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Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn—will be visible to the naked eye. Uranus and Neptune, being much farther away, will ...

Abstract: Action Quality Assessment (AQA) is a challenging task involving analyzing fine-grained technical subactions, aligning high-level visual-semantic representations, and exploring internal ...

Why do baseball umpires wear black underwear? How long is the longest burp ever recorded? Which two states make it illegal to get married on a dare? If you know the answers to those trivia questions, ...

We introduce SafeAligner, a novel method to enhance the security of large language models (LLMs) against jailbreak attacks. SafeAligner uses two specially trained models—the Sentinel Model for safety ...

Abstract: Inertial navigation system/Doppler velocity log (INS/DVL) integrated navigation is a mature underwater navigation method, where the initial alignment is a critical stage in its application.