Have we entered a new era of compression?

4 teams in #CLIC2025 early leaderboard beat VTM, not in PSNR, but in ELO and perceptual quality.

VTM used to be the gold standard. That may no longer be true.

This slide from Théo Ladune nails it.

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Przemek in front of the title slide

The final talk of our #CLIC2025 theme session on #Language, #Culture and #Evolution is by Przemysław Żywycziński, (w/ M. Sibierska, M. Placiński & J. Blomberg) on the linguistic niche hypothesis in language evolution: looping environment, communication and cognition.

Sławek in front of the title slide

Our #CLIC2025 Theme Session continues. Sławomir Wacewiz is presenting our collaborative work on "Understanding the limits of experiments in language evolution: inferences from closed Vs open ended semantic paradigms (w/ Kuleshova, me, Hartmann, Blomberg, Sibierska, Zywiczynski, Placiński)

Chris Sinha and the title slide

This afternoon's #CLIC2025 plenary by Chris Sinha is a perfect complement to our theme session on Language, Culture and Evolution: "Late Stages in #Language #Evolution and the Creation of the Social Imaginary"

Christer in front of the title slide

Talk 4 in our #CLIC2025 theme session is by Christer Johansson: A culture of increased change blindness: origins of language through loss of visual acuity

Sonia in front of a slide

Talk 3 in our #CLIC2025 Theme Session is by Sonia Cristofaro: "biological evolution vs the evolution of grammar: Perspectives from the study of language change" where she criticises models that do not not pay attention to the important differences between the two processes

Tessa in front of the title slide

The next talk in our #CLIC2025 theme session is by Tessa Verhoef (w/ Seana Coulaon & Tyler Marghetis) "How the neural processing of language reveals the nested timescales of language emergence: language as "fossil poetry"

Gerd Carling in front of a slide

Gerd Carling starts off our #CLIC2025 Theme Session on #Language, #Culture and #Evolution (organised by Arie Verhagen, Gabor Györi and myself) with a talk on "cognitive and cultural connotations of categorising the environment"

A picture of Adam Głaz and the title slide

I am at #CLIC2025 in Madrid. The second plenary of the conference is by by Adam Głaz (Lublin): "How Cultural Linguistics lives up to its promise. Or does it?"

I will be at ALIS let’s set up an interview… #cliclive #clicmedia #clicconnet #clic8 #clic2025 #alis #hotels #hospitality