Toplines: June 2026 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Ohio

Results of a New York Times/Siena poll of 601 likely voters conducted from June 15 to 28, 2026. By The New York Times Battlegrounds Cross-tabs Toplines Alaska Cross-tabs Toplines Iowa Note: Responses ...
The New York Times

Toplines: June 2026 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Iowa

Results of New York Times/Siena poll of 600 likely voters conducted from June 15 to 27, 2026. By The New York Times Battlegrounds Cross-tabs Toplines Alaska Cross-tabs Toplines Iowa Note: Responses to ...
IEEE

Distributional Policy Gradient With Distributional Value Function

Abstract: In this article, we propose a distributional policy-gradient method based on distributional reinforcement learning (RL) and policy gradient. Conventional RL algorithms typically estimate the ...
IEEE

Bayesian Local Sampling-Based Planning

Abstract: Sampling-based planning is the predominant paradigm for motion planning in robotics. Most sampling-based planners use a global random sampling scheme to guarantee probabilistic completeness.
BMJ

Our Health Counts Toronto: using respondent-driven sampling to unmask census undercounts of an urban indigenous population in Toronto, Canada

Objectives To provide evidence of the magnitude of census undercounts of ‘hard-to-reach’ subpopulations and to improve estimation of the size of the urban indigenous population in Toronto, Canada, ...
Fair Observer

The Fall of Democracy Is a Markov Process

The peculiarities of classical Greece make empirical theories of political revolution much easier to imagine than in, say, the Persian Empire, which was a hereditary monarchy for pretty much its ...
Investopedia

Sampling Distribution: Definition, How It's Used, and Example

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more ...
VentureBeat

Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative

One of the coolest things about generative AI models — both large language models (LLMs) and diffusion-based image generators — is that they are "non-deterministic." That is, despite their reputation ...
GitHub

Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap (FAB)

Code for the paper Flow Annealed Importance Sampling Bootstrap (FAB). FAB in JAX: See the JAX implementation of the FAB algorithm in the fab-jax repo. The fab-jax code is cleaner, faster and easier to ...
The Conversation

How a subfield of physics led to breakthroughs in AI – and from there to this year’s Nobel Prize

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in physics on Oct. 8, 2024, for their research on machine learning algorithms and neural networks that help computers learn. Their work ...
C&EN

Configurational Sampling of All-Atom Solvated Membranes Using Hybrid Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Monte Carlo Simulations

Laboratoire International Associé Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Université de Lorraine, LPCT, F-54000 Nancy, France Article Views are the ...