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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Companion-style QA Assistance in Ego-Vision

Experiments show that MyBuddy significantly enhances the performance of foundation models on BuddyVQA, a benchmark for companion-style question answering (QA) on egocentric streaming video, and generalize to other streaming and common video QA benchmarks, demonstrating the applicability and effectiveness of the approac...

Hangyu Qin, Jun-Bin Xiao, Sheng Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Counterfactual Tests for Measuring Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in Visual Language Models

The analysis shows that CoTs do not reliably track visual evidence that influences model predictions, and it is found that Predict-then-Explain explanations align more strongly with perturbation-induced probability shifts than pre-answer CoTs, while binary vCT scores are often nearly saturated.

Bayar Menzat, Max Süss, Rui-Zhi Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Attention-Enhanced Deep Features with Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning for Glaucoma Detection

Experimental evaluation on two public retinal fundus datasets demonstrates that deep feature-based methods consistently outperform handcrafted feature-based methods, while the proposed attention-enhanced framework achieves the best overall performance.

Abdullah Al Shafi, Nishat Sadaf Lira, A. Hasan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ECOKV: Geometry-Aware KV Cache Eviction via Complementary Diversity Metrics

This work proposes a geometry-aware composite metric that jointly leverages Euclidean distance and cosine similarity to capture token diversity from complementary perspectives and uses these two metrics to estimate the redundancy level of each attention head, allowing adaptive weighting between diversity and importance...

Chin-Ting Hsu, Yu-Syuan Xu, Ling Zou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

FSAN: Flow State Attention Network for Aerodynamic Prediction

The Flow State Attention Network (FSAN) separately encodes point cloud and flow conditions, then partitions the geometry into multiple flow states via learnable soft assignments, and uses flow features to update these state representations, which enables fine-grained, state-specific interaction between geometry and flo...

Wen-Xuan Jin, Jian-Guo Yao, Hai-Bing Guan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

When Does a Laugh Begin? Structured Annotator Disagreement in Temporal Laughter Localization

Annotators routinely disagree on laughter boundaries and subtle chuckles, yet temporal laughter localization typically evaluates against a single reference annotation. We show that this disagreement is structured rather than random noise. Re-annotating the SMILE-Temporal benchmark (672 videos, 1,683 events) with 3-5 an...

Eyal Hanania, Daniel Arkushin, Naveh Ayal et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Reading Decoder Trajectories: Training-Free Counterfactual Query-Trajectory Reliability for Small-Object Detection

A training-free framework that elicits latent responses through counterfactual scale interventions and interprets candidate reliability from decoder-internal spatial convergence, semantic persistence, and cross-scale conflicts is proposed, which consistently improves average precision and average precision for small ob...

Zhao-Ning Shi, Bo Ma · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

OracleZoom: On-Policy Self-Distillation Inspired Reference-Constrained Recursive Image Super Resolution

OracleZoom is presented, an on-policy distillation-inspired, reference-constrained framework that trains on its trajectory while carrying the last ground-truth evidence beyond the supervision boundary, and achieves the state-of-the-art SR quality across zooming scales.

Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Sourajit Saha, Shaswati Saha et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

One MLLM, One Call: Efficient Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation via Spatial-Aware Waypoints

Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires an embodied agent to navigate unseen environments by following natural language instructions. Current zero-shot VLN-CE methods either rely on pre-trained waypoint predictors or require multiple queries to large models per step. To address prohi...

Shi-Qi Pan, Qi Zheng, Hanmeng Sun et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Open access Sep 2026

AGSA-Net: Abundance-Guided Self-Attention Network for Spectral Unmixing-Aware Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Image Classification

An abundance-guided self-attention network (AGSA-Net), an abundance-guided self-attention network that explicitly integrates spectral unmixing priors into the classification process, and demonstrates the benefit of incorporating abundance-guided contextual modeling, particularly in heterogeneous urban scenes.

Nafisa Anjum, S. Borno, Ananna Saha 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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