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Publications (139)

math.DG2019

Evolution of relative Yamabe constant under Ricci Flow

Boris Botvinnik, Peng Lu

Let be a manifold with boundary given together with a conformal class which restricts to a conformal class on . Then the relative Yamabe constant $Y_{\bar C…

cs.CL2025

Resona: Improving Context Copying in Linear Recurrence Models with Retrieval

Xinyu Wang, Linrui Ma, Jerry Huang +5

Recent shifts in the space of large language model (LLM) research have shown an increasing focus on novel architectures to compete with prototypical Transformer-based models that h…

math.AP2025

Global well-posedness and large-time behavior for three-dimensional magneto-micropolar equations with horizontal dissipation

Peng Lu, Yuanyuan Qiao

This paper is concerned with the stability and large-time behavior for 3D magneto-micropolar equations with horizontal dissipation. The global well-posedness of the aforementioned…

cs.AI2026

Herculean: An Agentic Benchmark for Financial Intelligence

Xueqing Peng, Zhuohan Xie, Yupeng Cao +60

As AI agents improve, the central question is no longer whether they can solve isolated well-defined financial tasks, but whether they can reliably carry out financial professional…

cs.CV2019

Learning Aberrance Repressed Correlation Filters for Real-Time UAV Tracking

Ziyuan Huang, Changhong Fu, Yiming Li +2

Traditional framework of discriminative correlation filters (DCF) is often subject to undesired boundary effects. Several approaches to enlarge search regions have been already pro…

math.DG2005

A note on uniformization of Riemann surfaces by Ricci flow

Xiuxiong Chen, Peng Lu, Gang Tian

In this note we clarify that the Rcci flow can be used to give an independent proof of the uniformization theorem of Riemann surfaces.

cs.LG2025

Generating Feasible and Diverse Synthetic Populations Using Diffusion Models

Min Tang, Peng Lu, Qing Feng

Population synthesis is a critical task that involves generating synthetic yet realistic representations of populations. It is a fundamental problem in agent-based modeling (ABM),…

math.DG2016

Ancient Ricci Flow Solutions on Bundles

Peng Lu, Y. K. Wang

We generalize the circle bundle examples of ancient solutions of the Ricci flow discovered by Bakas, Kong, and Ni to a class of principal torus bundles over an arbitrary finite pro…

cs.IR2026

FinSAgent: Corpus-Aligned Multi-Agent RAG Framework for Evidence-Grounded SEC Filing Question Answering

Jijun Chi, Zhenghan Tai, Hanwei Wu +21

Financial question answering over U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings requires retrieving and synthesizing heterogeneous evidence dispersed across long, standardi…

cs.CL2026

InfMem: Learning System-2 Memory Control for Long-Context Agent

Xinyu Wang, Mingze Li, Peng Lu +6

Reasoning over ultra-long documents requires synthesizing sparse evidence scattered across distant segments under strict memory constraints. While streaming agents enable scalable…

cs.RO2023

ECMD: An Event-Centric Multisensory Driving Dataset for SLAM

Peiyu Chen, Weipeng Guan, Feng Huang +4

Leveraging multiple sensors enhances complex environmental perception and increases resilience to varying luminance conditions and high-speed motion patterns, achieving precise loc…

eess.SY2020

Simultaneous State and Unknown Input Estimation for Continuous-discrete Stochastic Systems

Peng Lu

This paper considers the simultaneous state and unknown input estimation for continuous-discrete stochastic systems. Two types of approaches (with and without modeling of unknown i…

math.PR2024

A study on the -distribution motivated by Chvátal's theorem

Qianqian Zhou, Peng Lu, Zechun Hu

Let be an -random variable with parameters and and expectation . In this paper, for any we investigate the infimum value of…

cs.RO2025

In-between Motion Generation Based Multi-Style Quadruped Robot Locomotion

Yuanhao Chen, Liu Zhao, Ji Ma +1

Quadruped robots face persistent challenges in achieving versatile locomotion due to limitations in reference motion data diversity. To address these challenges, we introduce an in…

math.DG2017

New proofs of Perelman's theorem on shrinking Breathers in Ricci flow

Peng Lu, Yu Zheng

We give two new proofs of Perelman's theorem that shrinking breathers of Ricci flow on closed manifolds are gradient Ricci solitons, using the fact that the singularity models of t…

cs.CV2023

RTMPose: Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation based on MMPose

