February 2026

Weight initialization plays a crucial role in the optimization behavior and convergence efficiency of neural networks. Most existing initialization methods, such as Xavier and Kaiming initializations, rely on random sampling and do not exploit information from the optimization process itself. We propose a simple, yet effective, initialization strategy based on self-supervised pre-training using random noise as the target. Instead of directly training the network from random weights, we first pre-train it to fit random noise, which leads to […]

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We study the online resource allocation problem in which at each round, a budget $B$ must be allocated across $K$ arms under censored feedback. An arm yields a reward if and only if two conditions are satisfied: (i) the arm is activated according to an arm-specific Bernoulli random variable with unknown parameter, and (ii) the allocated budget exceeds a random threshold drawn from a parametric distribution with unknown parameter. Over $T$ rounds, the learner must jointly estimate the […]

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Victoria, Seychelles, February 5, 2026 MEXC, the world’s fastest-growing digital asset exchange and a pioneer of true zero-fee trading, announced the official launch of the Commodity Zero-Fee Gala. It offers zero-fee trading on commodity assets including gold and silver, high-yield staking opportunities, and $1 million in trading rewards. Amid recent activity in global commodity markets, particularly in gold and silver, traders’ demand for diversified assets and strategies is rising. MEXC is expanding user access to tokenized gold, silver, […]

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Victoria, Seychelles, February 5, 2026 MEXC, the fastest-growing global cryptocurrency exchange, redefining a user-first approach to digital assets through true zero-fee trading, today reported a 65% surge in January spot trading volume of newly listed tokens, as infrastructure projects—AI agents, zero-knowledge networks, and decentralized physical systems—captured the majority of sustained capital flows. n January’s 176 token listings drove spot trading volume in newly listed tokens up 65% and attracted 19% more active traders. The top performers averaged up […]

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We present a framework for dynamic management of structured parallel processing skeletons on serverless platforms. Our goal is to bring HPC-like performance and resilience to serverless and continuum environments while preserving the programmability benefits of skeletons. As a first step, we focus on the well known Farm pattern and its implementation on the open-source OpenFaaS platform, treating autoscaling of the worker pool as a QoS-aware resource management problem. The framework couples a reusable farm template with a Gymnasium-based […]

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Author(s): Abdul tayyeb Datarwala Originally published on Towards AI. My journey building operational intelligence — and why most AI initiatives quietly die I’ve built AI-enabled systems that scaled revenue, cut operational cost by multiples, and replaced chaos with clarity. I’ve also watched brilliant AI initiatives fail — not because the models were bad, but because the system was never designed to carry them. That contrast is why I write this. Most AI content today talks about tools, agents, […]

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