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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Harnessing Image Question Dependence for Better VLM Test-time Reinforcement Learning

The proposed TTIQ, a test-time reinforcement learning framework that harnesses image-question dependence for better vlm adaptation, combines image and question dependence with calibrated confidence to construct a response-level reward that favors jointly grounded responses.

Xinrui He, Ting-Wei Li, Jun-Ting Wang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

SomBench: Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Machine Learning in Lunar Science

Lunar orbital missions, such as Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Kaguya/SELENE, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, and Lunar Prospector, among others, provide rich multi-instrument observations, but their heterogeneity in sampling, projection, and conventions limits reproducible machine learning (ML). We introduce...

Himanshu Patil, Gabrielle Nyirjesy, R. Slank et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

A Chosen Future Can Still Be Rewritten: Causal Writability in Video Models

When a video model generates physically incorrect motion, did it fail to learn the correct motion, or did it learn it but fail to use it? We show the latter: the correct motion remains available inside the model and can still be made to control the generated video. We train on videos where red masses oscillate slowly a...

Xing-Yun Wang, Hao-Min Zheng, Man Yuan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Discovering and Preserving Category Correlation Knowledge via Adaptive Reciprocal Knowledge Distillation

Knowledge distillation aims to improve the performance of lightweight student models by transferring knowledge from larger and more powerful teacher models. However, a substantial size gap between teacher and student models often impedes effective knowledge transfer. Most existing approaches adopt a static, one-way tea...

Da-Wen Jiang, Zhi-Shu Shen, Ze-Yu Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

SPICE: Simple Polysemantic Feature Interpretation via Clustering-based Explanation

One of the pivotal recent challenges in neural network interpretability is polysemanticity, where a single neuron is activated by multiple, often unrelated concepts, hindering clear functional understanding. Although prior work has explored this phenomenon, existing approaches remain architecture-specific and depend on...

Sehyun Lee, Dahee Kwon, Damin Lee et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Land Art as a Big-Data Climate Sensor

Robert Smithson's 1970 land artwork Spiral Jetty, located in the north arm of Utah's Great Salt Lake, has alternated between submergence and exposure during severe lake decline. We analyze 1,744 co-registered Landsat 4-9 and Sentinel-2 image chips spanning every year and calendar month from 1984 to 2025. A 14-feature c...

Alev Cinbarci, Sean Kalaycioglu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

FriendBench: Benchmarking Dyadic Familiarity Inference in Humans and Multimodal Large Language Models

Reading a social situation often depends on behavior, not words alone. We introduce FriendBench, a benchmark for inferring whether two people are already familiar or are meeting as strangers, from a 20-second clip of a dyadic ice-breaker conversation. Every pair answers the same type of prompt, so only the manner of in...

Jeffrey M. Girard, Jason Z. Zheng, Jacqueline R. Vertino et al. · 0 citations

Robusto-2: Benchmarking Humans & VLMs for Autonomous Driving in Lima & New York City

It is found that Humans and VLMs diverge in their responses -- though this is modulated by the type of questions asked, and that Humans answer similarly independent of where they are from (Lima/NYC), and that Humans answer similarly independent of where they are from (Lima/NYC).

A. Cespedes, Marcelo Chincha, Dunant Cusipuma 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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