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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

PrT-Flow: Probability-Tractable Flow Matching for Reinforcement Learning

PrT-Flow (Probability-Tractable Flow Matching), which computes probability density while retaining multimodal, multi-step action generation, and demonstrates that invertible networks with tractable probability densities can learn effective robot policies and support SAC-style actor-critic training.

Cong-Zhong Sun, Ning Tan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Box-WAM: Box Trajectories as Compact State Representations for World Action Models

World action models (WAMs) are a category of policy models that ex- plicitly predict both actions and future world states. They have been shown to outperform action-only models across various robotic manipulation tasks. How- ever, representing the future with full-frame video prediction can be computation- ally expensi...

Qin-Xi Yu, Wen-Zhou Ding, Gloria X. Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

YUBI-Real2Sim: 3DGS Scene Verification for Reliable Policy Evaluation

Evaluating VLA policies on real robots is costly, time-consuming, and difficult to reproduce, making real-to-sim simulation essential for scalable evaluation. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables rapid real-to-sim scene generation, the reconstruction quality required for reliable policy evaluation remains unquant...

Hiroki Nishizawa, Takehiko Ohkawa, Nicola Scianca et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

ClearNav: Perception-Aligned Quadrotor Flight Using Differential-Physics

Autonomous quadrotor flight in cluttered environment is an key capability for tasks like inspection and search. Navigation policies trained in simulation and transferred to hardware can fly at high speed in open space, but they can still collide as obstacle clearance shrinks. We attribute most of these collisions to a...

Aditya Azad, Arthur Huang, Guan-Rui Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Phase-Conditioned Affordance Fields for SE(3)-Equivariant Visuomotor Policies

SE(3)-equivariance provides a useful geometric inductive bias for visuomotor policies, encoding that actions covary with rigid transformations of the observation. However, existing SE(3)-equivariant visuomotor policies build this bias on a global equivariance assumption that treats the entire observation as governed by...

Xinzhe Chen, Liqi Huang, Sihua Ren et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Generative Flow on Symbolic Abstractions for Embodiment Capability Discovery

Achieving complex, long-horizon robot behavior remains challenging because successful execution depends on skills grounded in a robot's physical affordances. Existing training-task distributions are often handcrafted or sampled from large language models (LLMs), relying on semantic plausibility rather than embodiment-s...

Youwei Yu, Lantao Liu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Force-Modulated Dexterity: Unified Compliance for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Teleoperation is widely used to collect high-quality demonstrations for robot learning. Dexterous manipulation, however, requires coordinated control of motion and contact forces. Operators can specify motion, but struggle to reproduce the subtle force adjustments of human manipulation without feeling the robot's conta...

Ying Yuan, David Held, Jitendra Malik et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

D-World: An Explicit World-Language-Action Model with Recursive Self-Improvement under Dual Control

Frontier large language models (LLMs) now reason about space well enough to program robots, yet the world models behind robot policies are implicit, held in network weights or predicted video, and cannot be inspected or corrected directly. We present D-World, an explicit world-language-action model built on the Sense,...

Xuan Wen, Baichao Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Interactive Navigation Beyond Reachability: Benchmark and Agentic Framework

Existing embodied navigation tasks commonly assume that traversability and object states remain fixed during an episode. Yet reaching a goal may require opening a door to access a room and then opening a container to reveal a hidden target. We formulate interactive navigation beyond reachability, unifying channel-induc...

Delun Li, Xueyao Wei, Rui Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Proactive Physical AI through Continuous Observation and Timely Intervention

Physical AI is commonly formulated around an explicitly specified task: given a goal or instruction, a system perceives, reasons, and acts. In many real-world settings, however, important tasks emerge from continuously changing world states before a person explicitly formulates them. We study this complementary problem...

Zhenhua Yang, Jiafeng Liang, Xingyu Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

VLA-GAUGE: Systematically Evaluating Generalization and Robustness in Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have achieved high success rates on familiar manipulation tasks, yet it remains unclear whether such scores reflect genuine zero-shot generalization and perturbation robustness. Existing evaluation frameworks provide limited capability-level diagnosis and combinatorial perturbation...

Jun Xiao, Rui Ye, Dong-Run Cao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Estimating the Causal Impact of Social Navigation Signals in Corridor Scenarios

Deploying robots in human-shared environments requires deciding not only how to navigate, but also when dedicated social signals are worth emitting. Classic observation-based inference can be misleading in such settings: confounding factors may bias the estimated relationship between a signal and the task outcome, lead...

Francesco Baldo, Luca Castri, Gloria Beraldo 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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