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July 10, 20265 min readHydroShear, a new physics-based simulator, teaches robots how to use their sense of touch to perform complex manipulation tasks, in a way that transfers seamlessly to the real world. -
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Transactions on Machine Learning Research2025Pattern discovery in data plays a crucial role across diverse domains, including healthcare, risk assessment, and machinery maintenance. In contrast to black-box deep learning models, symbolic rule discovery emerges as a key data mining task, generating human-interpretable rules that offer both transparency and intuitive explainability. This paper introduces the Optimal Pattern Detection Tree (OPDT), a
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2025In this work, we investigate data-driven solutions aimed towards mitigating the supply risk and optimizing cross-product constraints/resources for the inventory management problem. We particularly focus on dual sourcing methodologies by lead time for inventory planning and control. We investigate how to efficiently employ Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) models for learning and forecasting the real-world
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2025Accurately evaluating machine-translated text remains a long-standing challenge, particularly for long documents. Recent work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can serve as reliable and interpretable sentence-level translation evaluators via MQM error span annotations. With modern LLMs supporting larger context windows, a natural question arises: can we feed entire document translations into an
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IEEE CASE 20252025Efficient and safe transport of deformable packages using suction cups is crucial in warehouse automation. Unlike rigid packages, deformable packages exhibit complex oscillatory behaviors and can detach under aggressive motions. Traditional motion planners typically overlook these oscillations, often resulting in either unsafe trajectories or overly conservative, slow motions. This paper addresses that
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2025Effective product schema modeling is fundamental to e-commerce success, enabling accurate product discovery and superior customer experience. However, traditional manual schema modeling processes are severely bottlenecked, producing only tens of attributes per month, which is insufficient for modern e-commerce platforms managing thousands of product types. This paper introduces AttributeForge, the first
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