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Mobility Induced Sensitivity of UAV based Nodes to Jamming in Private 5G Airfield Networks An Experimental Study

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This work presents an e xperimental performance evaluation of a p rivate 5G a irfield n etwork under controlled directional SDR jamming attacks targeting UAV - based UE nodes . Using a QualiPoc Android UE, mounted as a payload on a quad-copter UAV, we conducted a series of experiments to evaluate signal degradation, handover performance, and service stability in the presence of constant directional jamming. The conducted experiments aimed to examin e the effe c t s of varying travel speed s, altitudes, and moving patterns of a UAV - based UE to record and analyze the key physical - layer and network - layer metrics such as CQI, MCS, RSRP, SINR, BLER, Net PDSCH Throughput and RLF. The results of this work describe the link stability and signal degradation dependencies, caused by the level of mobility of the UAV - based UE nodes during autonomous and automatic operation in private 5G Airfield networks.


An Experimental Study of Real-Life LLM-Proposed Performance Improvements

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate code, but can they generate fast code? In this paper, we study this question using a dataset of 65 real-world tasks mined from open-source Java programs. We specifically select tasks where developers achieved significant speedups, and employ an automated pipeline to generate patches for these issues using two leading LLMs under four prompt variations. By rigorously benchmarking the results against the baseline and human-authored solutions, we demonstrate that LLM-generated code indeed improves performance over the baseline in most cases. However, patches proposed by human developers outperform LLM fixes by a statistically significant margin, indicating that LLMs often fall short of finding truly optimal solutions. We further find that LLM solutions are semantically identical or similar to the developer optimization idea in approximately two-thirds of cases, whereas they propose a more original idea in the remaining one-third. However, these original ideas only occasionally yield substantial performance gains.


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Neural Information Processing Systems

We thank the reviewers for their thoughtful feedback. The applications of online RL in health care are motivated by the increasing "use For experimental studies (e.g., RCTs) in DTRs, issues of sample Our analysis reveals that this is not the case. We really appreciate the reviewers for the helpful suggestions and references.



Dancing with a Robot: An Experimental Study of Child-Robot Interaction in a Performative Art Setting

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper presents an evaluation of 18 children's in-the-wild experiences with the autonomous robot arm performer NED (Never-Ending Dancer) within the Thingamabobas installation, showcased across the UK. We detail NED's design, including costume, behaviour, and human interactions, all integral to the installation. Our observational analysis revealed three key challenges in child-robot interactions: 1) Initiating and maintaining engagement, 2) Lack of robot expressivity and reciprocity, and 3) Unmet expectations. Our findings show that children are naturally curious, and adept at interacting with a robotic art performer. However, our observations emphasise the critical need to optimise human-robot interaction (HRI) systems through careful consideration of audience's capabilities, perceptions, and expectations, within the performative arts context, to enable engaging and meaningful experiences, especially for young audiences.


Implementation and Assessment of an Augmented Training Curriculum for Surgical Robotics

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

--The integration of high-level assistance algorithms in surgical robotics training curricula may be beneficial in establishing a more comprehensive and robust skillset for aspiring surgeons, improving their clinical performance as a consequence. This work presents the development and validation of a haptic-enhanced Virtual Reality simulator for surgical robotics training, featuring 8 surgical tasks that the trainee can interact with thanks to the embedded physics engine. This virtual simulated environment is augmented by the introduction of high-level haptic interfaces for robotic assistance that aim at re-directing the motion of the trainee's hands and wrists toward targets or away from obstacles, and providing a quantitative performance score after the execution of each training exercise. An experimental study shows that the introduction of enhanced robotic assistance into a surgical robotics training curriculum improves performance during the training process and, crucially, promotes the transfer of the acquired skills to an unassisted surgical scenario, like the clinical one. The increase of surgical robotics procedures in the last decade demands a high number of trained surgeons [1] [2], capable of teleoperating such advanced and complex systems and at the same time able to take advantage of the benefits of Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS) safely and effectively.


FLP-XR: Future Location Prediction on Extreme Scale Maritime Data in Real-time

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Movements of maritime vessels are inherently complex and challenging to model due to the dynamic and often unpredictable nature of maritime operations. Even within structured maritime environments, such as shipping lanes and port approaches, where vessels adhere to navigational rules and predefined sea routes, uncovering underlying patterns is far from trivial. The necessity for accurate modeling of the mobility of maritime vessels arises from the numerous applications it serves, including risk assessment for collision avoidance, optimization of shipping routes, and efficient port management. This paper introduces FLP-XR, a model that leverages maritime mobility data to construct a robust framework that offers precise predictions while ensuring extremely fast training and inference capabilities. We demonstrate the efficiency of our approach through an extensive experimental study using three real-world AIS datasets. According to the experimental results, FLP-XR outperforms the current state-of-the-art in many cases, whereas it performs 2-3 orders of magnitude faster in terms of training and inference.


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Neural Information Processing Systems

SUMMARY This paper presents an idea that would be very interesting to NIPS readers. It presents a preliminary analysis of an estimator of a quantity that every variational inference researcher would want to know about. The mathematical exposition is good: the authors promise more technical and theoretical studies down the road. The experimental study is the weakest point of the paper, where they miss the opportunity to explore practical aspects of their estimator (specifically, other integration techniques beyond Gaussian quadrature). Overall it is a good paper.


Reviews: On the Utility of Learning about Humans for Human-AI Coordination

Neural Information Processing Systems

Summary: The paper investigates the usefulness of modeling human behavior in human-ai collaborative tasks. In order to study this question, the paper introduces an experimental framework that consists of: a) modeling human behavior using imitation learning, b) training RL agents in several modes (self-play, trained agains human imitator, etc.), c) measuring the joint performance of human-AI collaboration. Using both simulation based experiments and a user study the paper showcases the importance of accounting for human behavior in designing collaborative RL agents. Comments: The topic of the paper is interesting and important for modern hybrid human-AI decision making systems. This seems like a well written paper with solid contributions: to the best of my knowledge, no prior work has systematically investigated the utility of human modeling in the context of human-AI collaboration in RL.