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Kenan Tang

@kenantang.bsky.social

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CS PhD student at UCSB AI for healthcare / LLM writing assistants / Image Editing kenantang.github.io

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Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social · Aug 22

We are recruiting postdocs @ai-ucsb.bsky.social !
With @haewonjeong.bsky.social Yao Qin

You want to lead the future of AI4Science?

Apply to UCSB Real AI For Science Initiative 🌟
Deadline: Sept 15, 2025.

This is the view you'll have from... your desk!
By @adelemyers.bsky.social

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Luba Elliott @elluba.bsky.social · Jun 11

The @cvprconference.bsky.social AI Art Online Gallery 2025 is now live 🥳

Featuring 100+ artworks across aesthetics, environment and identity.

Check it out👇

thecvf-art.com

#CVPR2025 #CVPRAIart #creativeAI

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Jun 11

🎨 Excited to share that my work is featured in the CVPR AI Art Gallery 2025!
Come and see how AI image generation can be controlled with surgical precision.

Link: thecvf-art.com/project/comp...

Thanks to @elluba.bsky.social and @cvprconference.bsky.social for hosting the event!
#CVPR2025

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · May 30

Flux.1 Kontext [pro] failing on an image editing task. The task is to add a backpack onto this bench. 100% failure rate. None of the prompt-based models, including gpt4o and Gemini 2.5 Pro, have succeeded on this task.

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Mehak Dhaliwal @ ICLR @mehakd.bsky.social · Apr 23

📍 Join us at ICLR tomorrow (April 24) at 10 am, Hall 3 + Hall 2B #19, for our poster on NutriBench: the first publicly available natural language meal description benchmark for nutrition estimation!
Here's our webpage: mehak126.github.io/nutribench.h...
@dongx1997.bsky.social

#ICLR #AI4health

NutriBench: the first dataset for evaluating LLMs at carbohydrate estimation

NutriBench is the first publicly available natural language meal description based nutrition benchmark.

mehak126.github.io

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Apr 17

SPICE enables complex edits like gesture adjustment, action modification, and object addition with occlusion. SPICE is compatible with major diffusion model UIs (Automatic1111/ComfyUI) and supports popular models like Flux Dev, SDXL, SD1.5, and their variants.

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our team has officially open-sourced the SPICE image editing workflow.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.09697
Code: github.com/kenantang/sp...

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Apr 1

📢 Open Source & Collaboration:

- Full GitHub release this April.

- Early testing available now.

Perfect for smart creative platforms and developers building advanced image processing tools. DM for early test access! 🚀

#AI #ImageEditing #OpenSource #SPICE

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Apr 1

Example scenario: Adding a backpack onto a bench. Traditional methods face spatial errors and distortion. SPICE uses a two-stage denoising method to ensure exact object placement every time.

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Apr 1

4/ Resolution limits? Not here. SPICE natively handles any resolution—4K, vertical screens, ultra-wide—without cropping or compression. Total creative freedom.

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Apr 1

3/ SPICE excels at spatial reasoning. With minimal user prompts, it accurately constructs complex 3D spatial relationships. Precise editing, simplified.

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Apr 1

2/ Ever struggled with multi-step image distortion? SPICE enables ultra-long editing—100+ iterations without degradation. Say goodbye to cumulative distortion issues!

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Apr 1

1/ SPICE supports diverse artistic styles seamlessly—photorealistic, cartoon, or any LoRA-compatible art style. True cross-style adaptability, no compromises.

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Apr 1

🧵 Our team just introduced SPICE, a novel image editing framework that significantly outperforms GPT-4o & Gemini 2.0 in single-step editing tests.

Here’s why SPICE matters in AI-driven creative workflows: 👇

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Feb 4

Could you further specify your question? The model needs the user to tell it what to edit in the image.

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Jan 15

The image editing workflow we propose succeeds in editing a challenging image from Emu Edit. The prompt is “open the refrigerator door in the image”.

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Jan 3

PD and Abomination

#AiArt #DarkestDungeon

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Jan 1

The results in the 4 images are generated with Flux Dev. Since the pipeline is training-free, any model can be used (sdxl, etc.). Also, there is no need for a specific inpainting checkpoint. Such a checkpoint is not currently available for a wide range of base models.

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Jan 1

Localized and precise image editing results from a pipeline we develop. Users only need to provide crude sketches and masks. No hyperparameter tuning or prompt engineering needed. All results are first shot.

Baseline: arxiv.org/abs/2402.17525

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Jan 1

We have done developing an open-source tool that does exactly this. Please refer to my previous posts for examples. The tool will be finalized and released soon.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Dec 21

Six months ago someone put a for-loop around GPT-4o and got 50% on the ARC-AGI test set and 72% on a held-out training set redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/getting-50... Just sample 8000 times with beam search.

o3 is probably a more principled search technique...

Getting 50% (SoTA) on ARC-AGI with GPT-4o

You can just draw more samples

redwoodresearch.substack.com

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Kanaya Malakar @kanaya-malakar.bsky.social · Nov 23

Starter pack for #artists in #STEM.
#Artist s creating #scientific #visuals ( #illustration, #installation etc), and
#scientist s creating artworks (not necessarily #sciart) are welcome.
Please spread the word and let me know if you would like to be added.
#science #art

go.bsky.app/NzXHtrF

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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · Dec 15

In fact, @sayash.bsky.social and I have just published an essay with them, where we play our usual role of looking at the evidence and tamping down AI hype and fears instead of playing them up.
knightcolumbia.org/blog/we-look...

(Cross-posted to AI Snake Oil aisnakeoil.com/p/we-looked-...)

We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation Is Not an AI Problem.

knightcolumbia.org

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Mehak Dhaliwal @ ICLR @mehakd.bsky.social · Dec 13

🚨 Only 1 day to go! 🚨

Join us at AIM-FM: Advancements In Medical Foundation Models workshop at NeurIPS 2024!

📅 When: December 14th, 2024, 8:20 a.m. PST
📍 Where: East Ballroom A, B
🔗 Details: aim-fm-24.github.io/NeurIPS/

#AIM-FM #NeurIPS2024 #MedicalAI #FoundationModels

AIM-FM Workshop @ NeurIPS'24

aim-fm-24.github.io

Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social · Dec 11

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/who-and-wh...

Who and What comprise AI Skepticism?

An attempt to do justice to a diverse community

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com