Aggregate measurements generally leave an evolving population law underdetermined, so different measurement systems can be equally adequate for a scientific task while constraining different aspects…
Vegetation plays a central role in cities, serving functional roles such as balancing shade and sky exposure, shaping the microclimate, carbon sequestration, and providing acoustic screening.…
Reasoning vision-language-action (VLA) policies write a reasoning trace and then decode the action from it. A wrong trace yields a wrong action, and even a correct-looking trace can mislead the plan.
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the vocal tract makes speech articulation directly observable, but the trade-off between temporal resolution and signal quality introduces substantial noise…
Vulnerable road user (VRU) prediction must operate under partial observability and distribution shift, so reliable uncertainty matters alongside accuracy. Masked pretraining is attractive in this…
Recent advances in gigapixel-level imaging have brought High-Resolution Wide shots to the forefront of research. However, these images present significant challenges: extreme sparsity of foreground,…
Domain generalized semantic segmentation is challenging because it requires accurate dense prediction on unseen domains without any access to target-domain data during training. Existing methods…
Generating interactive 3D assets from a single image requires realistic appearance, fidelity to the depicted object, and plausible physical behavior. Yet detailed geometry alone does not determine…
Tokenizers are usually treated as fixed preprocessing tools, but they are trained on text and can retain traces of that text in their vocabularies. We ask whether a BPE tokenizer can reveal if a…
Clients observing different parts of a prediction task may learn locally equivalent models with incompatible behavior outside their observed support. We study whether redundant models permit local…
Segmentation networks that predict at an output stride are trained against label maps downsampled by strided sampling, nearest-neighbor resampling or majority pooling. These methods label each coarse…
Prompt-tuning has emerged as a parameter-efficient technique for adapting large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) to downstream tasks while keeping the pre-trained weights frozen. However,…
Visual grounding is crucial for robots to understand language instructions with visual observations. This paper addresses the problem of visual grounding uncertainties, where a robot uses a black-box…
Image compression is increasingly used before machine vision systems, yet standard codecs are mainly optimized for human perception rather than downstream task accuracy. We propose SCOPE (Semantic…
Autonomous mobile robots commonly pair a global planner with a local model predictive controller (MPC), but nonconvex obstacle avoidance and a limited horizon can make the robot freeze in complex…
Accurate land-cover mapping from multimodal Earth observation (EO) data remains a challenge in regions where high-resolution annotations are scarce or costly to obtain. This work introduces a quantum…
Efforts to monitor advanced AI for rare misalignments face a data challenge: abundant aligned examples but only a handful of misaligned ones. We test activation probes in this "few vs.
End-of-turn (EoT) detection has been studied mostly through features, models, and modalities, while the speech genre of the training data has drawn far less attention. We isolate this factor.
Zero-shot anomaly detection aims to transfer anomaly discrimination from auxiliary training domains to unseen categories while localizing subtle defects. A key challenge is to construct…
In this work, we formalize the concept of intrinsic dimension of objective landscapes introduced in Li et al. (2018), which measures the structural complexity of learning problems by training along…
Early detection of atrial fibrillation (AFIB), characterized by irregular heart rhythms, can potentially save thousands of lives annually [20]. Numerous studies have attempted to address this…
Thinking vision-language models reason for thousands of tokens, yet still miss small details in high-resolution images. Zooming methods pay for extra inference passes, and outcome rewards never tell…
Super-telephoto imaging on mobile phones suffers from complex, device-dependent degradations that are poorly captured by conventional handcrafted pipelines. Collecting large-scale aligned training…