StoryMem: Generating Coherent Multi-Shot Long Videos with Memory in 2025 As we close out 2025, AI video generation has made remarkable strides. Tools that once struggled with short, inconsistent clips can now produce minute-long narratives with cinematic flair. One standout advancement is StoryMem, a framework that enables multi-shot long video storytelling while maintaining impressive character consistency and visual quality. Released just days ago in late December 2025, StoryMem builds on powerful single-shot video diffusion models to create coherent stories. If you’re exploring AI for filmmaking, content creation, or research, this guide dives deep into how it works, why it matters, …
Robust-R1: Degradation-Aware Reasoning for Robust Visual Understanding – A Deep Dive into the AAAI 2026 Oral Presentation In the field of computer vision, robustness has long been a core concern for researchers and developers alike. In real-world applications, images and videos are frequently affected by various degradation factors—such as blur, noise, lighting variations, and compression artifacts—all of which can significantly impair a model’s ability to understand visual content. Today, we’re exploring Robust-R1, a groundbreaking solution designed to address this critical challenge. As an oral presentation highlight at AAAI 2026, Robust-R1 centers on “degradation-aware reasoning,” offering a fresh perspective on achieving …
Decoding the Black Box of LLM Mathematical Reasoning: A Deep Dive into the ThinkARM Framework What is the fundamental problem with evaluating AI reasoning today? We obsess over final accuracy and token counts while remaining blind to the internal cognitive structure that separates effective thinking from mere text generation. The ThinkARM framework reveals that the difference between reasoning and non-reasoning models is not how much they write, but how they structure their thinking into distinct functional episodes. As reasoning models like o1 and DeepSeek-R1 dominate the headlines, we face a paradox: we’ve never had more visibility into AI thought processes, …
Beyond Costly APIs: Using Your Own Training Checkpoints as a Free Teacher for Vision AI Agents Have you ever struggled with training a vision AI agent for multi-turn decision-making? Perhaps you’re teaching an AI to play the card game “24” or complete tasks in a simulated home. The reinforcement learning (RL) process often stalls—the model learns slowly, or worse, its “thinking” collapses into repetitive, meaningless outputs. Traditionally, the solution involved hiring a “tutor”—a much larger, more powerful AI model like GPT-4 or Gemini to guide the agent at every step. While effective, this approach came with a steep price: days …
Sim Studio in 10 Minutes: Build, Host, and Run Your Own AI-Agent Pipeline—No Code, Full Control Can I really sketch an AI workflow on a canvas, feed it my own documents, and keep everything offline on my GPU laptop? Yes—Sim Studio ships the same repo in four flavors: cloud, npm one-liner, Docker Compose, and dev container. Pick one, and your first agent is live before coffee finishes dripping. Table of Contents Cloud Route: fastest public preview Self-Hosted Playbook: four rigor levels Knowledge Base in Practice: PDF → vectors → answers Local LLM Options: Ollama vs. vLLM Troubleshooting Field Guide Author’s …
MegaRAG: Teaching RAG to Read Diagrams, Charts, and Slide Layouts Like a Human “ What makes MegaRAG different? It treats every page as a mini-multimodal graph—text, figures, tables, and even the page screenshot itself become nodes. A two-pass large-language-model pipeline first extracts entities in parallel, then refines cross-modal edges using a global subgraph. The final answer is produced in two stages to prevent modality bias. On four public benchmarks the system outperforms GraphRAG and LightRAG by up to 45 percentage points while running on a single RTX-3090. § The Core Question This Article Answers “How can I build a retrieval-augmented-generation …
TurboDiffusion Demystified: How It Achieves 100x Faster Video Generation Have you ever marveled at beautifully AI-generated videos, only to be held back by the agonizing wait times stretching into dozens of minutes or even hours? While traditional video diffusion models have made monumental breakthroughs in quality, their staggering computational cost has kept real-time generation a distant dream. Today, we dive deep into a revolutionary framework—TurboDiffusion. It accelerates the end-to-end video generation process by 100 to 200 times, reducing a 184-second generation to a mere 1.9 seconds, and slashing a 4549-second marathon down to 38 seconds on a single RTX 5090 …
