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Laser synchronization is a technique that locks the wavelength of a free-running laser to that of the reference laser, thereby enabling synchronous changes in the wavelengths of the two lasers. This technique is of crucial importance in…

Large language models (LLMs) show strong potential for neural architecture generation, yet existing approaches produce complete model implementations from scratch -- computationally expensive and yielding verbose code. We propose Delta-Code…

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