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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Swin Meets EfficientNet: Lightweight Architectures for GAN-Based Face Forensics

Modern generative models, such as GANs, diffusion architectures, and autoregressive systems, now produce facial images that are nearly indistinguishable from authentic photographs. This capability makes detecting forged images increasingly difficult, raising serious concerns about identity theft, fraud, and misinformat...

S. Basu, Ashima Sood, Vijay Kumar et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

DocHop: Benchmarking Out-of-domain Multi-hop Reasoning in Information-Dense Documents

This work introduces DocHop, a benchmark for integrated chart--context reasoning in document-style images and constructs DocHop via a stochastic logic-first generation pipeline with controllable reasoning depth and visual density, to enable systematic evaluation.

Zhuoran Yu, Le Thien Phuc Nguyen, Jaden Park et al. · 1 citation

DriftWorld: Fast World Modeling through Drifting

Predictive world models enable robots to plan by imagining the outcomes of their actions, but their value for control hinges on generating many rollouts quickly. This creates a bottleneck for diffusion-based world models: multistep sampling makes each rollout expensive, limiting large-scale action search at inference t...

Susie Lu, Haonan Chen, Weirui Ye et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Less Is More: Balancing Positive and Negative Space in Visual Concept Blending

Graphic designers often blend visual concepts to communicate multiple ideas within a single image, leveraging positive and negative space to create balance, emphasis, and aesthetic appeal. While computational methods have begun to support automatic concept blending, they largely overlook the role of spatial composition...

Shishi Xiao, Adam J. Coscia, David H. Laidlaw · 0 citations
#computer vision Book Open access Apr 2026

No Pixel Left Behind: Filling Gaps in Anime Colorization

This work introduces GapFill, a tool grounded in professional practices that reduces the effort of gap detection, zooming, and color selection and suggests appropriate fill colors by referencing surrounding regions, leveraging the flat-color nature of anime-style images.

Masahiro Kono, Akinobu Maejima, Yuki Koyama et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Jun 2026

When Irrelevant Text Matters: Affine Margin Shifts in Multimodal Large Language Models

This paper investigates the influence of task-irrelevant context by formulating it as a controlled intervention within a binary visual judgment framework and reveals a robust geometric regularity: contextconditioned margins follow a consistent affine transformation of their context-free counterparts.

Yinfeng Wang, Zhiyuan Yao, Zheren Fu et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

IntroConformal: Conformal Factuality Guarantees for Large Vision-Language Models via Introspective Signals

This work introduces IntroConformal, a training-free Conformal Risk Control (CRC) framework that provides finite-sample, distribution-free factuality guarantees and proposes verification probability, a stronger score capturing the model's self-administered judgment on claim factuality.

Md. Atabuzzaman, Christian Alexander, Chris Thomas · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

Reliability Challenges in Diffusion Vision-Language Models

dLVLMs reverse the yes-bias of AR models in binary visual queries and collapse to near-zero accuracy on underrepresented racial groups with opposite-polarity gender bias, suggesting reliability is shaped by the generative paradigm together with training data.

Md. Atabuzzaman, Chris Thomas · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

On the Design Fundamentals of Pixel Text Representation Learning

This work investigates the fundamental design principles required for robust visual text representation learning and trains Pixel Linguist II, a native-resolution vision encoder trained with on-the-fly rendering, unified contrastive grounding, and a multilingual curriculum over 280M training examples.

Chaohao Yuan, Rui-Feng Yuan, Zhuoxu Huang et al. · 2 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

When Modality Gap Reduction Fails: Prediction-Level Hubness in CLIP

This work provides a systematic explanation of why modality gap reduction does not consistently improve CLIP zero-shot accuracy from the perspective of downstream decision structure and suggests that gap correction should be evaluated not only by average alignment, but also by its impact on downstream prediction struct...

Shota Sato, Hajime Kiyama, Tosho Hirasawa 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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