latent
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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
Was Watt familiar with the concept of latent heat when he devised his new engine, and did the new theory inform his new technology?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing latent
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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