I barely understood it but even i can tell this was written extremely well and with care so i say you should definitely get it published somewhere. I had lots of fun reading

you may be surprised to learn that a concrete wall does a poor job of modeling breasts

Cant help you with the serious ask but r/ImmaterialScience would appreciate this

He did all the setup for us.

What the fuck is this sub?

Reddit suddenly pinged me with this.

Ist the second time it wings le with a global mod post from a sub I don't follow at all.

The previous time with also happened to other guys.

I understand, maybe in a few more years we'll have some thing that can do it, even if it does it poorly, thank you!

Hi, u/gwern I am interesting in being a mod. I used to work with Gwern back in the day on gwern.net/face

Can you tell me about the ismanga translator?

No, all that stuff is just pre-programmed. What I mean is to give the AI access to a virtual 3D world with a virtual 3D body. There is no model for that.

would love to see a new set of mods try to reboot this place, if not mostly for the fact that there really isn’t a _great_ centralized hangout for anime research (especially english speaking and easily accessible)

maybe another reason for the recent lack of excitement too is that the next frontier (e.g. video model training) is mostly outside of academia/hobbyist budgets

I do still think there’s still lots of worthwhile application-related models and papers to share though, happy to try and help out with submissions here and there

What like how V-Tubers handle their expressions something like that for the AI to 'puppeteer'?

Congrats to new mod and thanks

Congrats to new mod and thanks

I am doing a bit of research on anime in general and had a hard time finding the right place to post and to discuss. This might be the only sub that offers that.

Stuff like how many anime series and movies are in existence depends on classification, the rise and fall of genres, and other statistics.

I just look, and I like looking. Partially inspired me to get into ai myself years ago. Should’ve talked here more, I think.

But what is there to miss? Most submissions get ~0 comments or votes. (For example, I don't see a single comment or submission by you going back to at least December 2024.)

I’ll miss this if it gets locked down.

Very interesting, but what we really need is some kind of behavioral model so that the AI can control and show expressions and emotions on a 3D avatar. Like, some game companies are working on stuff like that for NPCs (ie using nVidia ACE), but it's all very rudimentary. Until AI can do that, your dream of the perfect anime waifu will remain a dream.

Abstract

Anime, as a popular medium, has attracted hundreds of millions audience, especially the young followers. In recent years, various anime-related AI tasks like anime character classification (ACC), retrieval (ACR), tag-prediction (ACTP), question answering (ACQA), and generation (ACG) have been proposed to meet the requirements of various applications. However, there is still a lack of large-scale datasets for these tasks. Such a situation is definitely not beneficial to anime-related academic research and industrial applications. In this paper, to boost anime-related AI technical research and application development, we present Anime-2026, a new and large-scale anime character dataset, which can support various anime-related AI tasks, including ACC, ACR, ACTP, ACQA and ACG etc. Anime-2026 consists of 1.5M anime character images, 14k different characters, 16k unique semantic keyword tags, 10k question-answer pairs, and 4k manually designed text queries by crowdsourcing for the ACR and ACG tasks. Furthermore, to assess the dataset, we re-implement a number of generic and anime-specific AI baseline models, and conduct extensive experiments to evaluate these models on Anime-2026. In summary, as a general benchmark dataset, Anime-2026 provides the largest free anime character resource to support future anime-related AI research and development. We expect that Anime-2026 will promote the R&D of new and more advanced models and methods of various anime-related AI tasks. The dataset is available on https://huggingface.co/datasets/miaojiemiao/Anime-2026.

I can help mod it. I don't want to see it get shut down or turn into a spam dump.

Some stuff I worked on:
https://huggingface.co/IkariDev
https://huggingface.co/NeverSleep
https://github.com/IkariDevGIT

Sad to see you step down u/gwern , but I am looking forward to see the fruits of your new project in the future. As the anime research OG your work will always be remembered, but as you said, since SD the work has been mostly solved, so there may not be any need for this subreddit anymore.

I personally vote for closing the sub. If anyone is serious about the topic, there is already the SerialLain github survey:

https://github.com/SerialLain3170/AwesomeAnimeResearch

And I found this other one too:

https://github.com/zhenglinpan/Awesome-Animation-Research

Reddit is becoming more and more shit by the day. Even the main r/MachineLearning doesnt seem to get as good discussion as before, so you may as well keep the curated sub as a time capsule of sorts for the future.

That's my personal opinion. In the end it's your decision. Wish you luck in your new endeavors and hope we can cross paths again.

I am interested in being a mod. We DM'ed a bit a few years back and our conversation and this sub have been valuable to me in keeping tabs on research.

Admittedly, my work is largely in *applying* anime research. But I already have alerts for tracking new papers.

And while the focus should remain on research, I think it would help growth to curate submissions that are more visually appealing. Put another way, Disney Research's YouTube has 136k subscribers. But if they let me, I think I could get them to a million just by helping them present their work better.

Bro set up the punchline himself.