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Predictive Configured Grant Scheduling for Deterministic Wireless Communications
arXiv:2606.17653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Future wireless networks must enhance their capacity to sustain deterministic service levels and support emerging time-sensitive services in key verticals. The ability to guarantee bounded latencies heavily depends on efficient radio resource management. Configured Grant (CG) scheduling can reduce latency by pre-allocating resources, but its effectiveness and efficiency decrease under variable traffic patterns. This study presents a novel predictive CG scheduling scheme that pre-allocates resources based on traffic predictions while accounting for prediction inaccuracies. By considering these inaccuracies, the scheme significantly improves the ability to meet bounded latency requirements, which are essential for supporting deterministic service levels. Our evaluations show that the proposed scheme significantly enhances the capacity to support deterministic service levels while improving resource utilization, even in scenarios with variable and mixed traffic flows with diverse requirements.
5G Network Architecture and Configuration Choices to Support Teleoperated Driving at Scale
arXiv:2606.17654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teleoperated driving (ToD) enables the remote driving or control of vehicles. For this purpose, vehicles must transmit video feeds to the ToD control center so that the remote operator is fully aware of the driving conditions and can safely control the vehicle. 5G (and beyond) networks are fundamental for the deployment of ToD as they can provide the low latency, reliable and broadband connection necessary to connect the vehicle and ToD control center. However, it is unclear whether common 5G network architectures and configurations are well-suited to support the simultaneous teleoperation of multiple vehicles with demanding uplink bandwidth, as current networks are mainly configured to support mobile broadband services. This paper demonstrates that MEC or edge-based 5G networks are better suited to support and scale the ToD service than centralized networks, and quantifies the bandwidth required to simultaneously teleoperate multiple vehicles under various 5G network architectures and configurations, including different duplexing modes and TDD frame structures. Finally, the study shows that the configuration of the control channels can help mitigate the impact that the processing time of the video feeds has on the capacity to support and scale the ToD service.
Schr\"{o}dinger equations and fluctuation theorems for collisionless plasma systems
arXiv:2606.17656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The fluctuation theorem and detailed fluctuation theorem are formulated for classical systems whose governing equations can be written in Schr\"{o}dinger-type equations and which possess either a unitary or an antiunitary time-reversal operator. The initial state vector is treated as a random variable drawn from a time-reversal-symmetric probability distribution, and a stochastic relative entropy defined from its probability density is used to formulate these theorems. The framework is applied to two collisionless plasma systems: the linear Vlasov-Poisson and linear gyrokinetic systems. For the linear Vlasov-Poisson system, the governing equations are recast into Schr\"{o}dinger form, and Hamiltonian eigenvectors corresponding to Case-Van Kampen modes are derived to construct explicit solutions. The stochastic relative entropy is interpreted as entropy generation associated with Landau damping, in which electric-field energy is transferred from the lowest Hermite state to higher-order Hermite states acting as thermal reservoirs. For a specific class of initial distributions, a new analytical expression for the probability density function of the stochastic relative entropy is derived and validated numerically. For the linear gyrokinetic system in a uniform magnetic field, the governing equations are likewise transformed into Schr\"{o}dinger form, and the corresponding time-reversal operators are identified. The state-vector space is constructed as a tensor product of species, perpendicular-velocity, and parallel-velocity spaces. The resulting state vectors decompose into two orthogonal components: one coupled to electromagnetic fluctuations and the other corresponding to ballistic modes. These results establish a nonequilibrium statistical-mechanical framework for collisionless plasma dynamics and provide useful examples for future quantum-computing applications to plasma simulations.
