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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Your Model Already Knows Don't Teach It, Learn to Ask It: Soft Prompting for Few-Shot Adaptation of Vision-Language Models

We address few-shot object detection with vision-language models (VLMs) in out-of-domain settings such as aerial, industrial, and medical imagery, using only ten annotated images for supervision. Existing adaptation methods are discrete prompt optimization and LoRA fine-tuning. We revisit a third option: soft prompting...

Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare, Si-Ying Li, He-Wei Wang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Improving Faint Object Detection for Space Situational Awareness with Variational Autoencoders

A deep-learning pipeline for enhancing the detection of faint moving objects in optical space situational awareness (SSA) imagery through automated star removal and background reconstruction is presented, thereby providing an effective data-driven preprocessing strategy for faint moving-object detection in optical SSA...

Angela Cratere, Luca Ghilardi, Vishnu Reddy et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

TailProp: content-adaptive light- and heavy-tailed propagation for vision

Control ablations show that gains in cross-regime adaptive propagation are not explained by single-basis propagation, an additional same-family branch, or within-family adaptive order alone, supporting complementary two-basis propagation as an effective design principle for visual representation learning.

Jia-Hao Kong, Zi-Han Li · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Meta-Learning for Classifier Selection in Image Datasets: A Feature-Driven Framework for Accuracy Prediction

This paper proposes a meta-learning framework that leverages a comprehensive set of meta-features capturing dataset complexity to predict classifier performance without exhaustive training, and achieves an average ranking prediction accuracy exceeding 86%, demonstrating its effectiveness in guiding model selection.

Zahra Nabizadeh-ShahreBabak, Farzaneh Koohestani, Nader Karimi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

New Evidence, Same Choice: Testing Physical Experiment Selection in Vision Language Models

Whether vision language models can decide when to answer immediately and, when more evidence is needed, which experiment to perform is studied to reveal limitations in physical reasoning that conventional answer accuracy can overlook.

Sourajit Saha, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Nobin Sarwar et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Symmetry-aware super-resolution of crystal orientation maps via invariant latent-space learning

Crystal-orientation maps are physical fields defined only up to crystal symmetry; electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) resolves them experimentally, but acquisition-time constraints limit spatial resolution. Unlike conventional images, EBSD data lie on the quotient space $\mathrm{SO}(3)/G$, where $G$ is the crystal-...

Umang Garg, Warren Zamudio, M. Echlin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Are We Really Doing Few-Shot Learning? A Critical Examination of Pre-Training Assumptions

The results show that class disjointness alone is insufficient to remove the influence of target-domain data, highlighting the need to move beyond in-domain pre-training as the default few-shot evaluation protocol, since it can overestimate performance in realistic scenarios where target-domain data are scarce.

Alejandro Gal'an-Cuenca, Marcelo Saval-Calvo, Antonio Javier Gallego · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Scale-Aware 3D Deep Learning for Robust Brain Metastasis Detection in Multimodal MRI

On a 97-patient development cohort, cross-FOV fusion improved lesion-level precision and F1 while substantially reducing false positives relative to the individual models, supporting cross-FOV probability fusion as a simple and computationally practical strategy for improving the precision-false-positive trade-off in 3...

S. Jaume, Hong-Ming Wang, S. Warfield · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

How Much Velocity Does Off-Ball Space Value Need? A Broadcast-Viewport Benchmark

Velocity-aware pitch control is standard, but under a broadcast viewport half the players are off screen and on-screen velocities come from a drifting calibration. We ask at which layer of broadcast off-ball analysis velocity changes the answer. Inheriting our off-screen imputation protocol (three Metrica matches, 44 m...

Seongjin Choi · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Meta-Learning for Data-Efficient Plant Growth Estimation via Vision Transformers and Fuzzy Clustering

A few-shot regression framework that combines Vision Transformer feature embeddings, clustering-based task construction, and gradient-based meta-learning is proposed, and it is shown that task construction in embedding space is a primary driver of performance.

Sheikh Hasan Elahi, R. Dewage, Habib Ullah et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

HuRo: Robotizing Human Videos for Scalable VLA Pretraining

A robotization pipeline is developed that converts heterogeneous human videos into robot-aligned observations and action trajectories while inferring missing intermediate signals across annotation levels and constructs the HuRo dataset, comprising about 630K robotized episodes and 142M processed frames from five human-...

Jinho Jeong, Se June Joo, Jaehyun Kang et al. · 2 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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