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Multivariate Latent Recalibration for Conditional Normalizing Flows

Neural Information Processing Systems

A reliable estimate of the full conditional distribution of a multivariate response given a set of covariates is essential in many decision-making applications. However, misspecified or miscalibrated models can lead to poor approximations of the joint distribution, resulting in unreliable predictions and suboptimal decisions. Standard recalibration methods are largely restricted to univariate settings, and while conformal prediction techniques yield multivariate regions with coverage guarantees, they do not provide an explicit form of the underlying probability distribution. We address this gap by first introducing a novel notion of latent calibration, which assesses probabilistic calibration in the latent space of conditional invertible generative models such as normalizing flows and flow matching. Second, we propose latent recalibration (LR), a post-hoc model recalibration method that learns a transformation of the latent space with finite-sample bounds on latent calibration. Unlike existing recalibration methods, LR produces a recalibrated distribution with an explicit multivariate density function while remaining computationally efficient. Extensive experiments on both tabular and image datasets show that LR consistently improves latent calibration error and the negative log-likelihood of the recalibrated models.


New Amazon AI search turns words into shoppable images

FOX News

Amazon's new AI search feature generates images in real time as shoppers type descriptions in the app, helping them find products they can picture but cannot name.



Intend to Move: AMultimodal Dataset for Intention-Aware Human Motion Understanding

Neural Information Processing Systems

Human motion is inherently intentional, yet most motion modeling paradigms focus on low-level kinematics, overlooking the semantic and causal factors that drive behavior. Existing datasets further limit progress: they capture short, decontextualized actions in static scenes, providing little grounding for embodied reasoning. To address these limitations, we introduce Intend to Move (I2M), a large-scale, multimodal dataset for intention-grounded motion modeling. I2M contains 10.1 hours of two-person 3D motion sequences recorded in dynamic realistic home environments, accompanied by multi-view RGB-D video, 3D scene geometry, and language annotations of each participant's evolving intentions. Benchmark experiments reveal a fundamental gap in current motion models: they fail to translate high-level goals into physically and socially coherent motion. I2M thus serves not only as a dataset but as a benchmark for embodied intelligence, enabling research on models that can reason about, predict, and act upon the "why" behind human motion.


Incentivizing LLMs to Self-Verify Their Answers

Neural Information Processing Systems

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in complex reasoning tasks through both post-training and test-time scaling laws. While pre models valent to test-time guide the scaling model approaches generation are process, often realized we find that by using only e mar xternal ginal re g w ains ard can be acquired when scaling a model post-trained on specific reasoning tasks. W between e identify the that specific the limited post-trained improv generator ement stems and from the general distributi rew on ard disc model.


The VLLM Safety Paradox: Dual Ease in Jailbreak Attack and Defense

Neural Information Processing Systems

The vulnerability of Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) to jailbreak attacks appears as no surprise. However, recent defense mechanisms against these attacks have reached near-saturation performance on benchmark evaluations, often with minimal effort. This dual high performance in both attack and defense gives rise to a fundamental and perplexing paradox. To gain a deep understanding of this issue and thus further help strengthen the trustworthiness of VLLMs, this paper makes three key contributions: i) One tentative explanation for VLLMs being prone to jailbreak attacks-inclusion of vision inputs, as well as its in-depth analysis.


Orbis: Overcoming Challenges of Long-Horizon Prediction in Driving World Models

Neural Information Processing Systems

In this work, we develop a model using simple design choices, and without additional supervision or sensors, such as maps, depth, or multiple cameras. We show that our model yields state-of-the-art performance, despite having only 469M parameters and being trained on 280h of video data. It particularly stands out in difficult scenarios like turning maneuvers and urban traffic. We test whether discrete token models possibly have advantages over continuous models based on flow matching. To this end, we set up a hybrid tokenizer that is compatible with both approaches and allows for a side-by-side comparison. Our study concludes in favor of the continuous autoregressive model, which is less brittle on individual design choices and more powerful than the model built on discrete tokens.


Zero-Shot Performance Prediction for Probabilistic Scaling Laws

Neural Information Processing Systems

The prediction of learning curves for Natural Language Processing (NLP) models enables informed decision-making to meet specific performance objectives, while reducing computational overhead and lowering the costs associated with dataset acquisition and curation. In this work, we formulate the prediction task as a multitask learning problem, where each task's data is modelled as being organized within a two-layer hierarchy. To model the shared information and dependencies across tasks and hierarchical levels, we employ latent variable multi-output Gaussian Processes, enabling to account for task correlations and supporting zero-shot prediction of learning curves (LCs). We demonstrate that this approach facilitates the development of probabilistic scaling laws at lower costs. Applying an active learning strategy, LCs can be queried to reduce predictive uncertainty and provide predictions close to ground truth scaling laws.


How blue whales became Earth's largest creature--ever

Popular Science

How blue whales became Earth's largest creature--ever More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Just a blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . Think of the largest elephant you can.


StreamFlow: Streaming Audio Generation from Discrete Tokens via Streaming Flow Matching

Neural Information Processing Systems

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities, and Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) has improved their inference efficiency by following optimal transport paths. However, CFM-based models still require multiple iterative sampling steps, which makes them unsuitable for real-time or streaming generation scenarios. In this paper, we introduce StreamFlow, a novel streaming generative model designed for real-time audio generation from discrete tokens. StreamFlow leverages a causal noising training framework along the time axis and predicts multi-time vector fields at once on each stream, enabling streaming inference with minimal latency. To further improve generalization, we propose Scale-DiT, a Diffusion Transformer architecture that enhances robustness by modeling, normalizing, and scaling feature differences prior to skip connections. This significantly improves the robustness and performance of DiT without increasing the parameter size.