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Leveraging multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to develop embodied agents offers significant promise for addressing complex real-world tasks. However, current evaluation benchmarks remain predominantly language-centric or heavily…

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The MAPF problem is the fundamental problem of planning paths for multiple agents, where the key constraint is that the agents will be able to follow these paths concurrently without colliding with each other. Applications of MAPF include…

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Multimodal Automated Program Repair (MAPR) extends traditional program repair by requiring models to jointly reason over source code, textual issue descriptions, and visual artifacts such as GUI screenshots. While recent LLM-based repair…

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We address the challenge of multi-robot autonomous hazard mapping in high-risk, failure-prone, communication-denied environments such as post-disaster zones, underground mines, caves, and planetary surfaces. In these missions, robots must…

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Maps are broadly relevant across various fields, serving as valuable tools for presenting spatial phenomena and communicating spatial knowledge. However, map-making is still largely confined to those with expertise in GIS and cartography…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Sidi Wu , Katharina Henggeler , Yizi Chen , Lorenz Hurni

Existing multimodal document question-answering (QA) systems predominantly rely on flat semantic retrieval, representing documents as a set of disconnected text chunks and largely neglecting their intrinsic hierarchical and relational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 ShunLiang Fu , Yanxin Zhang , Yixin Xiang , Xiaoyu Du , Jinhui Tang

Vision language models (VLMs) can simultaneously reason about images and texts to tackle many tasks, from visual question answering to image captioning. This paper focuses on map parsing, a novel task that is unexplored within the VLM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 David DeFazio , Hrudayangam Mehta , Meng Wang , Ping Yang , Jeremy Blackburn , Shiqi Zhang

Scalable and maintainable map representations are fundamental to enabling large-scale visual navigation and facilitating the deployment of robots in real-world environments. While collaborative localization across multi-session mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jianhao Jiao , Changkun Liu , Jingwen Yu , Boyi Liu , Qianyi Zhang , Yue Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas

Rapid advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have raised higher requirements for evaluation methodologies. Existing benchmarks center on objective capabilities and dimensions, but lack an application-scenario perspective, limiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaojing Dong , Weilin Huang , Liang Li , Yiying Li , Shu Liu , Tongtong Ou , Shuang Ouyang , Yu Tian , Fengxuan Zhao

An embodied task such as embodied question answering (EmbodiedQA), requires an agent to explore the environment and collect clues to answer a given question that related with specific objects in the scene. The solution of such task usually…

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Multimodal remote sensing image (MRSI) matching is pivotal for cross-modal fusion, localization, and object detection, but it faces severe challenges due to geometric, radiometric, and viewpoint discrepancies across imaging modalities.…

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Indoor navigation remains a critical accessibility challenge for the blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals, as existing solutions rely on costly per-building infrastructure. We present an agentic framework that converts a single floor plan…

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This paper addresses the limited attention given to blind users as content creators in Content Management Systems (CMS), a gap that remains under-explored in web accessibility research. For blind authors, effective interaction with CMS…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Guillermo Vera-Amaro , José Rafael Rojano-Cáceres

We propose a weakly supervised approach for creating maps using free-form textual descriptions. We refer to this work of creating textual maps as zero-shot mapping. Prior works have approached mapping tasks by developing models that predict…

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High-precision vectorized maps are indispensable for autonomous driving, yet traditional LiDAR-based creation is costly and slow, while single-vehicle perception methods lack accuracy and robustness, particularly in adverse conditions. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zebang Feng , Miao Fan , Bao Liu , Shengtong Xu , Haoyi Xiong

Technology mapping is an essential step in EDA flow. However, the function of the circuit may be changed after technology mapping, and equivalence checking (EC) based verification is highly necessary. The traditional EC method has…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Liwei Ni , Zonglin Yang , Jiaxi Zhang , Changhong Feng , Jianhua Liu , Guojie Luo , Huawei Li , Biwei Xie , Xingquan Li

Exam documents are essential educational materials for exam preparation. However, they pose a significant academic barrier for blind and visually impaired students, as they are often created without accessibility considerations. Typically,…

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Mapping is essential in robotics and autonomous systems because it provides the spatial foundation for path planning. Efficient mapping enables planning algorithms to generate reliable paths while ensuring safety and adapting in real time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yihui Mao , Tian Tan , Xuehui Shen , Warren E. Dixon , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

Accessibility is essential for designing inclusive urban systems. However, the attempt to capture the complexity of accessibility in a single universal metric has often limited its effective use in design, measurement, and governance across…