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Robust Accent Identification via Voice Conversion and Non-Timbral Embeddings

Rayane Bakari, Olivier Le Blouch, Nicolas Gengembre, Nicholas Evans · 2026

Automatic accent identification (AID) remains a challenging task due to the complex variability of accents, the entanglement of accent cues with speaker traits, and the scarcity of reliable accentlabe…

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Fuzzy Logic Theory-based Adaptive Reward Shaping for Robust Reinforcement Learning (FARS)

Hurkan Sahin, Van Huyen Dang, Erdi Sayar, Alper Yegenoglu, Erdal Kayacan · 2026

Reinforcement learning (RL) often struggles in real-world tasks with high-dimensional state spaces and long horizons, where sparse or fixed rewards severely slow down exploration and cause agents to g…

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CBAM-Enhanced DenseNet121 for Multi-Class Chest X-Ray Classification with Grad-CAM Explainability

Utsho Kumar Dey · 2026

Pneumonia remains a leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, with a heavy burden in low-resource settings such as Bangladesh where radiologist availability is limited. Most existing deep learni…

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Active Reward Machine Inference From Raw State Trajectories

Mohamad Louai Shehab, Antoine Aspeel, Necmiye Ozay · 2026

Reward machines are automaton-like structures that capture the memory required to accomplish a multi-stage task. When combined with reinforcement learning or optimal control methods, they can be used …

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DC-Ada: Reward-Only Decentralized Sensor Adaptation for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams

Saad Alqithami · 2026

Heterogeneity is a defining feature of deployed multi-robot teams: platforms often differ in sensing modalities, ranges, fields of view, and failure patterns. Controllers trained under nominal sensing…

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ARM: Advantage Reward Modeling for Long-Horizon Manipulation

Yiming Mao, Zixi Yu, Weixin Mao, Yinhao Li, Qirui Hu, Zihan Lan, Minzhao Zhu, Hua Chen · 2026

Long-horizon robotic manipulation remains challenging for reinforcement learning (RL) because sparse rewards provide limited guidance for credit assignment. Practical policy improvement thus relies on…

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Beyond Legacy OFDM: A Mobility-Adaptive Multi-Gear Framework for 6G

Mauro Marchese, Dario Tagliaferri, Henk Wymeersch, Musa Furkan Keskin, Emanuele Viterbo, Pietro Savazzi · 2026

While Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has confirmed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) as the baseline waveform for sixth-generation (6G), its performance is severely compro…

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Generalizable Dense Reward for Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks

Silong Yong, Stephen Sheng, Carl Qi, Xiaojie Wang, Evan Sheehan, Anurag Shivaprasad, Yaqi Xie, Katia Sycara, Yesh Dattatreya · 2026

Existing robotic foundation policies are trained primarily via large-scale imitation learning. While such models demonstrate strong capabilities, they often struggle with long-horizon tasks due to dis…

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SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning

Philip Schroeder, Thomas Weng, Karl Schmeckpeper, Eric Rosen, Stephen Hart, Ondrej Biza · 2026

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across diverse tasks, motivating efforts to leverage these models to supervise robot learning. However, when used as evaluators in rein…

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Large Reward Models: Generalizable Online Robot Reward Generation with Vision-Language Models

Yanru Wu, Weiduo Yuan, Ang Qi, Vitor Guizilini, Jiageng Mao, Yue Wang · 2026

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown great potential in refining robotic manipulation policies, yet its efficacy remains strongly bottlenecked by the difficulty of designing generalizable reward func…

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Let's Reward Step-by-Step: Step-Aware Contrastive Alignment for Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments

Haoyuan Li, Rui Liu, Hehe Fan, Yi Yang · 2026

Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires agents to learn complex reasoning from long-horizon human interactions. While Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have dri…

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Robometer: Scaling General-Purpose Robotic Reward Models via Trajectory Comparisons

Anthony Liang, Yigit Korkmaz, Jiahui Zhang, Minyoung Hwang, Abrar Anwar, Sidhant Kaushik, Aditya Shah, Alex S. Huang, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dieter Fox, Yu Xiang, Anqi Li, Andreea Bobu, Abhishek Gupta, Stephen Tu, Erdem Biyik, Jesse Zhang · 2026

General-purpose robot reward models are typically trained to predict absolute task progress from expert demonstrations, providing only local, frame-level supervision. While effective for expert demons…

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GPU-Native Compressed Neighbor Lists with a Space-Filling-Curve Data Layout

Felix Thaler, Sebastian Keller · 2026

We have developed a compressed neighbor list for short-range particle-particle interaction based on a space- filling curve (SFC) memory layout and particle clusters. The neighbor list can be construct…

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ManeuverNet: A Soft Actor-Critic Framework for Precise Maneuvering of Double-Ackermann-Steering Robots with Optimized Reward Functions

Kohio Deflesselle, Melodie Daniel, Aly Magassouba, Miguel Aranda, Olivier Ly · 2026

Autonomous control of double-Ackermann-steering robots is essential in agricultural applications, where robots must execute precise and complex maneuvers within a limited space. Classical methods, suc…

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From Noise to Prognosis: A Physics-Grounded, Fractional-Domain Framework for Early Gear Fault Detection in Aviation Drivetrains

Yaakoub Berrouche · 2026

Early and reliable detection of gear faults in complex drivetrain systems is critical for aviation safety and operational availability. We present the Local Damage Mode Extractor (LDME), a structured,…

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Agentic Reward Modeling: Verifying GUI Agent via Online Proactive Interaction

Chaoqun Cui, Jing Huang, Shijing Wang, Liming Zheng, Qingchao Kong, Zhixiong Zeng · 2026

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is pivotal for the continuous evolution of GUI agents, yet existing evaluation paradigms face significant limitations. Rule-based methods suffer f…

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Erasing Your Voice Before It's Heard: Training-free Speaker Unlearning for Zero-shot Text-to-Speech

Myungjin Lee, Eunji Shin, Jiyoung Lee · 2026

Modern zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) models offer unprecedented expressivity but also pose serious crime risks, as they can synthesize voices of individuals who never consented. In this context, spea…

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Reinforcement Learning with Distributed MPC for Fuel-Efficient Platoon Control with Discrete Gear Transitions

Samuel Mallick, Gianpietro Battocletti, Dimitris Boskos, Azita Dabiri, Bart De Schutter · 2026

Cooperative control of groups of autonomous vehicles (AVs), i.e., platoons, is a promising direction to improving the efficiency of autonomous transportation systems. In this context, distributed co-o…

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ReWorld: Multi-Dimensional Reward Modeling for Embodied World Models

Baorui Peng, Wenyao Zhang, Liang Xu, Zekun Qi, Jiazhao Zhang, Hongsi Liu, Wenjun Zeng, Xin Jin · 2026

Recently, video-based world models that learn to simulate the dynamics have gained increasing attention in robot learning. However, current approaches primarily emphasize visual generative quality whi…

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Explicit Reward Mechanisms for Local Flexibility in Renewable Energy Communities

Thomas Stegen, Julien Allard, Noe Diffels, Francois Vallee, Mevludin Glavic, Zacharie De Greve, Bertrand Cornelusse · 2026

Incentivizing flexible consumption of end-users is key to maximizing the value of local exchanges within Renewable Energy Communities. If centralized coordination for flexible resources planning raise…

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