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#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Embodiment-Classifier Guidance: Transferring Frozen VLAs Across Robot Dynamics without Demonstrations

Flow-based policies such as $\pi_0$ are trained on a fixed set of embodiments, and transferring them to new ones is an open problem. To adapt a frozen $\pi_0$ to a new embodiment without additional demonstrations or parameter updates, we train a lightweight embodiment classifier to distinguish successful action chunks...

Devin Han, Hershraj Niranjani · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Has GPT-6-Astra Achieved Embodied Intelligence?

GPT-6-Astra demonstrates a level of competence in robotic manipulation and navigation that challenges the conventional paradigm of building specialized models for individual tasks and embodiments. In this report, we ask not only how capable GPT-6-Astra is, but what its capabilities imply for the field. First, we probe...

SenseNova, Joint Research Team, : et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Structural Affinity: An Algorithm for Coherent Cage-Based Shape Design

Cage-based deformation (CBD) parametrises 3D geometry through a small set of control handles, effectively enabling a variety of tasks from animation and interactive modelling to tool-based co-design, neural deformation transfer, and aerodynamic shape optimization. Many optimization approaches relying on CBD employ regu...

Aviraj Newatia, Shengan Yang, Hantao Zhong et al. · 0 citations

Self-Refining Vision Language Model for Robotic Failure Detection and Reasoning

ARMOR achieves state-of-the-art performance by improving over the previous approaches by improving over the previous approaches by up to 30% on failure detection rate and up to 100% in reasoning measured through LLM fuzzy match score, demonstrating robustness to heterogeneous supervision and open-ended reasoning beyond...

Carl Qi, Xiaojie Wang, Si-Long Yong et al. · 10 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

REKI: Registering Knowledge in VLAs

We introduce REKI, a 2.4B vision-language-action model (VLA) pretrained exclusively on public data that sets a new Pareto frontier between performance and model size: on LIBERO-Plus, RoboTwin Clean2Rand and RoboCasa365, it is outperformed only by models about twice its size. REKI consists of a vision-language model (VL...

Juliette Marrie, Paul Pacaud, Adrien Ramanana Rahary et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Policy-Aligned Predictive Verification for Adaptive VLA Action-Chunk Execution

This work introduces a policy-aligned predictive verifier (PAV) that anticipates the consequences of candidate action prefixes and evaluates their compatibility with successful continuation before execution, and combines trajectory-level survival supervision with a localization prior that preserves useful behavior with...

Minkyu Kim, Junhoo Lee, Seungyeon Kim et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Planning to Learn: Real-Time Robust Adaptive Control on the GPU with Guaranteed Future Learning

A-SLS, a learning-aware robust adaptive model predictive control (RAMPC) framework based on system-level synthesis that forecasts future parameter uncertainty and preserves correlations between process disturbances, parameter error, and estimate updates to construct tight, guaranteed reachable sets that account for fut...

Anutam Srinivasan, Siddhant Panse, Glen Chou · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

BD-HazardVLM: Probing Vision-Language Models for Latent Defensive-Driving Hazards in Bangladesh Road Scenes

It is shown that coarse hazard recognition does not imply reliable fine-grained defensive-driving reasoning and motivate geographically diverse safety evaluation, and all models show weak latent-hazard anticipation and near-zero self-reported trap recognition.

A. Al Maruf, Md. Sajedul Islam, Tanmoy Mridha et al. · 0 citations

VOiLA: Vectorized Online Planning with Learned Diffusion Model for POMDP Agents

Evaluation of VOiLA on three benchmark problems indicates that VOiLA achieves equal or better performance than current reinforcement learning methods for POMDPs, while using less than 10% of the training data, and generalizes much better to unseen environment configurations.

Marcus Hoerger, Rishikesh Joshi, Rahul Shome 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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