Cook County's Tax Algorithm Worked As Designed. That Was The Problem

Cook County's machine-learning tax model made assessments fairer, yet homeowner bills soared. The appeals system, not the algorithm, is the culprit.
Semiconductor Engineering

Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proof Generation With Reconfigurable Hardware (KAIST)

Researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have published “ZK-Flex: A Flexible and Scalable Framework for Accelerating Zero-Knowledge Proofs”. Abstract “Zero-knowledge ...
The Hill

Trump’s ballroom commissioner leads US delegation to ‘Russia’s Davos’

The U.S. official overseeing President Trump’s controversial White House ballroom project led an official delegation to Russia’s premier economic forum, underscoring the president’s outreach to Moscow ...
IEEE

An Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Large-Scale Robust Multiobjective Optimization Problems

Abstract: Robust multiobjective optimization problems (RMOPs) widely exist in real-world applications, which introduce a variety of uncertainty in optimization models. While some evolutionary ...
IEEE

A Novel Optimal Subsampling Algorithm for Big Data Linear Regression Based on Cook Distance

Abstract: With the continuous surge of data volume, the re-search of big data has gradually become a hot issue in research. For massive data, the subsampling algorithm can effectively reduce the ...