arXiv Machine Learning

Belief-Contraction-Driven Active Inverse Source Localization and Characterization

arXiv:2501. 13084v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Active inverse source localization and characterization (ISLC) in dynamic fields requires sequential decision making under partial observability, where a mobile sensor must infer latent source parameters from sparse, noisy readings.

arXiv AI
Jun 15

Sensitivity Shaping for Latent Modeling

arXiv:2606. 14585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative dynamics models enable planning in challenging robotic systems, but safe deployment requires reliably detecting policy-induced out-of-distribution (OOD) transitions.

By Hongzhan Yu, Chenghao Li, Ruipeng Zhang, Henrik Christensen, Sicun Gao
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Active Inference for an Intelligent Agent in Autonomous Reconnaissance Missions

The paper presents an active inference route‑planning method for autonomous agents tasked with reconnaissance missions. It builds an evidence map that integrates both positive and negative sensor observations over time, using Dempster‑Shafer theory and a Gaussian sensor model to update a posterior probability distribution. By computing variational free energy across positions, the agent moves incrementally toward locations that minimize free energy, balancing exploration of large areas with exploitation of identified targets.

By Johan Schubert, Farzad Kamrani, Tove Gustavi
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Bayesian Filtering in Physical Systems via Test-time Trained Flow Matching

The paper introduces the Belief Flow Filter (BFF), a generative filtering framework that encodes the evolving posterior distribution directly into flow matching model weights and updates them via test‑time gradient descent. By avoiding particle representations and Gaussian assumptions, BFF aligns structurally with Bayesian filtering and targets the recursive filtering operator. Empirical results on five physical systems—including chaotic dynamics, sparse observations, and a tokamak plasma estimation task—show that BFF outperforms existing methods in most benchmark metrics.

By Ruiqi Feng, Chongyi Wang, Tao Zhang, Tailin Wu
arXiv AI
Jul 20

Energy-based Transport for Amortized Bayesian Inference

arXiv:2605. 15407v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider amortized Bayesian inference for nonlinear inverse problems using only samples from the joint distribution of parameters and observations, including problems with unknown functions in a Banach space.

By Ricardo Baptista, Hojjat Kaveh, Andrew M. Stuart
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

FLEET: Token-Based Feature Extraction for Event Camera-based Reinforcement Learning

FLEET is a token‑based feature extractor that processes event camera data directly, using random Fourier features and cross‑attention to compress variable‑length event streams into fixed‑size latent representations. By decoupling inference cost from sensor resolution, it avoids the high compute and temporal blurring associated with CNN‑based grid aggregation. Experiments on a new high‑throughput benchmark show that FLEET outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods and remains robust across different observation frequencies.

By Tristan Gottwald, Maximilian Schier, Melanie Schaller, Bodo Rosenhahn