Microsoft

Population-Aligned Persona Generation for LLM-based Social Simulation

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled human-like social simulations at unprecedented scale and fidelity, offering new opportunities for computational social science. A key ...
GitHub

CapRL: Stimulating Dense Image Caption Capabilities via Reinforcement Learning

We are excited to release the CapRL 2.0 series: CapRL-Qwen3VL-2B and CapRL-Qwen3VL-4B. These models feature fewer parameters while delivering even more powerful captioning performance. Notably, ...
IEEE

Hyperspectral Target Detection Based on a Background-Aware Sparse Transformer Network

Abstract: Hyperspectral target detection (HTD) relies on prior target spectra to locate the targets of interest within hyperspectral images (HSIs). Recently, deep learning methods have shown their ...
IEEE

CTHDNet: A CNN-Transformer Hybrid Denoising Network Forinfrared Image Denoising

Abstract: Infrared image denoising is essential for generating clean and reli-able images under noisy conditions. Existing approaches typically rely on either purely CNN-based or Transformer-based ...
New York Sun

CNN’s Anderson Cooper, an Outspoken Trump Critic, Reportedly Re-Signs With Network but Did He Take a Pay Cut?

Amid uncertainty about the future of CNN, the network has signed a new contract with its highest-paid star, Anderson Cooper, according to Variety. Mr. Cooper, who was paid several times more than his ...
CNN

Mariah Carey’s hit ‘All I Want For Christmas’ de-throned

Will Italy's ice hockey arenas be completed before the Olympic Games begin?