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From Impact to Insight: Dynamics-Aware Proprioceptive Terrain Sensing on Granular Media

Yifeng Zhang, Yue Wu, Jake Futterman, Jacob Meseha, Eduardo Rosales, Irie Cooper, J. Diego Caporale, Feifei Qian ยท 2026

Robots that traverse natural terrain must interpret contact forces generated under highly dynamic conditions. However, most terrain characterization approaches rely on quasi-static assumptions that neโ€ฆ

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Sparse Bayesian Learning Algorithms Revisited: From Learning Majorizers to Structured Algorithmic Learning using Neural Networks

Rushabha Balaji, Kuan-Lin Chen, Danijela Cabric, Bhaskar D. Rao ยท 2026

Sparse Bayesian Learning is one of the most popular sparse signal recovery methods, and various algorithms exist under the SBL paradigm. However, given a performance metric and a sparse recovery problโ€ฆ

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Toward Single-Step MPPI via Differentiable Predictive Control

Viet-Anh Le, Renukanandan Tumu, Rahul Mangharam ยท 2026

Model predictive path integral (MPPI) is a sampling-based method for solving complex model predictive control (MPC) problems, but its real-time implementation faces two key challenges: the computationโ€ฆ

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OkanNet: A Lightweight Deep Learning Architecture for Classification of Brain Tumor from MRI Images

Okan Ucar, Murat Kurt ยท 2026

Medical imaging techniques, especially Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), are accepted as the gold standard in the diagnosis and treatment planning of neurological diseases. However, the manual analysiโ€ฆ

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Bridging RL and MPC for mixed-integer optimal control with application to Formula 1 race strategies

Joschua Wuthrich, Romir Damle, Giona Fieni, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Christopher H. Onder, Andrea Carron ยท 2026

We propose a hybrid reinforcement learning (RL) and model predictive control (MPC) framework for mixed-integer optimal control, where discrete variables enter the cost and dynamics but not the constraโ€ฆ

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How to Train your Tactile Model: Tactile Perception with Multi-fingered Robot Hands

Christopher J. Ford, Kaichen Shi, Laura Butcher, Nathan F. Lepora, Efi Psomopoulou ยท 2026

Rapid deployment of new tactile sensors is essential for scalable robotic manipulation, especially in multi-fingered hands equipped with vision-based tactile sensors. However, current methods for infeโ€ฆ

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DF-3DRME: A Data-Friendly Learning Framework for 3D Radio Map Estimation based on Super-Resolution Technique

Lin Zhu, Weifeng Zhu, Shuowen Zhang, Giuseppe Caire, Liang Liu ยท 2026

High-Resolution three-dimensional (3D) radio maps (RMs) provide rich information about the radio landscape that is essential to a myriad of wireless applications in the future wireless networks. Althoโ€ฆ

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A Physical Imitation Learning Pipeline for Energy-Efficient Quadruped Locomotion Assisted by Parallel Elastic Joint

Huyue Ma, Yurui Jin, Helmut Hauser, Rui Wu ยท 2026

Due to brain-body co-evolution, animals' intrinsic body dynamics play a crucial role in energy-efficient locomotion, which shares control effort between active muscles and passive body dynamics -- a pโ€ฆ

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Simulating Realistic LiDAR Data Under Adverse Weather for Autonomous Vehicles: A Physics-Informed Learning Approach

Vivek Anand, Bharat Lohani, Rakesh Mishra, Gaurav Pandey ยท 2026

Accurate LiDAR simulation is crucial for autonomous driving, especially under adverse weather conditions. Existing methods struggle to capture the complex interactions between LiDAR signals and atmospโ€ฆ

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RFSS: A Multi-Standard RF Signal Source Separation Dataset with 3GPP-Standardized Channel and Hardware Impairments

Hao Chen, Rui Jin, Dayuan Tan ยท 2026

The coexistence of heterogeneous cellular standards (2G-5G) in shared spectrum demands sophisticated RF source separation techniques, yet no public dataset exists for data-driven research on this probโ€ฆ

