Research Areas to Building Blocks
Find the right AI building blocks for your research domain. Each research area maps to production-ready implementations you can use today.
Most Versatile Blocks
Building blocks that apply across many research areas.
Text Embedding
Convert text into dense vector representations for semantic search, clustering, and retrieval.
Language Model
Transform, generate, or reason about text. The core building block for chatbots, summarization, translation, and more.
Image Embedding
Convert images directly to dense vector representations for semantic search, clustering, and similarity matching.
Object Detection
Locate and classify objects in images with bounding boxes. Foundational for autonomous vehicles, surveillance, and robotics.
Image Captioning
Generate natural language descriptions of image content. Enables text-based search over visual content.
Image Segmentation
Classify each pixel in an image. Enables precise object boundaries for medical imaging, autonomous vehicles, and image editing.
Building systems that understand images and video? Find benchmarks for recognition, detection, segmentation, and document analysis tasks.
Image Embedding
Core embedding for image similarity, retrieval, and classification tasks
Image Captioning
Captioning and OCR for document understanding and image description
Object Detection
Bounding box detection for objects and text in images
Image Segmentation
Pixel-level classification and instance segmentation
Depth Estimation
Depth estimation from single images for 3D understanding
Image to 3D
3D reconstruction from images
Visual Question Answering
Answering questions about visual content
Image Transformation
Image transformation, enhancement, and restoration
Document Extraction
Extract structured data from documents
Processing and understanding text? Evaluate your models on language understanding, generation, translation, and information extraction benchmarks.
Text Embedding
Text embeddings for semantic search and similarity
Language Model
Core LLM capabilities for generation and transformation
Text Classification
Categorizing text into predefined classes
Machine Translation
Translation between languages
Text Summarization
Condensing documents into summaries
Question Answering
Answering questions from context
Named Entity Recognition
Extracting entities from text
Testing if your model can think logically? Benchmark math problem solving, commonsense understanding, and multi-step reasoning capabilities.
Language Model
Chain-of-thought and reasoning via LLMs
Question Answering
Answering complex reasoning questions
Text Embedding
Retrieval-augmented reasoning with knowledge bases
Developing AI coding assistants? Test code generation, completion, translation, bug detection, and repair capabilities.
Language Model
Code generation, completion, and transformation
Text Embedding
Code search and similarity matching
Text Classification
Classifying code for vulnerabilities and bugs
Working with voice and audio? Evaluate speech-to-text accuracy, voice synthesis quality, and speaker identification performance.
Speech Recognition
Speech-to-text transcription and translation
Text to Speech
Text-to-speech synthesis and voice generation
Audio Classification
Speaker identification and verification
Voice Activity Detection
Detecting speech segments in audio
Audio Transformation
Voice conversion and audio transformation
Building healthcare AI? Find benchmarks for medical imaging, disease diagnosis, clinical text processing, and drug discovery.
Image Segmentation
Segmenting organs and abnormalities in medical images
Object Detection
Detecting lesions and abnormalities
Image Captioning
Generating diagnostic reports from medical images
Text Embedding
Semantic search in clinical notes and literature
Named Entity Recognition
Extracting medical entities from clinical text
Language Model
Summarizing and processing clinical notes
Processing general audio signals? Test your models on sound classification, event detection, music analysis, and source separation.
Speech Recognition
Transcribing and describing audio content
Audio Classification
Categorizing audio clips and detecting events
Voice Activity Detection
Detecting audio events and segments
Audio Transformation
Audio transformation and generation
Text to Speech
Generating audio from text descriptions
Building quality control systems? Benchmark anomaly detection, defect classification, and automated visual inspection for manufacturing.
Object Detection
Detecting defects and anomalies in manufacturing
Image Segmentation
Pixel-level defect segmentation
Image Embedding
Anomaly detection via embedding comparison
Image Captioning
Generating inspection reports from images
Combining vision and language? Evaluate image captioning, visual QA, text-to-image generation, and cross-modal retrieval models.
Image Captioning
Generating captions for images
Image Generation
Generating images from text descriptions
Visual Question Answering
Answering questions about images
Video Understanding
Understanding and describing video content
Text to Video
Generating video from text
Image to Video
Animating images to video
Image Embedding
Cross-modal search and retrieval
Text Embedding
Cross-modal embedding for retrieval
Building robotic systems? Find benchmarks for manipulation, navigation, and simulation-to-reality transfer.
Object Detection
Object detection for manipulation and grasping
Image Segmentation
Scene understanding for navigation
Depth Estimation
Depth perception for spatial awareness
Image to 3D
3D scene reconstruction
Language Model
Natural language instructions for robots
Building knowledge systems? Evaluate graph completion, relation extraction, and entity linking performance.
Text Embedding
Entity and relation embeddings
Named Entity Recognition
Extracting entities for knowledge graph construction
Text Classification
Classifying relation types
Question Answering
Knowledge graph question answering
Need to test model robustness? Benchmark resilience against adversarial attacks and evaluate defense mechanisms.
Image Embedding
Testing robustness of image embeddings
Text Embedding
Testing robustness of text embeddings
Object Detection
Evaluating detector robustness
Text Classification
Testing classifier robustness
Improving learning efficiency? Test self-supervised, few-shot, transfer, and continual learning approaches.
Image Embedding
Self-supervised visual representations
Text Embedding
Self-supervised text representations
Language Model
In-context learning and few-shot prompting
Measuring autonomous AI capabilities? METR benchmarks track time horizon, multi-step reasoning, and sustained task performance - key metrics for AGI progress.
Language Model
LLM backbone for reasoning, planning, and code generation
Question Answering
Answering questions about code and documentation
Text Embedding
Code search and retrieval for context
Working with network data? Test graph learning models on node classification, link prediction, and molecular property tasks.
Predicting future trends or detecting anomalies? Benchmark forecasting accuracy and pattern recognition in sequential data.
Cross-Reference Matrix
Quick lookup: which blocks apply to which areas.
| Building Block | Computer Vision | Natural Language | Reasoning | Computer Code | Speech | Medical | Audio | Industrial Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text to Vector | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Text to Text | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Image to Vector | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Object Detection | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Image to Text | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Segmentation | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Text Classification | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| QA | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| NER | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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