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...
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
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.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
The results suggest that intuitive-physics knowledge emerges reliably in pretrained video representations, but its accessibility depends strongly on pretraining paradigm, representational depth, and readout mechanism.
Samuele Punzo, N. Caselli, Ippokratis Pantelidis et al.· 3 citations
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Medical vision-language models (VLMs) have shown increasing potential for clinical image interpretation, including lesion detection and report generation. However, their practical utility remains limited by insufficient sensitivity to subtle lesions, whose visual evidence is often sparse, low-contrast, and embedded wit...
Qiwei Zeng, Hao Wang, Jinghao Lin et al.· 0 citations
Few-step distillation has emerged as a critical component in the development of advanced visual generative foundation models, substantially reducing inference overhead while enabling real-time generation and cost-efficient deployment across a broad range of practical scenarios. However, prior work has predominantly foc...
Tianhe Wu, Zikai Zhou, Kun Yan et al.· 0 citations
Modern 3D medical vision-language models (VLMs) can generate fluent radiology-style text while exhibit critically low pathology detection and output diversity, collapsing to generic templates that under-report rare yet critical findings. We identify this failure mode as Template Collapse. This failure stems from the un...
Tom Maye-Lasserre, Yitong Li, Bailiang Jian et al.· 0 citations
Dynamic Semantic Steering (DSS) is proposed, a training-free, inference-time defense framework for robust and controllable concept erasure under prompt-level adversarial settings and achieves strong and consistent suppression across diverse concept categories and adversarial prompts.
Qing Gong, Zheng-Chun Zhou, Hua Meng et al.· 0 citations
A sample-efficient personalization method that uses a few pairwise judgments to weight prior users' preferences rather than relying on a fixed rubric of UI attributes, which outperforms a pretrained UI evaluator and a larger multimodal model offline.
Yihang Peng, Samarth Das, Jeffrey P. Bigham et al.· arXiv.org· 2 citations
Medical image segmentation (MIS) is a fundamental component of computer-assisted diagnosis and clinical decision support. Over the past decade, numerous architectures specifically tailored to medical imaging have emerged to address domain-specific challenges such as low contrast, small anatomical structures, and limite...
Vanessa Borst, Anna Riedmann, Samuel Kounev· 0 citations
How does irrelevant information (i.e., distractors) affect test-time scaling in vision-language models (VLMs)? Prior work on text-only language models has shown that textual distractors can intensify inverse scaling, causing models to reason longer but less effective reasoning traces. In this work, we investigate wheth...
Jiyun Bae, Hyunjong Ok, Sangwoo Mo et al.· 0 citations
Medical image segmentation is fundamental for biomedical discovery. Existing methods lack generalizability and demand extensive, time-consuming manual annotation for new clinical application. Here, we propose MedSAM-3, a text promptable medical segmentation model for medical image and video segmentation. By fine-tuning...
Anglin Liu, Xu R. Cao, Yifan Shen et al.· 0 citations
Exploring how generative AI could make machine vision more accessible to businesses. The post GenEye in a Box: Making Machine Vision Something You Can Just Ask For appeared first on GPT-Lab.
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.
Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.