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Dreaming Across Towns: Semantic Rollout and Town-Adversarial Regularization for Zero-Shot Held-Out-Town Fixed-Route Driving in CARLA

Feeza Khan Khanzada, Jaerock Kwon · 2026

Learned driving agents often degrade when deployed in unseen environments. This paper studies a deliberately bounded instance of that problem in the CARLA simulator: zero-shot transfer of a closed-loo…

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Optimal Functional Incentives for Control: The Linear-Quadratic Case with Bilinear Incentives

Jonas G. Matt, Saverio Bolognani, Florian Dorfler · 2026

We study the design of functional incentive mechanisms for dynamical systems, in which a leader designs a fixed incentive function to motivate a self-interested follower to actuate the system benefici…

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Learning to Route Electric Trucks Under Operational Uncertainty

Stavros Orfanoudakis, Ziyan Li, Ruixiao Yang, Nikolay Aristov, Pedro P. Vergara, Chuchu Fan, Elenna Dugundji · 2026

Electric truck operations require routing decisions that remain feasible under limited battery range, long charging times, travel and energy consumption, and competition for shared charging infrastruc…

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Adaptive Transform Coding for Semantic Compression

Andriy Enttsel, Vincent Corlay · 2026

Visual data compression is shifting from human-centered reconstruction to machine-oriented representation coding. In this setting, an image is often mapped to a compact semantic embedding, which is th…

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Sparse Graph Learning from Sparse Data via Fiedler Number Maximization

Bahar Oveisgharan, Gene Cheung, Andrew Eckford · 2026

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying dist…

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Backstepping Observer for the Quasilinear Heat Equation with Linear Design Gains: Beyond Local Stability

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Kirsten A. Morris · 2026

We consider the one-dimensional quasilinear heat equation with state-dependent heat capacity and thermal conductivity, and design a boundary-output observer based on the backstepping design for a line…

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Bridging the Indoor-Outdoor Gap: Cross-Technology Ranging for Seamless Robot Navigation

Paul Schwarzbach · 2026

Mobile robots that move between outdoor and indoor environments still struggle with consistent positioning. Satellite-based and terrestrial ranging each work well in their home domains, but combining …

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Weak-Fluctuation-Induced Clutter Covariance and Subspace Structure in Single-Snapshot FDA-MIMO GPR

Yisu Yan, Jifeng Guo · 2026

Weak constitutive fluctuations in dispersive subsurface media can induce distributed clutter that reshapes the observation structure of ground-penetrating radar (GPR). This paper analyzes this effect …

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The Fragility of Learning LQG Controllers

Bruce D. Lee, Anastasios Tsiamis, Nikolai Matni, Manfred Morari, John Lygeros · 2026

Learning methods are increasingly used to synthesize controllers from data, yet existing sample-complexity characterizations for continuous control are sharp only in the fully observed setting. This p…

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Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Evaluation

Zaid Mahboob, Yujia Chen, Bowen Weng · 2026

This paper studies the problem of robot performance evaluation, focusing on how to obtain accurate and efficient estimates of real-world behavior under severe constraints on physical experimentation. …

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Single-Cycle Multidirectional EOG Classification Faster than Human Reaction Time for Wearable Human-Computer Interactions

Tasnia Nabiha, Orthy Toor, Wakim Sajjad Sakib, Abdullah Bin Shams · 2026

Electrooculogram (EOG) is a non-invasive bio-signal generated by the potential difference between the retina and cornea during eye movement, and is widely utilized in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) …

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Learning from Demonstration with Failure Awareness for Safe Robot Navigation

Xianghui Wang, Siwei Cheng, Shanze Wang, Xinming Zhang, Dan Zhang, Wei Zhang · 2026

Learning from demonstration is widely used for robot navigation, yet it suffers from a fundamental limitation: demonstrations consist predominantly of successful behaviors and provide limited coverage…

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An Exponentially stable Extended Kalman Filter with Estimate dependent Process noise Covariance for Chemical Reaction Networks

Suryasnata Dash, Abhishek Dey · 2026

Biomolecular systems are often modeled with partially known nonlinear stochastic dynamics, making state and parameter estimation a central challenge. While Kalman filtering techniques are widely used …

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Useful nonrobust features are ubiquitous in biomedical images

Coenraad Mouton, Randle Rabe, Niklas C. Koser, Nicolai Krekiehn, Christopher Hansen, Jan-Bernd Hovener, Claus-C. Gluer · 2026

We study whether deep networks for medical imaging learn useful nonrobust features - predictive input patterns that are not human interpretable and highly susceptible to small adversarial perturbation…

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Self-Predictive Representation for Autonomous UAV Object-Goal Navigation

Angel Ayala, Donling Sui, Francisco Cruz, Mitchell Torok, Mohammad Deghat, Bruno J. T. Fernandes · 2026

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized industries through their versatility with applications including aerial surveillance, search and rescue, agriculture, and delivery. Their…

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Complex Approximate Message Passing with Non-separable Denoising

Vishnu Teja Kunde, Alessandro Mirri, Jean-Francois Chamberland, Enrico Paolini · 2026

Approximate Message Passing (AMP) is a general framework for iterative algorithms, originally developed for compressed sensing and later extended to a wide range of high-dimensional inference problems…

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Descriptor: A Hybrid Indoor and Indoor-Outdoor Positioning Multi-Technology Dataset (HYMN)

Muhammad Ammad, Albrecht Michler, Paul Schwarzbach, Jonas Ninnemann, Hagen U{ss}ler, Oliver Michler · 2026

This article introduces the HYMN (HYbrid Multi-technology Navigation) dataset: a multi-system, and time synchronized dataset for localization research based on opportunistic signals collected in an in…

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SwarmDrive: Semantic V2V Coordination for Latency-Constrained Cooperative Autonomous Driving

Anjie Qiu, Donglin Wang, Zexin Fang, Sanket Partani, Hans D. Schotten · 2026

Cloud-hosted LLM inference for autonomous driving adds round-trip delay and depends on stable connectivity, while purely local edge models struggle under occlusion. We present SwarmDrive, a semantic V…

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Indic-CodecFake meets SATYAM: Towards Detecting Neural Audio Codec Synthesized Speech Deepfakes in Indic Languages

Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Arun Balaji Buduru · 2026

The rapid advancement of Audio Large Language Models (ALMs), driven by Neural Audio Codecs (NACs), has led to the emergence of highly realistic speech deepfakes, commonly referred to as CodecFakes (CF…

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VLA Foundry: A Unified Framework for Training Vision-Language-Action Models

Jean Mercat, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora, Isabella Huang, Paarth Shah, Haruki Nishimura, Shun Iwase, Katherine Liu · 2026

We present VLA Foundry, an open-source framework that unifies LLM, VLM, and VLA training in a single codebase. Most open-source VLA efforts specialize on the action training stage, often stitching tog…

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