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#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Tracking Is Not Permanence: What Video World Models Keep of a Hidden Object

Video world models track objects they can see; we ask what they keep of objects they cannot. We hide an object from a frozen V-JEPA 2 predictor and compare its prediction for the hidden region with the encoder's representation of two worlds that differ only inside that region. The predictor's decision keeps a stationar...

Peng Xie, Amr Alanwar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A doctrine-grounded visual question answering dataset for Tactical Combat Casualty Care

Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TC3) requires responders to connect visual observations of injuries and interventions with established clinical guidance. Developing vision-language models to support this process requires supervision that links visible evidence to traceable doctrine. We present TC3-VQA, a dataset constru...

Junseob Kim, Jade Chng, Ayman Ali et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Smart Content Ingestion for Generative AI Workloads

The evolution of machine learning has progressively changed where intelligence resides in an AI system. In conventional machine learning the task, data representation, labels and model architecture were tightly coupled, so data preparation was narrow, schema-bound and visible. Generative AI decouples the model from any...

Abbas Ali, Muhammad Ajmal Siddiqui, Moona Zahid · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Visual Abstention in Unified Multimodal Models

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) integrate understanding and generation, yet their generative behavior is rarely governed by what they understand about the task. We formalize visual abstention: when a requested visual transformation is impossible under the task's rules, the model should recognize that no valid solution...

Chu-Fan Shi, Cheng Yang, Tian-Nuo Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SAE++: Cascaded Sparse Autoencoders Learn Multi-Level Visual Concepts in Multimodal LLMs

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on vision-language tasks, yet their internal visual representations remain difficult to interpret. Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) provide a scalable way to decompose dense model activations into sparse, interpretable features. However, existing S...

Yusong Zhao, Hengyi Wang, Tanuja Ganu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Visual Feature-Based World Models via Residual Latent Action

World models predict future transitions from observations and actions. Existing works predominantly focus on image generation only. Visual feature-based world models, on the other hand, predict future visual features instead of raw video pixels, offering a promising alternative that is more efficient and less prone to...

Xinyu Zhang, Zhengtong Xu, Yutian Tao et al. · 0 citations

Von Neumann Networks

Initial experiments show that VNN based multi-layered perceptrons outperform their equivalent deep learning variant on basic tasks, while being more parameter efficient and are capable of learning new types of tasks.

Shekhar S. Chandra · 0 citations

Generalizable Dense Reward for Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks

VLLR is proposed, a dense reward framework combining an extrinsic reward from Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for task progress recognition, and an intrinsic reward based on policy self-certainty based on policy self-certainty for PPO finetuning.

Si-Long Yong, Stephen Sheng, Carl Qi et al. · 3 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PRUE: A Practical Recipe for Field Boundary Segmentation at Scale

Large-scale maps of field boundaries are essential for agricultural monitoring tasks. Existing deep learning approaches for satellite-based field mapping are sensitive to illumination, spatial scale, and changes in geographic location. We conduct the first systematic evaluation of segmentation and geospatial foundation...

Gedeon Muhawenayo, Caleb Robinson, Subash Khanal et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Dual Mechanisms of Spatial Variable Binding in Vision-Language Models

Many multimodal tasks, such as image captioning and visual question answering, require vision-language models (VLMs) to bind objects with their properties and spatial relations. Yet it remains unclear where and how such associations are computed within VLMs. In this work, we show that VLMs rely on two concurrent mechan...

Kelly Cui, Nikhil Prakash, Shoval Messica et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Improving Mixup Calibration with Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization

In many real-world applications, ensuring the robustness and stability of deep neural networks (DNNs) is crucial, particularly for image classification tasks that encounter various input perturbations. While Mixup-based data augmentation techniques have been widely adopted to enhance the resilience of trained models ag...

Jiaming Hu, Yeping Jin, Debarghya Mukherjee et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multi-Scale Structural Features for Continual, Comprehensible Visual Recognition in a Developmental Learning Framework

Contemporary machine learning struggles to learn continually, reuse prior knowledge, and expose a comprehensible internal structure. A recently proposed developmental, gradient-free learning framework addresses these limitations by learning a discrete, topological model of its inputs through local variation and selecti...

Zeki Doruk Erden · 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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