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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Humanoid Safe Stop via Learned Stoppability Value

Safe-Stop is proposed, a task-agnostic framework that pairs a learned stop policy with learned stoppability estimators, and yields decisions that are robust without sacrificing reactivity.

Jun-Feng Long, Pieter Abbeel, K. Sreenath et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Hardware-Accelerated Instance Segmentation for Resource-Constrained Space Robotics with Criticality Analysis

A deployment-oriented instance segmentation framework for resource-constrained lunar robotics that jointly addresses calibration and system-level fault exposure under strict compute constraints is presented and an integrated approach and a blueprint for a reliable and safe AI perception framework under space deployment...

Siddhant Shete, Hilmi Doğu Küçüker, Udo Frese et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Recursive Value Learning for Long-Horizon Offline Goal-Conditioned RL

Across diverse goal-reaching tasks, DCRL substantially outperforms prior flat offline GCRL methods, and on the five most challenging long-horizon OGBench tasks, it improves the best prior average score from 55 to 64, surpassing all flat and hierarchical baselines.

Hyeonseong Jeon, Youngwoon Lee · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Jun 2026

DiDrive: A Risk-Aware Hierarchical Diffusion Framework for Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving

DiDrive, a distribution-guided offline diffusion framework featuring two synergistic components: the Risk-Aware Hierarchical Diffusion (RHDif) architecture and the 3DICE policy optimization paradigm, is proposed, providing a robust pathway for safe autonomous driving decision-making.

Qi-Song Guo, Jing-Tang Chen, Zhi-Lin Chen et al. · 0 citations

FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies

FineVLA, an open framework for action-aligned fine-grained VLA supervision, is introduced and the largest real-world gains appear on pose, color, and approach direction, and approach direction--factors where goal-level instructions provide no guidance.

Xin-Tong Hu, Xuhong Huang, Jin-Yu Zhang et al. · 4 citations

Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Sensor Selection in Maritime Surveillance

Results show that the learned policy achieves tracking performance close to always-on sensing while activating only one sensor per decision time step and avoiding the computationally expensive online entropy search required by expected-information-gain selection.

A. Starodubov, Y. A. Prabowo, Andreas Hadjipieris et al. · 0 citations

What Drives Success in Physical Planning with Joint-Embedding Predictive World Models?

This work characterize models from this family of methods as JEPA-WMs and investigates the technical choices that make algorithms from this class work, and proposes a model that outperforms two established baselines, DINO-WM and V-JEPA-2-AC, in both navigation and manipulation tasks.

Basile Terver, Tsung-Yen Yang, Jean Ponce et al. · 49 citations · ⚡7
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

CrashDiffuser: VLM-Guided Collision Intent Reasoning for Fine-Grained Safety-Critical Traffic Scenario Generation

This paper proposes CrashDiffuser, a closed-loop VLM-guided diffusion framework that decouples semantic collision reasoning from continuous trajectory synthesis through a hierarchical collision-intent interface derived from the requested target contact region.

Shucheng Zhang, Yuang Zhang, Bingzhang Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

DiffuSearch: How Hybrid Trajectory Planning Benefits from Aligned Objectives in Diffusion and Action Space

DiffuSearch is introduced, a novel hybrid planner that uses a unified set of objectives across generation and refinement, and achieves strong and often state-of-the-art performance, substantially reducing collisions and improving comfort, particularly in complex, interactive scenarios.

Steffen Hagedorn, Aron Distelzweig, Alexandru Condurache · 1 citation

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Nov 5, 2026

Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory

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.

Google DeepMind Blog Oct 13, 2026

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

Discover Gemini 4 Argon for robotics: leading the ERQA benchmark with physical reasoning, zero-shot control, Real2Sim, and agentic workflows.

Microsoft Research Blog Sep 23, 2026

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

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.

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