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Pedestrian trajectory prediction is challenging due to its uncertain and multimodal nature. While generative adversarial networks can learn a distribution over future trajectories, they tend to predict out-of-distribution samples when the…

Ray tracing has become a standard for accurate radio propagation modeling, but suffers from exponential computational complexity, as the number of candidate paths scales with the number of objects raised to the interaction order. This…

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Selecting key variables from high-dimensional data is increasingly important in the era of big data. Sparse regression serves as a powerful tool for this purpose by promoting model simplicity and explainability. In this work, we revisit a…

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