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Stop turning Black queer language into a punchline

Black and straight users are strip-mining Black queer speech for clout, comedy, and cultural currency — without honoring its ...

AI model learns yeast DNA 'language' to boost protein drug output

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have harnessed artificial ...
IEEE

Improving Scene Knowledge Referring Expression Comprehension with Large Language Models

Abstract: Scene Knowledge Referring Expression Comprehension (SK-REC) is an emerging multimedia reasoning task. It requires the model to perform joint reasoning over referring expressions and scene ...
GitHub

LLM-wrapper: Black-Box Semantic-Aware Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Referring Expression Comprehension [ICLR 2025]

LLM-wrapper is a method for ‘black-box’ adaptation of VLMs for Referring Expression (REC). It capitalizes on the reasoning abilities of LLMs, improved with a LoRA fine-tuning, to select the most ...
IEEE

Occlusion-Aware Visual-Language Model for Occluded Facial Expression Recognition

Abstract: Recent research on facial expression recognition (FER) has achieved significant performance on FER datasets. However, in real-world recognition scenarios, performance is often compromised by ...
The New York Times

The Best Language Learning Apps

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Justin Pot Our upgrade pick, Babbel, has discontinued its premium Live service ...