@article{sparsevariableprojectioninroboticpercept, title = {Sparse Variable Projection in Robotic Perception: Exploiting Separable Structure for Efficient Nonlinear Optimization}, author = {Alan Papalia and Nikolas Sanderson and Haoyu Han and Heng Yang and Hanumant Singh and Michael Everett}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2512.07969}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07969}, }