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  1. Outer Diversity of Condorcet Domains

    Sep 30, 2026Piotr Faliszewski, Jan Jabrocki, Mateusz Słuszniak +3ElectionsMajority Voting

    AGH University, Poland · University of Geneva, Switzerland · University of Oxford, United Kingdom

  2. Can LLMs Reason Over Long Horizons? An Empirical Evaluation of Context Strategies for Longitudinal Clinical Reasoning

    Sep 30, 2026Taye Akinrele, Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz, Subash Neupane +2LLM Reasoning StrategiesEfficient Long-Context Inference

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama

  3. MIND: Marginal-Invariant Neural Dependency Diffusion for Mixed-Type Tabular Generation

    Sep 30, 2026Pengfei Li, Mohammad KhalilTabular DataTemporal Dependence

    Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology (SLATE), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  4. Diffusion-2BC: Hybrid Diffusion and Regression Training for Offline Behavior Cloning in Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Bruno Maciel Machado, Eric Aislan AntoneloBehavior CloningDiffusion Policies

    Department of Automation and Systems Engineering, Graduate Program in Automation and Systems Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

  5. Projective Normal Fields: A Convex Optimization Method for Constructing Smooth UDFs

    Sep 28, 2026Jiayi Kong, Chen Zong, Fei Hou +3Continuous Distance FieldPoint Clouds

    S-Lab Nanyang Technological University Singapore · College of Mathematics Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China · Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences China +2

  6. Quantitative Measurement of Language Distance among Closely Related Indo-European Languages Using Pretrained Language Models: A Case Study on the North Germanic Branch

    Sep 28, 2026Yiping BaiDistanceGerman

    Guangdong Haiqixing Marine Technology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510000, China

  7. ArticulateArena: A Metric for Articulated Kinematics

    Sep 27, 2026Yumeng He, Yongfei She, Huanyu Chen +6Articulated KinematicsObject Articulation

    UCLA · USC · University of Utah +3

  8. Few-Shot Calibration for Sim-to-Real Single-Channel Speaker Distance Estimation

    Sep 24, 2026Michael Neri, Archontis Politis, Tuomas VirtanenAcousticUtterances

    Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Finland

  9. Passive LWIR Hyperspectral Ranging via Transmittance Extraction and Distance Alignment

    Sep 24, 2026Zhihe Chen, Chen Fan, Shuo Liu +4Light Detection And Ranging DataInfrared

    College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China · College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

  10. Controlled Attribute-Specific Summarization of Interrogative Dialogues

    Sep 23, 2026A Aditya Bhardwaj, Arjit Singh Arora, Md Shad AkhtarSummarizationDigital Forensics

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT Delhi, New Delhi, 110020, Delhi, India

  11. Unsigned Distance Maps on 2D Point Cloud Registration

    Sep 22, 2026Ricardo B. Sousa, Giorgio Grisetti, Héber Miguel Sobreira +2Point Cloud RegistrationRobust Lidar-Inertial Odometry

    Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP). R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. · INESC TEC – Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science. R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. · Sapienza University of Rome. Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma RM, Italy. +1

  12. Feasibility Distance Fields for Heterogeneous Constraints in Robot Configuration Space

    Sep 21, 2026Xijing Cui, Huayan Pu, Jun Luo +1Continuous Distance FieldFeasibility

    First and third authors' affiliation · Second author's affiliation

  13. A General Kernel Framework for Non-CND Distance Measures Using |D|-Dimensional Sparse Landmark Embeddings

    Sep 16, 2026Marcus M. Noack, Maher B. Alghalayini, Mark D. RisserKernel MethodSpherical Latent Space

    Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720, USA · Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

  14. Similarity Pairing with Energy Mover's Distance for Self-Supervised Pre-Training at the LHC

    Sep 15, 2026Ho Fung Tsoi, Dylan RankinSelf-Supervised LearningSelf-Distillation Framework

    Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Pennsylvania, USA

  15. Draining Fictitious Knots: Restoring Distance-Awareness Guarantees for High-Dimensional Spline Networks

    Sep 14, 2026Masoud Ataei, Mohammad Javad Khojasteh, Vikas DhimanKolmogorov-Arnold NetworksSplines

    Electrical and Computer Engg. University of Maine Orono, ME, USA · Electrical and Microelectronic Engg. Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY, USA

