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During WWI, a daredevil pilot helped invent the first 'drones'
During WWI, a daredevil pilot helped invent the first'drones' Lawrence Sperry's autopilot proved planes could fly themselves. Lawrence Sperry was a pioneer, a showman, and inventor. Without him, flying today would look very different. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. On November 21, 1916, pilot and inventor Lawrence Sperry was flying over Long Island's Great South Bay with his student Dorothy Rice Pierce when his plane suddenly plunged into the water .
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What was really behind Jack Dorsey laying off nearly half of Block's staff?
Jack Dorsey leaves the Élysée Palace in Paris, France, on 7 June 2019. Jack Dorsey leaves the Élysée Palace in Paris, France, on 7 June 2019. What was really behind Jack Dorsey laying off nearly half of Block's staff? Jack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company's employees, but other factors such as a weak crypto market, overstaffing and a declining stock price may also have motivated the move. Last week, the financial technology company Block announced that it would lay off 4,000 of its 10,000 workers.
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Initialization-Aware Score-Based Diffusion Sampling
Fassina, Tiziano, Cardoso, Gabriel, Corff, Sylvan Le, Romary, Thomas
Score-based generative models (SGMs) aim at generating samples from a target distribution by approximating the reverse-time dynamics of a stochastic differential equation. Despite their strong empirical performance, classical samplers initialized from a Gaussian distribution require a long time horizon noising typically inducing a large number of discretization steps and high computational cost. In this work, we present a Kullback-Leibler convergence analysis of Variance Exploding diffusion samplers that highlights the critical role of the backward process initialization. Based on this result, we propose a theoretically grounded sampling strategy that learns the reverse-time initialization, directly minimizing the initialization error. The resulting procedure is independent of the specific score training procedure, network architecture, and discretization scheme. Experiments on toy distributions and benchmark datasets demonstrate competitive or improved generative quality while using significantly fewer sampling steps.
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