Lazarus — David Bowie from 1980s nadir to creative renewal

Ten years after the musician’s death, Alexander Larman charts the lows — and, finally, dazzling heights — of his later career ...
IEEE

FedMAO: Federated Learning With Model Alignment and Two-Stage Optimization

Federated Learning (FL) aims to collaboratively train a global model using decentralized data residing on edge device clients, thereby effectively preserving user data privacy. The inherent challenge ...
Wired

The Best Home Pilates Equipment for Studio-Quality Workouts

When Joseph Pilates developed what he first called Contrology in the early 20th century, there were no dedicated studios or intimidating contraptions. There wasn't even a reformer yet. (That came ...
IEEE

Preference Alignment Improves Language Model-Based TTS

Abstract: Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) have shown that language model (LM)-based systems offer competitive performance to their counterparts. Further optimization can be achieved ...