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arXiv Machine Learning By Shaoguang Wang, Weiyu Guo, Rushi Dai, Yiren Zhao, Yandong Guo, Hui Xiong

Suppression Sticks, Locality Is Fragile: A Closed-Loop Target-and-Control Audit of Task-Vector Negation in VLA Policies

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arXiv:2608. 04692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task-vector arithmetic offers a closed-form way to modify a model, yet its behavioral locality remains unclear in closed-loop robot control.

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