AI RESEARCH

Distill-Belief: Closed-Loop Inverse Source Localization and Characterization in Physical Fields

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2604.26095v1 Announce Type: new {Closed-loop inverse source localization and characterization (ISLC) requires a mobile agent to select measurements that localize sources and infer latent field parameters under strict time constraints.} {The core challenge lies in the belief-space objective: valid uncertainty estimation requires expensive Bayesian inference, whereas using fast learned belief model leads to reward hacking, in which the policy exploits approximation errors rather than actually reducing uncertainty.} {We propose \textbf{Distill-Belief}, a teacher--student framework that.