Abstract: Soft information perturbation can significantly enhance the successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding performance of polar codes. However, the existing perturbation-based SCL (PSCL) ...

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Imagine you’re a physician and you are called in to evaluate a patient who has had a sudden change in his neurological status, likely a stroke. You find him alert, mobile, and talking. But when you ...

When students struggle with reading, educators often respond by relying on texts at their “instructional level.” But this well-intentioned approach can slow progress and limit access to the ...

Our long-term goal is to build efficient and reliable 2.5B diffusion-based decoding for document OCR. MinerU-Diffusion reframes document OCR as an inverse rendering problem and replaces slow, ...

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BrainWhisperer is Tether’s Brain-to-text project. Tether is earmarking resources to build technologies that push the borders of intracranial electrocortical decoding. The latest result is a variable ...

The origin of many diseases begins at the cellular level and involves multiple molecular interactions. However, previous methods have struggled to accurately observe changes in individual cells.

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Here’s a cheat sheet for decoding this year’s A.I.-driven tech lingo, from RAG to superintelligence. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the author of ...

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