A view of NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. (Photo credit: NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced an algorithm that could serve as a second line of defense to ensure ...

Agencies and holding companies are pointing to customized algorithms as a way to differentiate from the competition. Tech providers, too, claim that algorithms developed in-house offer better ...

AI programs usually master either information-perfect games like chess or information-imperfect games like poker, but "Student of Games" is a general algorithm that can master both types. When you ...

AI has mastered some of the most complex games known to man, but models are generally tailored to solve specific kinds of challenges. A new DeepMind algorithm that can tackle a much wider variety of ...

The gamer punches in play after endless play of the Atari classic Space Invaders. Through an interminable chain of failures, the gamer adapts the gameplay strategy to reach for the highest score. But ...

Inference for a complex system with a rough energy landscape is a central topic in Monte Carlo computation. Motivated by the successes of the Wang—Landau algorithm in discrete systems, we generalize ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics) Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in ...