Tao Jiang, Peng Lu, Li Zhang +5

Recent studies on 2D pose estimation have achieved excellent performance on public benchmarks, yet its application in the industrial community still suffers from heavy model parame…

math.DG2011

The linear trace Harnack quadratic on a steady gradient Ricci soliton satisfies the heat equation

Bennett Chow, Peng Lu

We show that the linear trace Harnack quadratic on a steady gradient Ricci soliton satisfies the heat equation. Similar result holds for shrinkers. We also present an interpolation…

math.DG2018

Ancient solutions for Andrews' hypersurface flow

Peng Lu, Jiuru Zhou

We construct the ancient solutions of the hypersurface flows in Euclidean spaces studied by B. Andrews in 1994. As time the solutions collapse to a round point…

cs.RO2018

Nonlinear disturbance attenuation control of hydraulic robotics

Peng Lu, Timothy Sandy, Jonas Buchli

This paper presents a novel nonlinear disturbance rejection control for hydraulic robots. This method requires two third-order filters as well as inverse dynamics in order to estim…

cs.CV2019

An End-to-End Neural Network for Image Cropping by Learning Composition from Aesthetic Photos

Peng Lu, Hao Zhang, Xujun Peng +1

As one of the fundamental techniques for image editing, image cropping discards unrelevant contents and remains the pleasing portions of the image to enhance the overall compositio…

cs.RO2021

A Fast Planning Approach for 3D Short Trajectory with a Parallel Framework

Han Chen, Shengyang Chen, Peng Lu +1

For real applications of unmanned aerial vehicles, the capability of navigating with full autonomy in unknown environments is a crucial requirement. However, planning a shorter pat…

cs.CV2024

EVI-SAM: Robust, Real-time, Tightly-coupled Event-Visual-Inertial State Estimation and 3D Dense Mapping

Weipeng Guan, Peiyu Chen, Huibin Zhao +2

Event cameras are bio-inspired, motion-activated sensors that demonstrate substantial potential in handling challenging situations, such as motion blur and high-dynamic range. In t…

physics.ao-ph2026

A black-box-model-enhanced interaction method for water-wave scattering by large group of arbitrary-shaped ice floes in Arctic route planning

Chongwei Zhang, Hongli Yang, Peng Wu +2

This study develops an enhanced interaction (EI) method for efficient prediction of the water-wave field among a large group of ice floes in Arctic route planning. A novel black-bo…

cs.CV2025

Stroke-based Cyclic Amplifier: Image Super-Resolution at Arbitrary Ultra-Large Scales

Wenhao Guo, Peng Lu, Xujun Peng +2

Prior Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution (ASISR) methods often experience a significant performance decline when the upsampling factor exceeds the range covered by the training…

math.AP2024

Global Existence and Asymptotic Behavior of Large Strong Solutions to the 3D Full Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Density-dependent Viscosities

Yachun Li, Peng Lu, Zhaoyang Shang +1

The purpose of this work is to investigate the Cauchy problem of global-in-time existence of large strong solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations for compressible viscous and heat…

cs.RO2025

HEPP: Hyper-efficient Perception and Planning for High-speed Obstacle Avoidance of UAVs

Minghao Lu, Xiyu Fan, Bowen Xu +5

High-speed obstacle avoidance of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered environments is a significant challenge. Existing UAV planning and obstacle avoidance systems can only…

cs.CV2021

Domain-Aware SE Network for Sketch-based Image Retrieval with Multiplicative Euclidean Margin Softmax

Peng Lu, Gao Huang, Hangyu Lin +3

This paper proposes a novel approach for Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR), for which the key is to bridge the gap between sketches and photos in terms of the data representation…

cs.RO2025

Lasso Gripper: A String Shooting-Retracting Mechanism for Shape-Adaptive Grasping

