arXiv AI
Jun 4

Plan, Watch, Recover: A Benchmark and Architectures for Proactive Procedural Assistance

arXiv:2606. 04970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We envision a proactive multi-modal assistant system which gives users real-time step-by-step guidance on a procedural task, autonomously deciding \textit{when} to interrupt, and \textit{how} to coach.

By Kaustav Kundu, Ritvik Shrivastava, Maxim Arap, Nanshu Wang, Xianhui Zhu, Quintin Fettes, Gautam Tiwari, Parth Suresh, Th\'eo Moutakanni, Alejandro Castillejo Munoz, Allen Bolourchi, Pascale Fung, Pinar Donmez, Babak Damavandi, Anuj Kumar, Seungwhan Moon
arXiv Computation and Language
4d ago

NeoHorse-1: Towards Recursive Self-Improvement via Agentic Post-Training with Routing Harness

NeoHorse-1 is a family of agent-native models that pursue recursive self‑improvement through agentic post‑training. The system uses a heterogeneous model pool with intelligent routing to record capability demands, service tiers, and interactions, converting these records into training examples that preserve reasoning, tool calls, and harness context. By structuring supervised fine‑tuning into a three‑stage curriculum and employing routing‑guided on‑policy distillation, NeoHorse-1 closes an evaluation‑selection‑update loop, raising macro‑average performance from 58.94 to 64.87 on 4B models and from 65.60 to 69.04 on 9B models across eleven benchmarks, while also producing a prefill‑only variant that outputs structured decisions and probabilities for agent workflows.

By NeoHorse Team, Guoliang Cao, Guohao Dai, Tianyu Guo, Kai Han, Hailin Hu, Zihan Jiang, Xiang Kuang, Boxun Li, Yulong Li, Zehua Pei, Yuchuan Tian, Jiamin Wang, Yu Wang, Yunhe Wang, Yihong Wu, Haiyang Xu, Shuo Zhang, Hang Zhou, Siyang Cheng, Jiayu Fan, Wei He, Qingrui Jiao, Hongguang Li, Zhiyuan Li, Runke Liu, Xi Liu, Xinchen Liu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Yi Ren, Liuyang Song, Chenyu Wang, Bei Yu, Quanlu Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang, Mengyu Zheng, Yingjie Zong
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 3

Plan, Watch, Recover: A Benchmark and Architectures for Proactive Procedural Assistance

We envision a proactive multi-modal assistant system which gives users real-time step-by-step guidance on a procedural task, autonomously deciding \textit{when} to interrupt, and \textit{how} to coach. However, progress is limited by the absence of large-scale, cross-domain benchmarks that reflect realistic conditions, particularly the common case in which users deviate from the expected step sequence.

arXiv AI
Jun 16

FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2605. 27284v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are increasingly expected to not only complete robot tasks, but also follow human instructions about how those tasks should be executed.

By Xintong Hu, Xuhong Huang, Jinyu Zhang, Yutong Yao, Yuchong Sun, Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Sicheng Xie, Yitao Liu, Junhao Chen, Yixuan Chen, Yingming Zheng, Shuai Bai, Tao Yu
arXiv AI
Jun 3

See Less, Specify More: Visual Evidence Budgets for Generalizable VLAs

arXiv:2606. 02735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalization remains a central bottleneck for vision-language-action (VLA) models: under distractors, appearance shifts, and semantically similar tasks, the policy must often infer local execution details from coarse instructions while also deciding which parts of the image matter for control.

By Yueh-Hua Wu, Tatsuya Matsushima, Kei Ota