BetterClaude Gateway: The Silent Guardian Against Claude API’s Achilles’ Heel The core question this article answers: When Claude API returns a 400 error due to orphaned tool results in conversation history, how can you automatically fix it without touching a single line of client code? If you’ve built anything non-trivial with Claude’s function calling, you’ve seen it: a perfectly working application suddenly crashes with tool_result block(s) that reference non-existent tool_use ids. This isn’t a rate limit or a temporary outage—it’s a data corruption error that stops production systems cold. BetterClaude Gateway is an edge-deployed proxy that detects these “orphan” blocks …
Achieving Reliable Tool Calling with Kimi K2 on vLLM: A Comprehensive Debugging Guide If you’ve been working with large language models, you know how exciting agentic workflows can be. The ability for models to call tools reliably opens up possibilities for complex applications, from automated research to advanced coding assistants. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 series stands out in this area, with impressive tool calling performance. Naturally, many developers want to run it on high-performance open-source inference engines like vLLM. When I first tried deploying Kimi K2 on vLLM and running the official K2-Vendor-Verifier benchmark, the results were disappointing. The tool …
Qwen-Image-Edit-Rapid-AIO Explained: A Unified Model System Built for High-Speed Image Editing and Generation Snippet / Summary (50–80 words) Qwen-Image-Edit-Rapid-AIO is a unified model system that merges accelerators, VAE, and CLIP to support both text-to-image generation and image editing. It is optimized for CFG = 1, 4–8 inference steps, and FP8 precision, delivering fast, consistent results. Through continuous version iteration, it clearly separates SFW and NSFW use cases to improve quality and stability. 1. What Problem Does This Article Solve? If you are working with the Qwen Image Edit ecosystem, you may have encountered these very practical questions: Why do different …
Unveiling QwenLong-L1.5: A Post-Training Blueprint for Mastering Long-Context Reasoning and Memory Management Summary QwenLong-L1.5, built on Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking, excels in long-context reasoning through innovative post-training techniques. It features a data synthesis pipeline for multi-hop tasks, stabilized RL with task-balanced sampling and AEPO, and a memory framework for ultra-long inputs. Evaluations show a 9.9-point average gain, matching GPT-5 and Gemini-2.5-Pro levels. Have you ever wondered why large language models struggle with lengthy texts, often losing track of key details across thousands of words? Picture this: you’re sifting through a massive report, needing to connect dots from scattered evidence to form a coherent …
Train a Privacy Shield in 30 Minutes—Inside tanaos-text-anonymizer-v1’s Zero-Data Trick ❝ Core question: How do you scrub names, addresses, phones, dates and locations from text when you have zero labeled examples? One-sentence answer: Load tanaos-text-anonymizer-v1, let the Artifex library synthesise 10 k training lines on the fly, fine-tune for ten minutes, and you get a tiny model that replaces sensitive spans with [MASKED] tokens faster than you can grep. ❞ What this article answers (and why you should care) 「Central question:」 “Can a model with only 110 M parameters really reach production-grade PII removal without any human-labeled data?” 「Short answer:」 …
The Paradox of Intelligence: Why Limiting an AI’s “Memory” Makes It Smarter In the 1990s, neuroscientist Antonio Damasio studied a perplexing patient. The man, named Elliot, had undergone surgery to remove a brain tumor, which accidentally damaged a small region of his prefrontal cortex. Post-surgery, his IQ scores were normal, his logical reasoning was sharp, and his memory was intact—all cognitive metrics were flawless. Yet, his life fell apart. He lost the ability to make decisions. Not because he couldn’t analyze, but because he analyzed too much. Choosing what to eat for lunch could involve a thirty-minute, detailed comparison of …
