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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

RewardVerse: Rubric-Guided Policy Optimization for Video Reward Modeling

RewardVerse, a rubric-based video reward framework that introduces a dynamic rubric as an intermediate representation between the evaluation query and the scorer, mitigates scalar drift, and provides a robust and interpretable reward signal for RL in video generation.

Zhen-Chen Tang, Yang Li, Songlin Yang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

An Evolutionary Agentic Approach for Open-ended Image Quality Perception

Generative models are rapidly expanding image quality assessment (IQA) beyond traditional fidelity factors to emerging dimensions such as physical plausibility and text-rendering correctness. However, existing IQA models rely on fixed definitions and heavy supervision, making them difficult to extend to open-ended perc...

Zhen-Chen Tang, Bo Peng, Zi-Chuan Wang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Planning-Aligned Pretraining of BEV Representations with Sparse Action-Conditioned Targets for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

PAVER, Planning-Aligned BEV Encoder Pretraining is introduced, where from a single LiDAR sweep, PAVER constructs sparse risk and unknown targets describing occupied and unobserved evidence along rule-based ego motions, preserving the downstream architecture and camera-only inference.

Jaeha Song, Soonmin Hwang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SatOV: Restoring Spatial Priors for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Remote Sensing Imagery

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVS) of remote sensing imagery is a challenging pixel-level task requiring strong generalization and adaptation to the spatial characteristics of remote sensing data. Although existing vision-language foundation models perform well in general domains, their image-level classificat...

Chang-Hao Zhao, Ling-Lin Zeng, Hai Liu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Vision2CAD: A Visual Agent Harness for Explicit Geometry Referencing and Localization in Parametric CAD Modeling

Vision2CAD is presented, a visual agent harness that combines vision-language model (VLM) reasoning with deterministic CAD kernel operations and the Geometry Explicit Reference Dataset (GERD), which aligned commands, geometry states and IDs at every modeling step.

Xi Cheng, Chen-Xi Zhai, Hang Cheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Math2Visual-X: A Modular Framework for Pedagogically Aligned Lower-Primary Math Visuals Generation

Visual representations can help lower-primary learners understand Math Word Problems, but generating classroom-usable visuals remains difficult. Existing symbolic systems are controllable but limited in coverage, while end-to-end text-to-image systems often fail to satisfy exact mathematical constraints. This paper pre...

H. D. E. Maduranga, S. K. Munasinghe, K. P. T. I. Weerasekara et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Beyond the Leaderboard: Counterfactual Diagnosis of End-to-End and VLA Driving Policies Under Domain Shift

End-to-end and vision-language-action (VLA) driving policies are compared by leaderboard rank, but a rank reports an outcome, not the behaviour behind it, so it predicts poorly how a policy will behave at a new site. On six released policies, rank on nuScenes open-loop error or on NAVSIM's leaderboard does not carry ov...

Ruolin Yang, Zilin Huang, Buoyue Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AffordanceWAM: Affordance-Aware Joint World-Action Modeling for Robot Manipulation

AffordanceWAM is introduced, an affordance-aware generative World Action Model that represents object-centric spatiotemporal affordance through Scalar Affordance and Affordance Heatmap, within the generated future World, and supports affordance as an effective interface for both vision-language-action learning and huma...

Jia-Di You, Qi-Ze Yu, Yue Chen et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Visual Graph Reasoning via Knowledge Compilation

VGCompiler organizes reasoning around two compilers: a representation compiler that recovers a structure-preserving intermediate graph representation from visual input, and an operation compiler that compiles query intent under the recovered graph state into an executable graph operation.

Rong-Zheng Wang, Zhe Wang, Ke Qin 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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