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#artificial intelligence Open access Sep 2026

Blockchain-Enabled Artificial Intelligence and AI Agents for Secure Data Sharing and Cybersecurity Applications

This paper presents a meta-synthesis that draws together four constituent studies covering adversarial machine learning, AI-powered anomaly detection in cloud environments, automated vulnerability patching by multi-agent large language model (LLM) pipelines, and the broader landscape of securing AI systems across their...

Harsh Verma · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

Luce: Relightable Gaussians for 3D Asset Generation

High-fidelity image-to-3D generation requires a 3D representation that captures both geometry and appearance. To support relighting and integration into standard rendering pipelines, the representation should include physically based rendering (PBR) modalities such as albedo, metallic-roughness, and surface normals. We...

M. Singh, Michele Stoppa, Alvise Memo et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

AVA-Encoder: Towards Agent-Native Video Representation Learning

The Agentic Video Auto-Encoder (AVA-Encoder), a novel auto-encoding framework driven by agentic self-evolution to learn agent-native video representations that outperforms a carefully human-tuned policy while using 74.3% fewer shot-level and keyframe-level system-prompt tokens.

Chuyue Li, Jinpeng Yu, Hao-Zhe Wang et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Scaffolding Minds: Optimizing Latent Visual Target Representations for Multimodal Reasoning

This paper proposes Scaffolding Minds, a dedicated scaffolding encoder that provides an optimized target in latent space, and learns both the mean and variance of the RL sampler, and shows that these two improvements are complementary, together yielding substantial gains over strong baselines.

Haoqiang Kang, Yin-Ping Chen, Lu-Yang Liu et al. · 2 citations
#computer vision Jul 2026

OPD-IAD: From Language Judgment to Industrial Anomaly Detection via On-Policy Self-Distillation

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have recently shown strong potential for industrial anomaly detection (IAD) by providing image-level anomaly judgments and interpretable defect reasoning. However, current LVLM-based IAD methods still struggle to produce precise pixel-level anomaly maps from generated language judgm...

Shuimu Chen, Jing Jin, Nan Su et al. · 1 citation
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

Llama-Mobile: Efficient 2.7-Bit Quantization of VLMs

This work presents a framework for quantizing VLMs for efficient inference on resource-constrained hardware, which combines a quantization pipeline that uses the model itself to generate training data and does not require access to the training setup, with a novel 2.7-bit-per-parameter format.

Luka Ribar, Jeevan Bhoot, Douglas Orr · 0 citations

Multi-Axis Max@K Reinforcement Learning for Representative Diversity in Text-to-Image Generation

This work formalizes target-mode coverage as target-mode coverage, the coverage of a predefined set of semantically specified modes, and proposes multi-axis max@K, a group-based reinforcement learning objective for improving it in diffusion-based T2I models.

Ku Onoda, Paavo Parmas, Hiroki Furuta et al. · 3 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

Occlusion-Robust Multimodal Emotion Recognition in VR via Fusion of Facial Images and EMG

This work fusing lower-face video with facial electromyography from the occluded upper face to classify seven emotional categories, demonstrating that upper-face EMG provides robust complementary information under HMD-induced visual occlusion and establishing a foundation for multimodal emotion recognition in naturalis...

Birgit Nierula, Karam Tomotaki-Dawoud, M. Akguel et al. · 1 citation
#computer vision Preprint Jun 2026

Chehre: An Emoji-Prompted Dataset to Explore Perceptual Flexibility in Video Language Models

Chehre, an emoji-prompted video dataset with a wide range of dynamic facial expressions for exploring perceptual variation, finds that persona prompting can act as a controllable way to shift model perception while helping models better capture the variation observed across human annotators.

Bita Azari, Zoe Stanley, Avneet Batra et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Attend to Evidence: Evidence-Anchored Spatial Attention Supervision for Multimodal RLVR

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves vision-language models (VLMs) by optimizing outcome rewards derived from final answers. However, such outcome-only rewards do not tell the model which image regions justify an answer. For questions that require visual grounding, these rewards cannot disting...

Ruina Hu, Chen Wang, Lai Wei et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

Editable Visual Design

Editable Visual Design is proposed, a new paradigm driven by a Coding Agent that achieves both refined aesthetics and production-grade editability and faithfully reproduces the creative and reasoning trajectory akin to that of professional human designers.

Jun-Yan Ye, Wei Liu, Dongzhi Jiang 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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