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Enhancing Conversational TTS with Cascaded Prompting and ICL-Based Online Reinforcement Learning

Zhicheng Ouyang, Seong-Gyun Leem, Bach Viet Do, Haibin Wu, Ariya Rastrow, Yuzong Liu, Florian Metze ยท 2026

Conversational AI has made significant progress, yet generating expressive and controllable text-to-speech (TTS) remains challenging. Specifically, controlling fine-grained voice styles and emotions iโ€ฆ

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Generative Simulation for Policy Learning in Physical Human-Robot Interaction

Junxiang Wang, Xinwen Xu, Tiancheng Wu, Julian Millan, Nir Pechuk, Zackory Erickson ยท 2026

Developing autonomous physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) systems is limited by the scarcity of large-scale training data to learn robust robot behaviors for real-world applications. In this paperโ€ฆ

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SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds

Yunsong Zhou, Hangxu Liu, Xuekun Jiang, Xing Shen, Yuanzhen Zhou, Hui Wang, Baole Fang, Yang Tian, Mulin Yu, Qiaojun Yu, Li Ma, Hengjie Li, Hanqing Wang, Jia Zeng, Jiangmiao Pang ยท 2026

Robotic manipulation with deformable objects represents a data-intensive regime in embodied learning, where shape, contact, and topology co-evolve in ways that far exceed the variability of rigids. Alโ€ฆ

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ActiveGlasses: Learning Manipulation with Active Vision from Ego-centric Human Demonstration

Yanwen Zou, Chenyang Shi, Wenye Yu, Han Xue, Jun Lv, Ye Pan, Chuan Wen, Cewu Lu ยท 2026

Large-scale real-world robot data collection is a prerequisite for bringing robots into everyday deployment. However, existing pipelines often rely on specialized handheld devices to bridge the embodiโ€ฆ

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LEGO: Latent-space Exploration for Geometry-aware Optimization of Humanoid Kinematic Design

Jihwan Yoon, Taemoon Jeong, Jeongeun Park, Chanwoo Kim, Jaewoon Kwon, Yonghyeon Lee, Kyungjae Lee, Sungjoon Choi ยท 2026

Designing robot morphologies and kinematics has traditionally relied on human intuition, with little systematic foundation. Motion-design co-optimization offers a promising path toward automation, butโ€ฆ

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A Soft Robotic Interface for Chick-Robot Affective Interactions

Jue Chen, Alexander Mielke, Kaspar Althoefer, Elisabetta Versace ยท 2026

The potential of Animal-Robot Interaction (ARI) in welfare applications depends on how much an animal perceives a robotic agent as socially relevant, non-threatening and potentially attractive (acceptโ€ฆ

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Exploring Temporal Representation in Neural Processes for Multimodal Action Prediction

Marco Gabriele Fedozzi, Yukie Nagai, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti ยท 2026

Inspired by the human ability to understand and predict others, we study the applicability of Conditional Neural Processes (CNP) to the task of self-supervised multimodal action prediction in roboticsโ€ฆ

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Ring Mixing with Auxiliary Signal-to-Consistency-Error Ratio Loss for Unsupervised Denoising in Speech Separation

Matthew Maciejewski, Samuele Cornell ยท 2026

Noisy speech separation systems are typically trained on fully-synthetic mixtures, limiting generalization to real-world scenarios. Though training on mixtures of in-domain (thus often noisy) speech iโ€ฆ

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A Unified Multi-Layer Framework for Skill Acquisition from Imperfect Human Demonstrations

Zi-Qi Yang, Mehrdad R. Kermani ยท 2026

Current Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) systems for skill teaching are fragmented, and existing approaches in the literature do not offer a cohesive framework that is simultaneously efficient, intuitiveโ€ฆ

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Discrete Diffusion for Codebook-Based Beam Candidate Generation

Amirhossein Azarbahram, Onel L. A. Lopez ยท 2026

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication enables high data rates through large bandwidths and highly directional beamforming, but its sensitivity to blockage and mobility makes reliable beam alignment aโ€ฆ

