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Active Learning of Convex Halfspaces on Graphs

Neural Information Processing Systems

This assumption is used, for example, by biologists on gene similarity networks [Zhou et al., 2002] and cancer-related protein-protein-interaction networks [Li et al., 2012, 2013].


Encoding Biomechanical Energy Margin into Passivity-based Synchronization for Networked Telerobotic Systems

Zhou, Xingyuan, Paik, Peter, Atashzar, S. Farokh

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Abstract--aintaining system stability and accurate position tracking is imperative in networked robotic systems, particularly for haptics-enabled human-robot interaction. Recent literature have integrated human biomechanics into the stabilizers implemented for teleoperation, enhancing force preservation while guaranteeing convergence and safety. However, position desynchronization due to imperfect communication and non-passive behaviors remains a challenge. We provide the mathematical design synthesis of the stabilizer and the proof of stability. We also conducted a series of grid simulations and systematic experiments and compared the performance with state-of-the-art solutions regarding varying time delays and environmental conditions. The proposed stabilizer is effective for various telerobotic applications requiring precise position synchronization.aintaining Recent literature have integrated human biomechanics into the stabilizers implemented for teleoperation, enhancing force preservation while guaranteeing convergence and safety. However, position desynchronization due to imperfect communication and non-passive behaviors remains a challenge. We provide the mathematical design synthesis of the stabilizer and the proof of stability.


Behavior-Aware Online Prediction of Obstacle Occupancy using Zonotopes

Carrizosa-Rendon, Alvaro, Zhou, Jian, Frisk, Erik, Puig, Vicenc, Nejjari, Fatiha

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Abstract-- Predicting the motion of surrounding vehicles is key to safe autonomous driving, especially in unstructured environments without prior information. This paper proposes a novel online method to accurately predict the occupancy sets of surrounding vehicles based solely on motion observations. The approach is divided into two stages: first, an Extended Kalman Filter and a Linear Programming (LP) problem are used to estimate a compact zonotopic set of control actions; then, a reachability analysis propagates this set to predict future occupancy. The effectiveness of the method has been validated through simulations in an urban environment, showing accurate and compact predictions without relying on prior assumptions or prior training data. I. INTRODUCTION Autonomous driving has generated great research interests given the expected benefits, such as reducing accidents, optimizing traffic efficiency and energy management [1]. However, ensuring safety remains a major challenge, particularly in urban environments, where multiple agents interact dynamically [2].Predicting the motion of surrounding vehicles (SVs) is critical to designing safe motion planning and control strategies for autonomous vehicles.


Paper2Agent: Reimagining Research Papers As Interactive and Reliable AI Agents

Miao, Jiacheng, Davis, Joe R., Zhang, Yaohui, Pritchard, Jonathan K., Zou, James

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We introduce Paper2Agent, an automated framework that converts research papers into AI agents. Paper2Agent transforms research output from passive artifacts into active systems that can accelerate downstream use, adoption, and discovery. Conventional research papers require readers to invest substantial effort to understand and adapt a paper's code, data, and methods to their own work, creating barriers to dissemination and reuse. Paper2Agent addresses this challenge by automatically converting a paper into an AI agent that acts as a knowledgeable research assistant. It systematically analyzes the paper and the associated codebase using multiple agents to construct a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, then iteratively generates and runs tests to refine and robustify the resulting MCP. These paper MCPs can then be flexibly connected to a chat agent (e.g. Claude Code) to carry out complex scientific queries through natural language while invoking tools and workflows from the original paper. We demonstrate Paper2Agent's effectiveness in creating reliable and capable paper agents through in-depth case studies. Paper2Agent created an agent that leverages AlphaGenome to interpret genomic variants and agents based on ScanPy and TISSUE to carry out single-cell and spatial transcriptomics analyses. We validate that these paper agents can reproduce the original paper's results and can correctly carry out novel user queries. Paper2Agent automatically created AI co-scientist that identified new splicing variant associated with ADHD risk. By turning static papers into dynamic, interactive AI agents, Paper2Agent introduces a new paradigm for knowledge dissemination and a foundation for the collaborative ecosystem of AI co-scientists.


Go witheFlow: Real-time Emotion Driven Audio Effects Modulation

Dervakos, Edmund, Kantarelis, Spyridon, Lyberatos, Vassilis, Liartis, Jason, Stamou, Giorgos

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Music performance is a distinctly human activity, intrinsically linked to the performer's ability to convey, evoke, or express emotion. Machines cannot perform music in the human sense; they can produce, reproduce, execute, or synthesize music, but they lack the capacity for affective or emotional experience. As such, music performance is an ideal candidate through which to explore aspects of collaboration between humans and machines. In this paper, we introduce the witheFlow system, designed to enhance real-time music performance by automatically modulating audio effects based on features extracted from both biosignals and the audio itself. The system, currently in a proof-of-concept phase, is designed to be lightweight, able to run locally on a laptop, and is open-source given the availability of a compatible Digital Audio Workstation and sensors.


