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Pretraining Large Language Models with NVFP4 Open

NVIDIA, Felix Abecassis, Anjulie Agrusa, Dong H. Ahn, Jonah Alben , et al. · 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) today are powerful problem solvers across many domains, and they continue to get stronger as they scale in model size, training set size, and training set quality, as shown by extensive research and experimenta…

Ventilation Challenges in Costa Rican Urban Public Transport: Implications for Health and Sustainable Mobility Open

José Alí Porras-Salazar, Asit Mishra, Jan-Frederik Flor · 2025

Public transport is essential for achieving net-zero emissions and sustainable urban growth. Yet, the health implications of indoor air quality (IAQ) in these vehicles are often overlooked, especially as passengers may spend hours in these…

Are we adequately accounting for human factors in analyses of thermal comfort studies? Open

Asit Mishra, Pawel Wargocki, EJ O’Reilly · 2025

Ventilation Challenges in Costa Rican Urban Public Transport: Implications for Health and Sustainable Mobility Open

José Alí Porras-Salazar, Asit Mishra, Jan-Frederik Flor · 2025

Public transport is essential for achieving net-zero emissions and sustainable urban growth. Yet, the health implications of indoor air quality (IAQ) in these vehicles are often overlooked, especially as passengers may spend hours in these…

Thermal Comfort, Environmental Quality, and Energy Consumption in the Built Environment Open

Jan Kaczmarczyk, Aleksandra Lipczyńska, Asit Mishra · 2025

The built environment is a cornerstone of human well-being, influencing health, productivity, well-being, and a sustainable life [...]

Apple Peel Valorization: A Sustainable Approach to Food Waste Upcycling Open

S. K. Chauhan, Prabhu Shankar, Asit Mishra, Subodh Kumar · 2025

Apple peel, a by-product of processing apples, has the potential to be used in the production of functional meals since it is a rich source of bioactive compounds and dietary fibre. Apple peel, being abundant in polyphenols, flavonoids, an…

THE DUAL BURDEN DILEMMA: A REVIEW OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE STRUGGLES AMONG MARRIED WOMEN IN MUMBAI'S HOTEL INDUSTRY Open

Asit Mishra · 2025

Indoor plants’ effect on occupants’ performance, perceived comfort, and affect in an open-plan space in composite climatic regions, India Open

Mukesh Budaniya, Asit Mishra, C. Aakash, Mani Sankar Dasgupta · 2025

Corrigendum to “Energy retrofits: Factors affecting a just transition to better indoor air quality” [Indoor Environ. 1 (4) (2024) 100058] Open

Marie A. Coggins, Victoria Hogan, Asit Mishra, Daniel Norton, David J. Foster , et al. · 2024

Energy retrofits: Factors affecting a just transition to better indoor air quality Open

Marie A. Coggins, Victoria Hogan, Asit Mishra, Daniel Norton, David J. Foster , et al. · 2024

In comparison with other European countries, Ireland has a disproportionately high number of poorly performing energy-inefficient buildings. Consequently, Ireland has one of the most ambitious energy retrofit programmes in Europe. The aim …

Deep energy renovations’ impact on indoor air quality and thermal comfort of residential dwellings in Ireland – ARDEN project Open

Hala Hassan, Asit Mishra, Nina Wemken, Paul O’Dea, Hilary Cowie , et al. · 2024

As Europe's residential energy renovation programmes accelerate, field studies assessing their impact on indoor environmental quality are required to ensure maximum co-benefits to occupants' health and wellbeing. In this work, we evaluated…

Deep Energy Renovations’ Impact on Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort of Residential Dwellings in Ireland – Arden Project Open

Hala Hassan, Asit Mishra, Nina Wemken, Paul O’Dea, Hilary Cowie , et al. · 2024

Effects of Indoor Plants on Office Occupants’ Comfort, Perception, and Performance in the Composite Climatic Regions of India Open

Mukesh Budaniya, Asit Mishra, C. Aakash, Mani Sankar Dasgupta · 2024

Energy savings and thermal comfort in a zero energy office building with fans in Singapore Open

Michael Kent, Nam Khoa Huynh, Asit Mishra, Federico Tartarini, Aleksandra Lipczyńska , et al. · 2023

Elevated air movement produced by fans can offset air-conditioning energy requirements by allowing temperature setpoints to be raised without compromising thermal comfort. These advantages are even greater in hot and humid climates that in…

Effects of Indoor Plants on Occupants’ Emotional-State, Performance, and Perceived Comfort in an Open-Plan Seating Space Open

Mukesh Budaniya, Asit Mishra, C. Aakash, Mani Sankar Dasgupta · 2023

Energy Savings and Thermal Comfort in a Zero Energy Office Building with Fans in Singapore Open

