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  • The implementation of particle-tracking techniques with deep neural networks is a promising way to determine particle motion within complex flow structures. A graph neural network-enhanced method enables accurate particle tracking by significantly reducing the number of lost trajectories.

    • Séverine Atis
    • Lionel Agostini
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  • New research reveals a duality between neural network weights and neuron activities that enables a geometric decomposition of the generalization gap. The framework provides a way to interpret the effects of regularization schemes such as stochastic gradient descent and dropout on generalization — and to improve upon these methods.

    • Andrey Gromov
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  • A framework for training artificial neural networks in physical space allows neuroscientists to build networks that look and function like real brains.

    • Filip Milisav
    • Bratislav Misic
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  • Recommender systems are a predominant feature of online platforms and one of the most widespread applications of artificial intelligence. A new model captures information dynamics driven by algorithmic recommendations and offers ways to ensure that users are exposed to diverse content and information.

    • Fernando P. Santos
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  • Efficient quantum-control protocols are required to utilize the full power of quantum computers. A new reinforcement learning approach can realize efficient, robust control of quantum many-body states, promising a practical advance in harnessing present-day quantum technologies.

    • Ying Lu
    • Shi-Ju Ran
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  • A ‘programming’-like approach provides a one-step algorithm to find network parameters for recurrent neural networks that can model complex dynamical systems.

    • Manuel Beiran
    • Camille A. Spencer-Salmon
    • Kanaka Rajan
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  • An in vitro biological system of cultured brain cells has learned to play Pong. This feat opens up an avenue towards the convergence of biological and machine intelligence.

    • Joshua Goldwag
    • Ge Wang
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  • A new geometric deep learning method can reconstruct cellular and subcellular trajectories and characterize mobility in microscopic imaging, for a broad range of challenging scenarios.

    • Bahare Fatemi
    • Jonathan Halcrow
    • Khuloud Jaqaman
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  • There is a continuing demand for high-quality, large-scale annotated datasets in medical imaging supported by machine learning. A new study investigates the importance of what type of instructions crowdsourced annotators receive.

    • Thomas G. Day
    • John M. Simpson
    • Bernhard Kainz
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  • Predicting whether T cell receptors bind to specific peptides is a challenging problem because most binding examples in the training data involve only a few peptides. A new approach uses meta-learning to improve predictions for binding to peptides for which no or little binding data exists.

    • Duolin Wang
    • Fei He
    • Dong Xu
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  • Predicting RNA degradation is a fundamental task in designing RNA-based therapeutic agents. Dual crowdsourcing efforts for dataset creation and machine learning were organized to learn biological rules and strategies for predicting RNA stability.

    • David A. Hendrix
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  • Machine translation of languages can now automatically detect different cell types from single-cell transcriptomic data. Such a feat opens the prospect of dissecting complex clinical samples such as heterogenous tumours at scale.

    • Jesper N. Tegner
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