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Rethinking LLM-Guided Visual Question Answering: Does Deeper Knowledge Integration Really Help?

arXiv:2610.17079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires reasoning that extends beyond visible image content, demanding external commonsense and factual

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Scalable Multi-Human Cooperative Manipulation via Commander-Executor Coordination

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arXiv:2610.14911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-human cooperative object manipulation is a highly challenging topic in humanoid control. While existing methods can handle simple collaborative

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14 Oct 2026

Scaling Vision Transformers Without Training: Prune-and-Merge Token Compression

arXiv:2610.18039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Transformers achieve strong performance but incur high computational costs from quadratic token interactions. Training-free token reduction metho

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Seg2Click: Learning Pixel-Level Action Masks for GUI Visual Grounding

arXiv:2610.16234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual grounding is a central challenge for GUI agents, requiring an instruction to be mapped to a target within a crowded screenshot. Coordinate genera

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Sparse All-Layer Connector for Domain Generalised Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2610.15660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain generalised semantic segmentation (DGSS) has recently benefited from combining multiple foundation models, such as vision-language and vision fou

Text-Guided Medical Image Segmentation via Residual Aggregation and Dense Alignment Representations

arXiv:2610.14944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Specifying segmentation targets with natural language provides flexible semantic conditioning for medical image segmentation. However, existing methods

The Last Remote Sensing Model Built by Humans? Casting Any Earth Observation Task as Recursive Self-Improvement

arXiv:2610.18845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earth observation (EO) models are still built by hand. For each new task, experts design a training recipe and tune it against a benchmark. We show that

The Value of Being Wrong: Self-Mined Visual In-Context Learning from Errors

arXiv:2610.16977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual in-context learning (ICL) enables vision-language models (VLMs) to adapt at test time via demonstration examples, but its effectiveness depends c

Towards Cost-Efficient Video Dataset Construction with Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.16857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research on video classification models has witnessed significant growth recently, accompanied by a significant increase in the demand for datasets to t

Trust Before Autonomy: Rethinking Agentic Remote Sensing for Crisis Response

arXiv:2610.18789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic remote sensing is evaluated on how many questions it can answer, whereas crisis response depends on whether its answers can be relied on and how

Urbex: Agentic Spatial Grounding for City-Scale 3D Scenes

arXiv:2610.18356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: City-scale 3D grounding is commonly formulated as candidate ranking, which requires precomputed instance proposals and becomes inefficient in large outd

Variance Fingerprints: Component-Wise Identification of Content Factors by Augmentation Design

arXiv:2610.14260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Augmentation-based self-supervised learning can recover the content shared across views without separating its underlying factors into individual coordi

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VideoEvoHarness: Self Evolving Agent Harness from Unlabeled Videos for Video Understanding

arXiv:2610.15389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video understanding agents rely on a harness to acquire evidence, use tools, and reason, but improving it requires substantial effort. Recent self evolu

Visual Dependence Does Not Imply Answerability: A Systematic Analysis of Answerability Signals in Frozen InstructBLIP

arXiv:2610.17902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual question answering models often produce plausible responses even when the available visual evidence is insufficient to support a valid answer. Al

VRIQ: Benchmarking and Diagnosing the Visual-Reasoning IQ of Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2602.05382v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language model (VLM) errors on visual reasoning may come from missing visual structure, from mistakes after that structure is extracted, or f

Web Scale on a Budget: Tail-Aware Retrieval Evaluation

arXiv:2610.17986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A common practice in instance retrieval is to grow the gallery size to improve a benchmark's discrimination capability. One prominent example is ILIAS,

What Makes a Latent Space Shared? Direct and Recoverable Compatibility in Motion VAEs

arXiv:2610.17376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A shared latent space is often assumed to make representations from different schemas directly interchangeable, yet sharing parameters, dimensionality

Cross-cloud conversational analytics made simple with open standards

The reality for most organizations is that data lives everywhere. As engineering teams expand and adopt specialized platforms for their workloads, enterprise data naturally disperses across multiple c

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13 Oct 2026

Running decision models: Picking quant, VRAM usage

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Hi, I see that vllm released d3 (a family of decision models) and llama.cpp already has support for them. I want to try them out. Are decision models sensitive to quantization? I know that for autocom

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Auditing Prompt Injection Defenses Before They Reach Users: What Strong Adversaries Reveal

arXiv:2505.15738v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in user-facing products that handle sensitive personal data while interacting with untrusted e

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Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?

arXiv:2610.13948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models increasingly support or automate information retrieval from document collections too large to index. This task is difficult when it requ

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Continually Post-training Small Models via Synthetic Self-distillation

arXiv:2610.13113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual post-training faces a dual challenge of acquisition and retention: models must learn new capabilities while preserving prior knowledge. Whil

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Does Financial Speech Need Continual Learning Regularization? A Study of EWC and mini-KFAC on Earnings Call ASR

arXiv:2610.13432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Earnings call transcription presents a realistic continual learning scenario where Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are updated with new rec

GlucoPRISM: Protocol-Supervised Pretraining for Cross-Cohort Glucose Transfer

arXiv:2610.12528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) foundation models encode each day as one vector that mixes who the person is, what happened that day and how the sen

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Les Miserables Dialogue: A film-based network representation of social communication

arXiv:2610.13148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we revisit the classic Les Miserables benchmark network from the perspective of social communication. Using the 1998 film adaptation of

