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Efficient Near Field Beam Tracking via Thompson Sampling

Junchi Liu, Zijun Wang, Shawn Tsai, Rui Zhang · 2026

The shift to the radiative near field region due to large antenna arrays necessitates beamforming that accounts for both angle and range, evolving mobility management into a joint angular range tracki…

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Effects of Swarm Size Variability on Operator Workload

William Hunt, Aleksandra Landowska, Horia A. Maior, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Mohammad Soorati · 2026

Real-world deployments of human--swarm teams depend on balancing operator workload to leverage human strengths without inducing overload. A key challenge is that swarm size is often dynamic: robots ma…

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Topology Estimation for Open Multi-Agent Systems

Nana Wang, Pelin Sekercioglu, Dimos V. Dimarogonas · 2026

We address the problem of interaction topology identification in open multi-agent systems (OMAS) with dynamic node sets and fast switching interactions. In such systems, new agents join and interactio…

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Investing Is Compression

Oscar Stiffelman · 2026

In 1956 John Kelly wrote a paper at Bell Labs describing the relationship between gambling and Information Theory. What came to be known as the Kelly Criterion is both an objective and a closed-form s…

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Distributed Predictive Control Barrier Functions: Towards Scalable Safety Certification in Modular Multi-Agent Systems

Jonas Ohnemus, Alexandre Didier, Ahmed Aboudonia, Andrea Carron, Melanie N. Zeilinger · 2026

We consider safety-critical multi-agent systems with distributed control architectures and potentially varying network topologies. While learning-based distributed control enables scalability and high…

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Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Residual Generation Under Computational Constraints

Jan {AA}slund · 2026

A unified structural framework is presented for model-based fault diagnosis that explicitly incorporates both fault locations and constraints imposed by the residual generation methodology. Building o…

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Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling

Eric Chen, Travis Manderson, Nare Karapetyan, Peter Edmunds, Nicholas Roy, Yogesh Girdhar · 2026

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used to survey coral reefs, yet efficiently locating specific coral species of interest remains difficult: target species are often sparsely dist…

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Efficient, Adaptive Near-Field Beam Training based on Linear Bandit

Junchi Liu, Zijun Wang, Rui Zhang · 2026

This letter proposes a linear bandit-based beam training framework for near-field communication under multi-path channels. By leveraging Thompson Sampling (TS), the framework adaptively balances explo…

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Uncertainty-Aware Calculation of Analytical Gradients of Matrix-Interpolatory Reduced-Order Models for Efficient Structural Optimization

Marcel Warzecha, Sebastian Resch-Schopper, Gerhard Muller · 2026

This paper presents an adaptive sampling algorithm tailored for the optimization of parametrized dynamical systems using projection-based model order reduction. Unlike classical sampling strategies, t…

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Stability of Open Multi-agent Systems over Dynamic Signed Digraphs

Pelin Sekercioglu, Angela Fontan, Dimos V. Dimarogonas · 2026

We address the synchronization problem in open multi-agent systems (OMAS) containing both cooperative and antagonistic interactions. In these systems, agents can join or leave the network over time, a…

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Cost-Aware Diffusion Active Search

Arundhati Banerjee, Jeff Schneider · 2026

Active search for recovering objects of interest through online, adaptive decision making with autonomous agents requires trading off exploration of unknown environments with exploitation of prior obs…

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A multitask framework for automated interpretation of multi-frame right upper quadrant ultrasound in clinical decision support

Haiman Guo, Cheng-Yi Li, Yuli Wang, Robin Wang, Yuwei Dai, Qinghai Peng, Danming Cao, Zhusi Zhong, Thao Vu, Linmei Zhao, Chengzhang Zhu, Christopher Tan, Jacob Schick, Stephen Kwak, Farzad Sedaghat, Javad Azadi, James Facciola, Jonathan Feng, Dilek Oncel, Ulrike Hamper, Alex Zhu, Tej Mehta, Melissa Leimkuehler, Cheng Ting Lin, Zhicheng Jiao, Ihab Kamel, Jing Wu, Li Yang, Harrison Bai · 2026

Ultrasound is a cornerstone of emergency and hepatobiliary imaging, yet its interpretation remains highly operator-dependent and time-sensitive. Here, we present a multitask vision-language agent (VLM…

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Study of Class-Incremental Radio Frequency Fingerprint Recognition Without Storing Exemplars

Rundong Jiang, Jun Hu, Yunqi Song, Zhiyuan Xie, Shiyou Xu · 2026

The rapid proliferation of wireless devices makes robust identity authentication essential. Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (RFF) exploits device-specific, hard-to-forge physical-layer impairments for …

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What you reward is what you learn: Comparing rewards for online speech policy optimization in public HRI

Sichao Song, Yuki Okafuji, Kaito Ariu, Amy Koike · 2026

Designing policies that are both efficient and acceptable for conversational service robots in open and diverse environments is non-trivial. Unlike fixed, hand-tuned parameters, online learning can ad…

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Dirichlet Meets Horvitz and Thompson: Estimating Homophily in Large Networks via Sampling

Hamed Ajorlou, Gonzalo Mateos, Luana Ruiz · 2025

Assessing homophily in large-scale networks is central to understanding structural regularities in graphs, and thus inform the choice of models (such as graph neural networks) adopted to learn from ne…

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LLM Trainer: Automated Robotic Data Generating via Demonstration Augmentation using LLMs

Abraham George, Amir Barati Farimani · 2025

We present LLM Trainer, a fully automated pipeline that leverages the world knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) to transform a small number of human demonstrations (as few as one) into a large r…

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Number Adaptive Formation Flight Planning via Affine Deformable Guidance in Narrow Environments

Yuan Zhou, Jialiang Hou, Guangtong Xu, Fei Gao · 2025

Formation maintenance with varying number of drones in narrow environments hinders the convergence of planning to the desired configurations. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a formation…

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Multi-cluster distributed optimization in open multi-agent systems over directed graphs with acknowledgement messages

Evagoras Makridis, Gabriele Oliva, Themistoklis Charalambous · 2025

In this paper, we tackle the problem of distributed optimization over directed networks in open multi-agent systems (OMAS), where agents may dynamically join or leave, causing persistent changes in ne…

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Before Humans Join the Team: Diagnosing Coordination Failures in Healthcare Robot Team Simulation

Yuanchen Bai, Zijian Ding, Shaoyue Wen, Xiang Chang, Angelique Taylor · 2025

As humans move toward collaborating with coordinated robot teams, understanding how these teams coordinate and fail is essential for building trust and ensuring safety. However, exposing human collabo…

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Dataset and Benchmark for Enhancing Critical Retained Foreign Object Detection

Yuli Wang, Victoria R. Shi, Liwei Zhou, Richard Chin, Yuwei Dai, Yuanyun Hu, Cheng-Yi Li, Haoyue Guan, Jiashu Cheng, Yu Sun, Cheng Ting Lin, Ihab Kamel, Premal Trivedi, Pamela Johnson, John Eng, Harrison Bai · 2025

Critical retained foreign objects (RFOs), including surgical instruments like sponges and needles, pose serious patient safety risks and carry significant financial and legal implications for healthca…

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