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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Inside-JEPA: From Prediction to Relational Grounding in Latent World Models

Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn world models in latent space, enabling efficient planning but leaving their states opaque. We introduce Inside-JEPA, which places relational channels for ordered entity pairs inside the JEPA latent state and shows that an inverse-dynamics loss can ground these chan...

Hossein Resani, J. Shi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Policy Search in Code Space for Multi-Agent Pathfinding

This work investigates a human-directed workflow in which coding agents iteratively propose, implement, evaluate, diagnose, and eventually refine algorithms guided by simulation feedback and explicit correctness verification and shows that this workflow robustly outperformed any manually engineered solutions.

Matthias Eder, Pantelis Emmanouil, V. Farias et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

KITE: Decoupling Kinematics and Interaction for Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Manipulation

Generalizing manipulation policies across robot embodiments remains difficult because standard policies tie the interactions needed for a task to the actions of a particular robot. We study zero-shot cross-embodiment manipulation, where a policy trained on source embodiments must be deployed on a structurally different...

Qianxu Wang, Shengmiao Samuel Jin, Kuan Fang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Flow Control: Steering Vision-Language-Action Models with Simple Real-Time Inputs

We introduce flow control of vision-language-action (VLA) models, a simple and effective way to steer VLA actions in real time through generic inputs, such as a keyboard. This method can be used out-of-the-box and does not require retraining or fine-tuning VLAs. It enables relatively crude user inputs to steer a VLA to...

Jonathan C. Kao, Jason Chan, Andy Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DEFLECT: Temporal Counterfactual Preference Learning for Delay-Robust Asynchronous VLAs

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies increasingly rely on asynchronous inference to hide model latency behind ongoing robot motion. During inference, the robot continues executing its current action chunk while the next chunk is generated from the observation available at inference start. By the time the new chunk is...

Yixiang Zhu, Yonghao Chen, Jiaxiang Zou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Synergistic Action and Style Priors for Learning Legged Locomotion

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) enables robots to learn complex behaviors through interaction with the environment. However, due to the unrestricted nature of the learning algorithms, the resulting solutions are often brittle and appear unnatural. This is especially true for learning direct joint-level torque control...

Oliver Hausd\"orfer, Alexander von Rohr, \'Eric Lefort et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Taskonomy: Disentangling Task Transfer Learning

Do visual tasks have a relationship, or are they unrelated? For instance, could having surface normals simplify estimating the depth of an image? Intuition answers these questions positively, implying existence of a structure among visual tasks. Knowing this structure has notable values; it is the concept underlying tr...

Amir Zamir, Alexander Sax, William Shen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

VLA-Rolling: Fewer Denoising Steps, Better Control via Adaptive Action Reuse

VLA-Rolling is introduced, a lightweight inference framework that reuses action tails through three stages: action-tail inheritance, per-action confidence estimation, and confidence-guided refinement through renoising and denoising budget allocation, while the underlying VLA remains frozen.

Si-Cheng He, Ying-Ying Pan, Qiu-Ting Yu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EMMA: Enhancing Robotic Control Robustness through a Generative Visual Model

The generalization of vision-language-action (VLA) models heavily relies on diverse training data. However, acquiring large-scale robot manipulation data across varied object appearances is costly and labor-intensive. To address this, we introduce Embodied Manipulation Media Adaptation (EMMA), a framework for augmentin...

Zhehao Dong, Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Conference Open access Jun 2018

Gibson Env: Real-World Perception for Embodied Agents

This paper investigates developing real-world perception for active agents, proposes Gibson Environment for this purpose, and showcases a set of perceptual tasks learned therein.

F. Xia, Amir Zamir, Zhi-Yang He et al. · 1,069 citations · ⚡112
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Joints, Camera, Action! Co-Generating 3D Motion and Video for Arbitrary Rigs

Video generation models can now depict remarkably realistic motion. Yet it is unclear how to use this motion beyond pixels: to animate a specific 3D asset and replay the animation in its 3D scene. For instance, a video model can show a monkey jumping over a crossbar, but it cannot return that jump as replayable 3D moti...

Noam Rotstein, Yoad Tewel, Chen Tessler et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

UniWALM: Unified World Action Language Model for Embodied Robot Control

Motivated by the human ability to integrate experience across language, perception, and action, we introduce UniWALM, a unified world-action-language model that learns video, action, and language in a single shared representation, where each modality is both a conditioning signal and a supervision target. We ask: can j...

Rahul Sajnani, D. Romeres, Ming-Yuan Zhang et al. · 0 citations

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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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