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AM-Bench: A Modular Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation Policy Learning

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arXiv:2609.00641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standardized benchmarks have played a central role in advancing robot manipulation learning, yet most focus on ground-supported manipulation systems, wh

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Discrete-Time MDP Modeling for Multi-Item Capacitated Lot Sizing with Stochastic Demand Timing

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arXiv:2609.00004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies a finite-horizon multi-item capacitated lot-sizing problem in which demand quantities are deterministic, while demand-arrival periods

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Faster Than Flash: Exploiting Attention Sparsity for Efficient Long-Context Decoding

arXiv:2609.00097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The development of long-context Large Language Models (LLMs) is constrained by the memory bandwidth bottleneck and quadratic complexity of the attenti

Federated Trust for Embodied Robot Capability Marketplaces

arXiv:2609.00404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot capability marketplaces, the 'app store for robot skills,' are emerging as the deployment vector for LLM-driven robot fleets. The default cloud-

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Fractal dimension predicts quantum kernel collapse in angle-encoded data

arXiv:2609.00475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Angle-encoded quantum kernels on tabular data collapse when the feature map is wider than the intrinsic dimension of the data. We propose the correlat

MeshSplatBench: A Unified Benchmark for Triangle-Based Neural Rendering

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arXiv:2609.01306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Triangle-based neural rendering bridges neural scene representations and conventional graphics pipelines by optimizing explicit geometric primitives c

NSIDDx: A Design Framework for Neuro-Symbolic, Practitioner-First Differential Diagnosis in Low-Resource Settings

arXiv:2609.00256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based diagnostic systems achieve high semantic accuracy on benchmarks, but open-ended evaluation on clinically uncommon presentations reveals a syst

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PCoMoE: Shifting MoE Inference from Monolithic Expert Selection to Fine-Grained Path Composition

arXiv:2609.01024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale Large Language Model (LLM) capacity efficiently by activating a sparse subset of experts per token. However

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QILP-0: Constructing Observational Declarative Twins of Quantum Circuits

arXiv:2609.01049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces QXymb, a general framework for constructing observational declarative twins of quantum circuits, and develops QILP-0, its first co

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Recent Developments in Transformer Inference Deployment on FPGA Platforms: A Survey

arXiv:2609.01212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid and continuous growth in the incorporation of machine learning models based on the Transformer architecture, capable deployment is in hig

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A Dual-Cam Parallel Elastic Actuator with Shared Gas-Spring Compensation for Humanoid Ankles

arXiv:2608.30832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To improve torque capacity and energy efficiency of humanoid ankles, this paper proposes a 2-DoF parallel elastic actuator (PEA). The main novelty of th

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An Open-Source, Event-Driven Pipeline for Cryptocurrency Market Data: Ingestion, Forecasting, and On-Chain Fraud Detection

arXiv:2608.29973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cryptocurrency markets generate high-frequency, multi-source data that is expensive to work with unless a team already has commercial-grade streaming an

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Coarse to Fine: Iterative Adversarial Neural Cellular Automata for Medical Image Synthesis

arXiv:2608.28909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale, publicly available datasets have driven advances in deep learning, but privacy and legal restrictions often limit data sharing in medical i

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Cross-Modal Visuo-Tactile Representation Learning with Action Chunking Transformers for Contact-Rich Manipulation

arXiv:2602.00514v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile feedback is important for contact-rich robotic manipulation, yet effective use of tactile observations remains challenging when tactile sign

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Discovering Machine Correlates of Consciousness

arXiv:2608.28824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Currently, in biological systems Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCCs) are characterized in terms of EEG and FMRI signals. Unfortunately, this chara

Hydra: A Navigation World Action Model with Discrete Latent Planning and Continuous Flow-Matching Execution

arXiv:2608.28995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models let robots imagine possible futures, but exploiting this capability for real-time control is bottlenecked by a representation misalignmen

mmIR: Frequency-Space Inverse Rendering for 3D Millimeter-Wave Radar ADC Synthesis

arXiv:2608.28913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-resolution 3D radar data is scarce. Commodity mmWave sensors use small antenna arrays that limit angular resolution to several degrees, and existin

RLinf-USER: A Unified and Extensible System for Real-World Online Policy Learning in Embodied AI

arXiv:2602.07837v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Online policy learning directly in the physical world is a promising yet challenging direction for embodied intelligence. Unlike simulation, real-wo

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RoboGesture: Real-Time Semantic-aligned Co-Speech Gestures Generation for Humanoid Interaction

arXiv:2608.28693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling humanoid robots to respond to human speech with synchronized and semantically meaningful gestures is fundamental to natural human-robot inter

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RouteSparse: Input-Conditional Pattern Routing for Budgeted Long-Context Prefilling

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arXiv:2608.29058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic sparse attention can reduce the quadratic cost of long-context prefilling without changing model weights. MInference assigns each attention head

Safety Screening for Voltage Control in Active Distribution Grids via Distributionally Robust Conformal Screening

arXiv:2608.30889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying a new control policy for voltage control in active distribution grids requires evidence that physical limits will be satisfied before the po

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Simulation-Based Evaluation of Energy-Constrained Quantum-Classical Competition

arXiv:2308.08025v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper develops a simulation-based framework for evaluating the energy implications of quantum and classical computing firms competing in

SpectraTac: A Compact Camera-Free Optical Tactile Sensor with Distributed Color Sensing

arXiv:2608.30368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing is essential for physical interaction in robotics and human--machine systems. However, combining rich tactile information with compact h

