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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Imagine the Future, Internalize the Gist: Efficient VLA Reasoning via Internalized Spatiotemporal Imagination

Vision-language-action (VLA) models increasingly incorporate intermediate reasoning to improve robotic manipulation, yet existing approaches primarily reason about observed states without explicitly anticipating future scene evolution. Extending such reasoning to explicit future rollouts at every inference step, howeve...

Shenglan Li, Zhendong Mi, Hengyi Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

UkrMeme: Multimodal Explainable Persuasion Detection in Ukrainian Memes

Memes play a central role in modern online communication, especially in contexts of political conflict where visual and textual cues combine to convey persuasive messages. We study persuasive technique detection in Ukrainian memes using vision-language models (VLMs). We introduce UkrMeme, a dataset of 200 organically p...

Nazar Andrushko, Vera Schmitt, Veronika Solopova · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

EmbodiedCLBench: Evaluating Continual Learning for Self-Evolving Embodied Agents

Continual learning requires models to accumulate past experience and transfer it to new tasks. Despite substantial research on continual learning, existing work remains largely confined to non-embodied settings, without extending to embodied environments. To address this gap, we introduce EmbodiedCLBench, the first ben...

Jie Huang, Ya-Nan Chen, Rui-Xun Liu et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

It's Always 10:10: Reference Images Break a Bias That Prompts Only Dent

Text-to-image models appear to reproduce the habits of the photographs they learned from. Analog clocks are an extreme case: in advertising, watches almost always show 10:10, and generated clocks return to 10:10 even when another time is requested. We measure this bias and test three ways of overcoming it on 52 models...

Luca Cazzaniga · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

TAP3D: Thermal-Assisted 3D Human Point Clouds

By transforming body heat into point clouds for the first time, TAP3D pioneers a new paradigm for privacy-first, fully passive human sensing for many applications, offering significant advantages in cost, density, human sensitivity, and privacy.

Xie Zhang, Cheng-Xiao Li, Xuan Liu et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Hybrid Cinematography: Previsualizing and Managing Hallucination Risk in Generative Video Reshooting

On a film set, the camera move is committed during a take. Generative video reshooting lets filmmakers change it afterward, but may require hallucinating unrecorded content, a gap sometimes discovered only after leaving the set. We present Hybrid Cinematography, a workflow that bridges physical capture and generative r...

Nhan (Nathan), Tran, Neal Wadhwa et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CiteVQA: Benchmarking Evidence Attribution for Trustworthy Document Intelligence

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced document understanding, yet current Doc-VQA evaluations score only the final answer and leave the supporting evidence unchecked. This answer-only approach masks a critical failure mode: a model can land on the correct answer while grounding it in the...

Dongsheng Ma, Jiayu Li, Zhengren Wang et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

FastBench: Can Streaming VLMs Perceive High-Dynamic Real-World Streams?

Streaming Video Large Language Models (VLMs) enable continuous video understanding, yet existing benchmarks focus on low-dynamic scenarios. Under bounded context budgets, models must balance temporal history, spatial resolution, and temporal granularity; sparse sampling at 1--2 FPS misses fast events. We introduce Fast...

Yuxuan Hu, Wei-Kang Shi, Yang Bo et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

ViSkill: Reinforcing VLM Agents with Evolving Visual-Native Skills

Skill-augmented agents improve sample efficiency by distilling successful trajectories into reusable strategies. Yet most existing approaches remain text-centric, linearizing spatial layouts and action-state correspondences into language that loses critical geometric structure. Recent efforts have begun incorporating v...

Hong-Xing Li, Ding-Ming Li, Yi-Xin Li et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

SpaceCast-Bench: Evaluating Predictive Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

Existing spatial reasoning benchmarks mainly test spatial perception: reading off relations already visible in the input. Yet real-world spatial intelligence demands predictive spatial reasoning: constructing a scene from observations, anticipating how an intervention changes it, and reasoning about the unseen outcome....

Hong-Xing Li, Jin-Yue Su, Ding-Ming Li et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

SAGE: Sink-Aware Guided Emphasis for Visual Grounding in Vision-Language Decoders

Recent large vision-language models (VLMs) pair a visual encoder with a large language model (LLM) and perform well on diverse image-text tasks, yet their reliability is often limited by decoder attention pathologies that suppress visual evidence and exacerbate hallucinations. In this paper, we revisit visual attention...

Jeonghyo Song, Y. Yoo · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

MiniVer-V: Identifying Minimal Sufficient Evidence for Short Video Verification

A core challenge in short-video fact-checking is identifying which evidence is sufficient to support a verification conclusion. Existing approaches either give the verifier all available evidence, introducing noise, or select evidence by topical relevance, which conflates relatedness with sufficiency. We identify evide...

Le-Ran Chen, Ling-Nan Kong, Zi-Le Cai · 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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