Manteca Bulletin

Modesto Del Monte plant closure slams local farmers, growers lose $550M in peaches alone

By this time of year, Richard Lial’s Escalon peach trees – bursting with pink-white blossoms – should have been pruned. e.

Del Monte collapse leaves California peach growers stranded. ‘No place else to go’

Del Monte canceled 20-year contracts with peach growers that abandoned an estimated 50,000 tons of peaches growing in the Central Valley.
IEEE

PS-CC: Planning by Simulation With Continuous Action Space Optimization and Adaptive Cost Learning for Human-Like Autonomous Driving

Abstract: Ensuring safe and human-like decision-making is a critical component of autonomous vehicle decision systems. However, conventional approaches often simplify the action space into discrete ...
IEEE

LGMCTS: Language-Guided Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Executable Semantic Object Rearrangement

Abstract: We present LGMCTS, a framework that uniquely combines language guidance with geometrically informed sampling distributions to effectively rearrange objects according to geometric patterns ...