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Dreaming Across Towns: Semantic Rollout and Town-Adversarial Regularization for Zero-Shot Held-Out-Town Fixed-Route Driving in CARLA

Feeza Khan Khanzada, Jaerock Kwon ยท 2026

Learned driving agents often degrade when deployed in unseen environments. This paper studies a deliberately bounded instance of that problem in the CARLA simulator: zero-shot transfer of a closed-looโ€ฆ

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Privileged Foresight Distillation: Zero-Cost Future Correction for World Action Models

Pengcheng Fang, Hongli Chen, Xiaohao Cai ยท 2026

World action models jointly predict future video and action during training, raising an open question about what role the future-prediction branch actually plays. A recent finding shows that this branโ€ฆ

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Backstepping Observer for the Quasilinear Heat Equation with Linear Design Gains: Beyond Local Stability

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Kirsten A. Morris ยท 2026

We consider the one-dimensional quasilinear heat equation with state-dependent heat capacity and thermal conductivity, and design a boundary-output observer based on the backstepping design for a lineโ€ฆ

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sumoITScontrol: Traffic Controller Collection for SUMO Traffic Simulations

Kevin Riehl, Anastasios Kouvelas, Michail A. Makridis ยท 2026

Reliable benchmarking is essential for progress in intelligent traffic control research. While microscopic traffic simulators such as SUMO enable detailed modelling of individual vehicle interactions,โ€ฆ

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Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation

Arthur Jakobsson, Abhinav Mahajan, Karthik Pullalarevu, Krishna Suresh, Yunchao Yao, Yuemin Mao, Bardienus Duisterhof, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeffrey Ichnowski ยท 2026

Many robotic tasks are unforgiving; a single mistake in a dynamic throw can lead to unacceptable delays or unrecoverable failure. To mitigate this, we present a novel approach that leverages learned sโ€ฆ

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Embedding-Based Intrusive Evaluation Metrics for Musical Source Separation Using MERT Representations

Paul A. Bereuter, Alois Sontacchi ยท 2026

Evaluation of musical source separation (MSS) has traditionally relied on Blind Source Separation Evaluation (BSS-Eval) metrics. However, recent work suggests that BSS-Eval metrics exhibit low correlaโ€ฆ

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DAG-STL: A Hierarchical Framework for Zero-Shot Trajectory Planning under Signal Temporal Logic Specifications

Ruijia Liu, Ancheng Hou, Xiao Yu, Xiang Yin ยท 2026

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a powerful language for specifying temporally structured robotic tasks. Planning executable trajectories under STL constraints remains difficult when system dynamics andโ€ฆ

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Eccentricity Confound in EEG-based Visual Attention Decoding from Gaze-Fixated Neural Tracking of Motion in Natural Videos

Yuanyuan Yao, Celina Salamanca Gonzalez, Simon Geirnaert, Celine R. Gillebert, Tinne Tuytelaars, Alexander Bertrand ยท 2026

Objective. Decoding visual attention from brain signals during naturalistic video viewing has emerged as a new direction in brain-computer interface research. Current methods assume that stronger coupโ€ฆ

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X-VC: Zero-shot Streaming Voice Conversion in Codec Space

Qixi Zheng, Yuxiang Zhao, Tianrui Wang, Wenxi Chen, Kele Xu, Yikang Li, Qinyuan Chen, Xipeng Qiu, Kai Yu, Xie Chen ยท 2026

Zero-shot voice conversion (VC) aims to convert a source utterance into the voice of an unseen target speaker while preserving its linguistic content. Although recent systems have improved conversion โ€ฆ

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MVAdapt: Zero-Shot Multi-Vehicle Adaptation for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Haesung Oh, Jaeheung Park ยท 2026

End-to-End (E2E) autonomous driving models are usually trained and evaluated with a fixed ego-vehicle, even though their driving policy is implicitly tied to vehicle dynamics. When such a model is depโ€ฆ

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AnySlot: Goal-Conditioned Vision-Language-Action Policies for Zero-Shot Slot-Level Placement

