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#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

Can Vision-Language Models Analyze Human-Centered Video? Mapping Model Capabilities and Human-AI Collaborative Workflows

This work systematically analyzes all 1,702 CHI 2026 full papers and identifies 125 that annotate videos, and derives a five-dimensional taxonomy spanning analytic purpose, viewpoint, phenomenon, reasoning requirement, and annotation authority to map the capabilities and limitations of a general-purpose VLM.

Xi-Yuan Shen, Jiuyang Lyu, Seokhyun Hwang et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Open access Sep 2026

ASAP: Visual analytics for identifying and analyzing image patterns in AI-generated images

Generative image models can produce highly realistic images, raising concerns about potential misuse in creating deceptive content. Current deepfake approaches face several challenges, including limited generalizability, lack of interpretability, and poor actionability. To help address these, we present ASAP, an intera...

Jinbin Huang, Yuki Ueno, Chen Chen et al. · 0 citations

DreamAvoid: Critical-Phase Test-Time Dreaming to Avoid Failures in VLA Policies

This work proposes DreamAvoid, a critical-phase test-time dreaming framework that enables VLA models to anticipate and avoid failures, and introduces an autonomous boundary learning paradigm to refine the system's understanding of the subtle boundary between success and failure.

Xianzhe Fan, Yuxiang Lu, Shen-Yuan Gao et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

What Looks Like a Capability Limit in Vision-Language Models Is a Readout Limit

Benchmarks for vision-language models offer their answer choices in some convention: a letter, a color name, a pixel coordinate. That convention is treated as neutral. We find it is not, and that the limits a benchmark reports can belong to the readout rather than to the model. On 200 COCO photographs, Qwen3-VL-4B pi...

Alfredo F. Frontera Del Valle · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite

Rapid progress in video models has largely focused on visual quality, leaving their reasoning capabilities underexplored. Video reasoning grounds intelligence in spatiotemporally consistent visual environments that go beyond what text can naturally capture, enabling intuitive reasoning over spatiotemporal structure suc...

Maijunxian Wang, Ruisi Wang, Juyi Lin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Faithful, Interpretable Chest X-ray Diagnosis with Artifact-free B-cos Networks

Faithfulness and interpretability are essential for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical domains such as medical image analysis. B-cos networks modify the parameterization of convolutional and classification layers to measure class evidence via feature-weight alignment, enabling built-in, class-spec...

Shreyash Arya, Shashank Agnihotri, Marcel Kleinmann et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Integrated Multivariate Segmentation Tree for Heterogeneous Credit Data Analysis in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Traditional decision tree models, which rely exclusively on numerical variables, often face challenges in handling high-dimensional data and are limited in their ability to incorporate textual information effectively. To address these limitations, we propose the integrated multivariate segmentation tree (IMST), a compr...

Lu Han, Xiuying Wang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

On the Diffusibility of High-Dimensional Latents

It is shown that using the standard velocity prediction in flow matching in this high-dimensional space requires the model to fit orthogonal noise directions outside the low-dimensional signal manifold, making optimization inefficient, and motivated using the clean data parameterization ($\boldsymbol{x}_{0}$-prediction...

Chao Feng, Zhi-Yang Xu, Bo-Wei Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

PBLH Estimation from Satellite Radiances via a Dual-Encoder Transformer

This paper builds upon the large-scale dataset pairing MetOp radiances with ERA5 PBLH labels, and presents the best-performing architecture found: a dual-encoder Transformer whose masked-input handling lets it operate in all weather conditions.

Lorenzo Innocenti, Luca Catalano, Edoardo Arnaudo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

RAMP: Robust Adaptive Mixed-Precision Quantization for Edge CPU Vision Models

K-Means clustering is addressed with K-Means clustering, achieving near-lossless accuracy and a mean speed-up over the full-precision model, and it is revealed that excluding from quantization the layers whose speed-up is negligible, regardless of their sensitivity, can be counterproductive.

D. Población-Criado, D. García-Gasulla, Eduardo Quiñones · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Generalizable Robotic Insertion with World Models

Robotic assembly in high-mixture settings requires adaptable systems that can handle diverse parts, yet current approaches typically rely on policies specialized to each insertion task. Although this can reach high success rates, it makes the process of deploying systems for new problems tedious and time consuming. We...

Nicklas Hansen, Iretiayo Akinola, Yi-Jie Guo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Visual Tripwires: Anticipating Failure in Deep Vision Systems

Deep vision systems remain vulnerable to corruption, occlusion, and distribution shift despite strong benchmark performance. Existing reliability methods typically evaluate uncertainty at individual time steps and do not explicitly model how a system progresses toward failure. We introduce Visual Tripwires, a predictiv...

Anoushka Harit, Rehan Zuberi, William Prew 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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