Vision-language perception has achieved impressive progress in aligning natural language with visual observations, yet grounding high-level semantics into part-level physical interaction remains…
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies need to recognize gaps in their training knowledge to request useful demonstrations or assistance in new situations, especially when failures are costly.…
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) show promising reasoning capabilities, but reliable physical interaction requires planning that accounts for when actions are executable and how they change…
Large-scale aerial resources provide a foundation for learning navigation across diverse environments. However, existing resources remain limited in providing (1) densely sampled flight…
Backpropagation remains the dominant training paradigm, using backward gradients and local updates that can suffer from vanishing or exploding gradients in deep networks. Although the Forward-Forward…
LLM-generated records increasingly populate production information systems where they are treated as data assets subject to the same quality expectations as records from operational databases. A…
The deployment of small and quantized language models in resource-constrained settings raises an important fairness question: when a compressed model produces fewer biased responses, does this…
Many robotic construction applications, such as progress tracking, require registering a sensor trajectory to a prior 2D floor plan. Visual capture is attractive for its low cost and availability,…
Large language models (LLMs) have been explored as surrogates for human survey respondents. A more promising application is data augmentation, where LLMs predict new responses from partial human data.
In remote sensing, open-vocabulary segmentation is particularly important for flexible and scalable land-cover understanding across diverse regions, as it improves generalization to novel categories…
Diffusion language models generate by iteratively denoising a masked sequence under bidirectional attention, without the strict left-to-right commitment of autoregressive decoding. Whether this…
Despite the success of foundation models in image synthesis, achieving fine-grained spatial control remains a significant challenge, typically requiring auxiliary structural adapters or complex…
Existing paired clean-degraded datasets have advanced learning-based underwater image enhancement, but they remain either limited in scale or difficult to acquire, and still fail to adequately cover…
Training modern AI models has become increasingly expensive, and updating deployed models can alter their internal feature representations, affecting applications built upon them. In retrieval…
Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have seen broad adoption, but their biases are still far less examined than those of standard LLMs, creating possible social harms when deployed in…
In this report, we introduce pplx-embed-v2-late, a pair of 0.6B and 9B multilingual and multimodal late-interaction models. Both models achieve state-of-the-art results within their respective size…
Retrieval-based in-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to predict tabular labels from similar examples, but it remains unclear whether LLM inference improves on direct voting…
High-fidelity 4D physical simulation requires accurate physical parameter assignments that align with diverse material properties. Previous methods struggle with critical bottlenecks: they either…
Temporal reasoning is widely assumed to decompose into two modes: temporal arithmetic (date and time calculations), and temporal semantics (understanding temporal and causal relations). This…
LEGO walkers are walking automata constructed from modular LEGO Technic bricks. They exhibit intriguing locomotion and are also highly reconfigurable through the modular Technic bricks, making them…
Low-NFE generative ODE sampling is constrained not only by solver order, but also by how a fixed budget of network evaluations is distributed along the flow. We develop a density-level backward-error…
Recent advances in generative models have enabled highly realistic face forgeries, yet generalizing deepfake detectors to unseen manipulation pipelines remains a major challenge. One critical yet…
Real-world physical sensing exhibits complex, heterogeneous noise patterns that deviate significantly from idealized simulation, posing a fundamental bottleneck for sim-to-real transfer. Existing…