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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Reliability-Aware Checkpoint Selection for Domain Generalization

Checkpoint selection in domain generalization often relies on source-validation accuracy, yet the selected checkpoint need not provide reliable probabilities on unseen target domains. Source-target distribution shifts can alter accuracy rankings, while accuracy alone does not measure predictive probability quality. We...

Jinshi Liu, Jiahao Li, Pan Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Revisiting On-policy Adversarial Black-Box Distillation: Calibrating Groupwise Reward Geometry for Effective Advantage Construction

Groupwise Reward Geometry Conditioning (GRGC) is proposed, a two-stage framework that improves advantage construction by shaping student-side reward groups during both critic training and policy optimization, and introduces negligible overhead over GAD.

Xiao Cui, Mo Zhu, Yu-Lei Qin et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Mutual Equilibrium: Multimodal Representation Learning through Reciprocal Feedback

This work proposes a mutual feedback architecture, MEQ, that refines the two inputs, of possibly different modalities, into a pair of coupled embeddings such that each embedding reflects the information of the other. The core idea is to incorporate continuous interchange of information between the two inputs. This idea...

Ho-min Park, Byungkon Kang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Anchoring Adversarial Trajectories to Data Manifolds: A Bilevel Transfer Optimization Framework

Manifold Anchored Bilevel Transfer (MABT), a unified framework that anchors adversarial trajectories to the shared semantic subspace, is proposed, and a Hessian-free solver with linear-time complexity is developed to handle the resulting hierarchy.

Yao-Hua Liu, Yi-Fan Guo, Jia-Xin Gao · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

World-as-Graph: Relational World Modeling Through Latent Space Graphs

The proposed World-As-Graph (WAG) is a graph-based object-centric world model that introduces relational inductive bias into JEPA-style predictive representation learning and could demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed WAG on both visual reasoning and robotic manipulation tasks.

Ya-Qi Yang, Shu-Wei Huang, Yu-Jin Huang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Prompting Image Generators for Training-free Primitive Shape Abstraction

Compact primitive abstractions represent 3D shapes with a few geometric primitives while preserving recognizable components. Learned methods depend on their training classes, and optimization-based methods split shapes geometrically rather than into parts. We instead reuse the visual part knowledge of pretrained models...

Gregor Kobsik, Tim Elsner, Leif Kobbelt · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Uncertainty Quantification for Computer-Use Agents: A Benchmark across Vision-Language Models and GUI Grounding Datasets

Computer-use agents turn vision-language model (VLM) predictions into executable GUI clicks, so reliable uncertainty estimates are essential for rejection, calibration, miss-severity ranking, and spatial safety regions. Yet evidence on post-hoc uncertainty quantification (UQ) for these agents is fragmented across isola...

Divake Kumar, Sina Tayebati, Devashri Naik et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Tri-Info: Generalizable, Interpretable Failure Prediction for VLA Models via Information Theory

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are increasingly deployed across diverse tasks, yet they remain black boxes whose physical interactions can cause irreversible harm, making generalizable and interpretable failure detection essential. We observe that successful and failed rollouts carry systematically different infor...

Jinghan Yang, Yunchao Zhang, Wang Yuan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ATM: Why Latent World Models Can Fail to Plan

Latent world models can achieve accurate latent prediction yet still differ substantially in downstream planning performance. We argue that a key source of this discrepancy lies in the structure of action-induced latent transitions. We formalize action-identifiability through Bayes inverse risk, characterizing how much...

Jiaheng Chen, Tinghe Zhang, Yucheng Xiao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VisualNeedle: Benchmarking Active Visual Search in Information-Dense Scenes

Frontier multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been reported to achieve over 90\% accuracy on fine-grained perception benchmarks. However, such scores do not necessarily imply faithful use of visual evidence. Prior studies have identified three shortcuts that inflate benchmark performance. First, linguistic pri...

Jingru Chen, Yiming Liu, Mingtao Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Concept Unlearning via Cross-Attention Activation Projection for Diffusion Models

Existing closed-form methods for concept unlearning in text-to-image diffusion models typically derive editing directions from fixed text embeddings, which may not fully capture how concepts are expressed across latent states, timesteps, and layers. To capture this variation, we investigate cross-attention activations...

Saemi Moon, Suhyeon Jun, Seoyeon Lee et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Rethinking Cross-Layer Information Routing in Diffusion Transformers

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have become a de facto backbone of modern visual generation, and nearly every major axis of their design -- tokenization, attention, conditioning, objectives, and latent autoencoders -- has been extensively revisited. The residual stream that governs how information accumulates across laye...

Chao Xu, Maohua Li, Qirui Li et al. · 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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