This work proposes a multi-dimensional, primitive based framework for dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI reconstruction that disentangles the underlying anatomy, the dynamic contrast enhancement, and residual motion into separate temporal basis functions, thereby enabling a geometrical interpretation of the representation.
Veronika Spieker, Wenqi Huang, Cemre Ariyurek et al.· 0 citations
This work investigates the use of auxiliary k-space magnitude information for accelerated steady-state dynamic MRI reconstruction, and demonstrates strong consistency of k-space magnitudes across time-frames.
Mahdi Saberi, Y. Alçalar, Merve Gülle et al.· 0 citations
An advanced system capable of automatically detecting complicated appendicitis from ultrasound images was developed and was explained with gradient-weighted class activation mapping (Grad-CAM), which creates a heatmap of the regions responsible for the model's prediction of the infected areas.
Fahad Ahammed, Omar Faruq Shikdar, Navid Zaman et al.· 0 citations
A novel mechanism to automatically identify which of these point-labels are suitable, and which are actively harmful, when used for propagation is introduced, paving the way for scalable ecological analysis.
César Borja, Breck A. McCollum, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes et al.· 0 citations
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Results indicate the visual component is dominant but not solely responsible for skill prediction; further work is needed to conclusively disentangle transferable skill features from those bound to a specific visual domain.
Hanna Hoffmann, F. Bechtolsheim, Stefanie Speidel et al.· 0 citations
End-to-end vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action models offer an elegant route to general-purpose robotics, but their reliability is bounded by validated physical coverage. When an unfamiliar object, sensor, embodiment, or contact falls outside that coverage and no validated fallback exists, correcting the failure requires new robot data, a policy update, and regression testing. This recurring burden is the retraining tax. Unlike text, embodied data must often be created by operating machines. We present Teach-and-Grow Learning (TGL), an agent-centered architecture for general robot learning. In its general form, a multimodal agent turns a few successful demonstrations into reusable Skill Blocks: closed-loop behaviors for meaningful subgoals. In a new scene, the agent grounds and composes these blocks, selects learned or geometric tools, observes the physical outcome, and revises the route when execution departs from intent. A Skill Library stores executable behavior, while structured Experience Memory carries forward success, failure, and repair. New tasks are acquired without task-specific policy retraining. Our LIBERO evaluation attains state-of-the-art performance; controlled studies expose skill induction, persistent reuse, and agent-directed adaptation. Finally, we propose the Teach-and-Grow scaling-law hypothesis: if X denotes effective reusable experience, future-task error and teaching demand should approach irreducible floors as power laws in X. The architecture therefore treats deployment as a period of continued learning, in which one task can make the next easier.
Cell mimicry arises when different cell types appear morphologically similar. Human pathologists resolve this ambiguity using surrounding tissue context, whereas current vision models either lack contextual reasoning (cell foundation models) or cannot operate at the cell level (pathology MLLMs). We present Loki-OT, which propagates region-level tissue reasoning to individual cell predictions via Unbalanced Optimal Transport, using MLLM-derived density priors as soft guidance for ambiguous cell reassignment. Loki-OT is motivated by the observation that pretrained cell foundation model features already encode discriminative information, including tissue context, but standard cell-level supervision fails to use tissue context effectively. The resulting transport plan is distilled into a lightweight student MLP classifier that learns context-aware decision boundaries within the pretrained feature space. On the independent TCGA-BRCA cohort, Loki-OT achieved lower patient-level MAE than the fully supervised in-domain PanopTILs classifier and improved F1 in epithelium-rich mimicry tissues, using 278 weak region-level MLLM estimates built on a general-domain cell foundation model. Code: https://github.com/xiangli980/Lymphocyte_Mimicry_Correction_via_Loki_OT
Xiang Li, Yuqi Wang, Casey C. Heirman et al.· 0 citations
MagViT, an interpretable multi-magnification transformer framework with scale-gated fusion and patient-level model selection, is presented, an interpretable multi-magnification transformer framework with scale-gated fusion and patient-level model selection relative to prior ViT-centered BreakHis work.
Nabil Ashab, Soumitra Kundu, Saif Mahmud Parvez et al.· 0 citations
Optizing Your Sampling (OYS), which instead treats timestep selection as a black-box optimization problem, optimizing the target metric directly with Bayesian optimization, improves both simple and sophisticated samplers such as Euler and DPM-Solver++.
Travis Zhang, Christian K. Belardi, Justin Lovelace et al.· 0 citations
It is found that sharpening improves preservation of the very nearest neighbors, while smoothing improves preservation of broader local neighborhoods, outperforming alternative affinity constructions including multiscale methods in the mid-local range.
MASS learns low-dimensional principal manifold coordinates with a dense autoencoder for coarse semantic grouping, and then performs quality-aware sparse feature coverage within each group using a TopK sparse autoencoder and proposes MASS.
Peng Sun, Yi Yang, Antong Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful approach for improving reasoning in language and vision-language models, yet its strongest successes still depend heavily on ground-truth supervision (e.g., verifiable reward). Such annotations are costly to obtain and become increasingly scarce as reasoning capabilities advance beyond what humans can reliably evaluate. Self-rewarding RL reduces this dependence by enabling models to derive reward signals from their own completions. However, training solely on self-generated feedback can reinforce existing biases and suboptimal behaviors, reduce response diversity, and ultimately lead to homogenized responses and training collapse. In this work, we show that unsupervised reasoning can emerge through cooperative multi-agent training. We introduce Co-RL, a framework in which multiple decoupled models, sharing no parameters, are simultaneously optimized through RL using rewards derived from their peers. We further show that increasing cohort diversity, through heterogeneous model families, sizes, and rephrased training samples, reduces the correlated errors that drive self-reinforcing feedback loops. This diversity consistently improves reasoning performance, maintains behavioral diversity, and mitigates training collapse. Across text-only and multimodal domains, Co-RL consistently outperforms the base models and prior label-free approaches, while matching or surpassing supervised methods, without access to any ground-truth labels. Concretely, Co-RL yields average gains of 3.0-8.6% across seven text-only benchmarks for LLMs and 2.3-7.2% across four multimodal benchmarks for VLMs. Code is available at https://github.com/DrStranded/Co-RL.
Yunhao Yang, Yuexin Bian, Yunjie Tian et al.· 0 citations
The visionary PhysioNet platform launched 25 years ago, based on a system developed at MIT in the 1970s. It has become one of the most comprehensive biomedical and clinical data repositories in existence.
Known for his clear and elegant writing style, Bertsekas shaped fields from control and optimization to large-scale computation and artificial intelligence.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduJul 6, 2026
PhD student Rachel Sava, winner of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize, explores transformative improvements and dystopian risks of neural technology.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduJun 30, 2026
Computer scientist Phillip Isola cuts through the hype to explain how AI agents work and what the future might hold for this rapidly advancing technology.
