This paper proposes a refinement to existing vision-based portable pipelines for the recognition of graspable object parts. Such pipelines can effectively support automatic grasp selection and…
Real-world physical sensing exhibits complex, heterogeneous noise patterns that deviate significantly from idealized simulation, posing a fundamental bottleneck for sim-to-real transfer. Existing…
Interactive video world models predict how an environment evolves under user actions, but most existing systems assume one controlled agent and one task-specific action interface. We study…
Creative prompt expansion improved overall audiovisual quality scores over raw prompts in a controlled pilot of VideoGen Model 1, our post-trained version of MiniMax H3. We compared the raw,…
Learning-based path planners based on diffusion and flow matching can generate diverse trajectories from demonstrations but typically lack mechanisms for constraint satisfaction and collision…
Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is a challenging task due to the extremely small size of targets, low signal-to-noise ratios, and heavy background clutter in infrared imagery. While the…
Deep learning based models accurately delineate tumours on dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), but segmentation masks alone do not provide the rationales or reasoning used by radiologists to…
Thermal cameras enable robots to perceive human activities in darkness while revealing less personally identifiable appearance information and fewer details of the surrounding environment than RGB…
Human video scales easily and does not need robot hardware, but existing methods require depth sensing, overlay the robot onto 2D video, or generate data only for the demonstrated objects. We present…
Lunar surface exploration increasingly relies on autonomous rovers that must perceive and traverse unstructured terrain under extreme illumination conditions. Near the lunar poles, low sun elevations…
Reach-avoid sets, defining the states from which a task can be completed while avoiding unsafe regions, are fundamental tools for deploying robots in environments subject to disturbances and…
High-quality training data are a major bottleneck in machine learning, motivating increasing use of artificially generated data. We study when a binary classifier trained on synthetic data transfers…
In object goal navigation (ObjectNav), an embodied agent must find a target object (e.g., "find a bed") in a previously unseen environment, relying on spatial commonsense such as object…
Stochastic optimization with high-fidelity nonlinear models is often computationally prohibitive because each objective evaluation requires sampling-based uncertainty quantification inside an outer…
We study the sample complexity of estimating Ornstein--Uhlenbeck diffusion scores in $\mathbb R^d$ using denoising score matching (DSM) with finite-width shallow ReLU networks, and its implications…
We study Gaussian kernel approximation and regularized logistic classification on a connected compact smooth embedded manifold $X\subset\mathbb R^d$ without boundary and of intrinsic dimension…
Many modern learning systems are used not to select a single best action, but to sample diverse high-quality outputs. Examples include entropy-regularized reinforcement learning, RLHF, and…
Robust covariance estimation under entry-wise contamination and missing data is challenging in various signal processing applications. Under the Student-$t$ model, observation-level reweighting…