How Neurotypical and Autistic Children Interact Nonverbally with Anthropomorphic Agents in Open-Ended Tasks

This paper presents a Wizard-of-Oz study analyzing the nonverbal behaviors of neurotypical and autistic children during open-ended interactions with embodied virtual agents, identifying specific interaction patterns and repetitive movements to inform the development of more inclusive socially interactive systems.

Chuxuan Zhang, Bermet Burkanova, Lawrence H. Kim, Grace Iarocci, Elina Birmingham, Angelica Lim2026-03-10💻 cs

Relating Reinforcement Learning to Dynamic Programming-Based Planning

This paper bridges the gap between dynamic programming-based planning and reinforcement learning by developing a derandomized RL variant, mathematically analyzing the conditions under which their differing formulations (such as cost minimization versus reward maximization and goal termination versus infinite-horizon discounting) are equivalent, and advocating for the optimization of true cost over arbitrary parameters.

Filip V. Georgiev, Kalle G. Timperi, Basak Sakçak, Steven M. LaValle2026-03-10💻 cs

The Theory and Practice of Computing the Bus-Factor

This paper proposes a unified, domain-agnostic framework for computing the bus-factor by modeling projects as bipartite graphs, proving the NP-hardness of both redundancy and criticality formulations, and introducing a novel robustness-based measure with efficient linear-time approximations that outperforms existing methods in capturing project risk and fragmentation.

Sebastiano A. Piccolo, Pasquale De Meo, Giorgio Terracina, Gianluigi Greco2026-03-10💻 cs

The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: A Practitioner's Guide to Legislative Reform, Compliance, and Organisational Readiness

This paper offers a comprehensive practitioner-oriented guide to the UK's 2025 Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, detailing its expanded regulatory scope, stringent enforcement penalties, and incident reporting requirements while providing actionable compliance frameworks, sector-specific roadmaps, and self-assessment tools to help organizations align with the new legislation and related international standards.

Jonathan Shelby2026-03-10💻 cs

Choose What to Observe: Task-Aware Semantic-Geometric Representations for Visuomotor Policy

This paper proposes a task-aware observation interface that canonicalizes raw RGB inputs into unified semantic-geometric representations using segmentation and depth injection, thereby significantly enhancing the robustness of visuomotor policies to out-of-distribution appearance shifts without requiring policy retraining.

Haoran Ding, Liang Ma, Yaxun Yang, Wen Yang, Tianyu Liu, Anqing Duan, Xiaodan Liang, Dezhen Song, Ivan Laptev, Yoshihiko Nakamura2026-03-10💻 cs

Structure and Progress Aware Diffusion for Medical Image Segmentation

This paper proposes Structure and Progress Aware Diffusion (SPAD), a novel framework for medical image segmentation that employs a progress-aware scheduler to guide a coarse-to-fine learning paradigm, utilizing semantic-concentrated and boundary-centralized diffusion modules to effectively balance stable anatomical structure understanding with the refinement of ambiguous target boundaries.

Siyuan Song, Guyue Hu, Chenglong Li, Dengdi Sun, Zhe Jin, Jin Tang2026-03-10💻 cs

RoboRouter: Training-Free Policy Routing for Robotic Manipulation

RoboRouter is a training-free framework that enhances robotic manipulation performance by intelligently routing diverse, off-the-shelf policies to the most suitable one for each task based on semantic representations and historical execution data, achieving significant success rate improvements in both simulation and real-world settings without requiring additional model training.

Yiteng Chen, Zhe Cao, Hongjia Ren, Chenjie Yang, Wenbo Li, Shiyi Wang, Yemin Wang, Li Zhang, Yanming Shao, Zhenjun Zhao, Huiping Zhuang, Qingyao Wu2026-03-10💻 cs

EveryQuery: Zero-Shot Clinical Prediction via Task-Conditioned Pretraining over Electronic Health Records

EveryQuery is a novel electronic health record foundation model that achieves efficient, zero-shot clinical prediction by directly estimating outcome likelihoods through task-conditioned pre-training, thereby outperforming computationally expensive autoregressive baselines—particularly for rare events—while currently facing limitations in complex disjunctive reasoning tasks.

Payal Chandak, Gregory Kondas, Isaac Kohane, Matthew McDermott2026-03-10💻 cs