The Eloquence team presents three strategies for the Interspeech 2026 MLC‑SLM Task 2, a multilingual MCQA challenge across 21 languages. They fine‑tune Voxtral‑Mini‑3B with LoRA and cross‑lingual augmentations, achieving 0.72 macro‑accuracy; they use multimodal in‑context learning on the frozen Voxtral‑24B to correct label bias, reaching 0.81; and they deploy a training‑free retrieval system with a voice‑anchored memory, scoring 0.68. All approaches surpass the official baseline.
The paper investigates how to best combine synthetic and real historical Manchu word images for low‑resource OCR. Using 60,000 synthetic and 20,306 real images, the authors compare three pretrained vision‑language models and a compact CRNN across synthetic‑only, real‑only, joint, and sequential training regimes. Adding real data boosts word accuracy to 95–96%, and ensembling the best recognizers raises it to 98.27% without extra training.
The paper introduces DINO-Med, a patch‑based framework that adapts natural‑image foundation models to multi‑modal medical imaging, specifically for liver fibrosis staging. It processes raw multimodal scans through training‑free registration, automated localization, and mask‑filtered patch extraction, then aggregates patch‑level insights into subject‑level diagnostics. Using the CARE 2025 Liver Track 4 cohort, the DINOv3‑based approach achieved the highest classification accuracy (78.4% for mild fibrosis and 75.8% for cirrhosis) compared to other feature representations.
The paper introduces 2AM, a system that keeps task memory solely within a multimodal Agent while using a single RGB‑based, stateless Action Model to execute motions. By compiling interaction history into subtask language and optional 2D grasp/place/move hints, the Agent steers the Action Model, which is trained to tolerate imperfect guidance through dropout, noise, and jitter. On the LIBERO‑Mem benchmark, 2AM achieves 76.3% average completion without depth, geometry, or planners, vastly outperforming the best baseline.
NOAH is a generative transformer that learns the full multimodal patient journey by integrating bidirectional time and a variational latent space. Trained on over 559 million clinical events from 431,000 hospital visits, it processes medical images, time‑series, numeric signals, categorical events, and both structured and unstructured records. The model supports autoregressive forecasting, zero‑shot classification, and counterfactual intervention simulation, yielding strong performance on clinical outcomes, ICD chapters, comorbidities, and time‑to‑event prediction.
By Tobias Susetzky, Raphael Rehms, Dmitrii Seletkov, \"Ozg\"un Turgut, Michelle Espranita Liman, Lisa Steinhelfer, Rickmer Braren, Daniel Rueckert
The paper introduces S$^3$F-Net, a dual‑branch network that fuses spatial and spectral representations for medical image classification. It combines a deep spatial CNN with a shallow spectral encoder, SpectraNet, which uses a learnable SpectralFilter layer to process the full Fourier spectrum efficiently. Evaluated on four medical imaging datasets, S$^3$F-Net consistently outperforms spatial‑only baselines, achieving state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on BRISC2025 and surpassing deeper models on the Chest X‑Ray Pneumonia dataset.
By Md. Saiful Bari Siddiqui, Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan
The paper introduces CoRL, a co-evolutionary reinforcement learning framework designed to defend against adaptive indirect prompt-injection attacks on tool-augmented language agents. CoRL operates in three stages—attacker fine‑tuning, bilateral Co‑PPO training, and defender fine‑tuning—using verifier‑grounded repairs to adapt to changing attack strategies. Experiments on 1,514 executions show that CoRL reduces attack success rates to 0% while improving task utility, demonstrating its effectiveness against adaptive adversaries.
By Boyang Zhang, Qingxin Xiao, Lingwei Dang, Qingyao Wu
The paper introduces a framework that combines a Geometric Vision Parser and a Symbolic Solver to enable a Large Language Model to solve complex plane geometry problems. By translating diagrams into symbolic representations and performing formal deductions, the approach reduces hallucinations and produces interpretable, human-like solutions. Experiments on a new benchmark from 2025 Chinese Zhongkao exams show performance comparable to Gemini 2.5 Pro.
By Weichen Dai, Rafael Medeiros Cabral, Ziyi Shou, Yan Cao, Xin Shen, Dongcai Lu, Yi Zhou
The paper introduces a cross‑modal distillation framework that combines the accuracy of inertial measurement unit (IMU) data with the practicality of video‑based gait analysis to detect freezing of gait (FOG) in Parkinson’s patients. By extracting invariant latent topologies from a pre‑trained kinematic oracle, the method supervises a visual architecture and fuses skeletal graph nodes with continuous spatial pixels to handle severe spatial occlusion during continuous 360° turns. Experiments on a public multimodal dataset show that this approach reduces tracking entropy and achieves precise FOG predictions without requiring wearable sensors.
By Chandan Biswas, Aryan Singh, Anabik Pal
VideoTIR introduces a reinforcement‑learning approach to improve long‑video understanding by encouraging multimodal large language models to use comprehensive multi‑level toolkits efficiently. It combines Zero‑RL and SFT cold‑starting strategies to help models retrieve and focus on meaningful video segments, images, and regions, thereby reducing hallucinations. The method includes Toolkit Action Grouped Policy Optimization (TAGPO) to streamline tool‑calling and a sandbox‑based trajectory synthesis framework for high‑quality data, achieving strong results on three long‑video QA benchmarks.
