Hundreds of Hollywood celebrities signed a petition calling on the U.S. to stop providing Israel with weapons. A lot of us felt uneasy about that petition. Intuitively, we all understand that military advice or analysis should probably not come from Hollywood actors. Just because

I'm old enough to remember that in France in the 1960s and 1970s, far-right chauvinists were accusing Portugese immigrants of eating cats. It's an old trope. Today, making such an accusation publicly against an ethnic group violates laws against "incitement to racial hatred" in

Super excited to see Adobe Firefly’s Fast Mode out in the wild! 🎨 Thrilled to have contributed to the research that helped make this a reality. Can’t wait to see how creators unleash their imagination with it! 🚀 #AdobeFirefly

.Columbia University University capitulated today to Hamas supporters. (a long thread with videos) (tldr; it's a shit show)

Today, Israel did more to “free palestine” than has been accomplished by the “pro-Palestine” crowd in the entirety of its history.

If this is true, which won't surprise me - how come so many countries around the world sponsor this corrupt organization? Why does UNRWA still exist?

This is Aliza Shagrir. Forty-four years ago, she was murdered in a terror attack in Paris. The man convicted of planning the attack that killed Aliza and three others, Hassan Diab, escaped to Canada. He was just appointed as a professor at .Carleton University.

Wow, an incredible story about an Arab hero from last night who saved many Jews from being lynched. Melhem Asad, a longtime fan of Maccabi Tel Aviv who was at the game in Amsterdam, took an active part in seeking and rescuing Jews from the lynching by Muslim terrorists. His

🚀 Introducing CausVid: Instant video generation that plays the moment you hit "Generate", while maintaining state-of-the-art quality! Project Page: causvid.github.io. More details in the long thread.

Video diffusion models generate high-quality videos but are too slow for interactive applications. We MIT CSAIL Adobe Research introduce CausVid, a fast autoregressive video diffusion model that starts playing the moment you hit "Generate"! A thread 🧵

Excited to bring this soon to firefly video!

Work with my student Tianwei Yin. Text to video. Autoregressive to make it low latency and controllable.

Excited to share that DMD2 has been selected for an oral presentation at #NeurIPS2024! 🎉 Huge thanks to my incredible collaborators: Michaël Gharbi, Taesung Park, Richard Zhang, Eli Shechtman, Fredo Durand, and Bill Freeman.

Will anyone in the West finally get it? It’s truly astonishing to see how Hamas, the ruling authority in Gaza with a military wing that avoided wearing uniforms for 15 months to blend into the population and use Gazans as human shields to maximize casualties and make the West

It is beyond my understanding why extreme right racist thugs are rightfully personae non gratae, whereas far-left antisemites with track record of supporting terrorist organizations are still considered handshakable in the British society.

Can you ask a Diffusion Model to break down a concept? 👀 SliderSpace 🚀 reveals maps of the visual knowledge naturally encoded within diffusion models. It works by decomposing the model's capabilities into intuitive, composable sliders. Here's how 🧵👇

A great deal of false, misleading, and exaggerated claims are circulating regarding the potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a 31-year-old Columbia University University graduate student, by the Department of Homeland Security (Homeland Security). I would like to make six important points about

Real-time video generation is finally real — without sacrificing quality. Introducing Self-Forcing, a new paradigm for training autoregressive diffusion models. The key to high quality? Simulate the inference process during training by unrolling transformers with KV caching.

What exactly is a "world model"? And what limits existing video generation models from being true world models? In my new blog post, I argue that a true video world model must be causal, interactive, persistent, real-time, and physical accurate. xunhuang.me/blogs/world_mo…

🚨 Burning Man Honors Nova Festival Victims Yesterday at 6:29 a.m., Burning Man honored 412 lives Hamas stole at Nova. Survivor Ofir Amir stood with freed hostage Omer Shem Tov, declaring Israel’s memory, resilience, and will to dance again. Follow us if you love 🇮🇱