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🌱 파울로 프레이리: 누구인가

Paulo Freire는 1921년 브라질 레시페에서 태어난 교육학자이자 사회운동가였다.

그는 브라질의 문맹 퇴치 운동에 깊이 관여했으며, 1963년에는 국립 문맹퇴치 프로그램을 이끌었다.

그러나 1964년 군부 쿠데타 이후 반체제 인사로 지목되어 투옥되고 망명하게 되었으며, 이후 전 세계를 돌며 민중교육과 해방교육 운동에 참여했다.

그는 1997년 사망했지만, 그의 사상과 저작은 현재까지도 전 세계 교육이론과 사회운동에 큰 영향을 미치고 있다.

그의 가장 유명한 저작은 Pedagogy of the Oppressed (한국어판: 『피압박자의 교육학』 또는 『억압받는 이들과 페다고지』)이며, 이 책은 비판적 교육학의 고전으로 평가받는다.

✊ 비판적 교육학 — 핵심 철학과 방식

Freire의 교육철학은 단순한 지식 전달을 넘어 “교육을 통한 해방”을 목표로 삼는다.

• 기존 교육에 대한 비판: “은행저금식 교육 (Banking Model)”

그는 전통적인 교육 방식을 “은행저금식(banking) 교육”이라 비판했다. 이 방식에서는 교사가 지식을 일방적으로 전달하고, 학생은 수동적인 ‘빈 그릇’처럼 지식을 쌓기만 한다. 이 구조는 학생의 비판적 사고를 억압하고, 억압 구조를 재생산할 위험이 있다고 봤다.

• 대안으로서의 “문제제기식 교육 (Problem-Posing Education)”

대신 그는 “문제제기식 교육”을 제안했다. 이 방식에서는 학생과 교사가 수평적 관계에서 함께 대화하며, 현실을 비판적으로 성찰하고, 그 의미를 탐구하는 과정을 통해 학습이 이루어진다.

이런 대화적이고 참여적인 교육 방식은 단순한 지식 전달이 아니라, 학습자가 스스로 현실을 읽고, “다시 쓰는 (재해석하는)” 존재가 되도록 돕는다. 즉, 교육이 인간과 사회를 변화시킬 수 있는 실천적 수단이 된다.

• “의식화 (Conscientização)” & “실천 (Praxis)”

프레이리는 교육의 핵심으로 ‘의식화(conscientização)’를 강조했다. 이는 단순한 정보 습득이 아니라, 사회 구조 속에서 자신과 자신의 삶이 어떤 위치에 있는지를 성찰하고, 억압과 불평등의 원인을 인식하는 비판적 자각을 의미한다.

그리고 진정한 교육은 이런 의식화에 그치지 않고, ‘프락시스(praxis)’ — 즉, 생각(이론)과 행동(실천)의 반복을 통해 현실을 변화시키는 과정이어야 한다고 주장했다.

따라서 교육은 중립적이 아니라 본질적으로 가치지향적이며, 사회 변혁을 위한 정치적 실천과 연결될 수밖에 없다.

🌍 왜 중요한가: 비판적 교육학의 영향과 의의

비판적 교육학은 단지 학교 수업의 방법론을 넘어, 교육이 사회 구조, 권력, 계급, 억압과 어떻게 연결되는지를 해명함으로써 교육의 정치적·사회적 의미를 부각했다.

이 접근은 전 세계의 민중교육, 성인교육, 인권·사회정의 교육, 시민교육, 대안교육 등에 광범위하게 영향을 주었다.

특히 억압된 계층, 빈곤층, 비문해자, 사회적 소수자들에게 자기 현실을 비판적으로 성찰하고 변화를 모색할 수 있는 의식과 기회를 제공함으로써, 교육을 단순한 기술 전수에서 공동체의 해방과 사회 변혁의 전진 기제로 전환시켰다.

또한, 교육자에게도 “지식을 주입하는 자”가 아니라 “공동 탐구자”, “문화의 작업자 (cultural worker)” 로서 역할을 재정의하게 만들었다. 교사와 학생 사이의 수직적 권위 구조를 해체하고, 교육을 더 민주적이고 참여적인 과정으로 재구성한 것이다.

