Franck Dernoncourt

Integrating semantic, acoustic, and engagement signals in music recommendations can boost performance by nearly 95%, challenging the status quo of opaque token-based systems.

Texture, not color, is the secret sauce behind fashion house identity, revealed by probing a multimodal CNN trained on decades of Vogue runway images.

Multimodal agents can now plan more coherently and solve complex tasks thanks to a new anticipatory reasoning framework that forecasts short-horizon trajectories before acting.

Agentic RAG systems can be made significantly more efficient and accurate simply by adding a contextualization module and de-duplicating retrieved documents at test time.

A unified benchmark reveals the fragmented landscape of RAG security, highlighting vulnerabilities to knowledge-extraction attacks and paving the way for robust defense strategies.

LLM judges exhibit a surprising "blindness" to human-written summaries, increasingly preferring machine-generated content as the similarity to human references decreases, challenging their reliability in summarization tasks.