Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2609.09396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) advance toward physical deployment, the focus has remained on action-oriented Embodied AI evaluated on subject-centric...
arXiv:2609.09210v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Teleoperated demonstrations are often multimodal even when the underlying dynamics are nearly deterministic given the executed action. We argue that...
arXiv:2605.01234v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present TT4D, a large-scale, high-fidelity table tennis dataset. It provides $140+$ hours of reconstructed singles and doubles gameplay from mon...
arXiv:2511.16811v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building on the third-wave Extended Mind (EM) theory and radical enactivism, this article suggests an alternative to representation-based models of...
arXiv:2608.25757v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large-scale vision--language--action (VLA) policies have advanced generalist robot control, yet most remain stimulus-to-action black boxes: a...
arXiv:2609.08084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monocular depth estimation is a ubiquitous yet highly ill-posed computer vision task, with downstream applications in scene reconstruction, computati...
SpatialBlock introduces a synthetic dataset of 15,000 block‑stacking problems designed to improve spatial intelligence in Large Vision‑Language Models (LVLMs). The dataset covers 3D‑to‑2D projection, viewpoint transformation, and structural combination, and uses controlled color modulation to encourage anchor‑based reasoning. Experiments show that LVLMs trained on SpatialBlock outperform baselines and generalize to real‑world spatial tasks, despite the dataset’s synthetic and compact nature.
arXiv:2601.22475v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building a generalist robot policy requires continuously integrating new skills while preserving previously acquired behaviors. Directly optimizing...
arXiv:2609.05516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified perception enables autonomous driving systems to perform object detection, drivable-area segmentation, and lane segmentation within a single...
arXiv:2511.09057v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A world model is a cognitive simulator of the real-world environment allowing biological agents to reason about how the world evolves, whethe...
arXiv:2609.06880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning over language instructions in embodied tasks such as robotics often requires understanding spatial relations from a speaker's situated pers...
arXiv:2609.08153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative diffusion models have emerged as a class of powerful techniques for various imaging applications, including but not limited to synthesis, re...
arXiv:2609.07738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LiDAR-based 3D Single Object Tracking (3D SOT) is critical for robotic perception and navigation and aims to localize dynamic objects across frames i...
FPicker is a topology-guided framework for filament tracing in low‑signal Cryo‑EM images. It combines a center‑endpoint representation with an open‑curve evolution module to model non‑cyclic connectivity, overcoming limitations of pixel‑wise segmenters, box‑based detectors, sequential trackers, and traditional active contours. On simulated benchmarks, FPicker improves mean spatio‑angular precision by over 40% and reduces topological gap rates by more than 60% under extreme noise, and it achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on real EMPIAR data after fine‑tuning.
The paper introduces Reward Ensemble under Confidence (REC), a probabilistic reward learning framework for preference-based reinforcement learning that models per‑timestep reward uncertainty using an ensemble of distributional reward models. REC incorporates uncertainty into the preference loss and uses model disagreement to drive exploration, achieving 88.4% of shaped‑reward performance on acrobatic quadrotor control versus 55.2% with standard Preference PPO. The authors train policies in simulation and transfer them zero‑shot to real quadrotors, demonstrating complex acrobatic maneuvers learned solely from human preference feedback, and validate REC on a continuous‑control benchmark.
arXiv:2605.10201v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalizable manipulation involving cross-type object interactions is a critical yet challenging capability in robotics. To reliably accompl...
arXiv:2507.06625v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Model Predictive Control (MPC) enables reliable trajectory optimization under dynamics constraints, but often depends on accurate dynamics mo...
arXiv:2605.12957v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent developments in generative models and large-scale datasets have substantially advanced 3D world generation, facilitating a broad range of do...
The paper demonstrates that image knowledge distillation can be backdoored even when the teacher model is clean, by poisoning the distillation dataset with triggered and manipulated images that the teacher already classifies as a target label. The attack, effective at poisoning rates as low as 10%, uses targeted adversarial perturbations and GAN-based class transitions to embed a backdoor into the student model while preserving its performance on clean data. The study highlights that the security of knowledge distillation depends not only on the teacher but also on the integrity of the distillation data.
arXiv:2609.07126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In world model planning, sensing inputs pass through an encoder and predictor before affecting planner decisions, so final task success alone cannot...