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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Knossos and Ariadne: Benchmarking and Learning Complete Diagram Topology Extraction with Vision-Language Models

This paper introduces Knossos, a benchmark of 19,200 diagrams across six diverse domains, and presents Ariadne, a structured framework that decomposes the task into node inventory extraction and source-conditioned edge prediction, and achieves the highest average Edge F1 among the evaluated methods.

Bang-Wei Guo, Xu-Jiang Zhao, Sheng-Yu Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ConEx: Human-Interpretable Saliency Maps via Concept-Aware Attribution

Many visual explanation methods in computer vision highlight pixel importance but struggle to link these low-level cues to semantically meaningful concepts, limiting their interpretability and trustworthiness. We introduce Concept-based Explanations (ConEx), a novel framework that bridges saliency visualization with co...

Yehonatan Elisha, Oren Barkan, Ziv Weiss Haddad et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Cross-Modal Solar Image Synthesis: Adapting the Surya Foundation Model from He I 10830 {\AA} to EUV Translation and Coronal Hole Segmentation

The long observational record of He I 10830 {\AA} offers a means to investigate solar morphology before modern extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) imaging. We adapt the Surya solar foundation model to predict Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (SDO/AIA) 94, 193, and 304 {\AA} images and a coronal hole (CH) p...

Marco Marena, Andr\'es Mu\~noz Jaramillo, Qin Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

EgoExo-Next:Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Visual-Option Next-State and Cross-View Reasoning

EgoExo-Next, a visual-option benchmark for dynamic visual-state reasoning, where models must identify how an observed action trajectory subsequently appears rather than predict only an action label or textual description, suggests that current VLMs remain substantially limited in dynamic visual-state reasoning.

Yu-Tong Li, Mo Wang, Xiao-Tong Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Oct 2026

Localization Lens for Improving Medical Vision-Language Models

Medical Vision-Language Models (Med-VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in clinical tasks. However, they often struggle to understand anatomical structures and spatial positioning, which are crucial for medical reasoning. To address this, we propose a localization-aware enhancement to the Med-VLM pipeline, intr...

H. Farooq, Murtaza Taj, Mehwish Nasim et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Understanding Clustering in Slot Attention via Particle Dynamics

Studying attention through the lens of interacting particle dynamics has shown how token clustering can emerge from the underlying dynamics. We extend this perspective to slot attention, a method for object-centric image segmentation and representation learning in which learned components obscure how much of the cluste...

Vasudev Joy, Rajat Rasal, Avinash Kori et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Video2World: Benchmarking Coding Agents for Interactive World Modeling from Embodied Videos

Building interactive simulators from real-world observations is a promising way to scale embodied data, but current pipelines still rely heavily on manual environment construction and calibration. We study whether frontier foundation models and coding agents can automate this process end to end. We formulate \emph{auto...

Jin-Zhou Tang, Z. Zhang, Jing Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

AgroGround: Multi-Granularity Grounded Recognition in Agriculture

Agricultural visual models are typically evaluated for either recognition or localization, but reliable diagnosis requires identifying what is present and localizing the evidence. Agricultural visual question answering (VQA) datasets carry rich semantic labels but rarely link them to image regions, and adding such anno...

Abdulla Alshehhi, Zong-Yan Han, R. Anwer · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Dependable AI-Assisted Engineering: A Formal Framework for AI Participation and Assurance in Safety-Critical Workflows

Generative AI can produce engineering artefacts, but generation alone does not determine whether or how those artefacts should enter safety-critical workflows. This paper develops a formal framework for assigning AI participation and assurance at the level of individual workflow units. Each unit has a participation and...

Pu-Xue Tan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MAGEFormer: Learning Metric-Consistent Representations for Anisotropic CT Segmentation

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown strong performance in volumetric segmentation, but their effectiveness on clinical CT is limited by an isotropic Euclidean lattice assumption. This conflicts with anisotropic CT acquisition, leading to two key issues: (1) a metric mismatch between voxel indices and physical anatomy...

Jia-Ying Li, Paolo Remagnino · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Selective Backpropagation for Efficient Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) requires models to continuously learn new classes from limited samples while retaining prior knowledge, under strict constraints on compute and memory. Existing approaches lie along a difficult trade-off: simple fine-tuning is computationally efficient but suffers from catast...

Eeham Khan, Abdulmoumen Al-Atrash, Ali Ayub · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Streaming Multi-Track Timeline Control for 3D Human Motion Generation

Text-driven human motion generation has advanced substantially, yet most methods assume instructions are available before synthesis. Interactive applications require responding to new instructions while continuing ongoing actions, such as answering a phone while walking. Existing approaches address streaming generation...

Yangsong Zhang, Anujith Muraleedharan, Rikhat Akizhanov 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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