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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Latent Video Prediction for World Modeling: An Evaluation Uncovering Intriguing Favorable Evidence

Self-supervised video models are increasingly framed as world models, yet they are still evaluated almost entirely on clean video and reported as a final task score, obscuring how their representations behave under the degraded and ambiguous conditions a deployed world model must handle. We present the first systematic...

Ali J Alrasheed, Aryan Yazdan Parast, Basim Azam et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Image AID via continuous-time reinforcement learning

We study image inpainting with generative diffusion models. Existing methods typically either train dedicated task-specific models, or adapt a pretrained diffusion model separately for each masked image at deployment. We introduce a middle-ground model, termed Amortized Inpainting with Diffusion (AID), which keeps a pr...

Yilie Huang, Xun Yu Zhou · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Cartesian Shortcut: Re-evaluate Vision Reasoning in Polar Coordinate Space

As current Multimodal Large Language Models rapidly saturate canonical visual reasoning benchmarks, a key question emerges: do these strong scores genuinely reflect robust visual understanding? We identify a pervasive vulnerability, the Cartesian Shortcut: models frequently discretize the orthogonal grid-based layouts...

Xia Hu, Zhenrui Yue, Brian Potetz et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Video Understanding Reward Modeling: A Robust Benchmark and Performant Reward Models

Multimodal reward models have advanced substantially in text and image domains, yet progress in video understanding reward modeling remains severely limited by the lack of robust evaluation benchmarks and high-quality preference data. To address this, we propose a unified framework spanning benchmark design, data const...

Yuancheng Wei, Linli Yao, Lei Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VisionFoundry: Teaching VLMs Visual Perception with Synthetic Images

Vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with visual perception tasks such as spatial understanding and viewpoint recognition, largely because natural image datasets provide limited supervision for low-level visual skills. Can targeted synthetic supervision address these weaknesses without reference images or manua...

Guanyu Zhou, Yida Yin, Wenhao Chai et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Language-Conditioned World Modeling for Visual Navigation

Goal-conditioned visual navigation has been a long-standing testbed for embodied AI. We study a natural language-conditioned variant, language-conditioned visual navigation (LCVN), in which an embodied agent must follow a natural language instruction given only an initial egocentric observation. Without access to goal...

Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Yilong Dai et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Mar 2026

Delta-K: Boosting Multi-Instance Generation via Cross-Attention Augmentation

Delta-K is proposed, a backbone-agnostic, plug-and-play inference framework that resolves omission by operating directly in the shared cross-attention Key space and significantly improves compositional alignment across both modern DiT and foundational U-Net architectures without requiring spatial masks, auxiliary train...

Zi-Tong Wang, Zijun Shen, Hao Xu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ITO: Multi-View Alignment and Training-Time Fusion for Image-Text Pretraining

Image--text contrastive pretraining has become a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning, yet existing methods often yield representations that remain partially organized by modality rather than by semantics. We propose ITO, a framework addressing this limitation through two complementary mechanisms with d...

Hanpeng Liu, Zidan Wang, Shuoxi Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PISCO: Precise Video Instance Insertion with Sparse Control

The landscape of AI video generation is undergoing a pivotal shift: moving beyond general generation - which relies on exhaustive prompt-engineering and "cherry-picking" - towards fine-grained, controllable generation and high-fidelity post-processing. In professional AI-assisted filmmaking, it is crucial to perform pr...

Xiangbo Gao, Renjie Li, Xinghao Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Edge-Aware and Content-Adaptive Infrared Gas Leak Detection for Industrial Safety Monitoring

Infrared gas leak detection is important for industrial safety and environmental monitoring, but automatic detection remains challenging because gas plumes are often faint, small, semi-transparent, and weakly bounded. This study proposes an Edge-Aware and Content-Adaptive Feature Fusion Detector (ECAF-Det) for infrared...

Dongsheng Li, Tianli Ma, Siling Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Compound Figures to Medical Multi-image Reasoning: Scaling Multimodal Large Language Models with Biomedical Literature

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly capable in medical imaging, yet most focus on single-image settings. Clinical interpretation often requires integrating evidence across multiple images, such as different modalities, views, or time points. However, large-scale medical multi-image data and traini...

Zhen Chen, Yihang Fu, Rong Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FoCLIP: A Feature-Space Misalignment Framework for CLIP-Based Image Manipulation and Detection

The well-aligned attribute of CLIP-based models enables its effective application like CLIPscore as a widely adopted image quality assessment metric. However, such a CLIP-based metric is vulnerable for its delicate multimodal alignment. In this work, we propose FoCLIP, a feature-space misalignment framework for fooling...

Yulin Chen, Zeyuan Wang, Tianyuan Yu et al. · 0 citations

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Making machines that can listen

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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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