What Is Wonder3D? A Method for Generating High-Fidelity Textured Meshes From Single-View Images

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Works 2.1. 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation 2.2. 3D Generative Models and 2.3. Multi-view Diffusion Models 3. Problem Formulation 3.1. Diffusion Models 3.2. The Distribution of 3D Assets 4. Method and 4.1. Consistent Multi-view Generation 4.2. Cross-Domain Diffusion 4.3. Textured Mesh Extraction 5. Experiments 5.1. … Read more

Crypto for Advisors: What’s Next for Crypto ETFs

Happy New Year, advisors! We look forward to bringing you crypto news for advisors every Thursday this year! In today’s issue, our first newsletter of 2025, Roxanna Islam from TMX VettaFi provides a comprehensive guide to the world of crypto ETFs, looking at what happened in 2024 and what’s expected in 2025. Then, Griffin Kelly … Read more

Toyota’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watch

Five years ago, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda went to CES to share with the world his “personal field of dreams” — a plan to build a prototype city on a 175-acre site at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, where people would live and work amongst all of Toyota’s projects, including autonomous vehicle technology, … Read more

People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA

CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (where users type the characters they see in a box amid other squiggles); image recognition (you’re selecting, say, all the squares in a grid with a bicycle image); and checkbox … Read more

How Web3 Is Disrupting AI Cloud Computing

Centralized data networks, ones that are owned and/or managed by a single entity, have been structurally broken for years. Why? Single points of failure. If one entity (or even a few) has access to a database, then there is only one “point” to compromise in order to gain full access. This is a serious problem … Read more

Three Questions Reveal Your Ideal Bitcoin Allocation

By answering three key questions on return expectations and target portfolio volatility, multi-asset investors can evaluate bitcoin’s suitability for their portfolios and determine its optimal allocation based on their unique goals. Contrary to popular belief, bitcoin’s price is primarily driven by demand, not its (mining) supply. Each of bitcoin’s five bull markets has been propelled … Read more

US sanctions Russian group over AI-generated election disinformation

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The US has issued sanctions on organizations in Russia and Iran for attempting to interfere with the 2024 presidential election. The Treasury Department said on Tuesday that the groups tried to “stoke socio-political tensions” and influence voters. One group, the Moscow-based Center for … Read more

Continual Learning in Reinforcement Learning Agents with Pre-trained, Testing, and Untrained Groups

:::tip This is Part 6 of a 11-part series based on the research paper “Reinforcement Learning In Agent-based Market Simulation: Unveiling Realistic Stylized Facts And Behavior”. Use the table of links below to navigate to the next part. ::: Table of Links Part 1: Abstract & Introduction Part 2: Important Concepts Part 3: System Description … Read more

Reinforcement Learning Simulation Metrics: QQ plots, ACF graphs, and Volatility Analysis

:::tip This is Part 10 of a 11-part series based on the research paper “Reinforcement Learning In Agent-based Market Simulation: Unveiling Realistic Stylized Facts And Behavior”. Use the table of links below to navigate to the next part. ::: Table of Links Part 1: Abstract & Introduction Part 2: Important Concepts Part 3: System Description … Read more

RL Agents Show Superior Realism and Adaptability Over Zero-Intelligence Agents

:::tip This is Part 7 of a 11-part series based on the research paper “Reinforcement Learning In Agent-based Market Simulation: Unveiling Realistic Stylized Facts And Behavior”. Use the table of links below to navigate to the next part. ::: Table of Links Part 1: Abstract & Introduction Part 2: Important Concepts Part 3: System Description … Read more

Configuring Reinforcement Learning Simulation: Agent Settings, Hyper-Parameters, & Market Insights

:::tip This is the last part of the research paper “Reinforcement Learning In Agent-based Market Simulation: Unveiling Realistic Stylized Facts And Behavior”. Use the table of links below to navigate to the next part. ::: Table of Links Part 1: Abstract & Introduction Part 2: Important Concepts Part 3: System Description Part 4: Agents & … Read more

Realistic Market Simulations Are Essential for Testing Reinforcement Learning Behavior

:::tip This is Part 5 of a 11-part series based on the research paper “Reinforcement Learning In Agent-based Market Simulation: Unveiling Realistic Stylized Facts And Behavior”. Use the table of links below to navigate to the next part. ::: Table of Links Part 1: Abstract & Introduction Part 2: Important Concepts Part 3: System Description … Read more

Continual Learning RL Agents Set New Standard for Realistic Market Simulations

:::tip This is Part 9 of a 11-part series based on the research paper “Reinforcement Learning In Agent-based Market Simulation: Unveiling Realistic Stylized Facts And Behavior”. Use the table of links below to navigate to the next part. ::: Table of Links Part 1: Abstract & Introduction Part 2: Important Concepts Part 3: System Description … Read more

Market-Making & Liquidity-Taking Agents Leverages Independent Policies & Reward-driven Strategies

:::tip This is Part 4 of a 11-part series based on the research paper “Reinforcement Learning In Agent-based Market Simulation: Unveiling Realistic Stylized Facts And Behavior”. Use the table of links below to navigate to the next part. ::: Table of Links Part 1: Abstract & Introduction Part 2: Important Concepts Part 3: System Description … Read more

Reinforcement Learning Revolutionizes Market Insights with Adaptive Simulations

:::tip This is Part 1 of a 11-part series based on the research paper “Reinforcement Learning In Agent-based Market Simulation: Unveiling Realistic Stylized Facts And Behavior”. Use the table of links below to navigate to the next part. ::: Table of Links Part 1: Abstract & Introduction Part 2: Important Concepts Part 3: System Description … Read more