arXiv:2608. 10765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recognizing human behavior across levels of abstraction, from atomic actions to long-horizon intentions, requires data annotated along a semantic hierarchy.
Action Quality Assessment (AQA) aims to objectively evaluate performance quality from action videos. Most existing methods follow a ``one-by-one'' paradigm, training a separate model for each action type.
arXiv:2607. 29181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic assistants capable of proactive, personalized interactions require structured models of user intent and workflow.
The paper introduces Intention Distillation (INDI), a method that injects behavior-level intent into Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) model decoders by leveraging a frozen teacher vision‑language model to interpret demonstrations. During training, the teacher processes the current observation, instruction, coarse action summary, and execution video, producing a multimodal intent representation that the VLA decoder uses alongside trajectory and execution features to predict actions. Experiments on SimplerEnv‑Bridge, RoboCasa Kitchen, and real‑world tasks show that INDI consistently improves success rates, especially on longer‑horizon tasks, demonstrating that explicit modeling of semantic intent benefits action decoders.
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can turn multimodal context into robot actions, but their action decoders are still trained largely by behavior cloning. This supervises which motor command was dem...
arXiv:2606. 04806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs and agentic systems are increasingly deployed in social environments, making normative competence critical for safe and appropriate behavior.
arXiv:2607. 05377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show promise toward generalist manipulation policies, they struggle with long-horizon tasks due to their Markovian nature-relying solely on current observations.
arXiv:2608.21022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Micro-actions are subtle, short, low-amplitude body movements, such as a fidgeting hand or a slight head tilt, that humans perform with little consciou...
arXiv:2602. 14265v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inference-Time-Compute (ITC) methods like Best-of-$n$ and Tree-of-Thoughts are meant to produce output candidates that are both high-quality and diverse, but their use of high-temperature sampling often fails to achieve meaningful output diversity.
arXiv:2609.36416v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robots operating in real-world environments must often execute complex, multi-step bimanual tasks over long horizons rather than single, isol...
arXiv:2605. 21917v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training Vision Language Models (VLMs) for video event reasoning requires high-quality structured annotations capturing not only what happened, but when, where, why, and with what consequence, at a scale manual labelling cannot support.
arXiv:2609.36416v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots operating in real-world environments must execute complex, multi-step bimanual tasks over long horizons rather than single, isolated actions....
arXiv:2609.09736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) localizes the video segment that matches a natural-language query. Many queries describe an action performed by a partic...