Nanotechnology×Reinforcement learning
This pair ranks in the top 0.1% of every collision candidate in the corpus. Across held-out years, pairs scoring that well went on to co-publish at 10.0× the base rate, typically within 2 years.
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Pre-company space. No named players have staked this collision yet — an emerging pairing where the field, not a firm, is the story so far.
23 researchers publish on both sides of this collision without the fields themselves having met. Every name below is counted from papers in the corpus — not inferred.
- Qiangfei XiaPolitecnico di Milano7/1
- Zhongrui WangInstitute for Basic Science7/1
- Peng LinMaterial Measurement Laboratory5/1
- Hao JiangNational Institute of Standards and Technology5/1
- Qing WuTexas A&M University3/1
- Mingyi RaoFudan University3/1
- Can LiUniversity of Pittsburgh3/1
- Mark BarnellTexas A&M University3/1
- Alán Aspuru‐GuzikDelft University of Technology2/1
- John Paul StrachanStanford University2/1
- Stanford UniversityUS360/70
- University of California, BerkeleyUS184/74
- University of CambridgeGB200/53
- Harvard UniversityUS352/29
- Nanyang Technological UniversitySG340/30
- Tsinghua UniversityCN353/28
- SkipNet: Learning Dynamic Routing in Convolutional Networks2018 · 637 citations · DOI ↗2
- BlockDrop: Dynamic Inference Paths in Residual Networks2018 · 480 citations · DOI ↗2
- Multi-agent reinforcement learning as a rehearsal for decentralized planning2016 · 356 citations · DOI ↗2
- Grad-CAM: Visual Explanations from Deep Networks via Gradient-Based Localization2019 · 5,851 citations · DOI ↗1
Counted from the corpus. Institution counts use best-effort affiliation (every author on a paper is paired with every institution on it), so read them as presence, not headcount.
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