🔎 내 관점에서 적용해볼 수 있는 의미

정치경제, 사회 불평등, 공공정책, 인권, 미디어 분석 등을 고려할 때, Freire의 비판적 교육학은 다음과 같은 의미가 있다고 본다:

교육이나 정보 전달만이 아니라, 사람들이 자신의 위치와 현실 구조를 비판적으로 인식하길 바란다면, ‘문제제기식 교육 + 의식화 + 프락시스’ 방식은 매우 유용한 틀이다.

미디어, 사회 운동, 공공 보건, 정책 설계 등에서 “단순 전달”로 끝나는 것이 아니라, 수혜자나 시민이 주체가 되어 현실을 재해석하고 변화에 참여하는 방식 — Freire의 접근은 이런 주체화 과정을 설계할 때 강한 이론적 토대가 될 수 있다.

“정치경제와 사회 구조”, “공공 정책과 시민 참여”, “가짜 뉴스와 해방적 정보 접근”, “미디어 콘텐츠와 시민 의식 고양”의 맥락에서도 Freire의 교육철학은 유효할 수 있다.

How a High-School Dropout Became an OpenAI Researcher
(A Highly Relatable Guide to Learning in the AI Era)

Gabriel Peterson, who grew up in a rural Swedish village and dropped out of high school, explains how he became a researcher on OpenAI’s Sora team. His story offers a practical roadmap for how to learn and build a career in the age of AI. One message especially resonates: never let go of an AI tool until you reach your “aha!” moment.

Key Insights

  1. Learn top-down, not bottom-up.
    Instead of studying theory first (math → linear algebra → ML), he begins with a real project: build something, fix bugs, get it to work—then ask why it works.

  2. Relentlessly ask AI questions (recursive gap-filling).
    Whenever something is unclear, keep drilling down with AI:
    “Why does this code work?” → “Because of matrix multiplication.” → “Explain that intuitively.” → “Show me a diagram.”
    This accelerates learning dramatically.

  3. Find real problems—your best teacher.
    He learned by building recommendation systems for actual companies. Real pressure and real stakes make learning stick.

  4. Show demos, not résumés.
    Companies care about what you can build. Send a demo link, not a long self-intro. Gabriel even walked into client meetings with improved versions of their own systems.

  5. Listen only to advice aligned with your incentives.
    Filter out generic or fear-based advice. He ignored “play it safe” guidance and followed people whose goals aligned with his.

  6. Opportunity comes from “density.”
    He moved to San Francisco because that’s where people who think and work like him gather. Environment has massive leverage.

How Gabriel Uses AI for Learning

  1. Ask for explanations “as if to a 12-year-old.”
    This forces intuitive, real-world analogies for abstract concepts.

  2. Ask, “Why not the other way?”
    Challenge AI’s solutions. Understanding failed alternatives builds real mastery.

  3. Summarize research papers by differences.
    Have AI list exactly what’s new compared to prior work.

  4. Request visualizations of intermediate code steps.
    Ask how tensors change shape, how data flows—so you see how the code works.

  5. The takeaway:
    In the AI age, the most valuable people aren’t those who memorize knowledge, but those who know how to explore, question, and connect knowledge using AI.

It’s a fascinating interview—I highly recommend watching it this weekend. Here’s the link below.

https://youtu.be/vq5WhoPCWQ8?si=pyofygEvLXm3l972

I summarize five recent, high-impact AI papers (2025) and list exactly what’s new in each one compared to prior work. I pulled each paper/conference page so you can follow the sources. If you want more papers or deeper technical detail (math, pseudo-code, or tables of experimental numbers), say which paper and I’ll expand.

1) ReT-2 — “Recurrence Meets Transformers for Universal Multimodal Retrieval”

Source: arXiv / paper page. (arXiv)

Short summary: ReT-2 proposes a unified retrieval model that accepts multimodal queries (e.g., image + text) and retrieves from collections of multimodal documents. It uses recurrence-inspired mechanisms to preserve fine-grained features across layers and modalities.