Michael Kent, Nam Khoa Huynh, Asit Mishra, Federico Tartarini, Aleksandra Lipczyńska , et al. · 2023

Exploiting Activation based Gradient Output Sparsity to Accelerate Backpropagation in CNNs Open

Anup Sarma, Sonali Singh, Huaipan Jiang, Ashutosh Pattnaik, Asit Mishra , et al. · 2021

Machine/deep-learning (ML/DL) based techniques are emerging as a driving force behind many cutting-edge technologies, achieving high accuracy on computer vision workloads such as image classification and object detection. However, training…

Review for "A sex/age anomaly in thermal comfort observed in an office worker field study: A menopausal effect?" Open

Asit Mishra · 2021

Accelerating Sparse Deep Neural Networks Open

Asit Mishra, Jorge Albericio Latorre, Jeff Pool, Darko Stošić, Dušan Stošić , et al. · 2021

As neural network model sizes have dramatically increased, so has the interest in various techniques to reduce their parameter counts and accelerate their execution. An active area of research in this field is sparsity - encouraging zero v…

Analyzing capacity of a consumer-grade infrared camera in South Africa for cost-effective aerial inspection of building envelopes Open

N Vorajee, Asit Mishra, Amit Kumar Mishra · 2020

Prohibitive equipment cost and certain export regulations are the major obstacles to the widespread adoption of infrared (IR) thermography when evaluating building envelopes. In this work, we propose the use of an affordable and easily ava…

Influence of Physiological Variability on Thermal Comfort: A Numerical Evaluation Open

Édouard Walther, Asit Mishra, Vincent Forcadell · 2020

Thermal comfort indexes based on physiological models are generally based on the morphology of an average, male individual. The present work explores the effects of physiological variability on the calculation of thermal comfort using the …

Long-term monitoring for indoor climate assessment – The association between objective and subjective data Open

Marcel Loomans, Asit Mishra, L. Kooi · 2020

To enhance indoor climate monitoring and indoor climate assessment, a better understanding of the collection and analysis of monitored data, over longer time periods, is necessary. The goal of this work is to improve long-term monitoring i…

Experimental evaluation of the effect of body mass on thermal comfort perception Open

Aleksandra Lipczyńska, Asit Mishra, Stefano Schiavon · 2020

Globally 39% of adults are overweight, 13% are obese, and 9% are underweight. Current thermal comfort standards, catering to the normal weight occupant, may hence be ignoring nearly 60% of the population. This could have significant comfor…

Opportunistic computing in GPU architectures Open

Ashutosh Pattnaik, Xulong Tang, Onur Kayıran, Adwait Jog, Asit Mishra , et al. · 2019

Data transfer overhead between computing cores and memory hierarchy has been a persistent issue for von Neumann architectures and the problem has only become more challenging with the emergence of manycore systems. A conceptually powerful …

Demand response events in district heating: Results from field tests in a university building Open

Asit Mishra, Juha Jokisalo, Risto Kosonen, Tuomas Kinnunen, Matias Ekkerhaugen , et al. · 2019

Monitoren van werknemersproductiviteit in kantoren Open

Hester Thoen, Paul Roelofsen, Asit Mishra, Marcel Loomans, Pieter-Jan Hoes , et al. · 2019

Ongeveer 25% van alle werkenden in Nederland werkt in een kantooromgeving [1]. Het realiseren van een stimulerende werkomgeving in kantoorgebouwen is daarom essentieel. Tegenwoordig zien ook steeds meer werkgevers het belang van een goed b…

Actimetry for Estimating Occupant Activity Levels in Buildings: A Step Toward Optimal and Energy-Efficient Indoor Conditioning Open

Asit Mishra, Marcel Loomans, Risto Kosonen · 2018

This article presents an improved approach for assessing occupant thermal comfort and, in turn, more efficient indoor conditioning. The occupant activity level is an important determinant of required comfort conditions and thus building en…

Ventilatie en slaapkwaliteit - met open of dicht raam of binnendeur? Open

Marcel Loomans, Asit Mishra, H.S.M. Kort · 2018

In the bedrooms of 17 students the CO2 concentration was measured in relation to the sleep quality. The degree of sleep depth, the amount of time awake and the sleep efficiency as a measure of sleep quality are associated with the conditio…

Occupant response to transitions across indoor thermal environments in two different workspaces Open

Marcel Loomans, Asit Mishra, M.T.H. Derks, Joost Kraakman, H.S.M. Kort · 2018

Exploration of Low Numeric Precision Deep Learning Inference Using Intel FPGAs Open

Philip Colangelo, Nasibeh Nasiri, Asit Mishra, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Martin Margala , et al. · 2018

CNNs have been shown to maintain reasonable classification accuracy when quantized to lower precisions. Quantizing to sub 8-bit activations and weights can result in accuracy falling below an acceptable threshold. Techniques exist for clos…

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