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eess.SP2026

Passive RF Sensing for People Counting with Dense IoT Networks

Federica Fieramosca, Vittorio Rampa, Michele D'Amico

Radio Frequency (RF) convergence, the joint use of radio signals for both communication and sensing, is gaining increasing attention in research and industry, mostly for its potent…

cs.LG2026★ 2 cited

Sample complexity of variance-reduced policy gradient: weaker assumptions and lower bounds

Gabor Paczolay, Matteo Papini, Alberto Maria Metelli +2

Several variance-reduced versions of REINFORCE based on importance sampling achieve an improved sample complexity to find an -stationary point, under an unrealistic…

cs.SI2026

Enhancing Human Mobility Prediction with Spatially Aware LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

Shangyu Lou, Ziqi Cui

Predicting a user's next POI is a task in human mobility modeling, yet LLM-based approaches focus on semantic reasoning from previous mobility records, while neglecting real-world…

gr-qc2026

Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Space-Time Singularities Lemaitre Conference 2024

Massimo Bianchi, Sergio Luigi Cacciatori, Matteo Galaverni +2

This editorial introduces the topical collection arising from the Lemaitre Conference 2024 - the second in a series of meetings dedicated to the scientific legacy of Georges Lemait…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Direct Realization of Near-Ideal Carbyne in Ultrathin Boron Nitride Nanotubes

Iryna Ivanenko, Pietro Marabotti, Yifan Zhang +8

Carbyne, the sp-hybridized one-dimensional allotrope of carbon, is predicted to be the stiffest known material, with electronic and optical properties set by a single structural pa…

cs.FL2026

Guillotine and Tiling Cofiniteness in Unary Picture Languages

Pierluigi San Pietro, Stefano Crespi Reghizzi, Antonio Restivo

Motivated by the study of closure operations on picture languages, we ask when a set of unary tiles can generate all sufficiently large pictures either via repeated horizontal and…

cs.RO2026

Adaptive Human-Robot Collaborative Painting Combining Preference-Based Optimization and Dynamic Motion Primitives

C. Cella, M. Ristic, M. Faroni +2

This work presents a human-centered collaborative framework that integrates Preference-Based Optimization (PBO) and Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs) to optimize robot-assisted ta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Charge-to-spin conversion in epitaxial and polycrystalline Bi and Bi/Ag layers

Federica Nasr, Emir Karadža, Santos F. Alvarado +9

Bi is predicted to be an efficient generator of spin-orbit torques (SOTs), with charge-to-spin conversion efficiency comparable to those of prototypical heavy metals, such as Ta, W…

astro-ph.IM2026

Structural, thermal and optical tolerance analysis of SHARP, a near infrared spectrograph for next generation telescope

H. Mahmoodzadeh, P. Saracco, I. DI Antonio +15

The design and verification of cryogenic near-infrared spectrographs require rigorous multidisciplinary analyses to ensure optical performance under realistic operational condition…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Role of Resonant -Points in the Transient Optical Response of Pumped Germanium

Amir Eskandari-asl, Giacomo Inzani, Matteo Lucchini +1

Pump-induced transient optical properties combine contributions from electronic states throughout the Brillouin zone, but the relative relevance of off-resonant and l-photon resona…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Multiwavelength Raman investigation of mono- and few-layer MoS2 grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition on SiO2

Alice Cartoceti, Paolo D'Agosta, Francesco Tumino +3

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS) is a semiconductor whose vibrational and excitonic properties are highly sensitive to layer number and structural disorder. We demonstrate the growth…

eess.SY2026

Stability Analysis of Grid-Following and Grid-Forming Converters Connected to Generators

Alessandra Casiraghi, Marzio Barresi, Samuele Grillo

This work presents an examination of the main interactions between grid-following (GFL) and grid-forming (GFM) voltage source converters (VSCs) and synchronous generators (SGs), ca…

gr-qc2026

Quasinormal modes of Bonanno-Reuter black holes via the Spectral Method

Davide Batic, Denys Dutykh, Fabio Scardigli

In this work, we explore the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of the Bonanno-Reuter black hole, one of the first regular black hole metric suggested by the Asymptotically Safe Gravity (ASG…

cs.NI2026★ 1 cited

Generative Explainability for Next-Generation Networks: LLM-Augmented XAI with Mutual Feature Interactions

Kiarash Rezaei, Omran Ayoub, Sebastian Troia +3

As artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models become integral to network operations, their lack of transparency poses a significant barrier to operator trust. Exis…

cond-mat.soft2026

Elastocapillary morphing of self-encapsulated droplets floating at the oil-air interface

D. Andrini, D. Riccobelli, L. Gazzera +3

Self-encapsulated droplets floating at an oil--air interface undergo striking shape changes during evaporation, including flattening and localized loss of membrane tension leading…

cs.GT2026

Efficient representations for team and imperfect-recall equilibrium computation

Luca Carminati, Brian Hu Zhang, Federico Cacciamani +4

Equilibrium finding in two-player zero-sum games with perfect recall is a well-studied topic that has led to many breakthroughs in computational game theory. This paper aims to gen…

physics.optics2026

Strong light-matter interactions in hybrid polaritonic systems

Ben Johns, Andrea Schirato, Federico Toffoletti +12

Strong light-matter coupling gives rise to polaritons - hybrid excitations whose mixed photonic and matter character enables control over optical, electronic and chemical propertie…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Charge-Transfer Induced Reactivity in sp Carbon Atomic Wires: Towards 0-D sp-sp2 Nanostructures

Marco Agozzino, Eleonora Moroni, Yifan Zhang +2

Carbon Atomic Wires (CAWs) are finite linear chains of sp-hybridized carbon atoms. Here the electrochemical reduction of CAWs in the form of polyynes (i.e. with alternated single-t…

astro-ph.IM2026

Pulsar Selection Criteria and Performance Evaluation of Autonomous X-ray Pulsar Navigation Systems

Sui Chen, Emilie Parent, Nanda Rea +1

Current space missions primarily depend on Earth-based Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) systems involving human-in-the-loop operations. X-ray pulsar-based navigation offers…

eess.SY2026

Homotopy-Guided Potential Games for Congestion-Aware Navigation

Mohammed Irshadh Ismaaeel Sathyamangalam Imran, Lasse Peters, Michael Khayyat +3

We address the multi-agent motion planning problem where interactions, collisions, and congestion co-exist. Conventional game-theoretic planners capture interactions among agents b…

cs.HC2026

Physics-driven Sonification for Improving Multisensory Needle Guidance in Percutaneous Epicardial Access

Veronica Ruozzi, Sasan Matinfar, Pasquale Vergara +7

Percutaneous epicardial access (PEA), performed on a beating heart under fluoroscopy, enables arrhythmia treatment. However, advancing a needle toward the thin and moving pericardi…

quant-ph2026

Non-Markovian exceptional points in waveguide quantum electrodynamics

Stefano Longhi

Spontaneous emission of a quantum emitter, such as an excited atom, is a fundamental process in quantum electrodynamics (QED), typically associated with exponential decay to the gr…

cs.AI2026★ 2 cited

2026 Roadmap on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Smart Manufacturing

Jay Lee, Hanqi Su, Marco Macchi +50

The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is reshaping smart manufacturing by providing new capabilities for efficiency, adaptability, and autonomy ac…

cs.CV2026

Graph-augmented Segmentation of Complex Shapes in Laser Powder bed Fusion for Enhanced In Situ Inspection

Stefano Raimondo, Matteo Bugatti, Marco Grasso

The technological maturity of in situ inspection and monitoring methods in additive manufacturing is steadily increasing, enabling more efficient and practical qualification proced…