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astralconsultant.bsky.social
Girl 100% underwent a saining ritual only for the performer to realise this bitch was gonna make moon stuff her entire personality, so ofc she'll just be named Loona.
October 4, 2026 at 4:34 PM
ghastly92.bsky.social
“why have i been dreamwalking so much” YOU HAVE BEEN SAINING WITH MUGWORT THIS WHOLE MONTH SILLY!!!
September 24, 2026 at 3:34 AM
csne-bot.bsky.social
Saining Liu, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang: Genetic Programming with Behaviour-based Niching for Learning Guided Local Search in Vehicle Routing Problems https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24104 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.24104 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.24104
September 22, 2026 at 6:43 AM
csne-bot.bsky.social
Saining Liu, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang: DCL-GPGLS: Dynamic Curriculum Learning for Genetic Programming Guided Local Search in Large-Scale Vehicle Routing https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24105 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.24105 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.24105
September 22, 2026 at 6:43 AM
arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social
Junhao Chen, Mingjin Chen, Henghaofan Zhang, Minglin Chen, Liaoyuan Fan, Boran Zhang, Saining Zhang, Mingze Sun, Hao Zhao, Ruqi Huang, Zhihao Li, Yufei Li
Video Models as Native 4D Renderers: World-Grounded Conditioning from Animated Mesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00094
August 5, 2026 at 1:27 AM
cscv-bot.bsky.social
Junhao Chen, Jingjia Mao, Dayong Li, Chenghai Li, Saining Zhang, Zhihao Li, Hao Zhao, Yufei Wang, Ruqi Huang: Bunraku: Turning a Single Illustration into an Editable Live2D Character https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27348 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.27348 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.27348
July 31, 2026 at 6:39 AM
arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social
Junhao Chen, Xinghao Chen, Henghaofan Zhang, Zihao Qiao, Saining Zhang, Yongzhi Li, Ruqi Huang, Sisi Li, Yimin Sheng, Jianyi Zhu, Hao Zhao
Engine-Native Editable 3D World Reconstruction with Objects and Lighting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20889
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 AM
corvidfightclub.bsky.social
Gonna give you saining spray to spritz her with when she gets like this.
February 22, 2024 at 12:59 AM
kcrowe.bsky.social
Scots have a practice called saining that involves juniper and is similar en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saining
Saining - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
November 27, 2023 at 3:00 PM
paper.bsky.social
[30/30] 132 Likes, 3 Comments, 1 Posts
2510.11690, cs․CV | cs․LG, 13 Oct 2025

🆕Diffusion Transformers with Representation Autoencoders

Boyang Zheng, Nanye Ma, Shengbang Tong, Saining Xie
Latent generative modeling, where a pretrained autoencoder maps pixels into a latent space for the diffusion process, has become the standard strategy for Diffusion Transformers (DiT); however, the autoencoder component has barely evolved. Most DiTs continue to rely on the original VAE encoder, which introduces several limitations: outdated backbones that compromise architectural simplicity, low-dimensional latent spaces that restrict information capacity, and weak representations that result from purely reconstruction-based training and ultimately limit generative quality. In this work, we explore replacing the VAE with pretrained representation encoders (e.g., DINO, SigLIP, MAE) paired with trained decoders, forming what we term Representation Autoencoders (RAEs). These models provide both high-quality reconstructions and semantically rich latent spaces, while allowing for a scalable transformer-based architecture. Since these latent spaces are typically high-dimensional, a key challenge is enabling diffusion transformers to operate effectively within them. We analyze the sources of this difficulty, propose theoretically motivated solutions, and validate them empirically. Our approach achieves faster convergence without auxiliary representation alignment losses. Using a DiT variant equipped with a lightweight, wide DDT head, we achieve strong image generation results on ImageNet: 1.51 FID at 256x256 (no guidance) and 1.13 at both 256x256 and 512x512 (with guidance). RAE offers clear advantages and should be the new default for diffusion transformer training.
October 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
paper.bsky.social
[23/30] 131 Likes, 15 Comments, 5 Posts
2505.09568, cs․CV | cs․AI, 14 May 2025

🆕BLIP3-o: A Family of Fully Open Unified Multimodal Models-Architecture, Training and Dataset

Jiuhai Chen, Zhiyang Xu, Xichen Pan, Yushi Hu, Can Qin, Tom Goldstein, Lifu Huang, Tianyi Zhou, Saining Xie, Silvio Sav...
Unifying image understanding and generation has gained growing attention in recent research on multimodal models. Although design choices for image understanding have been extensively studied, the optimal model architecture and training recipe for a unified framework with image generation remain underexplored. Motivated by the strong potential of autoregressive and diffusion models for high-quality generation and scalability, we conduct a comprehensive study of their use in unified multimodal settings, with emphasis on image representations, modeling objectives, and training strategies. Grounded in these investigations, we introduce a novel approach that employs a diffusion transformer to generate semantically rich CLIP image features, in contrast to conventional VAE-based representations. This design yields both higher training efficiency and improved generative quality. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a sequential pretraining strategy for unified models-first training on image understanding and subsequently on image generation-offers practical advantages by preserving image understanding capability while developing strong image generation ability. Finally, we carefully curate a high-quality instruction-tuning dataset BLIP3o-60k for image generation by prompting GPT-4o with a diverse set of captions covering various scenes, objects, human gestures, and more. Building on our innovative model design, training recipe, and datasets, we develop BLIP3-o, a suite of state-of-the-art unified multimodal models. BLIP3-o achieves superior performance across most of the popular benchmarks spanning both image understanding and generation tasks. To facilitate future research, we fully open-source our models, including code, model weights, training scripts, and pretraining and instruction tuning datasets.
May 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
paper.bsky.social
[25/30] 87 Likes, 5 Comments, 4 Posts
2501.17161, cs․AI | cs․CV | cs․LG, 28 Jan 2025

