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#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems

Heterogeneous multi-agent systems combine models with different capabilities through a common communication interface. Exchanging internal states directly requires translating between model-specific representations and controlling intermediate computation. We introduce the Vision Wormhole, which repurposes the visual i...

Xiaoze Liu, Ruowang Zhang, Weichen Yu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Constructive Distortion: Improving MLLMs with Attention-Guided Image Warping

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often miss small details and spatial relations in cluttered scenes, leading to errors in fine-grained perceptual grounding. We introduce AttWarp, a lightweight method that allocates more resolution to query-relevant content while compressing less informative areas, all while pre...

Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Utkarsh Mishra et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

TeD-Loc: Text Distillation for Weakly Supervised Object Localization

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) models can predict both the object class and the spatial regions corresponding to the object, without requiring explicit bounding-box annotations. Given their reliance on classification objectives, traditional WSOL methods, like class activation mapping, tend to focus on the...

Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Alexis Guichemerre et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Beyond Missing Rates: Rethinking Incomplete Multi-View Clustering with Protocol Divergence

Incomplete multi-view clustering (IMVC) is typically evaluated by retraining separate models under different missing-view configurations. Evaluations indexed only by nominal missing rate can overlook differences in observation structure across missing-view protocols. We show that missing-data protocols with identical n...

Haolu Liu, Xiyue Wang, Xuanting Xie et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Formalizing the Sampling Design Space of Diffusion-Based Generative Models via Adaptive Solvers and Wasserstein-Bounded Timesteps

Diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable performance across various domains, yet their practical deployment is often limited by high sampling costs. While prior work focuses on training objectives or individual solvers, the broader sampling design problem, specifically solver selection and scheduling,...

Sangwoo Jo, Sungjoon Choi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Cropland PAtteRNS: Parallel Dimensional Attention Networks and Attention to Dataset Disparity for Crop Segmentation in Satellite Imagery Time Series Data

The landscape of satellite imagery time series datasets and boundary-pushing architectures for cropland segmentation has never been richer. However, in this gold rush, important truths are being missed on both fronts, as a drive for the most novel concepts or the largest datasets pushes finer details to the side. In th...

Joseph Metcalfe, Sara Sharifzadeh, Fabio Caraffini · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

SYNCR: Diagnosing and Learning Cross-Video Reasoning from Simulation

Reasoning across videos requires aligning events, matching identities, comparing motion, and integrating partial observations. Evaluating these capabilities and testing how to improve them requires both reliable labels and targeted supervision. We introduce SYNCR, a simulator-grounded framework that connects these two...

Sara Ghazanfari, Siddharth Garg, P. Krishnamurthy et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

ReCAP: Retrieval-Guided Capability Reuse for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

Multimodal continual instruction tuning (MCIT) aims to enable multimodal large language models to acquire new capabilities from sequential tasks while preserving previously learned knowledge. Existing methods primarily mitigate catastrophic forgetting by constraining parameter updates or separating task-specific adapta...

Tao Hu, Zhi-Nuo Zhou, Xia-Liang Tong et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Visual Branch is What You Need for CLIP-based Class-Incremental Learning

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) requires models to recognize new classes over time without forgetting previously learned ones. With the rise of vision-language pre-training, CLIP has become a strong foundation for CIL. A common design in CLIP-based CIL is to construct textual classifier weights by encoding class-name...

Tao Hu, Zheng-He Xie, Jing-Cai Guo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

FlowMap-OPD: Rollout--Kernel Separation for On-Policy Distillation of Few-Step Flow-Map Generators

Few-step flow-map generators, including MeanFlow and consistency models, enable efficient sampling through long-range transport, yet their on-policy distillation remains underexplored. We introduce FlowMap-OPD, an on-policy distillation framework that separates student-state acquisition from teacher--student distributi...

Zhiqi Li, Bo Zhu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Evaluation Choices Shape Biomedical ML Claims: A Pediatric Pneumonia Benchmark Case Study

Biomedical machine learning papers often compress model performance into one headline number. That number can look like a property of the model even when it depends strongly on how the benchmark was evaluated. We study this problem on the widely used Kermany pediatric chest radiograph dataset using nine image classifie...

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

Planetary Feature Fields are Scalable Earth Representations

Satellite observations, precomputed embeddings, and map products describe the same evolving Earth, yet are stored as independent, petabyte-scale data products. Their continued growth calls for compact representations of multiple products while preserving spatial and temporal detail. We introduce Planetary Feature Field...

Arjun Rao, Sebastian Loeschcke, A. Fuller 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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