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MIM-VLA: Learning Physical Interaction Representations from Gripper Motor Feedback

arXiv:2610.08425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies infer grasp actions primarily from visual observations and robot state, but do not explicitly represent the physic

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Navigating Route Latent Space for Synthesizable Molecular Design

DGX agent

arXiv:2610.07560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal-directed molecular design has advanced rapidly, yet a substantial proportion of designed molecules remain difficult to synthesize in practice, limi

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

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NMPP: Nonlinear Model Predictive Planning for Agile UAV Flight in Cluttered Environments

arXiv:2610.08695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flying a quadrotor through a cluttered environment requires not only planning a collision-free reference trajectory based on perceived obstacles, but th

No Need to Stop the Fleet: Localized Anomaly Isolation via Dead Zones in AGV Fleets

arXiv:2610.08524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) fleets in production and logistics environments rely on a system-wide emergency stop to handle local anomalies such as ma

OpenSplatGraph: From Dense Semantic Maps to Structured Scene Graphs for Open-Vocabulary Robot Perception

arXiv:2610.07569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense 3D mapping with semantic understanding is essential for robotic perception in complex environments. Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting-based mapping a

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Safety

Performative Prediction with Selective Labels

arXiv:2610.08272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many social applications of machine learning exhibit performative effects: population behavior changes in response to deployed models. Performative pred

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

PhoneBot: A Low-Cost Open Humanoid Robot Platform Reusing Smartphones

arXiv:2610.08737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The adoption of humanoid robots in education and research remains limited by high hardware costs, complex sensing systems, and substantial computational

Practical Feasibility of Gradient Inversion Attacks in Federated Learning

arXiv:2508.19819v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gradient inversion attacks are often presented as a serious privacy threat in federated learning, with recent work reporting increasingly stro

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Safety

Random Feature Gaussian Process Attention: Linear-Time Probabilistic Attention with Calibrated Uncertainty

arXiv:2610.08578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers provide a state-of-the-art modeling framework, yet poor calibration limits their reliability in safety-critical applications. A promising d

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Repair Lot Skyline: A Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Approach to Pavement Repair Optimization from Geospatial Hazard Density

arXiv:2610.06989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pavement agencies must translate a spatially distributed distress inventory into a bounded, actionable repair-lot plan: accident-critical defects (potho

RMRRT: Riemannian Barrier Metric RRT for Inequality-Aware Steering on Equality Manifolds

arXiv:2610.06863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a motion planning framework that unifies equality and inequality constraints within a single geometric formulation for sampling-base

Robust Nonprehensile Object Transport with Quadruped Robots

arXiv:2610.07245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we present a robust nonprehensile object transportation framework for quadruped robots. An uncertainty-aware trajectory optimization meth

SIFT: Search Intent-to-Filter Transformer for Multi-Task Personalized Filter Ranking at Airbnb

arXiv:2610.07810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search filters help guests navigate vast catalogs in two-sided marketplaces like Airbnb, and recommending the right filters can meaningfully lift bookin

TacZero: Training-Free Peg Insertion Using a General-Purpose Vision-Language Model with Tactile Feedback

arXiv:2610.07621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots that autonomously determine their actions from language instructions and sensory observations could perform new contact-rich manipulation tasks w

Uncertainty Quantification Is Indispensable for Reliable Connectome-Based Graph Learning: A Narrative Review and Case Study

arXiv:2610.08353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown substantial promise in connectome-based diagnostic classification, deterministic models inevitably suppres

Uniform Discrete Diffusion Models are Minimax Optimal for Estimating Distributions with Small Effective Support Size

arXiv:2610.07655v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a practically successful framework for generative modeling on discrete product spaces, yet their statistical

A Taxonomy on Collective Awareness

arXiv:2610.06427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As robotic teams tackle increasingly complex tasks in dynamic and unstructured environments, effective coordination requires agents to maintain accurate

A Theory of Shape Reconstruction from Heat Conduction and Shading

arXiv:2610.04052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shape from shading using a single image of a Lam- bertian surface is inherently ambiguous. When the light source direction is known, the surface normal

Tutorials

Adaptive Partitioning Schemes for Optimistic Optimization

arXiv:2610.04039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Applications such as engineering design often require us to optimize a black-box function, i.e., a system whose inner processing is not analytically k

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

Advectra: Asymmetric Latent Transport for Non-Stationary Physics

arXiv:2610.05098v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many latent neural operators represent input and output fields in a stationary latent chart. In particular, common latent routing mechanisms use fixed o

Amortized Acquisition Optimization for Bayesian Optimization with Variational Mutual Information

arXiv:2601.08172v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) of expensive black-box functions is traditionally addressed with Gaussian processes (GPs), which scale cubically with obs

ArticuTable: Generating Instance-Level Interactive Rigid-Articulated 3D Tabletop Scenes from a Single Image

arXiv:2610.05249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agents benefit from 3D environments that combine visual fidelity to real-world observations with physical interactivity. Existing single-image

AstraSR: Real-World Thermal Super-Resolution with GPT-6 Astra

arXiv:2610.05910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world thermal super-resolution (SR) is constrained by limited sensor resolution and the difficulty of obtaining corresponding high-resolution (HR)

Bayesian Data Augmentation for DNN Retraining with Binomial Outcomes in Vision-Based UAV Landing

arXiv:2610.05674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In GPS-denied or cluttered urban environments, vision-based landing is essential for reliable UAV missions. Real-world landing sites are often unstruc

