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GSDrive: Reinforcing Driving Policies by Multi-mode Trajectory Probing with 3D Gaussian Splatting Environment

Ziang Guo, Min Chen, Xuefeng Zhang, Yixiao Zhou, Zufeng Zhang, Dzmitry Tsetserukou ยท 2026

End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving presents a promising approach for translating perceptual inputs directly into driving actions. However, prohibitive annotation costs and temporal data quality degraโ€ฆ

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Dreaming Across Towns: Semantic Rollout and Town-Adversarial Regularization for Zero-Shot Held-Out-Town Fixed-Route Driving in CARLA

Feeza Khan Khanzada, Jaerock Kwon ยท 2026

Learned driving agents often degrade when deployed in unseen environments. This paper studies a deliberately bounded instance of that problem in the CARLA simulator: zero-shot transfer of a closed-looโ€ฆ

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Spectral Dynamic Attention Network for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

Tengya Zhang, Feng Gao, Lin Qi, Junyu Dong, Qian Du ยท 2026

Hyperspectral image super-resolution is essential for enhancing the spatial fidelity of HSI data, yet existing deep learning methods often struggle with substantial spectral redundancy and the limitedโ€ฆ

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Optimizing Dynamic Metasurface Antenna Configurations for Direction-of-Arrival and Polarization Estimation Using an Experimentally Calibrated Multiport-Network Model

Jean Tapie, Philipp del Hougne ยท 2026

Sensing the direction of arrival and polarization of impinging signals is a key prerequisite for beamforming and interference mitigation in modern wireless communication systems. Dynamic metasurface aโ€ฆ

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High Coupling Tunable Acoustic Resonators in Monolithic Barium Titanate

Ian Anderson, Agham Posadas, Alexander A. Demkov, Ruochen Lu ยท 2026

The growing number of wireless communication bands has driven demand for compact, low-loss, and frequency adjustable RF filtering. Tunable acoustic resonators are well suited to address these needs, oโ€ฆ

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A Control Framework for Induced Seismicity Mitigation in Groningen Gas Reservoir

Diego Gutierrez-Oribio, Ioannis Stefanou ยท 2026

Induced seismicity associated with gas production poses major operational and societal challenges, as illustrated by the Groningen field in the Netherlands. While many studies have focused on forecastโ€ฆ

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3D Generation for Embodied AI and Robotic Simulation: A Survey

Tianwei Ye, Yifan Mao, Minwen Liao, Jian Liu, Chunchao Guo, Dazhao Du, Quanxin Shou, Fangqi Zhu, Song Guo ยท 2026

Embodied AI and robotic systems increasingly depend on scalable, diverse, and physically grounded 3D content for simulation-based training and real-world deployment. While 3D generative modeling has aโ€ฆ

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Reactive Motion Generation via Phase-varying Neural Potential Functions

Ahmet Tekden, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Aude Billard, Yasemin Bekiroglu ยท 2026

Dynamical systems (DS) methods for Learning-from-Demonstration (LfD) provide stable, continuous policies from few demonstrations. First-order dynamical systems (DS) are effective for many point-to-poiโ€ฆ

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Accelerating Sparse Linear Solvers with an Optical Laser Processing Unit

Dan Gluck, Yotam Mimran, Andrey Karenskih, Talya Vaknin, Omri Wolf, Ruti Ben-Shlomi, Johannes Gebert ยท 2026

Solving large, sparse linear systems is a fundamental workload in scientific computing and engineering simulations, often dominating runtime and energy consumption in high-performance computing (HPC) โ€ฆ

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SPG-Codec: Exploring the Role and Boundaries of Semantic Priors in Ultra-Low-Bitrate Neural Speech Coding

Mingyu Zhao, Zijian Lin, Kun Wei, Zhiyong Wu ยท 2026

Conventional neural speech codecs suffer from severe intelligibility degradation at ultra-low bitrates, where the bottleneck transitions from acoustic distortion to semantic loss. To address this issuโ€ฆ

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Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

Ryan Allen, Melissa Greeff ยท 2026

Reliable backup localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied nighttime conditions remains an open challenge due to the severe modality gap between daytime RGB maps and nigโ€ฆ

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Risk Assessments for Evasive Emergency Maneuvers in Autonomous Vehicles

