arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

What Objects Enable, Not What They Are: Functional Latent Spaces for Affordance Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 05533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing robot planning systems rely on appearance-based reasoning, where visual observations are encoded into latent spaces organized around object appearances (e.

By Rohan Siva, Neel P. Bhatt, Yunhao Yang, Seoyoung Lee, Nishant Gadde, Christian Ellis, Alvaro Velasquez, Zhangyang Wang, Ufuk Topcu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

Cognitive Action Reasoning for Proactive Robots from Human-Centered Multimodal Observations

The paper introduces ProAction, a multimodal dataset of 10,000 samples comprising visual, audio, and text inputs across 12 daily-life scenarios, designed to support the Proactive Robot Action Reasoning (ProRobo) problem. It presents a two-stage human-in-the-loop annotation pipeline that incorporates appraisal and Theory-of-Mind considerations to generate cognitively grounded high-level action labels. The authors benchmark multimodal large language models and propose MMC2Act, showing that training on ProAction significantly improves proactive action reasoning compared to general-purpose models.

By Zhihao Gu, Kechao Zhu, Yuanfeng Wu, Mohan Liu, Ankit Kumar Shaw, ChenDong Hong, Xuanyu Chen, Dengchen Mei, Xu Tianyi, Lin Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 7

TacReasoner: A Dynamic Tactile-Language Framework for Interactive Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios

arXiv:2607. 05131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Among the five primary human senses, tactile is arguably the most fundamental to survival, as it enables the perception of physical contact and interaction in real-world environments.

By Kailin Lyu, Di Wu, Long Xiao, Jianning Zeng, Jianwei He, Chang Lin, Lianyu Hu, Lin Shu, Jie Hao, Ce Hao