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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Post-Training Frontier Text-to-Image Models by Composing Preference and Rubric Rewards

Recent text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable visual quality, but improving them through post-training remains challenging because no single reward signal captures the full range of human preference. In this work, we develop a simple and effective post-training recipe for open-domain text-to-image gen...

Yuan-Hao Ban, I-Hung Hsu, A. Angelopoulos et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Revealing Epistemic Uncertainty in MLLMs via Causal-Invariant Masking

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from hallucinations, creating a critical need for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) to ensure reliable deployment. However, existing approaches struggle to detect uncertainty caused by superficial associations, especially when the query-relevant signal is weak. We mainly at...

Hao-Yang Luo, Lin-Wei Tao, Jie Gui et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

FastOPD: On-Policy Distillation for Lightweight VLA Deployment

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models have scaled rapidly to enhance manipulation performance and generalizability, but this scaling incurs high computational costs that render real-world deployment increasingly challenging. Existing approaches typically mitigate this issue by designing smaller architectures o...

Yoojin Oh, Jeongsol Kim, Yeonwoo Seo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Correcting Guided Diffusion Trajectories with Spectral Alignment

The practical success of conditional image generation hinges on fine-grained differences in condition alignment and visual fidelity. Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is central to this success, but its lack of an explicit criterion makes it difficult to assess whether the guided trajectory is progressing as intended. To...

Gihoon Kim, Taesup Kim · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Revisiting Visual Representation Enhancement of VLMs via Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis

This work presents a novel perspective to characterize representation alignment on feature subspaces through Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis (KCCA), which maximizes the projection correlations and derives an efficient end-to-end training scheme upon KKT conditions, avoiding the eigenvalue problem in KCCA.

Pei-Lin Yang, Xiao-Yu Liu, Jian Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DAGS: Disentangled Appearance-and-Geometry Steering of a Frozen Image DiT for Temporally Stabilized Generative Rendering

Diffusion transformers (DiTs) generate high-fidelity images from text and image conditions, but their outputs carry large variance and their faithfulness to a desired target depends heavily on how the condition is supplied. We present DAGS, a lightweight, attention-free, disentangled appearance and geometry conditionin...

Karthik Mohan Kumar, Damian Andrysiak, P. A. Pena et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

From Fragments to Global Maps: Learning Vectorized Map Aggregation with Large Language Models

Large-scale vectorized HD maps provide structured road information that is essential for perception, localization, and planning in autonomous driving. Constructing such maps requires aggregating noisy, fragmented, and overlapping local predictions collected along a vehicle trajectory into a coherent global map. Existin...

Ziwei Li, Yi-Tang Chen, Xiaoqi Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EviDent-CBCT: Evidence-Bottlenecked Report Generation from Dental CBCT under Non-Exhaustive Report Supervision

Dento-maxillofacial cone-beam CT (CBCT) reports may contain dozens of tooth-specific, anatomical, and spatial findings from a single 3D scan. Learning to generate such reports from limited clinical data is challenging because routine reports may not exhaustively document image findings, and a non-mention may reflect ei...

Ruiyang Hao, Zhi Qin Tan, Yulan He et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

DeskForge: Dense Supervision from Desktop Environments for Computer-Use Agents

Computer-use agents need to reliably ground action targets in complex desktop scenes, where multiple applications, overlapping windows, and visually similar controls compete for attention. Existing training data rarely pair such scenes with dense annotations or vary them in a controlled way. We introduce DeskForge, a c...

A. Gurbuz, Ahmed S. Nassar, Sung-Jin Hong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

EditHero: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Part-Level 3D Editing and Vibe Modeling

3D editing methods are usually tested on a single edit, yet an asset is built through a long sequence of revisions, each of which must implement the requested change while leaving everything else unchanged. We introduce EditHero, to our knowledge the first benchmark for long-horizon, part-level 3D editing, with natural...

Rui-Han Yu, Yu-Ju Tsai, Mu-Yao Niu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Toward Controlling Biology with Language:Offline Learning of Prompt-Conditioned Interventions for Cells, Organoids, and Biobots

Artificial intelligence increasingly serves as a natural-language interface to complex technical systems, letting people accomplish sophisticated tasks by describing what they want rather than specifying how to do it. Extending this interface to living systems is harder: unlike code or images, a biological intervention...

Nam H. Le, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Low-Cost Video--Time Priors as a Strong Baseline for EEG--fNIRS Emotion Regression on Familiar Videos

Continuous emotion regression estimates moment-to-moment valence and arousal while a viewer watches a video. In familiar-video deployment, responses fron training participant-specific estimate, and prior-dominating fixed fusion tests whether physiology adds residual correction. In five-fold subject-held-out evaluation...

Minghao Kong, Jiurun Chen, Ying Gao 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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