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Nous Research's open-source Nomos 1 AI model scored 87/120 on the notoriously difficult Putnam math competition, ranking ...

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Tommaso Grossi and colleagues propose NeuberNet, a multi-task manifold decoder that maps low-fidelity elastic displacement fields to high-resolution stress-strain in regions with sharp notches. This ...

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