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Searching for Robust Augmentations to Improve Out-of-Domain Generalization in Dermoscopic Skin Cancer Classification

Augmentations that model the physical causes of domain shift improve cross-source transfer at no cost to in-domain accuracy, and the improvement survives a selection-disjoint, contamination-free evaluation.

A. Kozachok, Ilya P. Latyshev, E. Karpulevich et al. · 0 citations

Criterion-Conditional In-Context Learning: Evaluating Criterion-Shift Adaptation in Vision-Language Models

This work introduces a new setting, denoted as Criterion-Conditional In-Context Learning (CC-ICL), where models must infer the latent criterion from context and adjust predictions accordingly under fixed task semantics, and proposes two complementary metrics, Criterion Invariance and Criterion Sensitivity, to evaluate...

Kaiyu Yang, Rui-Lin Yang, Zhi-Min Yao et al. · 0 citations
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Predicting Metastatic Risk from Primary Cancer Tissue Architecture via Distance-Aware Spatial Modeling

Predicting distant metastasis from the digital H&E slides of the primary tumor is a critical yet challenging task in computational pathology. Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) approaches can attend to subdomains in whole slide images (WSIs) that harbor features of pre-metastatic cancer regions. However, conventional MIL...

Sandesh Pokhrel, Hamid Manoochehri, Beatrice S. Knudsen et al. · 0 citations

MagicSim: A Unified Infrastructure for Executable Embodied Interaction

From YAML-first specifications that decouple contents, placement, behavior, and agent exposure, MagicSim constructs diverse executable worlds spanning task families, interaction regimes, physics, layouts, sensors, avatars, and robot embodiments in one reset-and-step loop.

Haoran Lu, Song-Lin Liu, Yue Chen et al. · 0 citations

MMLongEmbed: Benchmarking Multimodal Embedding Models in Long-Context Scenarios

This work introduces MMLongEmbed, the first comprehensive benchmark for evaluating MEMs in long-context scenarios, and finds that current architectures rely heavily on superficial feature matching and struggle to capture deep semantic and structural dependencies.

Maggie Haitian Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Quantong Qiu et al. · 0 citations

Prefix-Adaptive Block Diffusion for Efficient Document Recognition

The Prefix-Adaptive Block Diffusion Model (PA-BDM) is proposed, which replaces intra-block bidirectional denoising with causal denoising from prefix to suffix and treats the block size as a maximum candidate range rather than a fixed commitment unit.

Ming-Xu Chai, Zi-Yu Shen, Chen-Yu Liu et al. · 0 citations

Star-Fusion: A Multi-modal Transformer Architecture for Discrete Celestial Orientation via Spherical Topology

This paper presents Star-Fusion, a multi-modal architecture that reformulates orientation estimation as a discrete topological classification task, and leverages spherical K-Means clustering to partition the celestial sphere into K topologically consistent regions, effectively mitigating coordinate wrapping artifacts.

May Hammad, Menatallh Hammad · 0 citations

CF-VLA: Efficient Coarse-to-Fine Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Policies

This work proposes CF-VLA, a coarse-to-fine two-stage formulation that restructures action generation into a coarse initialization step that constructs an action-aware starting point, followed by a single-step local refinement that corrects residual errors.

Fan Du, Feng Yan, Jian-Xiong Wu et al. · 0 citations

SketchVLM: Vision language models can annotate images to explain thoughts and guide users

SketchVLM is presented, a training-free, model-agnostic framework that enables VLMs to produce non-destructive, editable SVG overlays on the input image to visually explain their answers, and finds that single-turn generation already achieves strong accuracy and annotation quality, and multi-turn generation opens up fu...

Brandon Collins, Logan Bolton, Hung Huy Nguyen et al. · 0 citations

Can We Change the Stroke Size for Easier Diffusion?

Diffusion models can be challenged in the low signal-to-noise regime, where they have to make pixel-level predictions despite the presence of high noise. The geometric intuition is akin to using the finest stroke for oil painting throughout, which may be ineffective. We therefore study \emph{stroke-size control} as a c...

Yun-Wei Bai, Ying Kiat Tan, Yao Shu 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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