We study satisficing regret minimization in bandits with knapsacks (BwK), where a learner sequentially selects randomized policies, i.e., distributions over arms, to obtain mean rewards above a…
An effective agent memory system should adapt to a user's history and task requirements. Human-annotated supervision can guide this adaptation by providing feedback for evaluating and improving…
Factor models are central to asset pricing and portfolio construction, but neural factors are often difficult to interpret, and their effect on portfolio risk is unclear. A sparse autoencoder (SAE)…
As a representative form of embodied robotic interaction, aerial grasping requires close coordination between the aerial platform and manipulator. Most existing systems perform aerial grasping with…
When one AI agent tells another that "the tests passed" or "a person approved this refund", the receiver has only the sender's word. A2A and MCP authenticate the channel, but the sender is the party…
Quadrotor control under disturbances such as wind gusts and payload variations remains challenging. First-order sliding mode control (SMC) and matched/unmatched uncertainty distinction are classical…
Tracked vehicles are widely used in off-road applications, but their conventional motion models often rely on no-slip assumptions that become inaccurate on low-adherence surfaces. Rather than…
Principal-agent hypothesis testing studies statistical contracts in which a principal rewards an agent according to data the agent generates. Existing work focuses on the single-shot setting, where…
Human evaluation of AI-generated videos has so far relied on explicit human feedback, such as judgments or ratings. While these signals capture the conclusions viewers reach, they fail to offer…
Smart wheelchairs are robotic devices that gather information from the surroundings and allow people to safely drive through various environments. They usually rely on the interpretation of…
Combining wheeled and legged locomotion within a single robotic platform offers the potential to harness the advantages of both systems. The development of such hybrid systems remains an active area…
We study equilibrium learning in discretized Bayesian games, focusing on first-price auctions as a testbed for gradient-based learning dynamics under private information. While the symmetric…
Reliable box manipulation requires successful placement without damage, which depends on maintaining sufficient contact force without excessive loading. We hypothesize that per-finger force feedback…
Embodied systems can update policies, world models, skills, and executable programs from deployment experience, allowing one interaction to benefit later tasks. When a system also revises and reuses…
We continue the study of minimum-time escape of an omnidirectional evader from the forward conic field of view of a Reeds--Shepp pursuer, now for a faster evader, and solve the game for every speed…
This paper presents a two-stage learning framework for versatile and agile humanoid locomotion that couples online reduced-order model (ROM) reference generation with whole-body tracking control. In…
Human-level dexterity remains a central open problem in robotics, yet few simulation frameworks cover the full workflow of dexterous manipulation, from setting up a robot to collecting dexterous…
Supernumerary robotic fingers augment human dexterity by enabling a single hand to perform complex "hold-and-manipulate" tasks that typically require bimanual coordination. However, existing devices…
Medium altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial systems such as Shahed-type strike drones are an unanswered threat in modern conflicts. Conventional air defense systems are too expensive to provide a…
Objective: This study aims to determine whether a hip-exoskeleton policy trained in simulation, by co-adapting with a musculoskeletal human model under a metabolic-energy reward, reduces the…
Flapping-wing micro air vehicles are prized for quiet flight, yet the few existing measurements show engineered wings to be 15-30 dB louder than the animals they imitate. This paper investigates two…
This paper presents a mixed discrete-continuous multiobjective bilevel framework for the structure-actuation co-design of all-electric heavy-duty robotic manipulators. The upper level optimizes…
Maintaining contact in non-prehensile manipulation requires more than nominal friction cone feasibility: a force barely inside the cone and one well inside it are both feasible, but they provide…