Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted navigation can help Arctic shipping adapt to rapidly changing sea-ice conditions, but reliable deployment requires reward models that are interpretable and robust to changing environments. Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) provides a framework for recovering such rewards from vessel trajectories, while recent meta-IRL methods introduce latent context variables to capture behavioral heterogeneity.
arXiv:2603. 16307v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Remote sensing underpins crucial applications such as disaster relief and ecological field surveys, where systems must understand complex scenes and constraints and make reliable decisions.
By Ming Yang, Zhi Zhou, Shi-Yu Tian, Kun-Yang Yu, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li
arXiv:2608. 06105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted navigation can help Arctic shipping adapt to rapidly changing sea-ice conditions, but reliable deployment requires reward models that are interpretable and robust to changing environments.
By Vaishnav Vaidheeswaran, Dilith Jayakody, Biruk Ambaw, Jaswanth Kumar, Md Mahbub Alam, Gabriel Spadon
arXiv:2609.39112v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Camera traps accumulated vast, multidimensional data for wildlife monitoring, yet translating raw media archives into meaningful ecological insights re...
By Yutong Deng, Qi Song, Xi Guo, Tianming Wang, Lei Bao, Jianping Ge
arXiv:2608.29483v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well above the human baseline in image geolocalization, a task critically important in disaster response...
By Arka Mukherjee, Soham Roy, Kartikeya Trivedi, Shreya Ghosh
arXiv:2608.30924v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Travel itinerary generation requires balancing strict spatio-temporal constraints with human preferences. Existing LLM-based planners mainly rely on st...
By Priyanshu Karmakar, Borru Vijay Sai, Shubhojit Mallick, Abhik Jana, Shreya Ghosh, Manish Gupta
arXiv:2606. 13704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This position paper argues that contemporary AI paradigms are insufficient for supporting complex global goals and introduces Planet-Centered AI (PCAI) as a design philosophy and research agenda that reorients AI toward planetary-scale socio-ecological systems and their long-term trajectories.
By Maria Perez-Ortiz
SustainAI is a water‑aware, closed‑loop framework that embeds environmental accountability into AI deployment. It combines real‑time water metering, a hallucination‑aware penalty model, and a water‑aware routing algorithm that considers regional water stress. In tests with small language models, water footprints varied 11‑fold across data centers, and 1,335 inference runs consumed about 399 mL of water but yielded only 240 correct outputs, highlighting the resource cost of inaccurate responses.
By Farnaz Farid, Tashfia Towkee, Sania Nasreen, Sami bin Azad
The paper introduces NaviHydra, a trajectory‑scoring planner that addresses a navigation compliance gap in end‑to‑end autonomous driving. It proposes a new binary Navigation Compliance metric (NAVI) and a Controllability Measure (CM), and releases the NavControl dataset with 14,918 intersection scenarios and over 34,000 direction samples. NaviHydra achieves high performance on NAVSIM and NavControl benchmarks, and training with NavControl improves controllability across various architectures.
By Hanfeng Wu, Marlon Steiner, Michael Schmidt, Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro, Christoph Stiller
OceanGym is the first comprehensive benchmark for underwater embodied agents, featuring eight realistic task domains and a unified agent framework powered by Multi‑modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). It challenges agents to process optical and sonar data, navigate complex environments, and achieve long‑horizon goals amid low visibility and dynamic currents. Experiments show significant performance gaps between current MLLM agents and human experts, underscoring the difficulty of perception, planning, and adaptability in ocean settings.
By Yida Xue, Mingjun Mao, Xiangyuan Ru, Yuqi Zhu, Baochang Ren, Shuofei Qiao, Mengru Wang, Shumin Deng, Xinyu An, Ningyu Zhang, Ying Chen, Huajun Chen
arXiv:2603. 28385v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Maritime surveillance missions, such as search and rescue and environmental monitoring, rely on the efficient allocation of sensing assets over vast and geometrically complex areas.
By Carlos S. Sep\'ulveda, Gonzalo A. Ruz
arXiv:2606. 01046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly improved travel planning applications, yet evaluating such models is limited by existing benchmarks' limitations: 1) overemphasis on constraint compliance, neglecting multi-dimensional qualities like spatio-temporal cost; 2) datasets lacking real-world authenticity and coverage in key areas (e.
By Weiyi Chen, Shuaixiong Wang, Ziyun Gao, Kaichun Hu, Wangze Ni, Shimin Di, Chen Jason Zhang, Lei Chen