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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Perception Test 2026: Challenge Summary and Extension to City-scale Audio-Visual Reasoning

Continuing the Perception Test challenge series, we organised the fourth edition as a workshop at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 in Malm\"o, Sweden. This edition focused on spatial intelligence and featured four different tracks: unified multiple-choice videoQA and grounded videoQA from the orig...

Fedor Kitashov, Jo\~ao Carreira, Shiry Ginosar et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Revisiting Identity and Spectra Dispersion in Media-Bridged Time Series Forecasting: Linking Multivariate Signals and Narrative Flows

Media-bridged time series forecasting is expanding to encompass traditional "multivariate" and emerging "multimodal" (e.g., through textual assistance). Existing Time Series Forecasting (TSF) models still rely on paradigm-specific relation, fusion, and temporal modules, hindering a common forecasting backbone across nu...

Jierui Lei, Wenjian Zhang, Qingyi Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Open-Vocabulary Audio-Visual Event Localization via Complex-Valued Fusion

Open-Vocabulary Audio-Visual Event Localization (OV-AVEL) labels each video segment with an event class, including classes that were never seen during training. The dominant pipeline uses a frozen multimodal foundation model (e.g. ImageBind) to embed the visual frame, the audio mel-spectrogram, and each candidate class...

A. Praveen, Koteswar Rao Jerripothula, Pratik Joshi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

HAND: A Biologically-Inspired Activation Function that Improves Generalisation and Sample Efficiency in Image Classification

DNNs exhibit robustness and generalisation issues not seen in humans. They are also far less data-efficient learners, requiring considerably more training samples to accurately classify novel exemplars. Inductive bias could help with these issues by providing in-built mechanisms to improve generalisation, and hence, re...

M. Spratling, Heiko Schutt · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

WAM-Cache: Staleness-Bounded KV Reuse for Efficient World Action Models

World Action Models (WAMs) enable generalist robot manipulation by conditioning an action expert on representations from a pretrained video Diffusion Transformer (DiT). In closed-loop control, the video DiT runs at every chunk to encode the current observation into layerwise key-value (KV) pairs that the action expert...

Kai-Qi Ding, Yang He, Rui-Jie Quan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

FloorSAV: Elucidating Spatial Audio-Visual Context with 2D Floormap for AV-LLMs

While 3D spatial reasoning in dynamic egocentric environments is crucial for embodied intelligence, audio-visual large language models (AV-LLMs) lack explicit mechanisms to process and internalize global geometry directly from raw sensory streams. Existing approaches either require costly fine-tuning or underutilize th...

K. Kim, Sungnyun Kim, Tae-Hyun Oh · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Being-M0.7: A Latent World-Action Model for Humanoid Robots

Humanoid loco-manipulation requires coordinated locomotion and manipulation informed by future scene evolution and whole-body motion, yet learning these capabilities is constrained by scarce robot demonstrations. Human video and motion datasets offer scalable supervision, but many contain only video or motion rather th...

Jun-Peng Yue, Bo-Yuan Li, Yuxuan Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

V-CoLA: Vision Token Compression with Linear Attention

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities but suffer from substantial computational overhead, as vision tokens dominate the input sequence. This motivates vision token compression as a key direction to alleviate the burden. However, with the emergence of hybrid architectures incorporating...

Hao Jiang, Yi-Ru Mao, Tian-Peng Bu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dissecting Representation Structure in Vision Transformers: A Rigorous Architectural Study

Representation structure is crucial for understanding Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures and their generalization behavior. However, prior studies neither isolate nor analyze module-level features nor investigate how their interactions contribute to performance estimation. In this work, we conduct the first rigorou...

Kim-Cuc Nguyen, Ngai-Man Cheung · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

LadderEdit: Edit-Level Residual Compression for Memory-Efficient Lifelong Editing of LLMs

Lifelong editing of LLMs requires storing thousands of edits after acquisition. A widely used family of approaches attaches one LoRA adapter per edit, which preserves behavior but grows linearly in storage. To address this challenge, we propose LadderEdit, a method that compresses each LoRA adapter after it is acquired...

Xiao-Bing Yu, Pei-Jie Qiu, Jin Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning What to Trust in Multimodal Learning under Noisy Supervision

Multimodal classification processes and relates information from multiple modalities to achieve more accurate predictions. However, existing methods typically rely on high-quality ground-truth labels, which are difficult to obtain in real-world scenarios. While sample-selection methods for learning with noisy labels ai...

Jiashuo Zou, Xiaobo Xia · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Region-Aware CLS Token Augmentation for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval

Image retrieval methods often rely on a single global semantic descriptor extracted from an image, e.g., the [CLS] token in vision transformers. However, trying to squeeze all the semantic information of an image into a single descriptor can hurt downstream retrieval performance, especially for fine-grained retrieval t...

Ian de Holanda Cavalcanti Bezerra, Vivek Trivedy, Lucas Pascotti Valem 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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