The Sphere Encoder is a new way to make images fast by teaching an autoencoder to place all images evenly on a big imaginary sphere and then decode random spots on that sphere back into pictures.
This paper shows how to make a whole picture in one go, directly in pixels, without using a hidden “latent” space or many tiny steps.
Ministral 3 is a new family of small-but-mighty AI language models (3B, 8B, 14B) that learn from a larger model using a step-by-step tutoring method called Cascade Distillation.