ProFocus: Proactive Perception and Focused Reasoning in Vision-and-Language Navigation

ProFocus is a training-free framework that enhances Vision-and-Language Navigation by unifying proactive perception, which generates targeted visual queries to fill information gaps, and focused reasoning, which utilizes Branch-Diverse Monte Carlo Tree Search to prioritize high-value historical contexts, thereby achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on R2R and REVERIE benchmarks.

Wei Xue, Mingcheng Li, Xuecheng Wu, Jingqun Tang, Dingkang Yang, Lihua Zhang2026-03-09💻 cs

Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Medical Image Segmentation Using Latent Transform Networks

This paper introduces PPCMI-SF, a privacy-preserving collaborative framework that utilizes client-specific latent transforms and server-side mapping to achieve high-accuracy, real-time medical image segmentation across heterogeneous institutions while effectively resisting inversion and membership inference attacks without sharing raw data.

Saheed Ademola Bello, Muhammad Shahid Jabbar, Muhammad Sohail Ibrahim, Shujaat Khan2026-03-09💻 cs

Digital-Twin Losses for Lane-Compliant Trajectory Prediction at Urban Intersections

This paper presents a digital twin-driven V2X trajectory prediction framework for urban intersections that employs a novel twin loss function alongside standard MSE to enforce traffic rules, collision avoidance, and motion diversity, thereby significantly reducing safety violations while maintaining high prediction accuracy and real-time performance.

Kuo-Yi Chao, Erik Leo Haß, Melina Gegg, Jiajie Zhang, Ralph Raßhofer, Alois Christian Knoll2026-03-09💻 cs

TEGA: A Tactile-Enhanced Grasping Assistant for Assistive Robotics via Sensor Fusion and Closed-Loop Haptic Feedback

This paper presents TEGA, a closed-loop assistive teleoperation framework that fuses EMG-based intent inference with visuotactile sensing to deliver real-time vibrotactile feedback via a wearable vest, enabling users with upper limb disabilities to intuitively modulate grasp force and significantly improve manipulation stability.

Hengxu You, Tianyu Zhou, Fang Xu, Kaleb Smith, Eric Jing Du2026-03-09💻 cs

Test-then-Punish: A Statistical Approach to Repeated Games

This paper proposes a "Test-then-Punish" framework that sustains cooperation in discounted infinitely repeated games with imperfect monitoring by embedding statistical hypothesis testing into strategic behavior, allowing players to detect deviations and enforce a Folk theorem-type result through either anytime valid sequential tests or batch-based testing.

Aymeric Capitaine, Antoine Scheid, Etienne Boursier, Alain Durmus, Michael I. Jordan2026-03-09💻 cs

RFM-HRI : A Multimodal Dataset of Medical Robot Failure, User Reaction and Recovery Preferences for Item Retrieval Tasks

This paper introduces the RFM-HRI dataset, a multimodal collection of human-robot interactions in medical crash-cart settings that systematically analyzes user verbal and non-verbal reactions to various communication failures and their preferences for recovery strategies to improve safety-critical HRI systems.

Yashika Batra, Giuliano Pioldi, Promise Ekpo, Arman Sayatqyzy, Purnjay Maruur, Shalom Otieno, Kevin Ching, Angelique Taylor2026-03-09💻 cs

Hybrid Structured Editing: Structures for Tools, Text for Users

This paper proposes "Hybrid Structured Editing," a novel approach that bridges the gap between tool builders and users by enforcing structural constraints on code to ensure reliable tool integration while simultaneously providing programmers with a familiar and consistent text-based editing interface.

Tom Beckmann (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany / University of Potsdam, Germany), Christoph Thiede (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany / University of Potsdam, Germany), Jens Lincke (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany / University of Potsdam, Germany), Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany / University of Potsdam, Germany)2026-03-09💻 cs

Pitfalls in VM Implementation on CHERI: Lessons from Porting CRuby

This paper identifies and categorizes the specific pitfalls encountered when porting virtual machines to the CHERI architecture, highlighting how common C language assumptions and VM implementation idioms conflict with CHERI's strict memory safety model, and proposes verified workarounds through a case study of porting CRuby.

Hanhaotian Liu (University of Tokyo, Japan), Tetsuro Yamazaki (University of Tokyo, Japan), Tomoharu Ugawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)2026-03-09💻 cs