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Firing Rate Neural Network Implementations of Model Predictive Control

Jaidev Gill, Jing Shuang Li ยท 2026

Human and animal brains perform planning to enable complex movements and behaviors. This process can be effectively described using model predictive control (MPC); that is, brains can be thought of asโ€ฆ

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SoftMimicGen: A Data Generation System for Scalable Robot Learning in Deformable Object Manipulation

Masoud Moghani, Mahdi Azizian, Animesh Garg, Yuke Zhu, Sean Huver, Ajay Mandlekar ยท 2026

Large-scale robot datasets have facilitated the learning of a wide range of robot manipulation skills, but these datasets remain difficult to collect and scale further, owing to the intractable amountโ€ฆ

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Fast-dVLA: Accelerating Discrete Diffusion VLA to Real-Time Performance

Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Shuai Chen, Jingbo Wang, Pengxiang Ding, Han Zhao, Yikai Qin, Xinhu Zheng, Donglin Wang, Yan Wang, Haoang Li ยท 2026

This paper proposes a novel approach to address the challenge that pretrained VLA models often fail to effectively improve performance and reduce adaptation costs during standard supervised finetuningโ€ฆ

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A Mamba-based Perceptual Loss Function for Learning-based UGC Transcoding

Zihao Qi, Chen Feng, Fan Zhang, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu, David Bull ยท 2026

In user-generated content (UGC) transcoding, source videos typically suffer various degradations due to prior compression, editing, or suboptimal capture conditions. Consequently, existing video comprโ€ฆ

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Language-Free Generative Editing from One Visual Example

Omar Elezabi, Eduard Zamfir, Zongwei Wu, Radu Timofte ยท 2026

Text-guided diffusion models have advanced image editing by enabling intuitive control through language. However, despite their strong capabilities, we surprisingly find that SOTA methods struggle witโ€ฆ

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SafeGuard ASF: SR Agentic Humanoid Robot System for Autonomous Industrial Safety

Thanh Nguyen Canh, Thang Tran Viet, Thanh Tuan Tran, Ben Wei Lim ยท 2026

The rise of unmanned ``dark factories'' operating without human presence demands autonomous safety systems capable of detecting and responding to multiple hazard types. We present SafeGuard ASF (Agentโ€ฆ

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Saranga: MilliWatt Ultrasound for Navigation in Visually Degraded Environments on Palm-Sized Aerial Robots

Manoj Velmurugan, Phillip Brush, Colin Balfour, Richard J. Przybyla, Nitin J. Sanket ยท 2026

Tiny palm-sized aerial robots possess exceptional agility and cost-effectiveness in navigating confined and cluttered environments. However, their limited payload capacity directly constrains the sensโ€ฆ

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Modeling Spatiotemporal Neural Frames for High Resolution Brain Dynamic

Wanying Qu, Jianxiong Gao, Wei Wang, Yanwei Fu ยท 2026

Capturing dynamic spatiotemporal neural activity is essential for understanding large-scale brain mechanisms. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides high-resolution cortical representatโ€ฆ

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ACAVCaps: Enabling large-scale training for fine-grained and diverse audio understanding

Yadong Niu, Tianzi Wang, Heinrich Dinkel, Xingwei Sun, Jiahao Zhou, Gang Li, Jizhong Liu, Junbo Zhang, Jian Luan ยท 2026

General audio understanding is a fundamental goal for large audio-language models, with audio captioning serving as a cornerstone task for their development. However, progress in this domain is hinderโ€ฆ

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Blind Quality Enhancement for G-PCC Compressed Dynamic Point Clouds

Tian Guo, Hui Yuan, Chang Sun, Wei Zhang, Raouf Hamzaoui, Sam Kwong ยท 2026

Point cloud compression often introduces noticeable reconstruction artifacts, which makes quality enhancement necessary. Existing approaches typically assume prior knowledge of the distortion level anโ€ฆ

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Sensing-Assisted Adaptive Beam Probing with Calibrated Multimodal Priors and Uncertainty-Aware Scheduling

