The paper introduces Self‑Adaptive VLA, a post‑training method that lets Vision‑Language‑Action policies self‑adapt to deployment‑time hardware shifts by using rollouts as context. It creates shift‑conditioned expert demonstrations, compresses visual, proprioceptive, and action data into a latent context token, and modulates the policy via adaptive layer normalization. Experiments on four precision‑critical manipulation tasks show the method recovers over 80 % of the base policy’s performance under actuation bias and encoder offsets, and improves robustness on new workstations.
By Hongxin Zhang, Chunru Lin, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Zhenjia Xu, Chuang Gan
arXiv:2606. 25800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective online adaptation of vision-language-action (VLA) models remains challenging, as sparse rewards provide weak supervision for high-dimensional autoregressive action policies.
By Kejing Wang, Toan Nguyen, Minh Hoang Nguyen, Simon Khan, Flora D. Salim
arXiv:2610.03476v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Long-horizon mobile manipulation presents significant challenges due to compounding execution errors and capacity interference between locomotion and...
By Chenzhi Liu, Yue Zhang, Jiehong Lin, Jianan Wang, Bo Wang, Zhongrui Wang, Xiaojuan Qi
arXiv:2604. 06435v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) is a critical task for many applications including industrial inspection and healthcare.
By Manuel Barusco, Francesco Borsatti, David Petrovic, Davide Dalle Pezze, Gian Antonio Susto
The paper presents a hardware‑accelerated instance segmentation framework tailored for resource‑constrained lunar robotics, addressing low‑light perception, limited compute, and radiation‑induced hardware faults. It introduces Activation Variance Informative Sampling (AVIS), a label‑free calibration method that selects samples based on activation variance, and deploys a YOLO‑based model on a Deep Learning Processor Unit with architectural tweaks to reduce CPU fallback and ensure bounded latency. A software‑level criticality analysis estimates fault exposure, guiding mitigation that reduces global criticality by 31.7%, while AVIS with bias correction recovers 69.8% of quantization‑induced accuracy loss at 309 ms latency and 5.7 W power consumption.
By Siddhant Shete, Hilmi Dogu K\"uc\"uker, Udo Frese, Frank Kirchner
arXiv:2609.37602v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Robust and reliable perception is essential for autonomous robots operating in real-world environments, particularly in long-term missions where envi...
By Michele Antonazzi, Alejandra C. Hernandez, Jos\'e Araujo, Olov Andersson, Patric Jensfelt
arXiv:2605. 31119v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In robotics, dangers and adversity modes are often embodiment-specific and relative to each agent.
By Navin Sriram Ravie, Andrew Jong, Krrish Jain, John Liu, Omar Alama, Bijo Sebastian, Sebastian Scherer
arXiv:2606. 03598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved remarkable success in language-conditioned robotic manipulation.
By Ziyang Chen, Shaoguang Wang, Weiyu Guo, Qianyi Cai, He Zhang, Pengteng Li, Yiren Zhao, Yandong Guo
The paper introduces an adaptive rollout truncation method for offline world model training that uses epistemic uncertainty to decide when to stop autoregressive rollouts. By calibrating a threshold during a warm‑up phase, the approach replaces fixed‑horizon rollouts with uncertainty‑driven truncation, evaluated with ensemble and Monte Carlo dropout estimators. Experiments on ANYmal‑D and ANT demonstrate that this strategy matches or surpasses fixed‑horizon training while reducing cumulative rollout steps by about 72%.
By Nikodem Sebastian Zymla, Laurin Thiele, Johannes Pitz
arXiv:2607. 09866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline-to-online reinforcement learning is promising for generalizable robotic manipulation, yet its full-stack complexity obscures reproduction and diagnosis.
By Wenke Xia, Pei Ren, Wenbo Yu, Yizhuo Zhang, Jifan Li, Yixue Zhang, Yinuo Zhao, Qingyang Gao, Jianlong Fu, Jian Tang, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhengping Che, Di Hu
arXiv:2606. 09430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online task-free continual learning (TFCL) requires intelligent agents to sequentially accumulate knowledge from an unbounded, non-stationary data stream under strict single-pass constraints and without any explicit task identifiers.
By Mingqi Yuan, Xiaoquan Sun, Shihao Luo, Jiayu Chen
arXiv:2603. 11811v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The acquisition of large-scale physical interaction data, a critical prerequisite for modern robot learning, is severely bottlenecked by the prohibitive cost and scalability limits of human-in-the-loop collection paradigms.
By Yongzhong Wang, Keyu Zhu, Yong Zhong, Liqiong Wang, Jinyu Yang, Feng Zheng