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Certified Coil Geometry Learning for Short-Range Magnetic Actuation and Spacecraft Docking Application

Takahashi, Yuta, Tajima, Hayate, Sakai, Shin-ichiro

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper presents a learning-based framework for approximating an exact magnetic-field interaction model, supported by both numerical and experimental validation. High-fidelity magnetic-field interaction modeling is essential for achieving exceptional accuracy and responsiveness across a wide range of fields, including transportation, energy systems, medicine, biomedical robotics, and aerospace robotics. In aerospace engineering, magnetic actuation has been investigated as a fuel-free solution for multi-satellite attitude and formation control. Although the exact magnetic field can be computed from the Biot-Savart law, the associated computational cost is prohibitive, and prior studies have therefore relied on dipole approximations to improve efficiency. However, these approximations lose accuracy during proximity operations, leading to unstable behavior and even collisions. To address this limitation, we develop a learning-based approximation framework that faithfully reproduces the exact field while dramatically reducing computational cost. The proposed method additionally provides a certified error bound, derived from the number of training samples, ensuring reliable prediction accuracy. The learned model can also accommodate interactions between coils of different sizes through appropriate geometric transformations, without retraining. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework under challenging conditions, a spacecraft docking scenario is examined through both numerical simulations and experimental validation.




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Neural Information Processing Systems

Section A provides a proof that isometry preserves angles. Section D lists the grid considered for hyper-parameters. T is an isometry iff it preserves inner products. Suppose T is an isometry. Conversely, if T preserves inner products, then nullT (v w),T ( v w) null = null v w,v w null, which implies null T ( v w)null = null v w null, and since T is linear, nullT (v) T ( w) null = null v w null .


S$^3$E: Self-Supervised State Estimation for Radar-Inertial System

Wang, Shengpeng, Xie, Yulong, Liao, Qing, Wang, Wei

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Millimeter-wave radar for state estimation is gaining significant attention for its affordability and reliability in harsh conditions. Existing localization solutions typically rely on post-processed radar point clouds as landmark points. Nonetheless, the inherent sparsity of radar point clouds, ghost points from multi-path effects, and limited angle resolution in single-chirp radar severely degrade state estimation performance. To address these issues, we propose S$^3$E, a \textbf{S}elf-\textbf{S}upervised \textbf{S}tate \textbf{E}stimator that employs more richly informative radar signal spectra to bypass sparse points and fuses complementary inertial information to achieve accurate localization. S$^3$E fully explores the association between \textit{exteroceptive} radar and \textit{proprioceptive} inertial sensor to achieve complementary benefits. To deal with limited angle resolution, we introduce a novel cross-fusion technique that enhances spatial structure information by exploiting subtle rotational shift correlations across heterogeneous data. The experimental results demonstrate our method achieves robust and accurate performance without relying on localization ground truth supervision. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to achieve state estimation by fusing radar spectra and inertial data in a complementary self-supervised manner.


Retrieval-of-Thought: Efficient Reasoning via Reusing Thoughts

Ahmed, Ammar, Khan, Azal Ahmad, Ahmad, Ayaan, Di, Sheng, Liu, Zirui, Anwar, Ali

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Large reasoning models improve accuracy by producing long reasoning traces, but this inflates latency and cost, motivating inference-time efficiency. We propose Retrieval-of-Thought (RoT), which reuses prior reasoning as composable "thought" steps to guide new problems. RoT organizes steps into a thought graph with sequential and semantic edges to enable fast retrieval and flexible recombination. At inference, RoT retrieves query-relevant nodes and applies reward-guided traversal to assemble a problem-specific template that guides generation. This dynamic template reuse reduces redundant exploration and, therefore, reduces output tokens while preserving accuracy. We evaluate RoT on reasoning benchmarks with multiple models, measuring accuracy, token usage, latency, and memory overhead. Findings show small prompt growth but substantial efficiency gains, with RoT reducing output tokens by up to 40%, inference latency by 82%, and cost by 59% while maintaining accuracy. RoT establishes a scalable paradigm for efficient LRM reasoning via dynamic template construction through retrieval. Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in solving complex tasks by producing outputs accompanied by detailed reasoning trajectories (Xu et al., 2025a). These models adopt an intentionally slower and more deliberative inference process, mimicking human-like reasoning. This approach typically involves generating longer outputs and consuming increased inference-time compute to effectively address reasoning-intensive queries. Recent efforts to improve reasoning in LLMs have primarily focused on generating more output tokens to simulate thoughtful, multi-step reasoning (Snell et al., 2024). A common approach involves guiding generation using external reward models Zhang et al. (2024). These include outcome-based reward models, such as Best-of-N (BoN) sampling.