From left: Se-Bum Paik, Distinguished Professor at KAIST; Jeonghwan Cheon, M.S. scholar at KAIST. Courtesy of KAIST.
■ KAIST introduced on the twenty seventh {that a} analysis workforce led by Distinguished Professor Se-Bum Paik of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences has recognized that random weight initialization, broadly utilized in deep studying, is a elementary reason behind AI overconfidence and has developed a ‘warm-up’ studying technique to resolve it. The analysis was revealed within the worldwide tutorial journal ‘Nature Machine Intelligence’ on the ninth (native time) and was chosen as a noteworthy paper, additionally being featured in ‘News and Views.’ The workforce centered on the phenomenon the place a randomly initialized neural community exhibits excessive confidence even earlier than studying something. By making use of the precept of how the human mind kinds neural circuits by ‘spontaneous neural exercise’ earlier than start, they launched a ‘warm-up part’ that performs temporary pre-training with random noise earlier than knowledge studying. The AI mannequin that underwent the warm-up course of detected the ‘temporal hallucination’ phenomenon with a median of 21.7% extra accuracy than present models, and its capacity to evaluate ‘I do not know’ for unlearned knowledge was considerably improved.
■ Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) introduced on the twenty seventh {that a} workforce led by Professor Sang-Jun Lee of the Department of Life Sciences, in a joint research with Sungkyunkwan University, Jeju National University, and the Center for Viral Immunology on the Institute for Basic Science, has found that the ‘poly(T)’ repeat sequence on herpes virus DNA induces an immune response. The analysis findings had been revealed within the worldwide tutorial journal ‘Nature Communications’ on the thirteenth. Herpes simplex virus 1 is a standard virus, with roughly 67% of the world’s inhabitants contaminated, and the innate immune sensor AIM2 performs a task in detecting the virus. The analysis workforce discovered that AIM2 acknowledges the poly(T) area, the place the thymine (T) base molecule is repeated at size within the viral DNA, to induce an inflammatory response and the dying of contaminated cells. As this repeat sequence can also be conserved in varied infectious virus teams comparable to mpoxvirus, adenovirus, and coronavirus, it’s anticipated to offer a theoretical foundation for the event of custom-made immunomodulatory new medication.
■ Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) introduced {that a} analysis workforce led by Professor Seok Kim of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Sang-Yeop Lee, a scholar within the built-in M.S./Ph.D. program, has succeeded in implementing core semiconductor processes on each side of an ultra-thin silicon wafer, which is just one-tenth the thickness of a human hair. The analysis outcomes had been revealed within the worldwide journal for manufacturing and manufacturing, the ‘International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing.’ Although 3D integration know-how, which stacks semiconductors vertically, is gaining consideration, utilizing each side of ultra-thin silicon was virtually unattainable because it simply breaks or warps. The analysis workforce secured stability utilizing a particular answer and an intermediate substrate and succeeded in exactly fabricating metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) on each the back and front sides of the substrate. This allowed for the mixing of twice as many semiconductor gadgets in comparison with utilizing just one aspect, and it operated stably with out harm even after greater than 10,000 repeated bending exams.
■ The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) introduced on the twenty seventh that it participated within the ‘2026 Korea Science Festival in Gyeonggi,’ held at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province from the twenty fourth to the twenty sixth, to showcase AI applied sciences that can change future life. GIST exhibited the analysis achievements of Professor Hong-Goo Kim from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Kyu-Bin Lee, director of the AI Research Institute, underneath the theme ‘Listen, Understand, and Move AI: Real-time Voice Dubbing and Intelligent Robots.’ The AI real-time automated dubbing answer ‘OnionAI Dub’ performs translation, speech synthesis, and lip-syncing in an built-in method to realize multilingual automated dubbing, whereas ‘ManipForce’ is a know-how that enables a robotic to study and reproduce the delicate modifications in pressure that an individual feels throughout a job. During the occasion, the GIST sales space was visited by over 700 attendees.
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