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Feature-level Site Leakage Reduction for Cross-Hospital Chest X-ray Transfer via Self-Supervised Learning

Ayoub Louaye Bouaziz, Lokmane Chebouba ยท 2026

Cross-hospital failure in chest X-ray models is often attributed to domain shift, yet most work assumes invariance without measuring it. This paper studies how to measure site leakage directly and howโ€ฆ

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Harmonization mitigates diffusion MRI scanner effects in infancy: insights from the HEALthy Brain and Childhood Development (HBCD) study

Elyssa M. McMaster, Gaurav Rudravaram, Michael E. Kim, Trent M. Schwartz, Chloe Scholten, Jongyeon Yoon, Adam M. Saunders, Andre T.S. Hucke, Karthik Ramadass, Emily M. Harriott, Steven L. Meisler, Simon N. Vandekar, Allen Newton, Seth A. Smith, Saikat Sengupta, Kathryn L. Humphreys, Sarah Osmundson, Daniel Moyer, Laurie E. Cutting, Bennett A. Landman ยท 2026

The HEALthy Brain and Childhood Development (HBCD) Study is an ongoing longitudinal initiative to understand population-level brain maturation; however, large-scale studies must overcome site-related โ€ฆ

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Brain MR Image Synthesis with Multi-contrast Self-attention GAN

Zaid A. Abod, Furqan Aziz ยท 2026

Accurate and complete multi-modal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is essential for neuro-oncological assessment, as each contrast provides complementary anatomical and pathological information. Howevโ€ฆ

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Learning Semantic Priorities for Autonomous Target Search

Max Lodel, Nils Wilde, Robert Babuska, Javier Alonso-Mora ยท 2026

The use of semantic features can improve the efficiency of target search in unknown environments for robotic search and rescue missions. Current target search methods rely on training with large datasโ€ฆ

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ParaSpeechCLAP: A Dual-Encoder Speech-Text Model for Rich Stylistic Language-Audio Pretraining

Anuj Diwan, Eunsol Choi, David Harwath ยท 2026

We introduce ParaSpeechCLAP, a dual-encoder contrastive model that maps speech and text style captions into a common embedding space, supporting a wide range of intrinsic (speaker-level) and situationโ€ฆ

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SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning

Philip Schroeder, Thomas Weng, Karl Schmeckpeper, Eric Rosen, Stephen Hart, Ondrej Biza ยท 2026

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across diverse tasks, motivating efforts to leverage these models to supervise robot learning. However, when used as evaluators in reinโ€ฆ

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Flip Stunts on Bicycle Robots using Iterative Motion Imitation

Jeonghwan Kim, Shamel Fahmi, Seungeun Rho, Sehoon Ha, Gabriel Nelson ยท 2026

This work demonstrates a front-flip on bicycle robots via reinforcement learning, particularly by imitating reference motions that are infeasible and imperfect. To address this, we propose Iterative Mโ€ฆ

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ProgressVLA: Progress-Guided Diffusion Policy for Vision-Language Robotic Manipulation

Hongyu Yan, Qiwei Li, Jiaolong Yang, Yadong Mu ยท 2026

Most existing vision-language-action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation lack progress awareness, typically relying on hand-crafted heuristics for task termination. This limitation is particularly sโ€ฆ

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Copilot-Assisted Second-Thought Framework for Brain-to-Robot Hand Motion Decoding

Yizhe Li, Shixiao Wang, Jian K. Liu ยท 2026

Motor kinematics prediction (MKP) from electroencephalography (EEG) is an important research area for developing movement-related brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). While traditional methods often relyโ€ฆ

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120 Minutes and a Laptop: Minimalist Image-goal Navigation via Unsupervised Exploration and Offline RL

Xiaoming Liu, Borong Zhang, Qingbiao Li, Steven Morad ยท 2026

The prevailing paradigm for image-goal visual navigation often assumes access to large-scale datasets, substantial pretraining, and significant computational resources. In this work, we challenge thisโ€ฆ

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