arXiv Machine Learning

Marginal Calibration Does Not Compose: Hidden Dependence in Modular Robot Navigation

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Particle-Based Conformal Prediction for Contact-Aware Uncertainty Calibration in Stratified Configuration Spaces

arXiv:2608. 09166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable uncertainty representation is essential for deploying autonomous systems that interact with their environment, as robots must reason about how uncertainty arising from both stochasticity and model mismatch is impacted by contacts with obstacles (e.

By Lu\'is Marques, Kristian Popov, Dmitry Berenson
arXiv AI
Jun 15

Sensitivity Shaping for Latent Modeling

arXiv:2606. 14585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative dynamics models enable planning in challenging robotic systems, but safe deployment requires reliably detecting policy-induced out-of-distribution (OOD) transitions.

By Hongzhan Yu, Chenghao Li, Ruipeng Zhang, Henrik Christensen, Sicun Gao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

Verifiable Foundation Models for Robot Safety

arXiv:2606. 23754v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying foundation models for robot control raises a central challenge: the expressive power that enables rich, multimodal perception also makes these models opaque and difficult to analyze formally, rendering them intractable for existing verification tools.

By Davide Corsi, Kyungmin Kim, Roy Fox
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

RoboBRIDGE: A Modular Framework for Bridging Policies to Robust Real-World Robotic Agents

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have attracted growing interest as a scalable approach to robotic manipulation. While these models are effective action predictors, deploying them as robotic agents exposes critical gaps: no mechanism for failure recovery, inconsistent execution over long horizons, and limited robustness to shifts in observations, tasks, or embodiments.

arXiv AI
Jun 15

Schr\"odinger's Navigator: Imagining an Ensemble of Futures for Zero-Shot Object Navigation

arXiv:2512. 21201v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) requires robots to find target objects in unseen environments without task-specific fine-tuning or pre-built maps, a key capability for general-purpose service robots.

By Yu He, Da Huang, Zhenyang Liu, Zixiao Gu, Qiang Sun, Guangnan Ye, Yanwei Fu, Yu-Gang Jiang