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#machine learning Preprint Jan 2026

DeepFedNAS: Efficient Hardware-Aware Architecture Adaptation for Heterogeneous IoT Federations via Pareto-Guided Supernet Training

DeepFedNAS is introduced, a two-phase framework built on a multi-objective fitness function that synthesizes information-theoretic network metrics with architectural heuristics that makes DeepFedNAS practical for scalable, communication-constrained IoT federations.

Bostan Khan, Masoud Daneshtalab · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Open Vocabulary Domain Unlearning

This work formalizes Open-Vocabulary Domain Unlearning (OVDU), a rigorous protocol that mandates domain forgetting must transfer to held-out classes and proposes a surgical parameter-editing framework that vastly improves open-vocabulary generalization over existing baselines.

Sumanth Udupa, Mehrtash Harandi, Ya-Dan Luo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Query-Conditioned Prototype Adaptation for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning: Single-Query Inference, Controlled Comparisons, and Failure Modes

Cross-domain few-shot learning requires adapting a classifier to a new visual domain from very few labelled examples without target-time parameter updates. We isolate one question: under a fixed global representation, what does joint query-support adaptation contribute to prototype construction? The Within-Instance Pro...

Rushab Rasik Karania, T. Maul · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

StarWM: Self-Supervised Trained Attention Routing for Robust World Models

StarWM is proposed, which uses a cross-attention module trained on self-supervised dynamics to decide where reconstruction applies and preserves state attributes with near-perfect fidelity through long-horizon imagination while systematically discarding distractors.

Zeqiang Zhang, Fabian Wurzberger, Maximilian Otte et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Aligning One-Step Generative Models with Reward-Weighted Transport Distillation

Theoretical analysis shows that the fixed-point distributions of RWTD interpolate between off-policy reward tilting of the reference and on-policy tilting of the current model, providing a principled approach to balancing reward adaptation with retention of prior knowledge.

Austin S. Wang, Zi-Heng Cheng, Le-Xing Ying · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Towards Unified Dynamic Face Landmark Detection

The approach, called Unified Dynamic FLD, streamlines the landmark detection pipeline by enabling a single model to learn on any number of ``N$-point''datasets, and yield any number of specific landmark predictions by loading the designated landmark queries at runtime.

S. Regalado, Varshanth R. Rao, R. Jiang et al. · 0 citations

Rebalancing Reference Frame Dominance to Improve Motion in Image-to-Video Models

DyMoS (Dynamic Motion Slider), a training-free and model-agnostic method that rebalances the attention pathway from generated frames to the reference frame during initial denoising steps, is proposed and demonstrated to improve motion dynamics while maintaining visual quality and fidelity to the reference image.

Wooseok Jeon, S. Park, Seunghyun Shin et al. · 2 citations

CaC: Advancing Video Reward Models via Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Concentrating

Concentrate and Concentrate (CaC) is a coarse-to-fine anomaly reward model based on Vision-Language Models that first conducts a global temporal scan to anchor anomalous time windows, then performs fine-grained spatial grounding within the localized interval, and finally derives robust judgments via structured spatiote...

Jiyuan Wang, Huan Ouyang, Jiu-Zhou Lin et al. · 5 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Beyond Bag-of-Words: Diagnosing Compositional Binding Failures in Vision-Language Models

Modern vision-language models struggle with basic compositional reasoning, failing to bind attributes to objects or relations to their referents. Existing benchmarks either rely on noisy real images that conflate confounding visual variables with the reasoning failure, or use simplistic synthetic scenes lacking the rea...

Cristian Sbrolli, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Matteo Matteucci · 0 citations

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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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