A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a potentially more effective way of helping computers solve some of the toughest optimization problems they face. Their ...
A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the ...
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Researchers from Google Quantum AI report that their quantum processor, Willow, ran an algorithm for a quantum computer that ...
Computer scientists are abuzz over a fast new algorithm for solving one of the central problems in the field. (January 15, 2017, update: On January 4, Babai retracted his claim that the new algorithm ...
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