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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

CF-NODE: Counterfactual Spatial Node Intervention for Test-Time Adaptation Under Domain Shift, Evaluated Across Five Diabetic Retinopathy Datasets

CF-NODE outperforms all four methods with statistically significant improvements over the second-best method, improves AUC on every target domain, and attains the highest average AUC and macro-F1, delivering stronger grade discrimination together with more balanced recognition across DR severity levels.

G. Sabarish, Deepak Parashar · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Sketch to Scene: Relightable Garment Reconstruction from Marked Sketches

Sketching is one of the most natural ways for people to express visual ideas. Unlike the text prompts that most generative systems rely on today, a sketch captures spatial structure and intent directly, including where a designer wants highlights and shadows to appear. Yet current sketch-to-3D pipelines have no input f...

Ahmet Ne\c{c}irvan Do\u{g}an, Eren Acar Ba\c{s}aran, Metin Sezgin et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Can MLLMs Read the Room? A Multimodal Benchmark for Assessing Deception in Multi-Party Social Interactions

Despite their advanced reasoning capabilities, state-of-the-art Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) still lack a core component of human intelligence: the ability to "read the room" and assess deception in complex social interactions. To rigorously evaluate this limitation, we introduce Multimodal Interactive Dece...

Caixin Kang, Yifei Huang, Liangyang Ouyang et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EVA-Cap: Optimizing Audiovisual Video Captioning via Event-Centric Alignment

Recent advances in Omni Language Models (OLMs) provide a unified solution for audiovisual video captioning. Nevertheless, existing approaches predominantly treat captioning as an unstructured text generation process, neglecting the inherent semantic structure of videos and leading to suboptimal fine-grained audiovisual...

Jiapeng Shi, Qiuxia Hou, Jiaqi Leng et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Spurious Attention Heads in Vision Transformers: Mechanistic Identification of Annotation-Driven Bias in Medical Chest X-Ray Analysis

Vision Transformers deployed in medical imaging exploit spurious correlations, yet the internal mechanisms remain unidentified and impossible to fix. We apply mechanistic interpretability to locate one such mechanism in ViT-Base 16: a single attention head (L8H10) that functions as a dedicated annotation-reader on ches...

Joshua Muhumuza, Cornelius Kalenzi · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

ZoomCap: Evidence-Routed Visual Zooming for Recoverable Visual Information Transfer

Detailed captions transfer visual information into vision-language model supervision, but quality is easily conflated with length: long single-pass outputs still miss small objects, text, and spatial relations or promote uncertain observations into confident claims. We formulate fine-grained captioning as recoverable v...

Hao Shi, Jia-Feng Wang, Yu-Zhuo Fu et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

VELD-QA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Visual Evidence Grounding and Question Answering in Long Documents

Existing long-document QA benchmarks rarely combine large-scale human-authored questions with detailed visual evidence annotations, limiting diagnosis of evidence localization and interpretation failures. We present VELD-QA, a large-scale benchmark for Visual Evidence grounding and question answering in Long Documents....

Zhivar Sourati, Marianne Menglin Liu, Rong Wang et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MagiC: Evaluating Multimodal Cognition Toward Grounded Visual Reasoning

Recent advances in large vision-language models have led to impressive performance in visual question answering and multimodal reasoning. However, it remains unclear whether these models genuinely perform grounded visual reasoning or rely on superficial patterns and dataset biases. In this work, we introduce MagiC, a c...

Chengfei Wu, Ronald Seoh, Bingxuan Li et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Review Sep 2026

MeddeX: A Retrieval-Augmented LLaMA-3 System with Gemini Vision for Evidence-Backed Medical Report Analysis

Modern healthcare generates increasingly complex medical reports that challenge clinical professionals in terms of time and interpretive burden. Manual review processes are slow, error-prone, and difficult to scale. This paper presents MeddeX, a Medical Report Analyzer that combines a QLoRA fine-tuned LLaMA-3 (8B) mode...

Rajdeep Pandhare, Rohit Kundaikar, Yakub Kojar et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Stabilizing the Modality Gap: Null-Space Projected Continual Learning for Vision-Language Models

The modality gap is intrinsic to multimodal alignment, where embeddings from different modalities remain partially separated in a shared representation space. In continual learning, CLIP-based vision-language models (VLMs) not only suffer catastrophic forgetting but also experience modality gap drift that disrupts the...

Tiantian Peng, Yuyang Liu, Shuo Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BOLT: Universal Classifier Training via a Bayes-Error Upper Bound

This work introduces a novel approach to compute a universal upper bound on the Bayes error rate (BER) from classifier-output samples, which serves as a Bayes-error-related performance criterion for the underlying classification task. We show that the bound is tight in the binary case and characterize the max-sum gap t...

Mohammadreza Tavasoli Naeini, Ali Bereyhi, Morteza Noshad et al. · 0 citations

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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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