Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2606. 03919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding and anticipating scientific change requires models that distinguish between endogenous consolidation and exogenous diffusion of scientific concepts.
arXiv:2606. 02735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalization remains a central bottleneck for vision-language-action (VLA) models: under distractors, appearance shifts, and semantically similar tasks, the policy must often infer local execution details from coarse instructions while also deciding which parts of the image matter for control.
arXiv:2606. 03252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Navigating a drone in unseen and cluttered environments requires reliable generalization to unseen scene layouts and understanding of environmental structure relative to the robot's capabilities.
arXiv:2606. 03963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning has shown strong potential for enabling autonomous robots to learn complex navigational tasks.
arXiv:2606. 02956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing autonomous driving datasets have enabled major progress, but fall short in sensor fidelity, map completeness, or geographic diversity.
arXiv:2606. 02636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While sim2real efforts are necessary for effective policy transfer to hardware, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
As AI systems increasingly assist humans in physical tasks, ensuring safety becomes paramount -- physical actions carry immediate and irreversible consequences that digital errors do not. We introduce the Vision-Language Embodied Safety Agent (VLESA), a framework that monitors human activities from egocentric video and triggers real-time safety interventions when dangerous actions are predicted.
Building memory is essential for long-horizon planning in zero-shot embodied navigation. Detector-centric scene graphs often compress observations into sparse nodes, discarding fine-grained visual evidence and accumulating noise, while 3D reconstruction-based methods remain computationally prohibitive.
While Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) demonstrates strong performance in stationary settings, we show that its standard optimization paradigm struggles in continual and non-stationary environments. The failure does not stem from insufficient model capacity or overly restrictive clipping.
As autonomous vehicle capabilities advance, the safe evaluation of driving policies in long-tail scenarios remains a critical bottleneck. In closed-loop simulation, the driving policy model actively interacts with the environment, where its actions dynamically update the simulator state and directly influence the next set of generated sensor observations.
arXiv:2606. 01323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) encompasses seven distinct subtasks, each focusing on different extracted elements.
arXiv:2604. 17838v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative modeling within constrained sets is essential for scientific and engineering applications involving physical, geometric, or safety requirements (e.
arXiv:2605. 26310v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The detection of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is important for the protection of civilian and military infrastructure.
arXiv:2511. 10276v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most existing robotic manipulation benchmarks focus on tabletop or household scenarios.
arXiv:2510. 01711v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong capabilities in robot manipulation by leveraging rich representations from pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs).
arXiv:2604. 10579v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the recent success of modern imitation learning methods in robot manipulation, their performance is often constrained by geometric variations due to limited data diversity.
arXiv:2604. 09487v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tendon drives paired with soft muscle actuation enable faster and safer robots while potentially accelerating skill acquisition.
arXiv:2606. 01847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based Vision-Language-Action policies achieve remarkable success in robotic manipulation, yet commit a fundamental geometric error we term the $\textbf{Euclidean Fallacy}$: representing SE(3) poses as flat $\mathbb{R}^{12}$ vectors.
arXiv:2606. 00827v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Strategic classification (SC) investigates scenarios where agents manipulate their features to obtain favorable decisions from predictive models.
arXiv:2606. 02278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State-space models are traditionally based on physical knowledge, but multi-step predictions from these physical models can be poor due to model inaccuracy.