AlphaEvolve uses large language models to find new algorithms that outperform the best human-made solutions for data center management, chip design, and more. Google DeepMind has once again used large ...
The LWE-decision problem is the problem of deciding whether pairs \(({{{\bf{a}}}},c)\in {{\mathbb{Z}}}_{q}^{n}\times {{\mathbb{Z}}}_{q}\) are sampled according to a ...
The problem of order allocation belongs to a category of combinatorial optimization problems where orders are allocated to machines for production. Each order is assigned to a single machine, while ...
Two brothers in Singapore have built a data-encryption company on pure mathematics, betting that a problem no algorithm can ...
Predictive artificial intelligence (AI) hiring systems (AHSs) are used by employers every day to screen and shortlist job candidates. But while AI hiring systems promise time and cost savings for ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...
What’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory. It’s a hard question to answer, but flip it ...
The same personalized algorithms that deliver online content based on your previous choices on social media sites like YouTube also impair learning, a new study suggests. Researchers found that when ...
Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...
Elon Musk said Jack Dorsey was right about social media algorithms. On Wednesday, Musk highlighted a video of Dorsey talking about the free speech debate. Dorsey envisioned “a marketplace of ...
Why do algorithms keep showing us content we claim not to want? The answer isn’t manipulation—it’s conflict between our ...