Abstract: In this paper, we introduce an Optimized Byte Pair Encoding (OBPE) tokenizer where the algorithm is optimized for the South African languages, including Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa, Xitsonga, ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Out at the castle of Windsor Forest Wednesday, two knights signing their letter of intent to continue their athletic journey at the collegiate level. Both Paul Coaxum and Grace ...

Quantum physicists at ANU have observed atoms entangled in motion. "It's really weird for us to think that this is how the universe works," says Dr. Sean Hodgman from the ANU Research School of ...

Being-VL-0.5 is an MLLM that combines text and image understanding using a novel approach called Visual Byte-Pair Encoding (vBPE). Instead of treating images and text as completely separate modalities ...

We present nCPU, an end-to-end AI computer in which every layer of the computational stack --- from integer arithmetic to operating system to compiler --- is either a trained neural network or ...

Comorbidity—the co-occurrence of multiple diseases in a patient—complicates diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. Understanding how diseases connect at a molecular level is crucial, especially in aging ...

Editor's note: Follow Olympics figure skating live results and updates from the 2026 Winter Games. MILAN — For most of the 21st century, U.S. pairs figure skating has been an afterthought. While the ...

3-time medalist Nathan Chen recaps the final night of the pairs competition from Milan, Italy where the Japan pair of Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara set a new scoring record on their way to gold. Hey, ...

Editor's note: Follow Olympics figure skating live results and updates from the 2026 Winter Games. MILAN — Despite a strong showing, the U.S. medal drought in pairs figure skating continues. Riku ...

MILAN — The 2026 Winter Olympics pairs figure skating champion is Japan. Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara skated flawlessly, despite going into the night ranked fifth after the short program, to outdo ...

Italian pairs skaters Sara Conti and Niccolò Macii split off the ice and then immediately went right back to competing together. Here’s how they made it work. Photo: Getty Images Of all of the extreme ...