M2Diff: Multi-Modality Multi-Task Enhanced Diffusion Model for MRI-Guided Low-Dose PET Enhancement

The paper introduces M2Diff, a multi-modality multi-task diffusion model that separately processes MRI and low-dose PET scans to extract and hierarchically fuse modality-specific features, thereby significantly improving the fidelity of standard-dose PET reconstruction for both healthy and Alzheimer's disease populations.

Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar, Himashi Peiris, Victoria Mar, Cameron Dennis Pain, Zhaolin ChenWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

Trade-offs Between Capacity and Robustness in Neural Audio Codecs for Adversarially Robust Speech Recognition

This paper demonstrates that neural audio codecs achieve optimal adversarial robustness in speech recognition at intermediate residual vector quantization depths, which effectively balance the suppression of adversarial perturbations with the preservation of speech content, outperforming traditional compression defenses.

Jordan Prescott, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Shrikanth NarayananWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

Universal Speech Content Factorization

The paper proposes Universal Speech Content Factorization (USCF), a simple and invertible linear method that extracts low-rank, speaker-independent speech representations to enable competitive zero-shot voice conversion and efficient training of timbre-prompted text-to-speech models using minimal target speaker data.

Henry Li Xinyuan, Zexin Cai, Lin Zhang, Leibny Paola García-Perera, Berrak Sisman, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Nicholas Andrews, Matthew WiesnerWed, 11 Ma⚡ eess

LexiSafe: Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning with Lexicographic Safety-Reward Hierarchy

The paper proposes LexiSafe, a theoretically grounded offline safe reinforcement learning framework that employs lexicographic prioritization to strictly enforce safety constraints while optimizing task performance, offering improved guarantees and empirical results over existing methods for safety-critical cyber-physical systems.

Hsin-Jung Yang, Zhanhong Jiang, Prajwal Koirala, Qisai Liu, Cody Fleming, Soumik SarkarThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Inferring Clinically Relevant Molecular Subtypes of Pancreatic Cancer from Routine Histopathology Using Deep Learning

The paper introduces PanSubNet, an interpretable deep learning framework that accurately predicts clinically relevant basal-like and classical molecular subtypes of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma directly from routine H&E-stained histology slides, offering a cost-effective and rapid alternative to traditional RNA-seq-based methods for precision oncology.

Abdul Rehman Akbar, Alejandro Levya, Ashwini Esnakula, Elshad Hasanov, Anne Noonan, Lingbin Meng, Susan Tsai, Vaibhav Sahai, Midhun Malla, Sarbajit Mukherjee, Upender Manne, Anil Parwani, Wei Chen, Ashish Manne, Muhammad Khalid Khan NiaziThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Design and Quantitative Evaluation of an Embedded EEG Instrumentation Platform for Real-Time SSVEP Decoding

This paper presents and quantitatively evaluates an embedded EEG platform based on an ESP32-S3 and ADS1299 that achieves real-time, closed-loop SSVEP decoding with high measurement integrity, demonstrating 99.17% online accuracy and 27.66 bits/min information transfer rate entirely on-device.

Manh-Dat Nguyen, Thomas Do, Nguyen Thanh Trung Le, Xuan-The Tran, Fred Chang, Chin-Teng LinThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Safe and Optimal Learning from Preferences via Weighted Temporal Logic with Applications in Robotics and Formula 1

This paper proposes a safety-guaranteed and optimal learning framework for autonomous systems that utilizes Weighted Signal Temporal Logic (WSTL) with structural pruning and log-transform techniques to efficiently solve preference-based learning problems as Mixed-Integer Linear Programs, validated through experiments in robotic navigation and Formula 1 racing.

Ruya Karagulle, Cristian-Ioan Vasile, Necmiye OzayThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Customized Interior-Point Methods Solver for Embedded Real-Time Convex Optimization

This paper presents a customized, dependency-free C-based second-order cone programming solver for embedded real-time guidance and control applications that utilizes a predictor-corrector primal-dual interior-point method with homogeneous embedding to efficiently handle quadratic objectives without sparsity loss, supported by an automated code generation tool that outperforms existing solvers on typical problem scales.

Jae-Il Jang, Chang-Hun LeeThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess

Score Matching Diffusion Based Feedback Control and Planning of Nonlinear Systems

This paper proposes a deterministic diffusion-based framework for controlling the probability density of nonlinear control-affine systems by leveraging a forward noise-excitation process and a reverse denoising feedback law to steer state distributions toward desired targets, with theoretical guarantees for drift-free and linear time-invariant dynamics.

Karthik Elamvazhuthi, Darshan Gadginmath, Fabio PasqualettiThu, 12 Ma⚡ eess