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#91 of 102 universities and research institutions on the Robotics Center leaderboard, with 47 ICRA and IROS papers in 2023–2025.

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ICRA + IROS papers 2023–2025
47OpenAlex query, Oct 19, 2026
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On Robotics Center (136)

Papers with at least one Rutgers University author that have a summary page here: ICRA and IROS papers, and arXiv preprints since Jan 1, 2026.

  1. X-RIC: An Agentic RAN-Intelligent Controller Benchmark for Enhancing Reinforcement LearningarXiv · Oct 15, 2026
  2. ActICL: Post-Training for Agentic Multimodal In-Context LearningarXiv · Oct 14, 2026
  3. FedRIC: Heterogeneity-Aware Federated Learning with Hard Deadline Constraints in Open RANarXiv · Oct 14, 2026
  4. Moral Combat: Exploiting Moral Foundations Theory to Jailbreak LLMsarXiv · Oct 14, 2026
  5. How Safe Is ChatGPT Health Advice? Evidence from Real User Conversations in Four Global South CountriesarXiv · Oct 13, 2026
  6. SkillScreen: High-Recall Screening of Malicious Agent Skills with Decision ModelsarXiv · Oct 13, 2026
  7. BrowseSafe++: Benchmarking Prompt Injection Detection Across Web Contexts, Languages, and Browser ViewsarXiv · Oct 12, 2026
  8. Dream2Discern: Learning from Hard Latent Variants for Runtime Failure Prediction in Multi-Agent SystemsarXiv · Oct 12, 2026
  9. Generative Control of Time-Modulated Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Scalable Directional ModulationarXiv · Oct 8, 2026
  10. Benchmarking Generative Trajectory Models for Active-Inference ControlarXiv · Oct 5, 2026
  11. Data-driven control of linear systems using quantized dataarXiv · Oct 5, 2026
  12. Errors of LLM-Assisted Literature Retrieval in Environmental Science: A Comparison Study of Abstract versus Full-text Based PromptsarXiv · Oct 5, 2026
  13. AIProver: Agentic Auto-Formalization of Mathematical Research via Certificate-Driven Evolving HarnessarXiv · Oct 4, 2026
  14. Bounded Reasoning: Cognitive Hierarchy in Human-versus-AI Cyber DefensearXiv · Oct 4, 2026
  15. When Debate Helps: Proposal Supply and Verification-Aware Readout in Multi-Agent ReasoningarXiv · Oct 3, 2026
  16. CLIMB: Confidence-Guided Complementary Evidence for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented GenerationarXiv · Oct 2, 2026
  17. Transcriptome-informed multi-modal AI for predicting neoadjuvant therapy response from breast cancer biopsiesarXiv · Oct 2, 2026
  18. CortexBridge: Cortical Alignment of EEG Montages for Foundation ModelsarXiv · Oct 1, 2026
  19. CriticHack: Evaluating Visual Rewards Under Robot Policy OptimizationarXiv · Oct 1, 2026
  20. Do Multilingual Encoders Produce Language-Consistent Semantic IDs?arXiv · Oct 1, 2026
  21. ReSolve: Reusing Candidate Reasoning through Selective Generative ModerationarXiv · Oct 1, 2026
  22. Beyond Policy Alignment: Closing the Planning-Learning Loop for Robot Control with Learned World ModelsarXiv · Sep 30, 2026
  23. False Frontiers: Diagnosing and Mitigating Co-Cheating in Self-Evolving Search AgentsarXiv · Sep 30, 2026
  24. No One Architecture Fits All: A Cross-Environment Evaluation of Hierarchical Red Team AgentsarXiv · Sep 30, 2026
  25. Turbo Harness: Instance-Adaptive Harness OptimizationarXiv · Sep 30, 2026
Show all 136 papers
  1. Architecture Alignment With Sparse Priors in Tabular Foundation ModelsarXiv · Sep 29, 2026
  2. Dagger: Decoupling-based Model Stealing Attack against Graph Neural NetworksarXiv · Sep 29, 2026
