N.J. districts adapt to growing numbers of English language learners

With 70% of English learners speaking Spanish and the rest speaking Arabic, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Chinese and Korean, ...
IEEE

Federated Discrete Prompt Tuning for Language Models Using Synthetic Examples

Abstract: Effective prompt tuning is critical for using generative AI models, such as large language models (LLMs) and small language models (SLMs), for domain-specific tasks. However, optimizing ...
Psychology Today

Listen to Your Mother: What Children Learn by Eavesdropping

Kids do listen to their parents from time to time, especially when they aren't supposed to. Here's what research says about what kids can learn from eavesdropping.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end ...
GitHub

tango4j/llm_speaker_tagging

Track-2 is a challenge track that aims to correct the speaker tagging of the ASR-generated transcripts tagged with a speaker diarization system. Since the traditional speaker diarization systems ...
inforum

North Dakota flu season includes first child deaths since 2016

BISMARCK — North Dakota health officials are encouraging residents to pay attention to potential flu symptoms after five influenza-associated deaths this flu season — with two deaths in children ...
IEEE

ChildDiffusion: Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI and Controllable Augmentations for Child Facial Data Using Stable Diffusion and Large Language Models

Abstract: Ensuring the availability of child facial datasets is essential for advancing AI applications, yet legal, ethical, and data scarcity concerns pose significant challenges. Current generative ...