arXiv:2606. 03134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation-learning policies for robot manipulation inherit the quality of the success labels attached to their training episodes, and those labels are usually produced by the robot's own success check.
The paper introduces a new benchmark for vision‑language models that tests their ability to decide whether to answer a physics question immediately or to request additional experimental evidence. Each problem presents one measurement image and four possible physical worlds defined by two masses and two values of another property; the model must either stop and answer or choose the cheapest experiment that resolves the question. Across six open models and 144 parameter sets, the models almost always repeat the same action even when the optimal choice changes, and only a single model gets both decisions correct on 5.9% of cases.
arXiv:2603.12717v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language-action policies map camera images and natural-language instructions to a robot's motor actions. Some of these policies are de...
arXiv:2609.08123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A robot that can be taught a new task from a handful of demonstrations has to work out for itself what it still cannot do, and then ask for exactly t...
The paper investigates whether confidence scores from a black-box decision model, Jev, truly reflect missing knowledge. Using over 15 public datasets and 6 synthetic task families, the authors find that while Jev’s confidence is calibrated on familiar closed-choice tasks, it fails to indicate when the model lacks relevant information—assigning high confidence to salient options even without answer-relevant data and overestimating accuracy on news beyond its knowledge boundary. Targeted yes/no questions about whether an outcome is settled or whether evidence suffices provide sharper indicators of knowledge gaps, but only when surface cues are controlled.
arXiv:2609.39971v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models can exceed 90% success on in-distribution tasks and withstand nuisance changes that preserve the required action,...
arXiv:2609.22299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a robot faces unfamiliar physical conditions, a common approach is to collect evidence about what changed and adapt. For such diagnosis to impro...
arXiv:2609.09250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A verifier for robot policies reads a candidate behavior and returns a score for how well it did, used both to evaluate vision-language-action polici...
arXiv:2606. 31422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon language agents do not only choose actions; they carry a private model of the world from one decision to the next.
arXiv:2607. 04334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal GUI agents read an interface through two redundant channels: the rendered pixels of a screenshot and a serialized structure such as a DOM or accessibility tree.
arXiv:2608.29967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate strong semantic understanding yet exhibit systematic failures during deployment. The conditions under...
arXiv:2607. 22034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed on consumer hardware where input images are degraded by compression, camera shake, and poor lighting.