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Unmasking the Illusion of Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models

Haiweng Xu, Sipeng Zheng, Hao Luo, Wanpeng Zhang, Ziheng Xi, Zongqing Lu · 2026

Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models report impressive success rates on standard robotic benchmarks, fueling optimism about general-purpose physical intelligence. However, recent evidence sugges…

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MINT-Bench: A Comprehensive Multilingual Benchmark for Instruction-Following Text-to-Speech

Huakang Chen, Jingbin Hu, Liumeng Xue, Qirui Zhan, Wenhao Li, Guobin Ma, Hanke Xie, Dake Guo, Linhan Ma, Yuepeng Jiang, Bengu Wu, Pengyuan Xie, Chuan Xie, Qiang Zhang, Lei Xie · 2026

Instruction-following text-to-speech (TTS) has emerged as an important capability for controllable and expressive speech generation, yet its evaluation remains underdeveloped due to limited benchmark …

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StableIDM: Stabilizing Inverse Dynamics Model against Manipulator Truncation via Spatio-Temporal Refinement

Kerui Li, Zhe Jing, Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng Zhu, Yukun Zhou, Guan Huang, Dongze Li, Qingkai Yang, Huaibo Huang · 2026

Inverse Dynamics Models (IDMs) map visual observations to low-level action commands, serving as central components for data labeling and policy execution in embodied AI. However, their performance deg…

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Periodic Steady-State Control of a Handkerchief-Spinning Task Using a Parallel Anti-Parallelogram Tendon-driven Wrist

Lei Liu, Haonan Zhang, Huahang Xu, Zefan Zhang, Lulu Chang, Lei Lv, Andrew Ross McIntosh, Kai Sun, Zhenshan Bing, Jiahong Dong, Fuchun Sun · 2026

Spinning flexible objects, exemplified by traditional Chinese handkerchief performances, demands periodic steady-state motions under nonlinear dynamics with frictional contacts and boundary constraint…

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Joint Phase Noise and Off-Grid Channel Estimation for AFDM Systems via Sparse Bayesian Learning

You Xu, Huaijin Zhang, Lixia Xiao, Guanghua Liu, Zilong Liu · 2026

In practical affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) systems, the intricate coupling of oscillator phase noise (PN) and off-grid fractional shifts traps conventional estimators in a severe high-…

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Driving risk emerges from the required two-dimensional joint evasive acceleration

Hao Cheng, Yanbo Jiang, Wenhao Yu, Rui Zhou, Jiang Bian, Keyu Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Heye Huang, Hailun Zhang, Fang Zhang, Jianqiang Wang, Sifa Zheng · 2026

Most autonomous driving safety benchmarks use time-to-collision (TTC) to assess risk and guide safe behaviour. However, TTC-based methods treat risk as a one-dimensional closing problem, despite the i…

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DART: Learning-Enhanced Model Predictive Control for Dual-Arm Non-Prehensile Manipulation

Autrio Das, Shreya Bollimuntha, Madala Venkata Renu Jeevesh, Keshab Patra, Tashmoy Ghosh, Nagamanikandan Govindan, Arun Kumar Singh, K Madhava Krishna · 2026

What appears effortless to a human waiter remains a major challenge for robots. Manipulating objects nonprehensilely on a tray is inherently difficult, and the complexity is amplified in dual-arm sett…

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Movable-Antenna Enabled Robust Vehicular Consumer Networks Under Imperfect CSI

Xuhui Zhang, Chunjie Wang, Wenchao Liu, Huijun Xing, Jinke Ren, Zheng Xing, Yanyan Shen · 2026

The accelerating advancement of intelligent transportation systems has established consumer-oriented vehicular networks (CVNs) as a critical infrastructure for next-generation connected mobility. Howe…

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Building Low-Altitude Communication Networks: A Digital Twin-Based Optimization Framework

Boqun Huang, Yancheng Wang, Wei Guo, Zhaojie Guo, Di Wu, Ran Li, Dayang Liu, Wanshun Lan, Chuan Huang, Shuguang Cui · 2026

