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Metasurface: Unlocking the future of wireless sensing and communication
| Lili Qiu and Hao Pan
Metasurfaces explore engineered 2D materials that manipulate electromagnetic and mechanical waves, offering advances in wireless tech. They can power indoor GPS, extend 5G/6G coverage, and enable wireless sensing and imaging.
创新智能表面，解锁无线通信与无线感知的未来
编者按：无线通信与无线感知技术正在悄然改变着人类认知和联系世界的方式，让我们的生活更智能、更便捷。从智能设备的无缝连接到智能家居的便捷管理，从自动驾驶的精准导航到智慧医疗的实时监测，无线技术应用的重要性如今愈发凸显。微软亚洲研究院（上海）的研究员们发挥奇思妙想，在无线通信与无线感知研究领域中不断探索、创新，通过将超表面技术与 GNSS、毫米波、微波炉加热、音频传播的研究相结合，为解决现实问题提供了…
Research Focus: Week of December 2, 2024
Can a new SOS-RMT protocol enable more efficient CL-MPC?; A fair-by-design, cloud-based algorithmic trading platform; LLM2CLIP unlocks richer visual representation; New technique enhances Low-Rank Adaptation’s expressiveness, generalization capabilities.
Innovations in AI: Brain-inspired design for more capable and sustainable technology
| Dongsheng Li, Dongqi Han, and Yansen Wang
Researchers and their collaborators are drawing inspiration from the brain to develop more sustainable AI models. Projects like CircuitNet and CPG-PE improve performance and energy efficiency by mimicking the brain’s neural patterns.
Research Focus: Week of August 26, 2024
Learn what’s next for AI at Research Forum on Sept. 3; WizardArena simulates human-annotated chatbot games; MInference speeds pre-filling for long-context LLMs via dynamic sparse attention; Reef: Fast succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge regex proofs.
Synergizing habits and goals with variational Bayes: A new framework for biological and artificial embodied agents
| Dongqi Han
The Bayesian behavior framework synergizes habits and goals through variational Bayesian methods, offering new insights on sensorimotor behavior and comprehension of actions.
“If life is a marathon, then health is the key to its duration.” Health is not only the foundation of happiness and societal progress but also a pivotal aspect of the intelligent era. AI’s integration into healthcare represents a transformative…
Deciding between fundamental and applied research is a dilemma that confronts many in the scientific community. Dongqi Han, on the cusp of graduation, ambitiously aspired to bridge this divide by pursuing both avenues of research in his future endeavors. After…
Research Focus: Week of April 15, 2024
In this issue: New research on appropriate reliance on generative AI; Power management opportunities for LLMs in the cloud; LLMLingua-2 improves task-agnostic prompt compression; Enhancing COMET to embrace under-resourced African languages: