arXiv:2601. 00969v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide strong action priors for robotic manipulation, but their reactive behavior can fail under distribution shift and long-horizon task structure.
By Ke Ren, Ali Salamatian, Kieran Pattison, Cyrus Neary
arXiv:2607. 08894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown promise in multi-step planning tasks, but existing approaches like LATS (Language Agent Tree Search) and ReAct rely heavily on LLM inference during planning, leading to high computational costs and stochastic behavior.
By Maureese Williams, Dymitr Nowicki
Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown promise in multi-step planning tasks, but existing approaches like LATS (Language Agent Tree Search) and ReAct rely heavily on LLM inference during planning, leading to high computational costs and stochastic behavior. We present \textbf{GATS} (Graph-Augmented Tree Search), a planning framework that combines systematic UCB1-based tree search with a layered world model to eliminate LLM calls during inference while achieving superior planning performance.
arXiv:2607. 15065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predictive world models enable robots to plan by imagining the outcomes of their actions, but their value for control hinges on generating many rollouts quickly.
By Susie Lu, Haonan Chen, Weirui Ye, Yilun Du
arXiv:2510. 00182v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While we know that large language models (LLMs) can solve some planning problems, we do not understand the extent of these capabilities for robotics.
By Jorge Mendez-Mendez
arXiv:2503. 22122v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in robotic planning, particularly for long-horizon tasks that require a holistic understanding of the environment for task decomposition.
By Puzhen Yuan, Angyuan Ma, Yunchao Yao, Huaxiu Yao, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding
arXiv:2606. 18634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To locate a target object while exploring the unknown environment is a fundamental capability for autonomous agents, with applications ranging from search-and-rescue to field robots.
By Zecheng Yin, Benedict Jun Ma
arXiv:2608. 17163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) has become increasingly sample-efficient, enabling applications such as RL fine-tuning of Vision-Language-Action models into reliable, high-performing policies.
By Perry Dong, Yueru Jia, Chelsea Finn, Dorsa Sadigh
arXiv:2607. 20289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider a task planning scenario in which robots sharing a persistent environment are assigned tasks one at a time from a held-out sequence.
By Md Ridwan Hossain Talukder, Roshan Dhakal, Elizabeth Phillips, Gregory J. Stein
arXiv:2606. 03512v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Path planning is essential for Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs).
By Charbel Abi Hana, Tatiana Ghantous, Mikael Khalil, Anthony Rizk
arXiv:2606. 12550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-world mapless navigation from sparse language instructions requires resolving underspecified goals and inferring which environmental cues are relevant for reaching the goal.
By Arthur Zhang, Carl Qi, Donne Su, Xiangyun Meng, Amy Zhang, Joydeep Biswas
arXiv:2605. 08732v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern vision-based world models can represent observations as compact yet expressive latent manifolds, but fast goal-oriented planning in these spaces remains challenging.
By Hoang Nguyen, Xiaohao Xu, Xiaonan Huang