Scientists Harness 19th-Century Optics To Advance Quantum Encryption

A new quantum communication method uses the temporal Talbot effect to simplify high-dimensional quantum key distribution.
GitHub

Unified Multimodal Understanding via Byte-Pair Visual Encoding

Being-VL-0.5 is an MLLM that combines text and image understanding using a novel approach called Visual Byte-Pair Encoding (vBPE). Instead of treating images and text as completely separate modalities ...
winbuzzer.com

Byteification: AI2’s New Bolmo AI Model Cuts AI Training Costs by 99%

Bypassing the prohibitive costs of training novel architectures from scratch, the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has introduced Bolmo, a new family of language models that process raw bytes instead of ...
marktechpost

Meta AI Researchers Introduced a Scalable Byte-Level Autoregressive U-Net Model That Outperforms Token-Based Transformers Across Language Modeling Benchmarks

Language modeling plays a foundational role in natural language processing, enabling machines to predict and generate text that resembles human language. These models have evolved significantly, ...
IEEE

Optimizing Byte Pair Encoding Tokenization for South African Languages

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce an Optimized Byte Pair Encoding (OBPE) tokenizer where the algorithm is optimized for the South African languages, including Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa, Xitsonga, ...
acm.org

Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot’s Code Contributions

There is burgeoning interest in designing AI-based systems to assist humans in designing computing systems, including tools that automatically generate computer code. The most notable of these comes ...