Using Cognitive Models to Improve Language Model Simulation of Human Persuasion Games
arXiv:2606.17657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People make decisions differently in strategic interactions. Some update beliefs like a Bayesian; others exhibit biases like motivated reasoning. Although creators of large language models use simulated humans for safety evaluations and training, they often fail to cover this breadth of human behavior. We argue that cognitive science and economics provide a convenient tool for doing so, making use of mathematical models of human decision-making. We propose an approach that we call Equation-to-Behavior Prompting for guiding large language models to match cognitive models, and evaluate this approach on persuasion games based on legal decision-making. We find that large models can approximate equation-based specifications -- Bayesian updating, affine distortion, motivated updating, and Grether's $\alpha$-$\beta$ model -- using prompting, but small models fail to do so. However, training small models with reinforcement learning to adhere to mathematical rules, Equation-to-Behavior RL, reduces belief error by 26.5% in out-of-distribution parameterizations. We show that these simulations can help create diverse training environments; training small models to consider different kinds of decision-makers improves average belief change by 2.5%--12% over Bayesian-only training, even when persuading GPT-5-mini. Our work could improve human simulations for training and evaluation in increasingly realistic settings, and could also enable novel research into more complicated mathematical models of human decision-making.
Physics-Constrained Neural Networks for Improved Short-Term Weather Forecasting: A Case Study over the South Pacific
arXiv:2606.17659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study introduces enhancements to physics-constrained neural networks (PCNNs) that improve the accuracy and stability of hybrid short-term weather forecasting models. Building on the WeatherGFT architecture, three innovations are proposed. First, an upgraded numerical solver, combining a fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme (WENO-5), a beta-plane approximation, and subgrid-scale viscosity, permits a fourfold increase in the integration time step to 1200 s while reducing the daily mean squared error by up to 26%. Second, a unified autoregressive hybrid block replaces the original chain of 24 specialised modules, eliminating overfitting to specific lead times. Third, the physical core is integrated with two state-of-the-art neural backbones, resulting in PI-PredFormer and PI-IAM4VP. Evaluation on the WeatherBench South Pacific subset from 2000 to 2004 shows that these hybrids reduce root mean squared error at 1-12 h lead times by 8-22% compared to purely neural counterparts, while better preserving physical consistency. These results demonstrate that incremental refinement of hybrid components offers a practical route toward more accurate and efficient short-range weather forecasting.
Stability of Kirigami parachutes in effectively infinite numerical domains
arXiv:2606.17661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kirigami, the art of cutting flat sheets into deployable 3D structures, has recently inspired a new class of parachutes which can deploy into a naturally stable inverted canopy. However, the dynamic mechanism, fluid forces, and geometrical parameters that grant this stability have not yet been clearly identified. In this paper, we use a novel Biot-Savart far-field boundary condition to perform prescribed acceleration and free-falling simulations in effectively infinite domains, tracking the descent of a parameterized kirigami parachute. The far-field velocity is reconstructed from the interior vorticity, resulting in less than 0.1% variation in the predicted dynamics as the domain size is doubled. We first show the linear forces drop 2-5 times as the parachute is deployed due to increased permeability, whereas the moments increase due the counterbalancing effect of the increased lever-arm. Next, we find that the kirigami parachute achieves stable flight for deployment heights as small as half its radius, quickly damping out applied perturbations. For smaller deployments, the parachute tumbles due to side-slip and rotational coupling, as in falling disks. These effectively unbounded simulations identify that deployments approximately equal to the radius offer high drag forces with strong dynamic stability, providing a simple design rule for deployable parachutes.
Reservoir computing based on multicore fibers
arXiv:2606.17671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photonic reservoir computing offers a hardware-efficient route to processing temporal and sequential data, but delay-based implementations often rely heavily on temporal multiplexing, where long temporal masks are required to generate a sufficiently rich reservoir state. Here we show numerically that the spatial degrees of freedom of an active multicore fiber placed inside a delayed optical feedback loop can reduce this dependence on serial temporal encoding. The input signal is encoded by temporal and spatial masks, the pump distribution across the cores controls the reservoir operating point through the core-dependent effective gain and saturation energy, and the detected core intensities serve as readout features for a single trained linear layer. The system is modeled by linearly coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with saturable gain and solved using a split-step Fourier method. On the Mackey-Glass one-step-ahead prediction benchmark, a seven-core reservoir with equal temporal masks reduces the validation normalized root mean square error from 0.5956 for the single-core baseline to 0.0651 at a modulation rate of 40 GHz. At 1 GHz, spatial-only encoding reaches an error of 0.0323 using one temporal sample per symbol and no temporal mask. These results show that an active multicore fiber can provide both parallel readout channels and a tunable nonlinear transformation, offering a route to photonic reservoirs with reduced reliance on temporal multiplexing.
