AI News Archive: July 7, 2026 — Part 17
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- A VLM-Enhanced Framework for Comprehensive Traffic Sign Condition Assessment Integrating Daytime Visual Performance and Nighttime Retroreflectivity Evaluation
Traffic signs are crucial components of road safety, serving as visual tools under all lighting conditions. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) specifies daytime visual factors such as legibility and color contrast, and nighttime retroreflectivity requirements. Traditional assessme...
- EgoPolice: A Benchmark for Egocentric Video Understanding in High-Stakes Police Body-Worn Camera Footage
We introduce EgoPolice, a carefully curated dataset of real, egocentric police-civilian interactions, sourced from publicly available body-worn camera videos. We select police-civilian action labels that are critical for police behavioral research and annotate them at a second-by-second granularity....
- PIPBench: A Profile-Inclusive Framework for Personalized Image Generation Evaluation
Recent text-to-image models such as DALLE-3 excel at following diverse prompts yet remain blind to individual aesthetic preferences. We study personalized image generation, where models must align outputs with a user's implicit visual preferences based on a few historically preferred images and a sh...
- WristMimic: Full-Body Humanoid Control with Wrist-Guided Manipulation
Retargeting human object interaction demonstrations to physics based simulation requires reproducing not only body motion but also the object motion and contacts that make manipulation succeed. However, position only hand trajectories do not specify the contact forces needed to manipulate objects, a...
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- FADRA: Frequency-Aware Diffusion with Residual Adaptation for Video Face Restoration
Video face restoration (VFR) aims to recover high-quality and temporally consistent facial details from severely degraded video sequences; however, existing methods still struggle to balance spatial fidelity and temporal coherence under complex degradations. To address this, we propose FADRA, a freq...
- Learning to Throw Objects Safely in Multi-Obstacle Environments
Robotic throwing enables fast and efficient object placement beyond the robot's immediate workspace, but reliable throwing in cluttered environments remains underexplored. Existing approaches, such as TossingBot, learn throwing strategies from visual input but assume obstacle-free settings. In this ...
- VaseMuseum: Digital Intelligent Museum for Ancient Greek Pottery
Vision-language models (VLMs) have made interactive digital museums increasingly feasible by connecting 3D digitization with natural-language artifact exploration. However, in cultural heritage domains such as ancient Greek pottery, reliable VLM assistance is limited by two challenges. First, open-e...
- OrchardBench: A Physically-Grounded, GPU-Parallel Apple-Orchard Simulation Benchmark for Agricultural Robotics
Robotic tree-fruit harvesting is a flagship problem for agricultural automation, but progress is bottlenecked by the cost and irreproducibility of field experiments: an orchard is available only weeks a year, every tree is different, and a control error can permanently damage the crop or the plant. ...
- Bridging Diffusion Pruning and Step Distillation with Teacher-Aligned Repair
Diffusion models generate high-quality images, but their inference cost comes from two sources: large denoising networks and repeated denoising steps. Existing compression pipelines usually attack these costs separately. Pruning reduces the network, but most pruning methods still rely on a long post...
- AlayaWorld: Long-Horizon and Playable Video World Generation
Game worlds have traditionally been built through labor-intensive production pipelines, making them costly to develop, difficult to customization, and expensive to modify after deployment. Recent advances in video world models offer a fundamentally different paradigm. Rather than explicitly authorin...
- MAC-XA: Multi-view Anatomy-Correspondence Fusion for Coronary Stenosis Reporting from X-ray Angiography
Multi-view reasoning in coronary X-ray angiography is inherently a cross-projection geometric problem, yet automated report generation in this setting remains largely unexplored. The 3D vascular topology leads to projection-dependent branch overlap and foreshortening, rendering single-view modeling ...
- PhyMRI-SR: Toward Physics-Aware MRI Image Super-Resolution
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) super-resolution is vital for improving diagnostic accessibility, yet most methods treat it as a deterministic mapping from a fixed low-resolution input to a high-resolution target. This overlooks a key property of MRI acquisition physics: spatial resolution and sign...
