Machine Learning on Heterogeneous, Edge, and Quantum Hardware for Particle Physics (ML-HEQUPP)

This white paper presents a community-driven vision to prioritize research and development in hardware-based machine learning systems—leveraging emerging technologies like AI, silicon microelectronics, and quantum processing—to address the unprecedented data challenges and enable real-time scientific discovery in the next generation of particle physics experiments.

Julia Gonski (Sunny), Jenni Ott (Sunny), Shiva Abbaszadeh (Sunny), Sagar Addepalli (Sunny), Matteo Cremonesi (Sunny), Jennet Dickinson (Sunny), Giuseppe Di Guglielmo (Sunny), Erdem Yigit Ertorer (Sunny), Lindsey Gray (Sunny), Ryan Herbst (Sunny), Christian Herwig (Sunny), Tae Min Hong (Sunny), Benedikt Maier (Sunny), Maryam Bayat Makou (Sunny), David Miller (Sunny), Mark S. Neubauer (Sunny), Cristián Peña (Sunny), Dylan Rankin (Sunny), Seon-Hee (Sunny), Seo, Giordon Stark, Alexander Tapper, Audrey Corbeil Therrien, Ioannis Xiotidis, Keisuke Yoshihara, G Abarajithan, Sagar Addepalli, Nural Akchurin, Carlos Argüelles, Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Lorenzo Borella, Christian Boutan, Tom Braine, James Brau, Martin Breidenbach, Antonio Chahine, Talal Ahmed Chowdhury, Yuan-Tang Chou, Seokju Chung, Alberto Coppi, Mariarosaria D'Alfonso, Abhilasha Dave, Chance Desmet, Angela Di Fulvio, Karri DiPetrillo, Javier Duarte, Auralee Edelen, Jan Eysermans, Yongbin Feng, Emmett Forrestel, Dolores Garcia, Loredana Gastaldo, Julián García Pardiñas, Lino Gerlach, Loukas Gouskos, Katya Govorkova, Carl Grace, Christopher Grant, Philip Harris, Ciaran Hasnip, Timon Heim, Abraham Holtermann, Tae Min Hong, Gian Michele Innocenti, Koji Ishidoshiro, Miaochen Jin, Jyothisraj Johnson, Stephen Jones, Andreas Jung, Georgia Karagiorgi, Ryan Kastner, Nicholas Kamp, Doojin Kim, Kyoungchul Kong, Katie Kudela, Jelena Lalic, Bo-Cheng Lai, Yun-Tsung Lai, Tommy Lam, Jeffrey Lazar, Aobo Li, Zepeng Li, Haoyun Liu, Vladimir Lončar, Luca Macchiarulo, Christopher Madrid, Benedikt Maier, Zhenghua Ma, Prashansa Mukim, Mark S. Neubauer, Victoria Nguyen, Sungbin Oh, Isobel Ojalvo, Hideyoshi Ozaki, Simone Pagan Griso, Myeonghun Park, Christoph Paus, Santosh Parajuli, Benjamin Parpillon, Sara Pozzi, Ema Puljak, Benjamin Ramhorst, Amy Roberts, Larry Ruckman, Kate Scholberg, Sebastian Schmitt, Noah Singer, Eluned Anne Smith, Alexandre Sousa, Michael Spannowsky, Sioni Summers, Yanwen Sun, Daniel Tapia Takaki, Antonino Tumeo, Caterina Vernieri, Belina von Krosigk, Yash Vora, Linyan Wan, Michael H. L. S. Wang, Amanda Weinstein, Andy White, Simon Williams, Felix YuThu, 12 Ma⚛️ hep-ex

Propagation and Rate-Aware Cell Switching Optimization in HAPS-Assisted Wireless Networks

This paper proposes a rate-aware cell switching optimization framework for HAPS-assisted 6G networks that integrates realistic propagation losses and multi-objective formulation to significantly reduce data rate degradation while maintaining energy efficiency and user connectivity, validated through both system-level simulations and Sionna-OAI emulation.

Mehmet Eren Uluçınar, Özgün Ersoy, Berk Ciloglu, Metin Ozturk, Ali GorcinThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Flexible Multi-Target Angular Emulation for Over-the-Air Testing of Large-Scale ISAC Base Stations: Principle and Experimental Verification

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a flexible multi-target over-the-air emulation framework for large-scale ISAC base stations that utilizes an amplitude and phase modulation network to simulate diverse sensing targets without costly hardware, overcoming scalability challenges through optimized probe array configurations based on strictly diagonally dominant matrices.

Chunhui Li, Hao Sun, Wei FanThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Suppressing Acoustomigration and Temperature Rise for High-power Robust Acoustics

This paper introduces a layered acoustic wave (LAW) platform featuring a quasi-infinite multifunctional top layer that simultaneously suppresses acoustomigration and temperature rise, achieving a 70% reduction in heating and a record-breaking power density threshold of 45.61 dBm/mm² for high-frequency (>2 GHz) acoustic transducers.