Qiyuan Qiao, Yu Wang, Xiyu Fan +1

Handling oversized, variable-shaped, or delicate objects in transportation, grasping tasks is extremely challenging, mainly due to the limitations of the gripper's shape and size.…

cs.CV2020

Learning Consistency Pursued Correlation Filters for Real-Time UAV Tracking

Changhong Fu, Xiaoxiao Yang, Fan Li +3

Correlation filter (CF)-based methods have demonstrated exceptional performance in visual object tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, but suffer from the undesi…

eess.SY2016

Framework for state and unknown input estimation of linear time-varying systems

Peng Lu, Erik-Jan van Kampen, Cornelis C. de Visser +1

The design of unknown-input decoupled observers and filters requires the assumption of an existence condition in the literature. This paper addresses an unknown input filtering pro…

cs.CV2019

Boundary Effect-Aware Visual Tracking for UAV with Online Enhanced Background Learning and Multi-Frame Consensus Verification

Changhong Fu, Ziyuan Huang, Yiming Li +2

Due to implicitly introduced periodic shifting of limited searching area, visual object tracking using correlation filters often has to confront undesired boundary effect. As bound…

physics.geo-ph2024

Knowledge Gaps and Research Needs for Modeling CO2 Mineralization in the Basalt-CO2-Water System: A Review of Laboratory Experiments

Peng Lu, John Apps, Guanru Zhang +1

Carbon capture and storage in basalt is being actively investigated as a scalable climate change mitigation option. Accurate geochemical modeling prediction of the extent and rate…

cs.LG2023

Do we need Label Regularization to Fine-tune Pre-trained Language Models?

Ivan Kobyzev, Aref Jafari, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh +5

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a prominent neural model compression technique that heavily relies on teacher network predictions to guide the training of a student model. Consideri…

math.AP2025

Global well-posedness and exponential decay of strong solution for the three-dimensional inhomogeneous incompressible micropolar equations with density-dependent transport coefficients and large initial data

Peng Lu, Yuanyuan Qiao

In this paper, we consider the Dirichlet problem of three-dimensional inhomogeneous incompressible micropolar equations with density-dependent viscosity. Under the assumption that…

cs.RO2020

Towards Robust Visual Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Tri-Attentional Correlation Filters

Yujie He, Changhong Fu, Fuling Lin +2

Object tracking has been broadly applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tasks in recent years. However, existing algorithms still face difficulties such as partial occlusion, clu…

cs.RO2025

DEIO: Deep Event Inertial Odometry

Weipeng Guan, Fuling Lin, Peiyu Chen +1

Event cameras show great potential for visual odometry (VO) in handling challenging situations, such as fast motion and high dynamic range. Despite this promise, the sparse and mot…

cs.LG2024

SEGAN: semi-supervised learning approach for missing data imputation

Xiaohua Pan, Weifeng Wu, Peiran Liu +6

In many practical real-world applications, data missing is a very common phenomenon, making the development of data-driven artificial intelligence theory and technology increasingl…

cs.AI2026

EventOD: Event-Aware OD Flow Generation via LLM-Guided Semantic Modulation

Jie Zhao, Jie Feng, Can Rong +3

Estimating origin-destination (OD) flows under disruptive events is important for disaster response and urban resilience. Existing deep OD models trained on routine mobility often…

cs.CV2026

HoloQ-VLA: Uniform W4A4 Quantization of Vision-Language-Action Models

Xinyu Wang, Mingze Li, Sicheng Lyu +6

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models unify perception, reasoning, and control in a single policy, but their multi-billion-parameter backbones and diffusion-based action heads make o…

math.DG2010

Convergence of fundamental solutions of linear parabolic equations under Cheeger-Gromov convergence

Peng Lu

In this note we show the convergence of the fundamental solutions of the parabolic equations assuming the Cheeger-Gromov convergence of the underlying manifolds and the uniform $L^…

cs.NE2024

Improved Genetic Algorithm Based on Greedy and Simulated Annealing Ideas for Vascular Robot Ordering Strategy

Zixi Wang, Yubo Huang, Yukai Zhang +3

This study presents a comprehensive approach for optimizing the acquisition, utilization, and maintenance of ABLVR vascular robots in healthcare settings. Medical robotics, particu…

cs.RO2020

Computationally Efficient Obstacle Avoidance Trajectory Planner for UAVs Based on Heuristic Angular Search Method

Han Chen, Peng Lu

For accomplishing a variety of missions in challenging environments, the capability of navigating with full autonomy while avoiding unexpected obstacles is the most crucial require…

math.PR2024

The infimum values of the probability functions for some infinitely divisible distributions motivated by Chvátal's theorem

