Facial movements convey subtle and important information that is critical for human social communication. Optical methods for face capture are difficult or impossible to use when the face is occluded by head-mounted devices (HMDs), such as VR headsets. Even with a clear line of sight, such methods raise privacy concern...
Ganidhu Abey, Wendy Greening, Ashika Kamboj et al.· 0 citations
Modern DBMSs expose hundreds of configuration knobs, resulting in a high-dimensional and heterogeneous search space that makes automated tuning costly. Existing ML-based tuning systems typically treat the configuration domain as box-constrained and rely on workload feedback to implicitly capture inter-knob relationship...
Fangping Lan, Qi Zhang, Eduard Dragut· 0 citations
The Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) marks a significant leap forward in 3D scene reconstruction, as it is the first model that directly infers all key 3D attributes (camera poses, depths, and dense geometry) jointly in one pass. However, this joint inference mechanism requires global attention layers with e...
Weitian Wang, Shubham Rai, Cecilia De La Parra et al.· 0 citations
Recent advances in mean-field games and its multi-population variants enable large-scale heterogeneous multi-agent systems to be modeled through representative agents and their associated mean-field distributions. However, existing approaches do not explicitly account for uncertainty in the behavior of other population...
Mixed-precision post-training quantization needs a per-module sensitivity signal; for a text embedder the obvious one -- the retrieval quality a module costs when quantized -- needs relevance labels that deployments rarely have. We measure a label-free substitute: quantization-induced representation drift, obtained by...
Hyojung Han, Jongmin Kim, Seung-Hun Jeon· 0 citations
Data collection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is challenging when LoRa IoT Devices (IoTDs) duty-cycle to conserve battery. Under energy constraints, a UAV must decide which IoTDs to visit, in what order, where to hover, and how many times to probe each node, while time-based data freshness decays. Tractably sol...
In the Wilson formulation of lattice gauge theory, the fundamental degrees of freedom are group-valued link variables, while the action is a sum over the trace of the plaquettes, the smallest Wilson loops. For generative sampling methods such as normalizing flows, this poses a challenge: the distribution of an individu...
In wide Bayesian neural networks, Gaussian mean-field variational inference is prone to "prior dominance": the Kullback-Leibler (KL) regularization term of the ELBO outweighs the expected log-likelihood, and the variational predictive distribution collapses to the prior predictive as the width $M$ grows. Tempering the...
Humanoid robots still struggle to plan contact-rich whole-body manipulation from egocentric RGB and proprioception. Workhorse learns such manipulation from robot-free human demonstrations. A visual planner predicts five-link targets: the poses of the torso, both wrists, and both feet. A reinforcement-learning whole-bod...
Song-Bo Hu, Qia-Yuan Liao, Yu-Feng Chi et al.· 0 citations
Deterministic inference is essential for reliable and trustworthy machine learning. Prior studies of text generation have shown that changing factors such as batch size, batch composition, hardware, or inference engine can alter the generated text, even when the prompt, model parameters, and sampling randomness are fix...
Identification is the task of recovering the parameters of an unknown ground-truth model from sampled data. When parameters other than the ground truth induce the same output distribution, data alone does not provide enough information to recover the ground truth, and the model is thus called unidentifiable. We study t...
The rapid expansion of text-to-music generative models challenges traditional paradigms of music creation and intellectual property. Plagiarism in this context is rarely an absolute mathematical binary, but an ambiguous threshold negotiated over harmonic structure, melodic contours, or overall perceived stylistic chara...
Fotis Koutsikos, Ioannis Prokopiou, Spyridon Kantarelis et al.· 0 citations
Exploring how generative AI could make machine vision more accessible to businesses. The post GenEye in a Box: Making Machine Vision Something You Can Just Ask For appeared first on GPT-Lab.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 7, 2026
Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.
Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL training, making it easier to improve them without rebuilding them. The post Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses appeared first on Microsoft Research.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduOct 6, 2026