Zhaofeng Hu, Sifan Zhou, Qinbo Zhang, Rongtao Xu, Qi Su, Ci-Jyun Liang ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies have emerged as a versatile paradigm for generalist robotic manipulation. However, precise object placement under compositional language instructions remains a maโ€ฆ

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SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds

Yunsong Zhou, Hangxu Liu, Xuekun Jiang, Xing Shen, Yuanzhen Zhou, Hui Wang, Baole Fang, Yang Tian, Mulin Yu, Qiaojun Yu, Li Ma, Hengjie Li, Hanqing Wang, Jia Zeng, Jiangmiao Pang ยท 2026

Robotic manipulation with deformable objects represents a data-intensive regime in embodied learning, where shape, contact, and topology co-evolve in ways that far exceed the variability of rigids. Alโ€ฆ

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Projected Variational Quantum Extragradient for Zero-Sum Games

Duong The Do, Matthew Aldridge, Duong Tung Nguyen ยท 2026

We propose a projected variational quantum extragradient (VQEG) framework for computing approximate Nash equilibria in two-player zero-sum matrix games. Mixed strategies are parameterized as Born distโ€ฆ

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Zero-Overhead Unambiguous Velocity Estimation in Multiband ISAC Systems Under Random Traffic

Aurora Peloso, Michele Rossi, Jacopo Pegoraro ยท 2026

This paper proposes an original method for estimating the velocity of a target by leveraging the multiband capabilities of modern Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC) systems. Traditional Dopplโ€ฆ

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Coalitional Zero-Sum Games for ${H_{\infty}}$ Leader-Following Consensus Control

Yunxiao Ren, Dingguo Liang, Yuezu Lv, Zhisheng Duan ยท 2026

This paper investigates the leader-following consensus problem for a class of multi-agent systems subject to adversarial attack-like external inputs. To address this, we formulate the robust leader-foโ€ฆ

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A Process-Aware Demand Response Framework for Hydrogen-Integrated Zero-Carbon Steel Plants Coupled with Methanol Production

Qiang Ji, Lin Cheng, Yue Zhou, Ning Qi, Kaidi Huang, Jianzhong Wu, Ming Cheng ยท 2026

The integration of the high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) and the retirement of thermal units have significantly aggravated the flexibility scarcity and real-time balancinโ€ฆ

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MALEFA: Multi-grAnularity Learning and Effective False Alarm Suppression for Zero-shot Keyword Spotting

Lo-Ya Li, Tien-Hong Lo, Jeih-Weih Hung, Shih-Chieh Huang, Berlin Chen ยท 2026

User-defined keyword spotting (KWS) without resorting to domain-specific pre-labeled training data is of fundamental importance in building adaptable and personalized voice interfaces. However, such sโ€ฆ

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FSUNav: A Cerebrum-Cerebellum Architecture for Fast, Safe, and Universal Zero-Shot Goal-Oriented Navigation

Mingao Tan, Yiyang Li, Shanze Wang, Xinming Zhang, Wei Zhang ยท 2026

Current vision-language navigation methods face substantial bottlenecks regarding heterogeneous robot compatibility, real-time performance, and navigation safety. Furthermore, they struggle to supportโ€ฆ

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An Online Learning Approach for Two-Player Zero-Sum Linear Quadratic Games

Shanting Wang, Weihao Sun, Andreas A. Malikopoulos ยท 2026

In this paper, we present an online learning approach for two-player zero-sum linear quadratic games with unknown dynamics. We develop a framework combining regularized least squares model estimation,โ€ฆ

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ReVAR: A Data-Driven Algorithm for Generating Aero-Optic Phase Screens

Jeffrey W. Utley, Gregery T. Buzzard, Charles A. Bouman, Matthew R. Kemnetz ยท 2026

The propagation of light through a turbulent flow field around an aircraft results in optical distortions commonly known as aero-optic effects. The development of methods to mitigate these effects reqโ€ฆ

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