Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2610.01283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable shelf monitoring is an important capability for retail automation, yet existing out-of-stock detection methods mainly operate in image space a...
arXiv:2610.01544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing image forgery detectors often suffer from generalization to unseen manipulation methods due to the limited ability to capture transferable for...
arXiv:2610.01741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to improve robotic manipulation via future observation or world dynamics forecasting. However, exist...
arXiv:2610.01778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable evaluation of image forgery localization (IFL) requires assessing models under diverse distribution changes, yet existing benchmarks often cov...
arXiv:2610.01939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision language model (VLM) agents can control robots through visual feedback and action primitives, but repeated model invocations and redundant obser...
arXiv:2610.00360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for dexterous manipulation must discover finger-object contacts and then control the object precisely; the action noise t...
arXiv:2610.00330v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term object search requires learning where objects usually appear from repeated but uneven observations of a changing environment. We formulate...
arXiv:2610.00981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We focus on language-conditioned flow-based manipulation, where robot flows (robot velocity fields) serve as embodiment-agnostic, motion-centric repr...
arXiv:2610.01742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Equipping artificial agents with spatial intelligence requires a comprehensive generative prior over the dynamic 3D world. We propose World Motion Mo...
arXiv:2610.02196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study test-time evolution for humanoid loco-manipulation: solving tasks that a controller was never trained for by repurposing its existing skills...
arXiv:2606.21562v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers are AI's workhorse but their computational cost becomes prohibitive when processing long sequences. We target long-horizon streaming v...
The paper reviews end‑to‑end autonomous driving (E2E‑AD) training, framing it as a Data‑Strategy‑Platform system. It surveys recent advances in data pipelines, learning paradigms, and training infrastructures, and discusses how these layers interact to influence model performance, robustness, and deployability. The authors highlight current limitations and propose a future vision that prioritizes data value, foundation‑driven generalization, and integrated training‑testing loops for more robust, scalable, and trustworthy autonomous driving systems.
The paper introduces GTA‑VLA, an interactive Vision‑Language‑Action framework that lets users guide robot policies with explicit visual cues such as affordance points, boxes, and traces. Unlike traditional direct sense‑to‑act models, GTA‑VLA incorporates a spatial‑visual Chain‑of‑Thought that blends human guidance with internal task planning, and couples this reasoning module with a lightweight reactive action head for efficient execution. Experiments on the SimplerEnv WidowX benchmark show a state‑of‑the‑art 81.2 % success rate, and the framework significantly improves task success under out‑of‑domain visual shifts and spatial ambiguities, demonstrating the benefit of interactive reasoning for failure recovery in embodied control.
The paper introduces an action‑conditioned Network World Model that learns how a network’s diffusion dynamics evolve under interventions over time. This model can quickly predict the outcomes of actions, enabling a coding agent to design and refine algorithms that select actions to maximize expected performance on complex network tasks. Experiments on eight network tasks and five diffusion models show that the resulting algorithms match or surpass the best existing baselines in 138 of 141 settings while achieving up to 14.5× faster rollouts than traditional Monte Carlo simulation.
The paper introduces a bounded‑fidelity sim‑as‑demo‑stage design pattern that suppresses contact physics during object handoffs in simulators, using MuJoCo’s mocap‑body primitive and a lightweight Python adapter. This approach ensures audit‑chain stability, producing identical event‑log hashes across 1,000 replays per posture, whereas a contact‑force baseline yields significant divergence. The authors demonstrate that the pattern maintains reproducibility across various timesteps and sequential handoffs with minimal overhead, and they identify contexts where it should not be applied.
The paper introduces a method for generating legible plans in arbitrary PDDL domains by extending prior legibility research to classical planning without custom planners. It incorporates a second‑order theory of mind to estimate the observer’s perspective, enabling robots to implicitly communicate goals in human‑robot teaming. Benchmark results show that increasing legibility typically trades off with plan efficiency, and a regularizing factor is needed to balance the two.
arXiv:2610.00604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action policies often see only one or a few recent frames, which makes it difficult to evaluate how they use information that disappe...
arXiv:2610.00899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive Vision-Language-Action models often represent continuous robot actions as discrete token sequences, enabling action prediction with st...
arXiv:2610.01260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quadrupedal locomotion requires balancing conflicting objectives such as command tracking, stability, and energy efficiency, yet conventional reinfor...
arXiv:2610.01559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) predict visual futures and robot actions, yet they remain susceptible to task-incomplete imagination, where plausible, act...