- WING: A Window-Prior-Based Generative Network with Gated Inception for Cross-Modality CT Synthesis
Generating CT volumes from MRI and CBCT can improve treatment planning in adaptive radiotherapy while avoiding additional radiation exposure. However, direct regression of CT intensities is challenged by the inherently high dynamic range and long-tailed distributions, thereby averaging out sparse ye...
- EeveeDark: A Binary Neural Framework for Low-Light Video Enhancement via Event-Guided Sensor-Level Fusion
Enhancing videos under extreme low-light conditions remains challenging due to the difficulty of balancing restoration quality and computational efficiency in resource-constrained settings. This paper introduces EeveeDark, a low-light video enhancement framework that combines the spatial richness of...
- MoWorld: A Flash World Model
The future of World Models depends not only on scaling model capability, but also on scaling practicality and inference efficiency. High-frame-rate inference enables responsive perception, planning, and control in real-world autonomous systems. To this end, we present MoWorld, a cost-effective yet h...
- Revisiting Scene Graph Generation from the Perspective of Detector-Conditioned Reachability
Scene graph generation (SGG) approaches can be broadly classified into detector-based and query-based methods according to their underlying reasoning mechanisms. However, the discrepancy in their predictive behaviors, induced by these distinct mechanisms, has not been systematically analyzed. In thi...
- MobileWan: Closing the Quality Gap for Mobile Video Diffusion
Recent advances in video diffusion have been driven by scaling transformer-based architectures to billions of parameters, substantially improving visual fidelity and motion coherence. In contrast, existing mobile video diffusion models remain limited to relatively small parameter budgets, typically ...
- A Function-Space Dichotomy for Compositional Learning: Exponential Sub-Optimality of the Neural Tangent Kernel
A persistent empirical observation is that trained neural networks outperform their neural tangent kernel (NTK) limit on tasks with compositional structure, yet a quantitative account of $\textbf{when}$ and $\textbf{by how much}$ has been lacking. Working on the unit circle, we give such an account ...
- Physics-Informed Neural Embeddings of PDE Solution Families
We introduce a physics-informed framework for learning finite-dimensional embeddings of solution families of partial differential equations. The method uses a multihead Physics-Informed Neural Network in which a shared body learns a latent manifold representing the solution space, while linear heads...
- A Convex Approximation Framework for Neural Likelihood-Based Bayesian Inverse Problems
Many problems in science and engineering are difficult to model accurately, either due to unknown physical mechanisms, poorly quantified measurement uncertainty, or prohibitive computational costs of high-fidelity simulations. These challenges limit the applicability of classical probabilistic infer...
- Entanglement as a Structural Complexity Axis: A PAC-Bayesian View of Generalization in Quantum Policies and Value Functions
Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) are increasingly used as policies and value functions in quantum reinforcement learning, yet it remains unclear when and why quantum policies generalize. We give a PAC-Bayesian account in which generalization is governed not by the raw number of circuit paramete...
- Canopy: A Heterograph Foundation Model for Metabolic Engineering
Designing microbial strains that produce high-value chemicals at commercially viable titers remains a central challenge in metabolic engineering. Existing computational approaches either rely on stoichiometric constraint-based models that cannot learn from experimental data, or apply tabular machine...
- Leveraging Extragradient for Effective Sharpness-Aware Minimization in Deep Learning
Generalization remains a pivotal challenge in deep learning, where traditional optimizers like Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) often converge to sharp minima, leading to overfitting and reduced performance on unseen data. Building on Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM), for seeking flat minima asso...
- Enhanced Seam Segmentation for Automated Welding Robot in Construction Through Transfer Learning: Addressing Limitations of Bilateral Segmentation Network
Reliable seam segmentation is essential for autonomous robotic welding in construction, where harsh illumination, specular reflections, and thin weld geometries often degrade segmentation performance. This study proposes a reflection-robust seam segmentation framework that enhances a BiSeNetV2 backb...
