Algorithms and Theory

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (387+ words) Across instances ranging from 2^7 to 2^(12) cars, their XQAOA 1 algorithm achieved an average paint-swap ratio of 0.357, consistently outperforming four classical heuristics, including the recently proposed Recursive Star Greedy. This work marks the first report of size-dependent performance degradation of Recursive QAOA…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (194+ words) For the fourth year in a row, the game for secondary school students "Riga Puzzle Day" is organised by Riga Municipality in cooperation with the content implementer RTU Riga Business School and partners – the project "Code4Europe" and SIA "Rīgas ūdens". Puzzle…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1047+ words) Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (61+ words) We investigate how parenthood and marriage (two major life events) reshape urban mobility patterns, an aspect overlooked in traditional ‘average citizen’ mobility models. Leveraging US census data, we analyse whether these life transitions create... Uncover the latest and most…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (252+ words) I try to be honest here, and in that vein, let me say that I don’t really understand about 90 percent of things that happen on the internet. I can confidently shop, I can email and text, I use Messenger, and…...