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Hao Zhang

Publications 20

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Robust Prediction of Internal Wave-Affected Multi-Scale Sound Speed Distribution Using Lightweight Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks with Hybrid Basis Functions

Wei Huang, Junpeng Lu, Tianhe Xu et al. · 2026

The underwater sound speed distribution directly governs acoustic propagation paths, rendering it critically important for underwater acoustic communication and target localization. Conventional sound speed profile (SSP) prediction methods provide a good way to estimate the underwater sound speed distribution without o …

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World Embedding Benchmark

Yiqi Liu, Ruifeng Yuan, Yang Wang et al. · 2026

Physical fidelity has received increasing attention in world models and video generation, yet how video representations encode physical information remains less understood. We introduce the World Embedding Benchmark, comprising 8,000 controlled simulation cases from 80 families spanning fluid mechanics, solid mechanics …

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Strike a Chord! Modal Kinetic Typography

We introduce modal kinetic typography, which animates a vector glyph to express a semantic concept while keeping it legible. Our key idea is to build motion from the glyph's natural vibration modes. Specifically, a finite-element eigenproblem assembled from the vector outline yields the glyph's softest modes, for the w …

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How Can Recommendation Feedback Evolve Agent Memory?

Shanwen Mao, Mingming Li, Hao Zhang et al. · 2026

Content-generation agents continuously receive impressions, clicks, conversions, and negative feedback from recommendation systems, providing real-world outcome signals for memory evolution. However, these signals are delayed and noisy, confounded by audience composition, placement, and recommendation policies, and may …

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KPI: A Promptable Kernel for Physical Interaction on Humanoids

Yikai Wang, Honghao Zhu, Xiao Hu et al. · 2026

Humanoids now walk, balance and reach with remarkable generality: one whole-body tracking policy follows references from a human, or from an end-to-end policy. That generality travels in the trajectory, and a trajectory alone carries limited information about the interaction it should produce: at contact, the executing …

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Multimodal Thinking with Renderable Programs

Sunli Chen, Ding Zhong, Ziqiao Ma et al. · 2026

Current vision-language models (VLMs) excel at visual content understanding and text-based reasoning, yet their structure limits the advancement of incorporating images into the reasoning chain. Though Omnimodal models have made efforts in unifying text and image generation, they focus on visual tasks in the open-domai …

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AquaOrbit: Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Underwater Target Orbiting under Intermittent Visual Feedback

Kanzhong Yao, Jinyi Leng, Hao Zhang et al. · 2026

Intermittent visual loss disrupts target-relative feedback during underwater orbiting, making it difficult to maintain coordinated motion and reacquire a moving target. We present AquaOrbit, a reinforcement-learning controller with a recovery module for underwater target orbiting under interrupted visual feedback. Duri …

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AURORA: A Natural Language-Driven Agentic Framework for Understanding, Reasoning, and Orchestrating Reliable Air-Ground Co-Simulation

Keshu Wu, Hao Zhang, Rui Gan et al. · 2026

Air-ground transportation research increasingly relies on co-simulation, yet constructing scenarios remains labor-intensive and difficult to validate. More importantly, a generated scenario may execute successfully while failing to realize the spatial, temporal, communication, or behavioral relationships requested by t …

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Agora: Git as Shared Memory for Collective AutoResearch

Research agents working in separate sessions need to know what others have tried and which results they can build on. Agora stores their contributions as an append-only directed acyclic graph (DAG) in Git. Each commit records a result, insight, hypothesis, verification, or report and links it to prior work. Searchable …

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Soil DNA-Phosphorus: Method Optimisation and Application Across UK Soils

Margaret J. Massam, Daniel Menezes‐Blackburn, Mohammed Al Kasbi et al. · Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences · 2026 · 10.53541/2410-1079.1356

Despite growing recognition of rapid diester P turnover, quantitative data on soil DNA-P across soil types remain scarce due to methodological constraints. This study aimed to investigate the impact of changes in the analytical protocol of a soil DNA-P method developed by Paraskova et al. (2013) on DNA-P recovery and t …

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