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One Model to Train Them All: How OmniTrain Rethinks Open-Vocabulary Detection

Open-vocabulary object detection — the holy grail of AI systems that can recognize anything in the wild — has been plagued by fragmented training strategies. Models like OWL-ViT and Grounding DINO stitch together multiple learning objectives across different stages. This Frankensteinian complexity not only slows progress, but also creates systems that are brittle, compute-hungry, and hard to scale. Enter OmniTrain: a refreshingly elegant, end-to-end training recipe that unifies detection, grounding, and image-text alignment into a single pass. No pretraining-finetuning sandwich. No separate heads. Just a streamlined pipeline that can scale to hundreds of thousands of concepts — and outperform specialized systems while doing so. ...

July 27, 2025 · 3 min · Zelina
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From Cora to Cosmos: How PyG 2.0 Scales GNNs for the Real World

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have come a long way since they solved Cora and PubMed node classification. But what happens when you want to model an entire traffic network, a biomedical knowledge graph, or a social graph with billions of nodes? That’s where PyG 2.0 steps in. The Industrialization of GNNs PyTorch Geometric (PyG) has been a dominant tool in the academic development of GNNs. With PyG 2.0, it graduates into the world of industrial-strength machine learning. This isn’t just a library update—it’s a fundamental re-architecture with three goals: ...

July 24, 2025 · 3 min · Zelina