We’ve all been there: listening to a Zoom meeting while responding to a co-worker’s urgent email. And maybe trying to arrange the kids’ after-school schedule at the same time. Multitasking is a ...

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Summary: A new study has shattered the long-held scientific consensus regarding the human brain’s capacity to engage in true multitasking. The study demonstrates how the brain physically remodels its ...

Your brain is capable of learning to multitask without your realizing it, according to a new study. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free ...

Abstract: Multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) has shown strong performance in cooperative tasks. However, most existing approaches are designed for single-task scenarios and struggle to adapt to ...

Abstract: Multiobjective multitasking optimization (MTO) is an emerging research direction in the evolutionary computation community, which tries to solve multiple optimization problems concurrently ...