#01Nov 12, 2026
cs.AI
AstroMemBench: A Benchmark for Memory Systems in Embodied Spacecraft Agents
You Wu, Guhong Zhang, Hongwei Li and 2 more
Long-term spacecraft autonomy requires embodied agents to use operational history under communication delays, time-critical operations, environmental uncertainty, complex physical interactions, power and computational constraints, and safety and reliability requirements. We introduce AstroMemBench and a Scenario-Challenge-Capability design method that maps these requirements to executable memory tests. The benchmark covers 16 memory subchallenges through 140 templates and 2240 instances across nine tasks in planetary surface operations, on-orbit servicing, and deep-space exploration. A deterministic environment scores actions for task completion, state changes, safety, and resource use. Ablations under nine conditions show that the benchmark is sensitive to how accurately agents recover and use historical information and to differences in memory-system design. Main experiments compare six configurations. Mem0, Chain-of-Memory, LightMem, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improve same-session mean scores over native Pi Agent, with no clear advantage of the three memory systems over RAG. After a session restart, Mem0 outperforms RAG by 12.25 points. Benefits favor instruction retention and result reuse over ongoing state tracking and energy reservation. AstroMemBench supports the design, development, and selection of memory systems for embodied spacecraft agents. AstroMemBench 1.0 and its evaluation code are publicly available: https://github.com/flyingView/AstroMemBench-v1.
#02Nov 12, 2026
cs.CV
Towards Democratising Low-Data Medical Image Classification: CPU-Trainable ZACH-ViT and Its Geometric Variants
Athanasios Angelakis
Medical image classification in resource-constrained settings must contend with limited annotations and computational capacity. We evaluate four ZACH-ViT variants with linear, Euclidean prototype, Poincare and spherical heads alongside two compact multiple-instance-learning baselines. All models are trained from scratch with fewer than 260,000 parameters across seven MedMNIST+ datasets and three external benchmarks (PCam, ISIC2017 and Shenzhen tuberculosis radiographs). The low-data protocol uses 50 training images per class and five seeds, with validation-selected checkpoints at 23 and 47 epochs; a full-data reference uses one seed. Compact-TransMIL achieves the highest ten-dataset mean test Macro-F1 at 23 epochs (53.34%) and with full data (73.93%). At 47 epochs, ZACH-Linear narrowly leads (57.76% versus 57.54% for Compact-TransMIL). Extending training improves Macro-F1 in 239 of 300 paired comparisons. On ISIC2017, hZACH-Spherical has the highest 47-epoch low-data Macro-F1 (44.09% with SD 4.09%), whereas ZACH-EuclideanProto leads with full data (51.27%). We additionally conduct 40 CPU-only training runs on ISIC2017 and Shenzhen using four CPU threads; model-only single-image inference requires approximately 4-9 ms, while image decoding and preprocessing substantially increase end-to-end latency. The results demonstrate the feasibility of CPU-only training on the tested platform and the task- and regime-dependence of compact medical imaging under strict resource constraints.
#03Nov 12, 2026
cs.CV
Learning the Missing Derivative: Neural Multiple-Scattering Operators for Inverse Volume Rendering
Sipeng Chen, Shibo Li
Reconstructing optically thick media from photographs requires modeling multiple scattering and its response to changes in extinction. Frozen-source tomography discards this derivative; differentiable path tracing estimates it through expensive, noisy sampling. We instead predict the multiple-scattering field with a neural operator and differentiate through it during inverse rendering, while computing transmittance and single scattering directly. A further challenge arises during optimization: an operator that predicts the field accurately on held-out media can still produce poor derivatives at the density states visited by the optimizer. We address this by fine-tuning on states generated during inversions driven by the operator, using Monte Carlo scattering-field supervision. On held-out optically thick clouds, our method improves relighting over frozen-source tomography at equal time and outperforms differentiable path tracing given substantially more time. Training on inversion trajectories also improves derivative alignment at visited states and reduces optimization drift.
#04Nov 12, 2026
cs.NI
Machine Learning for Scalable Multi-AP Coordination in IEEE 802.11bn Networks
Maksymilian Wojnar, Szymon Szott
As Wi-Fi deployments become denser, fully distributed random channel access no longer guarantees the required quality of service. The multi-access point coordination (MAPC) framework introduced in IEEE~802.11bn lets neighboring access points (APs) cooperate, but choosing which APs transmit together and how to configure them remains an open, computationally hard problem. We develop and validate a stack of machine learning (ML) coordination methods, progressing from lightweight hierarchical multi-armed bandits (H-MABs) to a generative pipeline built on graph neural networks (GNNs) and flow matching (FM). The methods are evaluated in simulation and on a hardware testbed, improving throughput over legacy access and scaling coordination to dozens of APs where analytical and search-based methods become intractable.
#05Nov 12, 2026
eess.SP
Measurement-Calibrated Synthetic Pretraining for Rapid Adaptation of UAV Channel Predictors
Qiuheng Zhou, Wei Jiang, Donglin Wang and 1 more
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) links can change faster than route-specific channel data can be collected, so a channel predictor must often be adapted from only a short target-flight calibration segment. This paper studies measurement-calibrated synthetic pretraining as an offline source prior for rapid adaptation of channel state information (CSI) predictors. The synthetic source is calibrated to flight-only power evolution, temporal shape variation, frequency selectivity, and phase disturbance, and is then combined with measured source-flight fine-tuning before target-flight adaptation. Under chronological held-out flight splits, synthetic-to-real (S2R) fine-tuning reduces the measured-data budget needed to reach useful prediction in the low-data regime. For 50 ms-ahead prediction, it crosses a latest-channel-estimate persistence baseline with 50 measured training windows, roughly 0.5 s of 10 ms-spaced supervised windows, whereas training from scratch requires 600 windows. A target-prefix adaptation study further shows that a lightweight gated recurrent unit predictor can reuse the pretrained source prior with one prediction-layer update epoch, positioning measurement-calibrated synthetic pretraining as a reusable prior for scarce target-flight measurements.