Publications

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2026

  1. arXiv
    Flash-WAM: Modality-Aware Distillation for World Action Models
    Arman Akbari, Ci Zhang, Arash Akbari, Lin Zhao, Yixiao Chen, Weiwei Chen, Xuan Zhang, Geng Yuan, and Yanzhi Wang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.05254, 2026
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  2. ICLR
    CircuitSense: A Hierarchical Circuit System Benchmark Bridging Visual Comprehension and Symbolic Reasoning in Engineering Design Process
    Arman Akbari, Jian Gao, Yifei Zou, Mei Yang, Jinru Duan, Dmitrii Torbunov, Yanzhi Wang, Yihui Ren, and Xuan Zhang
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
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  3. ICANN
    VOTE: Vision-Language-Action Optimization with Trajectory Ensemble Voting
    Juyi Lin, Amir Taherin, Arash Akbari, Arman Akbari, Lei Lu, Guangyu Chen, Taskin Padir, Xiaomeng Yang, Weiwei Chen, Yiqian Li, Xue Lin, David Kaeli, Pu Zhao, and Yanzhi Wang
    In International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2026
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2025

  1. arXiv
    ActQuant: Sub-4-bit Action-Guided Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models
    Arash Akbari, Arman Akbari, Masih Eskandar, Qitao Tan, Yixiao Chen, Jingwu Luo, Bertha Pangaribuan, Liyun Zhang, Jennifer Dy, Geng Yuan, Xue Lin, Gaowen Liu, Stratis Ioannidis, and Yanzhi Wang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.24011, 2025
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  2. arXiv
    PhyGround: Benchmarking Physical Reasoning in Generative World Models
    Juyi Lin, Arash Akbari, Yumei He, Lin Zhao, Haichao Zhang, Arman Akbari, Xingchen Xu, Zoe Y. Lu, Enfu Nan, Hokin Deng, Edmund Yeh, Sarah Ostadabbas, Yun Fu, Jennifer Dy, Pu Zhao, and Yanzhi Wang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.10806, 2025
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  3. ITSC
    Beyond Overall Accuracy: Pose- and Occlusion-driven Fairness Analysis in Pedestrian Detection for Autonomous Driving
    Mohammad Khoshkdahan, Arman Akbari, Arash Akbari, and Xuan Zhang
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2025
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2023

  1. ICEE
    A 2D Geometry Based Grasping Pose Generation Algorithm for a Two-Finger Robot Hand
    Arash Akbari, Arman Akbari, and Mehdi Tale Masouleh
    In International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2023
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