"Finetuned adapters" play a crucial role in generative image models, permitting custom image generation and reducing storage needs. Open-source platforms that provide these adapters have grown considerably, leading to a boom in AI art. Currently, over 100,000 adapters are available, with the Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) method standing out as the most common finetuning process. These…
The application of Graph Neural Network (GNN) for motion planning in robotic systems has surfaced as an innovative solution for efficient strategy formation and navigation. Using GNN, this approach can assess the graph structure of an environment to make quick and informed decisions regarding the best path for a robot to take. Three major systems…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more sophisticated, requiring models capable of processing large-scale data and providing precise, valuable insights. The aim of researchers in this field is to develop systems that are capable of continuous learning and adaptation, ensuring relevance in dynamic environments.
One of the main challenges in developing AI models is the issue of…
Associate Professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley at the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is a creator behind many innovative technologies used in photographic image processing and editing. Ragan-Kelley has contributed to the visual effects industry and was instrumental in designing the Halide programming language, a tool widely used in the photo editing sector.
Ragan-Kelley,…
Researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) presented three papers at the International Conference on Learning Representations, indicating breakthroughs in Large Language Models' (LLMs) abilities to form useful abstractions. The team used everyday words for context in code synthesis, AI planning, and robotic navigation and manipulation.
The three frameworks, LILO, Ada,…
In the age of rapidly growing data volume, charts have become vital tools for visualizing data in diverse fields ranging from business to academia. As a result, the need for automated chart comprehension has become increasingly important and received significant attention. While advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in understanding images…
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which combine text and visual data processing, enhance the ability of artificial intelligence to understand and interact with the world. However, most open-source MLLMs are limited in their ability to process complex visual inputs and support multiple languages which can hinder their practical application.
A research collaboration from several Chinese institutions…
Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful tool for training models in recent times. It is used to learn efficient visual representations by aligning image and text embeddings. However, a tricky aspect of contrastive learning is the extensive computation required for pairwise similarity between image and text pairs, particularly when working with large-scale datasets.
This issue…
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created a technique that allows animators to have a more significant scale of control over their works. The researchers have developed a method that produces mathematical functions known as "barycentric coordinates," which indicate how 2D and 3D shapes can move, stretch, and contour in space.…
Artists behind animated movies and video games may soon have greater control over their animations through a new technique devised by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The approach employs barycentric coordinates, mathematical functions that articulate how 2D and 3D figures can be manipulated through space.
Existing solutions are often limited, providing a single…
