🚀👁️🌟 New Research Alert - ICCV 2025 (Poster)! 🌟👁️🚀 📄 Title: Is Less More? Exploring Token Condensation as Training-Free Test-Time Adaptation 🔝
📝 Description: Token Condensation as Adaptation (TCA) improves the performance and efficiency of Vision Language Models in zero-shot inference by introducing domain anchor tokens.
👥 Authors: Zixin Wang, Dong Gong, Sen Wang, Zi Huang, Yadan Luo
🚀👁️🌟 New Research Alert - ICCV 2025 (Oral)! 🌟👁️🚀 📄 Title: Diving into the Fusion of Monocular Priors for Generalized Stereo Matching 🔝
📝 Description: The proposed method enhances stereo matching by efficiently combining unbiased monocular priors from vision foundation models. This method addresses misalignment and local optima issues using a binary local ordering map and pixel-wise linear regression.
🚀👌🌟 New Research Alert - ICCV 2025 (Oral)! 🌟🤌🚀 📄 Title: Understanding Co-speech Gestures in-the-wild 🔝
📝 Description: JEGAL is a tri-modal model that learns from gestures, speech and text simultaneously, enabling devices to interpret co-speech gestures in the wild.
👥 Authors: @sindhuhegde, K R Prajwal, Taein Kwon, and Andrew Zisserman
🚀💡🌟 New Research Alert - ICCV 2025 (Oral)! 🌟🪄🚀 📄 Title: LoftUp: Learning a Coordinate-based Feature Upsampler for Vision Foundation Models 🔝
📝 Description: LoftUp is a coordinate-based transformer that upscales the low-resolution features of VFMs (e.g. DINOv2 and CLIP) using cross-attention and self-distilled pseudo-ground truth (pseudo-GT) from SAM.
👥 Authors: Haiwen Huang, Anpei Chen, Volodymyr Havrylov, Andreas Geiger, and Dan Zhang
🚀🏷️🌟 New Research Alert - ICCV 2025 (Oral)! 🌟🧩🚀 📄 Title: Heavy Labels Out! Dataset Distillation with Label Space Lightening 🔝
📝 Description: The HeLlO framework is a new corpus distillation method that removes the need for large soft labels. It uses a lightweight, online image-to-label projector based on CLIP. This projector has been adapted using LoRA-style, parameter-efficient tuning. It has also been initialized with text embeddings.
🚀🤖🌟 New Research Alert - ICCV 2025 (Oral)! 🌟🤖🚀 📄 Title: Variance-based Pruning for Accelerating and Compressing Trained Networks 🔝
📝 Description: The one-shot pruning method efficiently compresses networks, reducing computation and memory usage while retaining almost full performance and requiring minimal fine-tuning.
👥 Authors: Uranik Berisha, Jens Mehnert, and Alexandru Paul Condurache
🚀👁️🌟 New Research Alert - ICCV 2025 (Oral)! 🌟👁️🚀 📄 Title: Token Activation Map to Visually Explain Multimodal LLMs 🔝
📝 Description: The Token Activation Map (TAM) is an advanced explainability method for multimodal LLMs. Using causal inference and a Rank Gaussian Filter, TAM reveals token-level interactions and eliminates redundant activations. The result is clearer, high-quality visualizations that enhance understanding of object localization, reasoning and multimodal alignment across models.
👥 Authors: Yi Li, Hualiang Wang, Xinpeng Ding, Haonan Wang, and Xiaomeng Li
🌎 AI ethics and sustainability are two sides of the same coin.
In our new blog post with Dr. Sasha Luccioni, we argue that separating them (as is too often the case) means missing the bigger picture of how AI systems impact both people and the planet.
Ethical and sustainable AI development can’t be pursued in isolation. The same choices that affect who benefits or is harmed by AI systems also determine how much energy and resources they consume.
We explore how two key concepts, evaluation and transparency, can serve as bridges between these domains:
📊 Evaluation, by moving beyond accuracy or performance metrics to include environmental and social costs, as we’ve done with tools like the AI Energy Score.
🔍 Transparency, by enabling reproducibility, accountability, and environmental reporting through open tools like the Environmental Transparency Space.
AI systems mirror our priorities. If we separate ethics from sustainability, we risk building technologies that are efficient but unjust, or fair but unsustainable.
One of the hardest challenges in AI safety is finding the right balance: how do we protect people from harm without undermining their agency? This tension is especially visible in conversational systems, where safeguards can sometimes feel more paternalistic than supportive.
In my latest piece for Hugging Face, I argue that open source and community-driven approaches offer a promising (though not exclusive) way forward.
✨ Transparency can make safety mechanisms into learning opportunities. ✨ Collaboration with diverse communities makes safeguards more relevant across contexts. ✨ Iteration in the open lets protections evolve rather than freeze into rigid, one-size-fits-all rules.
Of course, this isn’t a silver bullet. Top-down safety measures will still be necessary in some cases. But if we only rely on corporate control, we risk building systems that are safe at the expense of trust and autonomy.
Supercharge Apple’s Shortcuts using Cloudflare Workers and Gemini within minutes (and for free, up to 1,500 requests per day) ☁️✨
Hello everyone, last week, while experimenting for fun, I created an API that allows you to easily access AI models (in this case, Google's) from the Shortcut app in order to analyze data from my apps and make the most of it thanks to the generative capabilities of advanced models.
It costs me nothing, and I think it might be good to share it so that others can build on it.
In README.md, you will find everything you need to get started and put your own microservice into production, which you can call from the app’s HTTP request features.
You will simply be asked to have a free Cloudflare account and an API key obtained from Google's AI Studio.
Feel free to take a look and get back to me if you encounter any problems during deployment.
I've noticed something. While we're careful about what we post on social media, we're sharing our deepest and most intimate thoughts with AI chatbots -- health concerns, financial worries, relationship issues, business ideas...
With OpenAI hinting at ChatGPT advertising, this matters more than ever. Unlike banner ads, AI advertising happens within the conversation itself. Sponsors could subtly influence that relationship advice or financial guidance.
The good news? We have options. 🤝 Open source AI models let us keep conversations private, avoid surveillance-based business models, and build systems that actually serve users first.