AI RESEARCH
Think in Latent Thoughts: A New Paradigm for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.15301v1 Announce Type: new Many SLT systems quietly assume that brief chunks of signing map directly to spoken-language words. That assumption breaks down because signers often create meaning on the fly using context, space, and movement. We revisit SLT and argue that it is mainly a cross-modal reasoning task, not just a straightforward video-to-text conversion. We thus