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Function-based Parametric Co-Design Optimization of Dexterous Hands

Mohammad Amin Mirzaee, Harsh Gupta, Wenzhen Yuan ยท 2026

Despite advances in dexterous hand manipulation, robotic hand design is still largely decoupled from task-driven evaluation and control, limiting systematic optimization. Existing robotic hand co-desiโ€ฆ

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Feedback Linearization of Hyperbolic PDEs with Volterra Nonlinearities

Miroslav Krstic ยท 2026

Alberto Isidori's framework of geometric nonlinear control, and particularly of feedback linearization, is the inspiration behind PDE backstepping: apply a transfromation of the state to cast the planโ€ฆ

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Partition-of-Unity Gaussian Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Amir Nooeizadegan ยท 2026

Gaussian basis functions provide an efficient and flexible alternative to spline activations in KANs. In this work, we introduce the partition-of-unity Gaussian KAN (PU-GKAN), a Shepard-type normalizeโ€ฆ

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Mass Matrix Assembly on Tensor Cores for Implicit Particle-In-Cell Methods

Luca Pennati, Stefano Markidis ยท 2026

Matrix-multiply-accumulate (MMA) units, or tensor cores, are now widespread across modern computing architectures. Yet, their use for particle-grid operators remains limited. In implicit particle methโ€ฆ

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An Implicit Compact-Kernel Material Point Method for Computational Solid Mechanics

Qirui Fu, Yupeng Jiang, Minchen Li ยท 2026

The numerical performance of the material point method (MPM) is strongly governed by the particle-grid kernel, which controls the trade-off among smoothness, locality, numerical diffusion, contact accโ€ฆ

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Incremental learning for audio classification with Hebbian Deep Neural Networks

Riccardo Casciotti, Francesco De Santis, Alberto Antonietti, Annamaria Mesaros ยท 2026

The ability of humans for lifelong learning is an inspiration for deep learning methods and in particular for continual learning. In this work, we apply Hebbian learning, a biologically inspired learnโ€ฆ

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Matrix-Free 3D SIMP Topology Optimization with Fused Gather-GEMM-Scatter Kernels

Shaoliang Yang, Jun Wang, Yunsheng Wang ยท 2026

The matrix-free gather-batched-GEMM-scatter pattern eliminates global stiffness assembly for three-dimensional SIMP topology optimization, but the conventional three-stage implementation forces avoidaโ€ฆ

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Leveraging Kernel Symmetry for Joint Compression and Error Mitigation in Edge Model Transfer

Anis Hamadouche, Mathini Sellathurai ยท 2026

This paper investigates communication-efficient neural network transmission by exploiting structured symmetry constraints in convolutional kernels. Instead of transmitting all model parameters, we proโ€ฆ

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Dynamic Regret in Time-varying MDPs with Intermittent Information

Negin Musavi, Melkior Ornik ยท 2026

We study sequential decision-making in time-varying Markov decision processes (TVMDPs) under limited update rates, where the decision-maker observes the system and updates its model only intermittentlโ€ฆ

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Impact of Validation Strategy on Machine Learning Performance in EEG-Based Alcoholism Classification

Tahir Cetin Akinci, Yuksel Celik, Omer Faruk Ertugrul ยท 2026

Electroencephalography provides a non-invasive and cost-effective approach for analyzing neural patterns associated with alcohol dependence. However, reported classification performance in EEG-based aโ€ฆ

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Spectral Kernel Dynamics via Maximum Caliber: Fixed Points, Geodesics, and Phase Transitions

Jnaneshwar Das ยท 2026

We derive a closed-form geometric functional for kernel dynamics on finite graphs by applying the Maximum Caliber (MaxCal) variational principle to the spectral transfer function h(lambda) of the grapโ€ฆ

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Robust Nonlinear System Identification in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces via Scenario Optimization

Jannis Lubsen, Annika Eichler ยท 2026

This paper proposes a method for constructing one-step prediction tubes for nonlinear systems using reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We approximate a bounded reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) โ€ฆ

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MapForest: A Modular Field Robotics System for Forest Mapping and Invasive Species Localization

Sandeep Zachariah, Francisco Yandun, Sachet Korada, Abhisesh Silwal ยท 2026

Monitoring and controlling invasive tree species across large forests, parks, and trail networks is challenging due to limited accessibility, reliance on manual scouting, and degraded under-canopy GNSโ€ฆ

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Koopman Lifted Finite Memory Identification via Truncated Grunwald Letnikov Kernels

Navid Mojahed, Mahdis Rabbani, Shima Nazari ยท 2026

We propose a data-driven linear modeling framework for controlled nonlinear hereditary systems that combines Koopman lifting with a truncated Grunwald-Letnikov memory term. The key idea is to model noโ€ฆ

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ComFree-Sim: A GPU-Parallelized Analytical Contact Physics Engine for Scalable Contact-Rich Robotics Simulation and Control

Chetan Borse, Zhixian Xie, Wei-Cheng Huang, Wanxin Jin ยท 2026

Physics simulation for contact-rich robotics is often bottlenecked by contact resolution: mainstream engines enforce non-penetration and Coulomb friction via complementarity constraints or constrainedโ€ฆ

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Maximum-Entropy Random Walks on Hypergraphs

Anqi Dong, Anzhi Sheng, Xin Mao, Can Chen ยท 2026

Random walks are fundamental tools for analyzing complex networked systems, including social networks, biological systems, and communication infrastructures. While classical random walks focus on pairโ€ฆ

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The Deep-Match Framework for Event-Related Potential Detection in EEG

Marek Zylinski, Bartosz Tomasz Smigielski, Gerard Cybulski ยท 2026

Reliable detection of event-related potentials (ERPs) at the single-trial level remains a major challenge due to the low signal-to-noise ratio EEG recordings. In this work, we investigate whether incoโ€ฆ

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Learning Where the Physics Is: Probabilistic Adaptive Sampling for Stiff PDEs

Akshay Govind Srinivasan, Balaji Srinivasan ยท 2026

Modeling stiff partial differential equations (PDEs) with sharp gradients remains a significant challenge for scientific machine learning. While Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) struggle with โ€ฆ

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cuRoboV2: Dynamics-Aware Motion Generation with Depth-Fused Distance Fields for High-DoF Robots

Balakumar Sundaralingam, Adithyavairavan Murali, Stan Birchfield ยท 2026

Effective robot autonomy requires motion generation that is safe, feasible, and reactive. Current methods are fragmented: fast planners output physically unexecutable trajectories, reactive controllerโ€ฆ

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SPIRIT: Perceptive Shared Autonomy for Robust Robotic Manipulation under Deep Learning Uncertainty

Jongseok Lee, Ribin Balachandran, Harsimran Singh, Jianxiang Feng, Hrishik Mishra, Marco De Stefano, Rudolph Triebel, Alin Albu-Schaeffer, Konstantin Kondak ยท 2026

Deep learning (DL) has enabled impressive advances in robotic perception, yet its limited robustness and lack of interpretability hinder reliable deployment in safety critical applications. We proposeโ€ฆ

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