By Zhe Gao, Shiyu Shen, Taifeng Chai, Weinong Wang, Haotian Xu, Xing Wu, Wenbin Li, Qi Fan, Yang Gao, Dacheng Tao
LoGAN is a VLM-based agentic framework designed for few-shot multilingual font localization. It takes a handful of glyphs or logo letters and generates complete character sets across many languages, including CJK, by combining a glyph-level diffusion model, style finetuning, spacing/kerning transfer, and texture expansion. The method outperforms specialized font generators and state‑of‑the‑art image editors in glyph fidelity, style, texture, and kerning consistency on datasets covering more than 27 languages.
By Zhuoning Yuan, Ta-Ying Cheng, Benjamin Klein
The paper introduces 3DWay, a method that predicts 3D-consistent waypoints for robot manipulation by first generating multi‑view consistent 2D waypoints and then triangulating them. This approach addresses the 3D ambiguity inherent in 2D trajectory predictions and leverages pretrained vision‑language models to provide explicit 3D motion specifications. Experiments demonstrate that 3DWay improves 3D spatial grounding and vision‑language reasoning, enhancing generalization for robot manipulation tasks.
By Ziqin Huang, Yingyue Li, Chenyangguang Zhang, Ruida Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Gu Wang, Xingyu Liu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Xiangyang Ji
The paper introduces RGBTR‑Motion, a new benchmark that synchronizes RGB, thermal, and radar data with dense moving‑instance masks and consistent identities for surveillance scenes. It also presents SAM‑Radar, a segmentation and tracking framework that fuses calibrated RGBT features with radar returns, using radar‑aware detection and motion supervision to reject clutter and maintain identity continuity during low visibility or occlusion. SAM‑Radar achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance, improving IoU, F1‑50, MOTA, HOTA, and IDF1 metrics over existing methods.
By Jue Wang, Xuan Wang, Hao Zhou, Ruixiang Zhou, Yixuan Zhou, Tianshuo Yuan, Jieming Ma, Jie Zhang, Fei Luo
arXiv:2609.09206v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often struggle with hallucinations, thus hindering their reliable practical applications. Existing attention...
By Meng'en Qin, Junye Chen, Jucheng Liu, Youlu Xing, Song Wang, Ruize Han
PopResume is a population‑representative resume dataset designed for causal fairness auditing of large language model (LLM) and vision‑language model (VLM) resume screeners. It grounds fairness evaluation in real population statistics and preserves natural attribute relationships, enabling path‑specific effect (PSE) analysis that separates business‑necessity from redlining pathways. Using PopResume, the authors evaluated eight models on 60.8K resumes across five occupations and uncovered five discrimination patterns that aggregate metrics missed, demonstrating the value of causally‑grounded auditing.
By Sumin Yu, Juhyeon Park, Taesup Moon
BuddyVQA is a new benchmark for companion‑style question answering on egocentric streaming video, comprising 21.6K questions tied to 6K highlight moments across 1,012 long first‑person videos. It emphasizes two often overlooked aspects of daily first‑person QA: ego‑deictic expressions and interactively chained questions, requiring models to resolve visual pronouns and infer user intent within a long‑form streaming context. The authors propose MyBuddy, a multimodal chain‑of‑thought QA assistant that uses a question filter and multi‑level memory to efficiently retrieve visual and QA information, achieving significant performance gains on BuddyVQA and generalizing to other streaming and common video QA benchmarks.
By Hangyu Qin, Junbin Xiao, Shenglang Zhang, Angela Yao
SpatialBlock introduces a synthetic dataset of 15,000 block‑stacking problems designed to improve spatial intelligence in Large Vision‑Language Models (LVLMs). The dataset covers 3D‑to‑2D projection, viewpoint transformation, and structural combination, and uses controlled color modulation to encourage anchor‑based reasoning. Experiments show that LVLMs trained on SpatialBlock outperform baselines and generalize to real‑world spatial tasks, despite the dataset’s synthetic and compact nature.
By Soohyun Ryu, Sohee Kim, Eunho Yang
The paper introduces AV-STE, a modular streaming audio‑visual front‑end that enhances corrupted semantic speech tokens using noisy audio and lip video before they reach a frozen speech LLM. By preserving the downstream dialogue model’s pretrained conversational abilities, AV‑STE improves response coherence from 1.42 to 1.91 in same‑dataset speaker interference scenarios while maintaining turn‑taking behavior. These gains also transfer to out‑of‑domain Seamless Interaction.
By Bella Godiva, Yeonju Kim, Yong Man Ro
The paper introduces QuADA-GS, a method for Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution that dynamically densifies 2D Gaussian splatting based on low‑resolution input. By allocating Gaussians adaptively to structurally complex regions and employing a sparse communication mechanism, it balances high visual fidelity with lower computational cost. Experiments show that this approach achieves a competitive trade‑off between quality and efficiency for super‑resolution tasks.
By Giulio Federico, Giuseppe Amato, Claudio Gennaro, Fabio Carrara, Marco Di Benedetto
The paper introduces Stable-MM-R1, a framework that stabilizes reinforcement learning for multimodal reasoning by addressing training instability and entropy collapse. It proposes Potential‑Aware Query Mining (PAQM) to filter data toward high‑potential samples and Hybrid Stratified Replay (HSR) to restructure batches using path entropy and reward stratification, reusing stability anchors and hard negatives. The method demonstrates superior performance on complex reasoning tasks compared to strong baselines.
By Yimeng Ye, Shuang Chen, Wenxuan Huang, Manyuan Zhang, Kaituo Feng, Zhangquan Chen, Jiayu Chen, Yucheng Zhou, Yicheng Xiao, Zhiyuan Feng, Tianyu Shi