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FlowAvatar: Real-Time Full-Body Avatars from Sparse Egocentric Inputs on Consumer XR Devices

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arXiv:2610.16277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior avatar embodiment research has studied tracking completeness (how faithfully the body, hands, and face are sensed and reproduced) and personalized

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From bits to atoms: A survey of cross-layer safety in Embodied AI

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arXiv:2610.14038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) introduces cyber-physical risks because digital failures and attacks can cause physical harm. This survey organize

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From Hitter to Player: Separating Motor Execution and Strategy in Competitive Humanoid Table Tennis

arXiv:2610.14067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Competitive humanoid table tennis requires two distinct abilities: executing a desired return and deciding where to return the ball. We separate these t

GPT-Image-style photo editing on your own GPU (12 GB+): I built a zero-setup app for Qwen-Image 2.1 on stable-diffusion.cpp

Every local setup I tried for Qwen-Image 2.1 meant a Python env, a node graph and an evening of picking quantization, offloading and resolution for my card. Kokon is a free, open-source desktop app th

How the Classical Baseline Shapes Machine-Learning Speed Claims in Topology Optimization

arXiv:2610.16051v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Topology optimization places material so that a structure resists deformation under given loads. Machine-learning methods often report large speed-ups

How to Train Your Latent Control Barrier Function: Smooth Safety Filtering Under Hard-to-Model Constraints

arXiv:2511.18606v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Latent safety filters extend Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability to operate on latent state representations and dynamics learned directly from h

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Humanoid Hanoi: Investigating Shared Whole-Body Control for Skill-Based Box Rearrangement

arXiv:2602.13850v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Humanoid Hanoi, a challenge problem for long-horizon humanoid skill composition that requires a robot to repeatedly sequence pickup, lo

Hybrid Parallel Bessel KAN Model: a Kolmogorov Arnold Network: integrated framework for developing a novel architecture to reconstruct the fused-basis approach via a parameter free quadratic interaction

arXiv:2610.17779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) challenges traditional MLPs by placing learnable activation functions on network edges. However, scaling KANs to spa

I built BitRun: A standalone runner for 1-bit LLMs (100–127 t/s on Apple Silicon & 40–45 t/s on PC CPUs with zero compile)

I built BitRun because I wanted to run 1-bit ternary LLMs on ordinary laptops without melting my battery, spinning up a dedicated GPU, or wrestling with complex build environments. Right now, BitRun g

I3L: Iterative Interactive Imitation Learning for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation

arXiv:2610.17748v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policies trained offline from teleoperated demonstrations can degrade outside their training distribution. This gap is particularly acute in long-horizo

Learning Reachability-Based Safety Representations for Real-Time Robot Navigation in Unknown and Dynamic Environments

arXiv:2610.16522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe robot navigation in unknown, dynamic environments requires more than geometric collision checking: a robot still far from an obstacle may be unab

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Lifting: Quantum State Discrimination Framework for Mid-Circuit Measurements

arXiv:2610.18482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum computing promises new capabilities beyond classical computation. Mid-circuit measurements (MCMs) enable error correction and outcome-dependen

Lightweight Scheduling Policies for Continuously Batched LLLM Serving Across GPU Architectures

arXiv:2610.15899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model serving is increasingly limited not only by model size and GPU speed, but also by scheduling during autoregressive decoding, wher

Linear-Time Non-Local Codec Placement for Machine Learning Model Compression

arXiv:2610.14703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-device inference imposes constraints on model storage and operand traffic and thus benefits from compressed operand representations, which mandate th

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Mapping the Post-Transformer Architecture Landscape in 2026 [D]

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Went down the rabbit hole to map the different Post-Transformer architectures. Various directions include Dragon Hatchling (BDH), Mamba, RWKV, xLSTM, Titans, and a bunch of hybrid models coming from d

MARTS: A Modular Agricultural Robot for Targeted Spraying of Diseased Tomato Plants in Greenhouses

arXiv:2610.18123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Broadcast spraying remains the dominant method of disease control in greenhouse tomato production, yet it treats healthy and diseased tissue alike, expo