Aliasghar Arab, Milad Khaleghi, Koorosh Aslansefat ยท 2026

This paper presents a systematic verification and validation (V\&V) framework for the Evasive Minimum Risk Maneuver (EMRM) feature in autonomous vehicles, addressing a critical gap in existing safety โ€ฆ

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SpecFed: Accelerating Federated LLM Inference with Speculative Decoding and Compressed Transmission

Ce Zheng, Xinghan Wang, Jiahong Ning, Yuxuan Shi, Ning Huang, Tingting Yang ยท 2026

Federated inference enhances LLM performance in edge computing through weighted averaging of distributed model predictions. However, autoregressive LLM inference requires frequent full-model forward pโ€ฆ

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Step-Audio-R1.5 Technical Report

Yuxin Zhang, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Daijiao Liu, Fei Tian, Yayue Deng, Jun Chen, Qingjian Lin, Haoyang Zhang, Yuxin Li, Jinglan Gong, Yechang Huang, Liang Zhao, Chengyuan Yao, Hexin Liu, Eng Siong Chng, Xuerui Yang, Gang Yu, Xiangyu Zhang, Daxin Jiang ยท 2026

Recent advancements in large audio language models have extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning into the auditory domain, enabling models to tackle increasingly complex acoustic and spoken tasks. Toโ€ฆ

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Robustness Evaluation of a Foundation Segmentation Model Under Simulated Domain Shifts in Abdominal CT: Implications for Health Digital Twin Deployment

Sanghati Basu ยท 2026

Foundation segmentation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have demonstrated strong generalization across natural images; however, their robustness under clinically realistic medical imagโ€ฆ

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GS-Playground: A High-Throughput Photorealistic Simulator for Vision-Informed Robot Learning

Yufei Jia, Heng Zhang, Ziheng Zhang, Junzhe Wu, Mingrui Yu, Zifan Wang, Dixuan Jiang, Zheng Li, Chenyu Cao, Zhuoyuan Yu, Xun Yang, Haizhou Ge, Yuchi Zhang, Jiayuan Zhang, Zhenbiao Huang, Tianle Liu, Shenyu Chen, Jiacheng Wang, Bin Xie, Xuran Yao, Xiwa Deng, Guangyu Wang, Jinzhi Zhang, Lei Hao, Zhixing Chen, Yuxiang Chen, Anqi Wang, Hongyun Tian, Yiyi Yan, Zhanxiang Cao, Yizhou Jiang, Hanyang Shao, Yue Li, Lu Shi, Bokui Chen, Wei Sui, Hanqing Cui, Yusen Qin, Ruqi Huang, Lei Han, Tiancai Wang, Guyue Zhou ยท 2026

Embodied AI research is undergoing a shift toward vision-centric perceptual paradigms. While massively parallel simulators have catalyzed breakthroughs in proprioception-based locomotion, their potentโ€ฆ

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Generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting enabled Semantic Coding for Real-Time Immersive Video Communications

Dingxi Yang, Wenqi Guo, Yue Liu, Jungong Han, Zhijin Qin ยท 2026

Real-time immersive video communications, particularly high-fidelity 3D telepresence, necessitates a synergistic balance between instantaneous dynamic scene reconstruction and high-efficiency data traโ€ฆ

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Enabling High Error Tolerance in Satellite Video Transmissions by Generative Semantic Communication

Zixin Zhao, Jingzhi Hu, Geoffrey Ye Li ยท 2026

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite relays will significantly extend the coverage of mobile networks, enabling users in remote areas to transmit data of real-time events. Nevertheless, the limited power oโ€ฆ

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Rethinking Wireless Communications through Formal Mathematical AI Reasoning

Changyuan Zhao, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Zan Li, Abbas Jamalipour, Shiwen Mao, Xianbin Wang, Dong In Kim ยท 2026

Mathematical analysis has long underpinned wireless communication theory, yet the growing complexity of next-generation systems demands increasingly sophisticated reasoning from domain experts. Recentโ€ฆ

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Computational Design and Co-Robotic Fabrication for Material Reuse in Architecture

Arash Adel, Daniel Ruan, Ruxin Xie ยท 2026

Climate change and resource depletion demand a shift from the dominant linear "take-make-use-dispose" paradigm of construction toward circular, low-waste practices. Material reuse offers a promising pโ€ฆ

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