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#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

SpanCalib-VLM: Calibrated Hallucination Span Detection in Vision-Language Models

SpanCalib-VLM is presented, a hybrid dual-system for the SHROOM-Visions Shared Task that combines a multimodal sequence tagger, consisting of XLM-RoBERTa-Large fused with a SigLIP vision encoder via cross-attention, with the fine-tuned generative VLM (Qwen3.5-4B-SHROOM-SFT).

A. Abebe, Yasmin Moslem · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Conducting Stylistic Analysis of Paintings through an Art-History Agent

This approach converts detailed visual features into descriptive terms, addressing a key challenge in art history, and connects the use of images as data with the semantic concerns of humanists, establishing vision-based computational art history as an area for future growth.

M. Walton, Astrid Harth · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

GeoAgent: Evaluating VLM Geolocalization Through Embodied Navigation

This work introduces GeoAgent, an agentic environment-based benchmark that requires agents to navigate Street View environments to refine their geolocalization through sequential reasoning, and establishes the challenges of embodied navigation and geospatial reasoning.

Arka Mukherjee, Soham Roy, Kartikeya Trivedi et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

SocialReasonBench: A Video-QA Benchmark for Social Reasoning with Counterfactual Narrative Videos

SocialReasonBench is introduced, a video multiple-choice QA benchmark for evaluating socially grounded reasoning in scenarios derived from interactive narratives and develops a multi-agent curation pipeline that localizes socially meaningful clips, grounds answer labels in game-state signals, and generates theory-guide...

Zhe-Yu Huang, Zijing Shi, Hao-Zhe Luo et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

Where Identity Lives: Localized, Retain-Free Identity Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models

PAVA pairs a forget loss with a visual-attribute anchor that preserves image-grounded behavior by distilling the model's own pre-unlearning answers from the forget images alone and gives the strongest forget-retain trade-off among forget-set-only methods and remains competitive with retain-based baselines.

Kangwook Ko, Jaehyuk Jang, Wonjun Lee et al. · 1 citation
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

PaperBanana-Interact: Scientific Diagram Refinement with Multi-Turn Human Feedback

MTPaperBananaBench, a benchmark for multi-turn diagram generation containing 292 images annotated with 3,518 user requirements, is presented and PaperBanana-Interact, a multi-agent system that refines diagrams via an internal critique-and-refine loop is introduced.

Xue-Qing Wu, Ashwin Balasubramanian, Bing-Xuan Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Beyond Fluency: A Rubric-Based Benchmark for Evaluating Saudi Dialect and Cultural Competence in Large Language Models

Large language models are increasingly deployed in Arabic-speaking markets, yet standard benchmarks overwhelmingly reward Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) fluency while leaving dialectal and culturally grounded competence unmeasured. This gap is consequential: everyday Arabic is largely dialectal, and dialect encodes socia...

Ghassan Al-Sumaidaee, Sajjad Abdoli, Ahmed Rashad et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

CoVA-SFT: A Large-Scale Dataset for Chain of Visual Abstractions

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has dramatically improved large language models (LLMs) by allowing them to decompose problems into intermediate steps. While CoT is widely effective for linguistic tasks, text-only CoT forces models to serialize visual problems into awkward prose. Although architectural solutions exist...

Tsung-Han Wu, Heekyung Lee, An-Ya Ji et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

ReVA: A Region-Aware Visual Assistant for Visually Grounded Question Answering

ReVA is proposed, a region-aware VQA model that employs a frozen CLIP ViT-L/14 Vision Transformer (ViT) and a Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct large language model (LLM) connected through a dual bridge that aligns both whole-image and region-level representations with the LLM's embedding space.

A. Senthil · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Jul 2026

Parametric Multimodal User Memory: Storing What Captions Cannot Carry

This work ground perceptual memory in the model, decomposing recall into two subproblems: a vision-language model grounds the referent in context (what and where), and a dedicated encoder extracts an identity key (who), stored as one inline token read by attention at generation with no external round-trip.

Bojie Li, Noah Shi · 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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