- Modeling Normal Is All You Need: Joint Latent Clustering for Anomaly Detection in Multimodal Cyber-Physical Systems
Faults on a cyber-physical system (CPS) are too rare and unrepresentative to characterise, or even to select a model on, so detection must instead model normal behaviour; the standard point-adjusted evaluation, however, rewards detectors that never do. CPS normal behaviour is the union of many imbal...
- Scalable Perturbation Learning for Online Self-Supervised Echo State Networks
Intelligent systems should not only solve tasks but also adapt under real-world constraints. Autonomous adaptation via self-supervised learning, sequential adaptation via online learning, and memory-efficient implementation via perturbation-based learning are important requirements for such systems....
- SplineNet: An Isogeometric Deep Learning Method for Complex Shells
We present a novel isogeometric deep learning method, termed SplineNet, for the seamless design and analysis of shell structures with complex geometries. The proposed approach is built upon watertight spline representations, e.g., analysis-suitable unstructured T-splines, and features exact geometri...
- Multi-Channel Spread-Spectrum Code Watermarking
Attributing code to the large language model that produced it is essential for provenance, licensing, and misuse accountability, yet no deployed watermark meets this need. Generation-time schemes require access to the producing model and cannot be applied to third-party code, while post-hoc schemes ...
- Mitigating Errors in LLM-Generated Web API Invocations via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Constrained Decoding
Integration of web APIs is a cornerstone of modern software systems, yet writing correct web API invocation code remains challenging due to complex and evolving API specifications. Although LLMs are increasingly used for code generation, previous work has empirically shown that their ability to gene...
- Energy-Efficient GPU DVFS for Fine-Tuning of SLMs on Resource-constrained Embedded Devices
Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) on resource-constrained embedded GPU platforms is essential for energy-efficient small language model (SLM) fine-tuning, as privacy- and personalization-driven adaptation increasingly requires local execution and involves repeated forward-backward optimizatio...
- Drift Happens: An Empirical Study of Neural Architecture Robustness to Temporal Distribution Shift
Real-world data distributions evolve over time, inducing temporal distribution shift that can substantially degrade the reliability of deployed machine learning systems. However, the extent to which architectural choices and their associated inductive biases affect temporal robustness remains insuff...
- More Convincing, Not More Correct: Self-Play Reward Hacking of Reference-Free LLM Judges
Training a language model against its own reference-free judgments (the premise of self-rewarding, self-play, and LLM-as-a-judge pipelines) assumes a model's verdict on a shown answer tracks correctness. We show it fails structurally: conditioned on a candidate, a judge scores plausibility, not corr...
- Few-Medoids: An Embarrassingly Simple Coreset Selection Method for Few-Shot Knowledge Distillation
Coreset selection aims to identify a small and highly representative subset of a massive dataset for efficient model training. The problem remains challenging even in the few-shot knowledge distillation (KD) setup, where a full-scale pre-trained teacher informs the student network. Typical sample se...
- EntroPath: Maximum Entropy Path Ensemble Embedding for Manifold Learning
We introduce EntroPath, a manifold learning method that recovers geodesic geometry from data graphs through ensembles of diffusion paths. Many existing graph-based embeddings rely either on locally normalised random walks or on shortest-path distances. The former can concentrate diffusion in densely...
- Kernel-based Operator Learning: Error Analysis, Budget Allocation, and a Physics-Informed Extension
We study kernel-based operator learning in a two-stage sampling framework, where an offline kernel regression operator learns a discretized representation of the target operator from input-output pairs and an online kernel reconstruction operator recovers the output function from predicted observati...
- Self-Supervised Implicit CEST Reconstruction via Physics-Informed Lorentz Encoding
Multi-Pool Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MRI provides valuable metabolic information but is clinically limited by long acquisition times. Although sparse sampling reduces scanning time, reconstructing high-resolution Z-spectra from limited data remains an ill-posed inverse problem. Co...
