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Since being added to the events list for the first Winter Olympics in 1924, figure skating has been a consistent favorite for fans to watch, both at home and in the arena. One of several reasons for ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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, ...