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Visuomotor Robotic Pruning in Planar Orchards Using Hybrid Reinforcement Learning
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arXiv AI
Aug 19
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
EXPO-FT is a system that enables stable, sample‑efficient reinforcement learning fine‑tuning of pretrained Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) policies. It achieves perfect success on a range of manipulation tasks—such as routing string lights, striking a pool ball, and inserting a flower into a wine bottle—using only about 19.1 minutes of online robot data. The approach outperforms both RL-from-scratch and existing VLA fine‑tuning methods, and the authors provide an open‑source codebase to support wider adoption.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8
Learning to Throw Objects Safely in Multi-Obstacle Environments
arXiv:2607. 06388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic throwing enables fast and efficient object placement beyond the robot's immediate workspace, but reliable throwing in cluttered environments remains underexplored.
arXiv AI
4d ago
SUN: Agentic Robot Policy Learning with Persistent Task Programs
The paper introduces SUN (Semantically UNified) Programs, typed executables that translate grounded relations into optimal control objectives, satisfaction predicates, and learning rewards. Using the Kuafu harness, a foundation model orchestrates scene preparation, verification, residual reinforcement learning, and data generation, repairing candidate programs and calibrating reward weights. Across nine multi‑stage manipulation tasks, Kuafu achieves an 82.03% success rate, outperforms learned baselines, generates demonstrations 10.57× faster than human teleoperation, and transfers zero‑shot to physical Franka and Kinova robots.
arXiv AI
Jul 1
Z-1: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606. 31846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a promising framework for robotic manipulation by connecting language instructions, visual observations, and continuous control.
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15
From Vision to Harvest: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Multi-Arm Robotic Fruit Harvesting
arXiv:2609.13606v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-arm robotic harvesting offers a promising path to improve harvesting efficiency and reduce reliance on manual labor. However, practical deploym...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 29
Support-Constrained RL Enables Real-World Policy Improvement without Real-World Experience
arXiv:2606. 27475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots trained on real world data tend to be imprecise, slow, and brittle to perturbations.