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ConceptTree: Bringing Semantic Transparency to Black-Box Decision Making for Robotic Manipulation

Establishing interpretable decision-making processes in long-horizon robotic manipulation is critical for enabling reliable human oversight and intervention. However, existing approaches to robotic manipulation largely treat skill selection as opaque mappings from observations to actions, offering limited transparency into how decisions are formed.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

What Matters for Latent Actions in Robot Learning

arXiv:2608. 19613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent Action Models (LAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robot learning to leverage large-scale unlabeled videos through latent actions that serve as compact surrogates for physical actions.

By Xizhou Bu, Qingda Hu, Lei Zhou, Lingfeng Zhang, Yingbo Tang, Zihao Liu, Xinyi Tao, Zhiqiang Ma, Qingqiu Huang, Chufeng Tang, Hongbo Wang, Jing Zhang, Jiayi Ma, Hangjun Ye, Wei Li, Xiaoshuai Hao
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

SlotVLA: Towards Modeling of Object-Relation Representations in Robotic Manipulation

SlotVLA proposes a slot-attention framework that models both objects and their relations for robotic manipulation, using a relation‑centric decoder and an LLM‑driven action translator. The authors introduce LIBERO+, a fine‑grained benchmark with object‑centric annotations, box and mask labels, and instance‑level temporal tracking to evaluate object‑relation reasoning. Experiments on LIBERO+ show that object‑centric and object‑relation slot representations reduce visual token counts while maintaining competitive generalization, offering a compact and interpretable foundation for multitask visuomotor control.

By Taisei Hanyu, Nhat Chung, Huy Le, Toan Nguyen, Yuki Ikebe, Anthony Gunderman, Duy Nguyen Ho Minh, Khoa Vo, Tung Kieu, Kashu Yamazaki, Chase Rainwater, Anh Nguyen, Ngan Le
arXiv AI
Jul 28

A Few Words Go a Long Way: Language Guided Robot Policy Synthesis

arXiv:2607. 23784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While vision-language-action models have demonstrated impressive zero-shot manipulation capabilities, they remain fundamentally black box policies that are difficult to interpret, adapt, or correct when they inevitably fail.

By Daphne Chen, Archit Ritesh Jain, Eric Goossen, Emma Romig, Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Maya Cakmak
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Cortex: A Bidirectionally Aligned Embodied Agent Framework for Long-horizon Manipulation

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.

By Jiaqi Peng, Xiqian Yu, Delin Feng, Yuqiang Yang, Wenzhe Cai, Jing Xiong, Ganlin Yang, Jinliang Zheng, Jiafei Cao, Xueyuan Wei, Jiangmiao Pang, Yuan Shen, Tai Wang