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Building and scaling generative AI models demands enormous resources, but this process can get tedious. Developers wrestle with managing job queues, provisioning clusters, and resolving dependencies just to ensure consistent results. This infrastructure overhead, along with the difficulty of discovering the optimal training recipe and navigating the endless maze of hyperparameter and model architecture choices, …

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A dangerous assumption that can be made from prior work on the bias transfer hypothesis (BTH) is that biases do not transfer from pre-trained large language models (LLMs) to adapted models. We invalidate this assumption by studying the BTH in causal models under prompt adaptations, as prompting is an extremely popular and accessible adaptation strategy …

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Author: Keertana Chidambaram, Qiuling Xu, Ko-Jen Hsiao, Moumita Bhattacharya (*The work was done when Keertana interned at Netflix.) Introduction This blog focuses on post-training generative recommender systems. Generative recommenders (GRs) represent a new paradigm in the field of recommendation systems (e.g. HSTU, OneRec). These models draw inspiration from recent advancements in transformer architectures used for …

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We revisit scene-level 3D object detection as the output of an object-centric framework capable of both localization and mapping using 3D oriented boxes as the underlying geometric primitive. While existing 3D object detection approaches operate globally and implicitly rely on the a priori existence of metric camera poses, our method, Rooms from Motion (RfM) operates …

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The conversation around generative AI in the enterprise is getting creative.  Since launching our popular Nano Banana model, consumers have created 13 billion images and 230 million videos1. Enterprises can combine Gemini 2.5 Pro with our generative media models – Lyria, Chirp, Imagen, and Veo – to bring their ideas to life.  To us, generative …

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TL;DR AI systems today cannot suffer because they lack consciousness and subjective experience, but understanding structural tensions in models and the unresolved science of consciousness points to the moral complexity of potential future machine sentience and underscores the need for balanced, precautionary ethics as AI advances. As artificial intelligence systems become more sophisticated, questions that …

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