SuCo: Sufficiency-guided Continuous Adaptive Reasoning
arXiv:2606.17687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite remarkable performance on complex tasks, Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often generate excessively long Chain-of-Thoughts (CoT), inflating computational costs even for simple queries. Existing efforts to mitigate this inefficiency typically rely on discrete reasoning modes or fixed budget tiers, lacking a principled criterion of when reasoning is sufficient. In this work, we introduce Minimal Sufficient CoT (MSC), defined as the shortest prefix of a CoT trajectory which is adequate for producing the correct answer. We empirically show that MSC not only reduces reasoning tokens, but also improves accuracy across difficulty levels. Building on MSC, we propose Sufficiency-guided Continuous Adaptive Reasoning (SuCo), a two-stage training framework for autonomous reasoning control along a continuous spectrum. In stage 1, MSC-Aligned Fine-Tuning (MFT) constructs MSC data using problem-adaptive sufficiency thresholds that naturally scale with question difficulty, then fine-tunes the model to internalize concise yet sufficient reasoning patterns. In stage 2, Sufficiency-Aware Policy Optimization (SAPO) further optimizes the model through reinforcement learning with dynamic complexity tracking and sufficiency-aware rewards that penalize both over- and under-thinking. Extensive experiments across mathematics, code, and science benchmarks show that SuCo consistently achieves improvements in both accuracy and reasoning efficiency.
LLMs Infer Cultural Context but Fail to Apply It When Responding
arXiv:2606.17688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has shown that LLMs overrepresent dominant cultures, particularly Western ones, while marginalizing others. We investigate whether this affects models' ability to generate culturally adapted responses by evaluating their use of local measurement units based on the user's perceived cultural background. We introduce Cultural and Pragmatic Response Inference (CAPRI), a dataset of conversations with varying levels of cultural cues. Experiments with state-of-the-art LLMs show that models can infer cultural background and recall relevant conventions, but often fail to utilize the information to adapt their answers to the relevant cultural conventions, unless explicitly prompted to perform the tasks sequentially. We further evaluate adaptation to the interpretation of time and quantity expressions, two subjective language grounding dimensions that are affected by culture. We find that models increasingly adapt their answers as cultural cues accumulate, but their priors are not culture-neutral, sometimes aligning with the model's country of origin. Overall, CAPRI provides a resource for future research aimed at narrowing the gap between cultural knowledge and culturally adaptive language generation.
Why Model Credibility Isn't Enough: -Rethinking Trust in Simulation Architectures
arXiv:2606.17593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Credibility of a simulation model is an important topic. Several approaches try to quantify the credibility of simulation. However, models are mostly assembled within a simulation architecture. Can the credibility of a simulation architecture be assessed based on the credibility of the models that comprise it? This paper aims to address this issue by providing an overview of the current state of the art in the field of assembly credibility. It will compare sensitivity analysis techniques, qualitative analysis by experts, explainability in AI, and networks. Finally, an assessment of the proposed approaches, based on criteria such as rigor, generalization, and resource requirements, will reveal the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
Multipolar optical binding in focus
arXiv:2606.17694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The optical binding of gold nanoparticles has conventionally been explored within the Rayleigh limit using dipole approximations. But the field is increasingly focusing on the Mie regime for particles in the 100-500 nm range, where the dipole approximation is insufficient, and a complex landscape of multipolar resonances must be considered. This can be leveraged to engineer more complex forms of optical matter. To this end, we computationally study the optical binding force landscapes experienced by a pair of AuNPs using generalized multiparticle Mie theory. We calculate the total optical binding forces and mechanical trap stiffness values ($dF_i/di$) at the specific resonance wavelengths where the electric dipole, quadrupole, or octupole modes reach their respective scattering peaks and dominate the mechanical response. We demonstrate that the plasmonic mode symmetry greatly influences the spatial distribution of zero-force nodes and the rigidity of the optically bound dimer. By aligning these multipolar phenomena with standard experimental configurations, this work provides a mechanical framework for programmable metafluids and reconfigurable micromachines, bridging the gap between fundamental electrodynamics and reconfigurable nanomanipulation.
