The Search for Alien Artifacts Is Coming Into Focus

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...
Ancient Origins

NASA Book Argues Archaeology Can Help Decode Alien Signals

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

Erich von Daeniken, Swiss author who popularised ancient‑alien theories, dies at 90

Erich von Daeniken, renowned for popularizing ancient-alien theories, has passed away at 90, leaving a controversial legacy.
IEEE

IBD: Alleviating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models via Image-Biased Decoding

Abstract: Despite achieving rapid developments and with widespread applications, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) confront a serious challenge of being prone to generating hallucinations. An ...
GitHub

Free Draft-and-Verification: Toward Lossless Parallel Decoding for Diffusion Large Language Models

We propose FreeDave (Free Draft-and-Verification), a fast sampling algorithm for diffusion language models, which achieves lossless parallel decoding via a pipeline of parallel-decoded candidate ...
Gizmodo

Scientists Scanned 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals. Here’s What They Found

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...
IEEE

Confidence-Modulated Speculative Decoding for Large Language Models

Abstract: Speculative decoding has proven to be a powerful method for speeding up autoregressive inference by allowing tokens to be generated in parallel using a draft-then-verify approach. However, ...
GitHub

VCD: Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models through Visual Contrastive Decoding

This is the official repo for Visual Contrastive Decoding, a simple, training-free method for mitigating hallucinations in LVLMs during decoding without utilizing ...
techtimes

Implantable Brain–Computer Interface Breakthrough: INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI Achieves High-Accuracy, Generalizable Decoding of Chinese Language from Neural Signals

Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...
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Nazca mummies declared a new alien species

Claims that the Nazca mummies represent a new alien species originate from a self-published paper by a retired paleontologist. A detailed peer review challenges these conclusions, identifying the ...