Ze-Chun Hu, Peng Lu, Qian-Qian Zhou +1

Let denote a binomial random variable with parameters and . Chvátal's theorem says that for any fixed , as ranges over , the probabili…

cs.LG2026

OJBKQ: Objective-Joint Babai-Klein Quantization

Xinyu Wang, Ziyu Zhao, Peng Lu +2

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is widely used to compress large language models without retraining. However, many existing weight-only methods rely on heuristic objectives and gr…

cs.RO2025

Like Playing a Video Game: Spatial-Temporal Optimization of Foot Trajectories for Controlled Football Kicking in Bipedal Robots

Wanyue Li, Ji Ma, Minghao Lu +1

Humanoid robot soccer presents several challenges, particularly in maintaining system stability during aggressive kicking motions while achieving precise ball trajectory control. C…

cs.RO2021

Flying Through a Narrow Gap Using End-to-end Deep Reinforcement Learning Augmented with Curriculum Learning and Sim2Real

Chenxi Xiao, Peng Lu, Qizhi He

Traversing through a tilted narrow gap is previously an intractable task for reinforcement learning mainly due to two challenges. First, searching feasible trajectories is not triv…

math.DG2006

Evolution of Yamabe constant under Ricci flow

Shu-Cheng Chang, Peng Lu

In this note under a crucial technical assumption we derive a differential equality of the Yamabe constant where is a solution of the Ricci flow on a…

cs.RO2021

Identification and Avoidance of Static and Dynamic Obstacles on Point Cloud for UAVs Navigation

Han Chen, Peng Lu

Avoiding hybrid obstacles in unknown scenarios with an efficient flight strategy is a key challenge for unmanned aerial vehicle applications. In this paper, we introduce a techniqu…

cs.DB2025

NeurIDA: Dynamic Modeling for Effective In-Database Analytics

Lingze Zeng, Naili Xing, Shaofeng Cai +4

Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) manage complex, interrelated data and support a broad spectrum of analytical tasks. With the growing demand for predictive analytics,…

math.DG2002

On the asymptotic scalar curvature ratio of complete Type I-like ancient solutions to the Ricci flow on non-compact 3-manifolds

Bennett Chow, Peng Lu

The main result of this paper is: Given any constant C, there is such that if a complete, orientable, noncompact odd-dimensional manifold with bounded positive sectional…

cs.AI2026

SDFP: Speculative Decoding with FIT-Pruned Models for Training-Free and Plug-and-Play LLM Acceleration

Hanyu Wei, Zunhai Su, Peng Lu +4

Large language models (LLMs) underpin interactive multimedia applications such as captioning, retrieval, recommendation, and creative content generation, yet their autoregressive d…

cs.CL2025

MultiFinBen: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Multilingual and Multimodal Financial Application

Xueqing Peng, Lingfei Qian, Yan Wang +44

Real-world financial analysis involves information across multiple languages and modalities, from reports and news to scanned filings and meeting recordings. Yet most existing eval…

cs.RO2025

MARG: MAstering Risky Gap Terrains for Legged Robots with Elevation Mapping

Yinzhao Dong, Ji Ma, Liu Zhao +2

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) controllers for quadrupedal locomotion have demonstrated impressive performance on challenging terrains, allowing robots to execute complex skills…

cs.RO2026

RoboNaldo: Accurate, Stable and Powerful Humanoid Soccer Shooting via Motion-Guided Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Yichao Zhong, Yidan Lu, Yuhang Lu +9

Elite humanoid soccer shooting requires whole-body stability, high-impulse whole-body interactions, and accuracy to targets. Motion tracking-driven reinforcement learning (RL) prov…

cs.CL2025

: A Route-to-Rerank Post-Training Framework for Multi-Domain Decoder-Only Rerankers

