Rapid intensification (RI) is one of the most dangerous and unpredictable phases of tropical cyclones, and its environmental and structural drivers are difficult to identify and separate in…
Deep learning models for whole-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) hold significant clinical potential for disease detection, treatment planning, and response assessment.…
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable, yet they produce wrong answers indistinguishable from correct ones. In question answering (QA), such an error propagates unnoticed into…
Building general game agents requires both high-level task reasoning and low-latency action control in rapidly changing visual environments. These capabilities favor models with substantially…
We revisit advantage estimation in Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and observe that any token-level advantage admits a two-stage factorization: a \emph{sample-level baselining} step that…
Sentence-level scientific claim verification determines whether each sentence in an AI-generated scientific paragraph is supported by a given multimodal evidence bundle. Fine-grained reporting errors…
While mining parallel sentences from web pages has proven effective for low-resource machine translation, the majority of the world's languages have little to no web presence. What they do have,…
As network scale and uncertainty complicate automated penetration testing, reinforcement learning (RL) environments must support controlled evaluation under defensive and non-stationary conditions.…
Bimanual dexterous manipulation requires continuous coordination of wrist motion, finger contact, and object motion. Human videos provide rich manipulation experience.
Fine-grained action annotations can support skill reuse and compositional generalization in robot policies. However, robot datasets typically provide task-level instructions without subtask…
Monocular RGB tracking is useful for robots operating near people, but perception errors affect binary stop/proceed decisions in ways that geometric accuracy metrics do not capture. We examine how…
An outstanding creative advertising image should both attract attention and communicate a product's positioning. How to choose a persuasive conceptual bridge before rendering begins is challenging…
Recent advances in Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) increasingly rely on axial attention mechanisms, but despite their empirical success, the theoretical properties of axial attention remain…
Increasingly, users express their needs as natural-language intents rather than structured requests. These intents may be incomplete, high-level, or internally conflicting.
Given a set of procedural steps, Video Step Grounding (VSG) aims to identify which steps occur in a video and localize when they are performed. Existing methods are either offline, requiring access…
Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) commonly use uncertainty estimates to flag out-of-distribution (OOD) configurations and select structures for active learning. A key question is…
Vision--language models (VLMs) are tested for fine-grained understanding with image--text matching probes, a model must prefer the correct image or caption over handcrafted negative. In retrieval,…
Image scanning microscopy (ISM) acquires one scanned image per detector element, which are then fused into a single image by multi-image deconvolution to obtain a super-resolved image. Its accuracy,…
Robot foundation models increasingly rely on flow-based action generation for general-purpose manipulation, yet the generated actions are not guaranteed to satisfy physical constraints such as joint…
Understanding the internal routing of visual concepts is crucial for the safe and controllable adaptation of generative models. While concept localization has been widely studied in diffusion models,…
We report that allocating compute to synthetic pre-pretraining (PPT) never outperforms pure natural-language training in our compute-matched experiments. This holds across four PPT curricula (k-Dyck,…
Choosing a robot action model requires evidence about task capability, adaptation cost, deployment requirements, and the reliability of reported conclusions. Success rates alone offer limited…
Agentic robots must turn a high-level goal into actions while keeping the physical conditions needed for future steps valid. A completed action does not ensure that its effects will persist: a later…