japanese

A blog post exploring a 1994 CD-ROM that archives the XD FirstClass Network BBS from Japan's Kansai region, including its client software and community posts, offering a rare glimpse into a pre-internet online community.

HakushoBench is a Japanese chart and table VQA benchmark built from governmental white papers to evaluate vision-language models' understanding of complex visual data, challenging open-weight models with a 58.6% accuracy and a 34.9-point gap to proprietary models.

This paper investigates how character-level transformer models generalize to irregular verb subtypes in Japanese past-tense inflection. Controlled experiments show that including irregular examples can improve generalization, challenging the assumption that regularity simplifies learning.