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As one of the important statistical methods, quantile regression (QR) extends traditional regression analysis. In QR, various quantiles of the response variable are modeled as linear functions of the ...

For difficult problems, in our context, problems on highly deformed meshes, the Conjugate Gradient (CG) method may converge slowly, because the linear system is very poorly conditioned, and expensive ...

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Adam Satariano and Roser Toll Pifarre interviewed more than 50 victims, families, police, government officials and other experts about Spain’s gender violence program. In a small apartment outside ...

Federated learning enables collaborative model training by aggregating gradients from multiple clients, thus preserving their private data. However, gradient inversion attacks can compromise this ...

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