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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Skip the Talk, Re-Focus on Vision: Latent Reasoning for Reasoning Segmentation in Multimodal Large Language Models

LIRSeg is proposed, which fully replaces explicit CoT with a compact set of learnable latent tokens for reasoning segmentation, and introduces three complementary mechanisms from an information perspective: extreme-advantage sampling for selecting informative training signals, decoupled exploration-stability updates fo...

Tian-Hang Guo, Yu-Lin He, Wei Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TrafficImag: A Benchmark for Counterfactual Roadside Traffic Video Generation

TrafficImag is introduced, the first benchmark for counterfactual roadside traffic video generation, which combines a large-scale roadside dataset with an executable protocol that supports behavior reasoning, intervention-aware image editing, and conditional video generation.

Xiang-Yu Li, Tian-Yi Wang, Zhi-Hao Dou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

VLALight: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Models for Emergency-Aware Traffic Signal Control

VLALight is proposed, a lightweight end-to-end vision-language-action framework that directly maps intersection observations and signal-phase information to discrete signal actions and enables direct action prediction with a compact 0.5 B-parameter model.

Ke-Mou Jiang, Mao-Nan Wang, Xingchen Zou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Combining General and Domain-Specific Pretext Tasks for Brain MR Image Segmentation

A key challenge in medical image analysis is the scarcity of large annotated datasets for specific populations and diseases. As deep learning models rely heavily on labeled data, effective transfer learning strategies are needed to reduce the dependence on manual annotations. Self-supervised learning has emerged as a p...

Tasneem Nasser, Susanne Schmid, Roberto Souza et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

MedTokenBudget: Lesion-Preserving Token Routing for Dermoscopic Image Classification

Dermoscopy classifiers built on Vision Transformers process all image patches uniformly, although diagnostic evidence is concentrated in the lesion region. Existing token pruning methods reduce tokens using generic saliency or similarity signals, but rarely ask whether the retained subset still contains the lesion. Thi...

Zhexiang Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Action Forcing: Training World Models on Unsupervised Video by Recovering Underlying Egomotion Bases

Synchronised action annotations are needed to train controllable world models and these datasets remain elusive. Existing approaches make use of instrumented platforms with calibrated sensors, costly manual annotation, or latent-action models which lack grounding. We instead turn ordinary unlabelled video into action-s...

Ashish Sundar, Tiankuo Hou, Zhong Fan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

What Improves Multimodal Misinformation Detection? Answers from a Large-Scale Empirical Study

This paper conducts a large-scale study of multimodal design choices for misinformation detection with over 3,375 experiments, distill practical guidance on which design choices help, when do they fail silently, and what aspects of the pipeline most strongly shape model behavior.

Akshit Sharma, Prashant W. Patil · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint May 2026

Persona Prompting in Multimodal Urban Perception: Descriptive Convergence and Interpretive Variation

Overall, persona prompting affects interpretive framing more strongly than descriptive grounding, and profile-pair similarity patterns are strongly correlated for all three output types, although agreement is lowest for justifications.

Neemias B. da Silva, Matt Ratto, Myriam Delgado et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

Multimodal Thinking with Renderable Programs

This work introduces SVGLM, a framework that uses scalable vector graphics (SVG) primitives to connect text and image in reasoning tasks, and exploits the duality of SVG as both image description and text instructions, yielding a more compact, interpretable solution to equip general VLMs with the capability of generati...

Sun-Li Chen, Ding Zhong, Ziqiao Ma et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

STRAND: Benchmarking and Improving Object-Centric Spatio-Temporal Monitoring in Video Large Language Models

STRAND is introduced, a benchmark of human-verified object-centric facts that evaluates intermediate reasoning by decomposing queries into sub-questions, distinguishing genuine temporal understanding from coincidental correctness and an object-centric framework that explicitly constructs and reasons over structured obj...

T. Nguyen, C. Trinh, Khoi M. Le et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

Free the Language Model From the Vision Encoder: Semantic Serialization as a Perception Interface for Small Language Models

An embodied scene question-answering (QA) interface in which vision never enters the language model is studied, showing the gain survives paraphrase, attributing it to decision-aligned computation rather than answer-string leakage, while novel judgment vocabularies bound its scope.

Cong Xu, Ravi Sankar · 1 citation

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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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