3 papers
cs.CV2026
Optical Context Compression Is Just (Bad) Autoencoding
Ivan Yee Lee, Cheng Yang, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
DeepSeek-OCR shows that rendered text can be reconstructed from a small number of vision tokens, sparking excitement about using vision as a compression medium for long textual con…
cs.CR2025
Victim as a Service: Designing a System for Engaging with Interactive Scammers
Daniel Spokoyny, Nikolai Vogler, Xin Gao +7
Pig butchering, and similar interactive online scams, lower their victims' defenses by building trust over extended periods of conversation - sometimes weeks or months. They have b…
cs.CL2025
Readability Learnability: Rethinking the Role of Simplicity in Training Small Language Models
Ivan Lee, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
Recent studies suggest that very small language models (SLMs) can generate surprisingly coherent text when trained on simplified, child-directed corpora such as TinyStories. These…