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Feedback Linearization of Hyperbolic PDEs with Volterra Nonlinearities

Miroslav Krstic ยท 2026

Alberto Isidori's framework of geometric nonlinear control, and particularly of feedback linearization, is the inspiration behind PDE backstepping: apply a transfromation of the state to cast the planโ€ฆ

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DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors

Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang ยท 2026

Unlike chatbots, physical AI must act while the world keeps evolving. Therefore, the inter-chunk pause of synchronous executors are fatal for dynamic tasks regardless of how fast the inference is. Asyโ€ฆ

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Time-Frequency Pilot Sequence Design and LoS Delay-Doppler Estimation

Aadarsh Devanand, Praful D. Mankar ยท 2026

We present a novel framework for line-of-sight (LoS) delay-Doppler (DD) estimation in dense scattering propagation environments. We present two time-frequency (TF) domain pilot sequences inspired by tโ€ฆ

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DM-ASR: Diarization-aware Multi-speaker ASR with Large Language Models

Li Li, Ming Cheng, Weixin Zhu, Yannan Wang, Juan Liu, Ming Li ยท 2026

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to transcribe conversational speech involving multiple speakers, requiring the model to capture not only what was said, but also who said it and sโ€ฆ

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Reducing the Offline-Streaming Gap for Unified ASR Transducer with Consistency Regularization

Andrei Andrusenko, Vladimir Bataev, Lilit Grigoryan, Nune Tadevosyan, Vitaly Lavrukhin, Boris Ginsburg ยท 2026

Unification of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems reduces development and maintenance costs, but training a single model to perform well in both offline and low-latency streaming settings remaโ€ฆ

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ST-$\pi$: Structured SpatioTemporal VLA for Robotic Manipulation

Chuanhao Ma, Hanyu Zhou, Shihan Peng, Yan Li, Tao Gu, Luxin Yan ยท 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved great success on general robotic tasks, but still face challenges in fine-grained spatiotemporal manipulation. Typically, existing methods mainly embeโ€ฆ

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Rewind-IL: Online Failure Detection and State Respawning for Imitation Learning

Gehan Zheng, Sanjay Seenivasan, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi ยท 2026

Imitation learning has enabled robots to acquire complex visuomotor manipulation skills from demonstrations, but deployment failures remain a major obstacle, especially for long-horizon action-chunkedโ€ฆ

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Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation using Offline Reinforcement Learning on Sub-optimal Controllers

Snehal Jauhri, Vignesh Prasad, Georgia Chalvatzaki ยท 2026

Mobile Manipulation (MoMa) of articulated objects, such as opening doors, drawers, and cupboards, demands simultaneous, whole-body coordination between a robot's base and arms. Classical whole-body coโ€ฆ

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The Memory-Enhanced Gaussian Noise (MEGN) Model for Fiber-Optic Channels

Kaiquan Wu, Gabriele Liga, Marco Secondini, Stella Civelli, Hussam Batshon, Greg Raybon, Xi Chen, Alex Alvarado ยท 2026

The enhanced Gaussian noise (EGN) model is widely used for estimating the nonlinear interference (NLI) power accumulated in coherent fiber-optic transmission systems. Given a fixed fiber link, under tโ€ฆ

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HiPolicy: Hierarchical Multi-Frequency Action Chunking for Policy Learning

Jiyao Zhang, Zimu Han, Junhan Wang, Xionghao Wu, Shihong Lin, Jinzhou Li, Hongwei Fan, Ruihai Wu, Dongjiang Li, Hao Dong ยท 2026

Robotic imitation learning faces a fundamental trade-off between modeling long-horizon dependencies and enabling fine-grained closed-loop control. Existing fixed-frequency action chunking approaches sโ€ฆ

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Adaptive Action Chunking at Inference-time for Vision-Language-Action Models

Yuanchang Liang, Xiaobo Wang, Kai Wang, Shuo Wang, Xiaojiang Peng, Haoyu Chen, David Kim Huat Chua, Prahlad Vadakkepat ยท 2026

In Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, action chunking (i.e., executing a sequence of actions without intermediate replanning) is a key technique to improve robotic manipulation abilities. However, aโ€ฆ

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Open-Loop Planning, Closed-Loop Verification: Speculative Verification for VLA

Zihua Wang, Zhitao Lin, Ruibo Li, Yu Zhang, Xu Yang, Siya Mi, Xiu-Shen Wei ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, as large foundation models for embodied control, have shown strong performance in manipulation tasks. However, their performance comes at high inference cost. To iโ€ฆ

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StreamingVLA: Streaming Vision-Language-Action Model with Action Flow Matching and Adaptive Early Observation

Yiran Shi, Dongqi Guo, Tianchen Zhao, Feng Gao, Liangzhi Shi, Chao Yu, ZhiJian Mo, Qihua Xiao, XiaoShuai Peng, Qingmin Liao, Yu Wang ยท 2026

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have demonstrated exceptional performance in natural language-driven perception and control. However, the high computational cost of VLA models poses significant efโ€ฆ

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HiFlow: Tokenization-Free Scale-Wise Autoregressive Policy Learning via Flow Matching

Daichi Yashima, Koki Seno, Shuhei Kurita, Yusuke Oda, Komei Sugiura ยท 2026

Coarse-to-fine autoregressive modeling has recently shown strong promise for visuomotor policy learning, combining the inference efficiency of autoregressive methods with the global trajectory coherenโ€ฆ

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MMaDA-VLA: Large Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model with Unified Multi-Modal Instruction and Generation

Yang Liu, Pengxiang Ding, Tengyue Jiang, Xudong Wang, Wenxuan Song, Minghui Lin, Han Zhao, Hongyin Zhang, Zifeng Zhuang, Wei Zhao, Siteng Huang, Jinkui Shi, Donglin Wang ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to control robots for manipulation from visual observations and natural-language instructions. However, existing hierarchical and autoregressive paradigms oftenโ€ฆ

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State-space fading memory

Gustave Bainier, Antoine Chaillet, Rodolphe Sepulchre, Alessio Franci ยท 2026

The fading-memory (FM) property captures the progressive loss of influence of past inputs on a system's current output and has originally been formalized by Boyd and Chua in an operator-theoretic framโ€ฆ

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Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models

Zhilong Zhang, Haoxiang Ren, Yihao Sun, Yifei Sheng, Haonan Wang, Haoxin Lin, Zhichao Wu, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Yang Yu ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show strong generalization for robotic control, but finetuning them with reinforcement learning (RL) is constrained by the high cost and safety risks of real-world โ€ฆ

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Outage Probability Analysis of NOMA Enabled Hierarchical UAV Networks with Non-Linear Energy Harvesting

Faicel Khennoufa, Khelil Abdellatif, Metin Ozturk, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Safwan Alfattani ยท 2026

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to enhance connectivity, extend network coverage, and support advanced communication services in sixth-generation (6G) cellular networks, particularly in pโ€ฆ

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SCALE-TRACK: Asynchronous Euler-Lagrange particle tracking on heterogeneous computing architecture

Silvio Schmalfu{ss}, Sergey Lesnik, Henrik Rusche, Dennis Niedermeier ยท 2026

Euler-Lagrange (EL) simulations provide a direct and robust framework for modeling disperse multiphase flows. However, they are computationally expensive. While various approaches have attempted to leโ€ฆ

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Progress-Based Fault Detection and Health-Aware Task Allocation for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems

Jack Cline, Christian Macaranas, Siavash Farzan ยท 2026

We present a progress-based fault detection module and its integration with dynamic task allocation for heterogeneous robot teams. The detector monitors a normalized task-completion signal with a lighโ€ฆ

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