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NL-COMM-Sat: Breaking the Direct Device-to-Satellite Communication Barrier via "Aggressive" Non-Orthogonal Transmissions and Non-Linear Processing

Konstantinos Nikitopoulos, Chathura Jayawardena · 2026

Direct Device-to-Satellite (D2S) communications, which enable direct satellite connectivity with unmodified user equipment (UE), not only expand global coverage but also reshape the evolution of futur…

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SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors

Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolas Navarro-Guerrero · 2026

Training machine learning models for robotic tactile sensing requires vast amounts of data, yet obtaining realistic interaction data remains a challenge due to physical complexity and variability. Sim…

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Characterizing Vision-Language-Action Models across XPUs: Constraints and Acceleration for On-Robot Deployment

Kaijun Zhou, Qiwei Chen, Da Peng, Zhiyang Li, Xijun Li, Jinyu Gu · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are promising for generalist robot control, but on-robot deployment is bottlenecked by real-time inference under tight cost and energy budgets. Most prior evaluatio…

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Generalizable Friction Coefficient Estimation via Material Embedding and Proxy Interaction Modeling

Zhendong Wang, Huamin Wang · 2026

Accurately estimating friction coefficients between arbitrary material pairs is critical for robotics, digital fabrication, and physics-based simulation, but exhaustive pairwise testing scales quadrat…

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$M^2$-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills

Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu, Zihan Gao, Jingye Zhang, Sinwai Choo, Dake Zhong, Mengzhe Wang, Xiao Lin, Xianfeng Zhou, Jia Jia, Haoqian Wang · 2026

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on end-to-end fine-tuning. While effective, this paradigm compromises the inherent generalization capabilities of Vision-Language Models …

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AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

Kai Yang, Zedong Chu, Yingnan Guo, Zhengbo Wang, Shichao Xie, Yanfen Shen, Xiaolong Wu, Xing Li, Mu Xu · 2026

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been demonstrated possessing strong zero-shot generalization for robot control, their massive parameter sizes typically necessitate cloud-based deploymen…

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Efficient Near Field Beam Tracking via Thompson Sampling

Junchi Liu, Zijun Wang, Shawn Tsai, Rui Zhang · 2026

The shift to the radiative near field region due to large antenna arrays necessitates beamforming that accounts for both angle and range, evolving mobility management into a joint angular range tracki…

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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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On the Generalization Properties of Selective State-Space Models for Filtering Tasks for Unknown Systems

Alex Tang, M. Emrullah Ildiz, Batin Kurt, Samet Oymak, Necmiye Ozay · 2026

Selective State-Space Models (SSMs) such as Mamba have emerged as an alternative architecture to self-attention based transformers in sequence modeling tasks. Recent works have demonstrated the use of…

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Safe Navigation in Unknown and Cluttered Environments via Direction-Aware Convex Free-Region Generation

Zhicheng Song, Yongjian Li, Kai Chen, Yulin Li, Fan Shi, Jun Ma · 2026

Convex free regions provide a structured and optimization-friendly representation of collision-free space for robot navigation in unknown and cluttered environments. However, existing methods typicall…

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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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PhysCodeBench: Benchmarking Physics-Aware Symbolic Simulation of 3D Scenes via Self-Corrective Multi-Agent Refinement

Tianyidan Xie, Peiyu Wang, Yuyi Qian, Yuxuan Wang, Rui Ma, Ying Tai, Song Wu, Qian Wang, Lanjun Wang, Zili Yi · 2026

Physics-aware symbolic simulation of 3D scenes is critical for robotics, embodied AI, and scientific computing, requiring models to understand natural language descriptions of physical phenomena and t…

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EgoLive: A Large-Scale Egocentric Dataset from Real-World Human Tasks

Yihang Li, Xuelong Wei, Jingzhou Luo, Yingjing Xiao, Yibo Bai, Guangyuan Zhou, Teng Zou, Chenguang Gui, Jiajun Wen, He Zhang, Kangliang Chen, Xing Pan, Shuaiyan Liu, Daming Wang, Tao An, Jiayi Li, Shibo Jin, Wanwan Zhang, Tianyu Wang, Boren Wei, Zhixuan Huang, Fangsheng Liu, Ruodai Li, Hui Zhang, Anson Li, Yicheng Gong, Peng Cao, Jiaming Liang, Liang Lin · 2026

The advancement of robot learning is currently hindered by the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality datasets. While established data collection methods such as teleoperation and universal manipulatio…

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Sparsity-Aware Event-Driven Impulse Radio Transceivers for Reliable Neuromorphic Inference

Zhengzhong Guan, Jiaying Li, Kanghua Li, Bojun Cheng, Hong Xing · 2026

The growing number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) based artificial intelligence (AI) applications deployed at resource-constrained network edge call for ultra-reliable and low-latency data processing pip…

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Large Language Model based Interactive Decision-Making for Autonomous Driving

Xinwei Dong, Jiyang Li, Jiabin Xie, Yang Yi, Tianshang Jia, Shiyu Fang, Ye Tian, Peng Hang · 2026

In high-conflict mixed-traffic scenarios involving human-driven and autonomous vehicles, most existing autonomous driving systems default to overly conservative behaviors, lack proactive interaction, …

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Explainable AI in Speaker Recognition -- Making Latent Representations Understandable

Yanze Xu, Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley · 2026

Neural networks can be trained to learn task-relevant representations from data. Understanding how these networks make decisions falls within the Explainable AI (XAI) domain. This paper proposes to st…

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Modular Sensory Stream for Integrating Physical Feedback in Vision-Language-Action Models

Jimin Lee, Huiwon Jang, Myungkyu Koo, Jungwoo Park, Jinwoo Shin · 2026

Humans understand and interact with the real world by relying on diverse physical feedback beyond visual perception. Motivated by this, recent approaches attempt to incorporate physical sensory signal…

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BridgeACT: Bridging Human Demonstrations to Robot Actions via Unified Tool-Target Affordances

Yifan Han, Jianxiang Liu, Haoyu Zhang, Yuqi Gu, Yunhan Guo, Wenzhao Lian · 2026

Learning robot manipulation from human videos is appealing due to the scale and diversity of human demonstrations, but transferring such demonstrations to executable robot behavior remains challenging…

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sumoITScontrol: Traffic Controller Collection for SUMO Traffic Simulations

Kevin Riehl, Anastasios Kouvelas, Michail A. Makridis · 2026

Reliable benchmarking is essential for progress in intelligent traffic control research. While microscopic traffic simulators such as SUMO enable detailed modelling of individual vehicle interactions,…

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Adaptive Spatial-Temporal Graph Learning-Enabled Short-Term Voltage Stability Assessment against Time-Varying Topological Conditions

Chao Deng, Lipeng Zhu, Chang Liu, Hefeng Zhai, Baoye Tian, Zexiang Zhu, Jiayong Li, Cong Zhang · 2026

The emerging deep learning (DL) technology has recently exhibited great potential in data-driven short-term voltage stability (SVS) assessment of complex power grids. However, without sufficient atten…

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