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latent

[layt-nt] / ˈleɪt nt /


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Rombach, 33, helped develop latent diffusion, a breakthrough that underpins many of today's AI image-generation systems.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Liang’s team at DeepSeek came up with some of the most important workarounds, including multihead latent attention, or MLA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Unfortunately, your phone’s app is more likely to try to satisfy that latent desire than to force you to understand how complex weather modeling really is.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

Reactivation of Anelloviridae, a poorly understood family of viruses that typically remains latent in about 90 percent of the population, showed a prominent association with long-term physical disability and long COVID.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

What would a society of eunuchs achieve?—But of course they are not eunuchs, in somer, but rather more comparable to preadolescents: not castrate, but latent.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin


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