Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2601. 15353v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in real-world decision-making across diverse domains, including gaming, robotics, online advertising, public health, and natural language processing.
arXiv:2603. 03953v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe visual navigation is critical for indoor mobile robots operating in cluttered environments.
arXiv:2607. 11119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot manipulation is a complex task that requires visual understanding, physical reasoning, planning, and closed-loop control.
arXiv:2506. 14411v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In standard reinforcement learning (RL) settings, the interaction between the agent and the environment is typically modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP), which assumes that the agent observes the system state instantaneously, selects an action without delay, and executes it immediately.
arXiv:2607. 11270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning, at its core, extends beyond memorization to the ability to reason and solve novel problems by navigating a space of possibilities.
arXiv:2603. 04277v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous aerial robots operating in GPS-denied or communication-degraded environments frequently lose access to camera metadata and telemetry, leaving onboard perception systems unable to recover the absolute metric scale of the scene.
arXiv:2601. 15995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parkour tasks for quadrupeds have emerged as a promising benchmark for agile locomotion.
arXiv:2607. 10706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The action space poses a major challenge in robot learning, since it is often high-dimensional, can span long time horizons, and frequently admits multi-modal optimal solutions.
arXiv:2607. 10402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have transformed misinformation from a primarily content-centric problem into a broader ecosystem-level security challenge.
arXiv:2607. 09792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Navigation is a fundamental capability of autonomous systems, yet most existing approaches rely on highly structured models and strong prior assumptions, limiting their robustness in open and uncertain real-world environments.
arXiv:2607. 11377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term physical coexistence with intelligent robots requires more than capable robot policies.
arXiv:2607. 09825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation policies rely on pre-trained vision models that give either a global scene embedding or a dense patch grid.
arXiv:2607. 09795v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been successfully adopted in various fields, including wireless communications, robotics, and autonomous vehicles, owing to their outstanding adaptability and reasoning abilities.
arXiv:2607. 10206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-matching policies are promising for imitation learning because they model complex multimodal action distributions.
arXiv:2607. 09833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved high accuracy with transformer-based models, enabling deployment in critical applications.
The recent large video foundation model, SAM2, enables segment anything in both images and videos, serving as a powerful base model for various applications. However, many of such use cases require to operate on resource-constrained devices like mobile phones and laptops.
One year ago, the AISLE roadmap argued that autonomous laboratories operated as isolated islands and proposed a grassroots network organized around five critical dimensions. The field has since moved faster than anticipated.
Recent work in humanoid whole-body control has found success with a simple recipe: retarget human motion to robot kinematic references, then train policies via reinforcement learning (RL) to track them. But how does this recipe transfer to dexterous manipulation?
Artificial general intelligence ultimately requires agents that can reason and act in the physical world. Action models, vision-language-action policies, and world models have advanced this goal, while World Action Models (WAMs) are particularly promising because they connect candidate interventions with predicted consequences.
Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms classically suffer from poor sample efficiency. In robotics, a recent line of work has emerged addressing this problem by encoding physics priors in the learning process.