Parameter Identification of a Differentiable Human Arm Musculoskeletal Model without Deep Muscle EMG Reconstruction

Sanderink, Philip, Zhou, Yingfan, Luo, Shuzhen, Fang, Cheng

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Accurate parameter identification of a subject-specific human musculoskeletal model is crucial to the development of safe and reliable physically collaborative robotic systems, for instance, assistive exoskeletons. Electromyography (EMG)-based parameter identification methods have demonstrated promising performance for personalized musculoskeletal modeling, whereas their applicability is limited by the difficulty of measuring deep muscle EMGs invasively. Although several strategies have been proposed to reconstruct deep muscle EMGs or activations for parameter identification, their reliability and robustness are limited by assumptions about the deep muscle behavior. In this work, we proposed an approach to simultaneously identify the bone and superficial muscle parameters of a human arm musculoskeletal model without reconstructing the deep muscle EMGs. This is achieved by only using the least-squares solution of the deep muscle forces to calculate a loss gradient with respect to the model parameters for identifying them in a framework of differentiable optimization. The results of extensive comparative simulations manifested that our proposed method can achieve comparable estimation accuracy compared to a similar method, but with all the muscle EMGs available.


Ontological foundations for contrastive explanatory narration of robot plans

Olivares-Alarcos, Alberto, Foix, Sergi, Borràs, Júlia, Canal, Gerard, Alenyà, Guillem

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Mutual understanding of artificial agents' decisions is key to ensuring a trustworthy and successful human-robot interaction. Hence, robots are expected to make reasonable decisions and communicate them to humans when needed. In this article, the focus is on an approach to modeling and reasoning about the comparison of two competing plans, so that robots can later explain the divergent result. First, a novel ontological model is proposed to formalize and reason about the differences between competing plans, enabling the classification of the most appropriate one (e.g., the shortest, the safest, the closest to human preferences, etc.). This work also investigates the limitations of a baseline algorithm for ontology-based explanatory narration. To address these limitations, a novel algorithm is presented, leveraging divergent knowledge between plans and facilitating the construction of contrastive narratives. Through empirical evaluation, it is observed that the explanations excel beyond the baseline method.


MedCOD: Enhancing English-to-Spanish Medical Translation of Large Language Models Using Enriched Chain-of-Dictionary Framework

Salim, Md Shahidul, Fu, Lian, Ramakrishnan, Arav Adikesh, Yao, Zonghai, Yu, Hong

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We present MedCOD (Medical Chain-of-Dictionary), a hybrid framework designed to improve English-to-Spanish medical translation by integrating domain-specific structured knowledge into large language models (LLMs). MedCOD integrates domain-specific knowledge from both the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and the LLM-as-Knowledge-Base (LLM-KB) paradigm to enhance structured prompting and fine-tuning. We constructed a parallel corpus of 2,999 English-Spanish MedlinePlus articles and a 100-sentence test set annotated with structured medical contexts. Four open-source LLMs (Phi-4, Qwen2.5-14B, Qwen2.5-7B, and LLaMA-3.1-8B) were evaluated using structured prompts that incorporated multilingual variants, medical synonyms, and UMLS-derived definitions, combined with LoRA-based fine-tuning. Experimental results demonstrate that MedCOD significantly improves translation quality across all models. For example, Phi-4 with MedCOD and fine-tuning achieved BLEU 44.23, chrF++ 28.91, and COMET 0.863, surpassing strong baseline models like GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini. Ablation studies confirm that both MedCOD prompting and model adaptation independently contribute to performance gains, with their combination yielding the highest improvements. These findings highlight the potential of structured knowledge integration to enhance LLMs for medical translation tasks.


AI Factories: It's time to rethink the Cloud-HPC divide

Lopez, Pedro Garcia, Pons, Daniel Barcelona, Copik, Marcin, Hoefler, Torsten, Quiñones, Eduardo, Malawski, Maciej, Pietzutch, Peter, Marti, Alberto, Timoudas, Thomas Ohlson, Slominski, Aleksander

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The strategic importance of artificial intelligence is driving a global push toward Sovereign AI initiatives. Nationwide governments are increasingly developing dedicated infrastructures, called AI Factories (AIF), to achieve technological autonomy and secure the resources necessary to sustain robust local digital ecosystems. In Europe, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is investing hundreds of millions of euros into several AI Factories, built atop existing high-performance computing (HPC) supercomputers. However, while HPC systems excel in raw performance, they are not inherently designed for usability, accessibility, or serving as public-facing platforms for AI services such as inference or agentic applications. In contrast, AI practitioners are accustomed to cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and object storage, tools that are often difficult to integrate within traditional HPC environments. This article advocates for a dual-stack approach within supercomputers: integrating both HPC and cloud-native technologies. Our goal is to bridge the divide between HPC and cloud computing by combining high performance and hardware acceleration with ease of use and service-oriented front-ends. This convergence allows each paradigm to amplify the other. To this end, we will study the cloud challenges of HPC (Serverless HPC) and the HPC challenges of cloud technologies (High-performance Cloud).


Factor Graph Optimization for Leak Localization in Water Distribution Networks

Irofti, Paul, Romero-Ben, Luis, Stoican, Florin, Puig, Vicenç

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Detecting and localizing leaks in water distribution network systems is an important topic with direct environmental, economic, and social impact. Our paper is the first to explore the use of factor graph optimization techniques for leak localization in water distribution networks, enabling us to perform sensor fusion between pressure and demand sensor readings and to estimate the network's temporal and structural state evolution across all network nodes. The methodology introduces specific water network factors and proposes a new architecture composed of two factor graphs: a leak-free state estimation factor graph and a leak localization factor graph. When a new sensor reading is obtained, unlike Kalman and other interpolation-based methods, which estimate only the current network state, factor graphs update both current and past states. Results on Modena, L-TOWN and synthetic networks show that factor graphs are much faster than nonlinear Kalman-based alternatives such as the UKF, while also providing improvements in localization compared to state-of-the-art estimation-localization approaches. Implementation and benchmarks are available at https://github.com/pirofti/FGLL.