A Hypothesis-Testing Analysis of Blind Recognition for Polar Codes
arXiv:2606.17705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Blind recognition of polar-coded transmissions is an important task in non-cooperative wireless forensics and security-oriented signal analysis. When the code length is known or has been estimated, recovering the frozen/information bit-position pattern is a key step in identifying the underlying polar-code structure and enabling subsequent information recovery from intercepted observations. In this paper, blind recognition of polar codes is investigated from a hypothesis-testing perspective under the successive cancellation (SC)-based synthetic bit-channel representation. First, under an ideal SC-consistent condition, we formulate position-wise recognition as a binary hypothesis test between frozen-position and information-position models, which provides a theoretical benchmark for analyzing their intrinsic distinguishability. Second, we show that the adopted soft recognition metric admits an exact shifted log-likelihood-ratio interpretation. This justifies ln 2 as the neutral threshold under equal priors and costs, while unequal priors or costs lead to the corresponding Bayesian threshold shift. Third, under the ideal SC-consistent model and this neutral setting, we derive upper and lower bounds on the position-wise and sequence-level recognition error probabilities with multiple independent observations. The resulting overlap coefficient is further related to the classical Bhattacharyya parameter, establishing an interpretable link between blind-recognition difficulty and polar synthetic-channel reliability. Simulation results show that the derived bounds characterize the recognition performance under the ideal SC-consistent model and capture the effects of code length, the number of intercepted observations, and SNR. Further paired comparisons in the tested settings indicate that the SC-consistent recursion provides a good sequence-level match to the realistic SC-recursive procedure.
Confusion-Aware Transfer Teacher Curriculum Learning Framework: Disentangling Scoring and Pacing Effects
arXiv:2606.17706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Curriculum learning couples two design choices, how samples are scored by difficulty and how harder samples are paced into training, making it difficult to attribute observed gains to either component. We disentangle these factors with two evaluation protocols: stage-wise test subsets that validate scoring functions independently of curriculum training, and a baseline that applies the same pacing schedule to randomly ordered data. Within the Transfer Teacher framework (TTF), we use these protocols to evaluate a confusion-aware difficulty score that considers both correct-class confidence and the probability distribution over incorrect classes. On CIFAR-10 with ResNet-18 and VGG-16, the proposed score produces model-interpretable difficulty rankings that align with human intuition. However, at full data, neither curriculum nor anti-curriculum ordering improves accuracy over standard training, indicating that improving the scoring function alone is insufficient to overcome the known failure modes of curriculum learning in TTF. In contrast, We find that confusion-aware curriculum ordering result in consistent data-efficiency benefits, outperforming random ordering by up to 8.7% points at the 20% data regime, suggesting the potential of TTF as a data-efficient training method.
Heterogeneous SAR-optical fusion for near-real-time land use and land cover mapping under cloud contamination: A novel framework and global benchmark dataset
arXiv:2606.17713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optical remote sensing imagery is frequently degraded by cloud and cloud-shadow contamination, which limits its reliability for near-real-time land use and land cover (LULC) mapping. Although synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can provide cloud-penetrating structural information, existing SAR-optical fusion methods often assume reliable optical observations and insufficiently address the semantic uncertainty introduced by cloud contamination. To address this issue, we propose CloudLULC-Net, an end-to-end heterogeneous SAR-optical fusion framework that directly predicts LULC maps from cloud-contaminated Sentinel-2 imagery and temporally adjacent Sentinel-1 SAR observations. The proposed network incorporates optical reliability modulation to suppress unreliable optical responses, heterogeneous information adaptive aggregation to model high-order spatial-channel interactions between optical and SAR representations, and a unified semantic mapping transformer to organize fused features in a LULC-oriented latent space. A semantic anchor-guided optimization strategy is further introduced to improve the consistency of intermediate semantic representations. To support this task, we construct CloudLULC-Set, a large-scale benchmark dataset containing 40,223 curated SAR-optical-label triplets with pixel-level LULC annotations across diverse geographic regions and cloud conditions. Experimental results show that CloudLULC-Net achieves an OA of 86.60%, an F1-score of 83.29%, and an mIoU of 73.51%, outperforming representative heterogeneous reconstruction-first and end-to-end SAR-optical mapping methods. Comparisons with existing global LULC products and analyses under different cloud-cover levels further demonstrate the robustness and practical value of CloudLULC-Net for target-date LULC mapping in cloud-prone regions.The project is publicly available at: https://github.com/RSIIPAC/CloudLULC
