Abstract: Real-time movie recommendation systems must efficiently handle large amounts of sparse user-item interaction data while maintaining great prediction accuracy. Conventional collaborative ...

Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab said on Friday it can run a key quantum computing error correction algorithm on commonly available chips ...

Abstract: Given a multiset of n positive integers and a target sum S, the subset sum problem is to find a subset such that the sum of its elements is as close as possible to S without exceeding S. We ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality. By ...

The Fast Fourier Transform is used everywhere but it has a fascinating origin story that could have ended the nuclear arms race. White House responds to Epstein emails invoking Trump Brian Daboll ...

We often think about the impact AI is making on profitable businesses and even governmental organizations, but AI is also making significant contributions to the operations and success of non-profit ...