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Can Tabular Foundation Models Guide Exploration in Robot Policy Learning?

Buqing Ou, Frederike Dumbgen · 2026

Policy optimization in high-dimensional continuous control for robotics remains a challenging problem. Predominant methods are inherently local and often require extensive tuning and carefully chosen …

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DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration

Yang You, Won Kyung Do, Aiden Swann, Rika Antonova, Monroe Kennedy, Leonidas Guibas · 2026

Simulating optical tactile sensors presents significant challenges due to their high deformability and intricate optical properties. To address these issues and enable a physically accurate simulation…

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Regime-Adaptive Weighted Ensemble Learning for Computing-Driven Dynamic Load Forecasting in AI Data Centers

Ziying Wang, Ying Zhang, Lei Wang, Yuzhang Lin · 2026

Short-term load forecasting for AI data centers presents new challenges because it is computing-driven, with heterogeneous job arrivals, sizes, and durations exhibiting bursty, non-stationary dynamics…

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Application of Deep Reinforcement Learning to Event-Triggered Control for Networked Artificial Pancreas Systems

Junya Ikemoto, Satoshi Maruyama, Kazumune Hashimoto · 2026

This paper proposes a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based event-triggered controller design for networked artificial pancreas (AP) systems. Although existing DRL-based AP controllers typically ass…

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Variational Neural Belief Parameterizations for Robust Dexterous Grasping under Multimodal Uncertainty

Clinton Enwerem, Shreya Kalyanaraman, John S. Baras, Calin Belta · 2026

Contact variability, sensing uncertainty, and external disturbances make grasp execution stochastic. Expected-quality objectives ignore tail outcomes and often select grasps that fail under adverse co…

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A Miniaturized Broadband 1-Bit Coding Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for NLOS UE Localization and Uplink Communication

Khagendra Joshi, Deepak Kumar Sahoo, Kamalesh Kumar K, Debidas Kundu, Vivek A. Bohara, Amalendu Patnaik · 2026

In this paper, a broadband 1-bit coding metasurface-based reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is presented. The unit cell of the metasurface consists of a wide dipole modified with interdigital c…

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Pushing Radar Odometry Beyond the Pavement: Current Capabilities and Challenges

Shaunak Kolhe, Peng Jiang, Maggie Wigness, Philip Osteen, Timothy Overbye, Chrisitan Ellis, Srikanth Saripalli · 2026

Radar offers unique advantages for localization in unstructured environments, including robustness to weather, lighting, and airborne particulates. While most prior work has studied radar odometry in …

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Pedestrians play chicken with an autonomous vehicle

Rakshit Soni, Charles Fox · 2026

Automated vehicles (AVs) are commonly programmed to yield unconditionally to pedestrians in the interest of safety. However, this design choice can give rise to the Freezing Robot Problem in which ped…

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Shared-kernel Wavelet Neural Networks for Poisson Image Reconstruction

Yuanhao Gong, Tan Tang, Qianyan Liu · 2026

The Laplacian operator transforms the image into its Laplacian field, which usually is sparse and satisfies a stable distribution. On the other hand, an image can be uniquely reconstructed from its La…

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Cooptimizing Safety and Performance Using Safety Value-Constrained Model Predictive Control

Hao Wang, Nam Nguyen, Armand Jordana, Ludovic Righetti, Somil Bansal · 2026

Autonomous systems are increasingly deployed in real-world environments, where they must achieve high performance while maintaining safety under state and input constraints. Although Model Predictive …

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Unified Energy Function Tailored to Inverter-Based Resources with PI Controllers for Transient Stability Analysis

Yifan Zhang, Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Yitong Li, Yang Wu · 2026

The increasing penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) has fundamentally altered the transient stability characteristics of modern power systems. IBRs typically rely on proportional--integral (…

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Learning to Trust AI and Data-driven models in Data Assimilation through a Multifidelity Ensemble Gaussian Mixture Filter Framework

Andrey A. Popov · 2026

AI and data-driven models have large potential for data assimilation applications by creating fast and accurate forecasts. Their tendency to produce spurious inaccurate, nonphysical results -- halluci…

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Vision-Language-Action in Robotics: A Survey of Datasets, Benchmarks, and Data Engines

Ziyao Wang, Bingying Wang, Hanrong Zhang, Tingting Du, Tianyang Chen, Guoheng Sun, Yexiao He, Zheyu Shen, Wanghao Ye, Ang Li · 2026

Despite remarkable progress in Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, a central bottleneck remains underexamined: the data infrastructure that underlies embodied learning. In this survey, we argue tha…

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GCImOpt: Learning efficient goal-conditioned policies by imitating optimal trajectories

Jon Goikoetxea, Jesus F. Palacian · 2026

Imitation learning is a well-established approach for machine-learning-based control. However, its applicability depends on having access to demonstrations, which are often expensive to collect and/or…

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Learning-augmented robotic automation for real-world manufacturing

Yunho Kim, Quan Nguyen, Taewhan Kim, Youngjin Heo, Joonho Lee · 2026

Industrial robots are widely used in manufacturing, yet most manipulation still depends on fixed waypoint scripts that are brittle to environmental changes. Learning-based control offers a more adapti…

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Advancing automatic speech recognition using feature fusion with self-supervised learning features: A case study on Fearless Steps Apollo corpus

Szu-Jui Chen, John H.L. Hansen · 2026

Using self-supervised learning (SSL) models has significantly improved performance for downstream speech tasks, surpassing the capabilities of traditional hand-crafted features. This study investigate…

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Robust Fixed-Time Model Reference Adaptive Control

Chayan Kumar Paul, Krishanu Nath, Indra Narayan Kar, Denis Efimov, Rosane Ushirobira · 2026

This article proposes a Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) strategy to achieve fixed-time convergence of parameter estimation and tracking errors for unknown linear time-invariant systems, withou…

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Stochastic Barrier Certificates in the Presence of Dynamic Obstacles

Rayan Mazouz, Luca Laurenti, Morteza Lahijanian · 2026

Safety of stochastic dynamic systems in environments with dynamic obstacles is studied in this paper through the lens of stochastic barrier functions. We introduce both time-invariant and time-varying…

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Learning Hybrid-Control Policies for High-Precision In-Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty

Hunter L. Brown, Geoffrey Hollinger, Stefan Lee · 2026

Reinforcement learning-based control policies have been frequently demonstrated to be more effective than analytical techniques for many manipulation tasks. Commonly, these methods learn neural contro…

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ExplainS2A: Explainable Spectral-Spatial Duality Model for Fast Transforming Sentinel-2 Image to AVIRIS-Level Hyperspectral Image

Chia-Hsiang Lin, Zi-Chao Leng · 2026

Mainstream optical satellites often acquire multispectral multi-resolution images, which have limited material identifiability compared to the HSIs. Thus, spectrally super-resolving the MSI into their…

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