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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

World Action Modeling with Progressive Visual Planning

World action models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic control by jointly predicting future visual dynamics and actions from an initial observation and instruction. However, existing WAMs struggle with long-horizon prediction, as generating dense video rollouts is highly inefficient. Some recent WA...

Fei Zhang, Zhao-Chong An, Duncan P. Frost et al. · 1 citation
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

Paying for Too Many Tokens? Valid and Cost-Efficient Multimodal LLM Annotation with Simple Heuristics

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable video annotation at scale, but costs accumulate quickly: processing a typical 60-second short-form video at one frame per second requires millions of tokens. To reduce costs, researchers rely on heuristics such as sampling a subset of frames, compressing videos into image grids, or...

Zhi-Xiu Zhu, Kristina Gligoric · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

DramaAgent: Agentic Storytelling Video Generation

Recent diffusion and autoregressive models have substantially improved text-to-video generation, yet producing coherent long-form story videos with consistent characters and aligned audio remains challenging. Existing methods often suffer from narrative drift, unstable character identity, weak cross-scene continuity, a...

Ting Huang, Biao Wu, Rong-Hao Chen et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Oct 2026

Controllable Multi-label Video Safety Detection via Adaptive Tversky Policy Optimization

Adaptive Tversky Policy Optimization (ATPO) is proposed, a reinforcement learning framework for Multi-label Video Safety Detection (Multi-VSD), which introduces the Adaptive Tversky Reward (ATR), which dynamically adjusts false-positive and false-negative penalties during training to enable controllable precision-recal...

Guang-Yu Yang, Jing-Biao Mei, Ming-Shen Sun et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

More with Less: a Large Scale Remote Sensing VLM with a Simple Recipe

Remote sensing vision-language models are increasingly expected to support open-ended reasoning over Earth Observation data and a variety of tasks. Most recent progress in this area has been driven by remote-sensing-specific architectural designs, often introducing new encoders, alignment modules, or task-specific fusi...

Stefan Maria Ailuro (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mario Markov (INSAIT et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Compressing History into Memory: Distilling Transformers into Recurrent Transformers

Transformers are AI's workhorse but their computational cost becomes prohibitive when processing long sequences. We target long-horizon streaming vision and robotics applications, where it is particularly impractical to store and maintain a history of observations. Recurrent Transformers address this limitation by main...

Philippe Weinzaepfel, Christian Wolf, Mert B\"ulent Sariyildiz et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do Vision Transformers Need All-to-All Attention? Global Communication Through Elastic Learned Cores

Vision Transformers (ViTs) learn rich visual-semantic representations through all-to-all self-attention among patch tokens. However, this design implicitly assumes that direct pairwise patch interactions are necessary for effective representation learning. In this work, we challenge this assumption and show that repres...

Alan Z. Song, Yinjie Chen, Mu Nan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Augmented Equivariant Mesh Networks for Anatomical Segmentation

Anatomical mesh segmentation requires models that operate directly on irregular surface geometry while remaining robust to changes in coordinate pose across meshes of varying resolution. Existing task-specific mesh and point-cloud methods are not equivariant, and can degrade sharply under test-time perturbation, for ex...

Daniel Saragih · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

AEGIS: Anchor-Enforced Gradient Isolation for Knowledge-Preserving Vision-Language-Action Fine-Tuning

Fine-tuning pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for robotic manipulation introduces a fundamental stability-plasticity dilemma: continuous flow-matching action experts backpropagate concentrated, low-rank regression gradients into transformer backbones trained on high-dimensional cross-entropy objectives. This cr...

Guransh Singh · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Embedding Prediction Helps Image Generation

In diffusion transformers, a class label or a text prompt is embedded once, and the same condition is reused at every denoising step. We ask whether predicted embeddings can serve as this condition instead. Next-Embedding Predictive Autoregression (NEPA) trains a Transformer to predict the next continuous embedding in...

Sihan Xu, Ji Xie, Zilin Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Weather-Aware Domain Adaptation for Street-View Weather Recognition

Adverse conditions such as rain, snow, fog, and dust remain challenging for camera-based perception in autonomous driving. We study multi-class weather recognition from street-view images under domain shift, where most available training data come from non-street-view sources that differ markedly from real driving scen...

Hossein Maghsoumi, George Atia, Yaser P. Fallah · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Comparing a gradient boosting algorithm to the GOES FDC for wildfire detection

Wildfires pose severe risks to human life, ecosystems, and property. This study presents a machine learning approach for wildfire detection from GOES ABI imagery. A CatBoost model was trained on a large dataset with thousands of ABI images and over 300,000 matching VIIRS fire detections. An evaluation on a separate dat...

Asaf Vanunu, Boaz Nadler, Arnon Karnieli · 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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