  16. Multi-source Transfer Learning of Time Series with a Shapelet-based Distance Measure

    Sep 14, 2026Jiseok Lee, Brian Kenji IwanaTransfer LearningTime-Series Classification

    Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi Ward, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan · Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi Ward, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan

  17. Flexible and Interpretable Accent Distance Measurements

    Sep 12, 2026Charles McGhee, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. KnillArticulatoryAccents

    ALTA Institute/MIL, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK

  18. Distance generalization in transformers: why bother with positional encoding?

    Sep 11, 2026Daniel Henrik Nevermann, Claudius GrosPositional EncodingTransformer Architectures

    Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

  19. Learned, Then Lost: A Measured Single-Example Counterfactual in Pre-training

    Aug 19, 2026Zachary Speck, Asa ShepardTraining DataBatch

    Arizona State University · Williams College

  20. Predicting Signed Distance Functions for Visual Instance Segmentation

    Aug 13, 2026Emil Brissman, Joakim Johnander, Michael FelsbergAmodal SegmentationBounding Box

    1Computer Vision Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University · 2Saab, Sweden · 3Zenseact, Sweden

  21. LOB-ID: Evaluating Synthetic Market Data by Inception Distances

    Aug 13, 2026Andreea Bacalum, Zhuohan Wang, Ollie Olby +2Limit Order BookSynthetic Data

    Simudyne · King's College London, United Kingdom

  22. The Objective Is the Bottleneck: Latent World Models Encode What Their Planners Cannot Use

    Aug 13, 2026Joyjeet SinghLatent World ModelsLong-Horizon Task Planning

    Independent researcher

  23. Multi-kernel spectral clustering: Entrywise eigenvector perturbation bounds and exact recovery

    Aug 9, 2026Zeqin Lin, Guangming Pan, Zhixiang Zhang +1Kernel MethodSpectral Representation Method

    1Nanyang Technological University · University of Macau · 3Dalian University of Technology

  24. Hölder Signed Distance: A Differentiable, Signed, Parallelizable Metric for Robotics

    Aug 7, 2026Felipe Bartelt, Ali Umut Kaypak, Anthony Tzes +3Continuous Distance FieldDistance

  25. Control Barrier Functions via Minkowski Operations for Safe Navigation among Polytopes

    Aug 3, 2026Yi-Hsuan Chen, Shuo Liu, Wei Xiao +2Control Barrier FunctionsObstacle Avoidance

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, and with M3S, SMART, Singapore +1

  26. Using Lower-Bound Representations for Trajectory Similarity Learning

    Aug 2, 2026Liwei Deng, Haotian Meng, Yupu Zhang +4Trajectory GenerationBehavioral Embeddings

    Aalborg University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  27. Lottery Tickets Are Not Deployment Tickets

    Jul 29, 2026Bum Jun KimLotteriesDecision Thresholds

    The University of Tokyo

  28. Theatre Chapbooks At Scale: A Statistical Comparative Analysis of Typography

    Jul 29, 2026Diego Belzarena, Seginus Mowlavi, Paula Casariego Castiñeira +3Few-Shot Font GenerationSimilarity and Metrics

    UDELAR, CB · Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, Centre Borelli, France · CB +8

  29. grapheme-kit: Grapheme-Level Metrics and Text Processing for Multilingual NLP

    Jul 24, 2026Izzath Nisfer, Ashini Kavindya, Ovindu Atukorala +2Optical Character RecognitionUnicode U+2014

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka · Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Nevada, USA · Department of Information & Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  30. Total Variation Distance Estimation in Autoregressive Models

    Jul 21, 2026Eric Price, Kevin Tian, Zhiyang Xun +1Autoregressive Language ModelsKullback-Leibler Divergence

    University of Texas at Austin

  31. From Distances to Trajectories: Real-Time Signed Distance Function Mapping and Distance-Accelerated Motion Planning for UAVs

    Jul 21, 2026Jason Stanley, Zhirui Dai, Qihao Qian +6Motion Planning3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction

    UC San Diego, La Jolla, USA · Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, 92093, CA, USA. · Shield AI, San Diego, USA +1

  32. Enhancing Transformer-based Routing by Encoding Distance via Relative Positional Encoding

    Jul 21, 2026Leyre Encío, Daniel Fuertes, Carlos R. del-Blanco +1Multiplex Graph TransformersPositional Encoding

    Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes, Information Processing and Telecomunications Center, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain

  33. PAMD: Structured Adaptive Distances for Bisimulation Representations in Visual Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 20, 2026Daegyeong Roh, Juho Bae, Han-Lim ChoiSimulation-Based Reinforcement LearningDistance

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejon, Republic of Korea.

