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DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors

Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang · 2026

Unlike chatbots, physical AI must act while the world keeps evolving. Therefore, the inter-chunk pause of synchronous executors are fatal for dynamic tasks regardless of how fast the inference is. Asy…

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Partition-of-Unity Gaussian Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Amir Nooeizadegan · 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 normalize…

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MOMO: A framework for seamless physical, verbal, and graphical robot skill learning and adaptation

Markus Knauer, Edoardo Fiorini, Maximilian Muhlbauer, Stefan Schneyer, Promwat Angsuratanawech, Florian Samuel Lay, Timo Bachmann, Samuel Bustamante, Korbinian Nottensteiner, Freek Stulp, Alin Albu-Schaffer, Joao Silverio, Thomas Eiband · 2026

Industrial robot applications require increasingly flexible systems that non-expert users can easily adapt for varying tasks and environments. However, different adaptations benefit from different int…

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Bilinear Input Modulation for Mamba: Koopman Bilinear Forms for Memory Retention and Multiplicative Computation

Hiroki Fujii, Masaki Yamakita · 2026

Selective State Space Models (SSMs), notably Mamba, employ diagonal state transitions that limit both memory retention and bilinear computational capacity. We propose a factorized bilinear input modul…

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From Individual Consumers to Energy Communities: A Techno-economic Assessment of Swiss Local Electricity Communities

Na Li, Binod Koirala · 2026

As energy communities move from policy design to implementation in Switzerland, understanding their performance in practice has become increasingly important. A techno-economic assessment of a regulat…

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TokenSE: a Mamba-based discrete token speech enhancement framework for cochlear implants

Hsin-Tien Chiang, John H. L. Hansen · 2026

Speech enhancement (SE) is critical for improving speech intelligibility and quality in real-world environments, particularly for cochlear implant (CI) users who experience severe degradations in spee…

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Scalable Optimization for Mobility-Aware Coordinated Electric Vehicle Charging in Distribution Power Networks

Yi Ju, Lunlong Li, Jingchun Wang, Scott Moura · 2026

Rapid growth in electric-vehicle (EV) charging demand is placing increasing stress on distribution power networks (DPNs), whose hosting capacity is often limited and spatially uneven. Beyond demonstra…

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To Learn or Not to Learn: A Litmus Test for Using Reinforcement Learning in Control

Victor Schulte, Michael Eichelbeck, Matthias Althoff · 2026

Reinforcement learning (RL) can be a powerful alternative to classical control methods when standard model-based control is insufficient, e.g., when deriving a suitable model is intractable or impossi…

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3D-Anchored Lookahead Planning for Persistent Robotic Scene Memory via World-Model-Based MCTS

Bronislav Sidik, Dror Mizrahi · 2026

We present 3D-Anchored Lookahead Planning (3D-ALP), a System 2 reasoning engine for robotic manipulation that combines Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with a 3D-consistent world model as the rollout or…

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A Control-Referenced Tri-Channel OECT Receiver for Hybrid Molecular Communication Toward Brain Organoid Interfaces

Hongbin Ni, Ozgur B. Akan · 2026

Brain organoid interfaces that seek neuromodulator readout benefit from chemical receivers with molecular specificity and tolerance to drift. This paper presents a receiver-centric theoretical study o…

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Discrete Token Modeling for Multi-Stem Music Source Separation with Language Models

Pengbo Lyu, Xiangyu Zhao, Chengwei Liu, Haoyin Yan, Xiaotao Liang, Hongyu Wang, Shaofei Xue · 2026

We propose a generative framework for multi-track music source separation (MSS) that reformulates the task as conditional discrete token generation. Unlike conventional approaches that directly estima…

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BEACON: Benefit-Aware Early-Exit for Automatic Modulation Classification via Recoverability Prediction

Zheng Liu, Hatem Abou-Zeid, Huaqing Wu · 2026

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for automatic modulation classification (AMC) by directly extracting discriminative features from raw in-phase and quadrature (I/Q)…

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Wideband Compressed-Domain Cramer-Rao Bounds for Near-Field XL-MIMO: Data and Geometric Diversity Decomposition

R{i}fat Volkan Senyuva · 2026

Wideband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) over near-field extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) arrays introduces a coupled beam-squint and wavefront-curvature effect that renders sing…

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An AI Teaching Assistant for Motion Picture Engineering

Deirdre O'Regan, Anil C. Kokaram · 2026

The rapid rise of LLMs over the last few years has promoted growing experimentation with LLM-driven AI tutors. However, the details of implementation, as well as the benefit in a teaching environment,…

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Inverse Safety Filtering: Inferring Constraints from Safety Filters for Decentralized Coordination

Minh Nguyen, Jingqi Li, Gechen Qu, Claire J. Tomlin · 2026

Safe multi-agent coordination in uncertain environments can benefit from learning constraints from other agents. Implicitly communicating safety constraints through actions is a promising approach, al…

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Causal Scene Narration with Runtime Safety Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Driving

Yun Li, Yidu Zhang, Simon Thompson, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving must integrate diverse textual inputs, including navigation commands, hazard warnings, and traffic state descriptions, yet current systems of…

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Soft projections for robust data-driven control

Andras Sasfi, Jaap Eising, Florian Dorfler · 2026

We consider data-based predictive control based on behavioral systems theory. In the linear setting this means that a system is described as a subspace of trajectories, and predictive control can be f…

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Multi-Camera View Scaling for Data-Efficient Robot Imitation Learning

Yichen Xie, Yixiao Wang, Shuqi Zhao, Cheng-En Wu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Jianwen Xie, Hao-Shu Fang · 2026

The generalization ability of imitation learning policies for robotic manipulation is fundamentally constrained by the diversity of expert demonstrations, while collecting demonstrations across varied…

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Learning Compact Terrain-Context Representations for Feasibility-Aware Offline Reinforcement Learning in UAV Relaying Networks

Joseanne Viana, Viswak R Balaji, Boris Galkin, Lester Ho, Holger Claussen · 2026

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) is an attractive tool for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, where online exploration is costly and raises safety concerns. In terrain-aware UAV relaying, agent…

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Beyond Legacy OFDM: A Mobility-Adaptive Multi-Gear Framework for 6G

Mauro Marchese, Dario Tagliaferri, Henk Wymeersch, Musa Furkan Keskin, Emanuele Viterbo, Pietro Savazzi · 2026

While Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has confirmed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) as the baseline waveform for sixth-generation (6G), its performance is severely compro…

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