pushing

Definition

Almost always part of "pushing the limits" or "pushing the boundaries of X". It marks a paper that extends an existing line — more scale, better data, accumulated engineering — rather than one proposing a new framework. Treat it as promotional framing: the word tells you a record moved, but not by how much or under which conditions, which you have to dig out of the experiments.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: Ovis-Embedding — One Ruler for Text, Images, Video, and AudioOvis-Embedding: Pushing the Frontiers of Universal Omni-Modal Embeddings
• Paper Explained: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash — How Far Can KV Cache Compression Go?DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression