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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Can AI Understand the Language of Origami?

Building AI systems that can plan, act, and create in the physical world requires more than pattern recognition. Such systems must reason about the generative mechanisms and constraints governing physical processes, using structured representations that connect observations, actions, and their effects. Yet, many existi...

Naaisha Agarwal, Yihan Wu, Xin Guan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

XGenAct: Geometry-Enhanced World Action Models through Cross-Task Generation

World action models (WAMs) have advanced robot control by predicting how observations and actions evolve over time. Despite this progress, RGB and action based future prediction does not explicitly address the spatial understanding needed for robot manipulation. Existing efforts often add a limited set of spatial predi...

Ting-Ting Du, Zi-Yao Wang, Guoheng Sun et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Iterating Consistency Models: Stability, Error Bounds and Noise Schedules

Consistency models (CMs) have become a leading approach for generating high-quality samples in few steps. However, adding steps can improve or degrade sample quality in ways that are highly sensitive to the schedule and that existing theory does not fully explain. To provide accuracy guarantees and guide CM sampler des...

Alessio Spagnoletti, A. Haji-Ali, Andrés Almansa et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

From Patching to Pruning Visual Computation in Vision Language Models

Vision language models (VLMs) incur substantial inference cost because every visual token is processed by the attention and MLP projections of every decoder layer, even when token-specific visual computation is unnecessary at many depths. We introduce Patch-to-Prune (P2P), inspired by Mechanistic Interpretability, a tr...

Rahul Chowdhury, Timothy Rupprecht, Xuan Shen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Wrong Organ, Right Physics: Transferring Echocardiography Pretraining to Lung Ultrasound for Tuberculosis Screening

Lung ultrasound (LUS) is attractive for tuberculosis (TB) screening at primary-care level, but labelled cohorts are small. Echocardiography carries no such constraint, while sharing the same underlying ultrasound imaging physics, signal processing and B-mode appearance as LUS. We ask whether an encoder pretrained on th...

Christiaan M. Geldenhuys, Joshua M. Jansen van V\"uren, V\'eronique Suttels et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Does Physics Live in the Activations? Localizing Physical Quantities in Video Diffusion Models

Video generation models produce strikingly realistic sequences and are increasingly proposed as world models, yet recent benchmarks reveal pronounced deficits in their physical reasoning. This raises the question of whether these models internalize physical principles or merely reproduce familiar motion patterns. We ad...

Jonas Kneifl, J. Skalski, Bartłomiej Twardowski et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Confidence-Gated Cloud-Edge Cascade Triage via Variational Risk Minimization for Medical Imaging

Emergency chest X-ray (CXR) triage has a structural modality gap: reports arrive after triage decisions, yet multimodal foundation models require image-text inputs. We present Variational Risk Minimization (VRM), a distillation framework that treats LVLM-generated report variants as Monte Carlo samples of latent clinic...

Xinye Yang, Zhusi Zhong, Scott Collins et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Adaptive Second-Order Solvers for Fast Stochastic Diffusion Sampling

Diffusion models rely on numerical solvers requiring time-discretization, which has a large influence on the tradeoff between sampling cost and quality. However, the computational difficulty of the reverse process varies along the sampling trajectory and across data distributions, making the choice of discretization im...

E. Kemperman, Luca Ambrogioni · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Scale-Recursive Rectified Flows for Few-Step Precipitation Ensembles

A scale-recursive rectified flow is proposed that generates broad patterns before local details and guides sampling-step allocation by comparing ensemble variability with prediction error across spatial scales and achieved better probabilistic accuracy with shorter sampling time than a nonrecursive flow using more step...

Shunya Nagashima, Takumi Bannai · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ELSA3D: Elastic Semantic Anchoring for Unified 3D Understanding and Generation

Unified 3D foundation models aspire to generate 3D assets and reason about them in language within a single backbone, but their text-3D interaction remains largely implicit. Existing methods concatenate text and 3D tokens into a flat sequence and rely on self-attention, collapsing coarse structural cues and fine geomet...

Tianjiao Yu, Xinzhuo Li, Yifan Shen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

GUI Agents for Continual Game Generation

Generating a game is not the same as making one playable. Existing code-generation approaches often translate a prompt directly into an artifact, leaving interaction-level failures undetected. We argue that game generation requires a player and study two roles for graphical user interface (GUI) agents. First, we introd...

Yixu Huang, Bo Li, Na Li 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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