arXiv AI
Jul 2
FAR: Failure-Aware Retry for Test-Time Recovery and Continual Policy Improvement
arXiv:2607. 01111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot policies inevitably encounter failures when deployed in real environments.
RESample: A Robust Data Augmentation Framework via Exploratory Sampling for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2510. 17640v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong manipulation capability when trained with large-scale imitation learning datasets.
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arXiv AI
Jun 9
Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models on SO-101: Failure and Recovery Analysis
arXiv:2606. 08881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong generalization in robotic manipulation, yet existing evaluations are primarily conducted in simulation or on expensive robotic platforms, leaving their robustness on affordable real-world robots largely unexplored.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19
Pose6DAug: Physically Plausible Multi-view Object Swapping for Robot Data Augmentation
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10
Task Robustness via Re-Labelling Vision-Action Robot Data
arXiv:2606. 10918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The recent trend in scaling models for robot learning has resulted in impressive policies that can perform various manipulation tasks and generalize to novel scenarios.
arXiv Machine Learning
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Adaptation of Generalist Robot Policies with Minimal Data
arXiv:2608. 11363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal in robot learning is to move beyond task-specific human data collection toward robots that improve through autonomous interaction.
arXiv AI
Jul 3
WorldSample: Closed-loop Real-robot RL with World Modelling
arXiv:2607. 02431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) can overcome the demonstration-coverage limitation of imitation learning (IL) by allowing robots to improve through trial-and-error interaction beyond the states observed in demonstrations.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
DynamicManip: Enabling Dynamic Manipulation from a Single Static Demonstration
arXiv:2608. 01452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic manipulation is a critical capability for robots operating in complex and dynamic environments, where robots must interact with objects that are moving or require rapid adjustments.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
Simple-to-Complex Structured Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Learning
arXiv:2607. 04591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong capabilities in robotic manipulation by integrating visual perception, language understanding, and robot action generation.
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Simple-to-Complex Structured Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Learning
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong capabilities in robotic manipulation by integrating visual perception, language understanding, and robot action generation. Existing research has primarily focused on improving model architectures, training strategies, and dataset scale, while little attention has been paid to how demonstrations are collected and organized.
arXiv AI
Aug 10
AutoIntervene: Calibrated Intervention for Action-Chunking Imitation Learning Policies
arXiv:2608. 07065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-chunking visuomotor policies learn from demonstrations and improve temporal consistency by predicting short action sequences rather than single-step commands.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
Grounding Sim-to-Real Generalization in Robotic Manipulation: An Empirical Study with Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2603. 22876v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning a generalist control policy for robotic manipulation typically relies on large-scale datasets.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16
DemoDiffusion: One-Shot Human Imitation using pre-trained Diffusion Policy
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.