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Robust Graph Matching through Semantic Relationship Generation for SLAM

David Perez-Saura, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Holger Voos, Pascual Campoy, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez · 2026

Graph-based representations such as Scene Graphs enable localization in structured indoor environments by matching a locally observed graph, constructed from sensor data, to a prior map. This process …

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Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation

Haoming Xu, Lei Lei, Jie Gu, Chu Tang, Jingmin Chen, Ruiqi Wang · 2026

We present Move-Then-Operate, a Vision language action framework that explicitly decouples robotic manipulation into two distinct behavioral phases: coarse relocation (move) and contact-critical inter…

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Breaking Lock-In: Preserving Steerability under Low-Data VLA Post-Training

Suning Huang, Jiaqi Shao, Ke Wang, Qianzhong Chen, Jiankai Sun, Yanjiang Guo, Mac Schwager, Jeannette Bohg · 2026

Have you ever post-trained a generalist vision-language-action (VLA) policy on a small demonstration dataset, only to find that it stops responding to new instructions and is limited to behaviors obse…

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JAX-BEM: Gradient-Based Acoustic Shape Optimisation via a Differentiable Boundary Element Method

James Hipperson, Jonathan Hargreaves, Trevor Cox · 2026

Engineering structures are increasingly designed using numerical optimisation. However, traditional optimisation methods can be challenging with multiple objectives and many parameters. In machine lea…

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A Universal Systematic Method to Generate Error Patterns on Memoryless Channels

Marwan Jalaleddine, Jiajie Li, Syed Mohsin Abbas, Warren J. Gross · 2026

The high computational cost of approaching the performance of Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding has limited its practical use for decades. Because the complexity grows exponentially with the message le…

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Autonomous Vehicle Collision Avoidance With Racing Parameterized Deep Reinforcement Learning

Shathushan Sivashangaran, Vihaan Dutta, Apoorva Khairnar, Sepideh Gohari, Azim Eskandarian · 2026

Road traffic accidents are a leading cause of fatalities worldwide. In the US, human error causes 94% of crashes, resulting in excess of 7,000 pedestrian fatalities and $500 billion in costs annually.…

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Tree Learning: A Multi-Skill Continual Learning Framework for Humanoid Robots

Yifei Yan, Linqi Ye · 2026

As reinforcement learning for humanoid robots evolves from single-task to multi-skill paradigms, efficiently expanding new skills while avoiding catastrophic forgetting has become a key challenge in e…

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Audio-Cogito: Towards Deep Audio Reasoning in Large Audio Language Models

Longhao Li, Hongjie Chen, Zehan Li, Qihan Hu, Jian Kang, Jie Li, Lei Xie, Yongxiang Li · 2026

Recent advances in reasoning models have driven significant progress in text and multimodal domains, yet audio reasoning remains relatively limited. Only a few Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) inco…

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Quantized Online LQR

Barron Han, Victoria Kostina, Babak Hassibi · 2026

We study online linear-quadratic regulation (LQR) with unknown dynamics under communication rate constraints. Classical networked control quantizes the plant state at every time step, requiring $O(T)$…

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Simulator Adaptation for Sim-to-Real Learning of Legged Locomotion via Proprioceptive Distribution Matching

Jeremy Dao, Alan Fern · 2026

Simulation trained legged locomotion policies often exhibit performance loss on hardware due to dynamics discrepancies between the simulator and the real world, highlighting the need for approaches th…

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PS-TTS: Phonetic Synchronization in Text-to-Speech for Achieving Natural Automated Dubbing

Changi Hong, Yoonah Song, Hwayoung Park, Chaewoon Bang, Dayeon Gu, Do Hyun Lee, Hong Kook Kim · 2026

Recently, artificial intelligence-based dubbing technology has advanced, enabling automated dubbing (AD) to convert the source speech of a video into target speech in different languages. However, nat…

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TASU2: Controllable CTC Simulation for Alignment and Low-Resource Adaptation of Speech LLMs

Jing Peng, Chenghao Wang, Yi Yang, Lirong Qian, Junjie Li, Yu Xi, Shuai Wang, Kai Yu · 2026

Speech LLM post-training increasingly relies on efficient cross-modal alignment and robust low-resource adaptation, yet collecting large-scale audio-text pairs remains costly. Text-only alignment meth…

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Spatio-Temporal Grounding of Large Language Models from Perception Streams

Jacob Anderson, Bardh Hoxha, Georgios Fainekos, Hideki Okamoto, Danil Prokhorov · 2026

Embodied-AI agents must reason about how objects move and interact in 3-D space over time, yet existing smaller frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) still mis-handle fine-grained spatial relations, m…

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Drift-Based Policy Optimization: Native One-Step Policy Learning for Online Robot Control

Yuxuan Gao, Yedong Shen, Shiqi Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Yifan Duan, Jia pan, Jiajia Wu, Jiajun Deng, Yanyong Zhang · 2026

Although multi-step generative policies achieve strong performance in robotic manipulation by modeling multimodal action distributions, they require multi-step iterative denoising at inference time. E…

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An Open-Source LiDAR and Monocular Off-Road Autonomous Navigation Stack

Remi Marsal, Quentin Picard, Adrien Poire, Sebastien Kerbourc'h, Thibault Toralba, Clement Yver, Alexandre Chapoutot, David Filliat · 2026

Off-road autonomous navigation demands reliable 3D perception for robust obstacle detection in challenging unstructured terrain. While LiDAR is accurate, it is costly and power-intensive. Monocular de…

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ReVAR: A Data-Driven Algorithm for Generating Aero-Optic Phase Screens

Jeffrey W. Utley, Gregery T. Buzzard, Charles A. Bouman, Matthew R. Kemnetz · 2026

The propagation of light through a turbulent flow field around an aircraft results in optical distortions commonly known as aero-optic effects. The development of methods to mitigate these effects req…

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Diff-VS: Efficient Audio-Aware Diffusion U-Net for Vocals Separation

Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung, Richard Vogl, Filip Korzeniowski, Igor Pereira · 2026

While diffusion models are best known for their performance in generative tasks, they have also been successfully applied to many other tasks, including audio source separation. However, current gener…

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A Pontryagin Method of Model-based Reinforcement Learning via Hamiltonian Actor-Critic

Chengyang Gu, Yuxin Pan, Hui Xiong, Yize Chen · 2026

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) improves sample efficiency by leveraging learned dynamics models for policy optimization. However, the effectiveness of methods such as actor-critic is often …

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Fundamental Limits of Man-in-the-Middle Attack Detection in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

Rishi Rani, Massimo Franceschetti · 2026

We consider the problem of learning-based man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS), and extend our previously proposed Bellman Deviation Detection (BDD) framework for model-fre…

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Beyond Freshness and Semantics: A Coupon-Collector Framework for Effective Status Updates

Youssef Ahmed, Arnob Ghosh, Chih-Chun Wang, Ness B. Shroff · 2026

For status update systems operating over unreliable energy-constrained wireless channels, we address Weaver's long-standing Level-C question: do my packets actually improve the plant's behavior? Each …

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