arXiv:2503. 22122v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in robotic planning, particularly for long-horizon tasks that require a holistic understanding of the environment for task decomposition.
By Puzhen Yuan, Angyuan Ma, Yunchao Yao, Huaxiu Yao, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding
arXiv:2608. 09537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation world models have made remarkable progress in planning, simulation, and embodied intelligence.
By Junyu Wu, Shiqin Nie, Youyi Kou, Baohua Yin, Guocai Yao, Qingyu Chen, Jingheng Ma, Shiji Zhou, Hongyong Song, Mingchen Zhuge, Sen Cui, Changshui Zhang
arXiv:2606. 27826v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embodied agents driven by multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can often complete everyday tasks from visual observations, but goal achievement does not establish whether they proactively respect unstated social norms.
By Shiyun Zhao, Xinwei Song, Tianyu Guo, Xiaomeng Gao, Mingyuan Liu, Xu Han, Yuanyuan Zhang, Zhenliang Zhang, Xue Feng, Bo Dai
arXiv:2608. 07751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe and efficient robot navigation in crowds requires anticipating pedestrian motion despite uncertain and potentially shifting prediction errors.
By Cheng Guo, Mingzhe Ni, Zheng Liang, Yihu Ling, Yuan Hu, Michele Caprio, Daniele Pucci, Wei Pan
arXiv:2506. 07223v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have substantially improved the planning capabilities of embodied agents, enabling their deployment in dynamic and safety-critical environments.
By Yangqing Zheng, Shunqi Mao, Dingxin Zhang, Weidong Cai
arXiv:2608. 09876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physically consistent motion planning remains a fundamental challenge in embodied AI, as generated trajectories must strictly conform to real-world execution dynamics.
By Yapeng Liu, Yuanzhao Zhai, Bo Ding, Huaimin Wang, Lin Wang
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:2608. 09035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-music generation has advanced rapidly, but current systems still rely primarily on global text prompts, leaving the structural organization of generated music implicit and difficult to inspect, control, or revise before audio generation.
By Shuyu Li, Kejun Zhang, Jiahe Lei, Shulei Ji, Zihao Wang, Jiaxing Yu, Wanying Wu, Lei Wang
arXiv:2509. 14474v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The debate around Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) remains open due to two fundamentally different goals: replicating human-level performance versus replicating human-like cognitive processes.
By Meltem Subasioglu, Nevzat Subasioglu
arXiv:2608. 08077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Theory of Space framework (ToS) assesses the spatial understanding of curiosity-driven Vision-Language Models (VLMs) under partial observability.
By Gabriele La Malfa, Nitay Alon, Emanuele La Malfa, Reuth Mirsky, Stefan Sarkadi
arXiv:2608. 08009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fake news increasingly relies on cross-modal image-text forgeries, making transparent and verifiable reasoning chains an urgent need for Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation (DGM4).
By Yichun Yeh, Yiheng Li, Xiaobo Hu, Zhen Lei, Yang Yang
arXiv:2608. 08045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban embodied intelligence requires coordination among heterogeneous agents (e.
By Xiaohe Li, Yiru Wang, Junhao Fan, Mingyuan Liu, Jie Huang, Kaixin Zhang, Jiahao Li, Chen Qian, Zide Fan
arXiv:2608. 08761v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In an era defined by escalating climate change and the pervasive deployment of edge intelligence, the environmental cost of semiconductor manufacturing and operation has reached a critical threshold.
By Jatin Chopra
arXiv:2608. 08061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The key question in moral judgement is not simply whether someone chooses the "right" answer, but how they decide what matters most when moral principles conflict.
By Siddarth Singh, Victoria Williams, Simon Rosen, Ebenezer Gelo, Helen Sarah Robertson, Ibrahim Suder, Benjamin Rosman, Geraud Nangue Tasse, Steven James
arXiv:2608. 09857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advances in advanced artificial intelligence tools have sparked research in robot autonomy, but the development of such systems has largely focused on execution rather than verifying the feasibility actions planning models propose.
By Rohan Bhagra, Mahantesh Halapannavar, Uddhav Bhattarai
arXiv:2505. 18587v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deepfakes pose a significant threat to digital media security, with current detection methods struggling to generalize across different manipulation techniques and datasets.
By Pavan C Shekar, Pawan Soni, Vivek Kanhangad
arXiv:2508. 03875v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many sequential decision problems offer qualitatively different ways of influencing the environment: some interventions act immediately, whereas others induce persistent effects that continue to shape future states long after the decision that initiated them.
By David Mguni, Wanrong Yang, Jing Dong, Ziquan Liu, Muhammad Salman Haleem, Baoxiang Wang, Dominik Wojtczak
arXiv:2608. 08814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present 360CityArena, a benchmark for evaluating the urban exploration capabilities of embodied agents within a photorealistic environment constructed from 360-degree videos.
By Kenta Watanabe, Atsuyuki Miyai, Mizuki Takenawa, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Toshihiko Yamasaki
arXiv:2608. 09166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable uncertainty representation is essential for deploying autonomous systems that interact with their environment, as robots must reason about how uncertainty arising from both stochasticity and model mismatch is impacted by contacts with obstacles (e.
By Lu\'is Marques, Kristian Popov, Dmitry Berenson
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