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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Federated Subspace Guided Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation for Non-IID Multi-Robot Manipulation

FedDRMan, a federated subspace-guided distillation framework for heterogeneous robot manipulation, substantially improves knowledge transfer and consistently outperforms strong federated baselines achieving a peak mean success rate of 80.7%.

Biprodip Pal, Kaushik Roy, Yan-Ming Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Kernel-Based Steering of CLIP with Vision-Language Model Preferences

ASK, a kernel-based steering method that learns from elicited pairwise judgments without accessing teacher embeddings or collecting new human similarity annotations, is introduced, a kernel-based steering method that learns from elicited pairwise judgments without accessing teacher embeddings or collecting new human si...

Sajjad Ghiasvand, Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie, Sina Mansouri et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Contamination, Prior, or Evidence? Decomposing and Training Evidence Use in Whole-Slide Vision-Language Models

Pathology vision-language models (VLMs) are conventionally evaluated by accuracy, but accuracy alone does not measure evidence use: it may conflate dataset contamination, prior knowledge, and image evidence. In a motivating study of lymph-node metastasis prediction, we found that most public pathology VLMs showed minim...

Wen-Hao Zhang, Zhong-Liang Zhou, Shi-Yuan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Panoptic Scene Program Diffusion Transformer

Under matched training and inference settings, PSP-DiT improves over a strong flat-text baseline across GenEval 2, SANEval-Simple, PSG-Score, and DetailMaster, with the largest gains on counting, attribute binding, role-sensitive relations, and long structured prompts.

C. Maduabuchi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Calibration-Free Surface Normals Estimation in Vision-Based Tactile Sensing using Universal Photometric Stereo

This work proposes a calibration-free procedure for the estimation of contact surface normals using Universal Photometric Stereo neural networks, and demonstrates that with sufficient illumination settings surface normals could be estimated using a model trained solely on synthetic data.

Zdravko Dugonjic, Stefanie Speidel, Roberto Calandra · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Seeing the Heat: Synthesizing High-Resolution Wood Thermal Responses from Optical Imagery

The thermal behavior of wood is a critical factor in advanced material assembly. However, pixel-level thermal analysis remains fundamentally constrained by the low resolution and noise inherent to infrared thermography. To address this, we introduce an end-to-end computational framework that synthesizes high-resolution...

Jing-Ren Xie · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Statistical Testing for Multiple Instance Learning via Selective Inference with Applications to Computational Pathology

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is widely used in computational pathology because it enables weakly supervised analysis of whole-slide images (WSIs) without requiring patch-level annotations. In attention-based MIL, instances with high attention scores are often interpreted as diagnostically important regions and used...

Noriaki Hashimoto, Shuichi Nishino, Teruyuki Katsuoka et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Sep 2026

Learning Steadily: Accumulating Relative Point Margin Scores for Face Image Quality Assessment

CARPM-FIQA is introduced, a stabilization strategy for FR-integrated FIQA that accumulates relative point margin measurements, the ratio between intra-class compactness and inter-class separation, across the entire training trajectory rather than relying on single-epoch estimates.

Guray Ozgur, Tahar Chettaoui, Eduarda Caldeira et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

$\lambda$-JEPA Spectral Anti-Collapse Regularization for Self-Supervised Learning

This work introduces SACReg, a spectral anti-collapse regularizer motivated by an analysis of $\lambda$-balance, which captures the relative scale of weight matrices across layers, and proposes $\lambda$-JEPA, which improves over LeJEPA and VISReg on ImageNet-1k classification and in average linear-probe transfer perfo...

Berker Demirel, C. Dominé, Valentino Maiorca et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Inspector: Conversational and Lightweight Analyzer of Analog Circuit Layouts Using LLM and CNNs

This paper proposes a novel framework that combines fine-tuned LLMs and CNNs to analyze GDSII files of analog circuits, enabling a conversational interface between the tool and the designers, thus providing a lightweight solution to the problem of GDSII analysis.

Abril Cano Castro, Giuseppe Chiari, Michele Piccoli et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Adjoint Guidance Flow: Amortized Critic Guidance for VLA Policies

Adjoint Guidance Flow is proposed, which is a deterministic optimal control problem, whose optimal guidance is a costate that carries the terminal critic gradient back through the remaining flow, and regress the guidance network onto this costate while keeping both the VLA and critic frozen.

Jeongsol Kim, Youngjun Jun, Kyumin Choi 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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