arXiv AI
Sep 10

D3ARC: Time-Critical Distributed Disaster Detection for Asynchronous Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems

D3ARC is an asynchronous distributed hierarchical framework designed for time‑critical wildfire detection using multiple robotic agents. It enables cooperative perception, shared situational awareness, and coordinated actions while a remote controller asynchronously directs each robot’s motion. The system incorporates safe navigation, coverage efficiency, and a forward‑looking capability to evaluate candidate strategies before execution, achieving up to 94% mission success and 89.4% detection confidence in realistic simulations.

By Nikolaos Koursioumpas, Lina Magoula, Nancy Alonistioti, Ramin Khalili
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Modular Deep Learning Mechanisms for Auditable Next-Day Wildfire Spread Prediction

The paper presents modular deep learning augmentations for next‑day wildfire spread prediction, including wind‑ and slope‑conditioned attention biases, physics‑feature retrieval‑augmented output correction, and fire‑conditioned dual‑stream gating. These modules are evaluated on five backbone models using the Next Day Wildfire Spread benchmark, with staged ablations, directional audits, retrieval perturbations, calibration measures, and computational comparisons. The best augmented SwinUNETR model achieves an F1 score of 0.4216 and an AUC‑PR of 0.3673, while a mixed ensemble reaches 0.4292 and 0.3790, demonstrating that predictive performance, operational trustworthiness, and computational practicality can be simultaneously improved.

By Miguel Esparza, Aydin Ayanzadeh Ahmad Mousavi, Ali Mostafavi
arXiv AI
Oct 19

AOI: Turning Failed Trajectories into Training Signals for Autonomous Cloud Diagnosis

The paper introduces AOI (Autonomous Operations Intelligence), a multi‑agent framework that treats automated site reliability tasks as a structured trajectory learning problem under security constraints. It combines a trainable diagnostic system using Group Relative Policy Optimization, a read‑write separated execution architecture, and a Failure Trajectory Closed‑Loop Evolver that turns unsuccessful runs into corrective supervision. On the AIOpsLab benchmark, AOI achieves significant performance gains, including a 66.3% best@5 success rate and improved average metrics on unseen fault types.

By Pei Yang, Wanyi Chen, Asuka Yuxi Zheng, Xueqian Li, Xiang Li, Haoqin Tu, Jie Xiao, Yifan Pang, Dongdong Zhang, Fuqiang Li, Alfred Long, Lynn Ai, Eric Yang, Bill Shi, Yifan Chen, Shuhan Sun