Mind the Spatial Gap: A Benchmark for Geospatial Reasoning and Constrained Spatial Editing

arXiv:2610.12881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding and manipulating spatial relations is fundamental to AI systems that reason about physical environments and construct grounded world model

Personalization Without Stereotyping: Do Speech LLMs Know When to Turn a Deaf Ear?

arXiv:2610.13550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent speech LLMs can leverage rich paralinguistic cues, enabling more complex and personalized interactions. However, little work investigates how thi

RESCUE: Is This Alarm Worth Acting On? Counterfactual Evaluation of VLA Runtime Monitors

arXiv:2610.13516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Runtime failure monitors for robot policies are typically evaluated by how accurately they distinguish failed from successful executions. Yet an accur

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SelectArena: A Modern Benchmark for Feature Selection on Real-world Tabular Data

arXiv:2610.13644v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selecting a subset of features (columns) from a tabular dataset is a ubiquitous challenge in real-world applications. Industry experts seek to minimiz

SharP: Soft and Hard Prompt-Guided Augmentation with LLM for Low Resource Fake News Detection

arXiv:2610.13207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fake news detection under low resource conditions is challenged by the scarcity of labeled data and the difficulty of capturing subtle deceptive pattern

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Studying Comics at Scale with Artificial Intelligence: The PAGE Framework and Three Studies of American Comics and Japanese Manga

arXiv:2610.13840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comics are one of the great visual records of the twentieth century: hundreds of thousands of pages in which a mass readership saw its leaders, its wars

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When Charts Deceive Web Agents: A Paired Benchmark for Misleading Visualization-Grounded Tasks

arXiv:2610.12823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web agents increasingly browse, interpret, and act on web content on behalf of users. In many realistic workflows, however, the visual evidence they con

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Work2Skill: Capturing Human GUI Experience for Reusable Agent Skill Induction

arXiv:2610.12984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents can perform increasingly complex GUI tasks, yet unfamiliar software and workflows requiring human domain knowledge remain challengin

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WoundAmbit: Bridging State-of-the-Art Semantic Segmentation and Real-World Wound Care

arXiv:2504.06185v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chronic wounds affect a large population, particularly the elderly and diabetic patients, who often exhibit limited mobility and co-existing h

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Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models (Achint Srivastava/Command Line)

Achint Srivastava / Command Line: Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models — Decisi

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11 Oct 2026

ContourVLA: A Closed-Loop Perception-Action Contour Policy for Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation

arXiv:2610.12107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalized referring expression segmentation (GRES) requires dynamically balancing high-level semantics for identifying a variable number of language-s

From Suppression to Repair: Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via Localized Distribution Alignment

arXiv:2610.11826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object hallucination remains a major obstacle for large vision-language models (LVLMs) to generate reliable content. An intuitive mitigation strategy

GPF-Net: Gated Progressive Fusion Learning for Polyp Re-Identification

arXiv:2512.21476v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Colonoscopic Polyp Re-Identification (ReID) aims to match the same polyp across a large gallery of images captured from different viewpoints a

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MSGAT: Multi-Head Spiking Graph Attention with Similarity-Space Fusion for Image-Text Retrieval

arXiv:2610.11526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient computing paradigm through sparse event-driven computation, showing great potential for effic

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Perception Test 2026: Challenge Summary and Extension to City-scale Audio-Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2610.12081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuing the Perception Test challenge series, we organised the fourth edition as a workshop at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026

Rephrase Before You Act: Characterizing and Mitigating Language Sensitivity in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2610.10526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) are strikingly sensitive to instruction phrasing and do not inherit the language robustness of the vision-languag

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8 Oct 2026

Twist Flow for Inverse Problems

arXiv:2610.09281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Bayesian inverse problems, posterior sampling requires generating samples that are consistent with given observations while capturing the range of pl

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8 Oct 2026

3D-DefectBench: A Controlled Factorial Study of Vision-Language Model Evaluation Pipelines for Fine-Grained 3D Generation Defects

arXiv:2607.10826v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated evaluation is essential for scaling generative 3D systems, where exhaustive human review is costly and slow. Yet the reliability of

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A Data-Centric Review of Plant Disease Datasets: Taxonomy, Critical Analysis, Environmental Variability, and Implications for Precision Agriculture

arXiv:2610.07087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, reliable real-world plant disease detection remains a persistent challenge. Visual and deep learning

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A Systematic Study of Semantic ID Spaces for Generative Information Retrieval

arXiv:2610.08732v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative Information Retrieval (GIR) has emerged as a transformative paradigm, shifting document retrieval from a traditional 'retrieve-and-rank' wo

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Active Feature Acquisition for Cost-Efficient Temporal Prediction with Reduced Participant Burden

arXiv:2610.07452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate forecasting of pathological outcomes is a central problem in psychology. To do so, psychologists often collect intensive longitudinal data. H

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ARIA: Audio-Driven Melody-Tone Relation Modeling for Cantonese Lyric Authoring

arXiv:2610.07902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cantonese lyric writing requires close alignment between lexical tones and melodic pitch. Existing melody-guided lyric generation methods typically rely

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Artifact removal improves electrodermal waveforms but not downstream classification in a virtual-reality balance task

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arXiv:2610.07438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artifact removal routinely precedes the classification of electrodermal activity (EDA), on the assumption that a cleaner signal supports a better deci