Scientific reasoning in specialized engineering fields depends on knowledge scattered across the literature, often proprietary and absent from frontier LLM training data. In such domains, frontier…
Image-goal navigation (ImageNav) requires an agent to reach a location specified by a goal image in an unknown environment. For drones, this task demands exploration, goal- directed navigation, and…
Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) enable world models to plan from images by predicting future embeddings. However, their visual prediction objectives do not explicitly incorporate…
As expansion and scalability in underwater oper- ations becomes more important and challenging, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) become more relevant and the necessity for reliable autonomy more…
Variables can predict an outcome jointly while each is individually independent of it, causing structure learners to discard informative links. We investigate how to operationalise weaker…
The rapid growth of the space economy, alongside increasing orbital congestion and debris, is driving demand for reliable on-orbit transportation of large and non-cooperative objects. Performing such…
Multi-robot coordination of nonlinear systems is naturally formulated as joint-space optimal control subject to constraints over groups of robots. Existing methods that approach joint optimality…
Complex objects such as engineering designs and proteins are often difficult to optimise because their design spaces exhibit high-dimensional structure and objective evaluations are expensive.…
Given an unseen graph, a start node, $s$, and an end node, $t$, can a language model generate the shortest path from $s$ to $t$? Prior work has found that models fail to learn this task as the graphs…
Automated agentic-system design is typically evaluated on static task suites with immediate scalar rewards. Deployed systems face persistent shift, delayed dependent feedback, correlated component…
Many clinical decisions are a choice among a few fixed options, taken quickly and in large numbers. Such decisions also need an uncertainty estimate to know when to defer to a clinician.
Software agents are being trained to exceed human engineers; we argue that capability alone does not produce better software engineering. We define superintelligent software engineering as the…
We present an optimized approach for finding minimal move sequences to solve Flood-It puzzles using A* search and compare it with approaches using SAT, Integer Programming, and Constraint Programming…
Generative artificial intelligence promises to democratize personalized tutoring, yet the longitudinal stability of adaptive systems remains under-theorized. Current ethical discourse focuses on…
Explainable AI (XAI) methods are usually evaluated for technical properties such as faithfulness and robustness. In high-stakes application domains, experts also need to check model predictions…
Stable grasping under task-specific disturbances is important for robotic manipulation. However, most dexterous grasp synthesis methods are developed for highly actuated hands in free space, and…
Generative AI imposes new metacognitive demands on knowledge workers as their work shifts from production to planning, evaluation, and orchestration. In a randomized, between-subjects experiment on…
Scientific discovery often requires identifying a small number of high-performing designs in vast, constrained search spaces. This is difficult when evaluations are costly, feasible solutions are…
World models have recently emerged as a promising direction toward developing generalist agents capable of understanding, predicting, and interacting with diverse environments. However, despite…
Motion planning is central to robotics, and it is increasingly used to correct the motions proposed by learned planners and policies. In both uses, constraints must hold at every instant of the…
Semi-implicit variational inference (SIVI) expands the representational capacity of variational families, but optimizing the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) remains challenging because the marginal score…
Before a new policy replaces a deployed one, we often want a certificate, computed from logged episodes, that it is better. We ask how many episodes such a certificate needs when the logging policy…
Uniform convergence asks how many random samples suffice for empirical averages to approximate expectations simultaneously over an entire class of functions. It is a central concept in probability…