Morris Alper
@malper.bsky.social
PhD student researching multimodal learning (language, vision, ...).
Also a linguistics enthusiast.
morrisalp.github.io
Also a linguistics enthusiast.
morrisalp.github.io
Reposted by Morris Alper
Let’s make it speak Ithkuil.
The number of languages in the world just got a lot higher! At least constructed ones.
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇
October 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Let’s make it speak Ithkuil.
I’m fascinated by the idea of a game like No Man’s Sky where infinite new civilizations could be generated dynamically with their own languages as the player explores the universe.
ConlangCrafter could potentially be used in pedagogy, typological and NLP work, and many entertainment applications. Imagine a video game where aliens can speak countless new procedurally-generated languages.
October 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I’m fascinated by the idea of a game like No Man’s Sky where infinite new civilizations could be generated dynamically with their own languages as the player explores the universe.
The number of languages in the world just got a lot higher! At least constructed ones.
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇
October 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The number of languages in the world just got a lot higher! At least constructed ones.
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇
Now accepted to #NeurIPS2025!
💥New preprint! WildCAT3D uses tourist photos in-the-wild as supervision to learn to generate novel, consistent views of scenes like the one shown below. h/t Tom Monnier and all collaborators (1/5)
September 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Now accepted to #NeurIPS2025!
💥New preprint! WildCAT3D uses tourist photos in-the-wild as supervision to learn to generate novel, consistent views of scenes like the one shown below. h/t Tom Monnier and all collaborators (1/5)
June 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
💥New preprint! WildCAT3D uses tourist photos in-the-wild as supervision to learn to generate novel, consistent views of scenes like the one shown below. h/t Tom Monnier and all collaborators (1/5)
Disappointing that arXiv doesn't allow XeLaTex/LuaLaTex submissions, which have the least broken multilingual support of LaTeX compilers. The web shouldn't be limited to English in 2025!
June 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Disappointing that arXiv doesn't allow XeLaTex/LuaLaTex submissions, which have the least broken multilingual support of LaTeX compilers. The web shouldn't be limited to English in 2025!
More coverage of our work on AI for ancient cuneiform! news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
AI models make precise copies of cuneiform characters | Cornell Chronicle
Researchers from Cornell and Tel Aviv University have developed an approach to use artificial intelligence for reading the ancient tablets.
news.cornell.edu
March 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
More coverage of our work on AI for ancient cuneiform! news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Cuneiform at #ICLR2025! ProtoSnap finds the configuration of wedges in scanned cuneiform signs for downstream applications like OCR. A new tool for understanding the ancient world!
tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/
h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators.
🧵👇
tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/
h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators.
🧵👇
February 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Cuneiform at #ICLR2025! ProtoSnap finds the configuration of wedges in scanned cuneiform signs for downstream applications like OCR. A new tool for understanding the ancient world!
tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/
h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators.
🧵👇
tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/
h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators.
🧵👇
Reposted by Morris Alper
Thrilled to announce our new work TestGenEval, a benchmark that measures unit test generation and test completion capabilities. This work was done in collaboration with the FAIR CodeGen team.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2410.00752
Leaderboard: testgeneval.github.io/leaderboard....
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2410.00752
Leaderboard: testgeneval.github.io/leaderboard....
December 19, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Thrilled to announce our new work TestGenEval, a benchmark that measures unit test generation and test completion capabilities. This work was done in collaboration with the FAIR CodeGen team.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2410.00752
Leaderboard: testgeneval.github.io/leaderboard....
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2410.00752
Leaderboard: testgeneval.github.io/leaderboard....
Great news! BERT-like models are extremely useful and imo unfairly overlooked in the recent GenAI hype cycle. Looking forward to playing with this
Great blog post (by a 15-author team!) on their release of ModernBERT, the continuing relevance of encoder-only models, and how they relate to, say, GPT-4/llama. Accessible enough that I might use this as an undergrad reading.
Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
December 20, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Great news! BERT-like models are extremely useful and imo unfairly overlooked in the recent GenAI hype cycle. Looking forward to playing with this
Bite into WAFFLE 🧇, our new multimodal floorplan dataset and paper - now accepted to #WACV2025!
Work with Keren Ganon, Rachel Mikulinsky, Hadar Elor.
More info below👇
Work with Keren Ganon, Rachel Mikulinsky, Hadar Elor.
More info below👇
December 10, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Bite into WAFFLE 🧇, our new multimodal floorplan dataset and paper - now accepted to #WACV2025!
Work with Keren Ganon, Rachel Mikulinsky, Hadar Elor.
