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HERMES++: Toward a Unified Driving World Model for 3D Scene Understanding and Generation

Xin Zhou, Dingkang Liang, Xiwu Chen, Feiyang Tan, Dingyuan Zhang, Hengshuang Zhao, Xiang Bai · 2026

Driving world models serve as a pivotal technology for autonomous driving by simulating environmental dynamics. However, existing approaches predominantly focus on future scene generation, often overl…

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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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LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models

Hao Chen, Jiaming Liu, Zhonghao Yan, Nuowei Han, Renrui Zhang, Chenyang Gu, Jialin Gao, Ziyu Guo, Siyuan Qian, Yinxi Wang, Peng Jia, Chi-Wing Fu, Shanghang Zhang, Pheng-Ann Heng · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have increasingly incorporated reasoning mechanisms for complex robotic manipulation. However, existing approaches share a critical limitation: whether employing ex…

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Representation Fr\'echet Loss for Visual Generation

Jiawei Yang, Zhengyang Geng, Xuan Ju, Yonglong Tian, Yue Wang · 2026

We show that Fr\'echet Distance (FD), long considered impractical as a training objective, can in fact be effectively optimized in the representation space. Our idea is simple: decouple the population…

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Towards Systematics of Calabi-Yau Landscape for String Cosmology

George K. Leontaris, Pramod Shukla · 2026

In this review, we discuss the relevance and impact of studying Calabi-Yau threefolds in the context of global model building in string phenomenology. First, taking a phenomenologist-friendly approach…

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Cosmology of fractional gravity

Ivan Salvador-Garcia, Gianluca Calcagni · 2026

This is a first study of the cosmology of classical fractional gravity, a nonlocal proposal endowed with self-adjoint fractional d'Alembertian operators which serves as the basis for an ultraviolet-co…

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Synthetic Computers at Scale for Long-Horizon Productivity Simulation

Tao Ge, Baolin Peng, Hao Cheng, Jianfeng Gao · 2026

Realistic long-horizon productivity work is strongly conditioned on user-specific computer environments, where much of the work context is stored and organized through directory structures and content…

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An adaptive wavelet-based PINN for problems with localized high-magnitude source

Himanshu Pandey, Ratikanta Behera · 2026

In recent years, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have gained significant attention for solving differential equations, although they suffer from two fundamental limitations, namely, spectral …

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Stop Holding Your Breath: CT-Informed Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Bronchoscopy

Andrea Dunn Beltran, Daniel Rho, Aarav Mehta, Xinqi Xiong, Raul San Jose Estepar, Ron Alterovitz, Marc Niethammer, Roni Sengupta · 2026

Bronchoscopic navigation relies on registering endoscopic video to a preoperative CT scan, but respiratory motion deforms the airway by 5-20 mm, creating CT-to-body divergence that limits localization…

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AEGIS: A Holistic Benchmark for Evaluating Forensic Analysis of AI-Generated Academic Images

Bo Zhang, Tzu-Yen Ma, Zichen Tang, Junpeng Ding, Zirui Wang, Yizhuo Zhao, Peilin Gao, Zijie Xi, Zixin Ding, Haiyang Sun, Haocheng Gao, Yuan Liu, Liangjia Wang, Yiling Huang, Yujie Wang, Yuyue Zhang, Ronghui Xi, Yuanze Li, Jiacheng Liu, Zhongjun Yang, Haihong E · 2026

We introduce AEGIS, A holistic benchmark for Evaluating forensic analysis of AI-Generated academic ImageS. Compared to existing benchmarks, AEGIS features three key advances: (1) Domain-Specific Compl…

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Superpolynomial Length Lower Bounds for Tree-Like Semantic Proof Systems with Bounded Line Size

Susanna F. de Rezende, David Engstrom, Yassine Ghannane, Kilian Risse · 2026

We prove superpolynomial length lower bounds for the semantic tree-like Frege refutation system with bounded line size. Concretely, for any function $n^{2-\varepsilon} \leq s(n) \leq 2^{n^{1-\varepsil…

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PhyCo: Learning Controllable Physical Priors for Generative Motion

Sriram Narayanan, Ziyu Jiang, Srinivasa Narasimhan, Manmohan Chandraker · 2026

Modern video diffusion models excel at appearance synthesis but still struggle with physical consistency: objects drift, collisions lack realistic rebound, and material responses seldom match their un…

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Essential, Yet Overlooked: Identity Verification Barriers for Blind and Low Vision People in Government Services

Ryan John Oommen, Tanusree Sharma · 2026

Identity verification is a critical gateway to accessing government services and public benefits, yet contemporary systems are typically designed around visual interaction, leaving blind and low visio…

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Sequential Inference for Gaussian Processes: A Signal Processing Perspective

Daniel Waxman, Fernando Llorente, Petar M. Djuric · 2026

The proliferation of capable and efficient machine learning (ML) models marks one of the strongest methodological shifts in signal processing (SP) in its nearly 100-year history. ML models support the…

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RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects

Tim Missal, Lucas Domingues, Berk Guler, Simon Manschitz, Jan Peters, Paula Dornhofer Paro Costa · 2026

The robotic manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) is a fundamental challenge due to the high-dimensional, non-linear dynamics of flexible structures and the complexity of maintaining topolo…

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Continuous-tone Simple Points: An $\ell_0$-Norm of Cyclic Gradient for Topology-Preserving Data-Driven Image Segmentation

Wenxiao Li, Faqiang Wang, Yuping Duan, Li Cui, Liqiang Zhang, Jun Liu · 2026

Topological features play an essential role in ensuring geometric plausibility and structural consistency in image analysis tasks such as segmentation and skeletonization. However, integrating topolog…

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Intern-Atlas: A Methodological Evolution Graph as Research Infrastructure for AI Scientists

Yujun Wu, Dongxu Zhang, Xinchen Li, Jinhang Xu, Yiling Duan, Yumou Liu, Jiabao Pan, Xuanhe Zhou, Jingxuan Wei, Siyuan Li, Jintao Chen, Conghui He, Cheng Tan · 2026

Existing research infrastructure is fundamentally document-centric, providing citation links between papers but lacking explicit representations of methodological evolution. In particular, it does not…

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FlashRT: Towards Computationally and Memory Efficient Red-Teaming for Prompt Injection and Knowledge Corruption

Yanting Wang, Chenlong Yin, Ying Chen, Jinyuan Jia · 2026

Long-context large language models (LLMs)-for example, Gemini-3.1-Pro and Qwen-3.5-are widely used to empower many real-world applications, such as retrieval-augmented generation, autonomous agents, a…

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FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li · 2026

We present FlexiTac, a low-cost, open-source, and scalable piezoresistive tactile sensing solution designed for robotic end-effectors. FlexiTac is a practical "plug-in" module consisting of (i) thin, …

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Design and Characteristics of a Thin-Film ThermoMesh for the Efficient Embedded Sensing of a Spatio-Temporally Sparse Heat Source

Sajjad Boorghan Farahan, Ahmed Alajlouni, Jingzhou Zhao · 2026

This work presents ThermoMesh, a passive thin-film thermoelectric mesh sensor designed to detect and characterize spatio-temporally sparse heat sources through conduction-based thermal imaging. The de…

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