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Contrastive learning (CL) has become a powerful approach for learning representations from unlabeled images. However, existing CL methods focus predominantly on visual appearance features while neglecting topological characteristics (e.g.,…

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We present TOPO (Time-Ordered Provable Outputs), a tool designed to enhance reproducibility and data integrity in astrophysical research, providing a trustless alternative to data analysis blinding. Astrophysical research frequently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 Santiago Casas , Christian Fidler

Comparative evaluation lies at the heart of science, and determining the accuracy of a computational method is crucial for evaluating its potential as well as for guiding future efforts. However, metrics that are typically used have…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-07-10 Kiwon Um , Xiangyu Hu , Bing Wang , Nils Thuerey

Semantic segmentation aims to robustly predict coherent class labels for entire regions of an image. It is a scene understanding task that powers real-world applications (e.g., autonomous navigation). One important application, the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuxiang Zhang , Sachin Mehta , Anat Caspi

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at both informal and formal (e.g. Lean 4) mathematical reasoning but still struggle with autoformalisation, the task of transforming informal into formal mathematical statements. Autoformalisation helps…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yupei Li , Philipp Borchert , Gerasimos Lampouras

Scientific diagrams convey explicit structural information, yet modern text-to-image models often produce visually plausible but structurally incorrect results. Existing benchmarks either rely on image-centric or subjective metrics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Tong Zhang , Honglin Lin , Zhou Liu , Chong Chen , Wentao Zhang

Establishing stable mappings between natural language expressions and visual percepts is a foundational problem for both cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Humans routinely ground linguistic reference in noisy, ambiguous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joseph Bingham

Image classification with small datasets has been an active research area in the recent past. However, as research in this scope is still in its infancy, two key ingredients are missing for ensuring reliable and truthful progress: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 L. Brigato , B. Barz , L. Iocchi , J. Denzler

Reproducible closed-loop evaluation remains a major bottleneck in Embodied AI such as visual navigation. A promising path forward is high-fidelity simulation that combines photorealistic sensor rendering with geometrically grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xinhao Liu , Jiaqi Li , Youming Deng , Ruxin Chen , Yingjia Zhang , Yifei Ma , Li Guo , Yiming Li , Jing Zhang , Chen Feng

Every AI benchmark operationalizes theoretical assumptions about the capability it claims to assess. When assumptions function as unexamined commitments, benchmarks stabilize the dominant paradigm by narrowing what counts as progress. Over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Theodore J Kalaitzidis

Global air quality forecasting grapples with extreme spatial heterogeneity and the poor generalization of existing transductive models to unseen regions. To tackle this, we propose OmniAir, a semantic topology learning framework tailored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhiqing Cui , Siru Zhong , Ming Jin , Shirui Pan , Qingsong Wen , Yuxuan Liang

Abstraction is essential for reducing the complexity of systems across diverse fields, yet designing effective abstraction methodology for probabilistic models is inherently challenging due to stochastic behaviors and uncertainties. Current…

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Local explainability methods -- those which seek to generate an explanation for each prediction -- are becoming increasingly prevalent due to the need for practitioners to rationalize their model outputs. However, comparing local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Peter Xenopoulos , Gromit Chan , Harish Doraiswamy , Luis Gustavo Nonato , Brian Barr , Claudio Silva

Earth observation foundation models have shown strong generalization across multiple Earth observation tasks, but their robustness under real-world perturbations remains underexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce REOBench, the first…

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Neuromorphic computing shows promise for advancing computing efficiency and capabilities of AI applications using brain-inspired principles. However, the neuromorphic research field currently lacks standardized benchmarks, making it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jason Yik , Korneel Van den Berghe , Douwe den Blanken , Younes Bouhadjar , Maxime Fabre , Paul Hueber , Weijie Ke , Mina A Khoei , Denis Kleyko , Noah Pacik-Nelson , Alessandro Pierro , Philipp Stratmann , Pao-Sheng Vincent Sun , Guangzhi Tang , Shenqi Wang , Biyan Zhou , Soikat Hasan Ahmed , George Vathakkattil Joseph , Benedetto Leto , Aurora Micheli , Anurag Kumar Mishra , Gregor Lenz , Tao Sun , Zergham Ahmed , Mahmoud Akl , Brian Anderson , Andreas G. Andreou , Chiara Bartolozzi , Arindam Basu , Petrut Bogdan , Sander Bohte , Sonia Buckley , Gert Cauwenberghs , Elisabetta Chicca , Federico Corradi , Guido de Croon , Andreea Danielescu , Anurag Daram , Mike Davies , Yigit Demirag , Jason Eshraghian , Tobias Fischer , Jeremy Forest , Vittorio Fra , Steve Furber , P. Michael Furlong , William Gilpin , Aditya Gilra , Hector A. Gonzalez , Giacomo Indiveri , Siddharth Joshi , Vedant Karia , Lyes Khacef , James C. Knight , Laura Kriener , Rajkumar Kubendran , Dhireesha Kudithipudi , Shih-Chii Liu , Yao-Hong Liu , Haoyuan Ma , Rajit Manohar , Josep Maria Margarit-Taulé , Christian Mayr , Konstantinos Michmizos , Dylan R. Muir , Emre Neftci , Thomas Nowotny , Fabrizio Ottati , Ayca Ozcelikkale , Priyadarshini Panda , Jongkil Park , Melika Payvand , Christian Pehle , Mihai A. Petrovici , Christoph Posch , Alpha Renner , Yulia Sandamirskaya , Clemens JS Schaefer , André van Schaik , Johannes Schemmel , Samuel Schmidgall , Catherine Schuman , Jae-sun Seo , Sadique Sheik , Sumit Bam Shrestha , Manolis Sifalakis , Amos Sironi , Kenneth Stewart , Matthew Stewart , Terrence C. Stewart , Jonathan Timcheck , Nergis Tömen , Gianvito Urgese , Marian Verhelst , Craig M. Vineyard , Bernhard Vogginger , Amirreza Yousefzadeh , Fatima Tuz Zohora , Charlotte Frenkel , Vijay Janapa Reddi

We use the notion of topological data analysis to compare metrics on data sets. We provide two different motivating examples for this. The first of these is a point cloud data set that has $\mathbb{R}^2$ as its ambient space, and is…

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Neural implicit mapping has emerged as a powerful paradigm for robotic navigation and scene understanding. However, real-world robotic deployment requires continual adaptation to changing environments under strict memory and computation…

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Topology is critical in tubular structures such as blood vessels, nerve fibers, and road networks, where connectivity and loop structure govern downstream functional analysis. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are promising candidates for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Meilong Xu , Qingqiao Hu , Xiaoling Hu , Shahira Abousamra , Xin Yu , Weimin Lyu , Kehan Qi , Dimitris Samaras , Chao Chen

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to use external tools unlocks powerful real-world interactions, making rigorous evaluation essential. However, current benchmarks primarily report final accuracy, revealing what models can do but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Qihao Wang , Yue Hu , Mingzhe Lu , Jiayue Wu , Yanbing Liu , Yuanmin Tang

Topological materials occupy a frontier in condensed-matter physics thanks to their remarkable electronic and quantum properties, yet their cross-scale design remains bottlenecked by inefficient discovery workflows. Here, we introduce…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Baohua Zhang , Xin Li , Huangchao Xu , Zhong Jin , Quansheng Wu , Ce Li