Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach for generating high-quality, cross-category 3D models from free-hand sketches with limited training data. We propose the first semi-supervised learning ...

Abstract: Text encoders play an important role in text-to-speech (TTS) by analyzing text input and converting it into linguistic representations. In order to generate expressive speech from text, ...

First-place official system for JOKER 2026 (CLEF) Task 1 English: a three-stage humor retrieval pipeline pairing hybrid sparse-dense retrieval and cross-encoder reranking with a rationale-distilled ...

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Jermont Terry joined the CBS 2 team in October 2019. He's born and raised on Chicago's South Side. He's happy to return home to report on his community after 18 years of uncovering stories across the ...

A large, burning cross was discovered at a Chicago park on Tuesday afternoon, and police said they are investigating how it ended up there and the motive behind it. Video taken by a motorist shows the ...