generative-ai

2025 Scientific Report • April 1, 2026

MiRAG: multi-level retrievalaugmented generation for visual question answering

CEA-List developed the MiRAG model for visual question answering about named entities. This is the first time a retrieval augmented generation (RAG)-based approach to generative AI has been applied to this task.

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2025 Scientific Report • April 1, 2026

Annotation-free world discovery: With xMOD, 2D and 3D vision work together

xMOD combines 2D vision (cameras) and 3D vision (LiDAR sensors) in a novel cross-distillation method. The AI learns to segment its environment from motion cues in the images, delivering beyond state-of-the-art performance.

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2025 Scientific Report • April 1, 2026

3D scene analysis using natural language queries

The DiSCO-3D semantic segmentation method is used to discover, in a 3D scene, the elements corresponding to the semantic subconcepts of a user query expressed in natural language.

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Technological advances • October 13, 2025

October 13, 2025 | Hybrid AI for safe, high-performance robotic planning

Understanding unknown environments in a way that allows them to operate within strict safety constraints remains a challenge for robots. And that is the challenge our teams have taken on in the Magicoders project, combining the strengths of symbolic AI and generative AI in a new approach.

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2024 Activity Report • June 27, 2025

First prize in the EvalLLM text-based information extraction challenge

CEA won the EvalLLM 2024 challenge, organized by the French Ministerial Agency for AI and Defense (AMIAD) in May 2024.

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2024 Activity Report • June 27, 2025

Generative AI successfully applied to robotic grasping

CEA-List’s smart robotics demonstrator highlights generative AI’s potential as an enabler of robotic tasks whose instructions are given in natural language.

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2024 Activity Report • June 19, 2025

Detecting texts generated by artificial intelligence

At the request of cybersecurity firm Vade, CEA-List engineered a first line of defense to new cyberattack vectors: AI-generated text detection.

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press releases • June 17, 2024

June 17, 2024 | Thales and CEA partner on trusted generative AI for defence and security

To create trusted generative AI solutions, Thales’s AI Lab, the most powerful integrated laboratory for critical AI in Europe, and the CEA, which is one of the world’s most innovative research organisations and is listed alongside Thales in the Clarivate Analytics Top 100 Global Innovators, have joined forces to focus on a range of generative AI use cases, in particular for intelligence and command applications.

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