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Preference Aligned Visuomotor Diffusion Policies for Deformable Object Manipulation

Marco Moletta, Michael C. Welle, Danica Kragic ยท 2026

Humans naturally develop preferences for how manipulation tasks should be performed, which are often subtle, personal, and difficult to articulate. Although it is important for robots to account for tโ€ฆ

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SERNF: Sample-Efficient Real-World Dexterous Policy Fine-Tuning via Action-Chunked Critics and Normalizing Flows

Chenyu Yang, Denis Tarasov, Davide Liconti, Hehui Zheng, Robert K. Katzschmann ยท 2026

Real-world fine-tuning of dexterous manipulation policies remains challenging due to limited real-world interaction budgets and highly multimodal action distributions. Diffusion-based policies, while โ€ฆ

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Lateral tracking control of all-wheel steering vehicles with intelligent tires

Luigi Romano, Ole Morten Aamo, Jan {AA}slund, Erik Frisk ยท 2026

The accurate characterization of tire dynamics is critical for advancing control strategies in autonomous road vehicles, as tire behavior significantly influences handling and stability through the geโ€ฆ

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Phase-Aware Policy Learning for Skateboard Riding of Quadruped Robots via Feature-wise Linear Modulation

Minsung Yoon, Jeil Jeong, Sung-Eui Yoon ยท 2026

Skateboards offer a compact and efficient means of transportation as a type of personal mobility device. However, controlling them with legged robots poses several challenges for policy learning due tโ€ฆ

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CAPER: Constrained and Procedural Reasoning for Robotic Scientific Experiments

Jinghan Yang, Jingyi Hou, Xinbo Yu, Wei He, Yifan Wu ยท 2026

Robotic assistance in scientific laboratories requires procedurally correct long-horizon manipulation, reliable execution under limited supervision, and robustness in low-demonstration regimes. Such cโ€ฆ

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Learning to Select Like Humans: Explainable Active Learning for Medical Imaging

Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin, Longwei Wang, Xiao Qin, Yang Zhou, KC Santosh ยท 2026

Medical image analysis requires substantial labeled data for model training, yet expert annotation is expensive and time-consuming. Active learning (AL) addresses this challenge by strategically selecโ€ฆ

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Data-centric Design of Learning-based Surgical Gaze Perception Models in Multi-Task Simulation

Yizhou Li, Shuyuan Yang, Jiaji Su, Zonghe Chua ยท 2026

In robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS), reduced haptic feedback and depth cues increase reliance on expert visual perception, motivating gaze-guided training and learning-based surgical pโ€ฆ

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A Systematic Review on Data-Driven Brain Deformation Modeling for Image-Guided Neurosurgery

Tiago Assis, Colin P. Galvin, Joshua P. Castillo, Nazim Haouchine, Marta Kersten-Oertel, Zeyu Gao, Mireia Crispin-Ortuzar, Stephen J. Price, Thomas Santarius, Yangming Ou, Sarah Frisken, Nuno C. Garcia, Alexandra J. Golby, Reuben Dorent, Ines P. Machado ยท 2026

Accurate compensation of brain deformation is a critical challenge for reliable image-guided neurosurgery, as surgical manipulation and tumor resection induce tissue motion that misaligns preoperativeโ€ฆ

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EExApp: GNN-Based Reinforcement Learning for Radio Unit Energy Optimization in 5G O-RAN

Jie Lu, Peihao Yan, Huacheng Zeng ยท 2026

With over 3.5 million 5G base stations deployed globally, their collective energy consumption (projected to exceed 131 TWh annually) raises significant concerns over both operational costs and environโ€ฆ

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Risk-Aware Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Real-Time Applications

Ozan Kaya, Emir Cem Gezer, Roger Skjetne, Ingrid Bouwer Utne ยท 2026

Robust navigation in changing marine environments requires autonomous systems capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting under uncertainty. This study introduces a hybrid risk-aware navigation archiโ€ฆ

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Foundation Model-Aided Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning for Blockage-Aware Link in RIS-Assisted Networks

Mohammad Ghassemi, Han Zhang, Ali Afana, Akram Bin Sediq, Melike Erol-Kantarci ยท 2026

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has the potential to significantly enhance the spectral efficiency (SE) of 6G wireless networks. However, practical deployment remains constrained bโ€ฆ

