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Existing auto-research benchmarks often entangle multiple sources of improvement, including training frameworks, hyperparameters, compute budgets, and data, making it difficult to attribute why one frontier agent outperforms another to specific research capabilities. In this work, we isolate and systematically evaluate …
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Many engineering problems involve optimizing a high-dimensional expensive black-box (HEB) design space. To solve such problems efficiently, we propose a knowledge transfer assisted efficient global optimization (EGO) algorithm, labeled as KT-EGO, which extends the EGO algorithm for solving problems over higher dimensio …
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Human motion generation plays an important role in applications such as character animation, virtual environments, and embodied interaction. While existing approaches have achieved remarkable progress, many of them are developed for individual tasks, including text-to-motion, pose-conditioned generation, and trajectory …
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Hip exoskeletons may improve recovery from unexpected gait perturbations, yet personalizing assistance remains difficult because balance is multidimensional and human-in-the-loop experiments are small-sample and noisy. We present a participant-specific composite balance cost that integrates seven biomechanical sub-metr …