@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-08-12 18:49:37
Jets CB Stiggers put in protocol after collapsing https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49591966/jets-qwantez-stiggers-concussion-protocol-collapsing
@arXiv_csAR_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-13 07:42:17
FQTree: Fine-grained Quantization and Hardware Generation of Boosted Decision Trees
Zhiqiang Que, Chang Sun, Haiyang Wang, Dinesh Pamunuwa, Roshan Weerasekera, Qijia Tang, Bakhtiar Zadeh, Wayne Luk, Maria Spiropulu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12140 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12140 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12140
arXiv:2608.12140v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Boosted decision trees (BDTs) are widely used in latency-critical applications, but efficient hardware deployment remains challenging. Existing designs often rely on uniform or manually tuned fixed-point formats, which can introduce unnecessary hardware cost or accuracy loss. This work presents the FQTree algorithm{https://github.com/ecs-bristol/FQTree} for fine-grained quantization-aware training of BDTs, together with the QXGB framework for automatic hardware generation. FQTree introduces a hardware-oriented leaf-value quantization scheme that uses a global quantization step together with a tree-wise shift, enabling compact non-negative integer leaf representations, controlled clipping/pruning, and bias folding to reduce datapath cost. This work further applies this quantization during boosting so that later trees adapt to the errors of the already-quantized ensemble, and then lowers the trained model into low-latency hardware implementations through a compiler-based flow. Results on JSC, MNIST, and NID show that our method reduces LUT usage by 26-57\% compared with the state-of-the-art FPGA-based BDT designs while matching or improving accuracy.
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@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-27 05:05:00
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-08-11 20:16:34
Jets CB Qwan'tez Stiggers hospitalized after collapsing in practice
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-cb-qwantez-stiggers-hospitalized-after-collapsing-i…
@nohillside@smnn.ch2026-07-30 09:14:05
Who the heck wants to spend 24 hours in Economy, or even trapped in a small metal box?
Qantas Plane Flies For More Than 24 Hours In Record-Breaking Flight - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/30/0022247/qantas-p…
@seav@en.osm.town2026-09-07 16:43:32
🧵 1/2: I recently saw this vintage #Qantas poster with a unique “flower” map projection centered on #Sydney (1st image). I like how the map almost neatly divides the four largest continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, and Africa) into the four petals.
Well, I kinda became obsessed and wonder…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-25 00:25:41
Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024 (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/24/quintessent-bags-40m-to-de…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-09-12 22:45:53
🎙️ Real-time #voice runtime that keeps #AI agents talking while they work #qwenaudioagent #voiceai
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-08-05 13:51:56
Good article about quantized models, "The Model You Audit Is Not the Model You Ship".
#AI
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-21 08:54:06
