How to Get More Statistical Power from Fewer Research Participants
An online simulation and a novel method for increasing power
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An online simulation and a novel method for increasing power
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Data Storytelling Series, Chapter 1
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NVIDIA nvmath-python is a library designed to bridge the gap between the Python scientific community and NVIDIA CUDA-X math libraries. It gives Python users access to CUDA-X performance for common math operations without disrupting existing workflows. Depending on the API, operations can run on a CPU, CUDA-enabled GPU, or distributed multi-GPU, multi-node systems.
NVIDIA Ising Calibration is an open source vision language model (VLM) designed to interpret diagnostic outputs from quantum processors and determine how they should be tuned to continue operating. This post introduces the latest model release, NVIDIA Ising Calibration 1.5, which advances AI-based QPU calibration by analyzing unfamiliar diagnostic results without prior training examples.
Fine-tuning LLMs for financial natural language processing (NLP) is constrained by limited, imbalanced data. Real-world financial news overrepresents earnings and stock movements, while rarer events such as credit-rating changes, product approvals, and labor issues are harder to capture at scale. Synthetic generation can help fill those gaps for trading research, risk modeling, and surveillanceβ¦
Presto is an open source, distributed SQL engine for running fast, interactive queries on very large datasets. On NVIDIA GPUs, Presto delivers peak performance for analytical query workloads and provides low latency for users and agents. GPU-accelerated Presto brings low latency to your analytical workloads, keeping you and your agents unblocked and iterating as fast as possible.
GPU-accelerated query engines are often constrained by memory and I/O bandwidth. NVIDIA hardware advancesβincluding high bandwidth memory (HBM), NVIDIA NVLink-C2C, and dedicated decompression engines featured in NVIDIA GB200 NVL4βhelp remove these bottlenecks by increasing effective storage capacity, accelerating data movement between CPUs and GPUs, and speeding data access without consumingβ¦
AI scientists are emerging as a new interface for scientific computing. These agents can read papers, write code, generate hypotheses, call APIs, inspect files, and iterate on results. But science isnβt software engineering. There is no test suite that turns green when a hypothesis is correct; discovery is iterative, uncertain, and grounded in the physical world. You canβt take a general codingβ¦
Every swipe, transfer, and payment on a modern financial network encodes a pattern of human behavior. Transaction data is one of the richest signals an enterprise owns. Yet most production use cases for such tabular data still depend on hand-engineered features and rule sets that are brittle, expensive to maintain, and blind to the sequential structure inside a customer history.
Transformer architectures are the backbone of many modern large language and generative AI models. As these models grow in size, training runs consume more GPU hours and more engineering iteration time. Accelerating transformers is therefore not just a performance optimization, but directly affects how quickly teams can experiment and how large a model they can afford to train.
Foundation models are reshaping computational biology. Pretrained on massive corpora of protein or genomic sequences, models such as ESM2 (a protein language model) and Evo 2 (a DNA language model) capture statistical regularities of biological sequences. These transfer well to a wide range of downstream tasks, including structure prediction, variant effect, and functional annotation.
As AI infrastructure scales, enterprise expectations for operational maturity are increasing. Organizations expect these systems to be provisionable, observable, secure, and manageable at scaleβthe same standard applied to all critical infrastructure. The moment an AI system moves from development into enterprise deployment, that operational foundation is essential. NVIDIA DGX Spark andβ¦
This post is the third of a three-part series. See also Model Quantization: Concepts, Methods, and Why It Matters and Model Quantization: Post-Training Quantization Using NVIDIA Model Optimizer. Converting a quantized checkpoint into an NVIDIA TensorRT engine bridges the gap between model optimization and production deployment, enabling faster inference, higher throughputβ¦
Federated learning (FL) research often begins with a deceptively simple question: What should we try next? A new aggregation rule, a FedProx coefficient, a server optimizer setting, a SCAFFOLD variant, or a model architecture tweak may all look promising before an experiment starts. After the run finishes, the harder questions begin: Did the change actually improve the metric?
NVIDIA CompileIQ tackles one of the hardest problems in performance engineering: finding the compiler options that unlock the best performance for a specific workload. Consider a team that has spent weeks optimizing an LLM inference pipeline on GPUs, tuning batch sizes, quantizing to FP8, adopting flash attention, fusing every kernel they can. The profiler says thereβs nothing left to squeeze.
This post is the second of a three-part series. See also Model Quantization: Concepts, Methods, and Why It Matters and Model Quantization: Turn FP8 Checkpoints into High-Performance Inference Engines with NVIDIA TensorRT. Model quantization is an effective method to reduce VRAM usage and improve inference performance on consumer devices such as NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs.
Distributed deep learning depends on fast, reliable GPU-to-GPU communication using the NVIDIA Collective Communication Library (NCCL). When training slows down, it becomes challenging to determine why and what to do next. A problem can span computation, communication, a specific rank, or underlying hardware. NVIDIA NCCL Inspector accelerates triaging by providing a lightweight and continuousβ¦
Modern supply chains operate under the constant pressures of fluctuating demand, volatile costs, constrained capacity, and interdependent decision-making. Traditionally, specialized operations research (OR) teams solved these problems by translating business questions into mathematical models. This process can take weeks and often produces fragile solutions that struggle to adapt when conditionsβ¦
NVIDIA CUDA Tile (cuTile) is a tile-based programming model that enables developers to write GPU kernels in terms of tile-level operationsβloads, stores, and matrix multiply-accumulateβrather than manually coordinating threads, warps, and shared memory. cuTile.jl brings the same tile-based approach to the dynamic programming language Julia. Users can write custom GPU kernels without droppingβ¦