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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

WAPR: A Foundation Model for Wide-Angle Refinement in Unseen Object Pose Estimation

Real-world applications require 6D pose estimation to be accurate, fast, and scalable to unseen objects. This paper introduces WAPR, a zero-shot wide-angle pose refinement model that refines candidate poses with rotational deviations up to 90 degrees. With as few as 12 candidate poses per detected object instance, WAPR...

Yu-Lin Wang, Meng-Ting Hu, Hong-Li Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

KASALv2: Fully Automatic 3D Rotational Symmetry Classification and Axis Localization

A fully automatic, reference-free framework for symmetry-type classification, rotational-order identification, and full-axis localization across all eight canonical 3D rotational symmetry types across all eight canonical 3D rotational symmetry types is introduced.

Meng-Xi Zhang, Yu-Lin Wang, Chen Luo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

OmniCam: Omni-Camera Trajectory Generation via Geometry-Grounded Pose Token Learning

Camera trajectories control viewpoint changes in video generation, scene reconstruction, and robotic perception. Generating them from language requires both scene geometry and target-aware framing. We introduce OmniCam, an autoregressive model that generates camera pose sequences from a single panorama and textual traj...

Zhenyang Liu, Chenjie Cao, Yisu Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SpatialUQ: Post-Hoc Uncertainty Quantification from Spatial Consistency in Black-Box Vision Models

Clinical vision models are often deployed as frozen black boxes with no access to internals, retraining, or ground truth at inference time. We introduce \textbf{SpatialUQ}, a post-hoc uncertainty method using only output probabilities. It measures the Jensen-Shannon divergence between the global prediction and the mean...

Md Kawsher Mahbub, Milon Biswas, Mirza Niaz Morshed et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Iris-3B: Going Beyond the Latent with Pixel-Space Diffusion Training, Conversion and Fine-Tuning

Pixel-space diffusion models avoid the lossy VAE of latent models, which suggests an advantage on downstream tasks where fine-grained detail matters. We test this claim along both routes to a pixel-space backbone. We pretrain Iris-3B, a 3B-parameter pixel-space text-to-image transformer, from scratch through a $256\to5...

Hanqiu Li Cai (SperidLabs), Chema Garabito (SperidLabs) · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Mixture of Layers: Dynamic Layer Routing for Visual Reasoning

Pre-trained vision encoders contain layer-wise visual representations that differ in spatial granularity, semantic abstraction, and sensitivity to local details. However, most Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) rely on only the final or penultimate vision encoder representations or fixed aggregation rules, making...

Jeonghwan Kim, S. Stoica, Ji-Wan Chung et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Shared Geometry As A Rosetta Stone: Cross-Modal Alignment Without Paired Data

Multimodal representations enable zero-shot classification and retrieval, but aligning independently trained models usually requires large amounts of paired data. Yet, the Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests that models trained on different modalities may converge spontaneously toward a shared representation ge...

Dominik Schnaus, Thomas Dagès, Daniel Cremers et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Multimodal LLMs Can Learn to Read Brain Signals: A Vision--Language Model for Unified Multi-Task EEG Decoding

Learning EEG representations that generalize across cognitive tasks, subjects, and recording conditions remains a key challenge in electroencephalography (EEG) decoding. Recent advances in foundation models have improved EEG decoding performance, yet a fundamental open question remains: how to effectively interface neu...

Parastoo Azizeddin, Omid Sharafi, M. Shanechi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Visual Jev Rewards: Reference-Bound Verification for Multi-Subject Image Generation

Multi-subject image generation requires rewards that verify whether requested attributes, actions, and relations hold for the specified reference subjects. Subject presence alone does not establish that the correct subjects participate in a requested interaction. We present reference-bound Visual Jev rewards that turn...

Bao-Teng Li, Wen-Zhuo Wu, Kong-Ming Liang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Kuration SDK: Addressing the Virtual2Real Gap via Data Curation

Benchmarks for measuring the quality of action-conditioned world models are still evolving and shifting away from visual similarity-based metrics to action-semantic and physically-grounded metrics. However, for domain and task-agnostic action-conditioned world model training, existing benchmarks provide a limited signa...

Nirmit Desai, Eric Song, Mayank Sengupta et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

LeCuration: A Tiny World Model as a Data Curation Multi-Tool

This paper trains LeCuration, a small world model intended to serve as a data curation tool for a separate, larger downstream model, and finds that the embeddings of this model can be used as an anomaly detection signal and as a content-based clustering heuristic, and that auto-regressively predicting the game state wi...

Mayank Sengupta, Nirmit Desai, Eric Song et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Consistent Distribution Matching for Data-Free Diffusion Distillation

Flow and diffusion models suffer from slow inference due to computationally expensive numerical integration. Distillation provides a promising way for a student model to learn from a teacher's dynamics, enabling one-step or few-step generation. However, existing methods often depend on curated distillation datasets, co...

Yu-Xiang Fu, Qi Yan, Zike Wu et al. · 0 citations

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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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