What’s new vs prior work (clear, itemized list):

  • Multimodal-query first design: supports combined image+text queries rather than only single-modality queries (previous work often limited to text→image or image→text retrieval).
  • Recurrence-enhanced transformer modules: integrates recurrence/LSTM-style gating into Transformer stacks so representations from earlier layers are preserved and fused — unlike vanilla deep cross-modal encoders that lose low-level detail.
  • Layer-wise retrieval signals: leverages multi-layer representations (not only top layer) for matching, improving fine-grained retrieval of visual details.
  • Unified training objective for mixed documents: trains on datasets where images and text are interleaved, rather than separate image/text corpora.
  • Improved practical performance on universal retrieval benchmarks (reported gains on multimodal retrieval tasks vs standard vision–language baselines). (arXiv)

2) NV-Embed / MM-EMBED (ICLR 2025 entries) — “Universal Multimodal Retrieval / Generalist Embedding Models”

Source: ICLR 2025 accepted papers listing. (ICLR)

Short summary: ICLR 2025 included multiple papers proposing generalist embedding models (NV-Embed, MM-EMBED) trained to serve as universal multimodal embeddings usable for retrieval, classification, and as grounding for LLMs.

What’s new vs prior work:

  • Single embedding space for many modalities: trains a shared embedding space that natively holds text, images, audio, and video snippets, replacing modality-specific encoders.
  • Contrastive + task-aware losses: combines contrastive pretraining with lightweight task-aware fine-tuning so the same vectors work for both retrieval and downstream tasks (prior contrastive models focused mainly on retrieval).
  • Training at scale across mixed modality corpora: uses more heterogeneous, interleaved multimodal datasets rather than stitching separate modality datasets.
  • Better compatibility with multimodal LLMs: embeddings are explicitly optimized to be consumed by instruction-tuned LLMs (embedding-to-LLM workflows), improving grounding/faithfulness. (ICLR)

3) GenXD — “Generating Any 3D and 4D Scenes” (ICLR 2025)

Source: ICLR 2025 papers list. (ICLR)

Short summary: GenXD presents a generative architecture and training recipe that produces coherent 3D scene models (and time-varying 4D scenes) from multimodal prompts.

What’s new vs prior work:

  • Unified 3D/4D generative pipeline: supports static 3D and dynamic 4D (time) outputs in a single model, whereas prior work often targeted either 3D shape generation or temporal video separately.
  • Composable scene editing primitives: introduces operations to compose, edit, and recombine 3D objects at inference (higher compositionality than many implicit representation models).
  • Cross-modal conditioning with high fidelity: conditions generation on text, images, and partial 3D inputs simultaneously; improves fidelity to multimodal prompts compared to earlier text→3D methods.
  • Efficient rendering / training tricks: applies locality-aware compression and rendering accelerations that make training/generation substantially cheaper. (ICLR)

4) NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper(s) — advances in diffusion model theory & LLM attention mechanisms

Source: NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper announcement (conference blog). (NeurIPS Blog)

Short summary: The NeurIPS 2025 best papers include foundational advances in (a) diffusion model theory (new sampling/likelihood analysis) and (b) novel attention mechanisms that improve LLM efficiency and reasoning.

What’s new vs prior work (split by theme):

a) Diffusion theory & sampling

  • Stronger theoretical understanding of sampling error / likelihood: provides tighter bounds on how discretized samplers approximate continuous diffusions (previous theory had looser, asymptotic results).
  • New sampling schedules & corrective terms: propose modified samplers that reduce required steps while maintaining fidelity—in practice fewer function evaluations than classical DDIM/ancestral samplers.
  • Connections to score-matching and energy-based models: formalizes links enabling transfer of techniques between families. (NeurIPS Blog)

b) Attention & LLM architecture

  • Resource-aware attention mechanisms: propose attention variants that trade off computation vs capability in a principled way (capability-per-resource framework), moving beyond purely sparse vs full attention debates.
  • Improved long-range reasoning modules: new designs that preserve reasoning chains with lower memory and improved stability on long contexts compared to standard Transformers. (NeurIPS Blog)

5) DAMA — “Data- and Model-aware Alignment of Multimodal LLMs” (ICML 2025 / ICML list)

Source: ICML 2025 papers list. (ICML)

Short summary: DAMA proposes techniques for aligning multimodal LLMs by explicitly modeling dataset bias and the model’s inductive tendencies, combining data augmentation, contrastive alignment, and model-aware calibration.

