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Best Cyber Monday Desktop Computer Deals 2025 (and the top Black Friday offers still available)

PCWorld

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Popular Science

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Stochastic Spectral and Conjugate Descent Methods

Dmitry Kovalev, Peter Richtarik, Eduard Gorbunov, Elnur Gasanov

Neural Information Processing Systems

An increasing array of learning and training tasks reduce to optimization problem in very large dimensions. The state-of-the-art algorithms in this regime are based on randomized coordinate descent (RCD) . V arious acceleration strategies were proposed for RCD in the literature in recent years, based on techniques such as Nesterov's momentum [


FiCABU: A Fisher-Based, Context-Adaptive Machine Unlearning Processor for Edge AI

Cho, Eun-Su, Choi, Jongin, Jin, Jeongmin, Lee, Jae-Jin, Lee, Woojoo

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Machine unlearning, driven by privacy regulations and the "right to be forgotten", is increasingly needed at the edge, yet server-centric or retraining-heavy methods are impractical under tight computation and energy budgets. We present FiCABU (Fisher-based Context-Adaptive Balanced Unlearning), a software-hardware co-design that brings unlearning to edge AI processors. FiCABU combines (i) Context-Adaptive Unlearning, which begins edits from back-end layers and halts once the target forgetting is reached, with (ii) Balanced Dampening, which scales dampening strength by depth to preserve retain accuracy. These methods are realized in a full RTL design of a RISC-V edge AI processor that integrates two lightweight IPs for Fisher estimation and dampening into a GEMM-centric streaming pipeline, validated on an FPGA prototype and synthesized in 45 nm for power analysis. Across CIFAR-20 and PinsFaceRecognition with ResNet-18 and ViT, FiCABU achieves random-guess forget accuracy while matching the retraining-free Selective Synaptic Dampening (SSD) baseline on retain accuracy, reducing computation by up to 87.52 percent (ResNet-18) and 71.03 percent (ViT). On the INT8 hardware prototype, FiCABU further improves retain preservation and reduces energy to 6.48 percent (CIFAR-20) and 0.13 percent (PinsFaceRecognition) of the SSD baseline. In sum, FiCABU demonstrates that back-end-first, depth-aware unlearning can be made both practical and efficient for resource-constrained edge AI devices.


Sorting by Strip Swaps is NP-Hard

Roy, Swapnoneel, Asaithambi, Asai, Mukhopadhyay, Debajyoti

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We show that \emph{Sorting by Strip Swaps} (SbSS) is NP-hard by a polynomial reduction of \emph{Block Sorting}. The key idea is a local gadget, a \emph{cage}, that replaces every decreasing adjacency $(a_i,a_{i+1})$ by a guarded triple $a_i,m_i,a_{i+1}$ enclosed by guards $L_i,U_i$, so the only decreasing adjacencies are the two inside the cage. Small \emph{hinge} gadgets couple adjacent cages that share an element and enforce that a strip swap that removes exactly two adjacencies corresponds bijectively to a block move that removes exactly one decreasing adjacency in the source permutation. This yields a clean equivalence between exact SbSS schedules and perfect block schedules, establishing NP-hardness.


A Critical Study on Tea Leaf Disease Detection using Deep Learning Techniques

Borah, Nabajyoti, Borah, Raju Moni, Boruah, Bandan, Acharjee, Purnendu Bikash, Saha, Sajal, Hazarika, Ripjyoti

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The proposed solution is Deep Learning Technique that will be able classify three types of tea leaves diseases from which two diseases are caused by the pests and one due to pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions and also show the area damaged by a disease in leaves. Namely Red Rust, Helopeltis and Red spider mite respectively. In this paper we have evaluated two models namely SSD MobileNet V2 and Faster R-CNN ResNet50 V1 for the object detection. The SSD MobileNet V2 gave precision of 0.209 for IOU range of 0.50:0.95 with recall of 0.02 on IOU 0.50:0.95 and final mAP of 20.9%. While Faster R-CNN ResNet50 V1 has precision of 0.252 on IOU range of 0.50:0.95 and recall of 0.044 on IOU of 0.50:0.95 with a mAP of 25%, which is better than SSD. Also used Mask R-CNN for Object Instance Segmentation where we have implemented our custom method to calculate the damaged diseased portion of leaves. Keywords: Tea Leaf Disease, Deep Learning, Red Rust, Helopeltis and Red Spider Mite, SSD MobileNet V2, Faster R-CNN ResNet50 V1 and Mask RCNN.


Comparative Analysis of YOLOv5, Faster R-CNN, SSD, and RetinaNet for Motorbike Detection in Kigali Autonomous Driving Context

Yinkfu, Ngeyen, Nwovu, Sunday, Kayizzi, Jonathan, Uwamahoro, Angelique

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Abstract--In Kigali, Rwanda, motorcycle taxis are a primary mode of transportation, often navigating unpredictably and disregarding traffic rules, posing significant challenges for autonomous driving systems. This study compares four object detection models--YOLOv5, Faster R-CNN, SSD, and RetinaNet--for motorbike detection using a custom dataset of 198 images collected in Kigali. Implemented in PyT orch with transfer learning, the models were evaluated for accuracy, localization, and inference speed to assess their suitability for real-time navigation in resource-constrained settings. We identify implementation challenges, including dataset limitations and model complexities, and recommend simplified architectures for future work to enhance accessibility for autonomous systems in developing countries like Rwanda. In developing countries like Rwanda, motorcycle taxis, locally known as "moto taxis," dominate urban transportation, particularly in Kigali.