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AURA: Multimodal Shared Autonomy for Real-World Urban Navigation

Yukai Ma, Honglin He, Selina Song, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou · 2026

Long-horizon navigation in complex urban environments relies heavily on continuous human operation, which leads to fatigue, reduced efficiency, and safety concerns. Shared autonomy, where a Vision-Lan…

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Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models

Shuanghao Bai, Jing Lyu, Wanqi Zhou, Zhe Li, Dakai Wang, Lei Xing, Xiaoguang Zhao, Pengwei Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Cheng Chi, Badong Chen, Shanghang Zhang · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models benefit from chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but existing approaches incur high inference overhead and rely on discrete reasoning representations that mismatch co…

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Painted Heart Beats

Angshu Adhya, Cindy Yang, Emily Wu, Rishad Hasan, Abhishek Narula, Patricia Alves-Oliveira · 2025

In this work we present AURA, a framework for synergistic human-artist painting. We developed a robot arm that collaboratively paints with a human artist. The robot has an awareness of the artist's he…

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A Collaborative Reasoning Framework for Anomaly Diagnostics in Underwater Robotics

Markus Buchholz, Ignacio Carlucho, Yvan R. Petillot · 2025

The safe deployment of autonomous systems in safety-critical settings requires a paradigm that combines human expertise with AI-driven analysis, especially when anomalies are unforeseen. We introduce …

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AURA Score: A Metric For Holistic Audio Question Answering Evaluation

Satvik Dixit, Soham Deshmukh, Bhiksha Raj · 2025

Audio Question Answering (AQA) is a key task for evaluating Audio-Language Models (ALMs), yet assessing open-ended responses remains challenging. Existing metrics used for AQA such as BLEU, METEOR and…

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AURA-CVC: Autonomous Ultrasound-guided Robotic Assistance for Central Venous Catheterization

Deepak Raina, Lidia Al-Zogbi, Brian Teixeira, Vivek Singh, Ankur Kapoor, Thorsten Fleiter, Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell, Vinciya Pandian, Axel Krieger · 2025

Purpose: Central venous catheterization (CVC) is a critical medical procedure for vascular access, hemodynamic monitoring, and life-saving interventions. Its success remains challenging due to the nee…

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AURA: Autonomous Upskilling with Retrieval-Augmented Agents

Alvin Zhu, Yusuke Tanaka, Andrew Goldberg, Dennis Hong · 2025

Designing reinforcement learning curricula for agile robots traditionally requires extensive manual tuning of reward functions, environment randomizations, and training configurations. We introduce AU…

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Near-Optimal Emission-Aware Online Ride Assignment Algorithm for Peak Demand Hours

Ali Zeynali, Mahsa Sahebdel, Noman Bashir, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Mohammad Hajiesmaili · 2024

Ridesharing has experienced significant global growth over the past decade and is becoming an integral component of modern transportation systems. However, despite their benefits, ridesharing platform…

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Aura: Privacy-preserving Augmentation to Improve Test Set Diversity in Speech Enhancement

Xavier Gitiaux, Aditya Khant, Ebrahim Beyrami, Chandan Reddy, Jayant Gupchup, Ross Cutler · 2021

Noise suppression models running in production environments are commonly trained on publicly available datasets. However, this approach leads to regressions due to the lack of training/testing on repr…

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aura-net : robust segmentation of phase-contrast microscopy images with few annotations

Ethan Cohen, Virginie Uhlmann · 2021

We present AURA-net, a convolutional neural network (CNN) for the segmentation of phase-contrast microscopy images. AURA-net uses transfer learning to accelerate training and Attention mechanisms to h…

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Estimation of the Frequency of Occurrence of Italian Phonemes in Text

Javi Arango, Alec DeCaprio, Sunwoo Baik, Luca De Nardis, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Maria Gabriella Di Benedetto · 2021

The purpose of this project was to derive a reliable estimate of the frequency of occurrence of the 30 phonemes - plus consonant geminated counterparts - of the Italian language, based on four selecte…

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Sensory migraine aura is not associated with structural grey matter abnormalities.

 · 1970

Migraine with aura (MA) is characterized by cortical dysfunction. Frequent aura attacks may alter cerebral cortical structure in patients, or structural grey matter abnormalities may predispose MA pat…

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