4 papers
PAN: A World Model for General, Actionable, and Long-Horizon World Simulation
PAN Team, Zihan Liu, Yi Gu +12
A world model is a cognitive simulator of the real-world environment allowing biological agents to reason about how the world evolves, whether spontaneously or in response to their…
Restoring Rhythm: Punctuation Restoration Using Transformer Models for Bangla, A Low-Resource Language
Md Obyedullahil Mamun, Md Adyelullahil Mamun, Arif Ahmad +1
Punctuation restoration enhances the readability of text and is critical for post-processing tasks in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), especially for low-resource languages like…
Looks can be Deceptive: Distinguishing Repetition Disfluency from Reduplication
Arif Ahmad, Mothika Gayathri Khyathi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Reduplication and repetition, though similar in form, serve distinct linguistic purposes. Reduplication is a deliberate morphological process used to express grammatical, semantic,…
Beyond Aesthetics: Cultural Competence in Text-to-Image Models
Nithish Kannen, Arif Ahmad, Marco Andreetto +5
Text-to-Image (T2I) models are being increasingly adopted in diverse global communities where they create visual representations of their unique cultures. Current T2I benchmarks pr…