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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Appearance Shifts: Task-Semantic Action Calibration for VLA Models

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved strong performance in embodied manipulation, but still struggle to distinguish between changes that should preserve behavior and those that require different actions. We identify two complementary failure modes. Under task-preserving changes, where task semantics remain...

Shuai-Jun Liu, Fei-Yang You, Cheng-Ju Wu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Robot World Models Are Not Invariant to How the Actions Are Written

A robot policy is trained with one of two action parameterizations: absolute joint targets, or deltas relative to the current state, and the inheritance is catastrophic: a latent dynamics model trained on one parameterization and handed the identical commanded trajectory written in the other collapses.

Ahmed Karim, Leon Chlon · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Connectivity-Aware Exploration of Robotic Grasp Spaces

This work shows that successful grasp sets exhibit heterogeneous and reproducible connectivity structure across objects, and introduces a connectivity-aware sampling strategy that incrementally explores the currently observed grasp space by prioritizing potential bridges between components, structural frontiers, bounda...

M. A. Kazanskii · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Learning and Control Beyond Linearity: Towards a Non-asymptotic Theory for Bilinear Systems

This tutorial provides a unified view of the emerging area of bilinear learning and control. Using linear systems as a benchmark, it explains what fundamentally changes in the bilinear settings, how recent theory addresses finite-sample learning and control, and how these ideas connect to broader themes in nonlinear co...

Yahya Sattar, Yassir Jedra, Robin Str\"asser et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Computationally efficient safe exploration in reinforcement learning

Reinforcement learning in real-life applications requires safety guarantees during exploration. Typical reinforcement learning algorithms do not provide such guarantees, and many modifications that do rely on Gaussian processes (GPs), which have a large computational cost. We propose a computationally lightweight algor...

Shreeram Murali, Shankar A. Deka, Dominik Baumann · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Correcting Learning-based Perception for Safety

A two-step strategy for correcting ML-based state estimation, where an offline computation is used to characterize the uncertainties resulting from the ML module's state estimation, using preimages of perception contracts at runtime, using a risk heuristic.

Yan Miao, Hussein Darir, Sayan Mitra · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Sep 2026

MarineCraft: Enabling Rapid Prototyping of Underwater Robots via Modular Construction

Underwater robot development is often hindered by the complexities of waterproofing and wiring, which significantly delay the rapid prototyping process. This paper presents MarineCraft, a modular toolkit designed to accelerate the development cycle through structural reconfiguration. The system features self-contained,...

Yuta Sugiura · 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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