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…
Navigation Among Movable Obstacles (NAMO) requires a robot to rearrange objects that block access to its goal. For a pushing robot, progress may depend on a setup push that enables a later opening…
We compare the relation between sentiment noise in the Twitter feed and losses for stocks of domestic and foreign firms. The mean quarterly domestic-foreign difference in the slope of next-quarter…
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies increasingly reason before acting, but existing reasoning models compress this intermediate decision into a single representation. When several plans are valid,…
This paper studies the problem of aggregation in multiclass classification, generalizing existing results for binary classification. Given a finite dictionary of score functions F={f_1,...,f_M} and a…
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies are commonly deployed with asynchronous inference in real-world settings, where the next action chunk is generated while the robot is still executing the…
Tactile representation learning for dexterous manipulation often requires substantial robot-side data collection, limiting its scalability across different hands and sensors. We explore whether…
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) face significant challenges in roundabout navigation due to dense traffic interactions and unpredictable agent behaviors, necessitating high levels of…
When does experience memory help a closed-loop LLM driving agent? Published gains cannot say, because the two factors we find to matter most, which warmup experiences the pool contains and what any…
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generate robot actions from visual observations and language instructions, but effective manipulation also requires anticipating how the environment will change.…
Real-world audio typically contains concurrent sound events, yet standard self-supervised methods treat each clip as an isolated training unit without explicitly modeling mixture--constituent…
Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are a major concern in federated learning (FL) deployments in critical sectors such as healthcare, and finance. Traditional defense mechanisms fail to contain APTs…
In modern commerce, firms and platforms typically use customer features from different sources to personalize prices: some features are verified using seller records or third-party data, while others…
We study how to evaluate $K$ target policies simultaneously in stochastic contextual bandits with linear reward structure. Given a known $d$-dimensional feature map and reward-free access to policy…
LLM agentic workflows increasingly employ different models for specialized roles. Users may prefer different trade-offs between task quality and deployment cost, sometimes also considering latency.
Looped transformers reuse a shared block of layers to increase computational depth without increasing the number of trainable parameters. They are trained with backpropagation through time (BPTT).
Inference-time sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) decoding can improve the reasoning accuracy of masked diffusion language models (diffusion LLMs) without post-training by resampling a population of…
In reservoir computing, performance depends on whether the fixed dynamics of the reservoir suit the task, and the appropriate memory length and frequency response differ across tasks. The reservoir…
Agents that run for a long time have a memory problem, and it is not the one most systems optimize for. Storing every trace and retrieving the nearest neighbors works early and quietly stops working…
We present an overview of R package called \texttt{naspaclust}, a tool for spatial fuzzy clustering improvement by hybridising the Fuzzy Geographically Weighted Clustering (FGWC) with nature-inspired…
Latent recursion repeatedly processes internal representations through the same neural network. Recent work has shown this approach to be effective on structured reasoning tasks such as Sudoku and…
Pandora's problem is a fundamental model of sequential search in which opening each box incurs a cost. We study the variant with deadlines, where each box has a publicly known deadline for both…
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is emerging as a promis- ing technology for EV Charging infrastructure (EVCI) since it enables flexible, programmable control of EVCI networks, yet its security gain…