​[[{“value”:” Sound is indispensable for enriching human experiences, enhancing communication, and adding emotional depth to media. While AI has made significant progress in various domains, incorporating sound in video-generating models with the same sophistication and nuance as human-created content remains challenging. Producing scores for these… Read More »Google DeepMind Introduces Video-to-Audio V2A Technology: Synchronizing Audiovisual Generation Dhanshree Shripad Shenwai Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​[[{“value”:” In recent research, the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, has introduced ToucanTTS, significantly advancing the field of text-to-speech (TTS) technology. With support for speech synthesis in more than 7,000 languages, this new toolset is capable of completely… Read More »Toucan TTS: An MIT Licensed Text-to-Speech Advanced Toolbox with Speech Synthesis in More Than 7000 Languages Tanya Malhotra Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​[[{“value”:” Natural language processing has greatly improved language model finetuning. This process involves refining AI models to perform specific tasks more effectively by training them on extensive datasets. However, creating these large, diverse datasets is complex and expensive, often requiring substantial human input. This challenge… Read More »Researchers from the University of Maryland Introduce GenQA Instruction Dataset: Automating Large-Scale Instruction Dataset Generation for AI Model Finetuning and Diversity Enhancement Asif Razzaq Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​[[{“value”:” A significant challenge in the field of Information Retrieval (IR) using Large Language Models (LLMs) is the heavy reliance on human-crafted prompts for zero-shot relevance ranking. This dependence requires extensive human effort and expertise, making the process time-consuming and subjective. Additionally, the complexities involved… Read More »APEER: A Novel Automatic Prompt Engineering Algorithm for Passage Relevance Ranking Aswin Ak Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​[[{“value”:” Materials science focuses on studying and developing materials with specific properties and applications. Researchers in this field aim to understand the structure, properties, and performance of materials to innovate and improve existing technologies and create new materials for various applications. This discipline combines chemistry,… Read More »Cephalo: A Series of Open-Source Multimodal Vision Large Language Models (V-LLMs) Specifically in the Context of Bio-Inspired Design Mohammad Asjad Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​[[{“value”:” Advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive common sense, reasoning, and generalization abilities. This means that developing a fully independent digital AI assistant, that can perform daily computer tasks through natural language is possible. However, better reasoning and common-sense abilities don’t automatically lead… Read More »DigiRL: A Novel Autonomous Reinforcement Learning RL Method to Train Device-Control Agents Sajjad Ansari Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​[[{“value”:” Long-context language models (LCLMs) have emerged as a promising technology with the potential to revolutionize artificial intelligence. These models aim to tackle complex tasks and applications while eliminating the need for intricate pipelines that were previously necessary due to context length limitations. However, the… Read More »LOFT: A Comprehensive AI Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Context Language Models Mohammad Asjad Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost

​[[{“value”:” In the era of vast data, information retrieval is crucial for search engines, recommender systems, and any application that needs to find documents based on their content. The process involves three key challenges: relevance assessment, document ranking, and efficiency. The recently introduced Python library… Read More »BM25S: A Python Package that Implements the BM25 Algorithm for Ranking Documents Based on a Query Pragati Jhunjhunwala Artificial Intelligence Category – MarkTechPost