Fangsheng Qian, Shuhan Chen, Wei Wei, Jiashuai Xu, Kai Yang, Junyan Zheng, Zijun Ren, Xingyu Liu, Yansong YangThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

A Harmony Composition-Inspired Tensor Modalization Method for Near-Field IRS Channel Estimation

This paper proposes a novel near-field channel estimation framework for extremely large-scale intelligent reflecting surfaces that leverages tensor modalization and harmonic analysis-inspired decoupling to create a compact distance-dependent codebook, achieving significantly higher accuracy and lower complexity than existing polar-domain methods.

Wenzhou Cao, Yashuai Cao, Tiejun Lv, Jie ZengThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

3D Spectrum Awareness for Radio Dynamic Zones Using Kriging and Matrix Completion

This paper proposes a 3D spectrum awareness framework for Radio Dynamic Zones that leverages matrix completion to outperform ordinary Kriging in dense measurement scenarios while demonstrating the superiority of simple and trans-Gaussian Kriging in sparse conditions, alongside the benefits of integrating multi-altitude data for improved prediction accuracy.

Mushfiqur Rahman, Sung Joon Maeng, Ismail Guvenc, Chau-Wai WongThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

UAV-Based 3D Spectrum Sensing: Insights on Altitude, Bandwidth, Trajectory, and Effective Antenna Patterns on REM Reconstruction

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of UAV-based 3D spectrum sensing and Radio Environment Map (REM) reconstruction, demonstrating that robust algorithms like simple Kriging and Gaussian Process Regression, combined with altitude-aware trajectory planning, increased bandwidth, and airframe-induced antenna pattern calibration, significantly enhance mapping accuracy even under sparse sampling and complex shadowing conditions.

Mushfiqur Rahman, Sung Joon Maeng, Ismail Guvenc, Chau-Wai Wong, Mihail Sichitiu, Jason A. Abrahamson, Arupjyoti BhuyanThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Multi-Modal Intelligent Channel Modeling: From Fine-tuned LLMs to Pre-trained Foundation Models

This paper proposes and compares two novel paradigms for multi-modal intelligent channel modeling in 6G systems—fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLM4CM) and a pre-trained Wireless Channel Foundation Model (WiCo)—both grounded in the Synesthesia of Machines concept to enable precise, scalable, and physically interpretable channel prediction across complex communication environments.

Lu Bai, Zengrui Han, Mingran Sun, Xiang ChengThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

In-Situ Timing Diagnosis of PDN and Configuration-Upset-Induced Routing Delay Degradation in SRAM-based FPGAs

This paper presents a scalable, non-intrusive in-situ timing diagnosis architecture for SRAM-based FPGAs that utilizes distributed phase-swept delay monitoring to probabilistically characterize and spatially differentiate between global power-distribution-network degradation and localized configuration-induced routing perturbations during normal operation.

Mostafa DarvishiThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

ParaS2S: Benchmarking and Aligning Spoken Language Models for Paralinguistic-aware Speech-to-Speech Interaction

This paper introduces ParaS2S, a reinforcement learning framework and corresponding benchmark (ParaS2SBench) that utilizes a novel PolyTone-trained automatic judge to effectively align speech-to-speech models with paralinguistic cues, achieving superior performance in response content and speaking style compared to supervised fine-tuning while requiring fewer paired demonstrations.

Shu-wen Yang, Ming Tu, Andy T. Liu, Xinghua Qu, Hung-yi Lee, Lu Lu, Yuxuan Wang, Yonghui WuMon, 09 Ma⚡ eess

CECGSR: Circular ECG Super-Resolution

This paper proposes Circular ECG Super-Resolution (CECGSR), a closed-loop framework that leverages negative feedback and a Plug-and-Play strategy to outperform existing open-loop methods in reconstructing high-resolution ECG signals from low-resolution, noisy inputs.

Honggui Li, Zhengyang Zhang, Dingtai Li, Sinan Chen, Nahid Md Lokman Hossain, Hantao Lu, Ruobing Wang, Xinfeng Xu, Yinlu Qin, Yuting Feng, Maria Trocan, Dimitri Galayko, Amara Amara, Mohamad SawanMon, 09 Ma⚡ eess

A Unified Multicarrier Waveform Framework for Next-generation Wireless Networks: Principles, Performance, and Challenges

This paper proposes a unified multicarrier waveform framework for 6G networks by systematically characterizing and comparing state-of-the-art one-dimensional and two-dimensional modulation schemes to guide their selection based on channel conditions and performance requirements.

Xingyao Zhang, Haoran Yin, Yanqun Tang, Yao Ge, Yong Zeng, Miaowen Wen, Zilong Liu, Yong Liang Guan, Hüseyin Arslan, Giuseppe CaireMon, 09 Ma⚡ eess