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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Towards Robust Classroom Attendance: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Face Detection and Recognition Models

Manual attendance methods, such as paper or register-based systems, take a lot of time, can lead to errors, and are easy to falsify. Face recognition is more reliable, but it frequently struggles in classrooms because lighting and other conditions can vary. Face recognition datasets are designed for regulated environme...

Himani Trivedi, Hiren B. Patel, Ridham Patel et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Forecasting Intrathecal Tracer Enhancement from Pre-Contrast Brain MRI: Direct Regression versus Flow Matching

Intrathecal contrast-enhanced MRI tracks how a cerebrospinal-fluid tracer spreads through the brain, but requires repeated scans over 24--48\,h. Forecasting enhancement from a pre-contrast scan could one day help select patients for intrathecal drug treatment and plan their dose. We ask how much of the enhancement at a...

Qinghui Liu, Jon Andr\'e Ottesen, Thu Nguyen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

ALPINE: Adaptive Localization for Parameter- and Sample-Efficient Few-Shot Learning

Few-shot learning research is predominantly evaluated on accuracy alone, with limited attention to the parameter and training-sample budgets required to reach that accuracy - a real constraint for practitioners without large-scale compute. We present an ultra-lightweight (22,249-34,917 parameter) spatial-relational arc...

Neeraj Yadav · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Seeing Through Conflicts: Improving Instruction Hierarchy Alignment in Vision-Language Models

Instruction hierarchy (IH) alignment teaches language models to prioritize higher-level instructions when inputs conflict. While studied primarily in text-only settings, vision-language models (VLMs) introduce new challenges for IH: instructions may be embedded in images, split across modalities, visually transformed,...

Nicholas Sansoterra, Zi-Shuo Zheng, Sachin Kumar · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Prescriptive SVD-Inspired Attention via Spectral Energy Retention

Self-attention is central to modern Transformer architectures, but its dense dot-product formulation makes it difficult to identify which internal directions are structurally important and which can be modified without disrupting the model. SVD-Inspired Attention (SVDA) addresses part of this problem by introducing a l...

Vasileios Arampatzakis, Vasileios Sevetlidis, George Pavlidis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Reinforcement Learning Inspired Black-box Adversarial Attacks for Computer Vision

Neural networks, both convolution or transformer based, are essential for modern computer vision systems. However, they are vulnerable to small perturbations, almost imperceptible to humans, which significantly alter the model's prediction. These adversarial attacks are often considered to be a significant threat to th...

F. Krone, Elena Hoemann, Sven Hallerbach · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

SPeaR: Test-Time Adaptation with Steering Primitives for Realigning Representations

Test-time adaptation (TTA) addresses distribution shift using only unlabeled test data. Existing methods typically adapt pretrained models by updating their parameters, limiting both what is adapted and where adaptation can occur within the network. We instead keep the pretrained network frozen and steer its intermedia...

Muhammad Sudipto Siam Dip, Ali Etemad · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Graph-to-Grid (G2G): Continuous-Coordinate Feature Painting for Soccer Pass Surfaces

Dense pass surfaces give, for every pitch cell, whether a pass played there would arrive, whether the carrier would choose it, and what the possession would then be worth. The networks that draw them read the state as a raster of per-cell counts, losing where inside a cell each player stands. LiDAR detectors, bird's-ey...

Kaan G\"unay, Orhun Gun · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

A multi-temporal dataset for mapping burned areas in the Brazilian Cerrado using time series of remote sensing imagery

This paper introduces a multi-temporal tabular dataset derived from satellite images to map burned areas in the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in Goi\'as, Brazil, covering the years 2020 to 2022. The dataset contains blue, green, red, and near-infrared bands, as well as the BAI, EVI, GEMI, NDVI, and NDWI spectral...

Alisson Cleiton de Oliveira, Thales Sehn K\"orting · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Are Coreset Selection Methods Worth Their Cost?

Coreset selection picks a representative subset of the labeled training set to make training cheaper. However, it is usually evaluated by downstream accuracy at a fixed subset size, ignoring both the time spent selecting the subset and the training recipe behind each reported number. We introduce an end-to-end benchmar...

Yang-Ze Liu, Zhong-Yi Han · 1 citation · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

RS-Claw-Evolution: Environment-Feedback-Driven Evolution for Lightweight Remote Sensing Agents in Long-Horizon Tasks

Large language model-driven remote sensing (RS) agents offer a promising approach to automating geospatial analysis. However, lightweight RS agents based on compact language models struggle with multi-step interactive tasks due to loss of long-horizon states, inefficient environmental feedback utilization, and sparse o...

Kai Ouyang, Dong-Yang Hou, Liang Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Task-Aware QUBO Allocation for Mixed-Precision Quantization

Mixed-precision quantization requires discrete allocation of weight and activation bit-widths, followed by recovery of the selected network. We develop a task-aware quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) surrogate with separate weight and activation profiles, a bit-operation (BOP) cost, and selected structu...

Osama Orabi, A. Zagitov, Hadi Salloum 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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