Bridging the EHR Divide: Asymmetric Contrastive Learning for Cross-National Medical Representation Transfer

arXiv:2610.04946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-system transfer of longitudinal Electronic Health Record (EHR) representations is challenging because clinical coding, patient populations, and he

Safety

Dependable AI-Assisted Engineering: A Formal Framework for AI Participation and Assurance in Safety-Critical Workflows

arXiv:2610.04084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI can produce engineering artefacts, but generation alone does not determine whether or how those artefacts should enter safety-critical wor

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Dual-Scale Relational Graph Transformers for Ecosystem-Aware Fraud Detection

arXiv:2610.04138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Account takeover (ATO) fraud is a growing threat to digital banking, requiring effective detection while minimizing friction for legitimate customers. P

Execution-Aligned Progressive Noise for Consistent Asynchronous Replanning in Generative Robot Policies

arXiv:2610.06090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous asynchronous replanning is essential for real-time generative robot policies, but independent stochastic initialization can cause mode switch

From Abusive Language Classification to Sequence Labeling Identification

arXiv:2610.06287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial content moderation must process massive message streams under tight latency constraints, yet most abusive language (AL) detection systems r

GOTT: Object-centric Dexterous Manipulation with a Reusable Cross-Embodiment Primitive

arXiv:2610.03861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models and large-scale human data provide rich sources of manipulation intent, but translating this intent into multi-fingered robot behavi

Graph Data Augmentation via Contrastive Generator Inversion (exttt{DCBA})

arXiv:2610.05653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphs provide a natural representation of many complex systems, ranging from social platforms to ecosystems. However, the development of graph-based ma

How (and How Not) to Use Data Augmentation in VLA Post-Training

arXiv:2610.05994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models currently demonstrate strong performance in a wide range of real-world robotics tasks. However, they often still l

Isotropic Gaussian Processes Improve Vanilla Bayesian Optimization in High Dimensions

arXiv:2610.05780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-dimensional Bayesian optimization (BO) often fits Gaussian process (GP) surrogates from far fewer observations than input dimensions. Modern Vani

Joint Precision Neural Networks: Task-Aware Dependency and Predictive Learning

arXiv:2610.06023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Exploiting meaningful latent structures from data to solve downstream tasks is a fundamental challenge in signal processing and machine learning. While

Kepler4D: Controllable Future Video Generation via 4D Scene State Evolution

arXiv:2610.04152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models aim to preserve scene structure and predict how dynamic objects evolve beyond visual observations. We present Kepler4D, a framework f

KESurv: A Kernel Ensemble Method for Patient-Specific Survival Prediction

arXiv:2610.06434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting patient-specific survival functions is crucial for clinicians in making informed decisions about patient care and treatment strategies. Amo

Learning Granger Causality under Latent Confounding via Intervention-Induced Heterogeneity

arXiv:2510.19138v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Granger causality characterizes directed predictive dependencies in multivariate time series, but recovering such dependencies becomes challenging i

MoFlow: One-Step Flow Matching for Human Trajectory Forecasting via Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation based Distillation

arXiv:2503.09950v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of human trajectory forecasting, which aims to predict the inherently multi-modal future movements of humans b

Multimodal Deep Survival Analysis for Sinkhole Susceptibility

arXiv:2610.06365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sinkholes are a widespread geohazard in karst terrain. In Florida, soluble carbonate bedrock, shallow groundwater, and intense rainfall combine to make

Patch-based Querying Identifies Structures of Interest in Electron Microscopy

arXiv:2610.06020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Volume electron microscopy (vEM) has emerged as an essential sensing technique in biomedical research, allowing the three-dimensional imaging of biologi

Physics-aware Masked Diffusion-based Flood Simulation for Urban Fisheye Disaster Detection

arXiv:2607.15527v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Physical simulations that predict the behavior of urban disasters, such as climate-related flooding, play a crucial role in disaster prevention and

Programming Manufacturing Robots with Imperfect AI: LLMs as Tuning Experts for FDM Print Configuration Selection

arXiv:2603.22118v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We use fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing as a case study of how manufacturing robots can use imperfect AI. In FDM, print configuration str

RiskFly: Frustum-Aligned Spatio-Temporal Risk Fields for One-Stage Agile Flight in Dynamic Clutter

arXiv:2610.04566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agile flight in unknown, cluttered, and dynamic environments requires a planner that knows where and when danger will appear, not only that a trajectory

Research

Smoothed Gradient Method for Nonconvex Federated Stochastic Bilevel Optimization

arXiv:2610.05290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, federated stochastic bilevel optimization has attracted increasing attention due to its wide range of applications in machine learning.

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Structural Foundations of Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Inputs: The UID-Induced Normal Form and Minimal-Sensing Structure-from-Motion

arXiv:2610.05939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper establishes the first general structural solution to the problem of state estimation for nonlinear systems driven by unknown inputs. Buildi

Synthetic-to-Real ViT-Based Pose Estimation of a Noncooperative UAV

arXiv:2610.04335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote pose estimation of noncooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from imagery is critical, as they cannot be influenced or instrumented in advan

Technical Report on the Turba Fertilizer Machine Learning Stack in Morocco

arXiv:2610.05949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Site-specific fertilizer recommendation systems adapt nutrient advice to location, soil properties, crop type, and production targets, but scientific re

TRACER: Texture-Robust Affordance Chain-of-Thought for Deformable-Object Region Grounding

arXiv:2601.20208v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The central challenge in robotic manipulation of deformable objects lies in aligning high-level semantic instructions with physical interactio