Robotics and embodied AI

Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.

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arXiv AI
Aug 12

ComBodied Agents: a New Paradigm of Human-Centric Agentic AI

arXiv:2608. 10915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: After an older adult misses a medication dose, a software agent can send another reminder and an embodied agent can bring the medication.

By Qianggang Ding, Xingyao Wang, Rui Feng, Zhibin Wang, Feixiang Wang, Kelong Mao, Hao Sun, Zhiyao Luo, Jiankai Tang, Lei Li, Jiadong Guo, Minheng Ni, Weicong Lin, Chenxi Yang, Hongxiang Gao, Zhenghua Chen, Yang Bai, Min Wu, Jun Cheng, Huazhu Fu, Dacheng Tao, Bang Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 12

MarkNull: Model-Agnostic Watermark Removal in AI-Generated Images via On-Manifold Latent Manipulation

arXiv:2608. 10166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital watermarking has emerged as a critical technique for provenance and copyright attribution in AI-generated imagery, yet its robustness against realistic, model-agnostic removal attacks remains poorly explored.

By Jie Cao, Qi Li, Zelin Zhang, Xiaodong Wu, Lingshuang Liu, Xiangman Li, Jianbing Ni
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

HoloQ-VLA: Uniform W4A4 Quantization of Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2605. 28803v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models unify perception, reasoning, and control in a single policy, but their multi-billion-parameter backbones and diffusion-based action heads make on-device deployment prohibitively expensive.

By Xinyu Wang, Mingze Li, Sicheng Lyu, Dongxiu Liu, Kaicheng Yang, Ziyu Zhao, Yufei Cui, Xiao-Wen Chang, Peng Lu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

R4DSG: Relative 4D Scene Graph Memory for Object-Centric Question Answering in Long Egocentric Video

Long-horizon egocentric video is a rich substrate for wearable AI assistants, but object-centric questions such as where an item was moved, when it last changed state, or why it was relocated remain difficult because caption- and transcript-based memories rarely preserve persistent object identity or structured spatial change. Existing long-video QA methods mainly emphasize temporal grounding and clip retrieval, while prior 3D scene-graph methods typically assume stronger geometry than free-motion wearable RGB video provides, including point clouds, RGB-D input, posed views, sparse reconstruction, or reconstructed scenes.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Consilience for Verifier-Free Test-Time Scaling

arXiv:2608. 09898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time scaling often uses an external verifier, such as compilers and test cases in coding or trained value functions in robotics applications, to obtain high-quality rollouts.

By Lecheng Kong, Like Hui, Haitao Mao, Jun Huan
arXiv AI
Aug 11

MADBench: A Benchmark for Modality-Aware Audio Deepfake Detection

arXiv:2608. 09593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in speech synthesis and audio generation have made high-fidelity acoustic forgery low-cost and difficult to attribute, enabling a realistic attack scenario in which speech and background audio are independently manipulated over otherwise authentic video.

By Yanqiu Li, Yang Xiao, Jisheng Bai, Bin Chen, Hong Jia, Ting Dang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

V-Simba: Unleashing the Architectural Potential of RL in Visual Continuous Control

arXiv:2608. 07870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving sample efficiency remains a core challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), especially in real-world settings like robotics, where data collection is costly.

By Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, Hojoon Lee, Johan Obando-Ceron, Byungkun Lee, Aaron Courville, Pablo Samuel Castro, Jaegul Choo, Clare Lyle
arXiv AI
Aug 11

TrustRoboReward: Preference-Ordered Isotonic Score Editing for Multi-Paradigm Robot Reward Models

arXiv:2608. 08491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models are a bottleneck for reinforcement learning in embodied AI.

By Yidong Wang, Yan Zhan, Ziteng Feng, Zhenyu Cui, Ziyi Zhou, Renzhao Liang, Jiaxuan Zhu, Zilei Yang, Yiran Zhao, Zhongkuan Mao, Bo Jia, Hanchu Ni, Chenggang Xie, Biao Liu, Yi Zhang, Yong Dai, Xiaozhu Ju, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Auditing Instruction-Trajectory Mismatches in Multimodal Robot Demonstrations

arXiv:2608. 07895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot demonstration datasets used to train vision-language-action policies can contain a subtle but harmful failure mode: trajectories that are behaviorally correct but paired with the wrong language instruction.

By Simon Holk, Ryosuke Takanami, Tatsuya Matsushima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Yueh-Hua Wu, Kei Ota