What’s new vs prior work:

  • Model-aware alignment: instead of treating models as fixed learners, DAMA adapts data and objectives to known model biases (e.g., overconfidence on certain visual cues). Prior alignment mostly changed the model or loss.
  • Data-level debiasing loop: automatic generation of counterfactual multimodal examples targeted to failure modes discovered by model probing.
  • Calibration heads for multimodal outputs: small auxiliary modules that improve confidence calibration across modalities without retraining the full model.
  • Empirical improvements on safety/factuality benchmarks for vision+language outputs compared to vanilla fine-tuning. (ICML)

Quick recommendations for using these “what’s new” lists

  • If you want implementation pointers, I can extract pseudo-code / architecture diagrams or point to available public code repos for any selected paper.
  • If you want concise tables comparing baseline vs new method (metrics, compute, steps), tell me which 2–3 papers and I’ll produce a side-by-side table with cited numbers.
  • If you want alerts on follow-ups (code, replication attempts), I can monitor relevant arXiv / GitHub threads — or fetch latest issue/PRs now if you want immediate links.

If you’d like, I’ll now:

  • expand one of the above into a detailed difference-by-difference technical breakdown (math, loss functions, training hyperparams, and code pointers), or
  • pull 5 more recent papers in a specific subfield (e.g., retrieval, diffusion, multimodal LLMs) and produce the same difference lists.

Which would you prefer?

I expanded ReT-2 (Recurrence Meets Transformers for Universal Multimodal Retrieval) into a detailed, difference-by-difference technical breakdown with the math intuition, the loss/optimization recipe, the implementation / hyperparameter details reported in the paper, and concrete code pointers so you can reproduce or adapt it.

I base this on the authors’ paper and the open-source release (paper + GitHub + Hugging Face). Key sources: the ReT-2 paper (arXiv / CVPR version) and the official repo / model hub. (arXiv)

High-level recap (one line)

ReT-2 fuses multi-layer features from vision & text backbones through a recurrent Transformer cell with LSTM-style gates, producing multi-token late-interaction representations; it replaces expensive full late-interaction computation with an efficient score-fusion / token-reduction option while keeping fine-grained matching power. (arXiv)

1) Architecture — detailed, step-by-step

Components (what you will find in code / paper)

  • Unimodal backbones (visual and textual): e.g., CLIP ViT, SigLIP2, OpenCLIP. The model extracts selected layers (early / mid / late) rather than only final layer outputs. Table of selected layers is in the paper. (arXiv)
  • Recurrent Transformer cell (the core): at each selected backbone layer the model merges visual features, textual features, and the previous recurrent state. The cell uses LSTM-inspired gating: a forget gate controlling how much previous state to keep and modality-specific input gates that control how much unimodal input to inject. The paper describes this design and analyzes gate activations. (arXiv)
  • Output tokens: the recurrent cell produces a (small) set of embedding tokens per query/document (original ReT used 32; ReT-2 experiments show token reduction to 16/8/4/1 is effective). Those tokens are then aggregated (late-interaction or score-fusion) into a final similarity score. (arXiv)

Math / formula (intuitive, concrete form)

The paper frames the recurrence/gating as LSTM-like operations. The authors do not change the LSTM concept — they adapt it to fuse layer features and modalities. The typical LSTM-style equations (presented here as the conceptual form that ReT-2 follows) are:

  • modality inputs at layer ( \ell ): ( x^\text{text}\ell, x^\text{vis}\ell )
  • previous hidden state: ( h_{\ell-1} )

Gates (sigmoid activations) and candidate update (tanh / linear) follow the standard pattern:

(Interpretation: the forget gate modulates carry from earlier layers; text/vision gates decide how much each modality contributes at this layer. The ReT-2 paper uses a Transformer-style processing inside the cell; the above is the canonical LSTM-style conceptualization the authors reference.) (arXiv)