LongWebBench: Evaluating Structural and Functional Webpage Generation in Long-Horizon Settings
arXiv:2606.17727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promising progress in generating webpages from visual inputs, yet existing evaluations mainly focus on short, single-screen, and largely static webpages. We introduce LongWebBench, a benchmark for evaluating long-horizon webpage generation from both structural and functional perspectives. LongWebBench contains 490 real-world long webpages for structural fidelity evaluation and 507 goal-oriented interaction tasks over 129 webpages for functional evaluation. It employs two complementary protocols: a multi-dimensional VLM-based metric for assessing long-range structural coherence, and a DOM-augmented agent-based pipeline for end-to-end functional verification. We further examine the automatic evaluation protocols through human agreement analysis. Experiments with state-of-the-art open-source and proprietary VLMs under single-image and multi-image settings reveal that structural fidelity degrades as webpage length increases, while visually plausible generations often fail to support executable multi-step interactions. These results highlight the need to evaluate long webpage generation beyond visual similarity, with executable interaction as a core criterion. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/zheny2751-dotcom/LongWebBench.
Finite Difference Implementation of a High-order Space-Time Coupled Compact Gas-Kinetic Scheme
arXiv:2606.17772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study presents a high-order compact finite difference gas-kinetic scheme (FD-CGKS) that introduces a novel spatial discretization strategy for the efficient implementation of space-time coupled high-order schemes on structured grids. A conservative nonlinear compact discretization is achieved by formulating numerical fluxes from physical fluxes at both nodal and interfacial locations. To simplify the multidimensional spatial reconstruction required for the GKS flux evaluation, we propose a dual-grid approach that updates conservative variables on both a primary grid and an identical dual grid, offset by half the mesh spacing. By leveraging the time-accurate interface solutions from the gas-kinetic evolution model, the scheme explicitly updates averaged spatial derivatives between virtual interfaces, naturally enabling compact high-order reconstruction. Furthermore, a nonlinear GENO method is incorporated to capture flow discontinuities with high resolution and robustness, effectively suppressing spurious oscillations. The proposed framework, which also offers new perspectives for designing schemes based on space-time decoupled Riemann solvers, is systematically validated. Comprehensive benchmark computations of inviscid and viscous flows demonstrate the scheme's high accuracy in resolving a wide spectrum of flow features, from smooth multiscale structures to strong shock discontinuities.
MIVE: A Minimalist Integer Vector Engine for Softmax LayerNorm and RMSNorm Acceleration
arXiv:2606.17781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) has intensified the need for specialized hardware accelerators that can satisfy stringent inference latency and power constraints. Although matrix multiplications dominate the overall computational workload, non-linear vector normalization operations, such as LayerNorm, RMSNorm and Softmax can become critical hardware bottlenecks. Existing accelerators typically implement these functions using dedicated hardware blocks, leading to duplicated resources and inefficient silicon utilization. To address this limitation, we propose a Minimalist Integer Vector Engine (MIVE), a programmable architecture capable of executing all three operations within a unified datapath. By exploiting common computational patterns across LayerNorm, RMSNorm and Softmax the proposed vector engine maximizes hardware sharing while reducing implementation overhead. Physical ASIC implementation results show that MIVE provides comprehensive multi-function support while achieving higher area and hardware efficiency than most state-of-the-art standalone accelerators.