Low-altitude communication networks (LACNs) serve as the critical infrastructure of the emerging low-altitude economy (LAE), supporting services such as drone delivery and infrastructure inspection. H…

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Trajectory-Based Optimization for Air Traffic Control in the Terminal Maneuvering Area

Yutian Pang, Daniel Delahaye, John-Paul Clarke · 2026

We present a trajectory-based optimization framework for arrival sequencing and scheduling in the terminal maneuvering area (TMA). Unlike node-link scheduling models that reduce trajectories to time-d…

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OmniVLA-RL: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Spatial Understanding and Online RL

Haoxiang Jie, Yaoyuan Yan, Xiangyu Wei, Kailin Wang, Hongjie Yan, Zhiyou Heng, Daocheng Chen · 2026

Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models represent a paradigm shift in embodied AI, yet existing frameworks often struggle with imprecise spatial perception, suboptimal multimodal fusion, and instability i…

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HCFD: A Benchmark for Audio Deepfake Detection in Healthcare

Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Girish, Muskaan Singh · 2026

In this study, we present Healthcare Codec-Fake Detection (HCFD), a new task for detecting codec-fakes under pathological speech conditions. We intentionally focus on codec based synthetic speech in t…

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An Innovation-Based Approach to Detect Stealthy Disturbance Attacks in Maritime Monitoring

Gabriele Oliva, Bianca Mazza, Roberto Setola · 2026

Modern maritime navigation and control systems rely on digital sensing, estimation, and communication pipelines that fuse GNSS, radar, inertial, and AIS data through approaches such as Kalman-filter-b…

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System representations in subspaces of finite-sample signals and their application to data-driven fault detection

Linlin Li, Steven X. Ding, Jiahao Wang, Maiying Zhong, Wei Cheng · 2026

This paper deals with system representations in finite-sample signal subspaces and their application to data-driven fault detection. The first part addresses concepts of finite-sample image and kernel…

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The structure of technological learning: insights from water electrolysis for cost forecasting, policy, and strategy

Mohamed Atouife, Jesse Jenkins · 2026

Forecasting the cost evolution of emerging clean technologies is crucial for informed policy, investment, and decarbonization decisions, yet it remains deeply uncertain. Learning curves, which link co…

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Entropy-Driven Drift as a Source of Optimization Difficulty in Combinatorial Spaces

Fumio Ishizaki · 2026

Understanding the origin of optimization difficulty in high-dimensional combinatorial spaces remains a fundamental problem. Existing perspectives typically characterize difficulty in terms of properti…

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BizCompass: Benchmarking the Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs in Business Knowledge and Applications

Jianing Hao, Yuhe Wu, Yuanjian Xu, Shichang Meng, Shuai Yuan, Wei Zeng, Zixuan Wang, Guang Zhang · 2026

Large language models (LLMs) hold great promise for business applications, yet business analysis remains inherently complex, demanding rigorous reasoning and the integration of diverse knowledge sourc…

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VIBE: Voice-Induced open-ended Bias Evaluation for Large Audio-Language Models via Real-World Speech

Yi-Cheng Lin, Yusuke Hirota, Sung-Feng Huang, Hung-yi Lee · 2026

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) are increasingly integrated into daily applications, yet their generative biases remain underexplored. Existing speech fairness benchmarks rely on synthetic speech …

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CADRE: Card-Agnostic Domain-Aligned RF Embeddings for Virtual PIN Pads on Passive NFC Cards

Dickson Akuoko Sarpong, Hongzhi Guo · 2026

Near Field Communication (NFC) cards are widely used for identification, but their passive nature often limits the ability to incorporate additional security mechanisms. As a result, anyone holding th…

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Shepherding UAV Swarm with Action Prediction Based on Movement Constraints

Yusuke Tsunoda, Yusuke Goto, Takao Sato · 2026

In this study, we propose a new sheepdog-inspired control method for a swarm of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which predicts the swarm behavior while explicitly accounting for the motion cons…

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