AI News Archive: July 27, 2026 — Part 23
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- Multiview Multi-Person Human Mesh Recovery Under Large Scenes with Occlusions
Human mesh recovery (HMR) aims to recover 3D human meshes from images. Most existing HMR benchmarks and methods focus on either multi-person reconstruction from a single view or single-person reconstruction from multiple views, where the number of subjects and the scene scale are relatively limited....
- UMI3D: Robust 3D Generation on Unconstrained Multi-Image Inputs via Simultaneous Focus Cross-Attention Routing
Recent 3D foundation models can generate high-quality assets from a single image, but degrade markedly on unconstrained multi-image inputs, often producing distorted geometry, over-smoothed textures, and chaotic colors. We argue that this failure stems not from limited model capacity, but from a mis...
- SILICA: Repurposing Diffusion Priors for Joint Glass Segmentation and Depth Estimation
Standard depth sensors systematically fail on transparent surfaces, creating corrupted 3D maps and severe navigation hazards. While specialized hardware sensors can detect glass, they lack modularity and have extensive hardware dependencies. Consequently, learning-based monocular depth estimation ha...
- Global Convergence of DGM and PINN Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear PDEs
The Deep Galerkin Method (DGM) and Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have become widely-used methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in the rapidly growing field of scientific machine learning. In these methods, a neural network is trained to approximate the PDE solution by ...
- Explainable Reinforcement Learning via Physics-Aware Policy Distillation
In safety-critical sectors such as robotics and automotive engineering, the deployment of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is often hindered by the black-box nature of deep neural networks. This lack of transparency poses significant challenges for regulatory compliance and human-agent trust. This ...
- Attribution and Uncertainty Behavior of Learned Residual Gyro Correction for Gyro-Stellar Estimation
This work investigates uncertainty decomposition and explainability in a deep learning-based framework for gyroscope bias correction. A 1-D Convolutional Neural Network is trained to predict residual angular rate corrections from multi-sensor inputs, including gyroscope and star tracker measurements...
- Evaluating Fuzz Testing for Reinforcement Learning Agents
Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains such as robotics, autonomous driving, and drone control, where unexpected behaviors may lead to severe real-world consequences. Fuzz testing has recently emerged as a promising method for exploring the vast state...
- From Machine Learning to Large-Scale EO Products: Best Practices for Making Maps
Recent years have seen a rapid expansion in the production of large-scale geospatial maps derived from Earth observation (EO) data, driven largely by advances in machine learning (ML) and large computing infrastructure. Although the barrier to generating such maps has dropped substantially, establis...
- Frequency-Based Reservoir computing
Reservoir computing has emerged as an efficient machine learning framework for predicting time series generated by dynamical systems. In contrast to other machine and deep learning approaches, a reservoir computing trains only the output layer via linear regression, leaving the reservoir (recurrent ...
- When LLM Defenses Backfire: Characterizing Safety, Performance, and Cost Trade-offs
Jailbreak defenses are essential for protecting large language models (LLMs), but they can also introduce secondary costs that weaken model utility. We present a systematic study of these defense trade-offs along three dimensions: performance impact, over-refusal on benign inputs, and inference cost...
- Unsupervised Graph Representation Learning with Complementary View Alignment
Unsupervised graph representation learning aims to derive meaningful node embeddings by capturing both structural and attribute information without relying on labeled data. Existing methods, such as GAEs, have demonstrated effectiveness but typically rely on message-passing mechanisms that assume ho...
- DynaCalKV: Key-Value Cache Compression via Head Grouping and Adaptive Rank Allocation
As the inference phase of Large Language Models (LLMs) requires handling long context windows, the Key-Value (KV) cache initially appears to address this challenge but eventually becomes a significant bottleneck as the context window continues to grow. Low-rank compression has recently been studied ...
- Folly: Plant Identifier & Care
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- Causal-TS: A Python Library for Causal Discovery in High-Dimensional and Nonstationary Time Series
We describe Causal-TS, an open-source Python library for causal discovery in high-dimensional and nonstationary multivariate time series. Causal-TS provides four specialized algorithms-CDNOTS, CDNOTS+, CEDAR, and GRACE-along with wrappers for GES, Granger, LASSO-VAR, and LGES, all sharing a unified ...
- When Can You Correct Distribution Drift in Temporal Graph Generation? A Sharpening--Drift Tension and an Impossibility for Observation-Based Correction
Generative models of temporal graphs are trained on one stretch of an evolving network and deployed on the next, and they degrade badly in the gap. We show this degradation is derivable, general, and not fixable from observations. The masked flow-matching loss decomposes exactly, with no independenc...
- A Model for Imbalanced Label Aggregation: A Focus on Minority-Class Detection
We study imbalanced crowdsourcing with a focus on class-dependent annotator accuracy, a setting that, to the best of our knowledge, remains relatively underexplored despite its importance in real-world inspection systems where the labels of greatest operational importance are also the rarest ones. I...
- PYPM-GGD: Pitman-Yor Process Mixture with Generalized Gaussian Density using ADAM
Large scale Bayesian nonparametrics (BNP) learner such as Stochastic Variational Inference (SVI) can handle datasets with large class number and large training size at fractional cost. Like its predecessor, SVI rely on the assumption of conjugate variational posterior to approximate the true posteri...
- Bit-Accurate FPGA Evaluation of Learned Feature Gating in a Fixed-Point Fourier-Feature Automatic Modulation Classifier
Learned feature reweighting can improve automatic modulation classification (AMC) in software, but the same operation introduces additional arithmetic and latency when implemented on an FPGA. This work measures that trade-off in a compact fixed-point classifier using 24 sparse DFT-energy features, 8...
- The K-SCAN Clustering Algorithm
In the Big Data era, the scalability of clustering algorithms constitutes a key challenge. Traditional density-based methods (e.g., DBSCAN) offer robustness to noise and the ability to detect non-linear clusters, yet their quadratic time complexity $O(N^2)$ drastically limits their applicability. Co...
- Low-Rank Dependence Decomposition via Accelerated Symmetric Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Symmetric non-negative matrix factorization (SymNMF) recovers latent group structure from a dependence matrix, but its dense, quadratic-memory objective has confined prior work to moderate sizes. We present a large-scale GPU study of seven algorithm families (over 30 configurations) on absolute Pear...
- Physics Transformer: Tailoring Transformer for General PDE Prediction
Transformer architectures have attracted increasing attention for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), owing to their flexibility in handling irregular discretizations and their ability to capture long-range physical dependencies. However, unlike discrete language tokens or fixed-resolutio...
- Self-Attention Dynamics with Rotary Position Embeddings: Twisted States and Explicit Consensus Rates on the Sphere
Rotary position embeddings (RoPE) modify attention scores through position-dependent rotations, but their effect on normalized token dynamics is not captured by the vanilla spherical self-attention model. We study the continuous-time dynamics obtained when queries and keys are rotated while values r...