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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

OmniReasoning: Pushing the Limits of Audio-Visual Joint Reasoning

Recent advances have enabled unified omni-modal models in understanding audio, vision, and language. However, existing benchmarks, training data, and learning methods largely treat the modalities independently, leaving the capability of audio-visual joint reasoning poorly evaluated and insufficiently elicited. We addre...

Junming Lin, Yuxuan Wang, Zhen-Xin Lei et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

CAST: Causal Advantage-Structured Training with Spatially Grounded Compositional Rewards for Diffusion Models

CAST (Causal Advantage-Structured Training), an RL fine-tuning method for pretrained DMs, which identifies the denoising step at which each model fixes the objects and their spatial arrangement in the image and uses that timing to set the SDE window and uses them to spatially weight the SDE policy objective.

Yu Shu, Chao-Chao Lu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Sep 2026

Towards Trustworthy AI for Glioma Diagnosis: A Task-Aware Evaluation of Uncertainty Quantification

Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is a key requirement for trustworthy AI in high-stakes medical image analysis. In this work, we evaluate UQ within a multi-task Deep Learning (DL) framework for MRI-based glioma diagnosis that performs tumor segmentation and predicts Isocitrate Dehydrogenase (IDH) mutation status, 1p/19q...

Gonzalo E. Mosquera-Rojas, S. R. van der Voort, Carolin M. Pirkl et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Rethinking Multi-Image Re-Representation in Multi-Image Understanding

Multi-image understanding requires MLLMs not only to recognise the content of individual images, but also to organise visual evidence distributed across them. We study this problem through multi-image re-representation, viewing prompted Chain-of-Thought reasoning and agentic visual tool use as different ways of re-orga...

Geng-Yuan Zhang, Xiao Han, Xin-Yu Xie et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Emergent Multi-View Geometry Through Self-Distillation

Over a century ago, Henri Poincar\'e argued that a motionless observer cannot acquire the notion of space. Yet, most visual representation learning methods operate on individual images, while those that leverage multiple views rely on RGB reconstruction, entangling geometry with appearance. We propose Poincar3, a self-...

David Nordström, T. Loiseau, Vincent Lepetit et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

MEND: Label-Free Detection, Localisation, and Correction of Latent Hallucination in World Models

World Models are appearing as the next major frontier in computer vision. However, their robustness is currently largely unexplored. We identify the phenomenon of hallucination in latent World Models: given a state and an action, the predicted next latent can decode to a scene that never occurs. Because the prediction...

A. Alrasheed, Aryan Yazdan Parast, Basim Azam et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TED:Text-Axis Evidence Decomposition for Prompted Anomaly Localization

CLIP is a powerful vision-language model, but it was not designed for fine-grained defect localization; CLIP-based anomaly detectors therefore adapt it with prompts or lightweight modules to increase defect sensitivity. We show that stronger sensitivity does not necessarily make local evidence reliable: under domain sh...

Jinyoung Kim, Geonho Kim, Gijeong Park et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

On the Relaxation of Conditional Independence Assumption for Image Segmentation

In semantic segmentation, a recent line of RankSEG methods directly optimizes Dice/IoU scores at inference time, improving alignment with evaluation metrics without modifying model training. Despite its theoretical and empirical success, RankSEG relies on the restrictive Conditional Independence Assumption (CIA), which...

Zi-Xun Wang, Ben Dai · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Where MLLMs Fail and Why: Causal Task Decomposition for Capability Failure Diagnosis

End-to-end accuracy on compositional tasks records how often MLLMs fail, but cannot distinguish whether a failure reflects an intrinsic deficit in the targeted capability or a cascading error from an upstream prerequisite. We propose a causal decomposition framework that isolates these two failure modes through control...

Xia Hu, Brian Potetz, Chun-Ta Lu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Future Video Generation Better Aligns with the Human Visual Cortex than Observed Video

Studying the alignment between the internal representations of vision models and the responses of the visual cortex to the same observed visual stimuli has enabled us to better understand human visual processing. However, studies so far have largely overlooked the fact that the human brain not only processes observed v...

Chang-Bae Bang, Hyungjin Chung, Byung-Hoon Kim · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CRAFT: Causal Responsibility and Failure Tracing in Medical Vision Language Models

As vision language models are increasingly deployed in clinical diagnosis, understanding how they internally resolve competing visual and textual signals becomes a safety imperative. Existing mechanistic analyses remain confined to unimodal text and offer no explanation for why a single misleading sentence can override...

Chunzheng Zhu, Jiaqi Zeng, Hongbo Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Soft Spatial Reasoning

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) commonly perform spatial reasoning through chain-of-thought (CoT), encoding intermediate reasoning as autoregressive sequences of discrete language tokens. Such hard thinking requires committing to a single token at each step, even when the correct spatial interpretation remains unc...

Rafi Ibn Sultan, Md. Sajid Alam Chowdhury, Saleh Zare Zade 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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