Active development phase, with core features implemented and nearing a v1.0.0 stable release.
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✓ RSR (Rhodium Standard Repository) compliance
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✓ Full documentation suite (including detailed READMEs, CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY, GOVERNANCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, REVERSIBILITY)
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✓ Diff-based compression: Store VAE images as diffs to reduce dataset size by ~50%
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✓ Julia
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✓ Diff encoding:
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✓ Contrastive learning model for VAE artifact detection (
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✓ CNN encoder with ResNet-style residual blocks
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✓ Projection head for contrastive learning
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✓ Multiple loss functions: NT-Xent, Supervised Contrastive, Triplet, Contrastive
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✓ Two-phase training: contrastive pre-training + classifier fine-tuning
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✓ Binary classifier for original vs VAE discrimination
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✓ Embedding extraction for visualization
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✓ Evaluation metrics: accuracy, precision, recall, F1, confusion matrix
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✓ GPU support via CUDA.jl (optional)
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✓ Justfile recipes for training and evaluation
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❏ Comprehensive tests (Rust unit, integration, fuzz tests; Julia unit tests)
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❏ Production ready
Future development will focus on expanding the utility and robustness of the VAE Dataset Normalizer, driven by community feedback and emerging research needs. Potential areas include:
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Expanded VAE Artifact Detection Models: Explore alternative contrastive learning architectures, semi-supervised approaches, and integration with other artifact detection techniques.
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Multi-Modal Artifact Detection: Extend the framework to detect artifacts in other data modalities (e.g., text, audio) generated by large models.
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Explainability (XAI) for Artifacts: Develop methods to explain why a particular image is flagged as a VAE artifact, providing insights into the nature of the detected degradation.
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Integration with broader ML Ecosystem: Streamline integration with popular ML platforms and tools, potentially through additional language bindings or standardized APIs.
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Performance Optimization: Further optimize data loading, processing, and model inference for even larger datasets and faster turnaround times.
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Formal Verification for ML Models: Expand the application of formal methods beyond data splits to verify properties of the ML models themselves, such as robustness or fairness.
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Community Contributions: Actively encourage and integrate community-driven features and improvements.