🆕SFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training

Tianzhe Chu, Yuexiang Zhai, Jihan Yang, Shengbang Tong, Saining Xie, Dale Schuurmans, Quoc V. Le, Sergey Levine, Yi Ma
February 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
paper.bsky.social
[23/30] 81 Likes, 9 Comments, 4 Posts
2501.09732, cs․CV, 16 Jan 2025

🆕Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps

Nanye Ma, Shangyuan Tong, Haolin Jia, Hexiang Hu, Yu-Chuan Su, Mingda Zhang, Xuan Yang, Yandong Li, Tommi Jaakkola, Xuhui Jia, Saining Xie
January 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
paper.bsky.social
[11/30] 148 Likes, 13 Comments, 4 Posts
2312.14135, cs․CV, 26 Dec 2023

🆕V*: Guided Visual Search as a Core Mechanism in Multimodal LLMs

Penghao Wu, Saining Xie
January 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM
arxiv-cs-ro.bsky.social
Zongzheng Zhang, Jingrui Pang, Zhuo Yang, Kun Li, Minwen Liao, Saining Zhang, Guoxuan Chi, Jinbang Guo, Huan-ang Gao, Modi Shi, Dongyun Ge, Yao Mu, Jiayuan Gu, Rui Chen, Hao Dong, Huazhe Xu, ...
Dexora: Open-source VLA for High-DoF Bimanual Dexterity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18722
May 19, 2026 at 7:40 PM
arxiv-cs-ro.bsky.social
Inkook Chun, Seungjae Lee, Michael S. Albergo, Saining Xie, Eric Vanden-Eijnden
Dynamic Test-Time Compute Scaling in Control Policy: Difficulty-Aware Stochastic Interpolant Policy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20906
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
invertebae.bsky.social
I picnicked w/ my grandma & we had tea, sandwiches, scones, & I left her some milk as is traditional in Scottish ancestor veneration

I also brought her some flowers, sea shells, sea glass, rocks that I've tumbled recently, cleared her grave with a heather besom, & burned some saining herbs for her
my grandma's grave with the fresh flowers I brought her as well as the sea glass, sea shells, a cup of earl grey tea, burning herbs, a container of milk, and a shot glass of alcohol as offerings for her
June 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
kennethmarino.bsky.social
Oh also:
Saining Xie

I think that’s all the NYU and Columbia people I know of on here but I’m probably missing a few
November 22, 2024 at 3:46 PM
kettleandwishbone.bsky.social
Happy to announce the opening of my Ko-Fi shop, Kettle & Wishbone Society! Right now the only available item is the Lunar Edition reference guide, but I plan on adding tarot & oracle readings, saining (smudging) bundles, handmade crochet items, and more!

#magicalbazaar
ko-fi.com/s/f783d5ea2d
Lunar Phases Reference Guide - The Aquarian's Ko-fi Shop
A multipage PDF detailing the different phases of the moon and the spells, rituals, and activities you can do during each.
ko-fi.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
kettleandwishbone.bsky.social
💯 this! Traditionally would’ve used herbs like mugwort or hawthorn or juniper, but I use rosemary. Also making a fist with your hand but leaving the pad of your thumb visible and using your thumb to draw an X over the space/item you’re saining to make it sacred
March 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
elowynbarrett.bsky.social
I have one in my purse at all times still to this day! 😅 When traveling I’ll also bring a spray I made for saining.
December 23, 2024 at 1:24 PM
clover-constantine.bsky.social
I agree with the smudging and to go along with it, saining has specific cultural ties to the Scottish people. They still do a variant of it to this day and I’ve seen them get upset/mad when some of the New Age people use it without understanding context or what it’s really for.
September 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
a-random-npc.bsky.social
This tracks. I'm the person who looks at something that's clearly haunted, busts out the juniper, rosemary, and lavender bundle and starts saining.
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
adriannap.bsky.social
Because joy is resistance and so is ancestral work: come join me in the art of saining and burn bundles. I work with fire a lot and this is one of my favourite ways to integrate local plant medicine and my Celtic roots. www.eventbrite.ca/e/make-your-...
June 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
adriannap.bsky.social
Get crafty with me and my friend Sarah on April 25th: www.eventbrite.ca/e/make-your-...
Make Your Own Burn Bundles Workshop
Make your own smoke wand and learn celtic art of saining. Take home cedar burn bundles and wrap your own creation.
www.eventbrite.ca
March 9, 2026 at 1:44 PM