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PHONOS: PHOnetic Neutralization for Online Streaming Applications

Waris Quamer, Mu-Ruei Tseng, Ghady Nasrallah, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna · 2026

Speaker anonymization (SA) systems modify timbre while leaving regional or non-native accents intact, which is problematic because accents can narrow the anonymity set. To address this issue, we prese…

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ANVIL: Accelerator-Native Video Interpolation via Codec Motion Vector Priors

Shibo Liu · 2026

Real-time 30-to-60 fps video frame interpolation on mobile neural processing units (NPUs) requires each synthesized frame within 33.3 ms. We show that mainstream flow-based video frame interpolation f…

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SOMA: Strategic Orchestration and Memory-Augmented System for Vision-Language-Action Model Robustness via In-Context Adaptation

Zhuoran Li, Zhiyang Li, Kaijun Zhou, Jinyu Gu · 2026

Despite the promise of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models as generalist robotic controllers, their robustness against perceptual noise and environmental variations in out-of-distribution (OOD) tasks …

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Autoregressive Guidance of Deep Spatially Selective Filters using Bayesian Tracking for Efficient Extraction of Moving Speakers

Jakob Kienegger, Timo Gerkmann · 2026

Deep spatially selective filters achieve high-quality enhancement with real-time capable architectures for stationary speakers of known directions. To retain this level of performance in dynamic scena…

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Stable Inversion of Discrete-Time Linear Periodically Time-Varying Systems via Cyclic Reformulation

Hiroshi Okajima · 2026

Stable inverse systems for periodically time-varying plants are essential for feedforward control and iterative learning control of multirate and periodic systems, yet existing approaches either requi…

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Stability-Preserving Online Adaptation of Neural Closed-loop Maps

Danilo Saccani, Luca Furieri, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate · 2026

The growing complexity of modern control tasks calls for controllers that can react online as objectives and disturbances change, while preserving closed-loop stability. Recent approaches for improvin…

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Closed-Loop Verbal Reinforcement Learning for Task-Level Robotic Planning

Dmitrii Plotnikov, Iaroslav Kolomiets, Dmitrii Maliukov, Dmitrij Kosenkov, Daniia Zinniatullina, Artem Trandofilov, Georgii Gazaryan, Kirill Bogatikov, Timofei Kozlov, Igor Duchinskii, Mikhail Konenkov, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Dzmitry Tsetserukou · 2026

We propose a new Verbal Reinforcement Learning (VRL) framework for interpretable task-level planning in mobile robotic systems operating under execution uncertainty. The framework follows a closed-loo…

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CounterScene: Counterfactual Causal Reasoning in Generative World Models for Safety-Critical Closed-Loop Evaluation

Bowen Jing, Ruiyang Hao, Weitao Zhou, Haibao Yu · 2026

Generating safety-critical driving scenarios requires understanding why dangerous interactions arise, rather than merely forcing collisions. However, existing methods rely on heuristic adversarial age…

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Safety-Aware Performance Boosting for Constrained Nonlinear Systems

Danilo Saccani, Haoming Shen, Luca Furieri, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate · 2026

We study a control architecture for nonlinear constrained systems that integrates a performance-boosting (PB) controller with a scheduled Predictive Safety Filter (PSF). The PSF acts as a pre-stabiliz…

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Not All Features Are Created Equal: A Mechanistic Study of Vision-Language-Action Models

Bryce Grant, Xijia Zhao, Peng Wang · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models combine perception, language, and motor control in a single architecture, yet how they translate multimodal inputs into actions remains poorly understood. We apply …

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Heart Artifact Removal in Electrohysterography Measurements Using Algebraic Differentiators

Amine Othmane, Maria Camila Bustos Vivas, Johannes Steuer, Jana Hutter · 2026

Electrohysterography (EHG) enables non-invasive monitoring of uterine contractions but can be contaminated by electrocardiogram (ECG) artifacts. This work presents an ECG removal method using algebrai…

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Data-Driven Predictive Control for Stochastic Descriptor Systems: An Innovation-Based Approach Handling Non-Causal Dynamics

Yunxiang Ma, Yibo Wang, Zhongmei Li, Chao Shang · 2026

Descriptor systems arise naturally in applications governed by algebraic constraints, such as power networks and chemical processes. The singular system matrix in descriptor systems may introduce non-…

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Bringing Network Coding into Multi-Robot Systems: Interplay Study for Autonomous Systems over Wireless Communications

Anil Zaher, Kiril Solovey, Alejandro Cohen · 2026

Communication is a core enabler for multi-robot systems (MRS), providing the mechanism through which robots exchange state information, coordinate actions, and satisfy safety constraints. While many M…

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Physics-Informed Spatial-Temporal Transformer for Terahertz Near-Field Beam Tracking

Zhi Zeng, Chong Han, Emil Bjornson · 2026

Terahertz (THz) ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (UM-MIMO) promises ultra-high throughput, while its highly directional beams demand rapid and accurate beam tracking driven by precise user…

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Towards the Vision-Sound-Language-Action Paradigm: The HEAR Framework for Sound-Centric Manipulation

Chang Nie, Tianchen Deng, Guangming Wang, Zhe Liu, Hesheng Wang · 2026

While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have begun to incorporate audio, they typically treat sound as static pre-execution prompts or focus exclusively on human speech. This leaves a signifi…

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A System-Theoretic Approach to Hawkes Process Identification with Guaranteed Positivity and Stability

Xinhui Rong, Girish N. Nair · 2026

The Hawkes process models self-exciting event streams, requiring a strictly non-negative and stable stochastic intensity. Standard identification methods enforce these properties using non-negative ca…

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RoboStream: Weaving Spatio-Temporal Reasoning with Memory in Vision-Language Models for Robotics

Yuzhi Huang, Jie Wu, Weijue Bu, Ziyi Xiong, Gaoyang Jiang, Ye Li, Kangye Ji, Shuzhao Xie, Yue Huang, Chenglei Wu, Jingyan Jiang, Zhi Wang · 2026

Enabling reliable long-horizon robotic manipulation is a crucial step toward open-world embodied intelligence. However, VLM-based planners treat each step as an isolated observation-to-action mapping,…

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RADAR: Closed-Loop Robotic Data Generation via Semantic Planning and Autonomous Causal Environment Reset

Yongzhong Wang, Keyu Zhu, Yong Zhong, Liqiong Wang, Jinyu Yang, Feng Zheng · 2026

The acquisition of large-scale physical interaction data, a critical prerequisite for modern robot learning, is severely bottlenecked by the prohibitive cost and scalability limits of human-in-the-loo…

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Chunk-Boundary Artifact in Action-Chunked Generative Policies: A Noise-Sensitive Failure Mechanism

Rui Wang · 2026

Action chunking has become a central design choice for generative visuomotor policies, yet the execution discontinuities that arise at chunk boundaries remain poorly understood. In a frozen pretrained…

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A Causal Approach to Predicting and Improving Human Perceptions of Social Navigation Robots

Maximilian Diehl, Nathan Tsoi, Gustavo Chavez, Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Marynel Vazquez · 2026

As mobile robots are increasingly deployed in human environments, enabling them to predict how people perceive them is critical for socially adaptable navigation. Predicting perceptions is challenging…

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