Multimodal models and agents have emerged to enable AI systems to learn from and interact with the real world more like humans by integrating information across multiple modalities. However, enabling multimodal agents to continually acquire useful information from complex, heterogeneous multimodal data remains a signif...
Ming-Hao Guo, Qing-Yue Jiao, Xiu-Jin Liu et al.· 0 citations
Embodied visual tracking requires a robot to identify a designated target from visual observations and control its own motion to follow that target through an environment. Following an isolated person is a comparatively simple demonstration of embodied visual tracking, but following the intended person among distractor...
Pretrained vision-language-action models (VLAs) often fail midway through unseen long-horizon tasks. Recursive self-improvement (RSI) offers a remedy, but embodied RSI methods either refine the harness around a frozen executor and so cannot add a missing motion, or train the executor on persistent failures without aski...
Pei-Dong Wang, Ying Chang, Zhi-Ming Ma et al.· 4 citations
LIME is proposed, a vision-language camera-motion generator that combines an autoregressive observation-gain output with a continuous flow-matching pose head that learns intent-conditioned camera motion from passive egocentric video, turning ordinary human recordings into supervision for a reusable active-perception pr...
Bo-Yang Sun, Jiajie Li, Yung-Hsu Yang et al.· arXiv.org· 3 citations
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Ensuring safety of learning-enabled robotic manipulation across diverse embodiments and tasks still requires significant manual engineering. For collision avoidance, existing approaches typically rely on embodiment-specific learned safety approximations or simplified robot models together with stopping-based fallback c...
Alex Beaudin, Hanna Krasowski, Kartik Nagpal et al.· 0 citations
Robot actions vary in both extent and mode: how much change they produce and what kind of change they produce. A latent action space that reflects this structure may make it easier for downstream policies to map latent actions to robot actions. However, existing latent action methods typically rely on visual reconstruc...
Youngjoon Jeong, Jihwan Yu, Minsoo Jo et al.· 0 citations
Accurate and interpretable motion prediction for heterogeneous traffic spaces, including pedestrians, bicycles, cars, and trucks, is essential for safe autonomous navigation. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art approaches remain predominantly black-box, lacking explicit encoding of the regulatory and behavioral constraints...
Simon Kohaut, Felix Divo, Julius Hahnewald et al.· 0 citations
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are a promising paradigm for field robotics, but their deployment is bottlenecked by strict edge SWaP-C constraints. Compression techniques such as quantization, distillation, and pruning are well-established for LLMs and VLMs. Pruning, however, remains particularly underexplored for...
Jason Jabbour, Dong-Ki Kim, Max Smith et al.· 0 citations
Mobile Manipulation (MoMa) is a cornerstone of autonomous robotic systems, yet real-world fine-tuning remains a formidable challenge because of high-dimensional action spaces and intricate coupling between heterogeneous modules. In this paper, we propose HiRe-MoMa (Hierarchical Residual Mobile Manipulation), a systemat...
Zhefei Gong, Hefeifei Jiang, Zehao Wang et al.· 0 citations
The results demonstrate the feasibility of generative modeling in humanoid network weight space, while providing initial insights into the information encoded by their learned weights.
Hui-Xuan Cheng, Bi-Ke Zhang, S. Sastry et al.· 0 citations
Reinforcement-learning policies for robot locomotion can fail at deployment when operating conditions shift (e.g., rough or slippery terrain, payload changes, sensing degradation), and retraining or manual recalibration is often infeasible under on-device latency and memory constraints. We study test-time adaptation (T...
M. Alfarra, Pietro Mazzaglia, Markus Peschl et al.· 0 citations
This approach enhances BC by integrating a kernel density estimator to adjust training sample weights based on action density, thereby improving the learning of rare but critical actions such as stopping at red lights and accelerating at green lights, specially in scenarios of scarce number of expert demonstrations.
Eric A. Antonelo, Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto, Christiane Möller et al.· Brazilian Conference on Inte...· 4 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.