5 papers
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
Manuel S. Drehwald, Marcelo Domínguez, Kevin Sala +2
High-performance GPU programming has traditionally forced a compromise between execution efficiency and memory safety. While Rust guarantees compile-time memory safety for host CPU…
Social Caption: Evaluating Social Understanding in Multimodal Models
Leena Mathur, Bhaavanaa Thumu, Youssouf Kebe +1
Social understanding abilities are crucial for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to interpret human social interactions. We introduce SOCIAL CAPTION, a framework grounded in…
When Should AI Read the Room? Public Perceptions of Social Intelligence in AI Agents
Leena Mathur, Jenny T. Liang, Vasudha Varadarajan +6
AI researchers have been advancing socially intelligent AI agents (Social-AI) across embodiments, from chatbots to physical robots. As Social-AI is increasingly deployed in everyda…
Social Genome: Grounded Social Reasoning Abilities of Multimodal Models
Leena Mathur, Marian Qian, Paul Pu Liang +1
Social reasoning abilities are crucial for AI systems to effectively interpret and respond to multimodal human communication and interaction within social contexts. We introduce SO…
OpenFace 3.0: A Lightweight Multitask System for Comprehensive Facial Behavior Analysis
Jiewen Hu, Leena Mathur, Paul Pu Liang +1
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in automatic facial behavior analysis systems from computing communities such as vision, multimodal interaction, robotics, and a…