collaborators

6 papers

cs.AI2026

Rethinking Positional Encoding for Neural Vehicle Routing

Chuanbo Hua, Federico Berto, Andre Hottung +8

Transformer-based models have become the dominant paradigm for neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) of vehicle routing problems (VRPs), yet the role of positional encoding (PE)…

cs.RO2026

EvoNav: Evolutionary Reward Function Design for Robot Navigation with Large Language Models

Zhikai Zhao, Chuanbo Hua, Federico Berto +4

Robot navigation is a crucial task with applications to social robots in dynamic human environments. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown great promise for this problem, the…

cs.CV2026

HyNeuralMap: Hyperbolic Mapping of Visual Semantics to Neural Hierarchies

Zihan Ma, Tian Xia, Kexin Wang +3

Understanding the intricate mappings between visual stimuli and neural responses is a fundamental challenge in cognitive neuroscience. While current approaches predominantly align…

cs.AI2026

JudgeFlow: Agentic Workflow Optimization via Block Judge

Zihan Ma, Zhikai Zhao, Chuanbo Hua +2

Optimizing LLM-based agentic workflows is challenging for scaling AI capabilities. Current methods rely on coarse, end-to-end evaluation signals and lack fine-grained signals on wh…

cs.LG2025

TrajEvo: Trajectory Prediction Heuristics Design via LLM-driven Evolution

Zhikai Zhao, Chuanbo Hua, Federico Berto +4

Trajectory prediction is a critical task in modeling human behavior, especially in safety-critical domains such as social robotics and autonomous vehicle navigation. Traditional he…

cs.AI2025

TrajEvo: Designing Trajectory Prediction Heuristics via LLM-driven Evolution

Zhikai Zhao, Chuanbo Hua, Federico Berto +4

Trajectory prediction is a crucial task in modeling human behavior, especially in fields as social robotics and autonomous vehicle navigation. Traditional heuristics based on handc…