arXiv AI

A Neuromorphic Reinforcement Learning Framework for Efficient Pathfinding in Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems

arXiv:2606. 20031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic environmental changes, confined workspaces, and stringent real-time constraints make pathfinding in Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems (RMFS) a challenging problem for conventional search- and rule-based methods, which typically suffer from high computational complexity and long decision latency.

arXiv AI
Jul 15

Enabling Energy-Efficient Simultaneous Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning through Spiking Neural Networks with Active Dendrites for Bio-inspired Generalist Agents

arXiv:2412. 04847v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities in training agents to solve complex tasks autonomously, such as mobile robots, UAVs/UGVs, and game-playing agents).

By Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Avaneesh Devkota, Muhammad Shafique
arXiv AI
Jul 28

The SpiNNaker2 chip: a many-core platform for flexible and scalable brain-inspired computing

arXiv:2607. 24396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In deep learning, efficiency gets more and more important to compensate for the ongoing growth in model sizes and applications.

By Stefan Scholze, Johannes Partzsch, Sebastian H\"oppner, Florian Kelber, Andreas Dixius, Marco Stolba, Sirine Arfa, Marc Berthel, Georg Ellguth, Jim Garside, Hector A. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Kiel-Hocker, Dongwei Hu, Matthias Jobst, Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer, Tim Langer, Chen Liu, Gengting Liu, Matthias Lohrmann, Mantas Mikaitis, Felix Neum\"arker, Amirhossein Rostami, Stefan Schiefer, Tilo Schubert, Delong Shang, Bernhard Vogginger, Yexin Yan, Steve Furber, Christian Mayr
arXiv AI
Aug 11

SuperNeuroMAT: An Efficient Matrix-based Simulator for Spiking Neural Networks

arXiv:2608. 08479v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising pathway to energy-efficient AI and brain-inspired computing.

By Prasanna Date, Kevin Zhu, Shruti Kulkarni, Ashish Gautam, Chathika Gunaratne, Robert Patton, Tyler Nitzsche, Ian Mulet, Zachary Johnson-Scott, Addison Helms, Duncan Rowden, Simon Weston, Maryam Parsa, Catherine Schuman, Thomas Potok
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

RynnValue: Scaling Robotic Value Foundation Models with Temporal Distance

arXiv:2608. 09853v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose reward models are increasingly the bottleneck for scaling robot learning, yet the recipe for learning value-related capabilities from large-scale heterogeneous corpora remains underexplored.

By Dongchi Huang, Hongyin Zhang, Bohan Hou, Siteng Huang, Zhian Su, Hang Guo, Tong Lu, Zhaofeng Xu, Jiahao Tang, Jianfei Yang, Donglin Wang, Peixi Peng, Mingxiu Chen, Deli Zhao, Xin Li
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Finetuning Vision-Language-Action Models Requires Fewer Layers Than You Think

arXiv:2606. 20246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on massive video-robot datasets have revolutionized robotic manipulation, yet their multi-billion parameter architectures impose prohibitive computational burdens during downstream fine-tuning and real-time inference.

By Gia-Binh Nguyen, Trong-Bao Ho, Thien-Loc Ha, Khoa Vo, Philip Lund M{\o}ller, Quang T. Nguyen, Long Dinh, Tuan Dam, Vu Duong, Tung M. Luu, Trung Le, Tran Nguyen Le, Minh Vu, An Thai Le, Ngan Le, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Jan Peters, Duy M. H. Nguyen, Ngo Anh Vien
arXiv AI
Jun 9

HARBOR: A Harness Framework for Agentic Robot Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 08610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a powerful paradigm for robot learning, particularly in sim-to-real settings, but its broader adoption remains limited by the engineering pipeline surrounding the algorithms.

By Zechu Li, Yufeng Jin, Xiaoyang Liu, Puze Liu, Vignesh Prasad, Carlo D'Eramo, Georgia Chalvatzaki