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System-Level Impacts of Flexible Data Center Load Scheduling on Cost, Emissions, and Transmission Congestion

Akibul Hasan Mazumder, Yuanrui Sang · 2026

Large data centers are being deployed in the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, introducing significant flexible load potential. A portion of data center workloads - best-effort (BE) jobs - can be schedul…

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Cross-Atlantic Research Agenda for Scalable Grid Architectures and Distributed Flexibility

Mads R. Almassalkhi, Dakota Hamilton, Hasan Giray Oral, Yury Dvorkin, Dennice Gayme, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Brian Vad Mathiesen, Jakob Stoustrup, Tobias Ritschel, Rune G. Junker, Shahab Tohidi, Razgar Ebrahimy, Henrik Madsen · 2026

Electric power systems are rapidly evolving into deeply digital, cyber-physical infrastructures in which large fleets of distributed energy resources must be coordinated as system-level flexibility ac…

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Grid-Supporting Equipment Supply Chains Constrain the Feasible Pace of Power System Expansion

Boyu Yao, Yury Dvorkin · 2026

Power system expansion depends on the equipment required to connect, convert, regulate, and condition electricity, yet grid-supporting equipment (GSE) is rarely modeled as an explicit constraint. We d…

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VPD-Centric Cascading Control with Neural Network Optimization for Energy-Efficient Climate Management in Controlled Environment Agriculture

Andrii Vakhnovskyi · 2026

Conventional climate control in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) uses independent PID loops for temperature and humidity, creating cross-coupling conflicts that waste 20-40% of HVAC energy. We…

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HierFedCEA: Hierarchical Federated Edge Learning for Privacy-Preserving Climate Control Optimization Across Heterogeneous Controlled Environment Agriculture Facilities

Andrii Vakhnovskyi · 2026

Cross-facility knowledge transfer in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) can reduce HVAC energy consumption by 30-38% and accelerate new facility commissioning from months to days. However, facil…

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From Net Load Modifiers to Firm Capacity: The Role of Distributed Energy Resources in Resource Adequacy

Yujia Li, Alexandre Moreira, Miguel Heleno · 2026

Distributed energy resources (DERs) such as rooftop solar, battery storage, and demand response offer substantial potential for power system reliability, yet integrating them into resource adequacy (R…

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Tiered Super-Moore's Law: Price Evolution, Production Frontiers, and Market Competition in Large Language Model Inference Services

Mingdeng Du · 2026

This paper provides the first systematic economic analysis of token pricing in the large language model (LLM) inference market. Assembling a novel dataset integrating OpenRouter API data (318 models),…

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A Mamba-based Perceptual Loss Function for Learning-based UGC Transcoding

Zihao Qi, Chen Feng, Fan Zhang, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu, David Bull · 2026

In user-generated content (UGC) transcoding, source videos typically suffer various degradations due to prior compression, editing, or suboptimal capture conditions. Consequently, existing video compr…

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Evaluating Smartphone GNSS Accuracy for Geofenced 6 GHz Operations

Joshua Roy Palathinkal, Hardani Ismu Nabil, Muhammad Iqbal Rochman, Hossein Nasiri, Francis A. Gatsi, Monisha Ghosh · 2026

The recently deployed 6 GHz spectrum in the U.S. utilizes distinct power categories, with the latest proposed "Geofenced Variable Power" (GVP) category permitting indoor and outdoor operations without…

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Multi-Year Spectral Structure of 6G Candidate Bands at 2.7 GHz and 4.4 GHz

Amir Hossein Fahim Raouf, Ismail Guvenc · 2026

Mid-band spectrum between 2 and 8 GHz is a critical resource for sixth-generation (6G) systems as it uniquely balances favorable propagation characteristics with scalable bandwidth. Recent U.S. policy…

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Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling

Eric Chen, Travis Manderson, Nare Karapetyan, Peter Edmunds, Nicholas Roy, Yogesh Girdhar · 2026

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used to survey coral reefs, yet efficiently locating specific coral species of interest remains difficult: target species are often sparsely dist…

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A Robust Simulation Framework for Verification and Validation of Autonomous Maritime Navigation in Adverse Weather and Constrained Environments

Mayur S. Patil, Nataraj Sudharsan, Anthony S. Saaiby, JiaChang Xing, Keliang Pan, Veneela Ammula, Jude Tomdio, Jin Wang, Michael Kei, Heonyong Kang, Sivakumar Rathinam, Prabhakar R. Pagilla · 2026

Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) have emerged as a promising solution to enhance navigational safety, operational efficiency, and long-term cost effectiveness. However, their reliable deployme…

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Rate-Distortion Optimization for Ensembles of Non-Reference Metrics

Xin Xiong, Samuel Fernandez-Menduina, Eduardo Pavez, Antonio Ortega, Neil Birkbeck, Balu Adsumilli · 2026

Non-reference metrics (NRMs) can assess the visual quality of images and videos without a reference, making them well-suited for the evaluation of user-generated content. Nonetheless, rate-distortion …

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Urban Congestion Patterns under High Electric Vehicle Penetration: A Case Study of 10 U.S. Cities

Xiaohan Xu, Wei Ma, Zhiheng Shi, Xiaotong Xu, Bin He, Kairui Feng · 2026

With the global energy transition and the rapid penetration of electric vehicles (EVs), the widening travel cost gap between EVs and gasoline vehicles (GVs) increasingly affects commuters' route choic…

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Fin-RATE: A Real-world Financial Analytics and Tracking Evaluation Benchmark for LLMs on SEC Filings

Yidong Jiang, Junrong Chen, Eftychia Makri, Jialin Chen, Peiwen Li, Ali Maatouk, Leandros Tassiulas, Eliot Brenner, Bing Xiang, Rex Ying · 2026

With the increasing deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the finance domain, LLMs are increasingly expected to parse complex regulatory disclosures. However, existing benchmarks often focus o…

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Airspace-aware Contingency Landing Planning

H. Emre Tekaslan, Ella M. Atkins · 2026

This paper develops a real-time, search-based aircraft contingency landing planner that minimizes traffic disruptions while accounting for ground risk. The airspace model captures dense air traffic de…

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A Gradient Boosted Mixed-Model Machine Learning Framework for Vessel Speed in the U.S. Arctic

Mauli Pant, Linda Fernandez, Indranil Sahoo · 2026

Understanding how environmental and operational conditions influence vessel speed is crucial for characterizing navigational conditions in the Arctic. We analyzed Automatic Identification System (AIS)…

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Reformulating Energy Storage Capacity Accreditation Problem with Marginal Reliability Impact

Qian Zhang, Feng Zhao, Tongxin Zheng, Le Xie · 2026

To enhance the efficiency of capacity markets, many electricity markets in the U.S. are adopting or planning to implement marginal capacity accreditation reforms. This paper provides new insights into…

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AI for Green Spaces: Leveraging Autonomous Navigation and Computer Vision for Park Litter Removal

Christopher Kao, Akhil Pathapati, James Davis · 2026

There are 50 billion pieces of litter in the U.S. alone. Grass fields contribute to this problem because picnickers tend to leave trash on the field. We propose building a robot that can autonomously …

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Convolutions Need Registers Too: HVS-Inspired Dynamic Attention for Video Quality Assessment

Mayesha Maliha R. Mithila, Mylene C.Q. Farias · 2026

No-reference video quality assessment (NR-VQA) estimates perceptual quality without a reference video, which is often challenging. While recent techniques leverage saliency or transformer attention, t…

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