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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 ยท 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 safโ€ฆ

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Structural Limits of Soft Fusion in Multi-Warden Covert Communication

Abbas Arghavani, Subhrakanti Dey, Anders Ahlen ยท 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-threshoโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 sysโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 controlleโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 syโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 optimiโ€ฆ

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

Jiaxiang Li, Jun Yan, Daniel Watzenig, Huilin Yin ยท 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 โ€ฆ

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Joint Sensing and Covert Communications in RIS-NOMA Systems

Jiayi Lei, Xidong Mu, Tiankui Zhang, Wenjun Xu, Ping Zhang ยท 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 staโ€ฆ

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Multi-User Covert Communication in Spatially Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Jinyoung Lee, Hyeonsik Yeom ยท 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 homogeneโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 tโ€ฆ

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

Haozhen Cheng, Huseyin K. Cakmak, Veit Hagenmeyer ยท 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 scenarioโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 โ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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) โ€ฆ

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

Protopopov Alexey ยท 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 attaโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 sโ€ฆ

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Rotatable Antenna Enabled Covert Communication

Qi Dai, Beixiong Zheng, Yanhua Tan, Weidong Mei, Shiqi Gong, Jie Tang, Chengwen Xing ยท 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 (Dโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 โ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 isโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 approximatioโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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 โ€ฆ

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