- Static Metrics Are Insufficient: Predicting Java Method Energy Usage with Execution Time
The increasing energy demand of software systems is raising concerns about their environmental impact and associated costs. Reasoning on energy usage early in the development flow has the potential to significantly reduce the overall energy usage of a software system, as it allows developers to make...
- 6G Sensing Security: Distributed Game-Theoretic RL for Urban Beamforming and Attacker Detection
In next-generation networks, communication systems will no longer be limited to data transmission and will be expected to acquire awareness of the surrounding environment. This leads to the concept of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), where the same wireless infrastructure is used for bot...
- x-Prediction Is All You Need:Training-Free Accelerated Generation via Endpoint Decodability
Diffusion and flow matching models generate high-quality samples, but their ODE samplers often need tens to hundreds of neural function evaluations (NFEs). This remains a practical challenge for released checkpoints, since many accelerators require additional design choices and training cost through...
- Determinantal point process sampling for bioacoustic active learning
Eco-acoustic monitoring generates vast volumes of audio data, making active learning a promising approach for reducing annotation effort while efficiently training reliable biodiversity classifiers. This report presents CARE-DPP, a batch active-learning acquisition method submitted to BioDCASE Activ...
- Separation Capacity of Scattering Networks on Low-Dimensional Datasets
We aim to identify scattering network architectures that maximize the separation capacity on data with low intrinsic dimension. The networks we consider employ a fixed monomial nonlinearity and no pooling, so that the only design variable is the frame generated by the network filters. For data model...
- Learning When to Automate: Queue Control in Human-AI Service Systems
We study a human-AI service system in which tasks arrive sequentially and are processed through a two-stage architecture: an automated chatbot followed, when necessary, by a human agent. We consider $T$ sequentially arriving tasks, each belonging to one of $K$ heterogeneous types. For each task the ...
- Auditing of Unlearning Algorithms
Evaluating whether unlearning algorithms truly remove training data influence remains an open challenge. We propose a practical auditor that computes data-dependent lower bounds on the unlearning parameter $\varepsilon$ using membership inference attacks. Evaluating multiple unlearning algorithms, w...
- RynnWorld-Teleop: An Action-Conditioned World Model for Digital Teleoperation
Scaling robot learning requires massive, diverse trajectory data, yet collection is currently bottlenecked by physical teleoperation, where every demonstration binds operator time to specific hardware and workspaces. We introduce digital teleoperation, a paradigm that decouples data collection from ...
- LAMP: Latent Motion Prior-Guided Real-World Learning for Dexterous Hand Manipulation
Real-world learning for dexterous hands remains brittle because high-dimensional hand actions amplify imitation errors and make reinforcement-learning exploration prone to contact-breaking motion. While combining imitation learning (IL) with online reinforcement learning (RL) can reduce manual super...
- Optimal Transport Q-Learning for Flow Policy Steering and Acceleration
Diffusion and flow policies have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in robotic applications by accurately capturing multimodal robot trajectory distributions, especially in the context of vision language action (VLA) models. However, high quality policy performance also requires fast infer...
- Why does Deep Learning Improve Visual SLAM?
Visual SLAM is a well-established technology utilized in a wide range of real-world applications. However, its performance still degrades under challenging visual conditions, such as low texture, severe motion blur, and poor illumination. Systems based on deep learning outperform classical geometry-...
- Delay-Aware Active Triangulation with Uncertainty-Driven Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Counter-UAS
Multi-agent active visual triangulation enables precise 3D localization of aerial targets by coordinating mobile observers with controllable cameras. However, existing methods assume instantaneous state feedback, ignoring cumulative latency from detection, communication, and decision propagation. We...
- Intercepting an Agile Target with Net-Carrying Drones using Competitive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
This article presents a solution to intercept an agile drone by a team of agile drone carrying catching nets. We formulate the problem as a competitive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) task. To address the problem of nonstationarity and catastrophic forgetting of agents overfitting to the c...