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PALCAS: A Priority-Aware Intelligent Lane Change Advisory System for Autonomous Vehicles using Federated Reinforcement Learning

Yassine Ibork, Nhat Ha Nguyen, Myounggyu Won, Lokesh Das · 2026

We present a priority-aware intelligent lane change advisory system based on multi-agent federated reinforcement learning, namely PALCAS, for autonomous vehicles (AVs). While existing lane-change appr…

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Spectral Kernel Dynamics via Maximum Caliber: Fixed Points, Geodesics, and Phase Transitions

Jnaneshwar Das · 2026

We derive a closed-form geometric functional for kernel dynamics on finite graphs by applying the Maximum Caliber (MaxCal) variational principle to the spectral transfer function h(lambda) of the grap…

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Realtime-VLA V2: Learning to Run VLAs Fast, Smooth, and Accurate

Chen Yang, Yucheng Hu, Yunchao Ma, Yunhuan Yang, Jing Tan, Haoqiang Fan · 2026

In deployment of the VLA models to real-world robotic tasks, execution speed matters. In previous work arXiv:2510.26742 we analyze how to make neural computation of VLAs on GPU fast. However, we leave…

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3PoinTr: 3D Point Tracks for Robot Manipulation Pretraining from Casual Videos

Adam Hung, Bardienus Pieter Duisterhof, Jeffrey Ichnowski · 2026

Data-efficient training of robust robot policies is the key to unlocking automation in a wide array of novel tasks. Current systems require large volumes of demonstrations to achieve robustness, which…

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Introducing the transitional autonomous vehicle lane-changing dataset: Empirical Experiments

Abhinav Sharma, Zijun He, Danjue Chen · 2026

Transitional autonomous vehicles (tAVs), which operate beyond SAE Level 1-2 automation but short of full autonomy, are increasingly sharing the road with human-driven vehicles (HDVs). As these systems…

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Urban Congestion Patterns under High Electric Vehicle Penetration: A Case Study of 10 U.S. Cities

Xiaohan Xu, Wei Ma, Zhiheng Shi, Xiaotong Xu, Bin He, Kairui Feng · 2026

With the global energy transition and the rapid penetration of electric vehicles (EVs), the widening travel cost gap between EVs and gasoline vehicles (GVs) increasingly affects commuters' route choic…

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LAYER: A Quantitative Explainable AI Framework for Decoding Tissue-Layer Drivers of Myofascial Low Back Pain

Zixue Zeng, Anthony M. Perti, Tong Yu, Grant Kokenberger, Hao-En Lu, Jing Wang, Xin Meng, Zhiyu Sheng, Maryam Satarpour, John M. Cormack, Allison C. Bean, Ryan P. Nussbaum, Emily Landis-Walkenhorst, Kang Kim, Ajay D. Wasan, Jiantao Pu · 2025

Myofascial pain (MP) is a leading cause of chronic low back pain, yet its tissue-level drivers remain poorly defined and lack reliable image biomarkers. Existing studies focus predominantly on muscle …

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Image-based Morphological Characterization of Filamentous Biological Structures with Non-constant Curvature Shape Feature

Jie Fan, Francesco Visentin, Barbara Mazzolai, Emanuela Del Dottore · 2025

Tendrils coil their shape to anchor the plant to supporting structures, allowing vertical growth toward light. Although climbing plants have been studied for a long time, extracting information regard…

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Diffusion Models are Robust Pretrainers

Mika Yagoda, Shady Abu-Hussein, Raja Giryes · 2025

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classifica…

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A Digital Twin Framework for Decision-Support and Optimization of EV Charging Infrastructure in Localized Urban Systems

Bui Khanh Linh Do, Thanh H. Nguyen, Nghi Huynh Quang, Doanh Nguyen-Ngoc, Laurent El Ghaoui · 2025

As Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption accelerates in urban environments, optimizing charging infrastructure is vital for balancing user satisfaction, energy efficiency, and financial viability. This study…

