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latent

[layt-nt] / ˈleɪt nt /


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He found precedent in paintings where bloodshed is latent or occurs just beyond the frame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society.

From "1984" by George Orwell


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