arXiv Machine Learning August 11, 2026 By Simon Holk, Ryosuke Takanami, Tatsuya Matsushima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Yueh-Hua Wu, Kei Ota

Auditing Instruction-Trajectory Mismatches in Multimodal Robot Demonstrations

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arXiv:2608. 07895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot demonstration datasets used to train vision-language-action policies can contain a subtle but harmful failure mode: trajectories that are behaviorally correct but paired with the wrong language instruction.

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