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#01Nov 12, 2026

cs.CV

Spatial Foundry: A Multimodal Dataset for Spatial Intelligence

Ethan Lin, Yang Song

Spatial intelligence requires connecting visual observations to the geometry, objects, and persistent state of an environment. Images alone leave these relationships implicit, while disconnected annotations make it difficult to study appearance, camera motion, and scene changes under a common reference. We introduce Spatial Foundry, a collection of 5,280 furnished residential 3D scene configurations with editable assets and aligned visual, geometric, and temporal data. Its modalities include floor plans, perspective and panoramic RGB, metric depth, point clouds, meshes, instance-level 3D bounding boxes, and camera trajectories paired with video. Shared scene coordinates link observations across views and time; editable source scenes enable additional camera paths and controlled object changes. We describe the data representation and construction workflow, and discuss applications in floor-plan-conditioned 3D generation, geometric reconstruction, instance-level perception, camera-conditioned video generation, shared world modeling, and scene editing. Controlled camera and scene variations support spatial perception and world-model research. The public project page provides videos and an interactive colored point-cloud preview.

#02Nov 12, 2026

cs.CV

TTB: Test-time Baking for Efficient Rendering of Decoder-only View Synthesis Models

Chin-Yang Lin, Ryo Hachiuma, Jaesung Choe and 6 more

Decoder-only Large View Synthesis Models (LVSMs) with KV-cache have recently achieved state-of-the-art quality by regressing novel views from neural networks without reconstructing 3D geometry, while Test-Time Training (TTT) layers save computation but sacrifice quality. We propose Test-Time Baking (TTB), a strategy that learns to bake global scene information from cross-view attention into a lightweight MLP, enabling fast and high-fidelity novel-view decoding. The first key is to repurpose the fast-weight MLP of TTT to learn the cross-view attention mapping explicitly from its input-output pairs, rather than replacing attention entirely, achieving the same rendering efficiency as TTT while delivering substantially higher quality. The second key addresses a modality misalignment between context prefilling and novel-view rendering: we disentangle context tokens into camera-only context rendering tokens to serve as TTB input, and context ground-truth tokens with image content to serve as the TTB mapping target, ensuring the baked MLPs are relieved of the modality generalization challenge between context and novel-view processing. Our method achieves up to **23x** rendering speedup with quality on par with the state-of-the-art across several benchmarks. Project page: https://test-time-baking.github.io

#03Nov 12, 2026

cs.AI

AgentSSL: Can MLE Agents Leverage Unlabeled Data?

Ethan Lin, Akanksha Sarkar, Ziang Liu and 2 more

Applying machine learning systems to new domains introduces bottlenecks in both labeled data acquisition and manual pipeline engineering. While recent MLE agents show promise in automating pipeline design, they have been studied almost exclusively in fully supervised settings, leaving them untested in realistic regimes where labeled data is scarce but unlabeled data is abundant. In this work, we introduce Agentic Semi-Supervised Learning (AgentSSL), framing SSL as a program search problem and studying how agents navigate this space under limited supervision. We find that even under weak feedback and matched compute, agents can synthesize code that combines and adapts established SSL techniques, exceeding the strongest human-engineered baselines in 8 of 12 settings by up to +21.8%. However, our results identify program selection as a critical bottleneck in AgentSSL, where performance drops by as much as 47% when selecting based on the agent's feedback metric. To systematically study this bottleneck, we introduce ProgramSelectBench, a large-scale benchmark with a combined total of 16,977 agent-generated and human-engineered SSL programs, and evaluate both unsupervised and active program selection methods. We further evaluate AgentSSL on real-world ecology detection tasks, highlighting the opportunities and challenges of transferring agent-discovered strategies beyond controlled benchmarks.

#04Nov 12, 2026

cs.CL

ArchSpace: Recording, Reviewing, and Referencing LLM Architecture Research

Jie Wang, Tong Zhu, JiaHao Kuang and 8 more

Model architecture shapes the scaling behavior, training efficiency, and inference cost of LLMs, making it a central focus of both industry and academia. In industry, teams such as those behind DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi routinely introduce architectural innovations, yet public reports rarely document which ideas succeeded, which were abandoned, and why. In academia, limited compute and inconsistent baselines often restrict evaluations to small-scale, single-point comparisons, making it difficult to establish whether improvements hold at larger scales or translate into broader impact. ArchSpace addresses both gaps as a public platform for Recording, Reviewing, and Referencing Architecture Researc}: each proposal is recorded with its experiments and reasoning, reviewed by the community, and referenced by later work. To evaluate ideas before costly large-scale training, ArchSpace leverages scaling laws to predict model loss at larger scales from smaller experiments, a practice widely adopted in industry. We provide initial references that make the platform usable: Qwen3.5 and OLMo3 baselines, fitted scaling laws, and a reusable training recipe. Ideas validated through this review can in turn become new baselines, and ArchSpace thereby aims to broaden the range of ideas that shape the next generation of models.

#05Nov 12, 2026

cs.AI

LiveGeo: Benchmarking Geographic Agents in Continuously Evolving Worlds

Pengcheng Zhou, Xuanyu Liu, Yanchen Yin and 6 more

We introduce GeoWorld, a controllable and continuously evolving geographic environment platform for LLM agents, and LiveGeo, a benchmark for evaluating reliable decision-making in real-world geographic environments using GeoWorld. Unlike existing evaluations that largely reason and plan over fixed geographic states, GeoWorld is grounded in real-world geographic structure and allows external world states to evolve along their own temporal processes while preserving verifiable state histories. LiveGeo places geographic tasks within this evolving environment, requiring agents to actively acquire task-relevant information, verify whether the evidence supporting prior decisions remains valid, and revise their plans when necessary. Our results reveal that even frontier LLMs struggle with static tasks, with no model consistently excelling across tasks, while strong static performance does not ensure dynamic reliability. Further analysis identifies a key bottleneck: agents struggle to acquire and translate relevant evidence into valid decisions and maintain their correctness as the world evolves. By releasing LiveGeo together with its GeoWorld platform, we aim to provide the community with a flexible and extensible infrastructure for studying the next generation of agents capable of reliable action in evolving geographic worlds.