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OmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Platform for Real-Time Multiadic Human-Robot Interaction

Junyoung Lee, Sookwan Han, Jeonghwan Kim, Inhee Lee, Mingi Choi, Jisoo Kim, Wonjung Woo, Hanbyul Joo · 2026

Human-robot collaboration has been studied primarily in dyadic or sequential settings. However, real homes require multiadic collaboration, where multiple humans and robots share a workspace, acting c…

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CRS-LLM: Cooperative Beam Prediction with a GPT-Style Backbone and Switch-Gated Fusion

Fangzhi Li, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, Dongming Wang, Jiangzhou Wang · 2026

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication depends on highly directional beamforming, while fast mobility, blockage, and rapid geometry changes in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) scenarios make beam tracking …

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Optimizing Dynamic Metasurface Antenna Configurations for Direction-of-Arrival and Polarization Estimation Using an Experimentally Calibrated Multiport-Network Model

Jean Tapie, Philipp del Hougne · 2026

Sensing the direction of arrival and polarization of impinging signals is a key prerequisite for beamforming and interference mitigation in modern wireless communication systems. Dynamic metasurface a…

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SEP Analysis of Quantized SIMO Systems with M-PSK over Correlated Fading Channels

Amila Ravinath, Bikshapathi Gouda, Italo Atzeni, Antti Tolli · 2026

The average symbol error probability (SEP) of a phase-quantized single-input multiple-output system with M-ary phase-shift keying modulation and maximum ratio combining (MRC) is analyzed under correla…

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Robustness Evaluation of a Foundation Segmentation Model Under Simulated Domain Shifts in Abdominal CT: Implications for Health Digital Twin Deployment

Sanghati Basu · 2026

Foundation segmentation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have demonstrated strong generalization across natural images; however, their robustness under clinically realistic medical imag…

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CRC-SAM: SAM-Based Multi-Modal Segmentation and Quantification of Colorectal Cancer in CT, Colonoscopy, and Histology Images

Daniel Lao · 2026

We present CRC-SAM, a unified framework for colorectal cancer segmentation across colonoscopy, CT, and histopathology images. Unlike prior single-modality methods, CRC-SAM provides consistent, modalit…

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The manifold of unitary and symmetric matrices: characterization, Riemannian optimization and application to BD-RIS design

Ignacio Santamaria, Carlos Beltran, Eduard Jorswieck, Mohammad Soleymani, Jesus Gutierrez · 2026

This paper proposes and analyzes Riemannian optimization algorithms on the manifold of unitary and symmetric matrices, denoted ${\cal {U}}_s$, which naturally models the scattering matrices of passive…

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Long-Horizon Manipulation via Trace-Conditioned VLA Planning

Isabella Liu, An-Chieh Cheng, Rui Yan, Geng Chen, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Xueyan Zou, Sha Yi, Hongxu Yin, Xiaolong Wang, Sifei Liu · 2026

Long-horizon manipulation remains challenging for vision-language-action (VLA) policies: real tasks are multi-step, progress-dependent, and brittle to compounding execution errors. We present LoHo-Man…

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On the dynamic behavior of the network SIRS epidemic model

Giulia Gatti, Giacomo Como · 2026

We study the Suscectible-Infected-Recovered-Susceptible (SIRS) epidemic model on deterministic networks. For connected but otherwise general interaction patterns and heterogeneous recovery and loss-of…

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Rank-Aware Link Adaptation for XR Tethering Groups with Realistic Tethering Link: A Multi-Offset OLLA Framework

Muhammad Ahsen, Boyan Yanakiev, Claudio Rosa, Ramoni Adeogun · 2026

We investigate higher-rank transmissions for multi-connected Extended Reality (XR) devices enabled through tethering group (TGr), in which a nearby tethering User Equipment (UE) cooperates with an XR …

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Algebraic Diversity: Principles of a Group-Theoretic Approach to Signal Processing

Mitchell A. Thornton · 2026

We present principles of algebraic diversity (AD), a group-theoretic approach to signal processing exploiting signal symmetry to extract more information per observation, complementing classical metho…

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Learning Hybrid-Control Policies for High-Precision In-Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty

Hunter L. Brown, Geoffrey Hollinger, Stefan Lee · 2026

Reinforcement learning-based control policies have been frequently demonstrated to be more effective than analytical techniques for many manipulation tasks. Commonly, these methods learn neural contro…

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Positivity of a Hadamard Product

Roger A. Horn, Shengxuan Luo, Hongwei Xu, Zai Yang · 2026

A notable difference between the ordinary and Hadamard products is that the Hadamard product of two singular positive semidefinite matrices can be nonsingular, and one of the factors can even be indef…

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Wildfires Quasi-Implicit Alternative-Direction Simulations using Isogeometric Finite Element Method

Juliusz Wasieleski, Tomasz S{l}uzalec, Maciej Wozniak, Marcin {L}os, Andres Medina, Paulina Sepulveda, Albert Oliver Serra, Eirik Valseth, Anna Paszynska, Maciej Paszynski · 2026

We develop a wildfire simulation model that evolves the temperature scalar field using an energy balance equation accounting for heat generation, transport, and loss. For these equations, we develop q…

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Multi-Target Estimation via Tensor Decomposition for Beyond Diagonal RIS-Aided Bistatic Sensing

Kenneth Benicio, Andre L. F. de Almeida, Fazal-E Asim, Bruno Sokal, Gabor Fodor, Behrooz Makki, A. Lee Swindlehurst · 2026

We investigate the performance of beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RIS) for bistatic MIMO multi-target sensing using a two-stage tensor Doppler-delay-angle estimation (TenDAE). …

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Maritime Connectivity Vulnerability Index: Construction, Patterns, and Validation Across 185 Economies, 2006-2025

Mohamed Bouka, Moulaye Abdel Kader Moulaye Ismail · 2026

Recent disruptions at major maritime chokepoints have exposed the structural fragility of liner shipping networks. Existing indicators measure connectivity, but none quantify its structural vulnerabil…

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Warm-Start Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm for QAM MIMO Data Detection

Soumyadip Paul, Sourav Banerjee, Debanjan Bhowmik, Neel Kanth Kundu · 2026

Data detection in large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with higher-order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) remains a challenging problem due to the exponential complexity of t…

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Joint Phase Noise and Off-Grid Channel Estimation for AFDM Systems via Sparse Bayesian Learning

You Xu, Huaijin Zhang, Lixia Xiao, Guanghua Liu, Zilong Liu · 2026

In practical affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) systems, the intricate coupling of oscillator phase noise (PN) and off-grid fractional shifts traps conventional estimators in a severe high-…

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System representations in subspaces of finite-sample signals and their application to data-driven fault detection

Linlin Li, Steven X. Ding, Jiahao Wang, Maiying Zhong, Wei Cheng · 2026

This paper deals with system representations in finite-sample signal subspaces and their application to data-driven fault detection. The first part addresses concepts of finite-sample image and kernel…

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SPaRSe-TIME: Saliency-Projected Low-Rank Temporal Modeling for Efficient and Interpretable Time Series Prediction

K. A. Shahriar · 2026

Time series forecasting is traditionally dominated by sequence-based architectures such as recurrent neural networks and attention mechanisms, which process all time steps uniformly and often incur su…

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