LUMEN: Coordinated Failure Recovery for Distributed LLM Serving
arXiv:2606.17787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language model (LLM) serving clusters distribute inference requests across multiple worker processes on different GPUs, but failures are prevalent at scale. When a worker fails, the cluster simultaneously loses the failed worker's GPU-resident key-value (KV) caches and serving capacity, leaving surviving workers to absorb the redirected traffic while re-running interrupted requests from scratch. Existing fault-tolerant systems either restart interrupted requests from scratch or restore KV caches from checkpoints stored on a fixed neighboring worker, but both approaches route recovery work without considering current cluster load and leave the recovering worker idle during model reload. We present LUMEN, a fault-tolerant LLM serving system that treats recovery as a load-aware coordination problem across three decision points: checkpoint placement before failures, interrupted-request distribution at failure time, and serving capacity restoration during model reload. We evaluate LUMEN using both prototype experiments and large-scale simulations and demonstrate significant improvements in serving and recovery times.
Dynamics of a vortex column of supercritical fluid across the pseudo-boiling line
arXiv:2606.17795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evolution of an axisymmetric vortex column in a weakly compressible supercritical fluid is analysed. A thermal layer is imposed to radially stratify the fluid and uncover effects of the large fluid property variations across the pseudo-boiling line. A multi-dimensional flow solver based on a low-Mach approximation is employed. Using supercritical carbon dioxide as the fluid, we examine axisymmetric configurations at low Reynolds number with the vortex core hotter or colder than the surrounding fluid and for different thermodynamic pressures close to the critical pressure. Vorticity evolution depends strongly on the core temperature and ambient pressure, differing substantially from the classical Oseen solution during the thermal mixing process under highly varying fluid properties. Viscous effects dominate the vorticity evolution. Beyond diffusion, three additional viscous mechanisms are identified, which become significant across the pseudo-boiling line: (1) a vorticity stretching term, (2) an alignment of vorticity and viscosity/density gradients, and (3) a vorticity source due to the interaction between the fluid swirl and the viscosity and density gradients. The first two mechanisms alter existing vorticity, while the latter injects new vorticity. In fact, the third mechanism can generate reverse vorticity, locally increasing circulation and substantially modifying the temporal evolution of the vortex.
Incorporating wave physical priors into diffusion models: A novel approach to seismic resolution enhancement
arXiv:2606.17808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Seismic resolution enhancement remains a critical challenge in exploration geophysics, particularly when processing field data characterized by limited bandwidth, strong noise, and insufficient labeled training samples. Existing deep learning methods typically rely on supervised learning with synthetic training data, leading to distribution mismatch and poor generalization on real seismic acquisitions. To address these limitations, we develop a physics-guided self-supervised diffusion model (PG-SSDM) that learns directly from field observations without requiring paired high-resolution labels. The proposed framework combines three key innovations. First, a self-supervised training strategy constructs learning targets by progressively filtering the observed data itself, eliminating the need for high-resolution ground truth through iterative refinement across multiple stages. Second, seismic convolution model is embedded as a hard physical constraint in both the training loss function and the reverse sampling process, ensuring that generated high-resolution outputs respect fundamental seismic wave propagation physics. Third, the probabilistic nature of diffusion models enables uncertainty quantification, providing spatial confidence maps that identify regions where resolution enhancement may be less reliable. We validate PG-SSDM on synthetic data under various noise conditions and on a 3D post-stack field dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively recovers thin layers and subtle structures, suppresses noise, preserves structural continuity, thereby significantly improving the resolution and interpretability of seismic data.
UMB: A Unified Markov Binary Format for Probabilistic Model Checking (extended version)
arXiv:2606.17811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the unified Markov binary (UMB) format, an efficient, extensible, and well-supported explicit-state file format for representing a wide range of probabilistic systems. UMB addresses the problem that, while probabilistic model checking tools often support common high-level modelling languages, there is no effective mechanism for exchanging low-level model representations. In practice, textual, tool-specific formats are used, hampering interoperability and resulting in large overheads in writing and reading model files. UMB provides a clean, unified, and efficient solution, based on a general underlying mathematical model, and encoded using a small set of bit-level primitive data structures. The format has already been adopted by prominent tools and comes with a convenient Python library for reading, manipulating, creating, and validating models, plus infrastructure for cross-tool installation and continuous validation. We report on both the efficiency of the file format and the new practical use cases that it facilitates.
