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Robust Localization for Autonomous Vehicles in Highway Scenes

Daqian Cheng, Xuchu Ding, Yujia Wu, Xiang Zhang, Lei Wang · 2026

Localization for autonomous vehicles on highways remains under-explored compared to urban roads, and state-of-the-art methods for urban scenes degrade when directly applied to highways. We identify ke…

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An Explainable Approach to Document-level Translation Evaluation with Topic Modeling

Hyeokmin Lee, Youngkyu Kim, Byounghyun Yoo · 2026

The advent of NMT has expanded the scope of translation beyond isolated sentences, enabling context to be preserved across paragraphs and documents. However, current evaluation metrics largely remain …

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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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NIM4-ASR: Towards Efficient, Robust, and Customizable Real-Time LLM-Based ASR

Yuan Xie, Jiaqi Song, Guang Qiu, Xianliang Wang, Kai Qiao, Junfeng Yuan, Shengqing Liu, Yi Zhang, Bowen Chen, Ming Lei, Jie Gao, Jie Wu · 2026

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a mainstream paradigm in recent years. Although existing LLM-based ASR models demonstrate impressive perform…

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FLASH: Fast Learning via GPU-Accelerated Simulation for High-Fidelity Deformable Manipulation in Minutes

Siyuan Luo, Bingyang Zhou, Chong Zhang, Xin Liu, Zhenhao Huang, Gang Yang, Zhengtao Han, Xiaotian Hu, Eric Yang, Rymon Yu, Ziqiu Zeng, Fan Shi · 2026

Simulation frameworks such as Isaac Sim have enabled scalable robot learning for locomotion and rigid-body manipulation; however, contact-rich simulation remains a major bottleneck for deformable obje…

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Autonomous Vehicle Collision Avoidance With Racing Parameterized Deep Reinforcement Learning

Shathushan Sivashangaran, Vihaan Dutta, Apoorva Khairnar, Sepideh Gohari, Azim Eskandarian · 2026

Road traffic accidents are a leading cause of fatalities worldwide. In the US, human error causes 94% of crashes, resulting in excess of 7,000 pedestrian fatalities and $500 billion in costs annually.…

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Robust Fleet Sizing for Multi-UAV Inspection Missions under Synchronized Replacement Demand

Vishal Ramesh, Antony Thomas · 2026

Multi-UAV inspection missions require spare drones to replace active drones during recharging cycles. Existing fleet-sizing approaches often assume steady-state operating conditions that do not apply …

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A multi-platform LiDAR dataset for standardized forest inventory measurement at long term ecological monitoring sites

Michael R. Chang, Anna Candotti, Karl von Ellenrieder, Enrico Tomelleri, Marco Camurri · 2026

We present a curated multi-platform LiDAR reference dataset from an instrumented ICOS forest plot, explicitly designed to support calibration, benchmarking, and integration of 3D structural data with …

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A transformable slender microrobot inspired by nematode parasites for interventional endovascular surgery

Xin Yang, Dongliang Fan, Yunteng Ma, Yuxuan Liao, Diancheng Li, U Kei Cheang, Bo Peng, Hongqiang Wang · 2026

Cardiovascular diseases account for around 17.9 million deaths per year globally, the treatment of which is challenging considering the confined space and complex topology of the vascular network and …

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End-to-end differentiable network traffic simulation with dynamic route choice

Toru Seo · 2026

Optimization using network traffic models requires computing gradients of objective functions with respect to model parameters. However, derivation of such gradients has often been considered difficul…

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Rain Rate Estimation Bounds and Weather-Adaptive Pilot Allocation for LEO Satellite ISAC

Haofan Dong, Houtianfu Wang, Hanlin Cai, O. Tansel Baydas, Ozgur B. Akan · 2026

Rain attenuates Ku-band satellite signals by up to 20~dB, encoding precipitation information along the Earth-space slant path. This paper derives the Bayesian Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (BCRB) for rain rate…

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PSIRNet: Deep Learning-based Free-breathing Rapid Acquisition Late Enhancement Imaging

Arda Atalik, Hui Xue, Rhodri H. Davies, Thomas A. Treibel, Daniel K. Sodickson, Michael S. Hansen, Peter Kellman · 2026

Purpose: To develop and evaluate a deep learning (DL) method for free-breathing phase-sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) cardiac MRI that produces diagnostic-quality…

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TinyDEVO: Deep Event-based Visual Odometry on Ultra-low-power Multi-core Microcontrollers

Alessandro Marchei, Lorenzo Lamberti, Daniele Palossi, Luca Benini · 2026

A key task in embedded vision is visual odometry (VO), which estimates camera motion from visual sensors, and it is a core component in many embedded power-constrained systems, from autonomous robots …

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Spatio-Temporal Grounding of Large Language Models from Perception Streams

Jacob Anderson, Bardh Hoxha, Georgios Fainekos, Hideki Okamoto, Danil Prokhorov · 2026

Embodied-AI agents must reason about how objects move and interact in 3-D space over time, yet existing smaller frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) still mis-handle fine-grained spatial relations, m…

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BiDexGrasp: Coordinated Bimanual Dexterous Grasps across Object Geometries and Sizes

Mu Lin, Yi-Lin Wei, Jiaxuan Chen, Yuhao Lin, Shuoyu Chen, Jiangran Lyu, Jiayi Chen, Yansong Tang, He Wang, Wei-Shi Zheng · 2026

Bimanual dexterous grasping is a fundamental and promising area in robotics, yet its progress is constrained by the lack of comprehensive datasets and powerful generation models. In this work, we prop…

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Multiobjective optimization-based design and dispatch of islanded, hybrid microgrids for remote, off-grid communities in sub-Saharan Africa

Vineet Jagadeesan Nair · 2026

Reliable, affordable electricity remains inaccessible to over 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where islanded hybrid microgrids combining renewable generation, battery storage, and dies…

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A1: A Fully Transparent Open-Source, Adaptive and Efficient Truncated Vision-Language-Action Model

Kaidong Zhang, Jian Zhang, Rongtao Xu, Yu Sun, Shuoshuo Xue, Youpeng Wen, Xiaoyu Guo, Minghao Guo, Weijia Liufu, Liu Zihou, Kangyi Ji, Yangsong Zhang, Jiarun Zhu, Jingzhi Liu, Zihang Li, Ruiyi Chen, Meng Cao, Jingming Zhang, Shen Zhao, Xiaojun Chang, Feng Zheng, Ivan Laptev, Xiaodan Liang · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for open-world robot manipulation, but their practical deployment is often constrained by cost: billion-scale VLM backbones and …

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INTERACT: An AI-Driven Extended Reality Framework for Accesible Communication Featuring Real-Time Sign Language Interpretation and Emotion Recognition

Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas, Andrew J. McCracken, Ilias Karachalios, Evangelos Papatheou · 2026

Video conferencing has become central to professional collaboration, yet most platforms offer limited support for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and multilingual users. The World Health Organisation estimates…

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frax: Fast Robot Kinematics and Dynamics in JAX

Daniel Morton, Marco Pavone · 2026

In robot control, planning, and learning, there is a need for rigid-body dynamics libraries that are highly performant, easy to use, and compatible with CPUs and accelerators. While existing libraries…

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Generative AI for material design: A mechanics perspective from burgers to matter

Vahidullah Tac, Ellen Kuhl · 2026

Generative artificial intelligence offers a new paradigm to design matter in high-dimensional spaces. However, its underlying mechanisms remain difficult to interpret and limit adoption in computation…

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