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Beyond Deep Learning: Speech Segmentation and Phone Classification with Neural Assemblies

Trevor Adelson, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Ting Dang ยท 2026

Deep learning dominates speech processing but relies on massive datasets, global backpropagation-guided weight updates, and produces entangled representations. Assembly Calculus (AC), which models spaโ€ฆ

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The Deep-Match Framework for Event-Related Potential Detection in EEG

Marek Zylinski, Bartosz Tomasz Smigielski, Gerard Cybulski ยท 2026

Reliable detection of event-related potentials (ERPs) at the single-trial level remains a major challenge due to the low signal-to-noise ratio EEG recordings. In this work, we investigate whether incoโ€ฆ

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PPGuide: Steering Diffusion Policies with Performance Predictive Guidance

Zixing Wang, Devesh K. Jha, Ahmed H. Qureshi, Diego Romeres ยท 2026

Diffusion policies have shown to be very efficient at learning complex, multi-modal behaviors for robotic manipulation. However, errors in generated action sequences can compound over time which can pโ€ฆ

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Learning Adaptive Force Control for Contact-Rich Sample Scraping with Heterogeneous Materials

Cenk Cetin, Shreyas Pouli, Gabriella Pizzuto ยท 2026

The increasing demand for accelerated scientific discovery, driven by global challenges, highlights the need for advanced AI-driven robotics. Deploying robotic chemists in human-centric labs is key foโ€ฆ

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Contact Coverage-Guided Exploration for General-Purpose Dexterous Manipulation

Zixuan Liu, Ruoyi Qiao, Chenrui Tie, Xuanwei Liu, Yunfan Lou, Chongkai Gao, Zhixuan Xu, Lin Shao ยท 2026

Deep Reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved remarkable success in domains with well-defined reward structures, such as Atari games and locomotion. In contrast, dexterous manipulation lacks general-โ€ฆ

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RL-Augmented MPC for Non-Gaited Legged and Hybrid Locomotion

Andrea Patrizi, Carlo Rizzardo, Arturo Laurenzi, Francesco Ruscelli, Luca Rossini, Nikos G. Tsagarakis ยท 2026

We propose a contact-explicit hierarchical architecture coupling Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Model Predictive Control (MPC), where a high-level RL agent provides gait and navigation commands to a โ€ฆ

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ASTER: Attitude-aware Suspended-payload Quadrotor Traversal via Efficient Reinforcement Learning

Dongcheng Cao, Jin Zhou, Shuo Li ยท 2026

Agile maneuvering of the quadrotor cable-suspended system is significantly hindered by its non-smooth hybrid dynamics. While model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) circumvents explicit differentiationโ€ฆ

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MAVEN: A Meta-Reinforcement Learning Framework for Varying-Dynamics Expertise in Agile Quadrotor Maneuvers

Jin Zhou, Dongcheng Cao, Xian Wang, Shuo Li ยท 2026

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for achieving online agile navigation with quadrotors. Despite this success, policies trained via standard RL typically fail to generalizโ€ฆ

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MapGCLR: Geospatial Contrastive Learning of Representations for Online Vectorized HD Map Construction

Jonas Merkert, Alexander Blumberg, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Christoph Stiller ยท 2026

Autonomous vehicles rely on map information to understand the world around them. However, the creation and maintenance of offline high-definition (HD) maps remains costly. A more scalable alternative โ€ฆ

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ResWM: Residual-Action World Model for Visual RL

Jseen Zhang, Gabriel Adineera, Jinzhou Tan, Jinoh Kim ยท 2026

Learning predictive world models from raw visual observations is a central challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), especially for robotics and continuous control. Conventional model-based RL framewoโ€ฆ

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Interleaving Scheduling and Motion Planning with Incremental Learning of Symbolic Space-Time Motion Abstractions

Elisa Tosello, Arthur Bit-Monnot, Davide Lusuardi, Alessandro Valentini, Andrea Micheli ยท 2026

