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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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Stein Variational Uncertainty-Adaptive Model Predictive Control

Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Ian Abraham · 2026

We propose a Stein variational distributionally robust controller for nonlinear dynamical systems with latent parametric uncertainty. The method is an alternative to conservative worst-case ambiguity-…

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PinPoint: Monocular Needle Pose Estimation for Robotic Suturing via Stein Variational Newton and Geometric Residuals

Jesse F. d'Almeida, Tanner Watts, Susheela Sharma Stern, James Ferguson, Alan Kuntz, Robert J. Webster III · 2026

Reliable estimation of surgical needle 3D position and orientation is essential for autonomous robotic suturing, yet existing methods operate almost exclusively under stereoscopic vision. In monocular…

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Rao-Blackwellized Stein Gradient Descent for Joint State-Parameter Estimation

Milad Banitalebi Dehkordi, Manas Mejari, Dario Piga · 2026

We present a filtering framework for online joint state estimation and parameter identification in nonlinear, time-varying systems. The algorithm uses Rao-Blackwellization technique to infer joint sta…

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Karhunen-Lo\`{e}ve Expansion for Fluid Antenna Systems: Information-Theoretic Optimal Channel Compression and Outage Analysis

Tuo Wu · 2026

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) achieve spatial diversity by dynamically switching among $N$ densely packed ports, but the resulting spatially correlated Rayleigh channels render exact outage analysis int…

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Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints

Jiayun Li, Yufeng Jin, Sangli Teng, Dejian Gong, Georgia Chalvatzaki · 2026

Surface manipulation tasks require robots to generate trajectories that comprehensively cover complex 3D surfaces while maintaining precise end-effector poses. Existing ergodic trajectory optimization…

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First Steps towards Categorical Algebraic Artificial Chemistry

Joe Pratt-Johns (Edinburgh Napier University), Toby St. Clere Smithe (Kodamai Ltd), Chris Guiver (Edinburgh Napier University), Kevin Hughes (Edinburgh Napier University), Peter Andras (Edinburgh Napier University) · 2026

We construct a functor that gives a dynamics to an algebraic model of interacting components. The construction generalises a computational model of Fontana and Buss in the field of artificial life kno…

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SPAN-Nav: Generalized Spatial Awareness for Versatile Vision-Language Navigation

Jiahang Liu, Tianyu Xu, Jiawei Chen, Lu Yue, Jiazhao Zhang, Zhiyong Wang, Minghan Li, Qisheng Zhao, Anqi Li, Qi Su, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang · 2026

Recent embodied navigation approaches leveraging Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong generalization in versatile Vision-Language Navigation (VLN). However, reliable path planning in compl…

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STL-SVPIO: Signal Temporal Logic guided Stein Variational Path Integral Optimization

Hongrui Zheng, Zirui Zang, Ahmad Amine, Cristian Ioan Vasile, Rahul Mangharam · 2026

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) enables formal specification of complex spatiotemporal constraints for robotic task planning. However, synthesizing long-horizon continuous control trajectories from comple…

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$\pi$-StepNFT: Wider Space Needs Finer Steps in Online RL for Flow-based VLAs

Siting Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng Zhu, Minnan Pei, Xinyu Cui, Cheng Deng, Jian Zhao, Guan Huang, Haifeng Zhang, Jun Wang · 2026

Flow-based vision-language-action (VLA) models excel in embodied control but suffer from intractable likelihoods during multi-step sampling, hindering online reinforcement learning. We propose \textbf…

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Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao, Soren Pirk · 2026

Safely moving through environments affected by fire is a critical capability for autonomous mobile robots deployed in disaster response. In this work, we present a novel approach for mobile robots to …

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StepNav: Structured Trajectory Priors for Efficient and Multimodal Visual Navigation

Xubo Luo, Aodi Wu, Haodong Han, Xue Wan, Wei Zhang, Leizheng Shu, Ruisuo Wang · 2026

Visual navigation is fundamental to autonomous systems, yet generating reliable trajectories in cluttered and uncertain environments remains a core challenge. Recent generative models promise end-to-e…

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ML-Enhanced Digital Backpropagation for Long-Reach Single-Span Systems

Dario Cellini, Stella Civelli, Marco Secondini · 2026

We propose a digital backpropagation method that employs machine-learning-aided joint optimization of dispersion step lengths and nonlinear phase rotation filters within an FFT-based enhanced split-st…

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MIMO Array Calibration in Non-stationary Channels with Residual Surfaces and Slepian Spherical Harmonics

Oliver Kirkpatrick, Santiago Ozafrain, Christopher Gilliam, Beth Jelfs · 2026

The fundamental mechanism driving MIMO beamforming is the relative phases of signals departing the transmit array and arriving at the receive array. If a propagation channel affects all transmitted si…

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Fundamental Limits for Near-Field Sensing -- Part II: Wide-Band Systems

Tong Wei, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Bhavani Shankar M.R., Bjorn Ottersten · 2025

Near-field sensing with extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) in practical 6G systems is expected to operate over broad bandwidths, where delay, Doppler, and spatial effects become tightly coup…

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Fundamental Limits for Near-Field Sensing -- Part I: Narrow-Band Systems

Tong Wei, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Bhavani Shankar M.R., Bjorn Ottersten · 2025

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) envisioned for 6G enable high-resolution sensing. However, the ELAAs worked in extremely high frequency will push operation into the near-field region, whe…

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Channel State Information Preprocessing for CSI-based Physical-Layer Authentication Using Reconciliation

Atsu Kokuvi Angelo Passah, Rodrigo C. de Lamare, Arsenia Chorti · 2025

This paper introduces an adaptive preprocessing technique to enhance the accuracy of channel state information-based physical layer authentication (CSI-PLA) alleviating CSI variations and inconsistenc…

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PINN vs LSTM: A Comparative Study for Steam Temperature Control in Heat Recovery Steam Generators

Mojtaba Fanoodi, Farzaneh Abdollahi, Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli · 2025

This paper introduces a direct comparative study of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for adaptive steam temperature control in Heat Recovery Steam Ge…

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Fault-Tolerant Control of Steam Temperature in HRSG Superheater under Actuator Fault Using a Sliding Mode Observer and PINN

Mojtaba Fanoodi, Farzaneh Abdollahi, Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli · 2025

This paper presents a novel fault-tolerant control framework for steam temperature regulation in Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) subject to actuator faults. Addressing the critical challenge of…

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Near Field Tapering with Slepian Window: Balancing the Range Angle Sidelobe Trade off

Ahmed Hussain, Ahmed Sultan, Asmaa Abdallah, Abdulkadir Celik, Ahmed M. Eltawil · 2025

Near-field beamforming enables target discrimination in both range (axial) and angle (lateral) dimensions. Elevated sidelobes along either dimension, however, increase susceptibility to interference a…

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