Semiconductor Engineering

Laser Arrays May Simplify Co-Packaged Optics

Moving photonic ICs into the same package as silicon helps improve performance, but lasers remain outside. A new monolithic laser array allows hundreds of colors, each individually software-tunable ...
IEEE

Synthesis of Sparse Antenna Arrays Using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

Abstract: Designing sparse arrays with fewer antenna elements and lower peak sidelobe level (PSLL) is critical and challenging for antenna arrays in terminal devices in Internet of Things (IoT) ...
The National Law Review

HackerRank Introduces New Benchmark to Assess Advanced AI Models

Industry Leader Known for Software Development Skills Expertise Introduces Real-World Benchmark of AI Software Development Capabilities CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HackerRank, ...
Hacker

The Bit Shift Paradox: How "Optimizing" Can Make Code 6× Slower

Your browser does not support the audio element. TL;DR: Caching bit shifts looks smart but makes code up to 6× slower. Modern CPUs and compilers make direct ...
GitHub

ENH: sparse: improve performance of broadcasted binary operations

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently, binary operations like element-wise multiplication of sparse arrays hits a slow path when broadcasting is in use. If A and B ...
GitHub

Assignment between "misaligned" compressed-sparse arrays do not result in errors

error: halt reached - Sparse arrays can't be zippered with anything other than their domains and sibling arrays This is almost correct as it talks about zippering, which seems to be an internal ...
marktechpost

This AI Paper Introduces a Short KL+MSE Fine-Tuning Strategy: A Low-Cost Alternative to End-to-End Sparse Autoencoder Training for Interpretability

Sparse autoencoders are central tools in analyzing how large language models function internally. Translating complex internal states into interpretable components allows researchers to break down ...