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Deep Learning-Enabled Dissolved Oxygen Sensing in Biofouling Environments for Ocean Monitoring

Nikolaos Salaris, Adrien Desjardins, Manish K. Tiwari · 2026

The escalating climate crisis and ecosystem degradation demand intelligent, low-cost sensors capable of robust, long-term monitoring in real-world environments. Absolute dissolved oxygen (DO) concentr…

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Sampling-Based Safety Filter with Probabilistic Restrictiveness Guarantee

Junyoung Park, Hyeontae Sung, Heejin Ahn · 2026

Ensuring safety is a critical requirement for autonomous systems, yet providing formal guarantees for nominal controllers remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a modular sampling-…

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Stein Variational Uncertainty-Adaptive Model Predictive Control

Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Ian Abraham · 2026

We propose a Stein variational distributionally robust controller for nonlinear dynamical systems with latent parametric uncertainty. The method is an alternative to conservative worst-case ambiguity-…

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PinPoint: Monocular Needle Pose Estimation for Robotic Suturing via Stein Variational Newton and Geometric Residuals

Jesse F. d'Almeida, Tanner Watts, Susheela Sharma Stern, James Ferguson, Alan Kuntz, Robert J. Webster III · 2026

Reliable estimation of surgical needle 3D position and orientation is essential for autonomous robotic suturing, yet existing methods operate almost exclusively under stereoscopic vision. In monocular…

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Rao-Blackwellized Stein Gradient Descent for Joint State-Parameter Estimation

Milad Banitalebi Dehkordi, Manas Mejari, Dario Piga · 2026

We present a filtering framework for online joint state estimation and parameter identification in nonlinear, time-varying systems. The algorithm uses Rao-Blackwellization technique to infer joint sta…

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Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints

Jiayun Li, Yufeng Jin, Sangli Teng, Dejian Gong, Georgia Chalvatzaki · 2026

Surface manipulation tasks require robots to generate trajectories that comprehensively cover complex 3D surfaces while maintaining precise end-effector poses. Existing ergodic trajectory optimization…

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STL-SVPIO: Signal Temporal Logic guided Stein Variational Path Integral Optimization

Hongrui Zheng, Zirui Zang, Ahmad Amine, Cristian Ioan Vasile, Rahul Mangharam · 2026

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) enables formal specification of complex spatiotemporal constraints for robotic task planning. However, synthesizing long-horizon continuous control trajectories from comple…

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SaferPath: Hierarchical Visual Navigation with Learned Guidance and Safety-Constrained Control

Lingjie Zhang, Zeyu Jiang, Changhao Chen · 2026

Visual navigation is a core capability for mobile robots, yet end-to-end learning-based methods often struggle with generalization and safety in unseen, cluttered, or narrow environments. These limita…

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FluoCLIP: Stain-Aware Focus Quality Assessment in Fluorescence Microscopy

Hyejin Park, Jiwon Yoon, Sumin Park, Suree Kim, Sinae Jang, Eunsoo Lee, Dongmin Kang, Dongbo Min · 2026

Accurate focus quality assessment (FQA) in fluorescence microscopy is challenging due to stain-dependent optical variations that induce heterogeneous focus behavior across images. Existing methods, ho…

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RamanSeg: Interpretability-driven Deep Learning on Raman Spectra for Cancer Diagnosis

Chris Tomy, Mo Vali, David Pertzborn, Tammam Alamatouri, Anna Muhlig, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Anna Xylander, Eric Michele Fantuzzi, Matteo Negro, Francesco Crisafi, Pietro Lio, Tiago Azevedo · 2026

Histopathology, the current gold standard for cancer diagnosis, involves the manual examination of tissue samples after chemical staining, a time-consuming process requiring expert analysis. Raman spe…

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Actors, Frames and Arguments: A Multi-Decade Computational Analysis of Climate Discourse in Financial News using Large Language Models

Ruiran Su, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Markus Leippold · 2026

Financial news media shapes trillion-dollar climate investment decisions, yet discourse in this elite domain remains underexplored. We analyze two decades of climate-related articles (2000-2023) from …

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Distributed Hypothesis Testing Under A Covertness Constraint

Ismaila Salihou Adamou, Michele Wigger · 2026

We study distributed hypothesis testing under a covertness constraint in the non-alert situation, which requires that under the null-hypothesis an external warden be unable to detect whether communica…

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Parameter-Robust MPPI for Safe Online Learning of Unknown Parameters

Matti Vahs, Jaeyoun Choi, Niklas Schmid, Jana Tumova, Chuchu Fan · 2026

Robots deployed in dynamic environments must remain safe even when key physical parameters are uncertain or change over time. We propose Parameter-Robust Model Predictive Path Integral (PRMPPI) contro…

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ProbeMDE: Uncertainty-Guided Active Proprioception for Monocular Depth Estimation in Surgical Robotics

Britton Jordan, Jordan Thompson, Jesse F. d'Almeida, Hao Li, Nithesh Kumar, Susheela Sharma Stern, James Ferguson, Ipek Oguz, Robert J. Webster III, Daniel Brown, Alan Kuntz · 2025

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) provides a useful tool for robotic perception, but its predictions are often uncertain and inaccurate in challenging environments such as surgical scenes where texture…

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Provably Safe Stein Variational Clarity-Aware Informative Planning

Kaleb Ben Naveed, Utkrisht Sahai, Anouck Girard, Dimitra Panagou · 2025

Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed for information-gathering tasks in environments that vary across space and time. Planning informative and safe trajectories in such settings is challenging …

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Stein-based Optimization of Sampling Distributions in Model Predictive Path Integral Control

Jace Aldrich, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins · 2025

This paper introduces a method for Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control that optimizes sample generation towards an optimal trajectory through Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD). MPPI …

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KongNet: A Multi-headed Deep Learning Model for Detection and Classification of Nuclei in Histopathology Images

Jiaqi Lv, Esha Sadia Nasir, Kesi Xu, Mostafa Jahanifar, Brinder Singh Chohan, Behnaz Elhaminia, Shan E Ahmed Raza · 2025

Accurate detection and classification of nuclei in histopathology images are critical for diagnostic and research applications. We present KongNet, a multi-headed deep learning architecture featuring …

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Linked Cell Traversal Algorithms for Three-Body Interactions in Molecular Dynamics

Jose Alfonso Pinzon Escobar, Markus Muhlhau{ss}er, Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Philipp Neumann · 2025

In this work, algorithms for the parallel computation of three-body interactions in molecular dynamics are developed. While traversals for the computation of pair interactions are readily available in…

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SVN-ICP: Uncertainty Estimation of ICP-based LiDAR Odometry using Stein Variational Newton

Shiping Ma, Haoming Zhang, Marc Toussaint · 2025

This letter introduces SVN-ICP, a novel Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm with uncertainty estimation that leverages Stein Variational Newton (SVN) on manifold. Designed specifically for fusing …

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Ensemble YOLO Framework for Multi-Domain Mitotic Figure Detection in Histopathology Images

Navya Sri Kelam, Akash Parekh, Saikiran Bonthu, Nitin Singhal · 2025

The reliable identification of mitotic figures in whole-slide histopathological images remains difficult, owing to their low prevalence, substantial morphological heterogeneity, and the inconsistencie…

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