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Neural Encoding Detection is Not All You Need for Synthetic Speech Detection

Luca Cuccovillo, Xin Wang, Milica Gerhardt, Patrick Aichroth · 2026

This paper reviews the current state and emerging trends in synthetic speech detection. It outlines the main data-driven approaches, discusses the advantages and drawbacks of focusing future research …

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Symmetry Is Almost All You Need: Robust Stability with Uncertainty Induced by Symmetric SRG Regions

Ding Zhang, Di Zhao, Philipp Braun, Jianqi Chen · 2026

This paper investigates the robust stability problem of a feedback system in the presence of uncertainties induced by graphical regions in the plane where the scaled relative graphs (SRGs) reside. Our…

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Perception Is All You Need: A Neuroscience Framework for Low Cost Sensorless Gaze in HRI

Mason Kadem · 2026

Gaze-following in child-robot interaction improves attention, recall, and learning, but requires expensive platforms (\$30,000+), sensors, algorithms, and raises privacy concerns. We propose a framewo…

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Grasp as You Dream: Imitating Functional Grasping from Generated Human Demonstrations

Chao Tang, Jiacheng Xu, Haofei Lu, Bolin Zou, Wenlong Dong, Hong Zhang, Danica Kragic · 2026

Building generalist robots capable of performing functional grasping in everyday, open-world environments remains a significant challenge due to the vast diversity of objects and tasks. Existing metho…

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Dual-Envelope Constrained Nonlinear MPC for Distributed Drive Electric Vehicles Drifting Under Bounded Steering and Direct Yaw-Moment Control

Yurun Gan, Ziyu Song, Jing Yang, Zheng Lin, Jianuo Zhang, Tongtong Gu, Haitao Ding, Nan Xu, Por Lip Yee, Wei Ni, Jun Luo · 2026

Distributed drive electric vehicles offer superior yaw moment control for autonomous drifting in extreme maneuvers. Conventional drift analysis constructs stability boundaries from open loop equilibri…

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4D Vessel Reconstruction for Benchtop Thrombectomy Analysis

Ethan Nguyen, Javier Carmona, Arisa Matsuzaki, Naoki Kaneko, Katsushi Arisaka · 2026

Introduction: Mechanical thrombectomy can cause vessel deformation and procedure-related injury. Benchtop models are widely used for device testing, but time-resolved, full-field 3D vessel-motion meas…

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Data is All You Need: Markov Chain Car-Following (MC-CF) Model

Sungyong Chung, Yanlin Zhang, Nachuan Li, Dana Monzer, Alireza Talebpour · 2026

Car-following behavior is fundamental to traffic flow theory, yet traditional models often fail to capture the stochasticity of naturalistic driving. This paper introduces a new car-following modeling…

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Adapt as You Say: Online Interactive Bimanual Skill Adaptation via Human Language Feedback

Zhuo Li, Dianxi Li, Tao Teng, Quentin Rouxel, Zhipeng Dong, Dennis Hong, Darwin Caldwell, Fei Chen · 2026

Developing general-purpose robots capable of autonomously operating in human living environments requires the ability to adapt to continuously evolving task conditions. However, adapting high-dimensio…

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A computational framework to predict the spreading of Alzheimer's disease

A. Vazquez-Palomo, C. Betegon, J. Weickenmeier, E. Martinez-Paneda · 2026

Alzheimer's disease is characterised by the spreading of misfolded proteins and progressive structural changes in the brain. Despite significant clinical research, understanding how microscopic protei…

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Diversity You Can Actually Measure: A Fast, Model-Free Diversity Metric for Robotics Datasets

Sreevardhan Sirigiri, Nathan Samuel de Lara, Christopher Agia, Florian Shkurti, Fabio Ramos · 2026

Robotics datasets for imitation learning typically consist of long-horizon trajectories of different lengths over states, actions, and high-dimensional observations (e.g., RGB video), making it non-tr…

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Learnable Pulse Accumulation for On-Device Speech Recognition: How Much Attention Do You Need?

Yakov Pyotr Shkolnikov · 2026

Self-attention scales quadratically with sequence length, limiting transformer-based speech models on edge devices. We introduce the Learnable Pulse Accumulator (LPA), an O(n) replacement that substit…

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Existence and Design of Functional Observers for Time-Delay Systems with Delayed Output Measurements

Hieu Trinh, Phan Thanh Nam, Tyrone Fernando · 2026

This paper investigates the problem of functional state estimation for linear time-delay systems in which the delay affecting the state evolution differs from the delay affecting the output measuremen…

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Tau-BNO: Brain Neural Operator for Tau Transport Model

Nuutti Barron, Heng Rao, Urmi Saha, Yu Gu, Zhenghao Liu, Ge Yu, Defu Yang, Ashish Raj, Minghan Chen · 2026

Mechanistic modeling provides a biophysically grounded framework for studying the spread of pathological tau protein in tauopathies like Alzheimer's disease. Existing approaches typically model tau pr…

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RelA-Diffusion: Relativistic Adversarial Diffusion for Multi-Tracer PET Synthesis from Multi-Sequence MRI

Minhui Yu, Yongheng Sun, David S. Lalush, Jason P Mihalik, Pew-Thian Yap, Mingxia Liu · 2026

Multi-tracer positron emission tomography (PET) provides critical insights into diverse neuropathological processes such as tau accumulation, neuroinflammation, and $\beta$-amyloid deposition in the b…

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The Sim-to-Real Gap in MRS Quantification: A Systematic Deep Learning Validation for GABA

Zien Ma, S. M. Shermer, Oktay Karakus, Frank C. Langbein · 2026

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is used to quantify metabolites in vivo and estimate biomarkers for conditions ranging from neurological disorders to cancers. Quantifying low-concentration metab…

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TOPReward: Token Probabilities as Hidden Zero-Shot Rewards for Robotics

Shirui Chen, Cole Harrison, Ying-Chun Lee, Angela Jin Yang, Zhongzheng Ren, Lillian J. Ratliff, Jiafei Duan, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna · 2026

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have seen rapid progress in pretraining, their advancement in Reinforcement Learning (RL) remains hampered by low sample efficiency and sparse rewards in real…

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Your Robot Will Feel You Now: Empathy in Robots and Embodied Agents

Angelica Lim, O. Nilay Yalcin · 2026

The fields of human-robot interaction (HRI) and embodied conversational agents (ECAs) have long studied how empathy could be implemented in machines. One of the major drivers has been the goal of givi…

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Now You See That: Learning End-to-End Humanoid Locomotion from Raw Pixels

Wandong Sun, Yongbo Su, Leoric Huang, Alex Zhang, Dwyane Wei, Mu San, Daniel Tian, Ellie Cao, Finn Yan, Ethan Xie, Zongwu Xie · 2026

Achieving robust vision-based humanoid locomotion remains challenging due to two fundamental issues: the sim-to-real gap introduces significant perception noise that degrades performance on fine-grain…

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Constraint-Aware Discrete-Time PID Gain Optimization for Robotic Joint Control Under Actuator Saturation

Ojasva Mishra, Xiaolong Wu, Min Xu · 2026

The precise regulation of rotary actuation is fundamental in autonomous robotics, yet practical PID loops deviate from continuous-time theory due to discrete-time execution, actuator saturation, and s…

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Triage knowledge distillation for speaker verification

Ju-ho Kim, Youngmoon Jung, Joon-Young Yang, Jaeyoung Roh, Chang Woo Han, Hoon-Young Cho · 2026

Deploying speaker verification on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to the computational cost of high-capacity models; knowledge distillation (KD) offers a remedy. Classical KD enta…

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