3 papers
cs.CV2026
StrAD: A Streaming Method and Benchmark for Audio Description Generation for Long-form Videos
Julian Spravil, Sebastian Houben, Sven Behnke
Visual content is the dominant medium of communication, yet without audio descriptions (ADs), it remains inaccessible to blind and low-vision people. ADs narrate context-relevant v…
math.OC2025
Data-Dependent Complexity of First-Order Methods for Binary Classification
Matthew Hough, Stephen A. Vavasis
Large-scale problems in data science are often modeled with optimization, and the optimization model is usually solved with first-order methods that may converge at a sublinear rat…
cs.LG2025
Mean and Variance Estimation Complexity in Arbitrary Distributions via Wasserstein Minimization
Valentio Iverson, Stephen Vavasis
Parameter estimation is a fundamental challenge in machine learning, crucial for tasks such as neural network weight fitting and Bayesian inference. This paper focuses on the compl…