Note: the paper’s text and figures describe modality-specific input gates and a forget gate; see the CVPR PDF for the exact notation and diagram. (CVF Open Access)

2) Scoring & Loss — what is trained and how

Late-interaction vs score-fusion

  • Original ReT (and ReT-2 options) compute a fine-grained late-interaction relevance score by comparing each query token to each document token (dot products between token sets) and aggregating. This is similar to ColBERT/late-interaction paradigms. (arXiv)
  • Score-fusion: to save memory and compute, ReT-2 sums rows of the output matrix (or projects to a single token) to obtain one embedding token per example and compute similarity via a single dot product — giving very similar accuracy but much faster training / inference. The authors show that score-fusion yields nearly identical average retrieval versus full late interaction while being far more efficient. (arXiv)

Loss function(s)

  • The training objective is the contrastive retrieval loss (InfoNCE / softmax cross-entropy over in-batch negatives) typical in retrieval setups, combined with the late-interaction score computation when enabled. The paper refers to the same late-interaction fine-grained loss used in earlier works (ColBERT et al.). When using score-fusion, the similarity is a single dot product and the standard contrastive loss applies. (arXiv)

Concretely, the per-batch loss (InfoNCE) is:

(CVF Open Access)

3) Training recipe & hyperparameters (what paper reports)

From the Implementation Details / Appendix (paper + repo):

  • GPUs / runtime: trained in mixed precision on 4 × NVIDIA A100 64GB for up to ~24 hours (experimental runs differ by dataset). (arXiv)

  • Optimizer: Adam. Gradient checkpointing used when unfreezing heavy backbones. (arXiv)

  • Hidden size for the recurrent cell: 1,024 (biases set to zero as per ReT design). (arXiv)

  • Batching / steps:

    • M2KR: batch size 512, train for 75k steps (training recipe follows original ReT). (arXiv)
    • M-BEIR: batch size 768, train 20 epochs (with a dataset sampling strategy). (arXiv)

  • Learning rates: the paper specifies learning-rate schedules (linear warmup to peak then cosine decay). The HTML rendering omits the explicit numeric peak LR in some places; however the paper describes that when unfreezing backbone parameters the backbone learning rate is downscaled by 0.05 relative to the recurrent cell for stability (i.e., backbone LR = 0.05 × recurrent cell LR). Use gradient checkpointing when unfreezing. (arXiv)

  • Indexing / retrieval: FAISS used for fast approximate indexing at test time. (arXiv)

Practical note: because the authors downscale the backbone LR by 0.05 (when unfreezing), a typical reproduction strategy is to set the recurrent cell LR in the range used for new trainable heads (e.g., mid 1e-4 → 1e-3 scales depending on batch size) and set backbone LR to 5% of that — the paper prescribes the 0.05 factor but the exact numeric LR value(s) as printed in the HTML were symbols; consult the repo scripts or the paper Appendix for the precise numbers used in each run. (arXiv)

4) Ablations & exact “what changed vs ReT / prior work” (difference-by-difference)

(These are the precise architectural / training differences emphasized by the authors.)

  1. Multi-layer feature use (vs only final layer)

    • ReT-2 extracts features from three representative backbone layers (early, mid, late) and feeds them sequentially into the recurrent cell. Prior work largely fused only final-layer embeddings. This explicitly recovers low-level visual/textual cues lost in deep layers. (arXiv)

  2. Recurrent Transformer cell with modality gates (vs vanilla Transformer stacks)

    • Instead of stacking vanilla cross-modal layers, ReT-2 uses an LSTM-inspired recurrent cell that decides, per layer, how much to keep from previous layers and how much to inject from each modality. Prior work used either shallow fusion or late interaction without this dynamic gating. (arXiv)

  3. Token reduction / score-fusion (vs many token late interaction)

    • ReT-2 shows token reduction (down to 1 token) + score-fusion yields similar or better average retrieval while saving compute/memory versus large late-interaction tokens (e.g., 32 tokens). They also show shared weights (query/document) help generalization. These are pragmatic changes not used together in older ReT/ColBERT variants. (arXiv)

