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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Much Physics Can Vision Learn from Audio? Probing and Distilling Damping Structure

Physical understanding is crucial for decision making, yet vision models struggle to infer properties such as damping that govern how materials behave. Audio encodes such properties directly, because an object's acoustic response to impact reveals its damping through measurable decay. We probe frozen encoders for the q...

Zainab Afolabi, Vadim Selyutin, Zhao Gao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FutureLift: Lifting Trajectory Proposals into Bidirectional Future Graphs for Motion Forecasting

Accurate motion prediction is critical for safe autonomous driving, yet even strong forecasters leave residual errors in their multimodal proposals. Existing refiners compress complete proposals or update their segments sequentially, preventing the full proposed future from serving as explicit relational context for co...

Daniel Grimm, J. Marius Z\"ollner · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

REKI: Registering Knowledge in VLAs

We introduce REKI, a 2.4B vision-language-action model (VLA) pretrained exclusively on public data that sets a new Pareto frontier between performance and model size: on LIBERO-Plus, RoboTwin Clean2Rand and RoboCasa365, it is outperformed only by models about twice its size. REKI consists of a vision-language model (VL...

Juliette Marrie, Paul Pacaud, Adrien Ramanana Rahary et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond the Dominant Label: Recovering Coexisting Lesion Evidence with Multiple Instance Learning

Whole-slide images may contain coexisting lesions, yet weak supervision typically provides only the most severe diagnosis. We formulate this setting as dominant-label multiple instance learning, where the observed label is the maximum-severity element of a latent lesion set. Standard multiclass MIL treats it as a compl...

Lubin Gan, Jing Zhang, Xinming Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Temporal Periodic Image Registration with Implicit Neural Representations

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have recently gained popularity for their ability to model functions using simple and lightweight networks. These methods have also proven effective in deformable image registration. In this work, we extend INRs for deformable image registration to the domain of temporal image reg...

Mathias Lowes, Kristine Aavild S{\o}rensen, Maxime Sermesant et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Single-stage joint diffusion of sky images and clear-sky index for ultra-short-term irradiance forecasting: what the frame-to-irradiance stage discards

Sky-image irradiance forecasting is dominated by a two-stage design: a video-prediction model forecasts future sky frames, and a separately trained regressor maps those frames to irradiance. We propose a single-stage alternative that co-denoises the future sky-image and clear-sky-index sequences in one diffusion proces...

Kanawut Suwandee, Suwichaya Suwanwimolkul · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

International Multi-Centre Validation of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Precise Discrimination between Normal and Abnormal Retinal Development

Arrested retinal development can cause childhood visual impairment, but grading optical coherence tomography scans is difficult to standardise across devices and centres. We developed and evaluated an unsupervised domain adaptation model to classify normal and abnormal retinal development across different OCT systems....

Zhanhan Tu, Nikhil Reddy, Helen J. Kuht et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for TI2I Flow Matching

We study Text-and-Image-to-Image (TI2I) flow matching methods for controllable image editing. In a broader generative modeling context, Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is established as a key component responsible for high quality outputs. However, we argue that its role in TI2I modeling is poorly understood. Specifical...

Andreas Floros, Elena Koritska, Teofilo de Campos et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ManiFusion: Unlocking the High-Throughput Generation via Superposition in Manifold Space

Diffusion models achieve high-quality image generation but remain computationally expensive due to iterative denoising across many timesteps. Existing acceleration methods mainly reduce per-sample latency, but gains along this axis are becoming saturated. We instead explore an orthogonal throughput-oriented direction b...

Minkyu Kim, Baekseung Kim, Junhoo Lee et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

L2GSSL: Label-Efficient Local-to-Global Self-Supervised Learning for Volumetric Healthcare Data

Healthcare institutions routinely accumulate high-dimensional computed tomography (CT) volumes, but only a fraction can be annotated by experts. We present L2GSSL, a local-to-global self-supervised learning framework that leverages unlabeled volumes by decomposing pretraining into intra-slice and inter-slice representa...

Po-Cheng Cheng, Hung-Hsuan Chen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

When Should a Low-Light Pipeline Generate? Auditable Risk Control for Selective Generative Enhancement

Generative low-light enhancers recover plausible texture but may hallucinate structure; restoration networks preserve structure but can leave regions under-enhanced, and neither advantage is spatially uniform. Therefore, we formulate selective generative enhancement as a decision problem: determine where overriding a f...

Qiyi Xie, Wei Chen Ng, Suyang Xi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Semantic Latent Alignment for Flow Matching with Invertible Bi-Lipschitz Adapters

Pretrained latent spaces trade compression, reconstruction, and the learnability of the coordinates a downstream generator has to work in, which complicates adapting these spaces to different domains or tasks: continued training is expensive, and without a new alignment objective it often fails to improve downstream ge...

Felix Nützel, Mischa Dombrowski, Luca Hagen et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 6, 2026

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity.  The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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