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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SOLAR: SVD-Optimized Lifelong Attention for Recommendation

Attention mechanism remains the defining operator in Transformers since it provides expressive global credit assignment, yet its quadratic cost in sequence length N makes long-context modeling expensive and often forces truncation or other heuristics. Linear attention reduces complexity to O(Nd^2) by reordering computa...

Chenghao Zhang, Chao Feng, Yuanhao Pu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Adaptive Spectral Feature Forecasting for Diffusion Sampling Acceleration

Diffusion models have become the dominant tool for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet are critically bottlenecked by their inference speed due to the numerous iterative passes of Diffusion Transformers. To reduce the exhaustive compute, recent works resort to the feature caching and reusing scheme that skips...

Jiaqi Han, Juntong Shi, Puheng Li et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Two-Step Data Augmentation for Masked Face Detection and Recognition: Turning Fake Masks to Real

The absence of large-scale masked face datasets challenges masked face detection and recognition. We propose a two-step generative data augmentation framework combining rule-based mask warping with unpaired image-to-image translation via GANs, producing masked face samples that go beyond rule-based overlays. Trained on...

Yan Yang, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Opportunistic Target Selection: Early Directional Commitment for Query-Efficient Black-Box Adversarial Attacks

Black-box adversarial attacks that minimize only the ground-truth confidence suffer from class drift: perturbations wander through the feature space without committing to a specific adversarial class, wasting queries on diffuse, undirected progress. We introduce Opportunistic Target Selection (OTS), a lightweight wrapp...

Florent Tariolle, Florian Yger · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ReDiF: Resource-Efficient Few-Step Diffusion Distillation via Reinforcement Learning

Step distillation accelerates diffusion sampling by training a few-step student to imitate a many-step teacher, but distillation itself remains expensive. Typically, this requires thousands of GPU-hours and a large pre-generated trajectory dataset. We introduce ReDiF, which casts step distillation as terminal-reward po...

Amirhossein Tighkhorshid, Zahra Dehghanian, Hamid R. Rabiee · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Image Classifiers are Efficient Self-Supervised Video Representation Learners

We introduce VideoMSN, a Masked Siamese Network framework for efficient self-supervised spatio-temporal representation learning in videos. Instead of relying on heavy 3D architectures or reconstruction-based autoencoders for learning with unlabeled data, we repurpose standard image Vision Transformers by representing v...

Owais Iqbal, Sudipta Sarkar, Shyam Marjit et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Looped Diffusion Transformer

Improving text-to-image models has traditionally relied on increasing model size or the number of denoising steps. In this work, we explore an alternative way to scale computation by repeatedly running shared Transformer blocks within each denoising step, effectively increasing computational depth while keeping the par...

Yong Xien Chng, Tian-Yi Chen, Wen-Wen Tong et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Spherical Interpolation for Backward-Compatible Multimodal Representations

Contrastive vision-language models map visual and textual representations into a shared normalized embedding space, making cosine similarity the natural metric for cross-modal retrieval. A practical challenge arises during model upgrades: independently trained models generally produce incompatible representation spaces...

Simone Ricci, Niccoló Biondi, F. Pernici · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Unapologetically Distributed: A Call for Decentralized Document Analysis

Privacy has become an increasingly important concern in the Document Analysis community, to the extent that in many environments such as archives, governmental institutions, and local businesses, the adoption of automation is restricted by legal and policy constraints. While federated learning has often been regarded a...

Adri\`a Molina, Oriol Ramos Terrades, Josep Llad\'os · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

SAGE: Salient Factor Discovery and Generation with Visual Foundation Representations

SAGE aims for salient representations that capture target-specific detail in each image, such as the shape, color, and position of the glasses, so that they reveal subtypes without subtype labels and guide the generation of new examples of a discovered subtype, even one with no name or text description.

Shuang Liang, Le-Jun Liao, Shi-Yuan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

KilometerVision: A New Frontier for Large-Scale Spatial Intelligence in VLMs

We push the frontier of large-scale spatial intelligence in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and introduce the first benchmark that probes geographical layout understanding from real-world videos, spanning up to 1km distances. Inspired by the cognitive science literature, we evaluate models against the hierarchical stages...

Aravindh Mahendran, Michael King, Matthew Koichi Grimes et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Comparative study of adapting pre-trained models for driving behavior video captioning

This report examines and compares some of the many fine tuning and prompting methods existing, applying them within the domain of autonomous driving. The idea is to compare these methods by adapting a Large Language Model (LLM) on a video dataset. LLM's have become extremely good at achieving a good understanding of di...

Sayak Mallick, Philipp Geiger, Augustin Kelava · 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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