  3. Dr. OPD: Learning What to Follow for Optimal On-Policy Distillation of Large Language ModelsarXiv · Sep 29, 2026
  4. GenLimitLib: A Formal Library for Language Generation in the Limit and AI-Assisted Mathematical ResearcharXiv · Sep 29, 2026
  5. Interactive-Policy Distillation with Bidirectional Propose-and-VerifyarXiv · Sep 29, 2026
  6. The Teacher Is a Direction, Not a Destination: Extrapolating RL-Induced Representation Residuals in On-Policy DistillationarXiv · Sep 29, 2026
  7. Why MLLMs Struggle to Count: Overcoming Individuation and Aggregation Bottlenecks with ConvStackarXiv · Sep 29, 2026
  8. Broken Symmetry in BF16 Attention: Why FlashAttention Gradients Blow Up Late in TrainingarXiv · Sep 28, 2026
  9. Beyond Solo and Consistency: Vindicating Multi-Agent Debate via Conditional Progressive PruningarXiv · Sep 27, 2026
  10. Next Thoughts Are Distributions: Generative Autoregressive Reasoning in the Latent SpacearXiv · Sep 27, 2026
  11. On the Token Value Inequality in Efficient ReasoningarXiv · Sep 27, 2026
  12. Opera: A Verbal Critic Framework for Long-horizon Coding AgentsarXiv · Sep 27, 2026
  13. Re-derivability Decides What a Staged Agent Pipeline Recovers After an Upstream FaultarXiv · Sep 26, 2026
  14. Solving Every Step Is Not Enough: Milestone Oracles Reveal a Composition Gap in LLM Math ReasoningarXiv · Sep 26, 2026
  15. The Decomposition Tax: LLM Pipelines Lose Up to 40 Accuracy Points at Their Own InterfacesarXiv · Sep 26, 2026
  16. COUNTERMEM: World-Model Verified Counter-Factual Memory for Language AgentsarXiv · Sep 25, 2026
  17. Efficient Bezier Velocity Optimization for Free-Floating Space ManipulatorsarXiv · Sep 25, 2026
  18. Aggregated Posterior Predictive Checks for Generative ModelingarXiv · Sep 17, 2026
  19. RBS-Attention: Radius-Bounded Sparse Prefill for Long-Context Large Language ModelsarXiv · Sep 17, 2026
  20. Kernel-Managed Shared Memory for System-Wide PersonalizationarXiv · Sep 9, 2026
  21. Earth System World Model for What-If Simulations: A Case Study for Terrestrial EcosystemsarXiv · Sep 8, 2026
  22. Your Agent Says Yes: Interpreting Adversarial Market Behavior Beyond Individual TransactionsarXiv · Sep 7, 2026
  23. A4A: Cross-Embodiment Transfer of Action-Oriented 4D Affordances from Human DemonstrationsarXiv · Sep 5, 2026
  24. LayerRoute: Action-Conditioned Mixture-of-Layers Routing for Vision-Language-Action PoliciesarXiv · Sep 5, 2026
  25. Act More, Decide Less: Skill-Guided Adaptive Action Chunking for Long-Horizon LLM AgentsarXiv · Sep 2, 2026
  26. PII-TRACE: A Benchmark for Context-Aware PII Detection in Multi-Turn LLM ConversationsarXiv · Aug 31, 2026
  27. Cross-Temperature Defect Identification in Atomistic Simulations via Multi-Level Domain AlignmentarXiv · Aug 22, 2026
  28. The Asymmetric Harms of LLM CompressionarXiv · Aug 20, 2026
  29. Quantifying Event Impacts on Time Series via Multiscale Contrastive LearningarXiv · Aug 19, 2026
  30. Hybrid-Policy Self-Editing for Composable Unstructured Knowledge EditingarXiv · Aug 12, 2026
  31. Complete, Scalable, and Robust Prioritized Planning for Multi-Robot Ordered Storage and Retrieval at Maximum CapacityarXiv · Aug 7, 2026
  32. Retrieval-Constrained Policy Optimization for Attack Technique Extraction from Cyber Threat IntelligencearXiv · Aug 7, 2026
  33. Tracing the Heart: An Evidence-Linked Pipeline for Heart-Failure Feature EngineeringarXiv · Aug 6, 2026
