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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Through the Eyes of the Beholder: Biometric and Demographic Conditioning for Multimodal Sexism Detection

The VANGUARD team proposes a human-centered multimodal framework that analyses and incorporates the psychological and demographic characteristics of human annotators into the detection pipeline and releases the full pipeline and analysis to support reproducible human-centered modeling.

A. Mocanu, Sebastian Mocanu, Ciprian-Octavian Truica et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

VideoScout: Learning Agentic Active Exploration with Adaptive Reasoning Pacing for Long Video Understanding

VideoScout is proposed, a multi-turn reasoning agent that instantiates the SEA paradigm through adaptive reasoning pacing and enables efficient traversal of long videos within a bounded visual context window, allowing the agent to access more video content while balancing content analysis depth with reading efficiency.

Weixin Xu, Zhenyu Yang, Bing Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

A Unified Vision-Language Model for PSMA PET/CT Report Generation, Visual Question Answering, and Lesion Segmentation

The model outperformed PET2REP and a CT-based baseline across standard report-generation metrics, improved performance across VQA question types, and achieved higher Dice and lesion-level overlap F1 than SegAnyPET and nnUNet.

Y. Xing, Jiong Wu, Savas Ozdemir et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PIVOT: Physics-Grounded Verification for AI-Generated Audio-Video Detection

PIVOT, a physics-grounded AIGC detector instantiated here for audio-video clips, that estimates physical quantities from video and audio, selects physical laws relevant to each clip, and verifies their measurable constraints, demonstrates the practical promise of physical-consistency verification as a structured and in...

Bo-Yuan Zheng, Kang-Ran Zhao, Xiao-Yu Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Sep 2026

A Conservative OCR-Enabled Workflow for R214 Sodium Screening of South African Packaged Foods

Using food package images to monitor sodium and salt content against South Africa's R214 sodium limits is challenging when screening decisions require product identity, nutrition facts panel evidence, reporting basis, and category-specific thresholds. This study presents a conservative image-based workflow that combine...

Mayimunah Nagayi, A. Khan, Tamryn Frank et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

End-to-End Cell Detection via Instance-aware Graph Modeling

Accurate cell detection and classification are crucial for pathological analysis, directly affecting diagnostic accuracy and treatment planning. To capture complex cellular interactions beyond visual appearance within the tumor microenvironment, several approaches have employed graph neural networks to model spatial an...

Ruochen Liu, Yalin Zheng, Jingxin Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Concept-Grounded Reasoning with Prompt-Driven Localization for Interpretable Structured Report Generation

Experiments on BUS-CoT and IU X-ray datasets demonstrate consistent improvements in diagnostic accuracy, concept consistency, and report quality over strong general-purpose and medical MLLMs, indicating that concept-grounded reasoning better aligns generation with clinical decision processes.

Xin-Yue Xu, Hong-Bin Lin, Juan-Gui Xu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Pre-PEFT Probing: Weight Statistics and Perturbation Robustness for Layer Selection in VLM Vision Encoders

We propose a pre-fine-tuning probing method for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) layer selection, aiming to obtain more stable and higher gains with fewer trainable parameters when adapting large vision--language models (VLMs). Unlike the common practice of applying LoRA and other adapters to all layers at once--...

Qingtao Xia, Jiahua Bao, Siyao Cheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PACE: Progressive Angular-to-Norm Contrastive Embedding

This paper proposes PACE, a two-stage framework that progressively expands both the representation and trainable parameter spaces, and introduces Focal Embedding Loss, a confidence-adaptive objective that downweights queries with high positive retrieval confidence while emphasizing ambiguous queries with competitive ne...

Yan-Ping Li, Wei Zhou, Ya-Wen Liu et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AdaVSkip: Adaptive Visual Token Skipping Across Layers For Efficient MLLMs Inference

AdaVSkip is proposed, which equips each layer with two lightweight routers that independently determine whether visual tokens pass through by or skip the self-attention and MLP modules, and maintains strong task performance with substantially less computation.

Yu-Yao Sun, Tao Deng, Shuang-Hua Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

RAIN: Region-Aware Inversion Network for Semantic Watermark Extraction

A lightweight, prompt-free extractor that decomposes endpoint recovery into an image-like anchor and a noise-oriented residual, which increases the capability of the model to utilize GPU parallel computation, providing an efficient one-step extraction pipeline with a concise theoretical interpretation.

Zi-Lai Li · 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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