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The Potential of Haptic Foundation Models

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arXiv:2608.28664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the success of foundation models in language and vision, their expansion into embodied AI is bottlenecked by a lack of generalized touch sensi

Toward Trustworthy Robot-Assisted Sliding Palpation for Shallow Vessel Localisation with a Calibrated Digital Twin

arXiv:2608.29396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable localisation of shallow subsurface vessels is important for safe robot-assisted venous access and vessel-aware manipulation, but collecting div

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TuringLLM: Efficiently Scaling Foundation Models Toward Physical AI

arXiv:2608.30567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Turing-20B-A2B, a 20B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts language model that activates approximately 2B parameters per token, designed for long-con

When Do Larger Batches Help Scale LLM Reinforcement Learning?

arXiv:2608.29296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Larger batches reduce the variance of stochastic gradients per update and are therefore often expected to accelerate training. Yet whether this statis

Cooperative Risk-Aware Exploration in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems Using Algorithmic Altruism

arXiv:2608.28409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems are well-positioned for exploration in hazardous environments, but effective deployment requires deciding not only where robots shou

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EXPOSE: Explainable and Domain-Robust Embeddings from Pathology Vision Foundation Models using Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2608.28191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) are widely used in computational pathology but remain sensitive to domain shifts arising from variations in staining, ti

H-Scale: Hessian-Guided Scale Refinement for NVFP4 Sub-Byte LLM Inference

arXiv:2608.28113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, with native support for the ultra-fine-grained NVFP4 format, opens new opportunities for accelerating large language

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Pruning Laws for Large Language Models

arXiv:2504.04342v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling up model parameters and training data consistently improves the performance of large language models (LLMs), but at the cost of rapidly grow

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Activation Outliers Matter: Robust Recovery for Quantized Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2608.26581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-bit quantization offers a promising avenue for reducing the computational and memory demands of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Recent har

Agentic AI for operating scientific instruments for nanoscale characterization

arXiv:2608.26198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operating a scientific instrument such as an atomic force microscope (AFM) requires continuous expert decision-making. A trained user defines the experi

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Closing the Loop on the Poppy Humanoid: Bipedal Locomotion with Linear-Quadratic Control and Learned Cost Functions

arXiv:2608.26505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Poppy Humanoid is an open-source, low-cost robot suitable for research and education in artificial intelligence. However, we are unaware of any publ

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Dispersive Forward Tree Search for Optimal Control: Coverage, Complexity, and Computation

arXiv:2608.26314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering-based planners require solutions to state-to-state boundary value problems, which can be inaccessible for nonlinear platforms. Forward propagat

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Gaze Authentication: Factors Influencing Authentication Performance

arXiv:2509.10969v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper examines the key factors that influence the performance of state-of-the-art gaze-based authentication. Experiments were conducted on a la

Generative Monte Carlo Sampling for Constant-Cost Particle Transport

arXiv:2512.13965v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Generative Monte Carlo (GMC), a novel paradigm for particle transport simulation that integrates generative artificial intelligence directl

Over-The-Air Extreme Learning Machines with Nonlinear Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces

arXiv:2608.27137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The recently envisioned goal-oriented communications paradigm requires machine learning inference to be performed directly on wirelessly transferred d

Performance Foundations of Parallel & Distributed Reasoning Language Models

arXiv:2608.27046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and other RL-style post-training paradigms have been used for aligning large language models (LL

PLCBench: Can Autonomous LLM Agents Turn PLC Access into Sustained Physical Impact?

arXiv:2608.26882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial control systems (ICSs) rely on programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to connect networked computation with physical control. Tool-using lar

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Real-time Unsupervised Object Discovery from Asynchronous Event Streams

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arXiv:2608.26644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Event cameras capture pixel-level intensity changes with microsecond resolution to produce highly sparse asynchronous data streams. For visual perceptio

Toward all-optical unsupervised Hebbian learning in deep photonic neuromorphic networks

arXiv:2601.22300v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a deep photonic neuromorphic network (PNN) architecture based on phase-change material (PCM) synapses and local optical feedback fo

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Towards Interpretable Depression Detection: Linking Acoustic Features to DSM-5 Indicators

arXiv:2608.26148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depression affects millions worldwide, yet diagnosis relies on subjective self-reports that may miss authentic behavior. This paper presents an approach

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Using Poly-Encoders for Computationally Efficient Automated Creativity Assessment

arXiv:2608.26165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated creativity assessment has been a long standing challenge, with traditional methods often being resource intensive or lacking practical accur

A Lightweight Multimodal Vision-Language Framework for Early-Stage Anatomical Green Fruit Classification in Commercial Orchards

arXiv:2608.24935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate identification of early-stage apple fruitlet anatomical structures, including the calyx, fruitlet body, and peduncle, is essential for robotic

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Evolutionary chemical learning in dimerization networks

arXiv:2506.14006v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a framework for chemical learning based on Competitive Dimerization Networks (CDNs) - systems in which multiple molecular species,

One Policy, Many Embodiments: Unified Camera-Centric Action Geometry Pre-training for Heterogeneous Embodied Manipulation

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arXiv:2608.26058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling generalist vision-language-action (VLA) policies is severely bottlenecked by the inherent heterogeneity of embodied data, which spans diverse ro

VISTA: Visually Inferred Spatial ConTact Attention for Contact-Rich Manipulation

arXiv:2608.25872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires precise interaction feedback. While vision-centric imitation learning is prevalent, external visual observations prov

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