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RESample: A Robust Data Augmentation Framework via Exploratory Sampling for Robotic Manipulation

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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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