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LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models

Hao Chen, Jiaming Liu, Zhonghao Yan, Nuowei Han, Renrui Zhang, Chenyang Gu, Jialin Gao, Ziyu Guo, Siyuan Qian, Yinxi Wang, Peng Jia, Chi-Wing Fu, Shanghang Zhang, Pheng-Ann Heng ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have increasingly incorporated reasoning mechanisms for complex robotic manipulation. However, existing approaches share a critical limitation: whether employing exโ€ฆ

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Hierarchical Control for Continuous-time Systems via General Approximate Alternating Simulation Relations

Zhiyuan Huang, Shuo Li, Murat Arcak, Majid Zamani, Bingzhuo Zhong ยท 2026

This paper introduces a general approximate alternating simulation relation (\emph{$\varepsilon$-gAAS relation}) for continuous-time systems, which relaxes existing simulation relations to tolerate laโ€ฆ

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On the Fractional Fourier Transform for FMCW Radar Interference Mitigation

Christian Oswald, Josef Kulmer, Franz Pernkopf ยท 2026

In this paper, we extend our method [1] for FMCW radar mutual interference mitigation (IM) based on the discrete fractional Fourier transform (DFrFT). Firstly, we propose a radar signal processing chaโ€ฆ

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Bitwise Over-Parameterized Neural Polar Decoding: A Theoretical Performance Analysis

Hongzhi Zhu, Wei Xu, Xiaohu You ยท 2026

This paper proposes a bitwise over-parameterized neural network (ONN) decoder for polar-coded transmission and develops a tractable theoretical performance analysis framework. By modeling each synthesโ€ฆ

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Can Tabular Foundation Models Guide Exploration in Robot Policy Learning?

Buqing Ou, Frederike Dumbgen ยท 2026

Policy optimization in high-dimensional continuous control for robotics remains a challenging problem. Predominant methods are inherently local and often require extensive tuning and carefully chosen โ€ฆ

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Real-Time GPU-Accelerated Monte Carlo Evaluation of Safety-Critical AEB Systems Under Uncertainty

Akshay Karjol, Shadi Alawneh ยท 2026

Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems represent a safety-critical national interest, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS Noโ€ฆ

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Global Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization for Contact-Rich Manipulation via KernelSOS

Zhongqi Wei, Frederike Dumbgen ยท 2026

Contact-rich manipulation is challenging due to its high dimensionality, the requirement for long time horizons, and the presence of hybrid contact dynamics. Sampling-based methods have become a populโ€ฆ

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FeatureFox: Sample-Efficient Panoptic Graph Segmentation for Machining Feature Recognition in B-Rep 3D-CAD Models

Bertram Fuchs, Altay Kacan, Aaron Haag, Oliver Lohse ยท 2026

Automatic feature recognition (AFR) on B-Rep 3D-CAD models is central to CAD/CAM automation, yet most learning-based methods are complex, data-hungry, and evaluate instance grouping and semantic labelโ€ฆ

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Unified 4D World Action Modeling from Video Priors with Asynchronous Denoising

Jun Guo, Qiwei Li, Peiyan Li, Zilong Chen, Nan Sun, Yifei Su, Heyun Wang, Yuan Zhang, Xinghang Li, Huaping Liu ยท 2026

We propose X-WAM, a Unified 4D World Model that unifies real-time robotic action execution and high-fidelity 4D world synthesis (video + 3D reconstruction) in a single framework, addressing the criticโ€ฆ

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Pinching Antenna-Aided Spatial Multiplexing: Transceiver Design and Performance Analysis

Ruijie Li, Yue Xiao, Shuaixin Yang, Gang Wu, Xianfu Lei, Ming Xiao ยท 2026

In this paper, a novel pinching antenna-aided spatial multiplexing (PASM) architecture is conceived, which intrinsically amalgamates the benefits of flexible radiating element placement with radio-freโ€ฆ

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Multi-Static ISAC Assisted by Double-Side Fluid Antenna System

Qinyuan Zheng, Pengcheng Zhu ยท 2026

As a pivotal usage scenario for 6G networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a focal point of both academic and industrial research. To accommodate the heterogeneous connectโ€ฆ

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A Novel Two-Step Approach for Reactive Power Demand Calculation Using Integrated Voltage Stability Analysis

Hassan Abouelgheit, Hendrik Lens ยท 2026

The assessment of reactive power demand plays an instrumental role in power system planning. This paper presents a methodology for calculating reactive power demand based on a two-step approach. Unlikโ€ฆ

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A Quantitative Framework for Navigating Controller Design Tradeoffs under Computational Constraints

Chris Verhoek, Nikolai Matni ยท 2026

Computational constraints permeate the controller design process, and yet are rarely treated as explicit design constraints. Towards addressing this gap, we propose a quantitative framework that captuโ€ฆ

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Characterizing Vision-Language-Action Models across XPUs: Constraints and Acceleration for On-Robot Deployment

Kaijun Zhou, Qiwei Chen, Da Peng, Zhiyang Li, Xijun Li, Jinyu Gu ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are promising for generalist robot control, but on-robot deployment is bottlenecked by real-time inference under tight cost and energy budgets. Most prior evaluatioโ€ฆ

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BandRouteNet: An Adaptive Band Routing Neural Network for EEG Artifact Removal

Phat Lam ยท 2026

Electroencephalography (EEG) is highly susceptible to artifact contamination, such as electrooculographic (EOG) and electromyographic (EMG) interference, which severely degrades signal quality and hinโ€ฆ

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Beam Scheduling for Cross-Layer ISAC: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Xiyu Wang, Gilberto Berardinelli, Hei Victor Cheng, Petar Popovski, Ramoni Adeogun ยท 2026

Resource allocation in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems needs to be optimized to balance the requirements of the communication and sensing modules considering complicated cross-layeโ€ฆ

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Optimal Planning and Control under Signal Temporal Logic Specifications

Zuodong Pan, Xu Fang, Wei Ren ยท 2026

This paper addresses the planning and control problem for nonlinear systems under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications. We first decompose an STL task into finite local tasks. A sampling-based mโ€ฆ

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Trajectory Planning for an Articulated Commercial Vehicle using Model Predictive Contouring Control

A.J. Aertssen, R.G.M. Huisman, I.J.M. Besselink, J. Elfring, M.J.G. van de Molengraft ยท 2026

This paper presents a trajectory planning method for articulated commercial vehicles, specifically tractor-semitrailers, based on Model Predictive Contouring Control (MPCC). Although MPCC has proven eโ€ฆ

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Coordinated Multipoint Anti-jamming Beam Pattern Synthesis: From AI Accelerated Algorithm to Hardware Implementation

Zilong Wang, Cheng Zhang, Zhilei Zhang, Yaxuan Hu, Wen Wang, Yongming Huang ยท 2026

This paper presents a deep unfolding-supported coordinated multipoint beam pattern synthesis (DUCoMP-BPS) scheme to overcome the high complexity, poor adaptability, and limited scalability of traditioโ€ฆ

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Vision-Language-Action Safety: Threats, Challenges, Evaluations, and Mechanisms

Qi Li, Bo Yin, Weiqi Huang, Ruhao Liu, Bojun Zou, Runpeng Yu, Jingwen Ye, Weihao Yu, Xinchao Wang ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a unified substrate for embodied intelligence. This shift raises a new class of safety challenges, stemming from the embodied nature of VLA systems,โ€ฆ

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