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 Machine Learning
Jun 2

World Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Architectures, Methodologies, Reasoning Paradigms, and Applications

arXiv:2606. 00133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models, internal simulators that learn the structure and dynamics of an environment, have emerged as a central paradigm in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence, enabling agents to predict, plan, and reason within learned representations.

By Arif Hassan Zidan, Yi Pan, Hanqi Jiang, Ruiyu Yan, Wei Ruan, Zihao Wu, Lifeng Chen, Weihang You, Xinliang Li, Bowen Chen, Huawen Hu, Peilong Wang, Sizhuang Liu, Jing Zhang, Siyuan Li, Zhengliang Liu, Yu Bao, Lin Zhao, Lichao Sun, Dajiang Zhu, Xiang Li, Jinglei Lv, Quanzheng Li, Wei Liu, Tianming Liu, Wei Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

VDSB-GWSyn: Diffusion Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge for Controllable and Anatomically Feasible Guidewire Synthesis in Coronary Angiography

arXiv:2606. 00109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coronary guidewire endpoint localization is a fundamental capability for computer-assisted PCI, and its importance increases as robot-assisted PCI is progressively adopted to reduce operator radiation exposure.

By Haoyuan Tang, Zhuo Zhang, Jialin Li, Shuai Xiao, Jiachen Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

A Survey of 3D Reconstruction with Event Cameras

arXiv:2505. 08438v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Event cameras are rapidly emerging as powerful vision sensors for 3D reconstruction, uniquely capable of asynchronously capturing per-pixel brightness changes.

By Chuanzhi Xu, Haoxian Zhou, Langyi Chen, Haodong Chen, Zeke Zexi Hu, Zhicheng Lu, Ying Zhou, Vera Chung, Qiang Qu, Weidong Cai
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behavior Models with Learned Rewards

arXiv:2606. 02194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for dexterous manipulation.

By Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Ingmar Posner, Jan Peters
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Beyond Independent Manipulation: Individual Fairness-aware Strategic Classification with Peer Imitation

arXiv:2606. 00827v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Strategic classification (SC) investigates scenarios where agents manipulate their features to obtain favorable decisions from predictive models.

By Xinpeng Lv, Chunyuan Zheng, Yunxin Mao, Renzhe Xu, Jinxuan Yang, Yuanlong Chen, Wangrong Huang, Shaowu Yang, Wenjing Yang, Xinwang Liu, Peng Cui, Haotian Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

World-Task Factorization for Robot Learning

arXiv:2606. 02027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot learning must produce policies that generalize to new combinations of constraints, teammates, and environments.

By Eduardo Sebasti\'an, Adrian Pfisterer, Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock, Amanda Prorok