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From Seeing to Simulating: Generative High-Fidelity Simulation with Digital Cousins for Generalizable Robot Learning and Evaluation

Jasper Lu, Zhenhao Shen, Yuanfei Wang, Shugao Liu, Shengqiang Xu, Shawn Xie, Jingkai Xu, Feng Jiang, Jade Yang, Chen Xie, Ruihai Wu ยท 2026

Learning robust robot policies in real-world environments requires diverse data augmentation, yet scaling real-world data collection is costly due to the need for acquiring physical assets and reconfiโ€ฆ

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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 ยท 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. Ourโ€ฆ

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COMB: Common Open Modular robotic platform for Bees

Pranav Kedia, Marie Messerich, Tim Landgraf ยท 2026

Experimental access to real honeybee colonies requires robotic systems capable of operating within limited spatial constraints, tolerating hive-specific fouling and environmental conditions, and suppoโ€ฆ

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NavTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness for Embodied Navigation

Huaide Jiang, Yash Chaudhary, Yuping Wang, Zehao Wang, Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta, Yang Zhou, Lichao Sun, Zhiwen Fan, Zhengzhong Tu, Jiachen Li ยท 2026

There are two major categories of embodied navigation: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), where agents navigate by following natural language instructions; and Object-Goal Navigation (OGN), where agentโ€ฆ

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Unified Learning of Temporal Task Structure and Action Timing for Bimanual Robot Manipulation

Christian Dreher, Patrick Dormanns, Andre Meixner, Tamim Asfour ยท 2026

Temporal task structure is fundamental for bimanual manipulation: a robot must not only know that one action precedes or overlaps another, but also when each action should occur and how long it shouldโ€ฆ

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Temporal Pooling Strategies for Training-Free Anomalous Sound Detection with Self-Supervised Audio Embeddings

Kevin Wilkinghoff, Sarthak Yadav, Zheng-Hua Tan ยท 2026

Training-free anomalous sound detection (ASD) based on pre-trained audio embedding models has recently garnered significant attention, as it enables the detection of anomalous sounds using only normalโ€ฆ

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DLIOS: An LLM-Augmented Real-Time Multi-Modal Interactive Enhancement Overlay System for Douyin Live Streaming

Shuide Wen, Sungil Seok, Beier Ku, Richee Li, Yubin He, Bowen Qu, Yang Yang, Ping Su, Can Jiao ยท 2026

We present DLIOS, a Large Language Model (LLM)-augmented real-time multi-modal interactive enhancement overlay system for Douyin (TikTok) live streaming. DLIOS employs a three-layer transparent windowโ€ฆ

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U-DAVI: Uncertainty-Aware Diffusion-Prior-Based Amortized Variational Inference for Image Reconstruction

Ayush Varshney, Katherine L. Bouman, Berthy T. Feng ยท 2026

Ill-posed imaging inverse problems remain challenging due to the ambiguity in mapping degraded observations to clean images. Diffusion-based generative priors have recently shown promise, but typicallโ€ฆ

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RadarEye: Robust Liquid Level Tracking Using mmWave Radar in Robotic Pouring

Hongyu Deng, He Chen ยท 2026

Transparent liquid manipulation in robotic pouring remains challenging for perception systems: specular/refraction effects and lighting variability degrade visual cues, undermining reliable level estiโ€ฆ

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Sci-VLA: Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments

Yiwen Pang, Bo Zhou, Changjin Li, Xuanhao Wang, Shengxiang Xu, Deng-Bao Wang, Min-Ling Zhang, Shimin Di ยท 2026

Robotic laboratories play a critical role in autonomous scientific discovery by enabling scalable, continuous experimental execution. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models offer a promising foundโ€ฆ

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DECO: Decoupled Multimodal Diffusion Transformer for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation with a Plugin Tactile Adapter

Xukun Li, Yu Sun, Lei Zhang, Bosheng Huang, Yibo Peng, Yuan Meng, Haojun Jiang, Shaoxuan Xie, Guocai Yao, Alois Knoll, Zhenshan Bing, Xinlong Wang, Zhenguo Sun ยท 2026

Bimanual dexterous manipulation relies on integrating multimodal inputs to perform complex real-world tasks. To address the challenges of effectively combining these modalities, we propose DECO, a decโ€ฆ

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Sounding Highlights: Dual-Pathway Audio Encoders for Audio-Visual Video Highlight Detection

Seohyun Joo, Yoori Oh ยท 2026

Audio-visual video highlight detection aims to automatically identify the most salient moments in videos by leveraging both visual and auditory cues. However, existing models often underutilize the auโ€ฆ

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Synthetic Singers: A Review of Deep-Learning-based Singing Voice Synthesis Approaches

Changhao Pan, Dongyu Yao, Yu Zhang, Wenxiang Guo, Jingyu Lu, Zhiyuan Zhu, Zhou Zhao ยท 2026

Recent advances in singing voice synthesis (SVS) have attracted substantial attention from both academia and industry. With the advent of large language models and novel generative paradigms, producinโ€ฆ

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Pauli Decomposition of Impedance Matrices for Understanding the Root Cause of Instabilities in Grid-Connected Power Electronic Converters

Josue Andino, Milan Prodanovic, Javier Roldan-Perez ยท 2025

The impedance criterion has emerged as an alternative way to stability assessment of grid-connected power electronic converters. However, the lack of physical meaning of impedance and admittance matriโ€ฆ

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Investigation of Feature Selection and Pooling Methods for Environmental Sound Classification

Parinaz Binandeh Dehaghani, Danilo Pena, A. Pedro Aguiar ยท 2025

This paper explores the impact of dimensionality reduction and pooling methods for Environmental Sound Classification (ESC) using lightweight CNNs. We evaluate Sparse Salient Region Pooling (SSRP) andโ€ฆ

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StrengthLawExtractor: A Fiji plugin for 3D morphological feature extraction from X-ray micro-CT data

Qinyi Tian, Laura E. Dalton ยท 2025

Non-destructive methods are essential for linking the microstructural geometry of porous materials to their mechanical behavior, as destructive testing is often infeasible due to limited material avaiโ€ฆ

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Pooling Probabilistic Forecasts for Cooperative Wind Power Offering

Honglin Wen, Pierre Pinson ยท 2025

Wind power producers can benefit from forming coalitions to participate cooperatively in electricity markets. To support such collaboration, various profit allocation rules rooted in cooperative game โ€ฆ

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Robotic Skill Diversification via Active Mutation of Reward Functions in Reinforcement Learning During a Liquid Pouring Task

Jannick van Buuren, Roberto Giglio, Loris Roveda, Luka Peternel ยท 2025

This paper explores how deliberate mutations of reward function in reinforcement learning can produce diversified skill variations in robotic manipulation tasks, examined with a liquid pouring use casโ€ฆ

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Self-Supervised and Topological Signal-Quality Assessment for Any PPG Device

Wei Shao, Ruoyu Zhang, Zequan Liang, Ehsan Kourkchi, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun ยท 2025

Wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) is embedded in billions of devices, yet its optical waveform is easily corrupted by motion, perfusion loss, and ambient light, jeopardizing downstream cardiometric โ€ฆ

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Increasing Inter-Fiber Contact in the Altendorf-Jeulin Model

Alex Keilmann, Claudia Redenbach, Francois Willot ยท 2025

In fields such as material design or biomedicine, fiber materials play an important role. Fiber simulations, also called digital twins, provide a basis for testing and optimizing the material's physicโ€ฆ

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