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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Seeing Before Synthesizing: VLM-Guided Transition Event Discovery for Weakly-Supervised Dense Video Captioning

This work proposes Seeing Before Synthesizing (SBS), a framework that adaptively provides visually grounded linguistic guidance only where warranted and generates frame-level narratives for the inter-event gaps and detects transitions from the semantic variation across them.

Ye-Chan Kim, Seung-Hee Choi, SeungJu Cha et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Adaptive Vision-Language Grasping via Composable Foundation Priors and Generalizable Grasp Synthesis

The results indicate that decoupling physical grasp synthesis from task-dependent understanding provides a scalable paradigm for robotic grasping, allowing future advances in foundation models to be directly translated into improved grasp capabilities without redesigning or retraining the underlying grasp policy.

Si-Xu Yan, Shi-Kang Wang, Bin-Hua Huang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

CORE: Improving Compositional Reasoning in MLLM Embedding via Reranker Distillation

CORE is proposed, which synthesizes candidate lists spanning five compositional matching levels and introduces a Rank-KL objective that trains the embedding model to reproduce the reranker's fine-grained ranking and compares contrastive learning, pairwise CoSENT, and listwise Rank-KL under the same data and tuning budg...

Tingyu Song, Mingxin Li, Yanzhao Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TAP-Path: Task-Adaptive Structural and Token Pruning for Efficient and Trustworthy Pathology Foundation Models

Pathology foundation models improve transferable representation learning for histopathology, but recent gains often rely on encoders with hundreds of millions of parameters and high inference cost. We propose TAP-Path, a task-adaptive compression framework that directly restructures a pretrained Virchow2 encoder rather...

M. Hasan, Ashfak Yeafi, Md Khairul Islam · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Catalogue Photography as a Cold Start: Toward Deployable Rotary Milling Tool Recognition

This work treats catalogue photography as a useful cold start rather than a deployment-ready training domain, and provides empirical baselines and an evaluation protocol for catalogue-to-field transfer in precision tool manufacturing.

A. Madavath, Chandra Yuvesh Aubeeluck, Augustin Raju et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

RARF: Region-Aware Rectified Flows for 3D Brain MRI Inpainting

Medical image inpainting has the potential to improve automated brain MRI analysis by reconstructing healthy tissue within pathological regions. We introduce RARF, a task-agnostic region-aware rectified flow framework for masked data generation. We instantiate the framework for 3D brain MRI inpainting as our submission...

Tomas Guija-Valiente, Blanca Rodriguez-Gonzalez, N. Malpica et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

GraFT: A Training-Free Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via 3D Scene Graphs

GraFT is introduced, a training-free framework that supplies the missing 3D structure through a compact, easily maintained 3D scene graph (3DSG) and provides three spatial reasoning capabilities: deterministic geometry through symbolic tools, allocentric layout through a bird's-eye-view (BEV) rendering, and visual-attr...

Jun Du, Fernando Ropero, Erkin Turkoz et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Phase-Aware Spatial-Frequency Fusion for Few-Shot Fine-Grained Image Classification

Few-shot fine-grained image classification (FSFGIC) aims to classify similar images with limited labeled examples. This work highlights the critical yet underutilized role of phase information in capturing structural relationships within an image. This study introduces a novel plug-and-play amplitude-phase integration...

Rui-Ling Liu, Lin-Yu Zhang, Wenyi Zeng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

LLaDA-Image: Building Strong Image Generators with Fully Open Training Recipes

We introduce LLaDA-Image, a unified framework that pairs a 6B Diffusion Transformer (DiT) trained from scratch with a frozen vision-language understanding module built on the LLaDA2.0-Mini diffusion language model backbone. Instead of relying heavily on paired image-text data from the beginning, we first build a strong...

Chu-Yan Chen, Hao-Xin Chen, Kun Chen et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ENEAS: Embedding-guided Neural Ensemble for Adaptive Segmentation

We present ENEAS, a unified, text-promptable method for instance tracking and semantic discovery. Text-promptable segmentation models, including the latest foundation models such as SAM 3, still suffer from temporal hallucinations, spatial fragmentation, and semantic misclassification: they fail to report target absenc...

J. del Pino, Salvador Rodríguez, Alejandro Garabito 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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