  34. Aggregate-then-Calibrate for Human-centered Assessment with Theoretical GuaranteesarXiv · Aug 3, 2026
  35. Dense Language Generation Made Simple: Deterministic, Randomized, and Multi-Order AlgorithmsarXiv · Aug 2, 2026
  36. Outcome-Guided Distillation: A Teacher-Student Framework to Advance VLM Reasoning in Autonomous DrivingarXiv · Jul 31, 2026
  37. ChronoMem: Version Control and Semantic Rollback for Large Language Model Agent MemoryarXiv · Jul 30, 2026
  38. Interpretable GOHR Agents via Sparse AutoencodersarXiv · Jul 27, 2026
  39. RIMS: Preference Optimization via Smoothed Multi-pair Aggregation for Small-Scale LLM Retrieval-Augmented GenerationarXiv · Jul 17, 2026
  40. Learning Predictive Ambiguity Sets for Decision-Focused Distributionally Robust OptimizationarXiv · Jul 10, 2026
  41. MobiDiff: Semantic-Aware Multi-Channel Discrete Diffusion for Human Mobility Data GenerationarXiv · Jul 9, 2026
  42. Decentralized Aggregation of LLM Predictions via Wagering MechanismsarXiv · Jul 5, 2026
  43. SCAPE: Accurate and Efficient LLM Training with Extreme Sparse CommunicationarXiv · Jul 2, 2026
  44. SCAPE: Accurate and Efficient LLM Training with Extreme Sparse CommunicationarXiv · Jul 2, 2026
  45. Developmental Trajectories of Situation Modeling and Mentalizing in Transformer Language ModelsarXiv · Jun 26, 2026
  46. Efficient and Trainable Language Model Test-Time Scaling via Local Branch RoutingarXiv · Jun 24, 2026
  47. Age and Stability Trade-offs in Remote Monitoring SystemsarXiv · Jun 14, 2026
  48. Reward Modeling for Multi-Agent OrchestrationarXiv · Jun 11, 2026
  49. Physics-Distilled Neural Network enabled by Large Language Models for Manufacturing Process-Property Predictive ModelingarXiv · Jun 10, 2026
  50. Agent Skill Evaluation and Evolution: Frameworks and BenchmarksarXiv · Jun 9, 2026
  51. Bayesian Selective Latent Inference for Wastewater-First Influenza MonitoringarXiv · Jun 8, 2026
  52. Stochastic weather generators for high-frequency wind vector time seriesarXiv · Jun 8, 2026
  53. Testing the Black Box: Structural Barriers to Independent Evaluation of Consumer-Facing Health LLMsarXiv · Jun 7, 2026
  54. Matching Terahertz and Hall Mobilities as a Hallmark of Intrinsic Charge Transport in Metal-Halide PerovskitesarXiv · Jun 4, 2026
  55. Affordance2Action: Task-Conditioned Scene-level Affordance Grounding for Real-Time ManipulationarXiv · Jun 2, 2026
  56. Shortcut to Nowhere: Demystifying Deep Spurious RegressionarXiv · Jun 1, 2026
  57. Before and After Temperature: A Distributional View of Creative LLM GenerationarXiv · May 31, 2026
  58. Latent Reward Steering: An Adaptive Inference-Time Framework that Implicitly Promotes Cognitive Behaviors in Reasoning LLMsarXiv · May 30, 2026
  59. PR2: Predictive Routing Replay for MoE-Based LLM Reinforcement LearningarXiv · May 29, 2026
  60. Attention as In-Context Empirical Bayes: A Two-Stage View via Particle DynamicsarXiv · May 28, 2026
  61. Generative Models and Statistical ValidationarXiv · May 28, 2026
  62. iLoRA: Bayesian Low-Rank Adaptation with Latent Interaction Graphs for Microbiome DiagnosisarXiv · May 28, 2026
  63. Day-Ahead Electricity Price Forecasting Using a Multivariate Group Lasso MethodarXiv · May 27, 2026
  64. Neural Scaling Laws for Jet GenerationarXiv · May 27, 2026
  65. RUBRIC-ARROW: Alternating Pointwise Rubric Reward Modeling for LLM Post-training in Non-verifiable DomainsarXiv · May 27, 2026
  66. TRACES: Proactive Safety Auditing for Multi-Turn LLM Agents via Trajectory-State ModelingarXiv · May 26, 2026
