Value-Guided Flow Matching (VGFM), a scalable offline RL framework that enables dense value-guided shaping within a flow-based policy while avoiding BPTT and additional algorithmic overhead, is proposed.
Vision-language-action (VLA) deployment can reduce inference latency while changing closed-loop task behavior while changing closed-loop task behavior through deployment evaluation, and deployment evaluation should jointly report latency, artifact inspection, interface constraints, and closed-loop success.
A runtime mechanism that grows and prunes the heads of the attention block during reinforcement learning, governed by two signals: the effective rank of the on-policy context distribution, which triggers growth when representational capacity becomes insufficient, and the per-head output magnitude, which flags redundant...
Three robotic art installations which explore the aesthetics of adaptive behavior use learning and evolutionary processes not as a means to optimize a specific solution, but as an aesthetic experience on its own, suggesting new modes of interdisciplinary art-science research.
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GroundBench is introduced, a diagnostic benchmark that separates explanations through six branch-and-merge conditions, each adding a controlled information bundle, and a counterfactual re-ask targeting a real alternate part visible in the same image.
The intuition behind controlled diffusion for robot learning is introduced, its connection to diffusion learning is explored, theoretical foundations and numerical tutorials for solving controlled diffusion and ergodic control problems are presented, and applications across robotics are reviewed.
M. M. Sun, Cem Bilaloglu, Ananya Rao et al.· 0 citations
Comprehensive benchmarks demonstrate that GzDRL achieves the highest workstation throughput among the evaluated frameworks while remaining competitive with GPU-accelerated simulators on laptop hardware, and maintains precise agent-environment synchronization, multi-agent scalability, and experiment-level reproducibilit...
Amaldev Haridevan, Kan Junjie, Jinjun Shan· 0 citations
Part grounding is pointed to as the dominant bottleneck, a pattern that holds across all three model families and does not diminish with capability, so this bounds what a perfect part detector would offer rather than demonstrating a general model of mechanics.
The rapid expansion of operational satellites and orbital debris has increased the frequency of close approach events in low Earth orbit (LEO), creating a higher operational burden for satellite operators. This problem is especially critical for satellites using electric propulsion, where low-thrust maneuver capability...
DART-VLN is presented, a training-free inference-time framework that combines Test-Time Memory Decay, which reweights stale and redundant memory slots without modifying their stored content, with Anti-Loop Regularization, a lightweight next-hop penalty that discourages immediate reversals.
Shaoheng Zhang, Zhi-Cheng Li, Guang-Fu Ma et al.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
It is found that Humans and VLMs diverge in their responses -- though this is modulated by the type of questions asked, and that Humans answer similarly independent of where they are from (Lima/NYC), and that Humans answer similarly independent of where they are from (Lima/NYC).
A. Cespedes, Marcelo Chincha, Dunant Cusipuma et al.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
Realizing versatile and human-like performance in high-demand sports like badminton remains a formidable challenge for humanoid robotics. Unlike standard locomotion or static manipulation, this task demands a seamless integration of explosive whole-body coordination and precise, timing-critical interception. While rece...
Yeke Chen, Shihao Dong, Xiaoyu Ji et al.· 0 citations
A new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.
Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics appeared first on Microsoft Research.