Fun-Audio-Chat: Engineering Real-Time Voice Interaction with Dual-Resolution Representations and Core-Cocktail Training What makes it possible to run a high-fidelity, full-duplex voice assistant on a single GPU without sacrificing text comprehension? Fun-Audio-Chat achieves this by processing speech at an efficient 5 Hz frame rate while generating audio at 25 Hz, combined with a two-stage training regimen that merges intermediate models to preserve the base LLM’s knowledge. The open-source 8B model delivers state-of-the-art performance across spoken QA, audio understanding, and voice empathy benchmarks while cutting GPU training time nearly in half. Why Existing Joint Speech-Text Models Hit a Wall Why can’t current …
What’s Hiding Inside Your LLM? A New “Bottom-Up” Perspective on Optimization Have you ever wondered what actually happens inside a large language model like ChatGPT or DeepSeek when it generates an answer? We typically view it as a black box: question in, answer out. However, a recent study titled “Your Language Model Policy Secretly Contains Internal Policies” reveals a groundbreaking discovery: An LLM is not a single, unified policy. Instead, every internal layer and module is executing its own distinct “sub-policy,” working in concert to complete the reasoning process. This research acts like a “neural CT scan,” providing the first …
★MiniMax M2.1: A Deep Dive into the Multi-Language Programming Model Built for Real-World Complex Tasks★ Snippet MiniMax M2.1 represents a significant advancement in AI-assisted programming, offering industry-leading multi-language capabilities across Rust, Java, Go, C++, and JavaScript. This model delivers exceptional performance in web and mobile development, office automation scenarios, and complex software engineering tasks. With benchmarks showing competitive results against leading models and practical applications ranging from 3D rendering to enterprise workflow automation, M2.1 establishes a new standard for developer-focused AI tools. In today’s rapidly evolving artificial intelligence landscape, programming assistants and code generation models have become indispensable tools in …
GLM-4.7: The Advanced Coding Assistant Empowering Your Development Work Summary GLM-4.7 is a cutting-edge coding assistant that delivers significant upgrades over its predecessor GLM-4.6 in multilingual agentic coding, terminal tasks, UI design, tool integration, and complex reasoning. This article details its performance, real-world use cases, and step-by-step usage guides. If you’re a developer or someone who frequently works with code and design, a high-efficiency, intelligent tool can truly streamline your workflow. Today, we’re diving into just such a tool: GLM-4.7. What makes it stand out? How can it transform your daily work? And how do you get started with it? …
From One Photo to a 200-Frame Walk-Through: How WorldWarp’s Async Video Diffusion Keeps 3D Scenes Stable A plain-language, code-included tour of the open-source WorldWarp pipeline For junior-college-level readers who want stable, long-range novel-view video without the hype 1. The Problem in One Sentence If you give a generative model a single holiday snap and ask it to “keep walking forward”, most pipelines either: lose track of the camera, or smear new areas into a blurry mess. WorldWarp (arXiv 2512.19678) fixes both problems by marrying a live 3D map with an async, block-by-block diffusion model. The code is public, the weights …
Both Semantics and Reconstruction Matter: Making Visual Encoders Ready for Text-to-Image Generation and Editing Why do state-of-the-art vision understanding models struggle with creative tasks like image generation? The answer lies in a fundamental disconnect between recognition and reconstruction. Imagine asking a world-renowned art critic to paint a portrait. They could eloquently dissect the composition, color theory, and emotional impact of any masterpiece, but if handed a brush, their actual painting might be awkward and lack detail. A similar paradox exists in artificial intelligence today. Modern visual understanding systems—powered by representation encoders like DINOv2 and SigLIP—have become foundational to computer vision. …
Qwen-Image-Layered: A Deep Dive into AI’s Solution for Consistent Image Editing via Layer Decomposition The world of AI-generated imagery has exploded in recent years. Models can now create stunningly realistic photos, imaginative art, and complex scenes from simple text prompts. However, a significant challenge has persisted beneath this surface of impressive synthesis: editing these images with precision and consistency. Have you ever tried to change the color of a car in an AI-generated image, only to find that the background windows or the person standing next to it also warp and distort? This frustrating phenomenon, where edits in one area …