  67. Branched Signature Kernel Solvers for ODEs with rough Single-Trajectory signalsarXiv · May 25, 2026
  68. RoMo: A Large-Scale, Richly Organized Dataset and Semantic Taxonomy for Human Motion GenerationarXiv · May 25, 2026
  69. Operationalizing Individual Fairness via Gradient Descent and Bradley-Terry ModelsarXiv · May 22, 2026
  70. GenHAR: Generalizing Cross-domain Human Activity Recognition for Last-mile DeliveryarXiv · May 21, 2026
  71. Mixture of Complementary Agents for Robust LLM EnsemblearXiv · May 21, 2026
  72. MemGym: a Long-Horizon Memory Environment for LLM AgentsarXiv · May 20, 2026
  73. AI Technologies in Language Access: Attitudes Towards AI and the Human Value of Language Access ManagersarXiv · May 19, 2026
  74. AutoResearchClaw: Self-Reinforcing Autonomous Research with Human-AI CollaborationarXiv · May 19, 2026
  75. Representability-Aware Neural Networks for Reduced Density Matrices: Application to Fractional Chern InsulatorsarXiv · May 19, 2026
  76. Temporal Aware Pruning for Efficient Diffusion-based Video GenerationarXiv · May 18, 2026
  77. AssemblyBench: Physics-Aware Assembly of Complex Industrial ObjectsarXiv · May 13, 2026
  78. AssemblyBench: Physics-Aware Assembly of Complex Industrial ObjectsarXiv · May 13, 2026
  79. All Circuits Lead to Rome: Rethinking Functional Anisotropy in Circuit and Sheaf Discovery for LLMsarXiv · May 12, 2026
  80. FRAME: Forensic Routing and Adaptive Multi-path Evidence Fusion for Image Manipulation DetectionarXiv · May 12, 2026
  81. JACoP: Joint Alignment for Compliant Multi-Agent PredictionarXiv · May 12, 2026
  82. Couple to Control: Joint Initial Noise Design in Diffusion ModelsarXiv · May 11, 2026
  83. AgentForesight: Online Auditing for Early Failure Prediction in Multi-Agent SystemsarXiv · May 9, 2026
  84. DARE: Difficulty-Adaptive Reinforcement Learning with Co-Evolved Difficulty EstimationarXiv · May 9, 2026
  85. Evidence Over Plans: Online Trajectory Verification for Skill DistillationarXiv · May 9, 2026
  86. Fin-Bias: Comprehensive Evaluation for LLM Decision-Making under human bias in Finance DomainarXiv · May 9, 2026
  87. Fin-Bias: Comprehensive Evaluation for LLM Decision-Making under human bias in Finance DomainarXiv · May 9, 2026
  88. PARD-2: Target-Aligned Parallel Draft Model for Dual-Mode Speculative DecodingarXiv · May 9, 2026
  89. Conformal Path Reasoning: Trustworthy Knowledge Graph Question Answering via Path-Level CalibrationarXiv · May 8, 2026
  90. TraceFix: Repairing Agent Coordination Protocols with TLA+ CounterexamplesarXiv · May 8, 2026
  91. TraceFix: Repairing Agent Coordination Protocols with TLA+ CounterexamplesarXiv · May 8, 2026
  92. Why Retrying Fails: Context Contamination in LLM Agent PipelinesarXiv · May 8, 2026
  93. LLM-ADAM: A Generalizable LLM Agent Framework for Pre-Print Anomaly Detection in Additive ManufacturingarXiv · May 5, 2026
  94. A Survey of Legged Robotics in Non-Inertial Environments: Past, Present, and FuturearXiv · Apr 22, 2026
  95. Maximum Likelihood Reconstruction for Multi-Look Digital Holography with Markov-Modeled Speckle CorrelationarXiv · Apr 22, 2026
  96. Where Fake Citations Are Made: Tracing Field-Level Hallucination to Specific Neurons in LLMsarXiv · Apr 20, 2026
  97. Skill-RAG: Failure-State-Aware Retrieval Augmentation via Hidden-State Probing and Skill RoutingarXiv · Apr 17, 2026
  98. Can Cross-Layer Transcoders Replace Vision Transformer Activations? An Interpretable Perspective on VisionarXiv · Apr 14, 2026
