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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models

Internal visual-text alignment in MLLMs is best read as a geometric diagnostic of the visual stream inside the language model rather than a direct proxy for content-level cross-modal interaction, and is most informative when calibrated by controlled task evidence.

Hong-Han Wang, Yun-Tao Wang, Hui-Chao Ding · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Not All Confusion Is Equal: A Source-Aware Uncertainty Diagnosis for Fine-Grained Aircraft Detection

Fine-grained object detectors are commonly evaluated with confusion matrices, which show where the model is confused but not why, nor whether the confusion can be reduced. We argue that confusion can be attributed to distinct, separable sources, each quantitatively measurable, turning a passive measurement into actiona...

Hai Huang, Helmut Mayer · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Efficient Continuous DEM Reconstruction under Limited Target-Resolution Supervision

The value of reusable coefficient fields for accurate reconstruction beyond the supervised resolution with low incremental arithmetic cost is demonstrated and SCOPE leads the compared methods across six metrics in the main supervised-scale evaluation.

Ze-Kai Shi, Meng Zhang, Hao-Kun Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

VG-TIE: An interpretable tabular-to-image encoding method based on visibility graphs

Experiments show that VG-TIE is competitive with other tabular-to-image methods while providing interpretability on feature importance and ranking similar to intrinsic interpretable methods, and highlights the potential of the proposed image-based transformation to provide an effective framework that expands the use of...

David Chushig-Muzo, L. López-Ramos, Ángeles Rodríguez de Cara et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Albireo: Adaptive, Energy-Efficient Inference Framework for Video Object Detection on the Edge

Albireo is presented, a detector-agnostic, codec-free adaptive inference framework that wraps off-the-shelf detectors and decides when detector invocation can be safely skipped based on scene content and per-object temporal state, requiring no detector modification or retraining.

Amir Taherin, José Cano, Bin Ren et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Learning a Flow to Self-Supervised Representations

Flow-Based Distribution Matching is introduced, a non-adversarial framework that learns this reference-directed geometry through spherical conditional velocity regression that achieves performance nearly on par with DM and remains competitive with existing SSL methods.

Yu-Ling Jiao, Wen-Sen Ma, Hou-Duo Qi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Where Hallucinations Live: A Cross-Architecture Circuit in VQ-Tokenized Vision-Language Models

Unified vision-language models (VLMs) that tokenize images through a vector-quantized (VQ) codebook routinely hallucinate objects on grounded yes/no benchmarks, yet existing decoding-time fixes treat this as generic miscalibration without an architectural account. Using activation patching across twenty-five models spa...

Shamanthak Hegde, Xiang-Rui Liu, Maitreya Patel et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Exploiting answer-invariant redundancies in satellite imagery for efficient VLM inference on edge

Onboard vision-language models could enable satellites to answer queries directly, but exhaustive tiled inference over high-resolution imagery is slow and energy-intensive. We identify answer-invariant token redundancy (AITR): image tiles and vision tokens that can be removed without changing the final answer. We prese...

Ishani Janveja, Davis Zhang, Seoyul Oh et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Multimodal Routing and Region Refinement for Language-Guided Medical Image Segmentation

Textual descriptions can reduce ambiguity in medical image segmentation by specifying the finding and location to be delineated. Existing text-guided methods mainly improve where image and language features interact but generally retain a single learned update pathway across all image-text pairs. We propose MRSeg, a pa...

Md. Maklachur Rahman, M. H. Al Banna, Saraf Anjum et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

M-plicits: Neural Implicit Surfaces via Nested Multiscale Residuals

Encoding input coordinates with sinusoidal functions into multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) has proven effective for implicit neural representations (INRs) of surfaces defined as zero-level sets. However, existing methods often struggle to balance training efficiency, rendering speed, and noise robustness: single-MLP appr...

Vin\'icius da Silva, Isabelle Melo, Matheus Bessa et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

UltraBench 2: Towards Robust Evaluation of Vision Foundation Models on Ultrasound

Benchmarking is an increasingly critical part of research in machine learning and the domains where it is applied, including healthcare. Yet, despite the steady development of new ultrasound foundation models in recent years, the development of well-designed benchmarks to evaluate them has lagged behind. This deficienc...

Ashwath Radhachandran, Adam Tupper, Christian Gagné et al. · 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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