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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve ever-stronger performance on visual-language tasks. Even as traditional visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks approach saturation, reliable deployment requires satisfying low error…
Attributing model behavior to training data is an evolving research field. A common benchmark is data removal, which involves eliminating data instances with either low or high values, then assessing a model's performance trained on the…
Two new approaches for checking the dimension of the basis functions when using penalized regression smoothers are presented. The first approach is a test for adequacy of the basis dimension based on an estimate of the residual variance…
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