Xinyu Wang, Hanwei Wu, Qingchen Hu +13

Decoder-only rerankers are central to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). However, generalist models miss domain-specific nuances in high-stakes fields like finance and law, and…

math.DG2005

Ricci flow on locally homogeneous closed 4-manifolds

James Isenberg, Martin Jackson, Peng Lu

We discuss the Ricci flow on homogeneous 4-manifolds. After classifying these manifolds, we note that there are families of initial metrics such that we can diagonalize them and th…

cs.CV2020

Training-Set Distillation for Real-Time UAV Object Tracking

Fan Li, Changhong Fu, Fuling Lin +2

Correlation filter (CF) has recently exhibited promising performance in visual object tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Such online learning method heavily depends on the…

math.DG2003

Metric transformations under collapsing of Riemannian manifolds

Bennett Chow, David Glickenstein, Peng Lu

Let (M,g) be a Riemannian manifold with an isometric action of the Lie group G. Let g_G be a left invariant metric on G. Consider the diagonal G action on the product

cs.CV2024

Self-supervised Photographic Image Layout Representation Learning

Zhaoran Zhao, Peng Lu, Xujun Peng +1

In the domain of image layout representation learning, the critical process of translating image layouts into succinct vector forms is increasingly significant across diverse appli…

cs.RO2024

ESVIO: Event-based Stereo Visual Inertial Odometry

Peiyu Chen, Weipeng Guan, Peng Lu

Event cameras that asynchronously output low-latency event streams provide great opportunities for state estimation under challenging situations. Despite event-based visual odometr…

cs.RO2018

PAMPC: Perception-Aware Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors

Davide Falanga, Philipp Foehn, Peng Lu +1

We present the first perception-aware model predictive control framework for quadrotors that unifies control and planning with respect to action and perception objectives. Our fram…

cs.AI2026

Enhancing Table Reasoning with Deterministic Table-State Rewards

Tung Sum Thomas Kwok, Xinyu Wang, Hengzhi He +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle with multi-step reasoning over structured tables. The primary reason is the lack of explicit supervision for intermediate reasoning states. Ex…

math.DG2019

Monotonicity of functionals along conformal Ricci flow

Fengjiang Li, Peng Lu, Jianhong Wang +1

The main purpose of this note is to construct two functionals of the positive solutions to the conjugate heat equation associated to the metrics evolving by the conformal Ricci flo…

cs.CL2024

Resonance RoPE: Improving Context Length Generalization of Large Language Models

Suyuchen Wang, Ivan Kobyzev, Peng Lu +2

This paper addresses the challenge of train-short-test-long (TSTL) scenarios in Large Language Models (LLMs) equipped with Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE), where models pre-traine…

cs.CL2025

ReGLA: Refining Gated Linear Attention

Peng Lu, Ivan Kobyzev, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh +2

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have set themselves apart with their exceptional performance in complex language modelling tasks. However, these models are also…

math.AP2024

Global Strong Solutions to the Cauchy Problem of Three-dimensional Isentropic Magnetohydrodynamics Equations with Large Initial Data

Yachun Li, Peng Lu, Zhaoyang Shang

We consider the Cauchy problem to the three-dimensional isentropic compressible Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with density-dependent viscosities. When the initial density is li…

cs.CL2024

Hyperparameter Optimization for Large Language Model Instruction-Tuning

Christophe Tribes, Sacha Benarroch-Lelong, Peng Lu +1

The fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled them to recently achieve milestones in natural language processing applications. The emergence of ever larger LLMs has p…

cs.LG2025

Calibrated Language Models and How to Find Them with Label Smoothing

Jerry Huang, Peng Lu, Qiuhao Zeng

Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have opened up greater opportunities to enable fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) to behave as more powerful interactive a…

math.AP2021

Global Existence of Ideal Invicid Compressible and Heat Conductive Fluids with Radial Symmetry

Peng Lu, Yi Zhou

In this paper, we study the global existence of classical solutions to the three dimensional ideal invicid compressible and heat conductive fluids with radial symmetrical data in $…

math.AP2024

Local existence of classical solutions to the 3D isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson equations with degenerate viscosities and vacuum

Peng Lu, Shaojun Yu

We consider the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson equations with degenerate viscousities and vacuum in a three-dimensional torus. The local well-posedness of classical…

cs.LG2026

pTNAS: Progressive Neural Architecture Search for Tabular Data

Naili Xing, Shaofeng Cai, Lingze Zeng +4

Recent advances have shifted the paradigm of tabular learning toward tabular foundation models, yet their accuracy relies on a heavy inference cost that scales poorly with context…

cs.LG2025

LABO: Towards Learning Optimal Label Regularization via Bi-level Optimization

Peng Lu, Ahmad Rashid, Ivan Kobyzev +2

Regularization techniques are crucial to improving the generalization performance and training efficiency of deep neural networks. Many deep learning algorithms rely on weight deca…

cs.RO2025

Flow-Aided Flight Through Dynamic Clutters From Point To Motion

Bowen Xu, Zexuan Yan, Minghao Lu +7

Challenges in traversing dynamic clutters lie mainly in the efficient perception of the environmental dynamics and the generation of evasive behaviors considering obstacle movement…

eess.AS2026

Listen, Look, Drive: Coupling Audio Instructions for User-aware VLA-based Autonomous Driving

