arXiv:2604. 10579v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the recent success of modern imitation learning methods in robot manipulation, their performance is often constrained by geometric variations due to limited data diversity.
By Jiawei Zhang, Kaizhe Hu, Yingqian Huang, Yuanchen Ju, Zhengrong Xue, Huazhe Xu
Scaling robot learning requires large-scale, diverse demonstrations, yet real-world data collection via teleoperation remains prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. While video diffusion models offer a promising avenue for data scaling, existing generative approaches are often limited to superficial visual augmentation, or suffer from embodiment hallucinations that yield physically infeasible motions.
arXiv:2606. 10025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present GHOST, a framework for learning visuomotor manipulation policies that generalize beyond the training distribution.
By Sriram Krishna, Ben Eisner, Haotian Zhan, Ying Yuan, Haoyu Zhen, Chuang Gan, Shubham Tulsiani, David Held
arXiv:2606. 20118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies have shown strong potential for general-purpose manipulation, yet they often fail on novel, out-of-distribution objects whose appearance or geometry deviates from the training distribution.
By Jonghoon Lee, Seong Hyeon Park, Byungwoo Jeon, Minha Lee, Jinwoo Shin
Generalizable robot manipulation requires policies that can anticipate how visual scenes evolve while executing language instructions. While recent Vision-Language-Action models benefit from large-scale pretraining, their predominantly static pretraining objectives provide limited supervision for physical dynamics and temporal causality, leaving control-relevant knowledge to be learned from downstream robot demonstrations.
arXiv:2603. 22876v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning a generalist control policy for robotic manipulation typically relies on large-scale datasets.
By Ruixing Jin, Zicheng Zhu, Ruixiang Ouyang, Sheng Xu, Bo Yue, Zhizheng Wu, Guiliang Liu
arXiv:2606. 10614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic foundation models pre-trained on human demonstration videos have shown promise, but a significant embodiment gap remains when the resulting policies are deployed on real robots.
By Beomjun Kim, Seong Hyeon Park, Seunghoon Sim, Seungjun Moon, Sanghyeok Lee, Jinwoo Shin
World models offer a promising route toward robot planning by enabling agents to imagine and verify the consequences of actions before execution. However, current video-based world models often struggle to capture the physical constraints that govern manipulation, particularly contact.
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
arXiv:2506. 20668v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose DemoDiffusion, a simple method for enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks by imitating a single human demonstration, without requiring task-specific training or paired human-robot data.
By Sungjae Park, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Shubham Tulsiani
arXiv:2607. 04714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning motion latents for robotic manipulation heavily relies on extracting motion patterns from visual sequences, yet effective action abstractions require understanding three-dimensional geometric transformations.
By Yunchao Zhang, Yijia Weng, Ruizhe Liu, Ming Hu, Leonidas Guibas, Yanchao Yang
Synthesizing realistic Human-Object Interactions (HOI) is critical for creating embodied avatars and functional virtual environments. However, current data-driven approaches primarily rely on motion capture datasets, which are expensive to scale and limited in functional diversity.