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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NovaPlan: Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Manipulation via Closed-Loop Video Language Planning

Solving complex long-horizon robotic tasks requires joint reasoning over abstract task structure and low-level physical interaction. While combining Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and video generation models offers a promising path for zero-shot planning, their individual tendencies to hallucinate physics or violate geo...

Jiahui Fu, Junyu Nan, Lingfeng Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Multi-encoder ConvNeXt Network with Smooth Attentional Feature Fusion for Multispectral Semantic Segmentation

This work proposes MeCSAFNet, a multi-branch encoder-decoder architecture for land cover segmentation in multispectral imagery. The model separately processes visible and non-visible channels through dual ConvNeXt encoders, followed by individual decoders that reconstruct spatial information. A dedicated fusion decoder...

Leo Thomas Ramos, Angel D. Sappa · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Geometry-Centered 3D Latent World Models for Growing Surfaces

Many physical systems do not merely move or deform; they grow, adding material and changing the geometry that a world model must represent. Existing world models are typically optimized for pixel prediction, reward prediction, or fixed-support physical dynamics, leaving open how to model systems whose underlying physic...

Xiaoyi Liu, Hao Tang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Generative AI for Autonomous Driving: Frontiers and Opportunities

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) constitutes a transformative technological wave that reconfigures industries through its unparalleled capabilities for content creation, reasoning, planning, and multimodal understanding. This revolutionary force offers the most promising path yet toward solving one of enginee...

Yuping Wang, Shuo Xing, Cui Can et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

U-CECE: A Universal Multi-Resolution Framework for Conceptual Counterfactual Explanations

As AI models grow more complex, explainability is essential for building trust, yet concept-based counterfactual methods still face a trade-off between expressivity and efficiency. Representing underlying concepts as atomic sets is fast but misses relational context, whereas full graph representations are more faithful...

Angeliki Dimitriou, Nikolaos Chaidos, Maria Lymperaiou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Prototype-Based Knowledge Guidance for Fine-Grained Structured Radiology Reporting

Structured radiology reporting promises faster, more consistent communication than free text, but automation remains difficult as models must make many fine-grained, discrete decisions about rare findings and attributes from limited structured supervision. In contrast, free-text reports are produced at scale in routine...

Chantal Pellegrini, Adrian Delchev, Ege \"Ozsoy et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Never Look Back: Understanding Persistence in 3D Object Memory from Egocentric Videos

As we move through the world and carry out everyday tasks, we encounter objects that may become relevant only later. We are capable of recalling where we left something or what was inside a container, even without knowing we would need it later. Here, we study how an embodied assistant can build a similar memory from e...

Shravan Chaudhari, William Paul, Suchi Saria et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Long-WAM: Scaling the Context of World-Action Models

Real-time robot control demands enough visual history to infer motion and task progress, but processing that history can delay action. We present Long-WAM, a model-system framework for scaling the context of causal world-action models under real-time control constraints. Our central finding is that access to history is...

Wei Huang, Bohan Zhang, Chenzhi Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RoboQuest: Generalist Physical Agents that Search, Inspect and Test

Recent advances in multimodal foundation models have made them capable generalist physical agents for a range of manipulation tasks. However, successful operation in an unfamiliar environment may require an agent to seek task-relevant information through interaction when it is absent from the observations: it may need...

Liu Renhang, Navonil Majumder, Tej Deep Pala et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Performance at What Cost? A Sustainability-Aware Performance Index for Cell and Nucleus Instance Segmentation

Pretrained models for cell and nuclear instance segmentation differ substantially in architecture, pretraining data and objectives, parameter count, inference strategy, adaptation requirements, postprocessing pipeline, and computational demand. Large pretrained and foundation models are increasingly adopted because of...

Eiram Mahera Sheikh, Alaa Tharwat, Wolfram Schenck · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LoomSC: Scalable Deep Subspace Clustering with Projector Factorization and Exact Spectral Reduction

Dense self-expression matrices and full-affinity spectral clustering limit the scalability of subspace clustering. We introduce the Latent Orthogonal Optimization Model for Subspace Clustering (LoomSC), a framework that addresses both bottlenecks through projector factorization and exact spectral reduction. Motivated b...

Nairouz Mrabah, Youssef Melki, Mohamed Bouguessa et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VideoEvolve: Co-Evolving Memory and Retrieval for Long Video Understanding

Long video understanding increasingly relies on external memory to organize massive visual streams into compact representations. However, most memory-based methods dynamically adapt how information is retrieved for different questions, while largely fixing what is remembered. This mismatch makes missing details costly...

Yongchao Xu, Bowen Ye, Jiefeng Gan 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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