Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis

A new study led by Dr. Andrea Nini at The University of Manchester has found that a grammar-based approach to language ...
Nature

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

Study confirms that guessing before learning improves memory in language learning

Learning a second language is becoming increasingly popular worldwide, with millions of people turning to digital tools and ...
IEEE

An Information Theory of Compute-Optimal Size Scaling, Emergence, and Plateaus in Language Models

Abstract: Recent empirical studies show three phenomena with increasing size of language models: compute-optimal size scaling, emergent capabilities, and performance plateauing. We present a simple ...
IEEE

SARCLIP: The First Vision–Language Foundation Model for SAR Image

Abstract: Foundation models have achieved remarkable breakthroughs across various domains, with the widely use of masked image modeling (MIM) and self-supervised learning (SSL). However, these models ...