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Disharee Bhowmick

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CVT-Bench: Probing Spatial-State Integrity through Counterfactual Viewpoint Transformations

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) perform strongly on isolated spatial tasks, but whether their predictions remain persistent and mutually coherent across viewpoints and competing scenes is unclear. We formalize this behavioral property as spatial-state integrity and introduce CVT-Bench, a factorial diagnostic suite spanning two domains (CVT-Synthetic, CVT-Real), four context regimes (CVT-Isolated, irrelevant filler, attribute filler, CVT-Competing), three representations (Image, Text/BBox, Scene Graph), and ten viewpoint conditions (nine azimuths from $0^\circ$ to $360^\circ$ at $45^\circ$ increments, plus Top) with target views withheld. Across 200 scenes and 11,833 relational queries, we measure counterfactual accuracy, cycle consistency, the normalized survival coefficient, spatial realizability, and context-specific interference. Five state-of-the-art MLLMs exhibit rapid persistence loss and frequently produce jointly unrealizable states despite high local accuracy, with failures amplified by competing contexts and natural-scene complexity. Matched irrelevant and attribute filler controls show that prompt length, position, or loss of scene access alone are insufficient explanations. On average, Text/BBox improves accuracy, persistence, and realizability, while Scene Graph provides complementary gains; neither eliminates the instability. Thus, isolated spatial accuracy substantially overestimates robustness, establishing spatial-state integrity as a distinct evaluation target. The complete benchmark and codebase will be publicly released.

cs.CV

STaTS: Structure-Aware Temporal Sequence Summarization via Statistical Window Merging

Time series data often contain latent temporal structure, transitions between locally stationary regimes, repeated motifs, and bursts of variability, that are rarely leveraged in standard representation learning pipelines. Existing models typically operate on raw or fixed-window sequences, treating all time steps as equally informative, which leads to inefficiencies, poor robustness, and limited scalability in long or noisy sequences. We propose STaTS, a lightweight, unsupervised framework for Structure-Aware Temporal Summarization that adaptively compresses both univariate and multivariate time series into compact, information-preserving token sequences. STaTS detects change points across multiple temporal resolutions using a BIC-based statistical divergence criterion, then summarizes each segment using simple functions like the mean or generative models such as GMMs. This process achieves up to 30x sequence compression while retaining core temporal dynamics. STaTS operates as a model-agnostic preprocessor and can be integrated with existing unsupervised time series encoders without retraining. Extensive experiments on 150+ datasets, including classification tasks on the UCR-85, UCR-128, and UEA-30 archives, and forecasting on ETTh1 and ETTh2, ETTm1, and Electricity, demonstrate that STaTS enables 85-90\% of the full-model performance while offering dramatic reductions in computational cost. Moreover, STaTS improves robustness under noise and preserves discriminative structure, outperforming uniform and clustering-based compression baselines. These results position STaTS as a principled, general-purpose solution for efficient, structure-aware time series modeling.

cs.LG