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AbstractAlpha particles with energies on the order of megaelectronvolts will be the main source of plasma heating in future magnetic confinement fusion react… See more.
Experiments at the Joint European Torus tokamak show improved thermal ion confinement in the presence of highly energetic ions and Alfvénic instabilities in the plasma.
At NAACL HLT, Amazon scientists will present a method for improving multitask learning. Their proposed method lets the tasks converge on their own schedules, an… See more.
Allowing separate tasks to converge on their own schedules and using knowledge distillation to maintain performance improves accuracy.