Abstract: Interest in applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) to Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) is experiencing a rapid and substantial expansion. Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), a well-known RL algorithm ...

The Virtual Brain Inference (VBI) toolkit enables efficient, accurate, and scalable Bayesian inference over whole-brain network models, improving parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification, and ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter. He's written hundreds of articles breaking down complex financial topics in plain language, emphasizing the impact that economic ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

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In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

Here’s how the central bank’s interest rate stance influences car loans, credit cards, mortgages, savings and student loans. By Tara Siegel Bernard The Federal Reserve lowered its key interest rate by ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...