  99. GAM: Hierarchical Graph-based Agentic Memory for LLM AgentsarXiv · Apr 14, 2026
  100. GAM: Hierarchical Graph-based Agentic Memory for LLM AgentsarXiv · Apr 14, 2026
  101. Meet Dynamic Individual Preferences: Resolving Conflicting Human Value with Paired Fine-TuningarXiv · Apr 14, 2026
  102. Differentially Private Verification of Distribution PropertiesarXiv · Apr 12, 2026
  103. Efficient machine unlearning with minimax optimalityarXiv · Apr 7, 2026
  104. Input-to-state stabilization of linear systems under data-rate constraintsarXiv · Mar 30, 2026
  105. Input-to-state stabilization of linear systems under data-rate constraintsarXiv · Mar 30, 2026
  106. R-C2: Cycle-Consistent Reinforcement Learning Improves Multimodal ReasoningarXiv · Mar 26, 2026
  107. Learning to Unscramble: Simplifying Symbolic Expressions via Self-Supervised Oracle TrajectoriesarXiv · Mar 11, 2026
  108. APPLV: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Vision-Language-Action ModelarXiv · Mar 9, 2026
  109. CableRobotGraphSim: A Graph Neural Network for Modeling Partially Observable Cable-Driven Robot DynamicsarXiv · Feb 24, 2026
  110. Vulnerabilities in Partial TEE-Shielded LLM Inference with Precomputed NoisearXiv · Feb 11, 2026
  111. Viewpoint Matters: Dynamically Optimizing Viewpoints with Masked Autoencoder for Visual ManipulationarXiv · Feb 4, 2026

ICRA + IROS 2023–2025 (47)

Every paper OpenAlex lists for Rutgers University in the ICRA proceedings and at IROS, most recent first, as of Oct 19, 2026. Titles open our paper page when we have one, otherwise the publisher's DOI page.

  1. Active Training Data Selection for Gaussian Process-based Robot Dynamics Learning and Control IROS · Oct 19, 2025
  2. Bounding Distributional Shifts in World Modeling through Novelty Detection IROS · Oct 19, 2025
  3. Failure Forecasting Boosts Robustness of Sim2Real Rhythmic Insertion Policies IROS · Oct 19, 2025
  4. KARL: Kalman-Filter Assisted Reinforcement Learner for Dynamic Object Tracking and Grasping IROS · Oct 19, 2025
  5. Monocular One-Shot Metric-Depth Alignment for RGB-Based Robot Grasping IROS · Oct 19, 2025
  6. RGBTrack: Fast, Robust Depth-Free 6D Pose Estimation and Tracking IROS · Oct 19, 2025
  7. λ: A Benchmark for Data-Efficiency in Long-Horizon Indoor Mobile Manipulation Robotics IROS · Oct 19, 2025
  8. Asymptotically-Optimal Multi-Query Path Planning for a Polygonal Robot ICRA · May 19, 2025
  9. Error-Subspace Transform Kalman Filter Based Real-Time Gait Prediction for Rehabilitation Exoskeletons ICRA · May 19, 2025
  10. Integrating Model-Based Control and RL for Sim2Real Transfer of Tight Insertion Policies ICRA · May 19, 2025
  11. ORLA*: Mobile Manipulator-Based Object Rearrangement with Lazy A* ICRA · May 19, 2025
  12. PROBE: Proprioceptive Obstacle Detection and Estimation while Navigating in Clutter ICRA · May 19, 2025
  13. Retrieval-Augmented Hierarchical in-Context Reinforcement Learning and Hindsight Modular Reflections for Task Planning with LLMs ICRA · May 19, 2025
  14. Targeted Parallelization of Conflict-Based Search for Multi-Robot Path Planning ICRA · May 19, 2025
  15. UniAff: A Unified Representation of Affordances for Tool Usage and Articulation with Vision-Language Models ICRA · May 19, 2025