Task and Motion Planning combines high-level task sequencing (what to do) with low-level motion planning (how to do it) to generate feasible, collision-free execution plans. However, in many real-worlโ€ฆ

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AdaClearGrasp: Learning Adaptive Clearing for Zero-Shot Robust Dexterous Grasping in Densely Cluttered Environments

Zixuan Chen, Wenquan Zhang, Jing Fang, Ruiming Zeng, Zhixuan Xu, Yiwen Hou, Xinke Wang, Jieqi Shi, Jing Huo, Yang Gao ยท 2026

In densely cluttered environments, physical interference, visual occlusions, and unstable contacts often cause direct dexterous grasping to fail, while aggressive singulation strategies may compromiseโ€ฆ

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Learning Bimanual Cloth Manipulation with Vision-based Tactile Sensing via Single Robotic Arm

Dongmyoung Lee, Wei Chen, Xiaoshuai Chen, Rui Zong, Petar Kormushev ยท 2026

Robotic cloth manipulation remains challenging due to the high-dimensional state space of fabrics, their deformable nature, and frequent occlusions that limit vision-based sensing. Although dual-arm sโ€ฆ

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Recover to Predict: Progressive Retrospective Learning for Variable-Length Trajectory Prediction

Hao Zhou, Lu Qi, Jason Li, Jie Zhang, Yi Liu, Xu Yang, Mingyu Fan, Fei Luo ยท 2026

Trajectory prediction is critical for autonomous driving, enabling safe and efficient planning in dense, dynamic traffic. Most existing methods optimize prediction accuracy under fixed-length observatโ€ฆ

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Safety-critical Control Under Partial Observability: Reach-Avoid POMDP meets Belief Space Control

Matti Vahs, Joris Verhagen, Jana Tumova ยท 2026

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a principled framework for robot decision-making under uncertainty. Solving reach-avoid POMDPs, however, requires coordinating three disโ€ฆ

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Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Architectures for Multi-Disease Classification of Single-Label Chest X-rays

Ali M. Bahram, Saman Muhammad Omer, Hardi M. Mohammed ยท 2026

Chest X-ray imaging remains the primary diagnostic tool for pulmonary and cardiac disorders worldwide, yet its accuracy is hampered by radiologist shortages and inter-observer variability. This study โ€ฆ

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G-STAR: End-to-End Global Speaker-Tracking Attributed Recognition

Jing Peng, Ziyi Chen, Haoyu Li, Yucheng Wang, Duo Ma, Mengtian Li, Yunfan Du, Dezhu Xu, Kai Yu, Shuai Wang ยท 2026

We study timestamped speaker-attributed ASR for long-form, multi-party speech with overlap, where chunk-wise inference must preserve meeting-level speaker identity consistency while producing time-staโ€ฆ

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DiT4DiT: Jointly Modeling Video Dynamics and Actions for Generalizable Robot Control

Teli Ma, Jia Zheng, Zifan Wang, Chunli Jiang, Andy Cui, Junwei Liang, Shuo Yang ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot learning, but their representations are still largely inherited from static image-text pretraining, leaving physical โ€ฆ

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COHORT: Hybrid RL for Collaborative Large DNN Inference on Multi-Robot Systems Under Real-Time Constraints

Mohammad Saeid Anwar, Anuradha Ravi, Indrajeet Ghosh, Gaurav Shinde, Carl Busart, Nirmalya Roy ยท 2026

Large deep neural networks (DNNs), especially transformer-based and multimodal architectures, are computationally demanding and challenging to deploy on resource-constrained edge platforms like field โ€ฆ

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Shape Control of a Planar Hyper-Redundant Robot via Hybrid Kinematics-Informed and Learning-based Approach

Yuli Song, Wenbo Li, Wenci Xin, Zhiqiang Tang, Daniela Rus, Cecilia Laschi ยท 2026

Hyper-redundant robots offer high dexterity, making them good at operating in confined and unstructured environments. To extend the reachable workspace, we built a multi-segment flexible rack actuatedโ€ฆ

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