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MENTOR: Procedural Shielding of Tool-Using LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.17039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents are increasingly used to automate workflows governed by procedural manuals, such as company rules for booking travel or procurin

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Metadata-Guided Adaptable Frequency Scaling across Heterogeneous Applications and Devices

arXiv:2509.22707v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling is essential for enhancing energy efficiency in mobile platforms. However, traditional heuristic-based g

Mixed Precision Scaling Laws for Quantized Pretraining

arXiv:2610.17637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Since scaling laws were introduced for modern LLMs (Kaplan et al., 2020), several works have extended them to account for quantization, tracking the eme

No Undesirable Equilibria, No Collisions: Combining Modulation and Control Barrier Functions for Liveness and Safety in Dynamic Collision Avoidance

arXiv:2502.14238v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Control Barrier Function Quadratic Programs (CBF-QPs) provide formal safety guarantees for general control-affine systems and accommodate actuation

PACT: Posture-Aligned Co-Design Technique for Hand Configuration and Retargeting in Multi-Finger Imitation Learning

arXiv:2610.18443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The fidelity of teleoperated demonstrations used for imitation learning is determined by how faithfully a robot hand can replicate the operator's postur

Pickalo: Leveraging 6D Pose Estimation for Low-Cost Industrial Bin Picking

arXiv:2604.04690v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bin picking in real industrial environments remains challenging due to severe clutter, occlusions, and the high cost of traditional 3D sensing setup

PPGFlowECG: Latent Rectified Flow with Cross-Modal Encoding for PPG-Guided ECG Generation and Cardiovascular Disease Detection

arXiv:2509.19774v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) is the clinical gold standard for cardiovascular disease (CVD) assessment, yet continuous monitoring is constrained by the

Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, DeepSeekV4 Flash and Time

MacStudio 128GB M1 ultra I'm curious how people who can run both models are deciding which one to work with. DeepSeekv4 benchmarks right below GPT 5.5 high. Flash Next benchmarks right above 5.4/5.5 x

qwen3.8-flash-next-iq3_s vs -27B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

Sampling: temp 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20 for both. Run with evalscope over the OpenAI-compatible API: Qwen3.8-Next on Strata (MI50 32GB), Qwen3.8-27B on llama.cpp (RX 7900 XTX 24GB). Caveat: These are

Recovering Low-Bit Failures in Vision-Language-Action Policies via Quantization-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.15675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantization lowers deployment costs of vision-language-action (VLA) policies but can compromise task completion. Across five VLA models and 4,050 rea

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REFLEX: A Learned On-Board Reflex for Robust Autonomous Collision Recovery of Soft Quadrotors

arXiv:2610.15867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collision-resilient airframes allow quadrotors to survive impacts, but do not ensure autonomous post-collision recovery. Innovation gating in stock onbo

Reviving Stale Updates: Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Asynchronous Federated Learning

arXiv:2511.00655v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, yet its scalability is limited by

Applications

RF Fingerprinting of DSP Implementations using Machine Learning: An Over-the-Air Case Study

arXiv:2610.15494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radio frequency fingerprinting aims to identify transmitters by exploiting small differences in the emitted signal waveform. Common approaches exploit

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Smartphone-Based, Field-Deployed AI Inspection System for Power Distribution Infrastructure

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arXiv:2610.17620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Routine inspection of power distribution infrastructure remains challenging for utilities operating geographically dispersed networks, where conventiona

Speed-Oblivious Online Scheduling: Knowing (Precise) Speeds is not Necessary

arXiv:2302.00985v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider online scheduling on unrelated (heterogeneous) machines in a speed-oblivious setting, where an algorithm is unaware of the exact j

Stereo-Planner: Learning Stereo-to-Trajectory Planning for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Quadrotor Navigation

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arXiv:2610.15560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing navigation systems commonly rely on dedicated depth sensors or explicit depth reconstruction, while learning to generate trajectories directly

Task-Space Motion-Force Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Precise and Compliant Control under Uncertainties

arXiv:2610.17069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC), the control law is implicitly determined by the solution of an Optimal Control Problem (OCP). Consequently

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Teleoperated Driving: a New Challenge for 3D Object Detection in Compressed Point Clouds

arXiv:2506.11804v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In recent years, the development of interconnected devices has expanded in many fields, from infotainment to education and industrial applications.

