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An article exploring the history and cultural significance of fish sauce, a fundamental condiment in Southeast Asian cuisine made from fermented fish and salt, tracing its origins from ancient times to modern-day usage across Vietnam, Thailand, and other regions.
This paper introduces Anthropogenic Regional Adaptation, a paradigm for optimizing vision-language models to specific regional contexts while maintaining global generalization. The authors propose GG-EZ, an adaptation method using regional data filtering and model merging, demonstrating 5-15% improvements in cultural relevance for Southeast Asia across three VL architectures.
Grab uses OpenAI's GPT-4o vision fine-tuning to improve GrabMaps, achieving significant accuracy gains in speed limit sign localization (13%), lane counting (20%), and reducing manual mapping efforts across Southeast Asia's complex road networks.