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Why Effective Police Training Often Looks Harder Than It Feels

Research on memory, stress and motor learning suggests many police training programs reward short-term performance while ...
The Tech Edvocate

Scaffolding Techniques for English Language Learners in Elementary School

Spread the love“`html Teaching English language learners (ELLs) in elementary school presents unique challenges and opportunities. As educators strive to foster an inclusive and effective learning ...
The Tech Edvocate

Teaching Phonemic Awareness to English Language Learners

Spread the love“`html Phonemic awareness is a crucial skill in the realm of literacy development. For English Language ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Vision-Language-Action Models Arrive

The AI model type capturing the most attention across robotics and autonomous vehicles right now is the vision-language-action model, or VLA. At embedded AI conferences this year, particularly the ...
IEEE

Exploring Transferability of Multimodal Adversarial Samples for Vision-Language Pre-Training Models With Contrastive Learning

Abstract: The integration of visual and textual data in Vision- Language Pre-training (VLP) models is crucial forenhancing vision-language understanding. However, the adversarial robustness of these ...
ahajournals.org

Abstract 48: Echocardiogram Video Vision Foundation Model (Echo-Vision-FM): A Pre-training and Fine-tuning Framework for Automated Echocardiogram Analysis

Introduction: Echocardiography is essential for cardiac assessment, yet interpretation requires substantial expertise and suffers from inter-observer variability. Current AI approaches often rely on ...
Frontiers

ActionX: pre-training action experts with reinforcement learning for vision-language action models

Vision-Language Action (VLA) models have enabled language-driven robotic manipulation by integrating language instructions, visual perception, and action generation. However, existing VLA approaches ...
Microsoft

Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model

In this post, we share the motivations, design choices, experiments, and learnings that informed its development, as well as an evaluation of the model’s performance and guidance on how to use it. Our ...
GitHub

[CVPR 2026] Fine-Grained Post-Training Quantization for Large Vision Language Models with Quantization-Aware Integrated Gradients

Ziwei Xiang*, Fanhu Zeng*, Hongjian Fang*, Rui-Qi Wang, Renxing Chen, Yanan Zhu, Yi Chen, Peipei Yang, Xu-Yao Zhang TL;DR: We introduce a fine-grained post-training quantization method for large ...
Psychology Today

Dog Training Methods Reflect Owners' Stance on Animal Ethics

I've often wondered if the way in which individuals view and treat their own and other dogs is related to how they view animal-human relationships in general. Based on discussions with many people, I ...