Google Cloud expands gen AI power for database and data analytics tools

Google Cloud expands gen AI power for database and data analytics tools

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google Cloud is expanding the capabilities of its database and data analytics offerings with a series of updates announced today at the Google Cloud Next event in Tokyo.  The announcements span across multiple services including the Spanner and Bigtable databases as well as the BigQuery data analytics and Looker business intelligence platforms. The overall goal is to integrate more flexibility into how data can be used and accessed, in an effort to help further accelerate generative AI deployments and adoption. Key…
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Generative Learning of the Solution of Parametric Partial Differential Equations Using Guided Diffusion Models and Virtual Observations

Generative Learning of the Solution of Parametric Partial Differential Equations Using Guided Diffusion Models and Virtual Observations

[Submitted on 31 Jul 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Generative Learning of the Solution of Parametric Partial Differential Equations Using Guided Diffusion Models and Virtual Observations, by Han Gao and 2 other authors View PDF Abstract:We introduce a generative learning framework to model high-dimensional parametric systems using gradient guidance and virtual observations. We consider systems described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) discretized with structured or unstructured grids. The framework integrates multi-level information to generate high fidelity time sequences of the system dynamics. We demonstrate the effectiveness and versatility of our framework with two case studies in incompressible,…
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WAS: Dataset and Methods for Artistic Text Segmentation

WAS: Dataset and Methods for Artistic Text Segmentation

arXiv:2408.00106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate text segmentation results are crucial for text-related generative tasks, such as text image generation, text editing, text removal, and text style transfer. Recently, some scene text segmentation methods have made significant progress in segmenting regular text. However, these methods perform poorly in scenarios containing artistic text. Therefore, this paper focuses on the more challenging task of artistic text segmentation and constructs a real artistic text segmentation dataset. One challenge of the task is that the local stroke shapes of artistic text are changeable with diversity and complexity. We propose a decoder with the layer-wise…
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UK shelves £1.3bn of funding for technology and AI projects

The new Labour government has shelved £1.3bn of funding pledged by the Conservatives for technology and artificial intelligence projects, putting the future of the UK’s first next-generation supercomputer in doubt.The projects, announced last year, include £800m for the creation of an exascale supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh and a further £500m for the AI Research Resource, which funds computing power for AI.The government argues that these were “unfunded commitments”. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said the funding had been promised by the previous government but had not been allocated in its spending plans.A spokesperson said: “We are…
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R&B singer Mýa says practicing celibacy helped shift her mindset after being viewed as a sex symbol throughout her career

R&B singer Mýa says practicing celibacy helped shift her mindset after being viewed as a sex symbol throughout her career

During an appearance on the podcast "Way Up with Angela Yee," the singer opened up about her celibacy journey and how it has helped give her "mental clarity.""It shifted my mindset. It was no longer a focus. The rush to be in a relationship, the rush to be married, the rush to be in something because that's what you're taught to do — to have kids or to procreate," Mýa told host Angela Yee.She added that there is a lot of pressure on women to do that, which she disagreed with."Why are we taught we have to be taken or…
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Distributed In-Context Learning under Non-IID Among Clients

Distributed In-Context Learning under Non-IID Among Clients

arXiv:2408.00144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown their effectiveness in multiple complicated natural language reasoning tasks. A key challenge remains in adapting these models efficiently to new or unfamiliar tasks. In-context learning (ICL) provides a promising solution for few-shot adaptation by retrieving a set of data points relevant to a query, called in-context examples (ICE), from a training dataset and providing them during the inference as context. Most existing studies utilize a centralized training dataset, yet many real-world datasets may be distributed among multiple clients, and remote data retrieval can be associated with costs.…
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The Republican National Committee loses its legal challenge to Gmail

The Republican National Committee loses its legal challenge to Gmail

A federal judge dismissed a case brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) against Google over its Gmail service. The suit alleged that Google’s email platform labeled GOP fundraising emails as spam at a higher rate than those from the other side of the aisle.District Court Judge Daniel Calabretta from the Eastern California District Court dismissed the case with prejudice, preventing the Republican party from bringing its case against Google back to court. The dismissal with prejudice means it cannot bring the case to another court but can still file an appeal to Calabretta’s decision, according to The Verge.Calabretta wrote…
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