Abidemi Orimogunje, Vukan Ninkovic, Ognjen Kundacina, Hyunwoo Park, Sunwoo Kim, Dejan Vukobratovic, Evariste Twahirwa, Gaspard Gashema ยท 2026

Highly directional mmWave/THz links require rapid beam alignment, yet exhaustive codebook sweeps incur prohibitive training overhead. This letter proposes a sensing-assisted adaptive probing policy thโ€ฆ

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Utilizing Adversarial Training for Robust Voltage Control: An Adaptive Deep Reinforcement Learning Method

Sungjoo Chung, Ying Zhang ยท 2026

Adversarial training is a defense method that trains machine learning models on intentionally perturbed attack inputs, so they learn to be robust against adversarial examples. This paper develops a roโ€ฆ

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Statistical Efficiency of Single- and Multi-step Models for Forecasting and Control

Anne Somalwar, Bruce D. Lee, George J. Pappas, Nikolai Matni ยท 2026

Compounding error, where small prediction mistakes accumulate over time, presents a major challenge in learning-based control. A common remedy is to train multi-step predictors directly instead of rolโ€ฆ

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SG-VLA: Learning Spatially-Grounded Vision-Language-Action Models for Mobile Manipulation

Ruisen Tu, Arth Shukla, Sohyun Yoo, Xuanlin Li, Junxi Li, Jianwen Xie, Hao Su, Zhuowen Tu ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show promise for robotic control, yet performance in complex household environments remains sub-optimal. Mobile manipulation requires reasoning about global scene lโ€ฆ

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Single-Subject Multi-View MRI Super-Resolution via Implicit Neural Representations

Heejong Kim, Abhishek Thanki, Roel van Herten, Daniel Margolis, Mert R Sabuncu ยท 2026

Clinical MRI frequently acquires anisotropic volumes with high in-plane resolution and low through-plane resolution to reduce acquisition time. Multiple orientations are therefore acquired to provide โ€ฆ

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MapForest: A Modular Field Robotics System for Forest Mapping and Invasive Species Localization

Sandeep Zachariah, Francisco Yandun, Sachet Korada, Abhisesh Silwal ยท 2026

Monitoring and controlling invasive tree species across large forests, parks, and trail networks is challenging due to limited accessibility, reliance on manual scouting, and degraded under-canopy GNSโ€ฆ

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UniDex: A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control from Egocentric Human Videos

Gu Zhang, Qicheng Xu, Haozhe Zhang, Jianhan Ma, Long He, Yiming Bao, Zeyu Ping, Zhecheng Yuan, Chenhao Lu, Chengbo Yuan, Tianhai Liang, Xiaoyu Tian, Maanping Shao, Feihong Zhang, Mingyu Ding, Yang Gao, Hao Zhao, Hang Zhao, Huazhe Xu ยท 2026

Dexterous manipulation remains challenging due to the cost of collecting real-robot teleoperation data, the heterogeneity of hand embodiments, and the high dimensionality of control. We present UniDexโ€ฆ

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End-to-End Differentiable Predictive Control with Guaranteed Constraint Satisfaction and feasibility for Building Demand Response

Kaipeng Xu, Zhuo Zhi, Ruixuan Zhao, Keyue Jiang ยท 2026

The high energy consumption of buildings presents a critical need for advanced control strategies like Demand Response (DR). Differentiable Predictive Control (DPC) has emerged as a promising method fโ€ฆ

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Cycle Inverse-Consistent TransMorph: A Balanced Deep Learning Framework for Brain MRI Registration

Jiaqi Shang, Haojin Wu, Yinyi Lai, Zongyu Li, Chenghao Zhang, Jia Guo ยท 2026

Deformable image registration plays a fundamental role in medical image analysis by enabling spatial alignment of anatomical structures across subjects. While recent deep learning-based approaches havโ€ฆ

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Cortical Policy: A Dual-Stream View Transformer for Robotic Manipulation

Xuening Zhang, Qi Lv, Xiang Deng, Miao Zhang, Xingbo Liu, Liqiang Nie ยท 2026

View transformers process multi-view observations to predict actions and have shown impressive performance in robotic manipulation. Existing methods typically extract static visual representations in โ€ฆ

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