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How Qwen2-VL perceives images and video at any resolution with naive dynamic resolution (variable visual tokens) and M-RoPE, a multimodal rotary position embedding that decomposes position into temporal, height, and width components.
How SAM 2 extends promptable segmentation from images to video with a streaming memory bank and memory attention, propagating masks across frames and recovering objects after occlusion.
How SigLIP replaces CLIP’s softmax contrastive loss with a pairwise sigmoid loss, removing the need for a global all-gather normalization and enabling strong language-image pre-training at small batch sizes.
How the variational autoencoder turns an autoencoder into a generative model: an encoder predicts a Gaussian latent distribution, the reparameterization trick makes sampling differentiable, and the ELBO balances reconstruction against a KL prior.
How diffusion models learn to generate images by reversing a gradual noising process — the foundation of Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and modern image generation.
How Flow Matching simplifies generative modeling by learning straight transport paths from noise to data — faster sampling, simpler training, and the foundation of modern generation systems.