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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TTTIR: Unlocking Instance-Specific State Evolution via Test-Time Training for Image Restoration

This work designs Progressive State Sequence Generation (PSSG) to construct complementary spatial-frequency target states (defining what to recover), and State Transition Evolution (STE) to adapt lightweight transition operators via a restoration-oriented TTT inner loop (determining how the features should evolve).

Kai-Han Zheng, Jun Li, Hang Guo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

CricRAG: Retrieval Augmented Vision-Language Models for Personalized Cricket Coaching

CricRAG, a retrieval-augmented framework that aligns VLMs with skill-appropriate benchmarks for personalized cricket coaching, is presented, finding that by retrieving similar-but-better techniques as reference points, it can guide VLMs to provide developmentally appropriate feedback that mirrors human coaching practic...

Agamdeep Singh, PB Sujit, M. Vatsa · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

EMERGE: Resolution-Agnostic Point Cloud Generation with Equivariant Graph-Based Diffusion

Point cloud generation has emerged as a crucial task for accurately capturing and reproducing the complexity of the physical world. However, existing generative approaches, predominantly relying on Transformers and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), frequently ignore the continuous, non-grid topologies inherent to 3D spa...

Ilias Mitsouras, Nikolaos Chaidos, Giorgos Stamou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

BAS-OPD: Budget-Aware Selective On-Policy Self-Distillation for Fine-Grained Multimodal Perception

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often struggle with fine-grained visual perception when processing complete images, as critical evidence may only appear in local regions. On-policy self-distillation (OPD) enables transferring privileged visual knowledge from informative views to full-image policies, but queryi...

Zi-Han Chen, Heng-Guang Zhou, Yuan Kang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Video-HopChain: Multi-Hop Questions and Confidence-Gated Exploration for Video Reasoning Models

HopChain has shown on still images that multi-hop data synthesis improves vision-language reasoning, because long chain-of-thought reasoning exposes errors that compound across steps, while most data used for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) rarely demands a chain of visual evidence, so these weakn...

Trung Nguyen Quang, Yuhao Dong, Shuo Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Interpretable AI plus Handheld, Portable Retinal Photographs: A Low-Cost Glaucoma Screening Solution for West Africa

Volk Viva results were reasonably comparable to Canon CR-2-AF in the component models and not far behind in classification, which shows that interpretable AI combined with low-cost, portable imaging may enhance community-level glaucoma screening, especially in settings with limited specialist access and resources.

Charis Y. N. Chiang, T. Sarimiye, A. Ashaye et al. · 0 citations

RootQuantV2: Adapting a Vision Foundation Model for Root-Trait Regression from Minirhizotron Imagery

RootQuantV2 repurposes legacy numeric archives for high-throughput, automated root trait estimation, replacing RootQuant's CNN backbone with a self-supervised ViT and adapting a frozen DINOv3 ViT-L/16 with a hybrid parameter-efficient scheme.

Kinjalk Parth, Sebastian Varela, A. Leakey · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

RGSQ: Riemannian Geometry-Sensitive Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models

Riemannian Geometry-Sensitive Quantization (RGSQ), which formulates quantization as a reconstruction problem under a unified Fisher-Riemannian metric, enabling standard unimodal PTQ methods to evaluate multimodal quantization error under their original assumptions.

Zhi-Ping Wu, Dong-Dong Ren, Yang Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Geometric and Semantic Coupling for Interaction Understanding in 3D Scenes

Interaction understanding in 3D scenes requires a joint description of movable parts, their motion, and the regions through which they can be operated. We present Segment-Snap, which connects these outputs through the physical relationship between parts and handles. Learned predictors identify broad part surfaces and s...

Hanyang Kong, Xingyi Yang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

WILSON - a pathology foundation model framework for patient-level analysis and diagnostic text generation

Pathologists integrate morphology across magnifications and across the slides of a patient case, whereas pathology foundation models encode thousands of tiles from single slides and aggregate their features. Here we present WILSON, a vision--language foundation model that represents whole-slide images and multi-slide c...

S. Alfasly, W. Uegami, S. Hemati et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

You've Seen Enough: Quality-Constrained Image Coding for Machines

This paper proposes two variants of a penalty function that guides the quality toward the target: an absolute function and a bilinear function, the latter applying a steeper slope once the target visual quality is exceeded.

Khoa Pham-Dinh, Sanaz Nami, H. R. Tavakoli 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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