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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Matched-Budget Audit Framework for Recaptioned Image-Text Supervision Distributions

Recaptioned image-text corpora are now standard for text-to-image (T2I) training, with vision--language model (VLM) captioners replacing sparse alt-text by dense descriptions. A recaptioned corpus is a supervision distribution induced by a documented captioning policy ($\pi$), captioner ($V_c$), and source corpus ($C$)...

Giyeong Oh, Junghun Park, Yuhan Bae et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Kinematic MeanFlow: One-Step Action Generation Policy for Robotic Foundation Models

In this paper, we study how to achieve one-step action generation in Robotic Foundation Models (RFMs), aiming to overcome the high inference latency of multi-step flow matching. MeanFlow provides a promising framework for this goal, yet its direct application leads to performance collapse. We discover that this stems f...

Jiawei Fan, Sifeng Wang, Yuqing Hou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Don't Waste the Noise: Importance-Guided Perturbation Allocation under Joint Global and Local Constraints

Adversarial optimization under a shared $\ell_1$ budget requires deciding not only how much perturbation to use, but also where that limited budget should be spent. This allocation problem becomes particularly important when individual input coordinates are subject to local magnitude constraints, which restrict the ext...

M. Shirian, Kianoosh Vadaei · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Geometric Similarity in VLM Low-Level Vision Representations

Vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as powerful candidates for universal vision backbones, with representative architectures including autoregressive (AR) models and diffusion transformers (DiTs). Yet, adapting them efficiently for all-in-one low-level image restoration remains a challenge. Crucially, the field...

Shao-Jun Xia, Hui-Xin Zhang, Zhen Lei et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

Video Generation Models: A Survey of Post-Training and Alignment

This survey aims to provide a structured conceptual foundation and practical guidance for advancing controllable and reliable video generation models and frame post-training as a unifying framework and distinguish between implicit alignment and explicit alignment based on how alignment signals are enforced.

Chaoyu Li, Xiaoyi Gu, Yogesh Kulkarni et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Increasing Width Allows Greedy Layer-wise Training to Rival End-to-End Backpropagation in Self-Supervised Learning

End-to-end backpropagation has been the dominant mode of training in deep learning, allowing for the coordination of parameter updates across layers of a neural network. Prior studies have explored alternative -- and, in some cases, simpler -- training mechanisms, showing that they can sometimes achieve performance sim...

Syon Mansur, Joel Zylberberg · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

Personalized Image Generation with Reasoning and Reflection

Personalized image generation has remained narrowly focused on conditional synthesis from curated visual exemplars, rather than capturing who a user is. In practice, however, a user's personal context is much richer, comprising reviews, posts, images, captions, and metadata accumulated over time. A truly personalized g...

B. Ni, Ngoc N. Tran, Qin-Wen Ge et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

VisionQ: VLM-as-a-Judge Taxonomy, Dataset and Benchmark for Qualitative Analysis in Computer Vision

VisionQ is introduced, the first benchmark built from peer-reviewed CV comparison figures that grounds every judgment in a named visual criterion: each question states the criterion, and a judge is credited only when it selects the output the authors identify as best on that criterion.

Xuân Định Vũ, Duc-Hai Nguyen, M. Dao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PACT: End-to-End Learning of Human Pose, Contacts, and Forces from Video

Human motion, environmental contacts, and interaction forces are governed by common physical laws, yet existing approaches typically separate visual pose reconstruction from contact and force estimation. This separation limits joint reasoning and can propagate errors between stages. We introduce PACT, an end-to-end mod...

Rikhat Akizhanov, Yang-Song Zhang, Nikolai Kaliazin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Scores That Hold, Benchmarks That Leak: Measuring Dataset Contamination in Public Brain-Tumor MRI Classification

Automated classification of brain tumors from MRI is a heavily published application of deep learning in medical imaging, with reported accuracies on public benchmarks routinely exceeding 98%. However, accuracy does not capture a critical dimension of benchmark quality: dataset integrity, defined as the independence of...

Bhanu Prakash Vangala, S. Guda, Latha Peddi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Manifold-Constrained Initial Noise Optimization for Efficient Generative Model Alignment

Recent advances in distillation and flow-map models have enabled deterministic one- or few-step generation for high-quality data, facilitating a new branch of reward alignment approaches that directly optimize the initial noise from a Gaussian distribution. However, most existing initial-noise optimization methods rely...

Jin-Ho Chang, Jong Chul Ye · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Diffusion Editing with Soft Mask: Pixel Level Redo of Image and Video with Adjustable Strength

Diffusion models with prompt and reference image-guided editing have seen rapid progress, yet they remain too coarse for pixel-level control. One promising direction is to incorporate a soft mask that specifies spatially varying edit strengths but training such fine-grained control demands expensive pixel-wise annotati...

Candi Zheng, Yuan Lan · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Oct 28, 2026

Making machines that can listen

Professor Paris Smaragdis develops computers with superhuman hearing for applications like speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring.

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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