Black-box optimization weather intervention method supports future disaster mitigation

In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...
SciTech Daily

Physicists Solve a “Quantum-Only” Problem Using an Ordinary Laptop

Tensor networks enable researchers to tackle quantum physics problems previously thought to be solvable only by quantum computers. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation By applying a 1980s ...

How Tokenmaxxing Became Enterprise AI's Biggest Unforced Error

Goodhart's Law ("When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.") has been around long enough that it ...
Tech Times

Fault-Tolerant Quantum Simulation Overhead Falls 250×: QuEra Architecture Needs Just 1,500 Qubits

Fault-tolerant quantum simulation just got 250 times cheaper to run. QuEra Computing and Los Alamos published an architecture ...

Mathematicians unleash multifold speed boost for supercomputer simulations of molecules

More than 20% of the workload on the world's 500 fastest supercomputers is spent simulating how atoms and molecules move—with applications ranging from material design to identifying drug interactions ...
IEEE

An Improved Approximation Algorithm for Scaffold Filling to Maximize the Common Adjacencies

Abstract: Scaffold filling is a new combinatorial optimization problem in genome sequencing. The one-sided scaffold filling problem can be described as given an incomplete genome $(I)$ and a complete ...
IEEE

An Approximation Algorithm for a Task Allocation, Sequencing and Scheduling Problem Involving a Human-Robot Team

Abstract: This article presents an approximation algorithm for a Task Allocation, Sequencing and Scheduling Problem (TASSP) involving a team of human operators and robots. The robots have to travel to ...
GitHub

Fast algorithms to compute an approximation of the minimal volume oriented bounding box of a point cloud in 3D.

Computing the minimal volume oriented bounding box for a given point cloud in 3D is a hard problem in computer science. Exact algorithms are known and of cubic order in the number of points in 3D. A ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Physical Investigation on Robust Algorithms for Inverse Problems of Heterogeneous Metastructures ()

1 Tianjin Engineering Research Center of Civil Aviation Energy Environment and Green Development, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, China. 2 Groupe d’Acoustigue de l’ Université de ...
Frontiers

Editorial: Approximation methods and analytical modeling using partial differential equations

Adequate mathematical modeling is the key to success for many real-world projects in engineering, medicine, and other applied areas. Once a well-suited model is established, it can be thoroughly ...
Frontiers

Greedy knot selection algorithm for restricted cubic spline regression

Non-linear regression modeling is common in epidemiology for prediction purposes or estimating relationships between predictor and response variables. Restricted cubic spline (RCS) regression is one ...