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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PACE: Perceived-Latency-Aware Cascading Service Routing and Filler Control for QoE-Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Dialogue Serving

The PACE is presented, a framework for retrieval-augmented dialogue serving that formalizes Perceived Time-to-First-Response (PTFR) as a QoE objective and minimizes it under quality/cost constraints and is the first quantification of filler-answer conflict risk in deployed services.

Ling Huang, Yujuan Tan, Wei-Sheng Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

HiRAD: A Flexible Large-Scale AGV Routing System

Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) substantially boost warehouse throughput, but routing large-scale AGV fleets remains challenging. Classical Multi-Agent Pathfinding solvers suffer from exploding combinatorial complexity and super-quadratic runtime, while relying on idealized grid or piecewise-linear motion models that...

Yun-Jie Huang, Rui-Zhong Wu, Meng-Xuan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

CT-SAFR: Safe and Interpretable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Autonomous Robots: A Multi-Layered Verification Framework for Trustworthy AI-Driven Robotic Decision Making

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enables LLMs to perform explicit, step-by-step reasoning, creating opportunities for sophisticated autonomous robots. However, recent research reveals that reasoning models verbalize their actual decision processes only 25-39% of the time, with faithfulness degrading 44% on complex task...

Cagri Temel · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Compact Visuotactile World Models for Lifting: Prediction, Reward Alignment, and Force Constraints

A 652,157-parameter action-conditioned visuotactile world model with matched behavior cloning, policy learning in imagination, independent reactive implicit Q-learning, and model-assisted force feedback is studied, finding that accurate tactile forecasts need not improve force-constrained control.

Qing-Zhen Ma · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Belief-State Engine: Augmenting LLMs for Principled Planning Under Partial Observability

It is proved that the LLM paired with the BSE is a sound Markov policy on the belief MDP induced by the underlying POMDP, and inherits the Bellman optimality guarantees of classical POMDP theory, provided the LLM is never exposed to the raw history.

Arnab Chattopadhayay, Debdipta Halder · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Time-Frequency Geometric Cross-Attention for Chunked Vision-Language-Action Models

Time-Frequency Geometric Cross-Attention (TFGCA), a drop-in module repairing both blind spots in vision-language-action policies, uses a per-dimension learnable stationary wavelet transform to decompose the action chunk into time-frequency tokens, and each time token retrieves information from them via a cross-attentio...

Sheng-Ye Dong, Hao-Chen Niu, Hao Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Decision Transformer for UAV-Mounted RIS-Assisted Dynamic D2D Communications

This paper studies unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mouted reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) communication with stochastic link activation with stochastic link activation using deep reinforcement learning and a Decision Transformer trained on expert trajectories from multiple scenarios.

Ya-Xuan Liu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Decision-Focused Active Learning for Scale-Aware Critical-Materials Recovery

This work outlines a pre-registered prospective test under a shared loss and logging standard, requiring clarified measurements and records, a defined process decision and relevant outputs, credible economic inputs, and validation at the intended scale.

Niranjan Srinivas, Debajyoti Ray, Elias Nakouzi · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint May 2026

RobotEQ: Towards Social Proactive Intelligence in Embodied Agents

This work aims to advance the development of socially desirable embodied agents in open-domain environments by extending the concept of proactive assistance to Social Proactive Intelligence (SPI), characterized by diverse scenarios, social understanding, and robot-centric behaviors.

Kuo-Fei Fang, Zheng Lian, Xin-Yi Che et al. · 3 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Human-Robot Interaction and Perceived Irrationality: A Study of Trust Dynamics and Error Acknowledgment

As robots become increasingly integrated into various industries, understanding how humans respond to robotic failures is critical. This study systematically examines trust dynamics and system design by analyzing human reactions to robot failures. We conducted a four-stage survey to explore how trust evolves throughout...

Ponkoj Chandra Shill, Md Azizul Hakim, Shawon Dey · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 23, 2026

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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