Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Adaptive Algorithm Aims to Reduce Kidney Discards and Improve Transplant Access

Developed by Professor Sanjay Mehrotra, the Sliding Scale AdaptiVe Expedited (SAVE) algorithm could improve organ allocation ...
IEEE

Successive Cancellation List Algorithm Based on Path Metric in Polar Code Decoding

Abstract: Path Metric (PM) is the reference standard for decoding path reliability in successive cancellation list (SCL) algorithm, which needs to be updated in real time with the verdict of bits, and ...
DMNewsOpinion

Your ad dollars are funding someone else’s propaganda and the algorithm doesn’t care

Every ad placement is a moral endorsement, and willful ignorance of where your dollars go is a strategy that erodes your ...
CounterPunch

“Mercy:” Judge Maddox Will See You Now

There is a moment early in Mercy, Timur Bekmambetov’s Amazon MGM techno-thriller, when Detective Christopher Raven—played by a sweaty, straining Chris Pratt— is strapped into what the film calls the ...
IEEE

Fast Polar Decoding With Successive Cancellation List Creeper Algorithm

Abstract: Polar codes have emerged as a focal point in the field of error-correcting codes, owing to their remarkable capacity-achieving characteristics and their relevance in various modern ...
VentureBeat

Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...