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Overview of statistical concepts in datascience: could be usefull in case you need some preformulated text to share with stakeholders... https://towardsdatascience.com/ultimate-guide-to-statistics-for-data-science-a3d8f1fd69a7

MiCo: Multi-image Contrast for Reinforcement Visual Reasoning
Xi Chen, Mingkang Zhu, Shaoteng Liu, Xiaoyang Wu, Xiaogang Xu, Yu Liu, Xiang Bai, Hengshuang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22434

MiCo: Multi-image Contrast for Reinforcement Visual Reasoning
This work explores enabling Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to link visual cues across multiple images. A straightforward solution is to adapt rule-based reinforcement learning for Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, such methods typically rely on manually curated question-answer pairs, which can be particularly challenging when dealing with fine grained visual details and complex logic across images. Inspired by self-supervised visual representation learning, we observe that images contai…

MARBLE: A Hard Benchmark for Multimodal Spatial Reasoning and Planning
Yulun Jiang, Yekun Chai, Maria Brbi\'c, Michael Moor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22992

MARBLE: A Hard Benchmark for Multimodal Spatial Reasoning and Planning
The ability to process information from multiple modalities and to reason through it step-by-step remains a critical challenge in advancing artificial intelligence. However, existing reasoning benchmarks focus on text-only reasoning, or employ multimodal questions that can be answered by directly retrieving information from a non-text modality. Thus, complex reasoning remains poorly understood in multimodal domains. Here, we present MARBLE, a challenging multimodal reasoning benchmark that is d…

Wadephul bestätigt "weitreichende" Waffenhilfe für die Ukraine
Unmittelbar vor neuen Gesprächen zwischen Russland und der Ukraine hat Außenminister Johann Wadephul betont, dass Deutschland der Ukraine entscheidende Waffenhilfe leisten wird. "Wir werden Waffensysteme, die sehr weitreichend sind, durch die Ukraine entwickeln und produzieren lassen, und Deutschland wird das finanzieren", sagte der CDU-Politiker am Sonntag im ZDF…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Wadephul betont Waffenhilfe ++
Außenminister Wadephul betont, dass Deutschland der Ukraine weitreichende Militärhilfe leisten wird. Nach einem Angriff auf eine ukrainische Ausbildungseinheit mit zwölf Toten tritt der Kommandeur der ukrainischen Armee, Drapatij, zurück.

MemAscend: System Memory Optimization for SSD-Offloaded LLM Fine-Tuning
Yong-Cheng Liaw, Shuo-Han Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23254 https://

MemAscend: System Memory Optimization for SSD-Offloaded LLM Fine-Tuning
Owing to the huge success of generative artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a core subclass, underpinning applications such as question answering, text generation, and code completion. While fine-tuning these models on domain-specific data can yield significant performance gains, it also poses daunting computational challenges, especially for researchers and small organizations with limited hardware resources. Although SSD offloading (i.e., ZeRO-Infinity) …

COIN: Uncertainty-Guarding Selective Question Answering for Foundation Models with Provable Risk Guarantees
Zhiyuan Wang, Jinhao Duan, Qingni Wang, Xiaofeng Zhu, Tianlong Chen, Xiaoshuang Shi, Kaidi Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20178

COIN: Uncertainty-Guarding Selective Question Answering for Foundation Models with Provable Risk Guarantees
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) for foundation models is essential to identify and mitigate potential hallucinations in automatically generated text. However, heuristic UQ approaches lack formal guarantees for key metrics such as the false discovery rate (FDR) in selective prediction. Previous work adopts the split conformal prediction (SCP) framework to ensure desired coverage of admissible answers by constructing prediction sets, but these sets often contain incorrect candidates, limiting the…

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Spoken question answering for visual queries
Nimrod Shabtay, Zvi Kons, Avihu Dekel, Hagai Aronowitz, Ron Hoory, Assaf Arbelle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23308

Spoken question answering for visual queries
Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spoken input respectively. This work aims to create a system that enables user interaction through both speech and images. That is achieved through the fusion of text, speech, and image modalities to tackle the task of spoken VQA (SVQA). The resulting multi-modal model has textual, visual, and spoken inputs and can ans…

V2T-CoT: From Vision to Text Chain-of-Thought for Medical Reasoning and Diagnosis
Yuan Wang, Jiaxiang Liu, Shujian Gao, Bin Feng, Zhihang Tang, Xiaotang Gai, Jian Wu, Zuozhu Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19610

V2T-CoT: From Vision to Text Chain-of-Thought for Medical Reasoning and Diagnosis
Recent advances in multimodal techniques have led to significant progress in Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA). However, most existing models focus on global image features rather than localizing disease-specific regions crucial for diagnosis. Additionally, current research tends to emphasize answer accuracy at the expense of the reasoning pathway, yet both are crucial for clinical decision-making. To address these challenges, we propose From Vision to Text Chain-of-Thought (V2T-CoT),…

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