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Safe-Night VLA: Seeing the Unseen via Thermal-Perceptive Vision-Language-Action Models for Safety-Critical Manipulation
arXiv:2603.05754v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models rely primarily on RGB perception, preventing them from capturing modalities such as thermal signals that are imperceptible t…
A hybrid reduced-order and high-fidelity discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element framework for large-scale PMUT array simulations
arXiv:2603.06267v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUTs) are essential for next-generation ultrasonic sensing and imaging due to their bidirectional electromechanical…
Animating Petascale Time-varying Data on Commodity Hardware with LLM-assisted Scripting
arXiv:2603.07053v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientists face significant visualization challenges as time-varying datasets grow in speed and volume, often requiring specialized infrastructure and expertise to hand…
PanoAffordanceNet: Towards Holistic Affordance Grounding in 360{\deg} Indoor Environments
arXiv:2603.09760v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Global perception is essential for embodied agents in 360{\deg} spaces, yet current affordance grounding remains largely object-centric and restricted to perspective vi…
Octopus-inspired Distributed Control for Soft Robotic Arms: A Graph Neural Network-Based Attention Policy with Environmental Interaction
arXiv:2603.10198v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper proposes SoftGM, an octopus-inspired distributed control architecture for segmented soft robotic arms that learn to reach targets in contact-rich environment…
Human Motion Data Alone Does Not Guarantee Plausible Gait Biomechanics
arXiv:2603.12408v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motion imitation learning (IL) is increasingly used in robotics and human gait modeling, yet its ability to recover biomechanically consistent joint moments without exp…
Beyond Medical Diagnostics: How Medical Multimodal Large Language Models Think in Space
arXiv:2603.13800v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual spatial intelligence is critical for medical image interpretation, yet remains largely unexplored in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for 3D imaging. Thi…
Irreducibility of Endomorphisms of Finitely Generated Free Semigroups
arXiv:2603.15177v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce and investigate the irreducibility of endomorphisms of finitely generated free semigroups, i.e., we investigate when an endomorphism $\varphi: \Sigma^+ \to…
AgentWorm: Self-Propagating Attacks Across LLM Agent Ecosystems
arXiv:2603.15727v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous LLM-based agents increasingly operate as long-running processes forming densely interconnected multi-agent ecosystems, whose security properties remain large…
PhasorFlow: A Python Library for Unit Circle Based Computing
arXiv:2603.15886v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present PhasorFlow, an open-source Python library for computing on the $S^1$ unit circle. Inputs are encoded as complex phasors $z=e^{i\phi}$ on the $N$-torus ($\mat…
Automated identification of Ichneumonoidea wasps via YOLO-based deep learning: Integrating HiresCam for Explainable AI
arXiv:2603.16351v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate taxonomic identification of parasitoid wasps within the superfamily Ichneumonoidea is essential for biodiversity assessment, ecological monitoring, and biologi…
Making Separation-First Multi-Stream Audio Watermarking Feasible via Joint Training
arXiv:2603.16805v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern audio is created by mixing stems from different sources, raising the question: can we independently watermark each stem and recover all watermarks after separati…
Bringing Network Coding into Multi-Robot Systems: Interplay Study for Autonomous Systems over Wireless Communications
arXiv:2603.17472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Communication is a core enabler for multi-robot systems (MRS), providing the mechanism through which robots exchange state information, coordinate actions, and satisfy …
REST: Receding Horizon Explorative Steiner Tree for Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation
arXiv:2603.18624v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) requires navigating unknown environments to find a target object without task-specific training. Prior hierarchical solutions ma…
ME-IQA: Memory-Enhanced Image Quality Assessment via Re-Ranking
arXiv:2603.20785v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reasoning-induced vision-language models (VLMs) advance image quality assessment (IQA) with textual reasoning, yet their scalar scores often lack sensitivity and collap…
The Hidden Puppet Master: Predicting Human Belief Change in Manipulative LLM Dialogues
arXiv:2603.20907v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As users increasingly turn to LLMs for practical and personal advice, they become vulnerable to subtle steering toward hidden incentives misaligned with their own inter…
Stationary Online Contention Resolution Schemes
arXiv:2603.21532v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Online contention resolution schemes (OCRSs) are a central tool in Bayesian online selection and resource allocation: they convert fractional ex-ante relaxations into f…
Echoes: A semantically-aligned music deepfake detection dataset
arXiv:2603.23667v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Echoes, a new dataset for music deepfake detection designed for training and benchmarking detectors under realistic and provider-diverse conditions. Echoes…
From Stateless to Situated: Building a Psychological World for LLM-Based Agents
arXiv:2603.25031v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In psychological support and emotional companionship scenarios, the core limitation of large language models (LLMs) lies not merely in response quality, but in their re…
The Complexity of Distributed Minimum Weight Cycle Approximation
arXiv:2603.25368v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the Minimum Weight Cycle (MWC) problem in the $\mathsf{CONGEST}$ model of distributed computing. For undirected weighted graphs, we give a randomized $(k+1)$-a…