PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the Localized Normalization Implementation (LNI) program, a major component of the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), is crucial in ensuring that ...

Learn the simplest explanation of layer normalization in transformers. Understand how it stabilizes training, improves convergence, and why it’s essential in deep learning models like BERT and GPT.

Transformers have revolutionized natural language processing as the foundation of large language models (LLMs), excelling in modeling long-range dependencies through self-attention mechanisms. However ...

AI training and inference are all about running data through models — typically to make some kind of decision. But the paths that the calculations take aren’t always straightforward, and as a model ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to cement his legacy in the Middle East were well underway even before he reclaimed the White House. “There’s just no way that President Trump isn’t going to be ...

This work is an important contribution to the development of a biologically plausible theory of statistical modeling of spiking activity. The authors convincingly implemented the statistical inference ...

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada ...

Abstract: This study aims to enhance the robustness of neural networks against adversarial examples by introducing a novel approach called weighted local response normalization into a recently ...