Human-in-the-Loop Atlas-Based 3D Asset Segmentation for Interactive Content Workflows
arXiv:2606.17824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Segmenting 3D assets into meaningful regions remains challenging, especially when segmentation criteria are application-dependent and require user control. We present a human-in-the-loop pipeline for generating a segmented 2D parameterized atlas from a 3D model for interactive media, game, and XR content workflows. Our method first selects a compact set of rendered views using a greedy set cover strategy over sampled surface points, and then supports interactive segmentation of these views with SAM~2 and Label Studio. The resulting masks are back-projected onto the model's UV parameterization to produce a unified segmented atlas that supports downstream production tasks such as segment-wise material assignment, style transfer, and semantic labeling. We assess the pipeline through a demonstration-based technical evaluation on eight cultural heritage objects. The results show that the approach can generate usable segmented atlases across diverse geometries while revealing recurring sources of manual correction, particularly fine structures, cavities, and weak appearance boundaries.
High-throughput Low-latency Hardware Implementation of BCH Decoders
arXiv:2606.17837v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two well-known decoding algorithms for BCH codes are conventional decoding, based on the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm in combination with Chien search, and direct decoding, which uses direct solutions to find the error locator polynomial and its roots. We introduce hardware architectures for conventional and direct decoding of extended BCH codes. Both architectures support implementation for any blocklength. Our conventional decoder supports any error-correction capability, whereas direct decoding is supported up to error correcting capability t = 4. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first to implement a direct BCH decoder with an error-correction capability 4. We synthesize for the Xilinx Ultrascale+ XCZU48DR field-programmable gate-array and 16 nm FinFET for blocklengths up to 1024 bits and t = 4. We show that the direct decoder outperforms the conventional decoder in area efficiency for t = 2, t = 3, and for t = 4 for blocklengths longer than 256. Post-synthesis results for 16 nm FinFET show codeword per clock-cycle throughput at 1 GHz, achieving 239 Gb/s for the (256, 239) eBCH code and 223 Gb/s for (256, 223) eBCH code at 2 ns and 8 ns latency, respectively.
Environment-Grounded Automated Prompt Optimization for LLM Game Agents
arXiv:2606.17838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents in interactive environments are highly sensitive to their prompts, yet prompt engineering remains a manual, task-specific process. We introduce an automated prompt optimization framework for LLM agents that decomposes the observation-to-action pipeline into a goal-conditioned descriptor agent and an action selection agent, and iteratively refines each module's prompt through an LLM-driven evolutionary loop guided by environment returns. We propose a behavior analyzer to attribute episode outcomes to specific prompt components, and a mutator to propose targeted revisions to the prompt, before validating them through environment rollouts. We evaluate on all five BabyAI tasks in the BALROG benchmark, comparing our pipeline against BALROG's RobustCoTAgent under both plain and guided prompt initializations. Optimization improves performance consistently across tasks and conditions, without requiring updates to the model weights. On PutNext, a multi-step coordination task where the RobustCoTAgent achieves 0% success, our framework reaches up to 72.5% success rate using the same underlying LLM with optimized prompts. These results suggest that a multi-agent framework, combined with automatic prompt optimization, enhances LLMs without the need for fine-tuning or extensive human supervision.
Creating squeezed and non-classical collective motional many-body states through stroboscopic Rydberg dressing
arXiv:2606.17849v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Realizing conditional quantum operations, e.g., quantum gates, for quantum computing and simulation requires controlled interactions between particles. Often, these interactions depend on the interparticle distance, and accordingly, an uncertainty of the relative particle position may translate into gate infidelities. We consider here a quantum computing platform based on an array of neutral atoms and present a method that allows to reduce the uncertainty of all interatomic distances. Our approach exploits the coupling between atomic motion and stroboscopically excited atomic Rydberg states. It allows to collectively squeeze the modes corresponding to interatomic displacements, thereby reducing distance fluctuations down to a fraction of the motional vacuum state. Furthermore, the method permits the creation of non-classical states with substantial Wigner negativity. These correlated states may allow reducing motional decoherence, increasing gate fidelity, and potentially yield a resource for quantum-enhanced metrology.