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AudioFuse: Unified Spectral-Temporal Learning via a Hybrid ViT-1D CNN Architecture for Robust Phonocardiogram Classification

Md. Saiful Bari Siddiqui, Utsab Saha · 2025

Biomedical audio signals, such as phonocardiograms (PCG), are inherently rhythmic and contain diagnostic information in both their spectral (tonal) and temporal domains. Standard 2D spectrograms provi…

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Resource-Oriented Optimization of Electric Vehicle Systems: A Data-Driven Survey on Charging Infrastructure, Scheduling, and Fleet Management

Hai Wang, Baoshen Guo, Xiaolei Zhou, Shuai Wang, Zhiqing Hong, Tian He · 2025

Driven by growing concerns over air quality and energy security, electric vehicles (EVs) has experienced rapid development and are reshaping global transportation systems and lifestyle patterns. Compa…

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Automated Vigilance State Classification in Rodents Using Machine Learning and Feature Engineering

Sankalp Jajee, Gaurav Kumar, Homayoun Valafar · 2025

Preclinical sleep research remains constrained by labor intensive, manual vigilance state classification and inter rater variability, limiting throughput and reproducibility. This study presents an au…

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DRARL: Disengagement-Reason-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Improvement of Autonomous Driving Policy

Weitao Zhou, Bo Zhang, Zhong Cao, Xiang Li, Qian Cheng, Chunyang Liu, Yaqin Zhang, Diange Yang · 2025

With the increasing presence of automated vehicles on open roads under driver supervision, disengagement cases are becoming more prevalent. While some data-driven planning systems attempt to directly …

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From Theory to Practice: Advancing Multi-Robot Path Planning Algorithms and Applications

Teng Guo · 2025

The labeled MRPP (Multi-Robot Path Planning) problem involves routing robots from start to goal configurations efficiently while avoiding collisions. Despite progress in solution quality and runtime, …

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Quantitative Indices for Improving Metro Load Curve, Using Distributed Generation

Masoud Behbahani, Alireza Fereidunian · 2025

This paper promises the idea of using DG (Distributed Generation) to improve the Metro load curve. Public transportation systems are often based on gasoline and diesel. However, with the gradual devel…

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DCD: A Semantic Segmentation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Four-Chamber View

Donglian Li, Hui Guo, Minglang Chen, Huizhen Chen, Jialing Chen, Bocheng Liang, Pengchen Liang, Ying Tan · 2025

Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures in the apical four-chamber (A4C) view of fetal echocardiography is essential for early diagnosis and prenatal evaluation of congenital heart disease (CHD…

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PixCell: A generative foundation model for digital histopathology images

Srikar Yellapragada, Alexandros Graikos, Zilinghan Li, Kostas Triaridis, Varun Belagali, Tarak Nath Nandi, Karen Bai, Beatrice S. Knudsen, Tahsin Kurc, Rajarsi R. Gupta, Prateek Prasanna, Ravi K Madduri, Joel Saltz, Dimitris Samaras · 2025

The digitization of histology slides has revolutionized pathology, providing massive datasets for cancer diagnosis and research. Self-supervised and vision-language models have been shown to effective…

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DemoSpeedup: Accelerating Visuomotor Policies via Entropy-Guided Demonstration Acceleration

Lingxiao Guo, Zhengrong Xue, Zijing Xu, Huazhe Xu · 2025

Imitation learning has shown great promise in robotic manipulation, but the policy's execution is often unsatisfactorily slow due to commonly tardy demonstrations collected by human operators. In this…

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UNSURF: Uncertainty Quantification for Cortical Surface Reconstruction of Clinical Brain MRIs

Raghav Mehta, Karthik Gopinath, Ben Glocker, Juan Eugenio Iglesias · 2025

We propose UNSURF, a novel uncertainty measure for cortical surface reconstruction of clinical brain MRI scans of any orientation, resolution, and contrast. It relies on the discrepancy between predic…

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