Search-based machine-learning (ML) agents improve a solution by writing candidate programs, executing them, and keeping the best. Execution gives the search reliable feedback, but a single run can…
Large language models (LLMs) are often conditioned into specific roles such as tutors, interviewers, or agents acting for an organisation, through system prompts that specify how they should behave.…
Real-world deployment of computer vision models, particularly in outdoor scenarios, is often limited by environmental interferences, such as adverse weather. Improving model robustness across weather…
LLM-guided evolutionary search iteratively selects existing programs, uses LLMs as mutation operators to generate a new program, and evaluates it to guide subsequent search. To preserve diversity and…
When a person declined our robot's invitation to play, Alice turned her shoulder away and said "No worries, it's all good." Only after a brief pause did she drive off. The words and gestures were…
Medical vision-language models (VLMs) show strong performance in radiology report generation (RRG) and medical visual question answering (Med-VQA), producing free-form clinical descriptions and…
Quadrupedal manipulators can extend their workspace through whole-body interaction, but task-planning agents' capabilities remain limited by their available controllers. We present ELEVATE, a…
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have spurred growing interest in temporal knowledge graph question answering (TKGQA). Most existing methods rely on semantic retrieval augmented…
The external sources retained in our non-systematic audit did not isolate the incremental security or utility effect of consuming /llms.txt while ordinary retrieval remained fixed. The initial audit…
Visual foundation models learn rich pathological morphology but lack explicit concept-level supervision. Vision--language pretraining can provide this supervision but requires costly image--text…
Reliable legal information retrieval must ground legal reasoning in authoritative statutory sources. In Arabic judicial settings, long factual narratives must be mapped to concise articles that…
Zero-shot vision-and-language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to use past observations without navigation-specific training. We study what information an 8B-scale navigation system should retain…
Language-model answers are often treated as a visible record of the internal decision that produced them. We test this assumption in conflicting-context question answering, where two supplied…
Large language models hold promise for delivering safe, scientifically grounded, and personalized exercise guidance at scale, yet the sports-and-health domain still lacks curated training corpora and…
Mobile manipulator robots rarely reposition their base during manipulation, because doing so requires real-time knowledge of how well the arm can reach its surroundings among obstacles. Reachability…
Language models increasingly create 3D content through code, with practical workflows often relying on editing existing programs rather than regenerating them, for speed and precise control. Such…
Skills, as reusable external knowledge, have demonstrated substantial potential to enhance the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve complex tasks. However, existing skill-augmented…
Robot-learning studies often compare position and velocity actions as though each label identified a single experimental treatment, yet the label alone does not determine what the robot executes.…
Neural simulation is an essential methodology for studying biological nervous systems, but it remains limited by the computational costs of repeatedly updating neural and synaptic states over many…
Randomized clinical trials are essential for evaluating interventions, yet average treatment effects can obscure treatment effect heterogeneity, making conditional average treatment effects (CATEs) a…
Mean-Payoff Games (MPGs) form an interesting family of deterministic, infinite-duration, zero-sum, turn-based games played by two players on a finite weighted directed graph. The goal of the players…
Recent advances in monocular depth estimation have demonstrated highly accurate 3D reconstructions within in-distribution terrestrial domains. This study investigates the efficacy of several…
We introduce EARS-Info, an information-aware extension of Event-Driven Ant Reallocation Search for multi-robot exploration on OpenStreetMap-derived grids. It combines marginal sensing gain, feasible…