Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2607. 06370v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising approach for generalizable robotic manipulations.
Care robots are increasingly being introduced into healthcare settings, raising important questions about their acceptance and ethical implementation. To better understand these challenges, this study investigates caregivers' perceptions of four categories of care robots: delivering supplies, helping patients into bed, monitoring vital signs, and assisting with mobility.
Embodied intelligence and world models require video understanding systems to go beyond recognizing objects and actions and develop an understanding of physical regularities. However, despite their strong performance on general video understanding tasks, current video-language models still struggle to reliably determine whether an observed event conforms to specific physical laws.
The deployment of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in autonomous driving (AD) systems is constrained by on-board computing power, restricting vehicles to small VLMs (SVLMs) with limited perception and reasoning capabilities. Infrastructure-assisted AD alleviates this resource constraint by enabling collaboration with large VLMs (LVLMs) at edge servers.
arXiv:2607. 29484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interventional data is widely regarded as the gold standard for teaching models causal reasoning.
arXiv:2602. 07339v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based trajectory planners can model multi-modal driving behavior, but their iterative denoising process introduces a latency bottleneck for real-time closed-loop deployment.
arXiv:2607. 23332v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Creating a reusable tool is an investment: an agent pays a fixed cost now in exchange for the potential of future reuse.
arXiv:2607. 28679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent planning problems arise in a variety of engineering applications, such as multi-robot wildfire fighting and unmanned aerial inspection in factories.
arXiv:2512. 03438v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic reasoning models trained with multimodal reinforcement learning (MMRL) have become increasingly capable, yet they are almost universally optimized using sparse, outcome-based rewards computed based on the final answers.
arXiv:2607. 29169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies achieve strong performance in robotic manipulation but remain vulnerable to runtime disturbances that break the temporal alignment among visual observations, robot states, and executed actions.
arXiv:2607. 29225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian Optimization (BO) is widely adopted for data-efficient optimization in scientific and engineering applications, yet its computational cost is rarely evaluated alongside optimization performance.
arXiv:2607. 28947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to solve complex problems by searching over program space, offering a general paradigm for scientific problems that can be naturally represented and solved as programs.
arXiv:2607. 29617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation learning (IL)---training an agent to replicate expert behavior from demonstrations---underpins applications from robotics to language model training.
arXiv:2509. 25146v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper develops a mathematical argument and algorithms for building representations of data from event-based cameras, that we call Fast Feature Field ($\text{F}^3$).
arXiv:2605. 07663v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data valuation methods allocate payments and audit training data's contribution to machine-learning pipelines; however, they often assume passive contributors.
arXiv:2607. 29473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The deployment of deep neural networks for visual affordance segmentation on wearable robots poses may prove critical, due to some conflicting aspects of the problem.
arXiv:2503. 15225v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of autonomous virtual avatars (in extended reality) and robots in human group activities---such as rehabilitation therapy, sports, and manufacturing---is expected to increase as these technologies become more pervasive.
arXiv:2607. 27690v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce LabEvolver, a training-free framework that equips safe and grounded wet-lab agents with episodic memory from execution experience.
arXiv:2603. 25464v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms aim to learn a family of policies from a reward-free dataset, and recover optimal policies for any reward function directly at test time.
arXiv:2511. 00847v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) induces a critical vulnerability: the potential for dishonest manipulation by service providers.