Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before giving it all up and disappearing. Jacob Aron explores what his work meant ...

Abstract: Achieving distributed reinforcement learning (RL) for large-scale cooperative multiagent systems (MASs) is challenging because: 1) each agent has access to only limited information and 2) ...

Income taxes and record returns from superannuation nest eggs has not been enough to offset a $54 billion jump in spending that has delivered the treasurer his first budget deficit.