  34. Points as Tori: Fast Pointwise Signed Distance for Point Clouds

    Jul 18, 2026Nicole Feng, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Keenan CraneContinuous Distance FieldPoint Clouds

    Carnegie Mellon University, USA · Roblox, USA

  35. DINE: Distance Is Not Enough -- Learning Global Deformation Priors for Robust Soft-Tissue Point Cloud Registration

    Jul 16, 2026Sara Monji-Azad, Rohit Beer, Marvin Kinz +2Point Cloud RegistrationDeformable Cnn

    Mannheim Institute for Intelligent Systems in Medicine (MIISM), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany · Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany +4

  36. Measuring Spatial Clustering via Metropolis-Hastings Diffusion Distance

    Jul 16, 2026Thomas Weighill, Chidinma WilliamsDistanceSpatio-Temporal Correlations

    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402

  37. PAC Learning in Turn-Based Stochastic Games with Reachability Objectives: A Decentralized Private Approach via Expected Conditional Distance

    Jul 16, 2026Ali Asadi, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Pavol KebisObservable Stochastic GameReachability

    Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Austria

  38. Terminal Dimension Reduction for Time Series with Applications

    Jul 10, 2026Alexander Munteanu, Matteo Russo, David Saulpic +1Dimensionality ReductionTime Series

    TU Dortmund, Germany · EPFL, Switzerland · CNRS & Université Paris Cité, IRIF, Paris, France +1

  39. Rag Classification of Tagore Songs using Symbolic Music Notation and Novel Weighted Distance Measures

    Jul 8, 2026Chandan Misra, Swarup ChattopadhyaySymbolic Music GenerationDistance

  40. How Far is Too Far? Defining the Distance Threshold for Verification Siamese Networks

    Jul 6, 2026Heloísa Dias Viotto, Cauê Samonek, Lucas Garcia Pedroso +3DistanceMnist

    ∗Departamento de Informática (DInf), Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR - Brazil · † Departamento de Matemática (DMAT), Universidade Federal do Paraná Curitiba, PR - Brazil

  41. 3DMPE: 3D Multi-Perspective Embedding

    Jul 6, 2026Vahan Huroyan, Md Rahat-uz-Zaman, Stephen Kobourov3D ReconstructionPoint Clouds

    Saint Louis University, St. Louis MO 63103, USA · University of Utah · Technical University of Munich

  42. GPU-Accelerated Polygonal Signed Distance Functions for Real-Time Collision Avoidance

    Jul 5, 2026Taekwon Ga, Jongeun ChoiContinuous Distance FieldCollision Avoidance

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea

  43. Scalable and Distributed Silhouette Approximation

    Jul 2, 2026Ilie Sarpe, Federico Altieri, Andrea Pietracaprina +2DistanceApproximation Algorithms

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology · University of Padova

  44. Profit-Based Counterfactual Explanations for Product Improvement: A Case Study of Manga Sales in Japan

    Jul 2, 2026Keita Kinjo, Takeshi EbinaCounterfactual ExplanationShapley Additive Explanations

    Faculty of Business Studies, Kyoritsu Women’s University, 2-2-1, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8437, Japan · School of Commerce, Meiji University, 1-1, Kanda-surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8301, Japan

  45. Typography-Based Monocular Distance Estimation for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems

    Jul 1, 2026Manognya Lokesh Reddy, Zheng LiuRobust License Plate RecognitionDistance

    University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MI 48128

  46. Partition-Guided Distance Saliency: Bridging Decision and Objective Spaces in Many-Objective Optimization

    Jun 29, 2026Cláudio Lúcio do Val Lopes, Flávio Vinícius Cruzeiro Martins, Elizabeth Fialho WannerMulti-Objective OptimizationSaliency

    A3Data, BH MG Brazil · CEFET-MG - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, BH MG Brazil · Aston University, Birmingham, West Midlands, U.K.

