arXiv:2605. 28803v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models unify perception, reasoning, and control within a single policy, yet 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
arXiv:2608. 06994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) aim to construct a unified architecture capable of understanding world state evolution and guiding to generative motion planning.
By Xiangkai Ma, Yue Ma, Junjie Wang, Sheng Xu, Mingyang Li, Han Zhang, Yuzheng Zhuang, Wenzhong Li, Zhihao Yuan
arXiv:2608. 06917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved impressive performance in recipe generation from food images.
By Guoshan Liu, Bin Zhu, Pengkun Jiao, Jingjing Chen, Chong-Wah Ngo, Yu-Gang Jiang
arXiv:2509. 06296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional on-policy reinforcement learning (RL) controllers for quadrupedal locomotion often suffer from low data efficiency, requiring millions of interactions with simulated environments to achieve stable control.
By Francisco Affonso, Felipe Tommaselli, Jo\~ao H. Al\'essio, Vivian S. Medeiros, Mateus V. Gasparino, Girish Chowdhary, Marcelo Becker
arXiv:2608. 06469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative machine learning among financial institutions must be both group-fair and robust against deliberate adversarial manipulation.
By Devharsh Trivedi, Nesrine Kaaniche, Nikos Triandopoulos, Maryline Laurent, Jackson Walters
arXiv:2608. 07154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-source robotics and foundation models have lowered the barrier to embodied AI, yet language-guided laboratory automation still requires reliable alignment from instructions and observations to safe actions.
By Yang Shen, Chonghao Cheng, Ziyi Zhao, Jialuo Zhu, Zhenyi Yi, Qi Zhao, Jian Yang, Yuhui Shi, Chin-Teng Lin
arXiv:2608. 01035v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a prominent paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving; however, their efficient deployment is severely constrained by high computational latency and exposure bias arising from sequential autoregressive decoding.
By Zhihao Zhu, Hanlin Shang, Mingwang Xu, Feipeng Cai, Zhuolin He, Yaoyi Li, Jianhua Han, Hang Xu, Siyu Zhu
arXiv:2608. 06650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reduced-order models based on Cosserat-rod theory are now well established, and modeling theory is no longer the primary bottleneck in soft-robot control.
By Maximilian St\"olzle, Solange Gribonval, Daniel Feliu-Talegon, Vito Daniele Perfetta, Michele Martini, Chuhan Zhang, Kiwan Wong, Mohammed Tarnini, Anup Teejo Mathew, Federico Renda, Daniela Rus, Cosimo Della Santina
arXiv:2608. 06481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training controllers that are safe and robust in simulation, and systematically assessing their readiness for real-world deployment, remain key challenges in sim-to-real transfer.
By Riccardo Curcio, Hongpeng Cao, Marco Caccamo
arXiv:2608. 05373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intraday market manipulation is hard to detect because its footprint is brief, buried in millions of quotes, and statistically similar to ordinary volatility.
By Alex Chen, Maria Hybinette
arXiv:2608. 05159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise operations extensively rely on multiple heterogeneous business systems and information applications, which also result in severe data silos and process fragmentation.
By Xi Wang, Kun Li, Xianyao Ling, Gang Yin, Liang Zhang, Jiang Wu, Wenbo Lei, Jun Xu, Annie Wang, Fu Zhang, Weizhe Wang
arXiv:2608. 05548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern vehicles rely on the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus, whose design prioritizes low cost and real-time performance but provides no message authentication or encryption.
By Chandan Hegde, Mukundh R Reddy
arXiv:2608. 06227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite advances in artificial intelligence (AI) across multiple sectors, today's AI tools, including deep learning and generative AI, still fail when embedded into physical systems, such as robots and vehicles operating under real-world physical laws.
By Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Omar Hashash, Walid Saad
arXiv:2511. 04949v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rapid advances in generative AI have led to increasingly realistic deepfakes, posing growing challenges for law enforcement and public trust.
By Tharindu Fernando, Clinton Fookes, Sridha Sridharan
arXiv:2607. 27933v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flow matching (FM) has become a popular action head paradigm for modern embodied models.
By Ziyang Rao, Yiren Zhao, Weiyu Guo, Ben Fei, Yandong Guo, Hui Xiong
arXiv:2608. 05715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as planners in robotic systems, where they translate natural-language commands into executable actions grounded in visual scene understanding.
By S. M . Bhagya P. Samarakoon, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, W. K. R. Sachinthana, Mohan Rajesh Elara
arXiv:2510. 06277v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) offers a unified way to pursue diverse tasks, yet most existing methods rely on state- or position-based goal representations that are unavailable in real-world robotics.
By Fahim Shahriar, Cheryl Wang, Alireza Azimi, Gautham Vasan, Hany Hamed, Abhishek Naik, A. Rupam Mahmood, Colin Bellinger
arXiv:2608. 06221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning from demonstration (LfD) provides a developmental framework through which robots can develop motor skills by observing and imitating human dynamics, reducing reliance on explicit programming to teach a skill to a robot.
By Alperen Kenan, Paul Bremner, Manuel Giuliani
arXiv:2608. 06122v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inspired by recent evidence that transformer architectures benefit from Self-PreTraining (SPT) on long-context benchmarks, we investigate whether similar gains extend to multimodal, multivariate, and even simple univariate medical time series.
By Omar Coser, Antonio Orvieto, Paolo Soda, Loredana Zollo
arXiv:2608. 05970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied visuomotor models, including Diffusion Policy (DP) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have demonstrated promising performance on robotic manipulation benchmarks.
By Changyuan Wang, Chubin Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Runhao Li, Angyuan Ma, Ke Chao, Yinan Liang, Xiuwei Xu, Ziwei Wang, Yansong Tang, Jiwen Lu