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Daniel Rakita

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Preprint Oct 2026

I2CD: Direct Image-to-Convex Decomposition for Simulation-Ready Collision Geometry

Physics simulators and motion planners require convex collision geometry, yet image-to-3D generative models output dense, frequently non-manifold visual meshes. Bridging the two today takes a slow, brittle reconstruct-then-decompose pipeline of repair, decimation, and approximate convex decomposition. We present I2CD,...

Qian Wang, Liam Merz Hoffmeister, Brian Scassellati et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Dexterous Tactile World Model

World models for manipulation are typically trained from video, yet the events that determine how manipulation unfolds, such as making and releasing contact, are difficult to observe visually and are often easier to sense through touch. We present the Dexterous Tactile World Model (DTWM), a video world model for future...

Zi-Yao Zeng, Xiatao Sun, Hao Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Accelerating Visual Policy Learning with Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control

Sampling-Guided Policy Search (SGPS), which couples recurring action-target refinement by sampling-based model-predictive control with first-order policy optimization with first-order policy optimization, and shows that refinement improves policy learning beyond initialization and tracking alone.

Yi-Lang Liu, Hao-Xiang You, Qian Wang et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

Artificial Foveated Perception for Mitigating Shortcut Learning in Robotic Foundation Models

Artificial Foveated Perception is proposed, a lightweight, policy-agnostic module that takes the same vision and language inputs as Vision-Language-Action and World Action Model pipelines and predicts task-conditioned masks over relevant objects, the robot, and other action-critical regions and reduces fine-tuning time...

Xia-Tao Sun, Yuan Zhuang, Mateo Sanchez Lopez Negrete et al. · 0 citations

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