Driving vision-language-action (VLA) models bring an appealing form of explainability to a safety-critical domain, since a system that can state the reasons for its maneuvers offers the transparency…
Sub-hourly dispatch, balancing, and storage control increasingly depend on forecasts that anticipate rapid variability in solar generation. Accurate sky-image-based irradiance forecasting requires a…
Just as different languages express the same concept through different words, neural networks express similar functions through incompatible coordinate systems. Different architectures, random…
Vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with in context learning compared to their textual counterparts. Our preliminary study shows that VLMs rely on textual shortcuts and underutilize the visual…
Fine-grained image-text retrieval requires a model not only to assess global semantic consistency between an image and a text, but also to model visual evidence for local textual semantics, including…
Neurosurgical navigation commonly presents magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as 2D slices, making it difficult to relate the anatomy in those slices to the cortical surface observed through the…
We present TwinStore, a source-available synthetic consumer platform for physical retail built on vision--language models. TwinStore turns a store into a digital twin---from 82 ready-made formats, a…
Lifting vision-language features such as CLIP into 3D Gaussian reconstructions enables open-vocabulary segmentation through natural-language queries. Although CLIP represents a broad range of…
Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) let clinicians inspect and correct skin disease diagnoses through clinical concepts, but only if the concept annotations are reliable. We therefore audit the…
Humanoid robots must coordinate locomotion and manipulation in everyday environments, yet progress is difficult to assess across differing policies, controllers, and task settings. LocoManiLab…
Diffusion-based audio-visual generation methods typically perform joint denoising of audio and video latents throughout the entire sampling trajectory, repeatedly executing modality-specific…
Ambiguity is a central feature of natural communication: a sentence, image, or sound may remain underspecified until evidence from the other channels is considered. Yet current multimodal benchmarks…
Long chain-of-thought reasoning improves vision-language models (VLMs), but it also exposes a temporal grounding failure: as generation unfolds, models may drift from image evidence while…
Visual perception should be iterative and task-directed, with representations refined in response to the question and the need for further processing. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) increasingly…
Flexible endoscopes exploit structural compliance to traverse narrow lumens, pipes, and cavities, where navigation involves distributed environmental contact. This compliance makes tip motion depend…
Before acting on an object, a robot needs to anticipate how its hand motion will change the physical world and what the resulting scene will look like. Existing approaches typically entangle…
Shadows are observable consequences of latent physical causes, arising from the interaction between illumination, object geometry, and scene structure. A model that understands shadows should be able…
Flow matching is now the dominant approach for vision-language action (VLA) robot policies, thanks to its expressiveness and simple training objective. However, inference for standard flow matching…
Large language models have been reported to encode the harmfulness of a request separately from their decision to refuse it, and latent safety monitors such as Latent Guard build on this report by…
Recent advances in text-to-video generation have substantially improved visual fidelity, yet existing models still struggle to understand the physical evolution implicit in user prompts, making it…
Autonomous robotic surgery has drawn increased attention in recent years due to its potential to relieve surgeons of time-consuming, mentally straining, and tedious tasks, particularly during…
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is usually tied to the pretrained backbone on which it is learned. We ask whether LoRAs trained independently for the same task on different pretrained backbones can be…