Pre/Absence: Prompting Cultural Awareness and Understanding for Lost Architectural Heritage in Virtual Reality

This paper presents "Pre/Absence," a virtual reality experience that leverages the dialectic of presence and absence to transform the interpretation of lost architectural heritage from static factual summaries into a nuanced, emotionally engaging narrative that fosters deeper cultural awareness and critical reflection on the evolving meanings of heritage.

Yaning Li, Ke Zhao, Shucheng Zheng, Xingyu Chen, Chenyi Chen, Wenxi Dai, Weile Jiang, Qi Dong, Yiqing Zhao, Meng Li, Lin-Ping Yuan2026-03-09💻 cs

Admittance Matrix Concentration Inequalities for Understanding Uncertain Power Networks

This paper establishes conservative probabilistic bounds for the spectrum of admittance matrices and linear power flow models under uncertain network parameters by leveraging random matrix concentration inequalities, thereby providing a theoretical framework to quantify approximation errors and analyze how uncertainty concentrates at critical nodes.

Samuel Talkington, Cameron Khanpour, Rahul K. Gupta, Sergio A. Dorado-Rojas, Daniel Turizo, Hyeongon Park, Dmitrii M. Ostrovskii, Daniel K. Molzahn2026-03-09💻 cs

Multi-UAV Flood Monitoring via CVT with Gaussian Mixture of Density Functions for Coverage Control

This paper proposes a multi-UAV flood monitoring strategy using Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation with a Gaussian Mixture of Density Functions to model inundation areas, demonstrating through ROS/Gazebo simulations that this approach achieves superior coverage rates and spatial distribution compared to conventional axis-aligned Gaussian models across various fleet sizes.

Jie Song, Yang Bai, Mikhail Svinin, Naoki Wakamiya2026-03-09💻 cs

Push Anything: Single- and Multi-Object Pushing From First Sight with Contact-Implicit MPC

This paper introduces Consensus Complementarity Control Plus (C3+), an enhanced contact-implicit model predictive control algorithm that enables a complete robotic pipeline to robustly and efficiently push diverse single and multi-object configurations to target poses in real-time, achieving a 98% success rate on hardware.

Hien Bui, Yufeiyang Gao, Haoran Yang, Eric Cui, Siddhant Mody, Brian Acosta, Thomas Stephen Felix, Bibit Bianchini, Michael Posa2026-03-09💻 cs

AURASeg: Attention-guided Upsampling with Residual-Assistive Boundary Refinement for Onboard Robot Drivable-Area Segmentation

This paper introduces AURASeg, an attention-guided segmentation framework featuring a Residual Boundary Refinement Module and an Attention Progressive Upsampling Decoder to enhance drivable-area boundary precision and multi-scale feature representation for onboard robot navigation, demonstrating superior performance on multiple datasets and successful deployment on a Jetson Nano.

Narendhiran Vijayakumar, Sridevi. M2026-03-09💻 cs

Culture in Action: Evaluating Text-to-Image Models through Social Activities

This paper introduces CULTIVate, a comprehensive benchmark and evaluation framework designed to assess the cultural faithfulness of text-to-image models in depicting social activities across 16 countries, revealing significant performance disparities between Global North and South regions and demonstrating that its proposed metrics align more closely with human judgment than existing standards.

Sina Malakouti, Boqing Gong, Adriana Kovashka2026-03-09💻 cs

ExpReS-VLA: Specializing Vision-Language-Action Models Through Experience Replay and Retrieval

ExpReS-VLA is a specialized Vision-Language-Action model that enables rapid, memory-efficient on-device adaptation to specific robotic tasks by combining compressed experience replay, retrieval-augmented generation, and a novel contrastive loss to prevent catastrophic forgetting while significantly improving performance on both spatial and long-horizon benchmarks.

Shahram Najam Syed, Yatharth Ahuja, Arthur Jakobsson, Jeff Ichnowski2026-03-09💻 cs

SPARK: Jailbreaking T2V Models by Synergistically Prompting Auditory and Recontextualized Knowledge

This paper introduces SPARK, a jailbreak framework that exploits cross-modal associations in text-to-video models by combining neutral scene anchors, latent auditory triggers, and stylistic modulators to generate semantically unsafe videos that bypass safety guardrails while maintaining a benign appearance.

Zonghao Ying, Moyang Chen, Nizhang Li, Zhiqiang Wang, Wenxin Zhang, Quanchen Zou, Zonglei Jing, Aishan Liu, Xianglong Liu2026-03-09💻 cs