  16. DAP: Diffusion-based Affordance Prediction for Multi-modality Storage IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  17. Foot Arch Stiffness-Based Dynamic Plantar Support Control of Human Walking Gait with Active Pneumatic Insoles IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  18. Insert-One: One-Shot Robust Visual-Force Servoing for Novel Object Insertion with 6-DoF Tracking IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  19. LGMCTS: Language-Guided Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Executable Semantic Object Rearrangement IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  20. Roadmaps with Gaps over Controllers: Achieving Efficiency in Planning under Dynamics IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  21. RT-Grasp: Reasoning Tuning Robotic Grasping via Multi-modal Large Language Model IROS · Oct 14, 2024
  22. Decentralized Lifelong Path Planning for Multiple Ackerman Car-Like Robots ICRA · May 13, 2024
  23. Foot Shape-Dependent Resistive Force Model for Bipedal Walkers on Granular Terrains ICRA · May 13, 2024
  24. Gaussian Process-Enhanced, External and Internal Convertible Form-Based Control of Underactuated Balance Robots ICRA · May 13, 2024
  25. Human Preference-aware Rebalancing and Charging for Shared Electric Micromobility Vehicles ICRA · May 13, 2024
Show all 47 papers
  1. Hybrid Force-Position Control of an Elastic Tendon-Driven Scrubbing Robot (TEDSR) ICRA · May 13, 2024
  2. MORALS: Analysis of High-Dimensional Robot Controllers via Topological Tools in a Latent Space ICRA · May 13, 2024
  3. Toward Optimal Tabletop Rearrangement with Multiple Manipulation Primitives ICRA · May 13, 2024
  4. Well-Connected Set and Its Application to Multi-Robot Path Planning ICRA · May 13, 2024
  5. DynGMP: Graph Neural Network-Based Motion Planning in Unpredictable Dynamic Environments IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  6. Effectively Rearranging Heterogeneous Objects on Cluttered Tabletops IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  7. Efficient Heuristics for Multi-Robot Path Planning in Crowded Environments IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  8. Optical Flow Boosts Unsupervised Localization and Segmentation IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  9. Optimal and Stable Multi-Layer Object Rearrangement on a Tabletop IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  10. Real2Sim2Real Transfer for Control of Cable-Driven Robots Via a Differentiable Physics Engine IROS · Oct 1, 2023
  11. ARMBench: An Object-centric Benchmark Dataset for Robotic Manipulation ICRA · May 29, 2023
  12. Data-Efficient Characterization of the Global Dynamics of Robot Controllers with Confidence Guarantees ICRA · May 29, 2023
  13. HMAAC: Hierarchical Multi-Agent Actor-Critic for Aerial Search with Explicit Coordination Modeling ICRA · May 29, 2023
  14. Learning Category-Level Manipulation Tasks from Point Clouds with Dynamic Graph CNNs ICRA · May 29, 2023
  15. Learning Generalizable Pivoting Skills ICRA · May 29, 2023
  16. Mono-STAR: Mono-Camera Scene-Level Tracking and Reconstruction ICRA · May 29, 2023
  17. On the Learned Balance Manifold of Underactuated Balance Robots ICRA · May 29, 2023
  18. On the Utility of Buffers in Pick-n-Swap Based Lattice Rearrangement ICRA · May 29, 2023
  19. Optimal Allocation of Many Robot Guards for Sweep-Line Coverage ICRA · May 29, 2023
  20. Resolution Complete In-Place Object Retrieval given Known Object Models ICRA · May 29, 2023
  21. Self-Supervised Learning of Object Segmentation from Unlabeled RGB-D Videos ICRA · May 29, 2023
  22. Toward Efficient Physical and Algorithmic Design of Automated Garages ICRA · May 29, 2023

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