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Disentangled Robot Learning via Separate Forward and Inverse Dynamics Pretraining

Wenyao Zhang, Bozhou Zhang, Zekun Qi, Wenjun Zeng, Xin Jin, Li Zhang ยท 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown great potential in building generalist robots, but still face a dilemma-misalignment of 2D image forecasting and 3D action prediction. Besides, such a viโ€ฆ

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Meta-Adaptive Beam Search Planning for Transformer-Based Reinforcement Learning Control of UAVs with Overhead Manipulators under Flight Disturbances

Hazim Alzorgan, Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni, Abolfazl Razi ยท 2026

Drones equipped with overhead manipulators offer unique capabilities for inspection, maintenance, and contact-based interaction. However, the motion of the drone and its manipulator is tightly linked,โ€ฆ

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Addressing Ambiguity in Imitation Learning through Product of Experts based Negative Feedback

John Bateman, Andy M. Tyrrell, Jihong Zhu ยท 2026

Programming robots to perform complex tasks is often difficult and time consuming, requiring expert knowledge and skills in robot software and sometimes hardware. Imitation learning is a method for trโ€ฆ

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120 Minutes and a Laptop: Minimalist Image-goal Navigation via Unsupervised Exploration and Offline RL

Xiaoming Liu, Borong Zhang, Qingbiao Li, Steven Morad ยท 2026

The prevailing paradigm for image-goal visual navigation often assumes access to large-scale datasets, substantial pretraining, and significant computational resources. In this work, we challenge thisโ€ฆ

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Adapting Frozen Mono-modal Backbones for Multi-modal Registration via Contrast-Agnostic Instance Optimization

Yi Zhang, Yidong Zhao, Qian Tao ยท 2026

Deformable image registration remains a central challenge in medical image analysis, particularly under multi-modal scenarios where intensity distributions vary significantly across scans. While deep โ€ฆ

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Realtime-VLA V2: Learning to Run VLAs Fast, Smooth, and Accurate

Chen Yang, Yucheng Hu, Yunchao Ma, Yunhuan Yang, Jing Tan, Haoqiang Fan ยท 2026

In deployment of the VLA models to real-world robotic tasks, execution speed matters. In previous work arXiv:2510.26742 we analyze how to make neural computation of VLAs on GPU fast. However, we leaveโ€ฆ

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DiffusionAnything: End-to-End In-context Diffusion Learning for Unified Navigation and Pre-Grasp Motion

Iana Zhura, Yara Mahmoud, Jeffrin Sam, Hung Khang Nguyen, Didar Seyidov, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Dzmitry Tsetserukou ยท 2026

Efficiently predicting motion plans directly from vision remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, where planning typically requires explicit goal specification and task-specific design. Recent visโ€ฆ

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Uncertainty-Aware Mapping from 3D Keypoints to Anatomical Landmarks for Markerless Biomechanics

Cesare Davide Pace, Alessandro Marco De Nunzio, Claudio De Stefano, Francesco Fontanella, Mario Molinara ยท 2026

Markerless biomechanics increasingly relies on 3D skeletal keypoints extracted from video, yet downstream biomechanical mappings typically treat these estimates as deterministic, providing no principlโ€ฆ

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Reliability-Aware Weighted Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Maps for Heart Rate Monitoring

Arpan Bairagi, Rakesh Dey, Siladittya Manna, Umapada Pal ยท 2026

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) allows for the contactless estimation of physiological signals from facial videos by analyzing subtle skin color changes. However, rPPG signals are extremely susceptโ€ฆ

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FINDER: Zero-Shot Field-Integrated Network for Distortion-free EPI Reconstruction in Diffusion MRI

Namgyu Han, Seong Dae Yun, Chaeeun Lim, Sunghyun Seok, Sunju Kim, Yoonhwan Kim, Yohan Jun, Tae Hyung Kim, Berkin Bilgic, Jaejin Cho ยท 2026

Echo-planar imaging (EPI) remains the cornerstone of diffusion MRI, but it is prone to severe geometric distortions due to its rapid sampling scheme that renders the sequence highly sensitive to $B_{0โ€ฆ

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Hierarchical Control Framework Integrating LLMs with RL for Decarbonized HVAC Operation

Dianyu Zhong, Tian Xing, Kailai Sun, Xu Yang, Heye Huang, Irfan Qaisar, Tinggang Jia, Shaobo Wang, Qianchuan Zhao ยท 2026

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems account for a substantial share of building energy consumption. Environmental uncertainty and dynamic occupancy behavior bring challenges in dโ€ฆ

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Cone-Beam CT Image Quality Enhancement Using A Latent Diffusion Model Trained with Simulated CBCT Artifacts

Naruki Murahashi, Mitsuhiro Nakamura, Megumi Nakao ยท 2026

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images are problematic in clinical medicine because of their low contrast and high artifact content compared with conventional CT images. Although there are some sโ€ฆ

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Fractional Risk Analysis of Stochastic Systems with Jumps and Memory

Yimeng Sun, Zhuoyuan Wang, Xiaole Zhang, Heng Ping, Jintang Xue, Paul Bogdan, Yorie Nakahira ยท 2026

Accurate risk assessment is essential for safety-critical autonomous and control systems under uncertainty. In many real-world settings, stochastic dynamics exhibit asymmetric jumps and long-range memโ€ฆ

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Global Location-Invariant Peak Storm Surge Prediction

Benjamin Pachev, Prateek Arora, Jinpai Zhao, Eirik Valseth ยท 2026

Storm surge is a significant threat to coastal communities across the globe, responsible for loss of life and enormous property damage. Consequently, significant efforts have been expended to develop โ€ฆ

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Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned

Maeva Guerrier, Karthik Soma, Jana Pavlasek, Giovanni Beltrame ยท 2026

Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual demonstrations. Despite growing real-world deployment, existing evaluations rely almost exclโ€ฆ

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Emergent Neural Automaton Policies: Learning Symbolic Structure from Visuomotor Trajectories

Yiyuan Pan, Xusheng Luo, Hanjiang Hu, Peiqi Yu, Changliu Liu ยท 2026

Scaling robot learning to long-horizon tasks remains a formidable challenge. While end-to-end policies often lack the structural priors needed for effective long-term reasoning, traditional neuro-symbโ€ฆ

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Chasing Autonomy: Dynamic Retargeting and Control Guided RL for Performant and Controllable Humanoid Running

Zachary Olkin, William D. Compton, Ryan M. Bena, Aaron D. Ames ยท 2026

Humanoid robots have the promise of locomoting like humans, including fast and dynamic running. Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) controllers that can mimic human motions have become popular as thโ€ฆ

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Explainable Speech Emotion Recognition: Weighted Attribute Fairness to Model Demographic Contributions to Social Bias

Tomisin Ogunnubi, Yupei Li, Bjorn Schuller ยท 2026

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems have growing applications in sensitive domains such as mental health and education, where biased predictions can cause harm. Traditional fairness metrics, suchโ€ฆ

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Learning to Recorrupt: Noise Distribution Agnostic Self-Supervised Image Denoising

Brayan Monroy, Jorge Bacca, Julian Tachella ยท 2026

Self-supervised image denoising methods have traditionally relied on either architectural constraints or specialized loss functions that require prior knowledge of the noise distribution to avoid the โ€ฆ

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Massive Parallel Deep Reinforcement Learning for Active SLAM

Martin Arce Llobera, Julio A. Placed, Mariano De Paula, Pablo De Cristoforis ยท 2026

Recent advances in parallel computing and GPU acceleration have created new opportunities for computation-intensive learning problems such as Active SLAM -- where actions are selected to reduce uncertโ€ฆ

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