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Learning Control Policies to Provably Satisfy Hard Affine Constraints for Black-Box Hybrid Dynamical Systems

Aayushi Shrivastava, Kartik Nagpal, Sairam Jinkala, Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, Negar Mehr · 2026

Ensuring safety for black-box hybrid dynamical systems presents significant challenges due to their instantaneous state jumps and unknown explicit nonlinear dynamics. Existing solutions for strict saf…

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Structural Limits of Soft Fusion in Multi-Warden Covert Communication

Abbas Arghavani, Subhrakanti Dey, Anders Ahlen · 2026

This paper investigates covert wireless communication with a Fusion Center (FC) that aggregates raw energy measurements from multiple Wardens via soft fusion. Extending our prior work on power-thresho…

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An Argument-Principle Based Stability Assessment Method for Grey-Box DFIG Systems

Tao Zhang, Zhiguo Hao, Songhao Yang, Hongyue Ma, Baohui Zhang · 2026

Considerable efforts have been made to analyze the small-signal stability of doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) systems. However, commercial confidentiality and frequency coupling make the DFIG sys…

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An Additional Resonance Damping Control for Grey-Box D-PMSG Wind Farm Integrated Weak Grid

Tao Zhang, Songhao Yang, Zhiguo Hao, Hongyue Ma, Baohui Zhang · 2026

Considerable efforts have been made to address the resonance issue of the Direct-drive Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (D-PMSG) wind farm integrated power systems. However, the D-PMSG controlle…

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Data-Driven Koopman Predictive Control for Frequency Regulation of Power Systems using Black-Box IBRs

Sohrab Rezaei, Xiaomo Wang, Sijia Geng · 2026

Model uncertainty of inverter-based resources (IBRs) presents significant challenges for power system control and stability. This work studies secondary frequency regulation in inverter-based power sy…

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Grey-Box Bayesian Optimization for ISAC in Fluid-Antenna Assisted Air-Ground Network

Gangyong Zhu, Jia Yan, Miaowen Wen, Shijian Gao · 2026

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) provide extra position agile spatial diversity for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), by jointly optimizing the port selection and precoding. However, this optimi…

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DTP-Attack: A decision-based black-box adversarial attack on trajectory prediction

Jiaxiang Li, Jun Yan, Daniel Watzenig, Huilin Yin · 2026

Trajectory prediction systems are critical for autonomous vehicle safety, yet remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks that can cause catastrophic traffic behavior misinterpretations. Existing attack …

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Joint Sensing and Covert Communications in RIS-NOMA Systems

Jiayi Lei, Xidong Mu, Tiankui Zhang, Wenjun Xu, Ping Zhang · 2026

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is investigated, where the transmitter (Alice) is a dual functional radar communication (DFRC) base sta…

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Multi-User Covert Communication in Spatially Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Jinyoung Lee, Hyeonsik Yeom · 2026

This paper investigates an uplink multi-user covert communication system with spatially distributed users. Unlike prior works that approximate channel statistics using averaged parameters and homogene…

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SABER: A Stealthy Agentic Black-Box Attack Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models

Xiyang Wu, Guangyao Shi, Qingzi Wang, Zongxia Li, Amrit Singh Bedi, Dinesh Manocha · 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models enable robots to follow natural-language instructions grounded in visual observations, but the instruction channel also introduces a critical vulnerability: small t…

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JanusBM: A Dual-Fidelity Multi-Zone White-Box Building Modeling Framework

Haozhen Cheng, Huseyin K. Cakmak, Veit Hagenmeyer · 2026

Accurate building energy models are crucial for analyzing sector-coupled energy systems, where buildings interact with electrified heating, energy storage, and advanced control across various scenario…

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Training Diffusion Language Models for Black-Box Optimization

Zipeng Sun, Can Chen, Ye Yuan, Haolun Wu, Jiayao Gu, Christopher Pal, Xue Liu · 2026

We study offline black-box optimization (BBO), aiming to discover improved designs from an offline dataset of designs and labels, a problem common in robotics, DNA, and materials science with limited …

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Deep Learning-Driven Black-Box Doherty Power Amplifier with Pixelated Output Combiner and Extended Efficiency Range

Han Zhou, Haojie Chang, David Widen · 2026

This article presents a deep learning-driven inverse design methodology for Doherty power amplifiers (PA) with multi-port pixelated output combiner networks. A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) …

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Over-the-air White-box Attack on the Wav2Vec Speech Recognition Neural Network

Protopopov Alexey · 2026

Automatic speech recognition systems based on neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that alter transcriptions in a malicious way. Recent works in this field have focused on making atta…

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Spatial Characterization of Sub-Synchronous Oscillations Using Black-Box IBR Models

Muhammad Sharjeel Javaid, Gabriel Covarrubias Maureira, Ambuj Gupta, Debraj Bhattacharjee, Jianli Gao, Balarko Chaudhuri, Mark O'Malley · 2026

Power systems with high penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) are prone to sub-synchronous oscillations (SSO). The opaqueness of vendor-specific IBR models limits the ability to predict the s…

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Rotatable Antenna Enabled Covert Communication

Qi Dai, Beixiong Zheng, Yanhua Tan, Weidong Mei, Shiqi Gong, Jie Tang, Chengwen Xing · 2026

Unlike conventional fixed-antenna architectures, rotatable antenna (RA) has shown great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting additional spatial degrees of freedom (D…

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VB-NET: A physics-constrained gray-box deep learning framework for modeling air conditioning systems as virtual batteries

Yuchen Qi, Ye Guo, Yinliang Xu · 2026

The increasing penetration of renewable energy necessitates unlocking demand-side flexibility. While air conditioning (AC) systems offer significant thermal inertia, existing physical and data-driven …

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HBRB-BoW: A Retrained Bag-of-Words Vocabulary for ORB-SLAM via Hierarchical BRB-KMeans

Minjae Lee, Sang-Min Choi, Gun-Woo Kim, Suwon Lee · 2026

In visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), the quality of the visual vocabulary is fundamental to the system's ability to represent environments and recognize locations. While ORB-SLAM is…

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A Stochastic Conservative Field Transfer Method for Black-box Multiscale and Multiphysics Coupling

Abhiyan Paudel, Cameron W. Smith, Jacob S. Merson · 2026

This paper introduces a new method for performing field transfer operations in black-box coupling, when source discretization information is not available. This approach uses a stochastic approximatio…

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Secrecy Rate Maximization in RIS-Assisted MIMO Systems Using a Practical Hardware Model

Rakesh Ranjan, Ahmad Sirojuddin, Manjesh K. Hanawal, Himanshu B. Mishra, Wan-Jen Huang ID · 2026

This study investigates a robust reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system for secure wireless communication, in which a multi-antenna transmitter …

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