Anticipating the motion of nearby objects is critical for safe and efficient robot navigation. Without a proper understanding of what may move, a robot may plan overly conservative, inefficient…
In procedural videogame level design, many existing techniques combine hand-authored level chunks. Some existing analysis techniques also rely on a higher-level graph structure which abstracts the…
Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) and hybrid modeling have attracted significant attention as approaches for combining physical knowledge with the flexibility of deep learning. In this work,…
Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have led to significant progress in visual reasoning capabilities. However, existing benchmarks curate image-question pairs pertaining to…
Training-time multi-agent system (MAS) design seeks to learn reusable orchestration policies, yet prevailing approaches remain largely one-shot: an Orchestrator generates a system but only observes…
Neural networks are powerful memorizers which are often able to interpolate their training data even when the labels have been randomized. While there exists an extensive literature on the…
Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly become a default source of help for students in science and engineering courses. In foundational engineering mechanics courses such as statics, students…
Contextual embeddings represent chunks of a document with respect to the document's global context. These models are typically trained and evaluated under the assumption that a relevant document…
Reliable vocal-cord localization in emergency video laryngoscopy remains visually challenging due to rapid tissue deformation, specular highlights, and instrument occlusions. We propose Local Point…
Human evaluation of AI-generated videos has so far relied on explicit human feedback, such as judgments or ratings. While these signals capture the conclusions viewers reach, they fail to offer…
The scale of modern foundation models enables broad task generalization. In medical imaging, where segmentation demands vary widely across clinical contexts, such flexibility is invaluable.
Visual rule reasoning asks whether multimodal models can recover an abstract concept from a few examples. Existing studies either infer rules from visual examples but evaluate only classification or…
Human handwriting is produced as an ordered sequence of pen movements, but an offline image keeps only the final ink. Handwriting trajectory recovery aims to restore the ordered stroke points and…
Future planetary rovers will traverse steep, deformable terrain where slip, sinkage, and terrain deformation can threaten mobility. Although simulation can capture some wheel-soil effects, unmodeled…
A binary success indicator is a natural representation for discriminative tasks such as image classification under adversarial perturbations, where each input is mapped to a single prediction.…
In high-risk text interactions, a system may need to estimate whether the current speaker is likely to be a minor before applying age-conditioned safeguards. Many text-based dialogue systems lack…
Hallucination remains one of the most critical challenges in deploying large language models (LLMs) reliably and safely. Yet the term is used inconsistently across the research community.
Can a Watershed transform, the classical tool of morphological segmentation, be placed at the end of a deep network and trained through? The Power Watershed (PW) is the limit of the seeded Random…
Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn to predict representations rather than pixels, offering a compact way to model how visual scenes evolve. We ask whether this predictive…
Traffic congestion is becoming a critical challenge in rapidly growing urban centers, particularly in developing nations where rapid urbanization and inadequate transport infrastructure place…
To solve problems in 3D space rather than merely describe images, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) need 3D spatiotemporal reasoning: reconstructing 3D geometry from occluded 2D views,…
When a person declined our robot's invitation to play, Alice turned her shoulder away and said "No worries, it's all good." Only after a brief pause did she drive off. The words and gestures were…