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#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Last But Not Least: Boundary Attention CalibratiON for Multimodal KV Cache Compression

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong vision-language reasoning but incur large KV caches and high decoding latency with long visual contexts. Existing compression methods rely on observation window attention for stable token importance estimation, yet this aggregation can dilute sparse critical evide...

Tianhao Chen, Yuheng Wu, Kelu Yao et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2025

WAON: A Large-Scale Japanese Image-Text Dataset for Cultural Adaptation in Contrastive Vision-Language Models

WAON, the largest publicly available native Japanese image-text dataset constructed from native Japanese web content in Common Crawl, is presented and it is observed that models fine-tuned on WAON consistently achieve stronger performance on Japanese cultural benchmarks than those fine-tuned on English-to-Japanese tran...

Issa Sugiura, Shuhei Kurita, Yusuke Oda et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2025

The Percept-V Challenge: Can Multimodal LLMs Crack Simple Perception Problems?

Percept-V is introduced, a dataset containing 6000 program-generated uncontaminated images divided into 30 domains, where each domain tests one or more TVPS-4 skills, and shows a weak performance of SoTA proprietary and open-source MLLMs compared to very high human performance on Percept-V.

Sam Ghosh, Ashish Goswami, Naman Agarwal et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

World Embedding Benchmark

Physical fidelity has received increasing attention in world models and video generation, yet how video representations encode physical information remains less understood. We introduce the World Embedding Benchmark, comprising 8,000 controlled simulation cases from 80 families spanning fluid mechanics, solid mechanics...

Yiqi Liu, Ruifeng Yuan, Yang Wang et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

ReSCUE: Re-translation with Sentence Commitment for Unsegmented Long-Form Simultaneous Sign Language Translation

Simultaneous Sign Language Translation (SLT) is critical for real-time communication, yet existing methods remain largely confined to sentence-level, offline settings that assume pre-segmented inputs. These assumptions hinder deployment in realistic scenarios involving continuous, unsegmented video streams. We present...

Si-Han Ren, Gao-Zheng Li, Yuan-Shang Quan et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Recursive Self-Improvement in Unified Multimodal Models

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) understand and generate both text and images, which lets a model produce its own training data. Existing self-improvement in UMMs keeps supervision on the visual side, where image understanding judges image generation. We propose recursive cross-capability self-improvement (RSI), a trai...

Huijuan Wang, Chufan Shi, Cheng Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GB-LSR: Local Spectral Decoding with a Learned Global Bandwidth for Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution

We present GB-LSR (Global-Bandwidth Local Spectral Representation), a fixed-grid local spectral representation for continuous image decoding. The image domain is partitioned into non-overlapping square patches. Each patch carries coefficients for a truncated Fourier basis, predicted by a single linear projection from s...

Max Shad, Naeem Khoshnevis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Low-Frequency Shortcuts in Texture-Driven Visual Learning

Neural networks suffer from shortcut learning, where learned features generalize well to the training set but not to in-distribution (ID) or out-of-distribution (OOD) test sets. Existing studies are all based on a few standard benchmarks, which are shape-driven. Numerous application domains, however, are texture-driven...

Utku \c{S}irin, Cathy Hou, Despina-Ekaterini Argiropoulos et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multimodal Ambivalence/Hesitancy Recognition in Videos for Personalized Digital Health Interventions

Using behavioural science, health interventions focus on behaviour change by providing a framework to help patients acquire and maintain healthy habits that improve medical outcomes. In-person interventions are costly and difficult to scale, especially in resource-limited regions. Digital health interventions offer a c...

Manuela Gonz\'alez-Gonz\'alez, Soufiane Belharbi, Muhammad Osama Zeeshan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

A Sobel-Gradient MLP Baseline for Handwritten Character Recognition

This study examines how much handwritten-character information is retained by a deliberately simple first-order edge representation. Instead of learning spatial filters, each input image is transformed by the fixed Sobel-Feldman operator into signed horizontal and vertical derivative maps, which are independently norma...

Azam Nouri · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Flow Map Denoisers: Traversing the Distortion-Perception Plane for Inverse Problems

Image restoration faces a fundamental tradeoff: methods that minimize error produce blurry reconstructions, while those that maximize perceptual quality yield sharp but less faithful images. Existing approaches either commit to a single operating point on this distortion perception (DP) frontier or require paired-data...

Nicolas Zilberstein, Morteza Mardani, Santiago Segarra · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

How Far Does a Shared Linear Map Go? Probing Feature-Space Manipulability for Image Editing

Understanding how image-space transformations manifest in a model's internal representations is a longstanding goal in representation analysis. Prior work has shown that geometric transformations can often be captured by learned linear operators between feature maps, but it remains unclear whether this extends to photo...

Elias Krey, Nils Neukirch, Nils Strodthoff · 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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