Ziang Guo, Feng Yang, Xuefeng Zhang +6

Vision Language Action (VLA) models promise an open-vocabulary interface that can translate perceptual ambiguity into semantically grounded driving decisions, yet they still treat…

math.DG1999

Special Lagrangian Tori on a Borcea-Voisin Threefold

Peng Lu

We show the existence of special Lagrangian tori on one family of Borcea-Voisin threefolds. We also construct a family of special Lagrangian submanifolds on the total space of the…

cs.CV2024

RTMO: Towards High-Performance One-Stage Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation

Peng Lu, Tao Jiang, Yining Li +3

Real-time multi-person pose estimation presents significant challenges in balancing speed and precision. While two-stage top-down methods slow down as the number of people in the i…

cs.RO2025

Flying in Highly Dynamic Environments with End-to-end Learning Approach

Xiyu Fan, Minghao Lu, Bowen Xu +1

Obstacle avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicles like quadrotors is a popular research topic. Most existing research focuses only on static environments, and obstacle avoidance in e…

cs.CL2025

PoTPTQ: A Two-step Power-of-Two Post-training for LLMs

Xinyu Wang, Vahid Partovi Nia, Peng Lu +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, their deployment is challenging due to the su…

cs.CL2026

Investigating the Multilingual Calibration Effects of Language Model Instruction-Tuning

Jerry Huang, Peng Lu, Qiuhao Zeng +5

Ensuring that deep learning models are well-calibrated in terms of their predictive uncertainty is essential in maintaining their trustworthiness and reliability, yet despite incre…

math.DG2013

Rigidity of complete entire self-shrinking solutions to Kahler-Ricci flow

Gregory Drugan, Peng Lu, Yu Yuan

We show that every complete entire self-shrinking solution on complex Euclidean space to the Kahler-Ricci flow must be generated from a quadratic potential.

math.DG2015

On kappa-noncollapsed complete noncompact shrinking gradient Ricci solitons which split at infinity

Bennett Chow, Peng Lu

We discuss some geometric conditions under which a complete noncompact shrinking gradient Ricci soliton will split at infinity.

cs.CL2024

Draft on the Fly: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding using Cosine Similarity

Michael R. Metel, Peng Lu, Boxing Chen +2

We present a simple on the fly method for faster inference of large language models. Unlike other (self-)speculative decoding techniques, our method does not require fine-tuning or…

cs.RO2023

AeCoM: An Aerial Continuum Manipulator with Precise Kinematic Modeling for Variable Loading and Tendon-slacking Prevention

Rui Peng, Zehao Wang, Peng Lu

Aerial robotic systems have raised emerging interests in recent years. In this article, we propose a novel aerial manipulator system that is significantly different from convention…

cs.RO2024

LVI-GS: Tightly-coupled LiDAR-Visual-Inertial SLAM using 3D Gaussian Splatting

Huibin Zhao, Weipeng Guan, Peng Lu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown its ability in rapid rendering and high-fidelity mapping. In this paper, we introduce LVI-GS, a tightly-coupled LiDAR-Visual-Inertial mapping…

math.DG2003

Collapsing sequences of solutions to the Ricci flow on 3-manifolds with almost nonnegative curvature

Bennett Chow, David Glickenstein, Peng Lu

We study sequences of 3-dimensional solutions to the Ricci flow with almost nonnegative sectional curvatures and diameters tending to infinity. Such sequences may arise from the li…

cs.RO2026

Learning Human-Like Badminton Skills for Humanoid Robots

Yeke Chen, Shihao Dong, Xiaoyu Ji +10

Realizing versatile and human-like performance in high-demand sports like badminton remains a formidable challenge for humanoid robotics. Unlike standard locomotion or static manip…

cs.RO2025

FR-Net: Learning Robust Quadrupedal Fall Recovery on Challenging Terrains through Mass-Contact Prediction

