UAV traffic scene understanding: A cross-spectral guided approach and a unified benchmark

This paper proposes CTCNet, a novel cross-spectral guided network featuring a Prototype-Guided Knowledge Embedding module and a Quality-Aware Spectral Compensation module to enhance UAV traffic scene understanding under adverse conditions, accompanied by the introduction of Traffic-VQA, the first large-scale optical-thermal benchmark for cognitive traffic analysis.

Yu Zhang, Zhicheng Zhao, Ze Luo, Chenglong Li, Jin Tang2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

Deep Randomized Distributed Function Computation (DeepRDFC): Neural Distributed Channel Simulation

This paper proposes a deep learning-based autoencoder architecture for the Randomized Distributed Function Computation (RDFC) framework that minimizes the total variation distance to an unknown target distribution using only data samples, demonstrating superior communication efficiency compared to traditional data compression methods, particularly under limited common randomness.

Didrik Bergström, Onur Günlü2026-03-12🔢 math

Risk-Adjusted Harm Scoring for Automated Red Teaming for LLMs in Financial Services

This paper introduces a risk-aware evaluation framework for Large Language Models in financial services, featuring a domain-specific taxonomy, an automated multi-round red-teaming pipeline, and a Risk-Adjusted Harm Score (RAHS) metric to better capture and quantify severe, operationally actionable security failures that traditional domain-agnostic benchmarks miss.

Fabrizio Dimino, Bhaskarjit Sarmah, Stefano Pasquali2026-03-12💰 q-fin

Towards Cold-Start Drafting and Continual Refining: A Value-Driven Memory Approach with Application to NPU Kernel Synthesis

The paper introduces EvoKernel, a self-evolving agentic framework that leverages value-driven memory and reinforcement learning to overcome data scarcity in NPU kernel synthesis, significantly improving model correctness and achieving substantial speedups through automated drafting and iterative refinement.

Yujie Zheng, Zhuo Li, Shengtao Zhang, Hanjing Wang, Junjie Sheng, Jiaqian Wang, Junchi Yan, Weinan Zhang, Ying Wen, Bo Tang, Muning Wen2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Semantic Landmark Particle Filter for Robot Localisation in Vineyards

This paper introduces a Semantic Landmark Particle Filter (SLPF) that enhances robot localisation in vineyards by integrating trunk and pole detections with LiDAR and GNSS to overcome perceptual aliasing caused by parallel crop rows, achieving significantly lower pose errors and improved row correctness compared to existing geometry-only, vision-based, and GNSS-only baselines.

Rajitha de Silva, Jonathan Cox, James R. Heselden, Marija Popovic, Cesar Cadena, Riccardo Polvara2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

V0.5V_{0.5}: Generalist Value Model as a Prior for Sparse RL Rollouts

The paper proposes V0.5V_{0.5}, a novel method that dynamically fuses a Generalist Value Model's prior with sparse RL rollouts via real-time statistical testing to minimize baseline estimation error, thereby achieving faster convergence and over 10% performance gains on mathematical reasoning benchmarks compared to GRPO and DAPO.

Yi-Kai Zhang, Yueqing Sun, Hongyan Hao, Qi Gu, Xunliang Cai, De-Chuan Zhan, Han-Jia Ye2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

GRACE: A Unified 2D Multi-Robot Path Planning Simulator & Benchmark for Grid, Roadmap, And Continuous Environments

This paper introduces GRACE, a unified 2D simulator and benchmark that enables transparent, reproducible comparisons of multi-robot path planning algorithms across grid, roadmap, and continuous environments by standardizing task instantiation, execution, and evaluation protocols.

Chuanlong Zang, Anna Mannucci, Isabelle Barz, Philipp Schillinger, Florian Lier, Wolfgang Hönig2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI