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#small language model Preprint Sep 2026

ANI-Gamut: Benchmarking Agent Reliability across the Gamut of Agent-Network Interface Abstractions

ANI-Gamut is presented, a reproducible, open-source playground that exposes the same task at several levels on a single, densely populated brownfield substrate, where many coexisting services share resources and collateral damage actually arises.

Lorenzo Bracciale, P. Loreti, A. Mayer et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

MaskVLA: Visual Masking Against Trajectory Overfitting of Vision-Language-Action Model

MaskVLA, a masking-based fine-tuning strategy that randomly masking a small portion of the main camera's visual information leads to the emergence of robust policies, thereby enhancing the model's capability to tackle complex manipulation tasks and improving its generalization performance.

Yuxuan Jiang, Jia-Ying Huang, Ge Wang et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Preprint Sep 2026

Which Terrain Is Better? Preference Learning with VLM Prototypes for Off-Road Traversability Ranking

TravPro, which converts standard annotations into ordered region pairs and fits a small readout on frozen vision--language model (VLM) patch tokens to these pairs, producing an ordering sensitive to surface condition that a per-class value cannot represent.

Ji-Hoon Hwang, Jisung Bae, E-In Son et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Preprint Sep 2026

A small-distortion geometric model for elasto-plasticity in single crystals driven by the motion of dislocations

A central problem in nonlinear elasto-plasticity theory is to formulate a geometrically nonlinear, large-strain model of elasto-plasticity in single crystals in which plastic flow is driven directly by the motion of dislocations and which allows for a homogenization procedure from discrete dislocation lines to dislocat...

Filip Rindler · 0 citations
#small language model Preprint Sep 2026

SPHQuant: Efficient extreme low bit weight quantization for Vision-Language Models

SPHQuant is a rotation-free spherical weight-only quantization framework for VLMs that isolates outlier magnitude into the radius while keeping directions bounded and statistically regular and designs a hardware-friendly GEMV kernel that keeps the direction codebook small enough for shared-memory lookup and packs radia...

Ke-Wei Zhang, Zheng Chen, Hao-Tong Qin et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
#computer vision Preprint Sep 2026

SKstars at SHROOM: Visions Agreement-Guided Ensembling of Zero-Shot and LoRA-Adapted Vision--Language Models

The results show that combining a large zero-shot model with a smaller adapted model provides a practical framework for multilingual and fine-grained hallucination localization, while also highlighting the difficulty of transferring development-set improvements to hidden test data.

Ali Athar, Imran Ahsan, Joon-Yong Jung · 0 citations
#small language model Preprint Sep 2026

DocMIDE: Learning Multi-Hop Implicit Derivation in Visually Rich Documents

DocMIDE is introduced, a fine-tuning framework that trains compact vision-language models to retrieve visual evidence explicitly before deriving an answer, and constrains generation to a plan-retrieve-derive structure and optimizes it with Group Relative Policy Optimization under a four-component, rule-based reward.

Jeremy Cerwin Wang, Wai-Kit Wong, Jeff Tang · 0 citations
#small language model Preprint Sep 2026

VLM-in-Sandbox: Visual Workspaces for Agentic Visual Reasoning

Across seven benchmarks and four base VLMs, VLM-in-Sandbox achieves the highest sample-weighted average accuracy among Vanilla VLM, Append-only Sandbox, and the proposed method, and is identified as a central abstraction for sandboxed VLM agents.

He-Xiong Yang, Ming-Rui Chen, Jie Cao et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Preprint Sep 2026

A paired synthetic construction-site image dataset for robust computer vision under adverse conditions

ConSynth-X, a paired synthetic construction-site image dataset containing 34,199 images derived from 3,109 real-world source scenes, is presented, providing a structured resource for evaluating and improving the robustness of construction vision and vision-language models under challenging field conditions.

Viet Huy Duong, Ruoxin Xiong, Md Abdullah Al Forhad et al. · 0 citations
#small language model Preprint Sep 2026

Taming CoT Obfuscation in VLMs: From Mechanistic Evidence to Activation Enforcement

This work proposes Targeted Anti-obfuscation with Mechanistic Enforcement (TAME), which uses Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to combine behavioral feedback with targeted suppression of template-associated activations during RL, providing a path from behavioral monitoring to representation-level oversight for more auditable...

Xu-Tao Mao, Jianing Zhu, Jin-Man Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Sep 2026

RoboTalk: Learning Multi-Robot Communication and Coordination from Multimodal Demonstrations

RoboTalk is introduced, a synthetic data-generation pipeline and dataset of 7,950 multimodal trajectories spanning 53 mobile-manipulation kitchen tasks for training small VLMs to communicate and coordinate and fine-tuning open-source models on this dataset can reach 77% success on novel held-out tasks.

Dorian Benhamou Goldfajn, Mason Nakamura, Saaduddin Mahmud et al. · 0 citations

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