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20162026
most citedThe Perception-Distortion Tradeoff

997 citations · 1.1k across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

UNREAL: Unifying Retrieval and Long-Context with a Single Model

Edan Kinderman, Elad Hoffer, Yochai Blau +4

Long-context inference and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) handle evidence selection at vastly different scales, from a single long prompt to an entire corpus. We ask whether…

cs.LG2026

Retrieval from Within: An Intrinsic Capability of Attention-Based Models

Elad Hoffer, Yochai Blau, Edan Kinderman +3

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) typically treats retrieval and generation as separate systems. We ask whether an attention-based encoder-decoder can instead retrieve directly…

cs.AI2025★ 3 cited

Earth AI: Unlocking Geospatial Insights with Foundation Models and Cross-Modal Reasoning

Aaron Bell, Amit Aides, Amr Helmy +57

Geospatial data offers immense potential for understanding our planet. However, the sheer volume and diversity of this data along with its varied resolutions, timescales, and spars…

cs.CL2023

Using Text Injection to Improve Recognition of Personal Identifiers in Speech

Yochai Blau, Rohan Agrawal, Lior Madmony +7

Accurate recognition of specific categories, such as persons' names, dates or other identifiers is critical in many Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) applications. As these catego…

cs.CV2020

Detecting Deficient Coverage in Colonoscopies

Daniel Freedman, Yochai Blau, Liran Katzir +8

Colonoscopy is the tool of choice for preventing Colorectal Cancer, by detecting and removing polyps before they become cancerous. However, colonoscopy is hampered by the fact that…

cs.LG2019★ 60 cited

Rethinking Lossy Compression: The Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff

Yochai Blau, Tomer Michaeli

Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed and analyzed through the lens of Shannon's rate-distortion theory, where the goal is to achieve the lowest possible distortion (…

cs.CV2018

The 2018 PIRM Challenge on Perceptual Image Super-resolution

Yochai Blau, Roey Mechrez, Radu Timofte +2

This paper reports on the 2018 PIRM challenge on perceptual super-resolution (SR), held in conjunction with the Perceptual Image Restoration and Manipulation (PIRM) workshop at ECC…

cs.CV2017★ 997 cited

The Perception-Distortion Tradeoff

Yochai Blau, Tomer Michaeli

Image restoration algorithms are typically evaluated by some distortion measure (e.g. PSNR, SSIM, IFC, VIF) or by human opinion scores that quantify perceived perceptual quality. I…

cs.LG2016★ 3 cited

Non-Redundant Spectral Dimensionality Reduction

Yochai Blau, Tomer Michaeli

Spectral dimensionality reduction algorithms are widely used in numerous domains, including for recognition, segmentation, tracking and visualization. However, despite their popula…