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cs.LG2026

Grow-Prune-Freeze Networks: Adaptive & Continual Learning Technique for Olfactory Navigation

Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu

The paper proposes Grow‑Prune‑Freeze (GPF) networks, an adaptive continual‑learning framework that dynamically grows, prunes, and freezes early policy layers to enable robots to na…

cs.RO2026

Chasing Ghosts: A Simulation-to-Real Olfactory Navigation Stack with Optional Vision Augmentation

Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu, Latifur Khan +1

Autonomous odor source localization remains a challenging problem for aerial robots due to turbulent airflow, sparse and delayed sensory signals, and strict payload and compute con…

cs.LG2026

BiScale-GTR: Fragment-Aware Graph Transformers for Multi-Scale Molecular Representation Learning

Yi Yang, Ovidiu Daescu

Fragment-level representations provide a natural way to capture recurring molecular substructures and reuse their learned representations across molecules. However, a shared fragme…

cs.RO2025

Diffusion Graph Neural Networks and Dataset for Robust Olfactory Navigation in Hazard Robotics

Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu

Navigation by scent is a capability in robotic systems that is rising in demand. However, current methods often suffer from ambiguities, particularly when robots misattribute odour…

cs.RO2025

Olfactory Inertial Odometry: Sensor Calibration and Drift Compensation

Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu, Anirban Paul +1

Visual inertial odometry (VIO) is a process for fusing visual and kinematic data to understand a machine's state in a navigation task. Olfactory inertial odometry (OIO) is an analo…

cs.RO2025

Olfactory Inertial Odometry: Methodology for Effective Robot Navigation by Scent

Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu

Olfactory navigation is one of the most primitive mechanisms of exploration used by organisms. Navigation by machine olfaction (artificial smell) is a very difficult task to both s…