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#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

Evolution of Multimodal Question Answering: From Modality-Adaptive Extraction to Unified Language Representation

A comprehensive methodological comparison of three influential frameworks, namely Multimodal Adaptive Extraction, Solar, and UniMMQA, tracing the evolution of multimodal question answering from modality-adaptive pipelines to fully unified architectures reveals a clear shift from explicit modality-specific processing to...

Abdullah Al Shafi · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

BanglaMemeX: Advancing Cultural Metaphoric Image Interpretation in Bangla with a Multimodal Explainable Dataset

BanglaMemeX is introduced, a culturally grounded multimodal benchmark comprising 3,000 Bangla memes annotated with multi-dimensional labels and human-written explanations that explicitly describe textual and visual metaphors.

Md Sadman Sakib, Zisan Mahmud, Mohammad Fahim Arefin et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

CONDUIT: A Unified Residual-Stream Restoration Framework for KV Cache Reuse in Vision-Language Models

CONDUIT, a training-free refresh policy that unifies single- and multi-image reuse as residual-stream restoration, is proposed, building on norm-weighted attention and an accessible pre-output cached-value-norm proxy, then applies empirical image-level relevance amplification before one global selection.

Pengan Chen, Kai-Sheng Zheng, Liang Hong et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Jun 2026

Pre-Warm: Initializing Convolutional Filters from First-Batch Patch Dictionaries

Pre-Warm, the proposed methodology, is the rule-based use of both dictionaries: the patch count follows the filter count and a foreground density, both dictionaries are built from a single minibatch, and whichever of principal components or k-means better reconstructs those patches is written into the first half of the...

Rowan Martnishn · 0 citations

Understanding Cross-Modal Contributions in Continual Vision-Language Models: A Theoretical Perspective

This paper presents a new theoretical perspective to understand the cross-modal (vision-language) contributions to consecutive environments, and provides deeper insights into continual VLMs, highlighting their contribution robustness to varying task orders and inter-task similarities, and their improved generalization...

S. Sekeh, M. Wisell · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Discriminative Span as a Predictor of Synthetic Data Utility via Classifier Reconstruction

In many real-world computer vision applications, including medical imaging and industrial inspection, binary classification tasks are characterized by a severe scarcity of positive samples. A widely adopted solution is to generate synthetic positive data using image-to-image transformations applied to negative samples....

Radhika Amar Desai, Modigari Narendra · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Learn to Rank: Visual Attribution by Learning Importance Ranking

Interpreting the decisions of complex computer vision models is crucial to establish trust and accountability, especially in safety-critical domains. An established approach to interpretability is generating visual attribution maps that highlight regions of the input most relevant to the model's prediction. However, ex...

David Schinagl, Christian Fruhwirth-Reisinger, Alexander Prutsch et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Hyperspectral Trajectory Image for Multi-Month Trajectory Anomaly Detection

Trajectory anomaly detection underpins applications from fraud detection to urban mobility analysis. Dense GPS methods preserve fine-grained evidence such as abnormal speeds and short-duration events, but their quadratic cost makes multi-month analysis intractable; consequently, no existing approach detects anomalies o...

Md Awsafur Rahman, Chandrakanth Gudavalli, Hardik Prajapati et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

LGQ: Learnable Geometric Quantization for Image Tokenization

Recent collapse-free quantizers such as FSQ achieve stable training by replacing the learnable codebook with an engineered geometry: a fixed scalar grid whose structure is dictated by the codebook size K. We show this trade-off is unnecessary. We introduce Learnable Geometric Quantization (LGQ), which retains a learnab...

Idil Bilge Altun, Mert Onur Cakiroglu, Elham Buxton et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Rotation-free Online Handwritten Character Recognition Using Linear Recurrent Units

Online handwritten character recognition leverages stroke order and dynamic features, which generally provide higher accuracy and robustness compared with offline recognition. However, in practical applications, rotational deformations can disrupt the spatial layout of strokes, substantially reducing recognition accura...

Zhe Ling, Sicheng Yu, Danyu Yang · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Jan 2026

Observing Health Outcomes Using Remote Sensing Imagery and Geo-Context-Guided Visual Transformer

A geo-context-guided visual transformer (GCGVT) that enhances remote sensing imagery processing with auxiliary geospatial guidance and outperforms pretrained remote sensing vision-language models and graph-based spatial fusion baselines in disease prevalence prediction.

Yu Li, G. DeSouza, P. Rao 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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