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pretraining
EyeMVP AI Model Enhances Retinal Screening by Learning OCT Insights from Fundus Photos
Researchers developed EyeMVP, a cross-modal retinal foundation model that enriches color fundus photography (CFP) with depth-resolved information from optical coherence tomography (OCT). Pretrained on 674,893 paired images from 112,642 patients across eight Chinese hospitals, EyeMVP outperforms leading models on 16 downstream tasks including macular edema detection (AUROC 0.948 vs 0.852) and myopic macular schisis (0.825).
Data Augmentations Offer Path to Efficient Language Model Pretraining Under Data Constraints
As AI labs face a data ceiling where compute capacity outpaces new high-quality text, researchers propose data augmentations to enable productive multi-epoch training on fixed corpora. Three categories—token-level noise, sequence permutations, and target offset prediction—are shown to delay overfitting and lower validation loss compared to standard autoregressive pretraining. Random token replacement achieved the best minimum loss among individual methods, with combined augmentations further improving results.
X-Tokenizer: Semantic Action Tokenizer Boosts Robot Control by 13.5% Over FAST
Researchers propose X-Tokenizer, a new action tokenizer that treats tokenization as semantic interface learning rather than mere compression. Using a lightweight encoder-Semantic Residual Quantization (SRQ)-decoder architecture, it improves multimodal grounding by 13.5% and long-horizon task performance by 8.25 points over existing methods like FAST.