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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sim-to-Real Transfer for Muscle-Actuated Robots via Generalized Actuator Networks

Tendon drives paired with soft muscle actuation enable faster and safer robots while potentially accelerating skill acquisition. Still, these systems are rarely used in practice due to inherent nonlinearities, friction, and hysteresis, which complicate modeling and control. So far, these challenges have hindered policy...

Jan Schneider, Mridul Mahajan, Le Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Quasicrystal Architected Nanomechanical Resonators via Data-Driven Design

From butterfly wings to remnants of nuclear detonation, aperiodic order repeatedly emerges in nature, often exhibiting reduced sensitivity to boundaries and symmetry constraints. Inspired by this principle, a paradigm shift is introduced in nanomechanical resonator design from periodic to aperiodic structures, focusing...

Kawen Li, Hangjin Cho, Richard Norte et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Families of Fixed-Wing Aircraft Control Policies with Hypernetwork-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

This paper investigates whether it is more effective to condition reinforcement learning policies across changing dynamics using standard input augmentation or hypernetwork-based parameter modulation. We use a small fixed-wing uncrewed aircraft under actuator failures as a demanding test case, as these failures introdu...

Dennis Marquis, Mazen Farhood · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Weakly Convex Ridge Regularization for 3D Non-Cartesian MRI Reconstruction

While highly accelerated non-Cartesian acquisition protocols significantly reduce scan time, they often entail long reconstruction delays. Deep learning based reconstruction methods can alleviate this, but often lack stability and robustness to distribution shifts. As an alternative, we train a rotation invariant weakl...

German Sh\^ama Wache, Chaithya G R, Asma Tanabene et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Skin Tone in the Wild: A Dataset and Benchmark for 10-tone MST Classification

Skin tone classification is a fundamental task in computer vision, with applications in quantifying medical features, assessing demographic representativeness, and mitigating algorithmic bias. However, existing datasets either rely on a restrictive 6-tone Fitzpatrick scale, prohibit training through restrictive license...

Vitor Matias, M\'arcus Vin\'icius Lobo Costa, Tiago Novello et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Dex4D: Task-Agnostic Point Track Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Manipulation

Learning generalist policies capable of accomplishing a wide range of everyday tasks remains an open challenge in dexterous manipulation. In particular, collecting large-scale manipulation data via real-world teleoperation is expensive and difficult to scale. While learning in simulation provides a feasible alternative...

Yuxuan Kuang, Sungjae Park, Katerina Fragkiadaki et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PACC: Protocol-Aware Cross-Layer Compression for Compact Network Traffic Representation

Network traffic classification underpins network security and management but faces growing challenges from pervasive encryption and evolving protocols. Existing representations involve clear trade-offs: hand-crafted flow statistics are efficient but lossy, raw-bit encodings can be accurate but costly, and pre-trained e...

Zhaochen Guo, Honghao Wang, Tianyufei Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VRIQ: Benchmarking and Diagnosing the Visual-Reasoning IQ of Vision-Language Models

Vision-language model (VLM) errors on visual reasoning may come from missing visual structure, from mistakes after that structure is extracted, or from both. We introduce VRIQ, a benchmark of 1,391 human-verified IQ-style visual reasoning puzzles spanning five psychometric categories, each instantiated in category-matc...

Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh, Jike Zhong, Konstantinos Psounis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Convex Chance-Constrained Stochastic Control under Uncertain Specifications with Application to Learning-Based Hybrid Powertrain Control

This paper proposes a strictly convex chance-constrained stochastic control framework that accounts for uncertainty in control specifications such as reference trajectories and operational constraints. Control inputs and risk allocation are jointly optimized under general, possibly non-Gaussian, uncertainties through s...

Teruki Kato, Ryotaro Shima, Kenji Kashima · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Probe and Skip: Self-Predictive Token Skipping for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference

Long-context inference enhances the reasoning capability of Large Language Models (LLMs), but incurs significant computational overhead. Token-oriented methods, such as pruning and skipping, have shown great promise in reducing inference latency, yet still suffer from inherently insufficient structure optimization, out...

Zimeng Wu, Donghao Wang, Chaozhe Jin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Self-Creating Random Walks for Decentralized Learning under Pac-Man Attacks

Random walk (RW)-based algorithms have long been popular in distributed systems due to low overheads and scalability, with recent growing applications in decentralized learning. However, their reliance on local interactions makes them inherently vulnerable to malicious behavior. In this work, we investigate an adversar...

Xingran Chen, Parimal Parag, Rohit Bhagat et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Nonparametric Kernel Clustering with Bandit Feedback

Clustering with bandit feedback refers to the problem of partitioning the arms of an $N$-armed stochastic bandit according to their underlying distributions, based on noisy observations collected sequentially and adaptively. This setting has attracted growing interest for its applicability in recommendation systems, cr...

Victor Thuot (MISTEA, UMPA-ENSL), Sebastian Vogt (LRR-TUM) et al. · 0 citations

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