From drones with "first-person" visualization to real-time 360-degree replays and Olympics GPT, get ready to immerse yourself in the Winter Games in Milan and Cortina. During the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, 5G and 4K were the leading technologies available to many viewers. There was some AI, but it was mostly used for athletes' benefit. For the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games there will be more technology than ever, for both athletes and fans. Much of that technology has never been used at the Games before, says Yiannis Exarchos, the managing director of Olympic Broadcasting Services and executive director of Olympic Channel Services.

Despite tremendous success in many application scenarios, the training and inference costs of using deep learning are also rapidly increasing over time. The lottery tickethypothesis (LTH)emergesasapromising frameworktoleverage a special sparse subnetwork (i.e.,winning ticket) instead of a full model for both training and inference, that can lower both costs without sacrificing the performance.

This concept has been investigated extensively, but only through a worst-case lens. Instead, we study the expected distortion of voting rules with respect to an underlying distribution over voter utilities.

Whilestochastic optimization ofAUROChasbeenstudied extensively, principled stochastic optimization of AUPRC has been rarely explored.

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