AI News Archive: June 25, 2026 — Part 13
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- Hardware Design for Table Tennis Robot Capable of Beating Professional Players
This paper focuses on the hardware specifications required for a table tennis robot to beat professional players. After analyzing the motions of elite players, we defined target specifications for the workspace, payload, external-force resistance, physical performance, serve capability, and end-effe...
- A Closed-Form 4-DoF Inter-Robot Pose Estimator using Bearing-only Measurements
Bearing-odometry-based cooperative localization has attracted increasing research interest due to its minimal infrastructure requirements, low communication bandwidth and broad applicability in complex environments. However, existing 6-DoF approaches still face challenges in rapidly obtaining accura...
- Bridging Handheld and Teleoperated Supervision for Contact-Rich Manipulation via State-Gated Experts
Handheld data collection systems, such as the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI), enable scalable data collection across diverse environments but only capture observed actions rather than the desired actions executed by a robot controller. In contrast, teleoperation captures desired actions dire...
- IDEA: Insensitive to Dynamics Mismatch via Effect Alignment for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Multi-Agent Control
Complex multi-agent control tasks remain challenging for traditional rule-based and model-based approaches, motivating the adoption of learning-based methods. However, learning-based methods often struggle with sim-to-real transfer because they rely on accurate dynamics modeling or system identifica...
- OSC2Runner: OpenSCENARIO 2.x Compliant High-Fidelity AV Simulation in CARLA
Scenario-Based Testing predominantly relies on the legacy ASAM OpenSCENARIO 1.x XML standard because existing continuous simulation frameworks lack native execution support for the recently matured v2.x Domain-Specific Language (DSL). Adapting legacy interpreters to evaluate v2.x logic introduces sp...
- When are likely answers right? On Sequence Probability and Correctness in LLMs
Many decoding methods for large language models can be understood as shifting probability mass toward outputs that are more likely under the model, either locally at the token level or globally at the sequence level. Therefore, their success depends on a fundamental question: when does sequence prob...
- All you need is log
Comparing two probability distributions is a basic building block of statistics and machine learning, and the right family is well understood: the Rényi divergences of order $α\in[0,\infty]$ are the unique family monotone under data processing and additive on independent products. Many problems inst...
- Data-Driven Duration Management -- Term Structure Forecasting Using Machine Learning
This paper compares different methods for forecasting the term structure of U.S. and European zero-coupon government bonds using both traditional econometric and Machine Learning (ML) approaches. We compare classical models (e.g., Dynamic Nelson-Siegel (DNS) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)) w...
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- Escaping Iterative Parameter-Space Noise: Differentially Private Learning with a Hypernetwork
Differentially private (DP) training of neural networks is often hindered by the large amount of noise required by gradient-based methods such as DP-SGD, which repeatedly inject high-dimensional noise in parameter space throughout training. In this paper, we propose a new framework for DP learning t...
- Fast algorithms for learning a Gaussian under halfspace truncation with optimal sample complexity
We study the fundamental problem of learning a high-dimensional Gaussian truncated to an unknown halfspace. Lee, Mehrotra and Zampetakis (FOCS'24) recently obtained the first polynomial time algorithm for this problem, but their resulting sample and time complexity bounds are not optimal. Under non-...
- Ribbon: Scalable Approximation and Robust Uncertainty Quantification
Reliably quantifying predictive uncertainty is difficult for complex, high-dimensional, or misspecified models. Both fully Bayesian and bootstrap resampling methods provide principled uncertainty estimates but are often too expensive for modern machine-learning models because they require posterior ...
- Beyond Global Divergences: A Local-Mass Perspective on Bayesian Inference
Global objectives, such as KL divergence and ELBO, are widely used in Bayesian inference for measuring distributional discrepancy. This paper studies their local-mass behaviour that is not directly captured by such objectives. We introduce and use two mathematical tools: (1) Mass Index for recording...
- XMSE-Aware Adaptive Empirical Bayes Estimation
Empirical Bayes (EB) estimators can match the first-order asymptotic risk of maximum likelihood (ML) while behaving very differently at second order: recent excess mean squared error (XMSE) analysis shows that kernel-based EB estimation may be worse than ML when the kernel is poorly aligned with the...
- Asymptotically Optimal Learning for Parametric Prophet Inequalities
We study learning in prophet inequalities with i.i.d. rewards drawn from an exponential-type parametric family with an unknown parameter $θ$, a class that includes exponential, Pareto, and bounded-support power-family distributions. We first characterize the optimal full-information asymptotic compe...
- Scalable Operator Learning via Nyström Approximation With Denoising Applications
In this paper, we study Nyström subsampling for vector-valued regression in vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Standard kernel methods often suffer from prohibitive computational costs due to the construction and inversion of large kernel matrices, which limits their scalability to lar...
- $λ$-PSD: Scalable Approximate SNR-Optimised Polynomial Stein Discrepancies
Polynomial Stein discrepancies (PSD) provide a scalable alternative to kernel Stein methods for measuring sample quality and goodness-of-fit testing, but their statistical properties remain poorly understood. We show that increasing polynomial degree primarily amplifies signal without adequately con...
- Learning Probabilistic Filters with Strictly Proper Scoring Rules
Bayesian filtering of partially and noisily observed dynamical systems seeks to infer the evolving conditional distribution of the state of a dynamical system, given observations, in an online fashion. This Bayesian filtering distribution is the natural object for uncertainty quantification, but it ...
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