  47. Highly Data Parallelizable Estimation of the Sliced-Wasserstein Distance Using Cumulative Distribution Functions

    Jun 29, 2026Christophe Vauthier, Quentin Mérigot, Anna KorbaWasserstein DistanceDensity Ratio Estimation

    Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette, France · Centre de recherche en économie et statistique, ENSAE Palaiseau, France

  48. I-BBS: Coordinate-Free Inference of Latent Sub-Manifolds Using Random Distance Matrix Theory

    Jun 29, 2026Igor HalperinData ManifoldDistance

  49. How Token Influence Decays with Distance: A Green-Function View of Trained Language Models

    Jun 28, 2026Matthias Brändel, Stephan Köhler, Oliver RheinbachAutoregressive TransformersNext-Token Prediction

    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

  50. LXD-SLAM: LiDAR+X Dense SLAM with ∑i=05C5i\sum_{i=0}^{5}C_5^i Configurable Sensor Combinations

    Jun 26, 2026Zhong Wang, Lin Zhang, Linfei Li +4Simultaneous Localization And MappingRobust Lidar-Inertial Odometry

    School of Computer Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China · School of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China · School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

  51. Text Distance from Nested and Hierarchical Repetitions: A Compression-Based Perspective

    Jun 23, 2026Xiaojun Hu, Jing Wang, Jingwen Zhang +5Sequence ModelingLadder

    Department of Systems Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China. · International Academic Center of Complex Systems, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China. · School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. +2

  52. LLM-Aided A* Search in Non-Geometric Network Graphs

    Jun 22, 2026Nouf Alabbasi, Esraa Ghourab, Omar AlhusseinShortest PathsSearch Algorithms

    KU 6G Research Centre, Department of Computer Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  53. Stochastic Signed Distance Processes

    Jun 18, 2026Hiroki Sakuma, Masatoshi OkutomiSurface ReconstructionRaymap-Induced Geometry

    Department of Systems and Control Engineering Institute of Science Tokyo

  54. Surrogate-Assisted Framework for SI-Compliant Interconnect Design Optimization Using the Earth Mover's Distance

    Jun 13, 2026Emre Ecik, Werner John, Julian Withöft +2Printed Circuit BoardMachine Learning Surrogates

    Information Processing Lab, TU Dortmund University, 44227 Dortmund, Germany · Pyramide2525/TU Dortmund University, 33100 Paderborn, Germany · EMC Technology Center Paderborn, Zuken GmbH, 33100 Paderborn, Germany

  55. Beyond Scalar Distances: Semantic Attribute Gradients from Frozen MLLMs for Visual Embeddings

    Jun 13, 2026Shubhang Bhatnagar, Dheeraj Baiju, Narendra AhujaVisual EmbeddingsVision Encoders

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  56. Density estimation for Hellinger via minimum-distance estimators: mixtures of Gaussians, log-concave, and more

    Jun 9, 2026Spencer Compton, Jerry LiDensity Ratio EstimationOptimal Sample Complexity

    Stanford University · University of Washington

  57. kk-Nearest Neighbors in Gromov--Wasserstein Space

    Jun 9, 2026Kaitlyn Hohmeier, Nicolas Fraiman, Caroline MoosmuellerGromov--WassersteinApproximate Nearest-Neighbor Search

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Mathematics · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Statistics and Operations Research

  58. Non-Archimedean Polydisc Spaces and Applications to Optimisation

    Jun 5, 2026Paul Lezeau, Yiannis Fam, Anthea Monod +1Metric SpacesShape Optimization

    London School of Geometry and Number Theory, UK · Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK · Department of Mathematics, Durham University, UK

  59. Efficient Computation of Distance Functions for Navigation Vector Fields in Lie Groups

    Jun 3, 2026Vinicius M. Gonçalves, João Baião, Felipe Bartelt +4Lie GroupVector Fields

  60. Data-Driven Forecasting of three-Component Seismograms Using Transformer Architectures

    Jun 1, 2026Waleed Esmail, Stuart Russell, Jana Klinge +2Full Waveform InversionForecasting Backbone

    Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 9, 48149, Münster · Institut für Geophysik, Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 24, 48149, Münster · James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, Douglas, Queensland, 4814, Australia +1