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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

It Is Not Seeing the Hazard: A Frozen Vision-Language Safety Score Measures Its Caption Bank

Frozen vision-language models increasingly provide safety signals for reinforcement learning. Their use assumes that similarity to language describing danger indicates the hazard itself. Yet policy return and collision rate cannot reveal whether a score detects hazards or responds to correlated features of the scene. V...

Samuel T. K. Tetteh, Cody H. Fleming · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TERRA: Learning Transportable Latent Actions through Temporal Effect Representation and Relational Alignment

Latent actions supervise robot policies with action-like codes inferred from visual transitions, and their usefulness hinges on two questions: what a code keeps from a transition, and whether it still means the same thing when reused in a different initial state. The first is a tension in time: an endpoint difference d...

Tianxingjian Ding, Mubarak Shah, Yu Tian · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

An Invariant Tangent-Angle Descriptor and a Band U-Net for 2D Fragment Adjacency Prediction

This paper addresses the prediction of adjacency between pairs of 2D fragments based on their contours. We improved the two-stage architecture proposed in Beaulac's thesis, in which a rotation-equivariant Siamese convolutional neural network scores pairs of local image windows along the two contours of two fragments. T...

Guillaume Brouillette (Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Trois-Rivi\`eres, Trois-Rivi\`eres, Canada) et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Closing the Loop on Contrail Avoidance with Satellite Verification

Contrails are the thin ice clouds that aircraft leave behind. They cause a large share of aviation's warming, and rerouting the few flights that produce them could avoid much of it. However, an avoided contrail only counts if a satellite can confirm that it never formed, and this check is hard: contrails are one to two...

Spandan Ghose Chowdhury · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

emg2face: Expressive Facial Animation with High-Density Surface EMG

Facial movements convey subtle and important information that is critical for human social communication. Optical methods for face capture are difficult or impossible to use when the face is occluded by head-mounted devices (HMDs), such as VR headsets. Even with a clear line of sight, such methods raise privacy concern...

Ganidhu Abey, Wendy Greening, Ashika Kamboj et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Hardware-aware Calibrated Clustered Attention for Efficient Visual Geometric Transformers

The Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) marks a significant leap forward in 3D scene reconstruction, as it is the first model that directly infers all key 3D attributes (camera poses, depths, and dense geometry) jointly in one pass. However, this joint inference mechanism requires global attention layers with e...

Weitian Wang, Shubham Rai, Cecilia De La Parra et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Beyond Explanation: Debugging Medical Imaging Models via Concept Intervention

Medical imaging models often operate as black boxes, limiting interpretability and systematic debugging. We introduce an easy-to-use, plug-and-play framework for concept-based interpretation and model refinement. By aligning a single-modality encoder to BioMedCLIP, we construct a Concept Bottleneck Model (CBM) that ena...

Samrajya Thapa, Daniel J. Quest, Timothy L. Kline et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

For Those Who Believe in Faithfulness: Optimizing the Area Under Insertion and Deletion Curves for Ranking Relative Feature Importance

The adoption of machine learning for socially relevant tasks requires effective explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods to better understand the behavior of machine learning models. Attribution methods are a popular XAI approach in which input-output relationships are characterized by heat maps that reflect t...

Bj{\o}rn Leth M{\o}ller, Bulat Ibragimov, Christian Igel · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

HCPN-GCN: Scaling Hierarchical Prototype Networks with Cone Geometry for Continual Graph Learning

HCPN-GCN is proposed, a graph-aware extension of HPN that replaces the original linear feature extractors with Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and introduces cone-based prototypes with a diversity regularization objective, which produces richer graph-aware representations while compactly modeling the embedding spac...

S. Silva, V. L. S. Freitas, Gladston J. P. Moreira et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Sign Language Video Synthesis via Loss-Guided Multi-Expert GANs

This preliminary technical report presents a framework for sign language video synthesis using a loss-guided multi-expert Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to enhance communication for individuals with hearing impairments. Three specialized discriminators--global, hand, and head--each guide a corresponding expert br...

Ding-Zhan Nong, Zhi-Hao Ren, Ziqi Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ED3R: Energy-Aware Distributed Disaster Detection via Cooperative Agents in Robotic Systems

Robotics are expected to support environmental monitoring and disaster detection, where decisions must be made under uncertainty, resource limitations, and strict operational constraints. In critical missions, such as wildfires, robots must not only identify hazardous events with sufficient confidence, but also manage...

Lina Magoula, Nikolaos Koursioumpas, Nancy Alonistioti et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Synthetic Benchmarks Overstate Forward-Forward Scaling: Real-Data Limits of Layer-Local Training

Forward-Forward (FF) learning [Hinton, 2022] replaces backpropagation with strictly layer-local goodness updates. Recent FF-CNN work has narrowed the gap to BP on 32x32 benchmarks, raising the question of whether layer-local training is becoming a viable alternative at realistic scale. To probe this rigorously, we deve...

Yucheng Chen · 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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