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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Can Generalist Agents Automate Data Curation?

Curating training data is among the most consequential yet labor-intensive parts of modern AI development: practitioners iteratively propose, implement, evaluate, and revise data policies against noisy benchmark feedback. We ask whether generalist coding agents can automate this data-curation loop. We introduce *Curati...

Feiyang Kang, Hanze Li, Adam Nguyen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

BoundInk: Boundary-Aware Online Handwriting Generation

Realistic online handwriting depends not only on individual character shapes, but also on how a writer connects, spaces, and aligns adjacent characters. Existing methods rely primarily on long-range sequence modeling and capture these inter-character behaviors only implicitly. This often produces plausible glyphs accom...

Jinsu Shin, Sungeun Hong, JinYeong Bak · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

On Learning Spatial Structure from Pre-Beamforming Per-Antenna Range-Doppler Radar Measurements

Automotive radar perception pipelines commonly construct angle-domain representations via beamforming before applying learning-based models. This work instead investigates a representational question: can meaningful spatial structure be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-antenna range-Doppler (RD) measurements?...

George Sebastian, Philipp Berthold, Bianca Forkel et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

SenCache: Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Sensitivity-Aware Caching

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art video generation quality, but their inference remains expensive due to the large number of sequential denoising steps. This has motivated a growing line of research on accelerating diffusion inference. Among training-free acceleration methods, caching reduces computation by reu...

Yasaman Haghighi, Alexandre Alahi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

HyperDet: 3D Object Detection with Hyper 4D Radar Point Clouds

How far can 3D object detection go using 4D radar alone? Despite offering weather-robust and velocity- aware sensing for autonomous perception, modern 4D radar still yields sparse, noisy, and unstable point clouds, limiting radar-only 3D detection. We present HyperDet, a detector- agnostic input enhancement pipeline th...

Yichun Xiao, Jin Jin, Runwei Guan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

CytoCrowd: A Multi-Annotator Benchmark Dataset for Cytology Image Analysis

High-quality annotated datasets are crucial for advancing machine learning in medical image analysis. However, a critical gap exists: most datasets either offer a single, clean ground truth, which hides real-world expert disagreement, or they provide multiple annotations without a separate gold standard for objective e...

Yonghao Si, Xingyuan Zeng, Zhao Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Bimanual 3D Hand Motion and Articulation Forecasting in Everyday Images

We tackle the problem of forecasting bimanual 3D hand motion and articulation from a single image in everyday settings. To address the lack of 3D hand annotations in diverse settings, we design an annotation pipeline consisting of a diffusion model to lift 2D hand keypoint sequences to 4D hand motion. For the forecasti...

Aditya Prakash, Richard Li, David Forsyth et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

TempCore: Are Video QA Benchmarks Temporally Grounded?

Vision-language models (VLMs) can ingest only a limited number of video frames, making frame selection a practical necessity. But do current Video QA benchmarks genuinely require temporal frame selection, or can most questions be answered regardless of which frames are shown? We introduce Frame Selection Sensitivity (F...

Hyunjong Ok, Jaeho Lee · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

MMS-VPR: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Street-Level Visual Place Recognition Dataset and Evaluation Benchmark for Dense Pedestrian Environments

Existing visual place recognition (VPR) datasets predominantly rely on vehicle-mounted imagery, offer limited multimodal diversity, and underrepresent dense pedestrian street scenes, particularly in non-Western urban contexts. We present MMS-VPR, a challenging fine-grained multimodal benchmark for pedestrian-level plac...

Yiwei Ou, Xiaobin Ren, Ronggui Sun et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

CLIP-Powered Domain Generalization and Domain Adaptation: A Comprehensive Survey

As machine learning evolves, domain generalization (DG) and domain adaptation (DA) have become crucial for improving model robustness across diverse environments. Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) plays a central role in these tasks, offering strong zero-shot capabilities that allow models to operate effect...

Jindong Li, Yongguang Li, Yali Fu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Diff-2-in-1: Bridging Generation and Dense Perception with Diffusion Models

Beyond high-fidelity image synthesis, diffusion models have recently exhibited promising results in dense visual perception tasks. However, most existing work treats diffusion models as a standalone component for perception tasks, employing them either solely for off-the-shelf data augmentation or as mere feature extra...

Shuhong Zheng, Zhipeng Bao, Ruoyu Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

SSP-GNN: Learning to Track via Bilevel Optimization

We propose a graph-based tracking formulation for multi-object tracking (MOT) where target detections contain kinematic information and re-identification features (attributes). Our method applies a successive shortest paths (SSP) algorithm to a tracking graph defined over a batch of frames. The edge costs in this track...

Griffin Golias, Masa Nakura-Fan, Vitaly Ablavsky · 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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