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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

LookThere! Sparse Vision by Reinforced Selection

Vision transformers typically treat every image token as equally important, yet for most tasks in computer vision only a fraction are needed. Adaptive computation methods accelerate inference by choosing which tokens to process, but existing methods struggle at extreme sparsity and require heuristics that may not gener...

Sreehari Rammohan, Yousef Yassin, A. Fuller et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Latent-Aligned Reasoning for Multimodal Recommendation

LARK (Latent-Aligned Reasoning frameworK), a two-stage latent reasoning framework with complementary alignment mechanisms within a single VLM, achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple recommendation architectures, with controlled ablations confirming the distinct contribution of each component.

Jia-Rui Jin, An-Ya Ji · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Hidden In Plain Gaze: Gaze Representations as Privacy Controls for Utility and Re-identification Risk in XR

This work studies whether gaze data representation choice can serve as a lightweight privacy control at feature extraction, before adding perturbation or formal privacy mechanisms, and compares three gaze representations under matched model capacity.

Cory Ilo, Brendan John, Doug A. Bowman · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

The microscope is the mask: privileged views and labels from a cryo-ET forward model

We explore the use of simulated data for training a model for protein annotation in crowded cryo-electron tomography volumes reconstructed from images collected at limited tilt angles and severely corrupted by the measurement operator. Firstly, we leverage the corruptions imposed by the forward model to generate domain...

Bogdan Toader, Kiarash Jamali, Tanmay A. M. Bharat et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

TRNet: Learning with Topographic Priors for VHR Paddy Rice Mapping

Extensive ablation, slope stratified, and cross year seasonal analyses demonstrate that the improvements arise from effective frequency rectification and structure learning, which reduce steep terrain false positives and low slope rice omissions.

Kaiwen Xiao, Chun-Long Fu, Li-Ping Zheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

ARGOS: Who, Where, and When in Agentic Multi-Camera Person Search

Existing person search methods assume access to complete visual queries or exhaustive tracking, yet real-world witness accounts are vague, partial, and spread across cameras and time. We introduce ARGOS (Agentic Retrieval with Grounded Observational Search), a benchmark and agent framework that recasts multi-camera per...

Myungchul Kim, Kwanyong Park, Junmo Kim et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Open access Mar 2026

YOLO with Kolmogorov-Arnold networks and vision-language foundation models for interpretable object detection with trustworthy multimodal AI in computer vision perception

The trustworthy object detection capabilities of a novel Kolmogorov-Arnold network framework are examined here, and it offers a powerful tool for transparent and practical perception component for autonomous and multimodal artificial intelligence applications.

Marios Impraimakis, Daniel Vazquez, Fei Zhou · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

MultihopSpatial: Multi-hop Compositional Spatial Reasoning Benchmark for Vision-Language Model

Spatial reasoning is foundational for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), particularly when deployed as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) agents in physical environments. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on elementary, single-hop relations, neglecting the multi-hop compositional reasoning and precise visual groun...

Youngwan Lee, Soojin Jang, Yoorhim Cho et al. · 0 citations

Post Fusion Bird's Eye View Feature Stabilization for Robust Multimodal 3D Detection

A Post Fusion Stabilizer (PFS), a lightweight module that operates on intermediate BEV representations of existing detectors and produces a refined feature map for the original detection head that preserves performance while improving robustness under diverse camera and LiDAR corruptions.

T. Dong, Devangi Thakkar, Arman Sargolzaei et al. · 5 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

GSM8K-V: Can Vision Language Models Solve Grade School Math Word Problems in Visual Contexts

Mathematical reasoning is a key capability for vision-language models (VLMs), yet current benchmarks mainly evaluate text-based or explicitly symbolic visual inputs. It remains unclear whether VLMs can reason mathematically when information must be perceived and inferred from images rather than read from explicit symbo...

Fan Yuan, Yuchen Yan, Yifan Jiang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Cross-Task Generalization Between Understanding and Generation in Unified Vision-Language Models: A Controlled Study

Unified vision-language models (VLMs) aim to support both visual understanding and generation within a single framework, but it remains unclear when mixed training benefits both capabilities and when it introduces conflicts. This paper presents a controlled empirical study of cross-task generalization between understan...

Jihai Zhang, Tianle Li, Linjie Li 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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