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

ASMIL: Attention-Stabilized Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Imaging

The paper introduces ASMIL, a unified framework that addresses unstable attention dynamics, overfitting, and over-concentrated attention in attention-based multiple instance learning for whole slide imaging by employing an anchor model with a normalized sigmoid function and token random dropping, resulting in significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art methods.

Linfeng Ye, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Zhixiang Chi, Guang Li, Mert Pilanci, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis2026-03-10💻 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

SJD-PV: Speculative Jacobi Decoding with Phrase Verification for Autoregressive Image Generation

This paper introduces SJD-PV, a training-free acceleration framework for autoregressive image generation that leverages phrase-level speculative verification based on token co-occurrence statistics to jointly validate multiple correlated tokens, achieving up to 30% faster decoding without compromising visual fidelity.

Zhehao Yu, Baoquan Zhang, Bingqi Shan, Xinhao Liu, Dongliang Zhou, Guotao Liang, Guangming Ye, Yunming Ye2026-03-10💻 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

RADAR: A Multimodal Benchmark for 3D Image-Based Radiology Report Review

The paper introduces RADAR, a multimodal benchmark comprising expert-annotated 3D abdominal CT scans and radiology report edits that enables the systematic evaluation of AI models on fine-grained clinical reasoning tasks, specifically image-text alignment and discrepancy assessment during the radiology report review process.

Zhaoyi Sun, Minal Jagtiani, Wen-wai Yim, Fei Xia, Martin Gunn, Meliha Yetisgen, Asma Ben Abacha2026-03-10💻 cs

ECHO: Event-Centric Hypergraph Operations via Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multimedia Event Extraction

The paper proposes ECHO, a multi-agent framework that utilizes iterative hypergraph operations and a "Link-then-Bind" strategy to mitigate cascading errors in Multimedia Event Extraction, achieving significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art methods on the M2E2 benchmark.

Hailong Chu, Shuo Zhang, Yunlong Chu, Shutai Huang, Xingyue Zhang, Tinghe Yan, Jinsong Zhang, Lei Li2026-03-10💻 cs

Spectral Gaps and Spatial Priors: Studying Hyperspectral Downstream Adaptation Using TerraMind

This study evaluates the adaptability of the TerraMind geospatial foundation model to hyperspectral imaging tasks without native pretraining, finding that while band selection strategies allow for moderate performance, deep learning models with native spectral support remain superior, thereby highlighting the critical need for future architectures to incorporate native spectral tokenization.

Julia Anna Leonardi, Johannes Jakubik, Paolo Fraccaro, Maria Antonia Brovelli2026-03-10💻 cs