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State and Trajectory Estimation of Tensegrity Robots via Factor Graphs and Chebyshev Polynomials

Edgar Granados, Patrick Meng, Charles Tang, Shrimed Sangani, William R. Johnson III, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Kostas Bekris ยท 2026

Tensegrity robots offer compliance and adaptability, but their nonlinear, and underconstrained dynamics make state estimation challenging. Reliable continuous-time estimation of all rigid links is cruโ€ฆ

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ViVa: A Video-Generative Value Model for Robot Reinforcement Learning

Jindi Lv, Hao Li, Jie Li, Yifei Nie, Fankun Kong, Yang Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng Zhu, Chaojun Ni, Qiuping Deng, Hengtao Li, Jiancheng Lv, Guan Huang ยท 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced robot manipulation through large-scale pretraining, but real-world deployment remains challenging due to partial observability and delayed feedback. Rโ€ฆ

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Semantic-Aware UAV Command and Control for Efficient IoT Data Collection

Assane Sankara, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Hajar El Hammouti ยท 2026

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a key enabler technology for data collection from Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, effective data collection is challenged by resource constraโ€ฆ

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A unifying view of contrastive learning, importance sampling, and bridge sampling for energy-based models

Luca Martino ยท 2026

In the last decades, energy-based models (EBMs) have become an important class of probabilistic models in which a component of the likelihood is intractable and therefore cannot be evaluated explicitlโ€ฆ

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TinyDEVO: Deep Event-based Visual Odometry on Ultra-low-power Multi-core Microcontrollers

Alessandro Marchei, Lorenzo Lamberti, Daniele Palossi, Luca Benini ยท 2026

A key task in embedded vision is visual odometry (VO), which estimates camera motion from visual sensors, and it is a core component in many embedded power-constrained systems, from autonomous robots โ€ฆ

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AgiPIX: Bridging Simulation and Reality in Indoor Aerial Inspection

Sasanka Kuruppu Arachchige, Juan Jose Garcia, Changda Tian, Lauri Suomela, Panos Trahanias, Adriana Tapus, Joni-Kristian Kamarainen ยท 2026

Autonomous indoor flight for critical asset inspection presents fundamental challenges in perception, planning, control, and learning. Despite rapid progress, there is still a lack of a compact, activโ€ฆ

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HEX: Humanoid-Aligned Experts for Cross-Embodiment Whole-Body Manipulation

Shuanghao Bai, Meng Li, Xinyuan Lv, Jiawei Wang, Xinhua Wang, Fei Liao, Chengkai Hou, Langzhe Gu, Wanqi Zhou, Kun Wu, Ziluo Ding, Zhiyuan Xu, Lei Sun, Shanghang Zhang, Zhengping Che, Jian Tang, Badong Chen ยท 2026

Humans achieve complex manipulation through coordinated whole-body control, whereas most Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models treat robot body parts largely independently, making high-DoF humanoid contโ€ฆ

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Incremental Residual Reinforcement Learning Toward Real-World Learning for Social Navigation

Haruto Nagahisa, Kohei Matsumoto, Yuki Tomita, Yuki Hyodo, Ryo Kurazume ยท 2026

As the demand for mobile robots continues to increase, social navigation has emerged as a critical task, driving active research into deep reinforcement learning (RL) approaches. However, because pedeโ€ฆ

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On-Policy Distillation of Language Models for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning

Amirhossein Afsharrad, Amirhesam Abedsoltan, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Sanjay Lall ยท 2026

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for autonomous vehicle motion planning by reformulating trajectory prediction as a language generation problem. However, deployโ€ฆ

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Second Order Physics-Informed Learning of Road Density using Probe Vehicles

S. Betancur Giraldo, J. M{aa}rtensson, M. Barreau ยท 2026

We propose a Physics Informed Learning framework for reconstructing traffic density from sparse trajectory data. The approach combines a second-order Aw-Rascle and Zhang model with a first-order trainโ€ฆ

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