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A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Target Speech Extraction in the Presence of Background Sound Effects for Cinematic Audio Source Separation (CASS)

Chun-wei Ho, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Kai Li, Chin-Hui Lee · 2026

We propose a knowledge-driven approach to speech target extraction in the presence of background sound effects already recorded in cinematic audio. The specific knowledge sources studied are manners o…

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Feedback Linearization of Hyperbolic PDEs with Volterra Nonlinearities

Miroslav Krstic · 2026

Alberto Isidori's framework of geometric nonlinear control, and particularly of feedback linearization, is the inspiration behind PDE backstepping: apply a transfromation of the state to cast the plan…

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Dual-LoRA: Parameter-Efficient Adversarial Disentanglement for Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification

Qituan Shangguan, Junhao Du, Kunyang Peng, Feng Xue, Hui Zhang, Xinsheng Wang, Kai Yu, Shuai Wang · 2026

Cross-lingual speaker verification suffers from severe language-speaker entanglement. This causes systematic degradation in the hardest scenario: correctly accepting utterances from the same speaker a…

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Robot Planning and Situation Handling with Active Perception

Austine Oloo, Zainab Altaweel, Yohei Hayamizu, Peiqi Liu, Yan Ding, Saeid Amiri, Hao Yang, Andy Kaminski, Chad Esselink, Chris Paxton, Xiaohan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang · 2026

Current robots are capable of computing plans to accomplish complex tasks. However, real-world environments are inherently open and dynamic, and unforeseen situations frequently arise during plan exec…

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Backstepping Observer for the Quasilinear Heat Equation with Linear Design Gains: Beyond Local Stability

Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja, Kirsten A. Morris · 2026

We consider the one-dimensional quasilinear heat equation with state-dependent heat capacity and thermal conductivity, and design a boundary-output observer based on the backstepping design for a line…

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HANDFUL: Sequential Grasp-Conditioned Dexterous Manipulation with Resource Awareness

Ethan Foong, Yunshuang Li, Hao Jiang, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Daniel Seita · 2026

Dexterous robot hands offer rich opportunities for multifunctional manipulation, where a robot must execute multiple skills in sequence while maintaining control over previously grasped objects. Most …

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EVT-Based Generative AI for Tail-Aware Channel Estimation

Parmida Valiahdi, Niloofar Mehrnia, Walid Saad, Sinem Coleri · 2026

Ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) will play a key role in fifth-generation (5G) and beyond networks, enabling mission-critical applications. Meeting the stringent URLLC requirements…

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Wave Tank Experiment for Sea State Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Yoshiyuki Yajima, Sakiko Mishima, Noriyuki Tonami, Tomoyuki Hino, Shugo Aibe, Junichiro Saikawa, Koji Mizuguchi · 2026

Monitoring sea states across the offshore wind farm areas is essential to keep their structures safe, efficiently operate the systems, and assess the environmental effects of wind turbines. Convention…

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Hybrid A*-Based Reverse Path-Planning of a Vehicle with Trailer System

Xincheng Cao, Haochong Chen, Bilin Aksun-Guvenc, Levent Guvenc, Brian Link, Peter J Richmond, Dokyung Yim, Shihong Fan, John Harber · 2026

Reverse parking maneuvering of a vehicle with trailer system is a difficult task to complete for human drivers due to the multi-body nature of the system and the unintuitive controls required to orien…

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FreqCache: Accelerating Embodied VLN Models with Adaptive Frequency-Guided Token Caching

Zihao Zheng, Xingyue Zhou, Zhihao Mao, Songyu Sun, Lingyue Zhang, Yulong Ao, Yupu Feng, Qiongqiong Zhang, Yonghua Lin, Xiang Chen · 2026

Vision-Language-Navigation (VLN) models exhibit excellent navigation accuracy but incur high computational overhead. Token caching has emerged as a promising training-free strategy to reduce this cost…

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Unified Energy Function Tailored to Inverter-Based Resources with PI Controllers for Transient Stability Analysis

Yifan Zhang, Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Yitong Li, Yang Wu · 2026

The increasing penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) has fundamentally altered the transient stability characteristics of modern power systems. IBRs typically rely on proportional--integral (…

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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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Breaking Lock-In: Preserving Steerability under Low-Data VLA Post-Training

Suning Huang, Jiaqi Shao, Ke Wang, Qianzhong Chen, Jiankai Sun, Yanjiang Guo, Mac Schwager, Jeannette Bohg · 2026

Have you ever post-trained a generalist vision-language-action (VLA) policy on a small demonstration dataset, only to find that it stops responding to new instructions and is limited to behaviors obse…

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Surrogate-Based Co-Design Coupling Analysis for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Elena Fernandez Bravo, Sunil Tamang, Yong Hoon Lee, James T. Allison · 2026

This work presents a design coupling analysis (DCA) framework to investigate the interactions among control and plant design variables in floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) and to support the formu…

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Adaptive vs. Static Robot-to-Human Handover: A Study on Orientation and Approach Direction

Federico Biagi, Dario Onfiani, Simone Silenzi, Cristina Iani, Luigi Biagiotti · 2026

Robot-to-human handovers often rely on static, open-loop strategies (or, at best, approaches that adapt only the position), which generally do not consider how the object will be grasped by the human,…

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Multimodal Diffusion to Mutually Enhance Polarized Light and Low Resolution EBSD Data

Harry Dong, Timofey Efimov, Megna Shah, Jeff Simmons, Sean Donegan, Marc De Graef, Yuejie Chi · 2026

In spite of the utility of 3-D electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) microscopy, the data collection process can be time-consuming with serial-sectioning. Hence, it is natural to look at other mo…

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Conditional Diffusion Posterior Alignment for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction

Luis Barba, Johannes Kirschner, Benjamin Bejar · 2026

Computed Tomography (CT) is a widely used imaging modality in medical and industrial applications. To limit radiation exposure and measurement time, there is a growing interest in sparse-view CT, wher…

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ADMM-Based Distributed Kalman-like Observer with Applications to Cooperative Localization

Nicola De Carli, Nicola Bastianello, Dimos V. Dimarogonas · 2026

This paper addresses distributed state estimation for multi-agent systems with local and relative measurements, motivated by cooperative localization problems in which the global state dimension scale…

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A Replicable Robotics Awareness Method Using LLM-Enabled Robotics Interaction: Evidence from a Corporate Challenge

S. A. Prieto, M. A. Gopee, Y. Ben Arab, B. Garcia de Soto, J. Esteba, P. Olivera Brizzio · 2026

Large language models are increasingly being explored as interfaces between humans and robotic systems, yet there remains limited evidence on how such technologies can be used not only for interaction…

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Scaling of Gaussian Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks

Amir Noorizadegan, Sifan Wang · 2026

The Gaussian scale parameter \(\epsilon\) is central to the behavior of Gaussian Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs), yet its role in deep edge-based architectures has not been studied systematically. …

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