): a continued-pretraining recipe that teaches TimesFM to exploit multiple related series provided directly in the prompt at inference time. The result is a few-shot forecaster that matches supervised…
Apple’s new, anodized aluminum iPhone 17 Pro phones have drawn attention for reportedly being easy to scratch around the camera “plateau,” and iFixit has investigated the issue in microscopic detail in its teardown video for the phones. Here are some…
Yesterday afternoon, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a piece of disgusting propaganda that glorifies the concept of a militarized police state forcefully entering people’s homes and businesses and leading them away in handcuffs and zip ties —…
The serial website builder Riley Walz launched a project that tracked San Francisco parking enforcement in real time—until the public data feed was cut off.
Protein folding models have achieved groundbreaking results since the introduction of AlphaFold2, typically built via a combination of integrating domain-expertise into its architectural designs and training pipelines. Nonetheless, given the success of generative models across different but related problems, it…
Google has announced it will reverse a major content moderation decision: YouTube will offer channels that were banned for spreading covid and election misinformation in 2020 a pathway back onto the platform. In a letter sent to the House Judiciary…
In this tutorial, we walk through how we use Hugging Face Optimum to optimize Transformer models and make them faster while maintaining accuracy. We begin by setting up DistilBERT on the SST-2 dataset, and then we compare different execution engines,…
Gearbox Software is delaying the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Borderlands 4, which had been set to release on October 3rd, to give the game “additional development and polish time.” The studio will provide new release timing “once we’ve fully…
