U-OBCA: Uncertainty-Aware Optimization-Based Collision Avoidance via Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Chance Constraints

This paper introduces U-OBCA, an uncertainty-aware optimization-based collision avoidance framework that utilizes Wasserstein distributionally robust chance constraints to handle polygon-shaped robots and obstacles without geometric simplification, thereby significantly reducing conservatism and improving navigation efficiency in narrow, cluttered environments compared to existing methods.

Zehao Wang, Yuxuan Tang, Han Zhang + 2 more2026-03-06🔢 math

Multi-Species Keller--Segel Systems: Analysis, Pattern Formation, and Emerging Mathematical Structures

This article provides a comprehensive survey of multi-species Keller--Segel systems, synthesizing classical and recent results on their analytical well-posedness, blow-up mechanisms, and pattern formation dynamics to clarify the structural principles governing complex chemotactic interactions in biological and ecological contexts.

Kolade M Owolabi, Eben Mare, Clara O Ijalana + 1 more2026-03-06🔢 math

An Efficient Stochastic First-Order Algorithm for Nonconvex-Strongly Concave Minimax Optimization beyond Lipschitz Smoothness

This paper proposes the NSGDA-M algorithm, a stochastic first-order method with momentum and normalization, to solve nonconvex-strongly concave minimax problems under generalized smoothness conditions, achieving an O(ϵ4)\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^{-4}) stochastic gradient complexity for finding an ϵ\epsilon-stationary point.

Yan Gao, Yongchao Liu2026-03-06🔢 math

WaterSIC: information-theoretically (near) optimal linear layer quantization

This paper introduces WaterSIC, a novel linear layer quantization algorithm that achieves information-theoretically near-optimal performance by allocating different quantization rates to weight columns via a waterfilling strategy, thereby significantly outperforming existing methods like GPTQ and establishing new state-of-the-art results for LLMs across 1 to 4-bit quantization rates.

Egor Lifar, Semyon Savkin, Or Ordentlich + 1 more2026-03-06🔢 math

Lagrangian structures on the derived moduli of constructible sheaves

This paper establishes that the moduli of D(k)\mathcal{D}(k)-valued constructible sheaves and perverse sheaves on a compact oriented manifold with a conically smooth stratification are (2n)(2-n)-shifted Lagrangian, a result derived from constructing a relative left nn-Calabi--Yau structure via lax gluing of categorical cubes and identifying symplectic leaves for perverse sheaves with prescribed monodromy.

Merlin Christ, Enrico Lampetti2026-03-06🔢 math

On LLR Mismatch in Belief Propagation Decoding of Overcomplete QLDPC Codes

This paper investigates how mismatched log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) impact belief propagation decoding of overcomplete quantum LDPC codes, revealing that while performance is sensitive to initialization in low noise, the optimal FER is robust across a wide range of LLR values, suggesting that LLR mismatch can be effectively utilized as a regularization control parameter rather than a quantity requiring precise channel matching.

Hernan Cordova, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Gabriele Liga + 2 more2026-03-06🔢 math

Limiting absorption principle for time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic scattering of plane waves from a bi-periodic inhomogeneous layer

This paper establishes the Limiting Absorption Principle for time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic scattering from bi-periodic inhomogeneous layers supporting Bound States in the Continuum, thereby deriving a sharp radiation condition that ensures solution uniqueness by combining the classical Rayleigh expansion with a newly proven orthogonal identity.

Guanghui Hu, Andreas Kirsch, Yulong Zhong2026-03-06🔢 math

Formal Entropy-Regularized Control of Stochastic Systems

This paper presents a formal control synthesis framework for continuous-state stochastic systems that minimizes a linear combination of system entropy (measured by KL divergence to uniform) and cumulative cost by deriving novel bounds on the entropy difference between continuous distributions and their finite-state abstractions, thereby enabling entropy-aware controllers with rigorous performance guarantees.

Menno van Zutphen, Giannis Delimpaltadakis, Duarte J. Antunes2026-03-06🔢 math

A Second-Order Algorithm Based on Affine Scaling Interior-Point Methods for nonlinear minimization with bound constraints

This paper extends the homogeneous second-order descent method (HSODM) to bound-constrained nonlinear optimization by proposing the SOBASIP algorithm, which utilizes affine scaling and homogenization techniques to achieve a global iteration complexity of O(ϵ3/2)O(\epsilon^{-3/2}) for finding ϵ\epsilon-approximate second-order stationary points and exhibits local superlinear convergence.

Yonggang Pei, Yubing Lin2026-03-06🔢 math