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…
We propose AgentDreamer, an agent-guided optimization framework that aligns text instructions with simulated motion through explicit 3D motion planning. Given a text instruction and scene geometry,…
Visual Language Action (VLA) models are designed to be generalist robot models that can be implemented across embodiments, tasks and environments. However, their ability to collaborate with other…
Designing RNA molecules that bind to target protein structures requires generating both an RNA conformation and its bound complex geometry, without assuming a predefined binding site. Existing…
Class labels offer compact supervision for describing cultural-heritage images when expert text annotations are scarce. We investigate a batik-captioning cascade that integrates a LoRA-adapted DINOv2…
Unsupervised federated learning with Vision-Language Models (e.g., CLIP) offers a promising solution for label-free classification, yet its performance often degrades under severe non-IID shifts. A…
Relighting and novel view synthesis of human portraits are essential in applications such as portrait photography, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). Despite recent progress, 3D-aware…
Dynamic interactive object search in large-scale human environments presents substantial challenges for existing methods. Current scene representations like 3D Scene Graphs (3DSG) only provide…
Transactions differ in how their value changes with execution time and relative position. Ethereum's EIP-1559 lets them compete through fee fields, but a fee bid gives no enforceable claim to an…
LLMs have shown strong in-context learning (ICL) capability, but extending it to Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) remains challenging. Prior multimodal ICL methods often rely on ICL-specific datasets for…
Reliable robotic mapping in dynamic real-world environments is essential for embodied intelligence and long-term autonomy. However, existing methods often involve a trade-off: lightweight online…