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IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation

IntentVLA is introduced, a history-conditioned VLA framework that encodes recent visual observations into a compact short-horizon intent representation and uses it to condition chunk generation and improves rollout stability and outperforms strong VLA baselines.

Shijie Lian, Bin Yu, Xiaopeng Lin et al. · 6 citations
#computer vision Preprint Jan 2026

Structural Anchor Pruning: Training-Free Multi-Vector Compression for Visual Document Retrieval

The authors' layer-resolved SR analysis reveals an Alignment-Aggregation Divergence: visual structure is preserved as a stable ``Structural Plateau''within the backbone, while the final layers reshape it into a sparse, query-aligned form unsuitable for pruning.

Zhu Liu, Ziyu Hu, Yao Zhang et al. · 7 citations · ⚡2
#computer vision Preprint Jan 2026

FEA-SLT: A Gloss-Free End-to-End Framework for Facial-Expression-Aware Sign Language Translation

EA-SLT is proposed, a gloss-free end-to-end framework that uses facial dynamics to provide complementary cues to manual signals and achieves state-of-the-art BLEU performance among gloss-free methods, while targeted analyses support improved translation of facial-sensitive utterances.

Guobin Tu, Dietmar Weng · 0 citations

Error-Driven Scene Editing for 3D Grounding in Large Language Models

This work introduces DEER-3D, an error-driven framework that diagnoses grounding failures and generates targeted counterfactual training supervision via a structured "Decompose, Diagnose, Edit, and Retrain"loop, and underscores the effectiveness of targeted, error-driven scene editing in bridging linguistic reasoning w...

Yue Zhang, Zun Wang, Han Lin et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Jun 2026

Mechanistic Diagnostics of Spatial Lexical Bias in Multimodal Large Language Model Spatial Reasoning

It is shown that a lightweight LLM-only DPO update on tiny single-object-pair synthetic data mitigates the bias, lifting four-way robust accuracy by up to 100 points on synthetic data, and by 68.1 points on broader evaluation datasets WhatsUp, SpatialMQA-Direct, and VSR.

Chuan Ma, Qianying Liu, Tomoyuki Obuchi et al. · 0 citations

FBHM: Functional Benchmarking and Steering of VLMs for Hateful Meme Detection

Hateful meme detection remains a formidable challenge for vision-language models, as existing benchmarks are structurally observational - confounding rhetorical hate mechanisms with target community features and preventing causal evaluation of model vulnerabilities. To address this, we introduce FBHM, a systematically...

Paramananda Bhaskar, Naquee Rizwan, Daksh Jogchand et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Feb 2026

UReason: Benchmarking Reasoning-to-Generation Alignment in Unified Multimodal Models

UReason is introduced, a benchmark for evaluating reasoning-to-generation alignment in this paradigm, consisting of 2,000 human-curated and human-verified instances spanning five reasoning-intensive tasks: Code, Arithmetic, Spatial, Attribute, and Text, and it is found that decontextualized generation consistently outp...

Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Bo Shui et al. · 5 citations
#computer vision Jan 2026

EMemBench: Interactive Benchmarking of Episodic Memory for VLM Agents

This work introduces EMemBench, a programmatic benchmark generator for evaluating long-term episodic memory of agents through interactive games, and evaluates memory agents with strong LMs/VLMs as backbones, using in-context prompting as baselines.

Xinze Li, Zi-Yue Zhu, Siyuan Liu et al. · 7 citations · ⚡1

MM-BrowseComp: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Browsing Agents

The introduction of MM-BrowseComp, a novel benchmark comprising 400 challenging, hand-crafted questions designed to evaluate multimodal retrieval and reasoning capabilities, is introduced, establishing MM-BrowseComp as a rigorous new standard for the field.

Shilong Li, Xingyuan Bu, Wenjie Wang et al. · 37 citations · ⚡7
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Lot Machine: Multimodal Lot Extraction from Auction Catalogs

This work demonstrates that a VLM-based pipeline can successfully unlock historical auction catalogs for large-scale automated analysis, and benchmark the methods across different deployment modes ranging from commercial providers to locally hosted, quantized models.

Mathias Zinnen, Alisha Mund, Sabine Lang et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

Towards a Joint Khmer Text Recognition and Word Segmentation

Experimental results show that the proposed model can not only recognize characters in document images but also locate word boundaries, removing the need for an extra word segmentation step in a conventional sequential pipeline.

Marry Kong, Rina Buoy, Sovisal Chenda 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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