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20192026
most citedBIVA: A Very Deep Hierarchy of Latent Variables for Generative Modeling

116 citations · 263 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AI2026

Accelerating Scientific Research with Gemini in the Real-World

Samuel Schmidgall, Xiaokai Zhu, Marian Shaw +32

We present an extension and comprehensive real-world validation of Co-Scientist, a Gemini-based multi-agent system designed to accelerate end-to-end scientific research across hypo…

cs.AI2026

Towards Expert-level Medical AI for Real-time Video Consultations

Mahvish Nagda, Jihyeon Lee, Matthew Thompson +37

Audio-visual interaction is the standard for patient-physician consultations, enabling natural communication and effective assessment of illness through non-verbal cues. While text…

cs.AI2026

ResidencyRL: Reinforcement Learning in Simulated Clinical Environments

Valentin Liévin, Samuel Schmidgall, Tim Strother +32

In medical education, physicians convert academic knowledge into clinical expertise through residency: years of training across thousands of encounters, with diverse sources of fee…

cs.CL2026★ 3 cited

Gemma 4 Technical Report

Gemma Team, Sherif El Abd, Vaibhav Aggarwal +320

We introduce Gemma 4, a new generation of open-weight, natively multimodal language models in the Gemma model family. Designed to advance compute efficiency and reasoning, the Gemm…

cs.AI2026

Towards Conversational Medical AI with Eyes, Ears and a Voice

Meet Shah, Jason Gusdorf, Anil Palepu +50

The practice of medicine relies not only upon skillful dialogue but also on the nuanced exchange and interpretation of rich auditory and visual cues between doctors and patients. B…

cs.CL2025

Advancing Conversational Diagnostic AI with Multimodal Reasoning

Khaled Saab, Jan Freyberg, Chunjong Park +33

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great potential for conducting diagnostic conversations but evaluation has been largely limited to language-only interactions, deviat…

cs.CL2025★ 3 cited

Towards Conversational AI for Disease Management

Anil Palepu, Valentin Liévin, Wei-Hung Weng +17

While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in diagnostic dialogue, their capabilities for effective management reasoning - including disease progression, therapeutic res…

cs.CL2023★ 50 cited

ThoughtSource: A central hub for large language model reasoning data

Simon Ott, Konstantin Hebenstreit, Valentin Liévin +6

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 have recently demonstrated impressive results across a wide range of tasks. LLMs are still limited, however, in that they frequently fail…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Variational Open-Domain Question Answering

Valentin Liévin, Andreas Geert Motzfeldt, Ida Riis Jensen +1

Retrieval-augmented models have proven to be effective in natural language processing tasks, yet there remains a lack of research on their optimization using variational inference.…

cs.CL2022★ 86 cited

Can large language models reason about medical questions?

Valentin Liévin, Christoffer Egeberg Hother, Andreas Geert Motzfeldt +1

Although large language models (LLMs) often produce impressive outputs, it remains unclear how they perform in real-world scenarios requiring strong reasoning skills and expert dom…

cs.CV2022

Image Super-Resolution With Deep Variational Autoencoders

Darius Chira, Ilian Haralampiev, Ole Winther +2

Image super-resolution (SR) techniques are used to generate a high-resolution image from a low-resolution image. Until now, deep generative models such as autoregressive models and…

stat.ML2020★ 2 cited

Optimal Variance Control of the Score Function Gradient Estimator for Importance Weighted Bounds

Valentin Liévin, Andrea Dittadi, Anders Christensen +1

This paper introduces novel results for the score function gradient estimator of the importance weighted variational bound (IWAE). We prove that in the limit of large (number o…

stat.ML2019★ 116 cited

BIVA: A Very Deep Hierarchy of Latent Variables for Generative Modeling

Lars Maaløe, Marco Fraccaro, Valentin Liévin +1

With the introduction of the variational autoencoder (VAE), probabilistic latent variable models have received renewed attention as powerful generative models. However, their perfo…