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Two For The Price Of One: Curvature-Aware Pruning Preserves Influence Functions Too

arXiv:2610.18516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training pruning enables efficient deployment, but conventional methods do not explicitly preserve internal-gradient alignment between sparse and d

Value-Preserving Action Quantization

arXiv:2610.17252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Search-based policy learning, such as Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS), offers the flexibility to trade runtime computation for data efficiency and adap

When More Memory Fails: Hidden Feasibility Holes in Dynamic Tensor Rematerialization

arXiv:2610.14369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic Tensor Rematerialization (DTR) trains neural networks under a memory budget by evicting tensors and recomputing them on demand. A natural expect

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WireCraft: A Simulation Benchmark for Industrial DLO Manipulation

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arXiv:2606.18097v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs), such as wires and cables, are central to industrial assembly. Unlike rigid objects, whose state is captured by a 6

WUSPruner: Second-Moment-Optimal Transforms for Structured Pruning

arXiv:2610.15394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured pruning is typically formulated as identifying which model dimensions to remove, often within the model's original representation. However, t

From 1,000s of raw images to a training-ready dataset — pixel-curator (similarity training curation tool)

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pixel-curator — curation tooling for similarity training (identity, subject, and style models) Repo: https://github.com/snoozey-mf-bnui/pixel-curator What it is pixel-curator is a local-first CLI that

Horsey challenge | Strata Fork | Qwen 3.8 FN NVFP4

So I wanted to try the horsey challenge myself on the latest engine i been testing which is a strata fork by sergqwer. https://github.com/sergqwer/strata-nvfp4. I seen a post earlier and seen i believ

My local Qwen3.8FN agent is significantly cheaper than cloud

tl;dr: running Qwen3.8FN Q4 locally is cheaper for me than every cloud model except Luna and the newer Haiku at mid-peak and peak electricity pricing where I live, and becomes the absolute cheapest mo

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Robots That Predict the Future: Dyna-2, Million-Hour World Models, & the Bitter Lesson of Robotics @DynaRobotics’s @JasonMa2020 explains how…

Robots That Predict the Future: Dyna-2, Million-Hour World Models, & the Bitter Lesson of Robotics @DynaRobotics’s @JasonMa2020 explains how world-action models predict the future to guide physical ro

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10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of 'Site Reliability Engineering”

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A decade ago, Google released Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems with O'Reilly Media. What began as a collection of our practices for managing large-scale infrastructure

A Record of the Process of Increasing MFU from 21% to 50% While Pre-training 21B MoE Using a Single GH200 Chip (Includes Code and Logs)

I am an independent researcher. Due to budget constraints, I shifted my 21B MoE pre-training—which I had originally planned to run on 64 H100s—to a single NVIDIA GH200 ($2.29 per hour), and I have com

Adaptive Whole-Body MPC with Optimal Posture Planning for Humanoid Robots under Unknown Payloads

arXiv:2610.12972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots performing lifting and material-handling tasks must maintain balance despite unknown and varying payloads. However, payload uncertainty

Algebraic Integer Quantization for Machine Learning Applications

arXiv:2610.12494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this article, we propose algebraic integer number formats (AINF) as a framework for highly configurable and accurate compressed computation. A key pr

Tutorials

Belief-Overlap Partial Inversion: Object-Centric Flow Replanning for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

arXiv:2610.13087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People often learn how an unfamiliar object moves through a small exploratory push, using its response to guide their next motion. Inspired by this beha

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