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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

The Devil is in the Spectrum Bias: Spectrum-Balanced Feature Matching for Robust Representation Distillation

Spectrum-Balanced Feature Matching, SpecMatch, a simple objective that adaptively emphasizes under-optimized spectral directions while preserving the relative importance of dominant directions is proposed, which improves downstream adaptation across diverse tasks, including image classification, anomaly detection, medi...

Kuniaki Saito, Y. Ushiku · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AD-E2E-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture For End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Autonomous driving requires \textit{world models} that can understand the physical world, reason and plan, and operate safely. In this paper, we first systematically evaluate existing action-conditioned joint-embedding predictive architecture (JEPA) world models, including LeWM, DINO-WM, and JEPA-WM for end-to-end auto...

Hao-Ran Zhu, Wan-Cong Zhang, Yann LeCun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

WhiteCon: Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation Regression Through Whitening Transform and Dual Consistency

Domain adaptation is crucial for addressing distributional shifts that degrade model performance across domains. While most existing research has centered on classification, semi-supervised domain adaptation regression (SSDAR) for continuous-output tasks remains largely unexplored, particularly in practical scenarios w...

Se Jin Sim, Seoung Bum Kim · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ARCH-B: Architectural Representation, Comprehension and Hierarchy Benchmark

Multimodal models increasingly interpret visual environments, but their ability to recognize the same building across photographs, floor plans, elevations, sections, and renderings remains poorly characterized. We introduce ARCH-B, a benchmark of 354 four-choice questions across 11 cross-representational archetypes, co...

Kieran Sagar Parikh, J. L. G. del Castillo Y López · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Video, Ergo Genero: Unifying Video Tasks via Spatiotemporal Analogy

Adapting video models to new tasks typically requires dedicated data curation and fine-tuning. While visual analogy provides a training-free alternative by specifying tasks in-context, it remains restricted to the image domain. To explore whether analogy-based methods can unify diverse video tasks and generalize to out...

Chia-Hsiang Kao, Belinda Zeng, Bharath Hariharan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

JIVE: Jacobian-Informed Volume Expansion for Diverse Generative Sampling

Generative models often suffer from mode collapse and limited sample diversity. While prior works attempt to mitigate this by jointly generating a batch of samples and repelling their trajectories, these heuristics do not explicitly maximize the diversity of the resulting endpoints. We introduce JIVE, a training-free f...

Guang-Xun Zhang, Brian Cai, Boxuan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Program-Verified Self-Evolution for Vision-Language Models

Self-evolving vision-language models train on questions they generate from unlabeled images. Since these questions have no gold answers, prior methods label them by majority vote over sampled answers or by a model judge. In a human evaluation, we find that 24\% of majority-vote labels and 18\% of model-judge labels pro...

Ahmed Heakl, Sungik Choi, Moontae Lee et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Augmenting Visual Anomaly Detection with Automated Interpretability

Visual anomaly detectors identify deviations from known-normal data, but their anomaly signals may mix evidence of actual anomalies with benign visual variation. We investigate whether automated interpretability can augment visual anomaly detectors by identifying and intervening on different components of this signal....

Antonio De Santis, Arsenio Leo, Marco Brambilla · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

MinkowskiPE: Minkowski Positional Encoding for Spatiotemporal Perception

Modeling spatiotemporal coupling is a key challenge in building physical intelligence across scales, from microscopic to macroscopic. Existing models capture such structure broadly through physics-motivated dynamical formulations or learning-motivated architectures. The former provide stronger priors but may constrain...

Yu-Hao Li, Louie Hong Yao, Tian-Yi Shi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

When Noise Meets Long-Tail: Feature-Threshold Dual Calibration for Robust Pseudo-Labeling

Pseudo-labeling has become a cornerstone of learning from unlabeled data in semantic segmentation. Yet its effectiveness drops sharply in real-world scenarios where strong imaging noise and long-tailed class distributions occur together. We trace this failure to a vicious cycle of pseudo-label degradation. Imaging nois...

Ping-Song Guo, Zhi-Qi Huang, Xin-Ran Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

StoryEngine: A State-Grounded Agentic Framework for Video Storytelling

StoryEngine is proposed, a state-grounded agentic framework for video storytelling that maintains a structured representation of entity placement and story-relevant states, and propagates event-induced changes to define the intended start and end states of each shot.

Ying-Rui Wang, Ze-Qing Wang, Ye-Ying Jin · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SpatialSpeak: QA-Native Reconstruction with Local and Global Context for Spatial Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

SpatialSpeak is introduced, a two-stage framework that connects QA-native reconstruction pretraining with spatial CoT learning and achieves state-of-the-art results on ReVSI, VSI-Bench, and SPAR-Bench, with a ReVSI score of 62.8 that exceeds the strongest compared baseline by 8.7 points.

Yang Cao, Jia-Xin Zhang, Dave Zhenyu Chen 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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