  4. Single-stage training recipe on M2KR

    • The authors train a single stage on the entire M2KR dataset (contrasting with some baselines that require multi-stage rebalancing / dataset specific fine-tuning). This simplifies pipeline and reduces manual rebalancing. (arXiv)

  5. Efficiency & pruning analysis

    • They analyze layer activations and prune redundant layers, reducing computation without loss of accuracy. Efficiency comparisons (training time & inference) vs competitors are reported in Table VI. ReT-2 achieves lower inference time and memory than several comparators. (arXiv)

5) Concrete reproduction checklist (commands & code pointers)

Repo + checkpoints

  • GitHub repo (code, scripts, README): https://github.com/aimagelab/ReT — includes requirements.txt, inference.py, SLURM examples, README usage examples. (GitHub)
  • Hugging Face models / checkpoints: ReT-2 checkpoints and model cards are on Hugging Face (collection and model pages linked from the repo). Use RetrieverModel.from_pretrained(...) as shown in the README to load models. (GitHub)
  • Dataset / M2KR: ReT-M2KR dataset and instructions available via the README/HF dataset page referenced from the repo. (GitHub)

Minimal reproduction steps (high level)

  1. clone repo, create env, install pinned torch/FAISS (see README). (GitHub)
  2. prepare M2KR JSONL + images (follow dataset README). (GitHub)
  3. pick backbone (e.g., CLIP ViT-L). configure selected layers (paper lists the indices). (arXiv)
  4. run training script: set mixed precision, Adam, batch size 512 (M2KR) or 768 (M-BEIR), recurrent cell hidden = 1024; use gradient checkpointing if unfreezing backbone; scale backbone LR = 0.05 × (recurrent LR). (arXiv)
  5. index with FAISS and run retrieval eval scripts (examples in repo). (GitHub)

6) Short list of exact page/line references (most load-bearing claims)

  • Paper PDF (CVPR / arXiv): architecture, gating description, multi-layer selection, and experiments. (CVF Open Access)
  • Paper HTML / arXiv: implementation details (batch sizes, hidden size, GPU config), ablation tables and token reduction analysis. (arXiv)
  • GitHub repo: installation, usage examples, SLURM scripts, and links to model checkpoints on Hugging Face. (GitHub)

7) Suggested follow-ups I can do for you (pick one — I’ll run it now)

  • Extract exact numeric learning rates and optimizer schedules used in each experimental run from the repo training scripts / SLURM examples (I can open and pull those files next).
  • Produce a runnable train.sh + config.yaml tuned to reproduce the CLIP ViT-L results (I’ll propose numeric LR choices consistent with authors’ downscale rule).
  • Convert the key equations (gates, scoring) from the paper into PyTorch pseudocode (concise module implementation).
  • Run a short checklist that pinpoints which files in the GitHub repo correspond to the recurrent cell, loss computation, and data loader (I’ll list file paths / functions).

Tell me which follow-up you want and I’ll expand immediately (I’ve already fetched the paper, repo and HF models so I can dive into code or produce runnable configs right away).

5 High-Impact AI Papers (2025): Key Summaries & Novelties

  1. ReT-2: Recurrence Meets Transformers for Universal Multimodal Retrieval (arXiv)

    Unified model for multimodal queries (e.g., image+text) retrieving from mixed documents, using recurrence to preserve features.

    New: Multimodal-query support; recurrence-gating in Transformers; multi-layer signals; interleaved training; benchmark gains.

  1. NV-Embed / MM-EMBED: Universal Multimodal Embeddings (ICLR 2025)

    Generalist embeddings for text/images/audio/video, usable in retrieval/classification/LLM grounding.

    New: Shared space across modalities; contrastive + task-aware losses; heterogeneous datasets; LLM compatibility.

  1. GenXD: Generating Any 3D and 4D Scenes (ICLR 2025)

    Generative pipeline for coherent 3D/4D scenes from multimodal prompts.

    New: Unified 3D/4D outputs; composable editing; cross-modal conditioning; efficient rendering tricks.

  1. NeurIPS 2025 Best Papers: Diffusion Theory & LLM Attention (NeurIPS Blog)

    Advances in diffusion sampling bounds/schedules and efficient attention for LLMs.

