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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Truncation Samplers Are Nested: Comparing Decoding Rules Is a Measurement Problem

Settling one comparison between two truncation samplers has cost six thousand A100-hours, and nothing says in advance how far apart two samplers can be. We observe that almost every deployed truncation rule keeps a prefix of the probability-sorted vocabulary, so any two such rules are nested at every decoding step. Nes...

Rasul Khanbayov, Hasan Kurban · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CIViC: Evidence Gates for Audio-Conditioned Visual Prediction on Proxy Tasks

Removing audio can shift a visual predictor's output without showing whether the task uses the intended audio information. We introduce Conditional Input and Visual Interpretation Checks (CIViC), a four-gate protocol that links an interpretation to an intervention, held-out task comparison, or endpoint control. We demo...

Mengzhe Geng, Max W. Y. Lam, Yuewen Cao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HiPAD: A Unified Gait, Audio-Visual, and Personality Fusion Network for Depression Detection, with a Hierarchical Personality Ablation and the Calibration Limits of Domain-Adapted LLMs

We present HiPAD, a single fusion network submitted to all six sub-tracks of the MPDD-AVG 2026 depression-detection challenge, covering the Elder and Young cohorts and three modality sets (gait, audio-visual, and both), each combined with personality descriptions. The network encodes each available modality with a shar...

Karol Chlasta, Piotr Struzik · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Design Choices for Multimodal Transformer Learning with Missing and Longitudinal Healthcare Data

Multimodal learning offers the potential to improve predictions by integrating complementary information from heterogeneous data sources. However, multimodal datasets are frequently incomplete, raising important questions about how models should handle missing information. Although recent approaches increasingly rely o...

Rita Cordeiro Mendes, Maria Manuel Pereira, Carlos Santiago et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Agreement versus Softmax under Spatial Disambiguation

ScanRefer Multiple queries require spatial disambiguation: several instances of the target class are present, and the referencer must pick one. When per-query logits were never logged, a common substitute is cross-epoch agreement. On the full ScanRefer validation set (9,508 queries; GeoClassifier with ground-truth prop...

Micha{\l} Zakrzewski, Mariia Shpir, Taras Rumezhak et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Speedup Paradox: Rethinking Inference Speed-Quality Trade-off in Embodied Tasks

Embodied foundation models have recently been widely used to improve robot generalization and task success rates. Previous works apply lossy efficient-inference techniques such as quantization, pruning, and asynchronous inference, accepting small action quality degradation in exchange for lower per-inference computatio...

Yujin Wang, Junli Chen, Yixuan Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Error-Conditioned Neural Solvers

Neural surrogate models offer fast approximate mappings from PDE parameters to solutions, but they typically treat solving as a purely statistical task: once trained, they struggle to correct their own constraint violations and extrapolate beyond the training distribution. Recent hybrid methods promote physical correct...

Haina Jiang, Liam Wang, Peng-Chen Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Task-Aligned Stability Analysis of Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving Hazard Detection

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used for scene understanding in autonomous driving, but robustness analysis often relies on task-agnostic embedding stability alone. We study whether corruption-induced embedding drift predicts changes in a task-aligned hazard score derived from CLIP image-text similaritie...

Everett Richards · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Plan, Watch, Recover: A Benchmark and Architectures for Proactive Procedural Assistance

Proactive multimodal assistants must decide when guidance is needed and what to say, while tracking progress through extended procedures and helping users recover when they depart from the expected plan. Progress is limited by benchmarks that score isolated clips, cover narrow domains, or omit realistic deviations. We...

Kaustav Kundu, Ritvik Shrivastava, Maxim Arap et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NoRA: Evaluating Grounded Reasonableness in Visual First-person Normative Action Reasoning

LLMs and agentic systems are increasingly deployed in social environments, making normative competence critical for safe and appropriate behavior. However, existing approaches either assess normative judgment in text alone or reduce it to choosing among a fixed set of candidate actions. We argue both are insufficient....

Sichao Li, Sai Ma, Daniel Kilov et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Instant-Fold: In-Context Imitation Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation

Deformable object manipulation (DOM) is challenging due to high-dimensional, partially observable states that evolve through long-horizon, topology-changing interactions with multiple valid manipulation modes. We introduce Instant-Fold, an in-context imitation learning framework for DOM. Given a single human demonstrat...

Yilong Wang, Cheng Qian, Edward Johns · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Real2SAM2Real: Generative 3D Caches as Complementary Context for Video Diffusion

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) synthesize high-quality videos, but precise camera and motion control remains challenging when large viewpoint shifts, changing occlusions, or complex dynamics reveal unseen regions. Diffusion priors alone can yield structural inconsistencies, while warped guidance can contain incomplete g...

Jiayi Wu, Haoming Cai, Cornelia Fermuller et al. · 0 citations

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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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