Abstract: Batch normalization (BN) enhances the training of deep ReLU neural network with a composition of mean centering (centralization) and variance scaling (unitization). Despite the success of BN ...

From a Trump nominee with a ‘Nazi streak’ to a Sanders-endorsed candidate with a Totenkopf tattoo, the normalization of political hate speech is bipartisan — and increasingly tolerated One of the ...

PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

In August 2023, Israel’s then-Energy Minister Israel Katz visited the synagogue at the Abrahamic Family House in the United Arab Emirates, a sign of warming ties between the two countries under the ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the Localized Normalization Implementation (LNI) program, a major component of the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), is crucial in ensuring that ...

Learn the simplest explanation of layer normalization in transformers. Understand how it stabilizes training, improves convergence, and why it’s essential in deep learning models like BERT and GPT.

The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, this phenomenon describes the gradual process ...

The surge in political violence during the Trump years has imperiled not only American lives but also our country’s collective memory. The details of a new atrocity overwrite the old. Even the names ...

When Israel began to normalize relations with some of its neighbors in 2020, as part of the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords, many analysts began to wonder whether the Palestinian cause still mattered to ...

For decades, Saudi Arabia and Israel occupied irreconcilable poles of Middle East geopolitics. Riyadh defined its foreign policy through rejection of Israeli statehood and unwavering support for the ...

Hamas aimed to derail “normalization’’ talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia by launching the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre and plunging Gaza into war, newly unearthed documents show. Days before the attack ...

Saudi nuclear talks delinked from diplomatic normalisation with Israel, two sources say, in what would be a concession by Washington Saudi Arabia resists U.S. '123' nonproliferation criteria, seeks ...