UniPCGC: Towards Practical Point Cloud Geometry Compression via an Efficient Unified Approach

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Kangli Wang, Wei Gao, , , | Summary: Learning-based point cloud compression methods have made significant progress in terms of performance. However, these methods still encounter challenges including high complexity, limited compression modes, and a lack of support for variable rate, which restrict the practical application of […]


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NMPC-based Unified Posture Manipulation and Thrust Vectoring for Fault Recovery

Kavli Affiliate: Morteza Gharib | First 5 Authors: Adarsh Salagame, Shashwat Pandya, Ioannis Mandralis, Eric Sihite, Alireza Ramezani | Summary: Multi-rotors face significant risks, as actuator failures at high altitudes can easily result in a crash and the robot’s destruction. Therefore, rapid fault recovery in the event of an actuator failure is necessary for the […]


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Learning Orientation Field for OSM-Guided Autonomous Navigation

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Yuming Huang, Wei Gao, Zhiyuan Zhang, Maani Ghaffari, Dezhen Song | Summary: OpenStreetMap (OSM) has gained popularity recently in autonomous navigation due to its public accessibility, lower maintenance costs, and broader geographical coverage. However, existing methods often struggle with noisy OSM data and incomplete sensor observations, leading […]


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SPPO:Efficient Long-sequence LLM Training via Adaptive Sequence Pipeline Parallel Offloading

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Qiaoling Chen, Shenggui Li, Wei Gao, Peng Sun, Yonggang Wen | Summary: In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities, driving advancements in real-world applications. However, training LLMs on increasingly long input sequences imposes significant challenges due to high GPU memory and computational demands. […]


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The role of effective mass and long-range interactions in the band-gap renormalization of photo-excited semiconductors

Kavli Affiliate: Scott K. Cushing | First 5 Authors: Cian C. Reeves, Scott K. Cushing, Vojtech Vlcek, , | Summary: Understanding how to control changes in electronic structure and related dynamical renormalizations by external driving fields is the key for understanding ultrafast spectroscopy and applications in electronics. Here we focus on the band-gap’s modulation by […]


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The role of effective mass and long-range interactions in the band-gap renormalization of photo-excited semiconductors

Kavli Affiliate: Scott K. Cushing | First 5 Authors: Cian C. Reeves, Scott K. Cushing, Vojtech Vlcek, , | Summary: Understanding how to control changes in electronic structure and related dynamical renormalizations by external driving fields is the key for understanding ultrafast spectroscopy and applications in electronics. Here we focus on the band-gap’s modulation by […]


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High-Precision Transformer-Based Visual Servoing for Humanoid Robots in Aligning Tiny Objects

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Jialong Xue, Wei Gao, Yu Wang, Chao Ji, Dongdong Zhao | Summary: High-precision tiny object alignment remains a common and critical challenge for humanoid robots in real-world. To address this problem, this paper proposes a vision-based framework for precisely estimating and controlling the relative position between a […]


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ATMO: An Aerially Transforming Morphobot for Dynamic Ground-Aerial Transition

Kavli Affiliate: Morteza Gharib | First 5 Authors: Ioannis Mandralis, Reza Nemovi, Alireza Ramezani, Richard M. Murray, Morteza Gharib | Summary: Designing ground-aerial robots is challenging due to the increased actuation requirements which can lead to added weight and reduced locomotion efficiency. Morphobots mitigate this by combining actuators into multi-functional groups and leveraging ground transformation […]


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Controllable Interlocking from Irregularity in Two-Phase Composites

Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Chelsea Fox, Kyrillos Bastawros, Tommaso Magrini, Chiara Daraio, | Summary: Natural materials often feature a combination of soft and stiff phases, arranged to achieve excellent mechanical properties, such as high strength and toughness. Many natural materials have even independently evolved to have similar structures to obtain these […]


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Atomic layer etching of niobium nitride using sequential exposures of O$_2$ and H$_2$/SF$_6$ plasmas

Kavli Affiliate: Austin J. Minnich | First 5 Authors: Azmain A. Hossain, Sela Murphy, David S. Catherall, Anthony J. Ardizzi, Austin J. Minnich | Summary: Niobium nitride (NbN) is a metallic superconductor that is widely used for superconducting electronics due to its high transition temperature ($T_c$) and kinetic inductance. Processing-induced damage negatively affects the performance […]


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