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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Rotated, but How Far? Diagnosing and Improving Object-Rotation Reasoning in VLMs

Vision-language models (VLMs) can detect that an object has rotated across views, but cannot reliably tell by how much. We introduce OR-Bench, a fine-grained benchmark for object-rotation reasoning with eight tasks covering rotation detection, rotation magnitude estimation, and multi-view rotation reasoning. Across 12...

Zhao-Chen Wang, Yu-Jun Cai, Huang-Bo Zou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Kandinsky 6.0 Video: Foundation Models for Synchronized Video and Audio Generation

We present Kandinsky 6.0 Video, a family of foundation diffusion models for synchronized text-to-audio-video generation, comprising Kandinsky 6.0 Video Lite (3B parameters) and Kandinsky 6.0 Video Pro (29B parameters). Both models generate 5-second video clips with synchronized 44 kHz audio, including lip-sync, in text...

Team Kandinsky, Julia Agafonova, Bulat Akhmatov et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Human-Like Attention? A Psychophysical Comparison of Visual Search in Humans and MLLMs

Visual search is a fundamental cognitive ability. This study investigates whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit human-like difficulty signatures in visual search tasks. We compared search performance of humans (n = 1,250) and MLLMs using identical 2D and 3D stimuli across different set sizes. Both gr...

Renchi Zhang, Joost C. F. de Winter, Dimitra Dodou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Strong Baseline for Evaluating Vision Encoders in Multimodal Large Language Models

Evaluating vision encoders requires metrics that reliably predict their downstream performance in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Although recent studies have shown that cross-modal metrics can better capture such performance, unimodal metrics remain the dominant choice in practice. In this work, we revisit c...

Yilin Yang, Jun-Tao Tang, Kengyi Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

IRSTD-Agent: Agentic Infrared Small Target Detection via Zoom-Guided Interaction Learning

Infrared small-target detection plays an important role in maritime monitoring and aerial surveillance. Although multimodal large language models (MLLMs) offer promising capabilities for visual understanding, existing MLLM-based approaches struggle to precisely localize infrared small targets. In this paper, we propose...

Jia-Wen Xi, Yu Zhang, Tian-Yi Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Revisiting Ground-Truth Synthesis from High-Speed Video: Exact Validity Conditions and an Audited Consumer Capture Corpus

Motion-deblurring datasets are commonly synthesised by averaging $N$ consecutive high-frame-rate frames and labelling the result with the central frame. We show that this label is unbiased for every capture timing only when the window is odd and the frames' sample durations are equal. An even window shifts every label...

Abdullah Al Shafi, Sumaiya Rahim Suma · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

MGPO: Manifold-Guided Diffusion Alignment for Task-Aware Dataset Distillation

Diffusion-based dataset distillation (DD) suffers from a fundamental objective mismatch: likelihood-driven diffusion models prioritize density approximation over the discriminative decision boundaries required for downstream tasks. Beyond semantic mismatch, relying solely on density also leads to geometric coverage los...

Yun-Yi Chen, Chenru Wang, Xin-Yi Ye et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Does Geometry Enter Generated Motion?

Under a fixed physical law, the visible geometry of a scene determines how motion must change. We ask how video generators realize this relationship. We fix the law and the initial state and change only the geometry drawn in the first frame, within matched families of tracks and deflectors, and compare each generated t...

Weihan Li, Junhao Wu, Yuhan Song et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ReMAP: Restoring the Perceptual Cycle with Reasoning-Time Latent Visual Memory

As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) reason for longer, attention to the initial visual input diminishes, weakening visual grounding. Visual memory reintroduces visual evidence during reasoning. We conduct a controlled analysis of visual memory along three axes: curation, organization, and access. We find that l...

Hao-Wen Jiang, Zhan-Yu Guo, Chen-Wei Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Enhancing Long-Video VLM Embeddings with Query-Aware Streaming Latent Reasoning

Query-Aware Streaming Latent Reasoning (QASLR), a post-training framework that accumulates evidence across clips while keeping the embedding size fixed, and support streaming latent aggregation as an effective approach to integrating long-video evidence into fixed-dimensional representations.

Hao-Zhe Chi, Song Jin, Yang Jin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Active-DiNTS: Active Differentiable Network Topology Search

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has proved to be a strong alternative to manual network design, but applying it to 3D medical image segmentation is limited by two well-known costs, large annotation budgets and multi-GPU clusters. Thus, this paper introduces Active-DiNTS (Active Differentiable Network Topology Search),...

Gean Trindade Pereira, Thierry Urruty, Muriel Visani et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ARISE: Adaptive Agentic Reasoning with Image-grounded Self-Evaluation for Interpretable IBD Assessment

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) requires frequent imaging-based assessment, yet interpretation of modalities such as wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) and intestinal ultrasound remains heavily dependent on specialist expertise. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate significant potential in multimodal medical image...

Pronoma Banerjee, Anuva Shah, Jason Wu et al. · 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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