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Reasoning about spatial relationships between objects is essential for many real-world robotic tasks, such as fetch-and-delivery, object rearrangement, and object search. The ability to detect and disambiguate different objects and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Negar Nejatishahidin , Madhukar Reddy Vongala , Jana Kosecka

Computer-aided design (CAD) models play a crucial role in the design, manufacturing and maintenance of products. Therefore, the mesh-based finite element descriptions common in structural optimisation must be first translated into CAD…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Ge Yin , Xiao Xiao , Fehmi Cirak

We present a hierarchical viewpoint on the operator-algebraic formulation of quantum systems, in which $C^{*}$-algebras are responsible for the universal and intrinsic description, whereas von Neumann algebras provide the detailed account…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Yoshitsugu Sekine

In many areas of applied geometric/numeric computational mathematics, including geo-mapping, computer vision, computer graphics, finite element analysis, medical imaging, geometric design, and solid modeling, one has to compute incidences,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alberto Paoluzzi , Vadim Shapiro , Antonio DiCarlo , Francesco Furiani , Giulio Martella , Giorgio Scorzelli

We introduce compute-grounded reasoning (CGR), a design paradigm for spatial-aware research agents in which every answerable sub-problem is resolved by deterministic computation before a language model is asked to generate. Spatial Atlas…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Arun Sharma

Scientific inquiry requires systems-level reasoning that integrates heterogeneous experimental data, cross-domain knowledge, and mechanistic evidence into coherent explanations. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer inferential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Isabella A. Stewart , Markus J. Buehler

A central question in cognitive science is whether conceptual representations converge onto a shared manifold to support generalization, or diverge into orthogonal subspaces to minimize task interference. While prior work has discovered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhimin Hu , Lanhao Niu , Sashank Varma

Graph foundation models (GFMs) seek transferable representations across graph domains but are limited by structural heterogeneity and incompatible node feature spaces. We propose Structure-Centric Graph Foundation Models (SCGFM), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xiaodong He , Haolan He , Ruiyi Fang , Ming Sun , Zhao Kang

Networked structures arise in a wide array of different contexts such as technological and transportation infrastructures, social phenomena, and biological systems. These highly interconnected systems have recently been the focus of a great…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alain Barrat , Marc Barthelemy , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

Recent results about topological coset models are summarized. The action of a topological ${G\over H}$ coset model ($rank\ H = rank\ G$) is written down as a sum of ``decoupled" matter, gauge and ghost sectors. The physical states are in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Sonnenschein

Coordinating multi-robot systems (MRS) to search in unknown environments is particularly challenging for tasks that require semantic reasoning beyond geometric exploration. Classical coordination strategies rely on frontier coverage or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ruiyang Wang , Hao-Lun Hsu , Jiwoo Kim , Miroslav Pajic

Interoperability remains a challenge in the construction industry. In this study, we propose a semantic enrichment approach to construct BIM knowledge graphs from pure building object geometries and demonstrate its potential to support BIM…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zijian Wang , Huaquan Ying , Rafael Sacks , André Borrmann

Organizing a large-scale knowledge graph into a typed property graph requires structural decisions -- which entities become nodes, which properties become edges, and what schema governs these choices. Existing approaches embed these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yitao Li , Zhanlin Liu , Anuranjan Pandey , Muni Srikanth

Various topological concepts are often involved in the research of mathematical logic, and almost all of these concepts can be regarded as developing from the Stone representation theorem. In the Stone representation theorem, a Boolean…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Yunfei Qin

Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC) fundamentally hinges on the coherent fusion of pre-trained entity semantics with heterogeneous topological structures to facilitate robust relational reasoning. However, existing paradigms encounter a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xuecheng Zou , Yu Tang , Bingbing Wang

Spatial aspects of computation are becoming increasingly relevant in Computer Science, especially in the field of collective adaptive systems and when dealing with systems distributed in physical space. Traditional formal verification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Vincenzo Ciancia , Diego Latella , Michele Loreti , Mieke Massink

Linear topological spaces with partial ordering (linear kinematics) are studied. They are defined by a set of 8 axioms implying that topology, linear structure and ordering are compatible with each other. Most of the results are valid for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor Revoltovich Krym

This article introduces a general mesh intersection algorithm that exactly computes the so-called Weiler model (also called an arrangement) and that uses it to implement boolean operations with arbitrary multi-operand expressions, CSG…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Bruno Lévy

3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) users need to overcome several obstacles to benefit from the flexibility of programmatic interface tools. Besides the barriers of any programming language, users face challenges inherent to 3D spatial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-06 J. Felipe Gonzalez , Danny Kieken , Thomas Pietrzak , Audrey Girouard , Géry Casiez

Behaviors of many engineering systems are described by lumped parameter models that encapsulate the spatially distributed nature of the system into networks of lumped elements; the dynamics of such a network is governed by a system of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Randi Wang , Vadim Shapiro