Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
× Predicting Ego-centric Video from human Actions (PEVA). Given past video frames and an action specifying a desired change in 3D pose, PEVA predicts the next video frame. Our results…
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What exactly does word2vec learn?
What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact that word2vec is a…
Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well…
Your Push Notifications Aren’t Safe From the FBI
Plus: Iran’s internet blackout hits the 1,000-hour mark, cryptocurrency scams result in a record amount of money stolen from Americans, and more.
How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.
Anthropic Targets Lawyers With Claude For Word
Anthropic has just released Claude for Word in Beta – in itself a major move, but even more significant is that the AI giant is …
How Knowledge Distillation Compresses Ensemble Intelligence into a Single Deployable AI Model
Complex prediction problems often lead to ensembles because combining multiple models improves accuracy by reducing variance and capturing diverse patterns. However, these ensembles are impractical in production due to latency…
Washington Is Getting Ready to Slow AI Down. And This Has Nothing to Do with Politics
Something strange is happening in Washington. And no, it is not a new scandal. Government officials are in a frantic rush to deal with the unknown and unpredictable, not the…
NASA Artemis II splashes down in Pacific Ocean in ‘perfect’ landing for Moon mission
The Integrity craft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego just after 5:07 p.m. Pacific Time.
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases VimRAG: a Multimodal RAG Framework that Uses a Memory Graph to Navigate Massive Visual Contexts
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a standard technique for grounding large language models in external knowledge — but the moment you move beyond plain text and start mixing in images…