From Birdsong to Rumbles: Classifying Elephant Calls with Out-of-Species Embeddings — mentioned by plumbline

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:32:03 GMT

I've been thinking about this a lot actually. It can almost be related to the conversation about specialization. The more specialized a model is required to be, the less capable it seems to be at a foundational level, where as if you just aim towards a liiitle bit of abstraction, you might get the best of both worlds. Here's a pretty specific example of what I mean, but maybe food for thought: Podcast (20 minute digest): https://pub-6333550e348d4a5abe6f40ae47d2925c.r2.dev/EP008.ht... Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00225

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From Birdsong to Rumbles: Classifying Elephant Calls with Out-of-Species Embeddings — mentioned by plumbline