More info below👇
Work with Keren Ganon, Rachel Mikulinsky, Hadar Elor.
More info below👇
Playing with Suno AI song generation again, v3.5 seems to be more consistently catchy and better at (non-English) languages. This is not bad and funny how it sounds like a lot of Israeli prog-rock songs...
suno.com/song/1e21b93...
suno.com/song/1e21b93...
רובוט בודד by @noblekalimba435 | Suno
experimental, rock, prog-rock, electric song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
suno.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Playing with Suno AI song generation again, v3.5 seems to be more consistently catchy and better at (non-English) languages. This is not bad and funny how it sounds like a lot of Israeli prog-rock songs...
suno.com/song/1e21b93...
suno.com/song/1e21b93...
Reposted by Morris Alper
Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.
This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
November 25, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.
This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!
What more could you want?
#langsky 🀄️📚
1/
Omg, it's the new kiki-bouba! R and L are associated with jagged and straight lines respectively, in languages where represents a trill.
pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
pubs.aip.org
November 24, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Omg, it's the new kiki-bouba! R and L are associated with jagged and straight lines respectively, in languages where represents a trill.
pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
Wow, more followers than X in just a few days. Did someone add me to a starter pack?
November 23, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Wow, more followers than X in just a few days. Did someone add me to a starter pack?
Reposted by Morris Alper
Generating 3D-Consistent Videos from Unposed Internet Photos
Gene Chou, Kai Zhang, Sai Bi, Hao Tan, Zexiang Xu, Fujun Luan, Bharath Hariharan, @snavely.bsky.social
tl;dr: multiview CroCo meets diffusion (DiT). Better than luma?
arxiv.org/abs/2411.13549
Gene Chou, Kai Zhang, Sai Bi, Hao Tan, Zexiang Xu, Fujun Luan, Bharath Hariharan, @snavely.bsky.social
tl;dr: multiview CroCo meets diffusion (DiT). Better than luma?
arxiv.org/abs/2411.13549
November 21, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Generating 3D-Consistent Videos from Unposed Internet Photos
Gene Chou, Kai Zhang, Sai Bi, Hao Tan, Zexiang Xu, Fujun Luan, Bharath Hariharan, @snavely.bsky.social
tl;dr: multiview CroCo meets diffusion (DiT). Better than luma?
arxiv.org/abs/2411.13549
Gene Chou, Kai Zhang, Sai Bi, Hao Tan, Zexiang Xu, Fujun Luan, Bharath Hariharan, @snavely.bsky.social
tl;dr: multiview CroCo meets diffusion (DiT). Better than luma?
arxiv.org/abs/2411.13549
Reposted by Morris Alper
Extreme Rotation Estimation in the Wild
Hana Bezalel, Dotan Ankri, Ruojin Cai, Hadar Averbuch-Elor
tl;dr: MegaDepth/Scenes subset with small/large/no overlap image pairs, the task is R prediction
arxiv.org/abs/2411.07096
Hana Bezalel, Dotan Ankri, Ruojin Cai, Hadar Averbuch-Elor
tl;dr: MegaDepth/Scenes subset with small/large/no overlap image pairs, the task is R prediction
arxiv.org/abs/2411.07096
November 18, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Extreme Rotation Estimation in the Wild
Hana Bezalel, Dotan Ankri, Ruojin Cai, Hadar Averbuch-Elor
tl;dr: MegaDepth/Scenes subset with small/large/no overlap image pairs, the task is R prediction
arxiv.org/abs/2411.07096
Hana Bezalel, Dotan Ankri, Ruojin Cai, Hadar Averbuch-Elor
tl;dr: MegaDepth/Scenes subset with small/large/no overlap image pairs, the task is R prediction
arxiv.org/abs/2411.07096
Cross-posting our recent work from this #ECCV2024!
CLIP shows emergent understanding of *visual-semantic hierarchies*. Our benchmark *HierarCaps* gives GT to measure and further align this!
Project page: hierarcaps.github.io
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.08521
CLIP shows emergent understanding of *visual-semantic hierarchies*. Our benchmark *HierarCaps* gives GT to measure and further align this!
Project page: hierarcaps.github.io
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.08521
November 17, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Cross-posting our recent work from this #ECCV2024!
CLIP shows emergent understanding of *visual-semantic hierarchies*. Our benchmark *HierarCaps* gives GT to measure and further align this!
Project page: hierarcaps.github.io
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.08521
CLIP shows emergent understanding of *visual-semantic hierarchies*. Our benchmark *HierarCaps* gives GT to measure and further align this!
Project page: hierarcaps.github.io
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.08521