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#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Adversarial Calibration Attack on Autonomous Vehicles

Adversarial Calibration Attack (ACA), the first physical attack against camera-LiDAR online calibration, is presented and demonstrated that online calibration is a practical and safety-critical attack surface for AVs.

Liang-Kai Liu, Qingzhao Zhang, Kang G. Shin · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Generation of High-Level Concepts in 3D Scene Graphs via Autoregressive Diffusion

This work proposes a unified autoregressive diffusion-based graph generative model that jointly learns structure and features, constructing complete 3DSGs bottom-up from observed vertical planes across arbitrary hierarchy depths, and proposes an adaptation of the Fused Gromov--Wasserstein distance for principled graph-...

J. A. Millan-Romera, Samuel Cognolato, Holger Voos et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Event-triggered Control and Online Learning for Networked Systems under Computational Delays

Control performance guarantee is first established by deriving tracking error bound for the in-network control architecture, while accounting for computational delays, and an explicit expression of the proposed event-trigger condition for exponentially stabilizable systems is derived.

Xiao-Bing Dai, Armin Lederer, Ze-Wen Yang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Asynchronous Cooperative Online Learning for Multi-Robot Control under Computational Delays

This work proposes an asynchronous cooperative learning strategy that explicitly accounts for prediction accuracy, query point variations and delay effects, and a distributed control law based on an adjoint MAS is developed to ensure the desired control performance.

Xiao-Bing Dai, Ze-Wen Yang, Wei Ren et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Conference May 2026

Fully Distributed GNE Algorithms for Multi-Robot Placement without Consensus on Multipliers

This work proposes a fully distributed continuous-time algorithm for shared linear equality constraints that converges without multiplier exchange and reaches any GNE, reducing communication overhead and improving privacy.

Sho-An Yin, Mingyi Hong, Nicola Elia · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

PathBridger: Subgoal Bridges for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

The proposed PathBridger is a hierarchical offline GCRL method that explicitly connects subgoal selection to short-horizon execution, and constructs a state-space bridge toward the selected intermediate endpoint and decodes it into a short executable action chunk using an inverse dynamics model.

Soohyun Choi, Seonvin Cho, Songnam Hong · 0 citations
#robotics Jul 2026

ACE: Agentic Control for Embodied Manipulation via Zero-shot Workflow Reasoning

While standard end-to-end baselines struggle to complete these logically demanding tasks, ACE achieves a 50% success rate in equation formation and a 70% success rate in constraint retrieval, demonstrating that explicit workflow reasoning and mask-mediated control offer a robust, practical route toward adaptable roboti...

Iok Tong Lei, Qianzhi Li, Ying Jie Yap et al. · 0 citations

PhysCoRe: Physics-Corrected Residual World Models for Material-Aware Deformable Dynamics

Experiments on real deformable-object manipulation sequences show that PhysCoRe outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in prediction accuracy, and that its predicted confidence forms a reliable distribution across the object's geometry, providing a natural signal for future confidence-guided exploration.

Haocheng Yin, Shuohan Tao, Yongsheng Chen et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Jul 2026

Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents

Agentic Real2Sim is introduced, a framework for generalized physical world modeling with vision-language agents, converting a real-world recording of object-robot interaction into a simulatable episodic twin which preserves observations, geometries, robot interactions, and object states.

Guan-Xiong Chen, Qian-Jun Xia, Jia-Wei Peng et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Jul 2026

Teaching Tiny VLA Models Where to Look and How to Move

XS-VLA is introduced, a lightweight framework that teaches tiny VLA policies "where to look" and "how to move" without increasing deployment-time model cost and shows that explicit spatial grounding and latent action-structure learning can make tiny VLA models effective for robotic manipulation.

Iok Tong Lei, Ying Jie Yap, Wei Huang et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Jul 2026

CLAP: Direct VLM-to-VLA Adaptation via Language-Action Grounding

CLAP (Causal Language-Action Prediction), which prepends each numeric action sequence with a natural-language action description, causally conditioning precise action-token prediction on a language-action plan without modifying the backbone architecture, enabling controlled analysis of VLM-to-VLA capability transfer.

Yuri Ishitoya, Jeremy Siburian, Masashi Hamaya et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

hint$^2$: Hierarchical World Models for Inference-Time Temporal Logic Guidance

This paper introduces hint, a method for guiding short-horizon policies toward satisfying complex LTL specifications at inference time using hierarchical world models, and shows that hint$^2$ can handle complex instructions on a real UR5e manipulator.

Moritz Zoellner, Anastasios Manganaris, A. H. Qureshi et al. · 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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