Yidan Lu, Yinzhao Dong, Jiahui Zhang +2

Fall recovery for legged robots remains challenging, particularly on complex terrains where traditional controllers fail due to incomplete terrain perception and uncertain interact…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Hard Writes and Rigid Preservation: Soft Recursive Least-Squares for Lifelong LLM Editing

Xinyu Wang, Sicheng Lyu, Yu Gu +4

Model editing updates a pre-trained LLM with new facts or rules without retraining while preserving unrelated behavior. In real deployment, edits arrive as long streams, creating a…

cs.RO2023

Learning Agile Flights through Narrow Gaps with Varying Angles using Onboard Sensing

Yuhan Xie, Minghao Lu, Rui Peng +1

This paper addresses the problem of traversing through unknown, tilted, and narrow gaps for quadrotors using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). Previous learning-based methods reli…

math.DG2015

Uniqueness of asymptotic cones of complete noncompact shrinking gradient Ricci solitons with Ricci curvature decay

Bennett Chow, Peng Lu

We discuss an elementary consequence of the works of (1) Brett Kotschwar and Lu Wang and (2) Ovidiu Munteanu and Jiaping Wang.

math.DG2011

Weak Ricci curvature bounds for Ricci shrinkers

Bennett Chow, Peng Lu, Bo Yang

We show that for a complete Ricci shrinker there exists a sequence of points tending to infinity whose norms of the Ricci tensor grow at most linearly.

math.DG2011

A Note on Conformal Ricci Flow

Peng Lu, Jie Qing, Yu Zheng

In this note we study conformal Ricci flow introduced by Arthur Fischer. We use DeTurck's trick to rewrite conformal Ricci flow as a strong parabolic-elliptic partial differential…

cs.CV2020

Balanced Alignment for Face Recognition: A Joint Learning Approach

Huawei Wei, Peng Lu, Yichen Wei

Face alignment is crucial for face recognition and has been widely adopted. However, current practice is too simple and under-explored. There lacks an understanding of how importan…

math.AP2025

Global well-posedness and asymptotic behavior of large strong solutions to the 3D full compressible Navier-Stokes equations with temperature-dependent coefficients

Yachun Li, Peng Lu, Zhaoyang Shang

It is well known that the global well-posedness of the Navier-Stokes equations with temperature-dependent coefficients is a challenging problem, especially in multi-dimensional spa…

cs.LG2025

Mamba Modulation: On the Length Generalization of Mamba

Peng Lu, Jerry Huang, Qiuhao Zeng +4

The quadratic complexity of the attention mechanism in Transformer models has motivated the development of alternative architectures with sub-quadratic scaling, such as state-space…

cs.IR2025

VeritasFi: An Adaptable, Multi-tiered RAG Framework for Multi-modal Financial Question Answering

Zhenghan Tai, Hanwei Wu, Qingchen Hu +24

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is becoming increasingly essential for Question Answering (QA) in the financial sector, where accurate and contextually grounded insights from…

cs.RO2025

VinT-6D: A Large-Scale Object-in-hand Dataset from Vision, Touch and Proprioception

Zhaoliang Wan, Yonggen Ling, Senlin Yi +9

This paper addresses the scarcity of large-scale datasets for accurate object-in-hand pose estimation, which is crucial for robotic in-hand manipulation within the ``Perception-Pla…

math.DG2011

A necessary and sufficient condition for Ricci shrinkers to have positive AVR

Bennett Chow, Peng Lu, Bo Yang

In this short note we observe that a recent result of C.-W. Chen meshes well with earlier work of H.-D. Cao and D.-T. Zhou, O. Munteanu, J. Carrillo and L. Ni, and S.-J. Zhang to g…

cs.DB2026

NL2SQLBench: A Modular Benchmarking Framework for LLM-Enabled NL2SQL Solutions

Shizheng Hou, Wenqi Pei, Nuo Chen +3

Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) technology empowers non-expert users to query relational databases without requiring SQL expertise. While large language models (LLMs) have greatly…

math.DG2011

Mild Ricci curvature restrictions for steady gradient Ricci solitons

Bennett Chow, Peng Lu

We show for a complete noncompact steady Ricci soliton that there exists a sequence {x_i} of points tending to infinity such that |Rc|(x_i) limits to zero.