IEEE

Hypercomplex Neural Network and Cross-Modal Attention for Multi-Modal Emotion Recognition Using Physiological Signals

Abstract: Multi-modal emotion recognition plays a crucial role in human-computer interaction. Nowadays, many studies have developed fusion algorithms for this purpose. However, two challenges are ...
WAVY-TV

Financial Fitness: How to create a budget and set yourself up for success in the new year

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — It’s the season of new year’s resolutions, and if one of yours is to get your money right in 2026, one financial expert recommends creating a budget you can follow to ...
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Trump officials bar Head Start providers from using ‘women’ and ‘race’ in grant applications

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including “race,” “belonging” and “pregnant people” — a directive ...
IEEE

EdgeDiff: Energy-Efficient Multi-Modal Few-Step Diffusion Model Accelerator Using Mixed-Precision and Reordered Group Quantization

Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models (DMs)—such as few-step denoising and multi-modal conditioning—have significantly improved computational efficiency and functional flexibility, but they ...
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Debate over surfing in German park gets gnarly after city removes wave-creating device

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A debate over how to bring back surfing in Germany’s landmark English Garden escalated on Sunday after city workers removed a beam surreptitiously deployed over Christmas to ...