arXiv:2607. 02466v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are fundamentally bottlenecked by the scarcity of expert demonstrations -- triplets of observations, instructions, and actions that are costly to collect at scale.
By Junhao Shi, Siyin Wang, Xiaopeng Yu, Li Ji, Jingjing Gong, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv:2608. 10600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill abstraction---the process of learning reusable and temporally extended behaviors---has emerged as a key paradigm for improving sample efficiency and generalization in robot learning.
By Jusuk Lee, Daesol Cho, Jonghun Shin, Seungyeon Yoo, Jonghae Park, Taekbeom Lee, H. Jin Kim
arXiv:2505. 04999v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning robot control policies from demonstrations typically requires action-labeled expert data, which is expensive to collect through teleoperation.
By Anthony Liang, Pavel Czempin, Matthew M. Hong, Yutai Zhou, Jingzhen Wang, Erdem Biyik, Stephen Tu
Recent progress in large-scale imitation learning for robot manipulation has been driven by leveraging datasets across a wide range of robot embodiments. However, achieving significant cross-embodiment transfer is often still challenging.
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.
By Artur Kuramshin, \"Ozg\"ur Aslan, Cyrus Neary, Glen Berseth
arXiv:2608. 14028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dexterous manipulation is a fundamental capability for embodied intelligence, but scaling it remains difficult because robot demonstrations are expensive to collect and action spaces vary across embodiments.
By Zhiyue Zhao, Jingyi Wu, Hairuo Liu, Mingyu Liu, Liyang Li, Hengdi Zhang, Tong He, Zhengxue Cheng