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Researchers have developed a new training strategy for multimodal semantic segmentation that addresses the challenge of missing sensor modalities. This method learns to sample modality availability scenarios directly from a pretrained latent space, rather than relying on random dropout. By quantifying the impact of each scenario on the shared latent representation and using a kernel smoothing technique, the strategy refines scenario scores to create a probability distribution for fine-tuning. Experiments on remote sensing datasets demonstrated that this approach outperforms standard fine-tuning and LoRA-based adaptation. AI

Researchers have developed a new heuristic search method for the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP). This approach models scheduling decisions as transitions in a Timed Transition Petri Net with resources. Experiments on standard benchmarks indicate that this new method surpasses existing Mixed-Integer Linear Programming solvers in both success rate and speed. AI

Fiddler Ashley McIsaac has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the company's AI has caused significant damage. The article suggests that before the widespread use of AI, summaries of individuals, particularly living people, were often derived from sources like Wikipedia. Wikipedia has specific policies against including negative information in biographies of living people unless it is supported by verifiable published sources. AI