    New (Diffusion): Tighter error bounds; faster samplers; score-matching links.

    New (Attention): Resource-aware variants; stable long-range reasoning.

  1. DAMA: Data- and Model-Aware Alignment of Multimodal LLMs (ICML 2025)

    Alignment via bias modeling, augmentation, and calibration for safer multimodal outputs.

    New: Model-adaptive data/objectives; counterfactual generation; calibration heads; safety benchmark wins.

References for the 5 AI Papers

  1. ReT-2: Recurrence Meets Transformers for Universal Multimodal Retrieval
    arXiv:2509.08897 [cs.IR] (Sep 2025).
    Authors: Davide Caffagni et al.
    Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08897
    (Note: Related precursor paper at arXiv:2503.01980 [cs.CV] (Mar 2025).)

  2. NV-Embed / MM-EMBED: Universal Multimodal Retrieval / Generalist Embedding Models (ICLR 2025)

  3. GenXD: Generating Any 3D and 4D Scenes (ICLR 2025)
    arXiv preprint (2024); OpenReview: https://openreview.net/forum?id=1ThYY28HXg; Proceedings: https://proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/paper/2025/file/ee2841db84cd09a5f6e3e313ce3d79d9-Paper-Conference.pdf; Project: https://gen-x-d.github.io/; Code: https://github.com/HeliosZhao/GenXD
    Authors: Yuyang Zhao et al. (Microsoft Research).

  4. NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper(s): Advances in Diffusion Model Theory & LLM Attention Mechanisms
    Announcement: https://blog.neurips.cc/2025/11/26/announcing-the-neurips-2025-best-paper-awards/ (Nov 27, 2025).
    Key winners (matching themes):

    • Diffusion: "Implicit Overfitting Postponement in Diffusion Models" (theory/sampling bounds).
    • Attention/LLM: "Gated Attention for Large Language Models" (resource-aware mechanisms, stability).

  5. DAMA: Data- and Model-Aware Alignment of Multimodal LLMs (ICML 2025)
    arXiv:2502.01943 [cs.CV] (Feb 2025); ICML Poster: https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/43449; Code: https://github.com/injadlu/DAMA
    Authors: Jinda Lu et al.

High-Impact AI Papers (2025)

  1. ReT-2: Recurrence + Transformers for Universal Retrieval
    Hybrid model revives recurrence in Transformers for multimodal (text/image/video/audio) retrieval, preserving long sequences with low memory.
    Why it matters: Universal backbone; efficient temporal grounding; excels on mixed-format tasks.
    arXiv:2509.08897

  2. NV-Embed / MM-EMBED: Generalist Embedding Models
    NVIDIA models create shared embedding space for text/image/video/audio/code, via balanced batches and hierarchical contrastive training (beyond CLIP's language bias).
    Why it matters: Robust zero-shot cross-modal tasks; one space for all modalities.
    NV-Embed | MM-Embed

  3. GenXD: Unified 3D + 4D Scene Generation
    Diffusion-Transformer unifies static 3D and dynamic 4D scenes via cross-dimensional latents and multiview-temporal disentanglement.
    Why it matters: Single-model "any" content generation; high-fidelity for AR/VR/robotics.
    ICLR 2025

  4. NeurIPS 2025 Best Papers: Diffusion Theory & Gated Attention
    A. Implicit Overfitting Postponement: Diffusion's score-matching delays overfitting, explaining scalability.
    B. Gated Attention: Sigmoid gates post-attention boost LLM stability/memory efficiency.
    Why it matters: Predictable training; reduced sinks/collapse for long contexts.
    Awards Blog

  5. DAMA: Data- and Model-Aware Alignment for Multimodal LLMs
    Dynamic DPO adjusts for data hardness and model states, curbing hallucinations via adaptive preferences.
    Why it matters: Stable, grounded multimodal training; outperforms GPT-4V on safety.
    arXiv:2502.01943

Overall Takeaways: Trends: Unification of modalities/tasks; efficiency via recurrence/gating; dynamic adaptation. AI gets general, robust, cheaper to scale.

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