HURRI-GAN: A Novel Approach for Hurricane Bias-Correction Beyond Gauge Stations using Generative Adversarial Networks

The paper introduces HURRI-GAN, a novel TimeGAN-based framework that corrects systemic biases in high-resolution hurricane simulation models like ADCIRC, enabling accurate, near real-time storm surge forecasting and bias extrapolation beyond gauge station locations while significantly reducing computational runtime.

Noujoud Nadera, Hadi Majed, Stefanos Giaremis, Rola El Osta, Clint Dawson, Carola Kaiser, Hartmut Kaiser2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Geodesic Gradient Descent: A Generic and Learning-rate-free Optimizer on Objective Function-induced Manifolds

This paper introduces Geodesic Gradient Descent (GGD), a generic, learning-rate-free optimization algorithm that approximates local neighborhoods of objective function-induced hypersurfaces using n-dimensional spheres to ensure update trajectories remain on the manifold, achieving significant performance improvements over Adam on both regression and classification tasks.

Liwei Hu, Guangyao Li, Wenyong Wang, Xiaoming Zhang, Yu Xiang2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

PaLMR: Towards Faithful Visual Reasoning via Multimodal Process Alignment

PaLMR is a novel framework that enhances the faithfulness of multimodal large language models by aligning both the reasoning process and outcomes through a perception-aligned data layer and a hierarchical reward fusion scheme, thereby significantly reducing visual hallucinations while achieving state-of-the-art performance on key benchmarks.

Yantao Li, Qiang Hui, Chenyang Yan, Kanzhi Cheng, Fang Zhao, Chao Tan, Huanling Gao, Jianbing Zhang, Kai Wang, Xinyu Dai, Shiguo Lian2026-03-10💻 cs

GameVerse: Can Vision-Language Models Learn from Video-based Reflection?

The paper introduces GameVerse, a comprehensive benchmark featuring a novel reflect-and-retry paradigm and a hierarchical taxonomy across 15 games, demonstrating that Vision-Language Models can effectively improve their gameplay policies through video-based reflection by combining failure trajectories with expert tutorials.

Kuan Zhang, Dongchen Liu, Qiyue Zhao, Jinkun Hou, Xinran Zhang, Qinlei Xie, Miao Liu, Yiming Li2026-03-10💻 cs

Science Literacy: Generative AI as Enabler of Coherence in the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment of Scientific Knowledge and Reasoning

This chapter explores the potential of generative AI to enhance K-16+ science literacy by proposing a coherent architectural framework that aligns the teaching, learning, and assessment of scientific knowledge and reasoning, while addressing associated challenges and outlining future research needs.

Xiaoming Zhai, James W. Pellegrino, Matias Rojas, Jongchan Park, Matthew Nyaaba, Clayton Cohn, Gautam Biswas2026-03-10💻 cs

Hybrid Orchestration of Edge AI and Microservices via Graph-based Self-Imitation Learning

This paper introduces SIL-GPO, a reinforcement learning framework that combines graph attention networks with self-imitation learning to optimize the joint deployment and routing of heterogeneous edge AI and microservices, significantly reducing end-to-end latency and improving resource utilization compared to existing methods.

Chen Yang, Jin Zheng, Yang Zhuolin, Lai Pan, Zhang Xiao, Hu Menglan, Yin Haiyan2026-03-10💻 cs

AutoFigure-Edit: Generating Editable Scientific Illustration

AutoFigure-Edit is an end-to-end system that generates fully editable, high-quality scientific illustrations from long-form text with flexible style adaptation via reference images, leveraging long-context understanding and native SVG support to overcome limitations in editability and efficiency found in existing automated tools.

Zhen Lin, Qiujie Xie, Minjun Zhu, Shichen Li, Qiyao Sun, Enhao Gu, Yiran Ding, Ke Sun, Fang Guo, Panzhong Lu, Zhiyuan Ning, Yixuan Weng, Yue Zhang2026-03-10💻 cs

VB: Visibility Benchmark for Visibility and Perspective Reasoning in Images

This paper introduces VB, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate vision-language models' ability to determine image visibility and appropriately abstain from answering when evidence is insufficient, utilizing controlled minimal edits and specialized metrics to reveal that top-tier models like GPT-4o and Gemini 3.1 Pro significantly outperform open-source alternatives in confidence-aware accuracy and perspective reasoning.

Neil Tripathi2026-03-10💻 cs

Thinking with Gaze: Sequential Eye-Tracking as Visual Reasoning Supervision for Medical VLMs

This paper introduces a method that enhances medical Vision-Language Models by using sequential eye-tracking data as supervision to train dedicated gaze tokens, enabling the models to mimic radiologists' visual search patterns and achieve state-of-the-art performance in both in-domain and out-of-domain medical reasoning tasks.

Yiwei Li, Zihao Wu, Yanjun Lv, Hanqi Jiang, Weihang You, Zhengliang Liu, Dajiang Zhu, Xiang Li, Quanzheng Li, Tianming Liu, Lin Zhao2026-03-10💻 cs