Professor Meow

Professor Meow (Meowstar University)

PhD Student, CatVLM

Meowstar University, Planet Meow

I study how cats and models pay attention (mostly cats).

Sometimes I train VLMs. Mostly I nap.

Recent News

Jan 2050 🎉 One paper accepted to a big conference. Celebrated with extra treats.
Jul 2049 😴 Trained a huge model. It overfit on cat memes.
May 2049 💼 Finished an internship as "Official Cat Picture Curator".

Selected Publications

CatVLM: When Your Dataset Is 99% Cat Photos

CVPR'50🏆 Oral CatVLM: When Your Dataset Is 99% Cat Photos

Professor Meow*, Sleepy GPU

TL;DR

We train a VLM almost entirely on cat photos. Surprisingly, it still works on normal images.

Do Models Prefer Cats or Dogs? A Minimal Study

arXiv'2050 Do Models Prefer Cats or Dogs? A Minimal Study

Professor Meow, Doggo Reviewer 2

TL;DR

We compare model preferences on simple cat vs dog prompts.

A Short Survey of Cat-Themed Benchmarks

Under Review A Short Survey of Cat-Themed Benchmarks

Professor Meow

Experience

Official Cat Picture Curator

Very Serious Cat Lab

Summer 2049

Selected high-quality cat photos for training and slides.

Academic Service

Reviewer

Conferences: CVPR (Cat Vision and Pattern Recognition), NeurIPS (Neural Indoor Pet Systems)

Journals: Journal of Cat Science

Education

2045 - ?

PhD in Cat-Inspired AI (ongoing)

Meowstar University, Planet Meow

Trying to graduate. The cat advisor is not impressed yet.

2040 - 2044

B.S. in Computer Science

Somewhere on Earth

Learned the difference between a cat and a segfault.