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Design-Time Optimization of Deep Neural Networks for Intermittent Learning on Microcontrollers

arXiv:2608.03589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a method for designing deep neural networks (DNNs) for intermittent, energy-autonomous, on-device learning on microcontroller units (MCUs). I

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Fast Object Removal Attacks on Safety-Critical Video-based Perception Systems

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arXiv:2608.02806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: By leveraging data from video-based perception systems, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) support safety-critical applications that improve roa

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Fretiq: Browser-Native Electric Guitar String Classification via Engineered Spectral Features and Held-Out Free-Play Evaluation

arXiv:2607.18303v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Identifying which string produces a given pitch in monophonic electric guitar audio is a classification challenge: a single pitch can often be

Internalising the Identity Primitive: Cryptographic Individuality for an Autonomous Agent on a Public Blockchain

arXiv:2608.02986v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A software agent on a public blockchain accumulates authority and economic stakes, raising the engineering question of what makes it count as an indiv

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Light-Loco-Parkour: Versatile Perceptive Whole-Body Locomotion via Multi-Skill Distillation

arXiv:2608.02653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing humanoid whole-body control systems still fall short of the way humans move through cluttered terrain: they either track expressive whole-body

LoCA: Forward-Only LLM Tuning after One-Shot Calibration with Local Credit Assignment

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arXiv:2608.03020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient post-training reduces the number of trainable parameters, but still requires repeated end-to-end backpropagation through the frozen

Omega-S: A Functional Resilience Index for LLM Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.03887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning a large language model on new data degrades what it previously learned. We present Omega-S, a drop-in penalty computed from the weight matri

RoboReact: Agentic Skill Distillation from Generated Egocentric Videos for Generalizable Whole-Body Manipulation

arXiv:2608.03387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have the potential to perform dexterous manipulation in human environments, yet acquiring diverse and generalizable skills remains costl

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Robust Biharmonic Skinning Using Geometric Fields

arXiv:2406.00238v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bounded bihramonic weights are a popular tool used to rig and deform characters for animation, to compute reduced-order simulations, and to de

Staying on Spec: Real-Time Monitoring under Uncertainty with a Maritime Case Study

arXiv:2608.02811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems must operate under uncertainty while satisfying complex task and safety specifications. Monitoring such specifications under uncertainty

Studying, Identifying, and Fixing Hidden Technical Debt in AI-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems

arXiv:2608.02638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) components are increasingly pervasive in several software systems, including Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). AI-CPS are us

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Toward Certified Functional Safety for Industrial Humanoid Robots: The Fail-Passive Gap and a Feasibility Study

arXiv:2608.02809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial humanoid robots are constrained less by locomotion or manipulation capability than by the immaturity of functional safety certification for l

bFaaaP: An Inclusive, Head-Angle Piano-Pedal Interaction that Quantitatively Reproduces a Pianist's Intended Pedalling -- Foot-Free, for Acoustic and Electronic Pianos

arXiv:2608.00633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Expressive piano performance depends on the sustain (damper) pedal, operated by foot, excluding players who cannot readily use their feet: wheelchair

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Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.00880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bicycle robots are fast and energy efficient, but their simple mechanical design and their underactuated and non-holonomic dynamics make highly agile ma

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BiKAN: Restoring Collapsed Basis of Binary Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks

arXiv:2608.01490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Binarizing a polynomial Kolmogorov--Arnold Network (KAN) not only changes parameter precision, but also alters the function space available to each laye

Breaking the Statistical Similarity Trap in Extreme Convection Detection

arXiv:2509.09195v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current evaluation metrics for deep learning weather models create a 'Statistical Similarity Trap', rewarding blurry predictions while missing

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Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Parallel-Link Leg Mechanisms via Simulator-Side Dynamics Normalization

arXiv:2608.01697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the sim-to-real gap in dynamics arising when a parallel-link mechanism is represented by a serial-tree surrogate in simulation. Con

CascadeLUT: Information-Ordered Streaming Inference for Bandwidth-Constrained FPGAs

arXiv:2608.00720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mapping neural networks to FPGAs enables low-latency, energy-efficient inference, particularly for lookup table (LUT)-based models that eliminate mult

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DPL: Depth-only Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion via Realistic Depth Synthesis and Cross-Attention Terrain Reconstruction

arXiv:2510.07152v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in legged robot perceptive locomotion have shown promising progress. However, terrain-aware humanoid locomotion remains largely

Gaokerena: A Small Persian Medical Language Model Family

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arXiv:2608.00932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence into medical question-answering systems has advanced rapidly; however, research remains predominantly focused

HapticVLA: Contact-Rich Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

arXiv:2603.15257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile sensing is a crucial capability for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures, as it enables dexterous and safe manipulation in contact-ric

Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks: Theory, Implementations, and Applications

arXiv:2608.01194v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence has been transformed by deep neural networks, yet the search for new learning architectures continues. Quantum machine learnin

Interaction Dynamics MPC for Knee Rehabilitation Exoskeletons: A Closed-Loop SEA Outer-Loop Study

arXiv:2606.13485v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe rehabilitation is an interaction-dynamics problem: the controller must regulate a prescribed motion while absorbing involuntary spasm, vo

Linear Multi-Timescale Retention as a Memory-Efficient Vision-Language Bridge

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arXiv:2608.01614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) face a critical computational bottleneck when processing high-resolution imagery due to the O(N^2) memory complexity of So

Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators Navigating Doorways via Model Predictive Control

arXiv:2608.00206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigating doorways is a fundamental capability for mobile manipulators operating in human environments, requiring coordinated motion between the mobile

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RadYOLO: Computationally Efficient 3D Object Detection and Segmentation in CT and MRI

arXiv:2608.00508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object detection and segmentation in three-dimensional medical images is a very active area of research. However, most proposed deep learning models car

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RH-RAG: Trustworthy Long-Form Generation for Privacy-Constrained Settings

arXiv:2608.01311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating long-form content from extensive internal reports remains challenging for organizations operating under strict privacy and security constrain

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RobotDancing: Residual-Action Reinforcement Learning Enables Robust Long-Horizon Humanoid Motion Tracking

arXiv:2509.20717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon, high-dynamic motion tracking on humanoids remains brittle: retargeted reference motions are typically kinematically plausible but dyna

Rolling Shutter Camera Self-Calibration

arXiv:2608.01509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rolling shutter (RS) cameras are widely used in consumer devices, but their row-wise exposure causes distortions under motion, making geometric 3D visio

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Staged Multi-Agent Training (SMAT) for Hip Exoskeletons: Metabolic and Biomechanical Validation of a Simulation-Trained Co-Adaptive Controller

arXiv:2608.00715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-based controllers can deliver exoskeleton assistance after training entirely in physics-based simulation, yet few controllers that address hu

Statistical Mechanics of Learning on Product Wasserstein Manifolds

arXiv:2608.01434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normally the statistical mechanics of learning treats constraints on weight distributions as restrictions that shrink the space of possible solutions. T

Structured Memory for Edge Language Models: Persistent Context and Corpus Retrieval via O(1) SSM State Injection

arXiv:2608.02560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) imposes a prefill cost proportional to retrieved context length, and -- with Transformer backbones -- a KV-cache th

VespaSeg: A Resource-Aware Ground-then-Segment Pipeline for Referring Expression Segmentation

arXiv:2608.01077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring expression segmentation requires language conditioned localization and pixel-accurate masks, but monolithic models can be costly to deploy. We

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WiFuse: An Attention Mechanism for Human Activity Recognition using Fused CSI Amplitude and Delay-Doppler Channel Features

arXiv:2608.00642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Wi-Fi sensing has played a significant role in Human Activity Recognition (HAR), as it enables the detection of various activities using only

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A Biometric Sensor Network to Enable Real-Time Measurement of Individual Student Engagement in STEM Lecture Environments

arXiv:2607.28944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Student engagement (SE) is a critical predictor of academic performance and retention in STEM education, yet existing measurement approaches are often

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A user's guide to PINNs in geometric analysis: lessons from the asymptotic Plateau problem

arXiv:2607.28733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This proceedings contribution elaborates on the findings of arXiv:2605.26234v2: a joint work with Marco Usula, where we introduced a machine learning

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Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots

arXiv:2607.28952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid and quadrupedal robots have the potential to revolutionize the way we work, interact, and coexist with intelligent machines. To understand thei

DART: Dual-Axis Airborne Reachability-Gated Torque-Reaction for Off-Road Vehicle Jumps

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arXiv:2607.29011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traversing crests, ledges, and ditches at high speed often launches vehicles into the air, and a mishandled landing presents a substantial crash hazard.

Dimensionality reduction for homological stability and global structure preservation

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arXiv:2503.03156v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose DiRe, a force-directed dimensionality reduction framework designed to preserve global structure and homological features while rema

Enabling Low-Latency Machine learning on Radiation-Hard FPGAs with hls4ml

arXiv:2602.15751v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents an end-to-end demonstration of a viable, ultra-fast, radiation-hard machine learning (ML) application on FPGAs, which coul

Homotopy-Aware Corridor Generation without Predefined Reference Paths

arXiv:2607.29513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating safe corridors is essential for collision-free robotic motion planning, yet most existing methods rely on predefined reference paths, which b

LegoQ: Density-Matrix Representation Learning with Spectral-Spatial State Transitions for Hyperspectral Classification

arXiv:2607.28970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperspectral image classification is complicated by mixed pixels, spectral ambiguity, class imbalance, and limited annotations. Most current classifier

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Matterhorn: Masked Time-to-First-Spike Encoding by Reassigning the Silent State for Sparse and Energy-Efficient Spiking Transformers

arXiv:2601.22876v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise energy-efficient inference for large language models (LLMs), yet most reported savings rely on compute-operat

Metaphor-Induced Algorithmic Steering: Cross-Domain Procedural Transfer in LLM Code Generation

arXiv:2607.28683v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models benefit from elements in natural language, such as metaphors and analogies in training data and inference input to achieve gener

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MOSAIC: Masked Outsourcing of Secure AI Computations

arXiv:2607.29221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We address the challenge of securely and efficiently outsourcing AI computations from a trusted but computationally weak client to an untrusted but po

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Open-Source LLM-Driven Formal Verification: A Multi-Agent Pipeline for RTL Repair

arXiv:2607.28877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Verification consumes the majority of modern chip design effort, yet the formal verification tools that provide mathematical guarantees of correctness

Paris: A Decentralized Trained Open-Weight Diffusion Model

arXiv:2510.03434v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Paris, the first publicly released diffusion model pre-trained entirely through decentralized computation. Paris demonstrates that

Side-Channel Attacks Survive Noise Cancellation in 3D Printers

arXiv:2606.13952v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Active Motor Noise Cancellation (AMNC) is a noise-reduction feature shipped in commercial fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printers. Because