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VIALS: A Benchmark for Visual Interpretation of Artifacts in the Life Sciences

In professional life sciences workflows, scientists routinely interpret visual artifacts (gel blots, microscopy images, plasmid maps, flow cytometry plots, molecular structures, ...) to inform research decisions. We introduce VIALS, a visual question-answering benchmark with 161 such interpretation tasks, spanning the types of artifacts examined throughout experimental workflows in the biotech…

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Primal Acceleration of Newton's Method

We develop a new direct accelerated Newton method for minimizing convex functions with Lipschitz continuous Hessian. The algorithm uses only primal variables and performs just one linear solve per…

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