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An Actor-Critic-Identifier Control Design for Increasing Energy Efficiency of Automated Electric Vehicles

Hamed Faghihian, Arman Sargolzaei ยท 2026

Electric vehicles (EVs) are increasingly deployed, yet range limitations remain a key barrier. Improving energy efficiency via advanced control is therefore essential, and emerging vehicle automation โ€ฆ

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WiLoc: Massive Measured Dataset of Wi-Fi Channel State Information with Application to Machine-Learning Based Localization

Yuning Zhang, Lei Chu, Omer Gokalp Serbetci, Jorge Gomez-Ponce, Andreas F. Molisch ยท 2026

Localization is a key component of the wireless ecosystem. Machine learning (ML)-based localization using channel state information (CSI) is one of the most popular methods for achieving high-accuracyโ€ฆ

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TwinRL-VLA: Digital Twin-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Robotic Manipulation

Qinwen Xu, Jiaming Liu, Rui Zhou, Shaojun Shi, Nuowei Han, Zhuoyang Liu, Chenyang Gu, Shuo Gu, Yang Yue, Gao Huang, Wenzhao Zheng, Sirui Han, Peng Jia, Shanghang Zhang ยท 2026

Despite strong generalization capabilities, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remain constrained by the high cost of expert demonstrations and insufficient real-world interaction. While online reinfโ€ฆ

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Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility Models

Zichen Jeff Cui, Omar Rayyan, Haritheja Etukuru, Bowen Tan, Zavier Andrianarivo, Zicheng Teng, Yihang Zhou, Krish Mehta, Nicholas Wojno, Kevin Yuanbo Wu, Manan H Anjaria, Ziyuan Wu, Manrong Mao, Guangxun Zhang, Binit Shah, Yejin Kim, Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah ยท 2026

The prevalent paradigm in robot learning attempts to generalize across environments, embodiments, and tasks with language prompts at runtime. A fundamental tension limits this approach: language is ofโ€ฆ

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Dexterous Manipulation Policies from RGB Human Videos via 3D Hand-Object Trajectory Reconstruction

Hongyi Chen, Tony Dong, Tiancheng Wu, Liquan Wang, Yash Jangir, Yaru Niu, Yufei Ye, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Zackory Erickson, Jeffrey Ichnowski ยท 2026

Multi-finger robotic hand manipulation and grasping are challenging due to the high-dimensional action space and the difficulty of acquiring large-scale training data. Existing approaches largely relyโ€ฆ

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ZUNA: Flexible EEG Superresolution with Position-Aware Diffusion Autoencoders

Christopher Warner, Jonas Mago, JR Huml, Mohamed Osman, Beren Millidge ยท 2026

We present \texttt{ZUNA}, a 380M-parameter masked diffusion autoencoder trained to perform masked channel infilling and superresolution for arbitrary electrode numbers and positions in EEG signals. Thโ€ฆ

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Contraction Metric Based Safe Reinforcement Learning Force Control for a Hydraulic Actuator with Real-World Training

Lucca Maitan, Lucas Toschi, Cicero Zanette, Elisa G. Vergamini, Leonardo F. Santos, Thiago Boaventura ยท 2026

Force control in hydraulic actuators is notoriously difficult due to strong nonlinearities, uncertainties, and the high risks associated with unsafe exploration during learning. This paper investigateโ€ฆ

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Automating the Wildfire Detection and Scheduling Pipeline with Maneuverable Earth Observation Satellites

Brycen D. Pearl, Joshua G. Warner, Hang Woon Lee ยท 2026

Wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent, with potentially devastating consequences, including loss of life, infrastructure destruction, and severe environmental damage. Low Earth orbit satellitesโ€ฆ

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Mind the Gap: Learning Implicit Impedance in Visuomotor Policies via Intent-Execution Mismatch

Cuijie Xu, Shurui Zheng, Zihao Su, Yuanfan Xu, Tinghao Yi, Xudong Zhang, Jian Wang, Yu Wang, Jinchen Yu ยท 2026

Teleoperation inherently relies on the human operator acting as a closed-loop controller to actively compensate for hardware imperfections, including latency, mechanical friction, and lack of explicitโ€ฆ

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