It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

Abstract: Imitation learning offers an effective framework for enabling robots to acquire complex skills, but typically requires a large number of labeled demonstrations, making data collection costly ...

Soil moisture is a key factor driving the Earth’s water and carbon cycles, but large-scale monitoring has long been hindered ...

Abstract: Dynamic image degradations, including noise, blur and lighting inconsistencies, pose significant challenges in image restoration, often due to sensor limitations or adverse environmental ...