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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Energy-Conditioned Noise Schedule and Whitening for Spectral Diffusion

This paper introduces an energy-adaptive noise scheduling and whitening strategy for transform-domain diffusion models. Existing spectral diffusion methods account for the non-uniform statistics of transform coefficients through coefficient scaling, normalization, or frequency prioritization, while the forward diffusio...

Bata Vasic, Bane Vasic · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

PlaySuite: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Interactive Visual Intelligence

Recent advances in multimodal foundation models yield strong performance on static perception and reasoning benchmarks, yet such evaluations largely overlook a central aspect of intelligence: acting competently in dynamic environments over extended time horizons. We introduce PlaySuite, a large-scale benchmark for eval...

Dheeraj Varghese, Anna Vettoruzzo, Walter Simoncini et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

WildMatch: Weakly Supervised Image Matcher Adaptation for Wildlife Re-Identification

Individual animal re-identification from camera-trap imagery is an instance retrieval problem central to non-invasive wildlife monitoring: a query image must retrieve the correct individual from a reference set of known animals. This requires computer vision models to recognize distinctive local patterns in fur, skin,...

Turhan Can Kargin, Piotr Kubaty, Ekaterina Rostovskaya et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

Test-Time Adaptation of Quantized ViTs via Single-Pass Quantizer-Aligned Recalibration

Quantizer-Aligned Recalibration (QuAR), a single-pass TTA method tailored to quantized ViTs that neither backpropagates nor updates any model parameters is proposed, which achieves the highest mean accuracy among state-of-the-art backpropagates nor updates any model parameters.

Hyeong-Tae Cha, Young D. Kwon, Sung-Ju Lee · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

SpectralCache: Accelerating Diffusion-Based World Models via Spectral Feature Caching

Diffusion-based world models enable high-quality interactive environment generation but suffer from substantial inference overhead due to repeated Transformer evaluations during denoising. Existing caching methods mainly exploit temporal redundancy at the feature or token level, leaving the underlying mathematical stru...

Zhen-Dong Mi, Pu Zhao, Zi-Yu Hu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RoboCap: A New Platform for Egocentric Robot Learning

Despite its promise for scaling robot learning, egocentric manipulation data is still scarce today. Collection at scale requires vertically integrating ergonomic hardware with centimeter-precise 3D algorithms, at a precision that has not been publicly demonstrated. To address this gap, we introduce RoboCap, a 250\,g si...

Grounded Superintelligence, BitRobot · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Emoception: Selective Affective Layer Fine-Tuning of Video Vision Transformers for Player Arousal Change Recognition From Gameplay Footage

This article proposes Selective Affective Layer Fine-Tuning (SALFT), an efficient adaptation framework for Video Vision Transformers in player arousal recognition from gameplay. To bypass computationally expensive full fine-tuning, SALFT introduces a selection criterion based on the L2-norm change in layer parameters a...

Yi Xia, Ibrahim Khan, Mury Fajar Dewantoro et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Seeing Isn't Knowing: Do VLMs Know When Not to Answer Spatial Questions (and Why)?

Spatial reasoning benchmarks typically evaluate whether vision-language models can derive the correct answer from a visual observation. Yet in real 3D environments, the observation itself may be unreliable: occlusion can remove task-relevant evidence, while perspective can make visible geometry misleading. Reliable spa...

Yue Zhang, Zun Wang, Han Lin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-Cultural Value Attribution in Large Vision-Language Models

The rapid adoption of large vision-language models (LVLMs) in recent years has been accompanied by growing fairness concerns due to their propensity to reinforce harmful societal stereotypes. While significant attention has been paid to such fairness concerns in the context of social biases, relatively little prior wor...

Phillip Howard, Xin Su, Kathleen C. Fraser · 0 citations
#computer vision Jan 2026

AVMeme Exam: A Multimodal Multilingual Multicultural Benchmark for LLMs' Contextual and Cultural Knowledge and Thinking

AVMeme Exam, a human-curated benchmark of over one thousand iconic Internet sounds and videos spanning speech, songs, music, and sound effects, is introduced, showing current models perform poorly on textless music and sound effects, and struggle to think in context and in culture compared to surface content.

Xi-Lin Jiang, Qiao-Lin Wang, Junkai Wu et al. · 4 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

The Failure Is in the Readout: Fine-Grained Emotion Recognition Benchmarks Measure Elicitation, Not Perception

Fine-grained emotion recognition supports therapy tools and social robots, but it needs facial data, which raises privacy and data-protection concerns. EmoNet-Face-HQ answers that with generated portraits, expert-rated over a $40$-category taxonomy far finer than the usual six to eight basic emotions. Under the protoco...

T. Hallmen, Fabian Deuser, Robin-Nico Kampa et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

VisionWeave: Weaving Elastic Visual Representations as a Native Capability of MLLMs

Multimodal large language models have become the dominant paradigm for visual understanding, but incur substantial costs by encoding inputs into dense, fixed-size patch tokens. However, visual information is unevenly distributed: some regions require fine-grained detail, while others admit compact representations. Down...

Yuan Feng, Qi-Ze Yang, Rui-Zhe Chen et al. · 1 citation

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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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