arXiv:2607. 02431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) can overcome the demonstration-coverage limitation of imitation learning (IL) by allowing robots to improve through trial-and-error interaction beyond the states observed in demonstrations.
The paper presents Real‑Time EXPO‑FT, a reinforcement learning framework that fine‑tunes large Vision‑Language‑Action models for real‑time robotic control. It separates slow, expressive action generation from fast, reactive edits, allowing a lightweight policy to adjust actions based on the latest observation. Experiments on the Kinetix benchmark and four dynamic real‑world tasks show that Real‑Time EXPO‑FT achieves superior performance, improving policy success rates from 42% to 97% with only ten minutes of online data and no human intervention.
arXiv:2608. 11363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal in robot learning is to move beyond task-specific human data collection toward robots that improve through autonomous interaction.
arXiv:2608.22301v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans imitate at the level of intent: given a demonstration, we infer its goal and carry it out with whatever tools, objects, and layouts are at han...
arXiv:2602. 13977v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to unlock capabilities beyond imitation learning for Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models, but its requirement for massive real-world interaction prevents direct deployment on physical robots.
The paper presents a Bayesian deep learning approach for active exploration in model-based reinforcement learning applied to robot manipulation. By improving model calibration and actively selecting transitions that maximize information gain, the method enhances data efficiency during a preliminary exploration phase. Experiments on a realistic robotic arm simulator demonstrate that the approach achieves comparable performance to existing methods while requiring significantly fewer robot executions.
arXiv:2410.14606v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning from a stream of experience as it arrives, also known as streaming learning, is a core part of natural learning. However, reliable streami...
The paper introduces a reinforcement learning post‑training scheme that trains robot world models on their own autoregressive rollouts, using a contrastive RL objective adapted from diffusion models. It also proposes a training protocol that compares multiple variable‑length futures, a multi‑view visual fidelity reward, and demonstrates state‑of‑the‑art rollout fidelity on the DROID dataset, outperforming baselines on LPIPS, SSIM, and human preference tests.
arXiv:2603.16065v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown strong potential for improving robotic manipulation policies, yet its practical use remains bottlenecke...
The paper introduces HWAM, a Humanoid World Action Model that jointly generates reference actions and the robot’s post‑execution proprioceptive state, thereby closing the action‑execution gap in hierarchical humanoid systems. HWAM is trained via three conditional paths—policy denoising, forward dynamics modeling, and inverse dynamics modeling—to align policy outputs, executed motion, and visual outcomes. Experiments on the LimX OLI humanoid show HWAM achieving a 70.6% success rate on Candy Picking, outperforming Fast‑WAM’s 43.3%.
arXiv:2606. 27475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots trained on real world data tend to be imprecise, slow, and brittle to perturbations.
arXiv:2505. 03296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Mixture of Discrete-time Gaussian Processes (MiDiGap), a novel approach for flexible policy representation and imitation learning in robot manipulation.