There are coordinated efforts where people have favoured and jeopardised the double blind review process. No doubt out of these 80% there are great talent but we have to acknowledge that non chinese have been sobotaged and this was also reflected in the recent leaks of the reviewer data from the top ml conferences (won’t name them but they start with i). I have also personally faced such discrimination and had a discussion on the subreddit asking others if they have witnessed something similar. It was shocking to know that this is occurring on large scale. The question is how do we stop it, or highlight this? We have to preserve the sanctity of the research. submitted by /u/AppropriatePush6262 [link] [Kommentare]

I run evaluations on generative image models as part of my workflow, mostly comparing coherence, prompt adherence, and compositional accuracy across different architectures. The consensus here seems to be that open models are still a generation behind closed APIs. Based on my recent benchmarks, that gap is way smaller than people assume. On compositional control specifically, the latest open checkpoints handle multi-object scenes with spatial relationships about as reliably as the paid endpoints I've tested. Not perfect, but close enough that the failure modes are comparable. The thing that surprised me was text rendering in images, which used to be a disaster on open models. Recent architectures actually get it right roughly 70-80% of the time on short strings. Generation speed is another misconception. People complain about inference time but I'm getting 2MP outputs in under two minutes on a single consumer GPU. Drop resolution and step count and you're at 30 seconds. Fine for iteration. The structured prompting argument also falls flat. Everyone acts like having explicit scene control is a downside when it's literally what production pipelines need. Unstructured text prompts are the hack, not the other way around. These models ship without community optimizations, no fine-tuning, no custom pipelines. The baseline is already competitive. submitted by /u/ProfessionalAnt7436 [link] [Kommentare]

Manufacturers are closing plants and cutting jobs as the EU debates how hard to push back against China.