arXiv Machine Learning

hint$^2$: Hierarchical World Models for Inference-Time Temporal Logic Guidance

arXiv:2608. 13678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal of robot learning is to enable robots to execute rich instructions specified at runtime.

arXiv AI

2d ago

AtomBridge: Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments

arXiv:2602. 09430v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic laboratories play a critical role in autonomous scientific discovery by enabling scalable, continuous experimental execution.

By Yiwen Pang, Bo Zhou, Changjin Li, Xuanhao Wang, Shengxiang Xu, Deng-Bao Wang, Peng Cheng, Shimin Di, Jingkuan Song, Min-Ling Zhang

llms agents robotics fine-tuning multimodal

arXiv Machine Learning

1d ago

Temporal Logic Guided Universal Task Representations for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608. 15509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task guided agents demonstrate strong performance in a wide range of complex tasks.

By Hao Zhang, Zhangli Zhou, Zhen Kan

agents reinforcement-learning robotics

arXiv AI

Jun 10

RoboGPT-R1: Enhancing Robot Task Planning with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2510. 14828v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex human instructions in long-view manipulation tasks successfully.

By Jinrui Liu, Bingyan Nie, Boyu Li, Yaran Chen, Yuze Wang, Shunsen He, Haoran Li

llms agents reinforcement-learning robotics fine-tuning benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 6

From Kinematics to Dynamics: Learning to Refine Hybrid Plans for Physically Feasible Execution

arXiv:2604. 12474v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In many robotic tasks, agents must traverse a sequence of spatial regions to complete a mission.

By Lidor Erez, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ayal Taitler

agents reinforcement-learning robotics

arXiv AI

Aug 3

Combining Large Language Models and Symbolic Reasoning for Multi-Robot Temporal Planning through Explainable Knowledge Bases

arXiv:2502. 19135v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present PLANTOR, a framework for generating and executing multi-robot task plans from natural-language task descriptions through LLM-assisted knowledge-base construction.

By Enrico Saccon, Matteo Saveriano, Edoardo Lamon, Luigi Palopoli, Marco Roveri

llms robotics benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 2

Beyond Task Success: Behavioral and Representational Diagnostics for WAM and VLA

arXiv:2606. 01095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies and World-Action Models (WAM) represent two increasingly important paradigms for robotic manipulation.

By Hung Mai, Bin Zhu, Tuan Do

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arXiv AI

Jul 15

Real-Time Model Checking for Closed-Loop Robot Reactive Planning

arXiv:2508. 19186v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reactive obstacle avoidance methods often cause agents to become trapped in local minima, because they can often only reason one step ahead (i.

By Christopher Chandler, Bernd Porr, Giulia Lafratta, Alice Miller

agents robotics

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

agents robotics fine-tuning multimodal

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Geometric Action Model for Robot Policy Learning

arXiv:2606. 17046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist robot policies must follow user instructions while reasoning about how objects, cameras, and robot actions interact in the 3D physical world.

By Jisang Han, Seonghu Jeon, Jaewoo Jung, Ren\'e Zurbr\"ugg, Honggyu An, Tifanny Portela, Marco Hutter, Marc Pollefeys, Seungryong Kim, Sunghwan Hong

robotics multimodal benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 15

Mind the Gap: Promises and Pitfalls of Hierarchical Planning in LeWorldModel

arXiv:2607. 12547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether temporal hierarchy can improve LeWorldModel on long-horizon goal-conditioned control.

By Niccol\`o Caselli, Salvatore Lo Sardo, Francesco Massafra, Ippokratis Pantelidis, Samuele Punzo, Sathya Kamesh Bhethanabhotla

arXiv AI

Jul 14

Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies

arXiv:2607. 10991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming essential for ensuring human comfort, safety, and trust.

By Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides, Marie Samson, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Mohamed Chetouani

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Demonstration-Free Robotic Control via LLM Agents

arXiv:2601. 20334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly adopted vision-language-action (VLA) models, which achieve strong performance but typically require task-specific demonstrations and fine-tuning, and often generalize poorly under domain shift.

By Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. Hwu

llms agents robotics fine-tuning multimodal benchmarks

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