AI News Archive: June 17, 2026 — Part 20
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- C-ARC: Continuous-Adaptive Range Clustering for Non-Repetitive LiDAR Sensors
Real-time LiDAR clustering identifies structures in point clouds, which is an essential prerequisite for many mobile robotics algorithms. Current methods are mostly developed for repetitive mechanical LiDAR sensors. Recently, the use of non-repetitive LiDAR sensors is strongly increasing due to thei...
- ZiMPedance: Impedance-Aware ZMP Modeling and Control for Payload Carrying with Quadruped Robots
Load transportation with quadruped robots is strongly affected by the dynamics of the physical interface between the robot and the load. Passive spring-based arms reduce weight and complexity compared to active manipulators, but their spring-damper dynamics can introduce oscillatory forces that degr...
- Space Is Intelligence: Neural Semigroup Superposition for Riemannian Metric Generation
Traditional approaches place intelligence in the agent, whether as a learned policy or a search procedure. We instead place intelligence in the space itself: a scene induces a Riemannian metric on the configuration manifold, and action reduces to following the geodesics of that metric rather than in...
- HALOMI: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation with Active Perception from Human Demonstrations
Human demonstrations, which can be collected at scale and naturally capture active hand-eye coordination, are a promising data source for learning humanoid loco-manipulation. However, directly transferring human demonstrations to humanoids requires a precise world-frame tracking controller, which is...
- Spatially Stratified Distillation for Heterogeneous Radar Place Recognition
Scalable, all-weather place recognition increasingly relies on heterogeneous radar place recognition to bridge diverse hardware platforms. A notable application is matching queries from cost-effective 4D automotive radars against high-fidelity reference maps built by dense spinning radars. This proc...
- A Scalable Embodied Intelligence Platform for Seamless Real-to-Sim-to-Real Transfer of Household Mobile Manipulation Tasks
Mobile manipulation is a fundamental capability in embodied intelligence robotics. The growing demand for robust and generalizable manipulation in unstructured household environments has driven rapid progress in embodied intelligence platforms. However, achieving a seamless transfer across the real-...
- EffiNav: Fusing Depth and Vision-Language for Efficient Object Goal Navigation
To locate a target object while exploring the unknown environment is a fundamental capability for autonomous agents, with applications ranging from search-and-rescue to field robots. A simplified version of such task is Object Goal Navigation (ObjNav). In ObjNav, successful arrival at the target obj...
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- Self-Supervised Mask-Aware Transformers for Fault-Tolerant FBG Force Sensing in Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics
In minimally invasive surgical robotics, catheter-scale Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors are promising due to their ability to estimate multi-dimensional forces by multiplexing several optical channels. However, deploying these compact multi-channel sensors introduces two critical engineering chall...
- SC3-Eval: Evaluating Robot Foundation Models via Self-Consistent Video Generation
Evaluating generalist robot manipulation policies in the real world is expensive, slow, and difficult to scale. Action-conditioned video world models offer a scalable alternative by simulating policy rollouts. Autoregressive rollouts accumulate compounding errors, observations across multiple camera...
- Admittance-Based Surface Alignment for Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Visual Inspection
Precision visual inspection underpins quality assurance across aerospace, semiconductor, and medical manufacturing, where undetected surface anomalies on high-value parts translate directly into scrap, rework, and field failures. Robotic visual inspection requires precise alignment between the end-e...
- Bridging Data Gaps in Structural Fragility Modeling through Transfer Learning: Methodology and Case Studies
This paper presents a methodology-centered transfer learning framework for fragility adaptation under domain shift, class imbalance, and scarce target labels while preserving engineering interpretability and supporting decision-making under uncertainty. Four transfer learning strategies (instance-ba...
- Sequential Kernel-based Conditional Independence Testing via Adaptive Betting
Testing conditional independence is fundamental yet intrinsically difficult: without additional assumptions, Type I error control is impossible in general. The "Model-X'' paradigm addresses this difficulty by assuming exact knowledge of a relevant conditional distribution. While small deviations fro...
- Strategic Feature Selection
When algorithmic predictors inform resource allocation in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, these predictors must account for strategic manipulation of input features. The typical solution is to redesign the predictor itself to explicitly account for strategic interactions. In practice, howeve...
- Kernel of Partition Paths: A Unified Representation for Tree Ensembles
A recent line of work has reframed individual decision trees as linear models on engineered features associated with their splits, opening routes for oracle inequalities and feature-importance reinterpretation, but leaving open the question of what unified geometric object a forest induces when one ...
- Online Distributional Prediction via Latent Cluster Geometry Under Drift and Corruption
Online learning in non-stationary streams is often formulated as tracking a point estimate, but many applications require predicting the full data-generating distribution. We study online distributional prediction under drift and adversarial corruption. Our approach represents each candidate law thr...
- TimeLAVA: Learning-Agnostic Data Valuation for Time Series
Data valuation quantifies the intrinsic quality of individual samples to enable principled data curation, quality control, and robust learning. For time series in critical domains such as healthcare, finance, and industrial monitoring, effective valuation methods are essential yet fundamentally lack...
- QC-GAN: A Parameter-Efficient Quaternion Conformer GAN for High-Fidelity Speech Enhancement
We propose a parameter-efficient speech enhancement framework, Quaternion Conformer GAN (QC-GAN), which combines a Quaternion Conformer generator with MetricGAN-based training. The Hamilton product encodes the magnitude and phase via structured weight sharing, reducing the number of layer parameters...
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