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A Systematic Study of Data Modalities and Strategies for Co-training Large Behavior Models for Robot Manipulation

Fanqi Lin, Kushal Arora, Jean Mercat, Haruki Nishimura, Paarth Shah, Chen Xu, Mengchao Zhang, Mark Zolotas, Maya Angeles, Owen Pfannenstiehl, Andrew Beaulieu, Jose Barreiros ยท 2026

Large behavior models have shown strong dexterous manipulation capabilities by extending imitation learning to large-scale training on multi-task robot data, yet their generalization remains limited bโ€ฆ

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Coordinate-conditioned Deconvolution for Scalable Spatially Varying High-Throughput Imaging

Qianwan Yang, Zhixiong Chen, Jiaqi Zhang, Ruipeng Guo, Guorong Hu, Lei Tian ยท 2026

Wide-field fluorescence microscopy with compact optics often suffers from spatially varying blur due to field-dependent aberrations, vignetting, and sensor truncation, while finite sensor sampling impโ€ฆ

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Learning Adaptive Cross-Embodiment Visuomotor Policy with Contrastive Prompt Orchestration

Yuhang Zhang, Chao Yan, Jiaxi Yu, Jiaping Xiao, Mir Feroskhan ยท 2026

Learning adaptive visuomotor policies for embodied agents remains a formidable challenge, particularly when facing cross-embodiment variations such as diverse sensor configurations and dynamic propertโ€ฆ

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Offline Discovery of Interpretable Skills from Multi-Task Trajectories

Chongyu Zhu, Mithun Vanniasinghe, Jiayu Chen, Chi-Guhn Lee ยท 2026

Hierarchical Imitation Learning is a powerful paradigm for acquiring complex robot behaviors from demonstrations. A central challenge, however, lies in discovering reusable skills from long-horizon, mโ€ฆ

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Robust Adaptive Learning Control for a Class of Non-affine Nonlinear Systems

Shuai Gao, Dong Shen, Abdelhamid Tayebi ยท 2026

We address the tracking problem for a class of uncertain non-affine nonlinear systems with high relative degrees, performing non-repetitive tasks. We propose a rigorously proven, robust adaptive learnโ€ฆ

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CLAMP: Contrastive Learning for 3D Multi-View Action-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation Pretraining

I-Chun Arthur Liu, Krzysztof Choromanski, Sandy Huang, Connor Schenck ยท 2026

Leveraging pre-trained 2D image representations in behavior cloning policies has achieved great success and has become a standard approach for robotic manipulation. However, such representations fail โ€ฆ

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SanD-Planner: Sample-Efficient Diffusion Planner in B-Spline Space for Robust Local Navigation

Jincheng Wang, Lingfan Bao, Tong Yang, Diego Martinez Plasencia, Jianhao Jiao, Dimitrios Kanoulas ยท 2026

The challenge of generating reliable local plans has long hindered practical applications in highly cluttered and dynamic environments. Key fundamental bottlenecks include acquiring large-scale expertโ€ฆ

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Green-VLA: Staged Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Robots

I. Apanasevich, M. Artemyev, R. Babakyan, P. Fedotova, D. Grankin, E. Kupryashin, A. Misailidi, D. Nerus, A. Nutalapati, G. Sidorov, I. Efremov, M. Gerasyov, D. Pikurov, Y. Senchenko, S. Davidenko, D. Kulikov, M. Sultankin, K. Askarbek, O. Shamanin, D. Statovoy, E. Zalyaev, I. Zorin, A. Letkin, E. Rusakov, A. Silchenko, V. Vorobyov, S. Sobolnikov, A. Postnikov ยท 2026

We introduce Green-VLA, a staged Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework for real-world deployment on the Green humanoid robot while maintaining generalization across diverse embodiments. Green-VLA folโ€ฆ

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mmWave Sensing for Detecting Movement Through Thermoplastic Masks During Radiation Therapy Treatment

Ali Kourani, Naveed A. Abbasi, Syeda Narjis Fatima, Katsuyuki Haneda, Andreas F. Molisch ยท 2026

Precision in radiation therapy relies on immobilization systems that limit patient motion. Thermoplastic masks are commonly used for this purpose, but subtle voluntary and involuntary movements such aโ€ฆ

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UniMorphGrasp: Diffusion Model with Morphology-Awareness for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasp Generation

Zhiyuan Wu, Xiangyu Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Jiankang Deng, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Shan Luo ยท 2026

Cross-embodiment dexterous grasping aims to generate stable and diverse grasps for robotic hands with heterogeneous kinematic structures. Existing methods are often tailored to specific hand designs aโ€ฆ

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Learning When to Jump for Off-road Navigation

Zhipeng Zhao, Taimeng Fu, Shaoshu Su, Qiwei Du, Ehsan Tarkesh Esfahani, Karthik Dantu, Souma Chowdhury, Chen Wang ยท 2026

Low speed does not always guarantee safety in off-road driving. For instance, crossing a ditch may be risky at a low speed due to the risk of getting stuck, yet safe at a higher speed with a controlleโ€ฆ

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Lightweight Super Resolution-enabled Coding Model for the JPEG Pleno Learning-based Point Cloud Coding Standard

Andre F. R. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, Fernando Pereira ยท 2026

While point cloud-based applications are gaining traction due to their ability to provide rich and immersive experiences, they critically need efficient coding solutions due to the large volume of datโ€ฆ

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Calibration-Free Induced Magnetic Field Indoor and Outdoor Positioning via Data-Driven Modeling

Qiushi Guo, Matthias Tschoepe, Mengxi Liu, Sizhen Bian, Paul Lukowicz ยท 2026

Induced magnetic field (IMF)-based localization offers a robust alternative to wave-based positioning technologies due to its resilience to non-line-of-sight conditions, environmental dynamics, and wiโ€ฆ

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SyNeT: Synthetic Negatives for Traversability Learning

Bomena Kim, Hojun Lee, Younsoo Park, Yaoyu Hu, Sebastian Scherer, Inwook Shim ยท 2026

Reliable traversability estimation is crucial for autonomous robots to navigate complex outdoor environments safely. Existing self-supervised learning frameworks primarily rely on positive and unlabelโ€ฆ

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Cognitive-Flexible Control via Latent Model Reorganization with Predictive Safety Guarantees

Thanana Nuchkrua, Sudchai Boonto ยท 2026

Learning-enabled control systems must maintain safety when system dynamics and sensing conditions change abruptly. Although stochastic latent-state models enable uncertainty-aware control, most existiโ€ฆ

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A Gradient Boosted Mixed-Model Machine Learning Framework for Vessel Speed in the U.S. Arctic

Mauli Pant, Linda Fernandez, Indranil Sahoo ยท 2026

Understanding how environmental and operational conditions influence vessel speed is crucial for characterizing navigational conditions in the Arctic. We analyzed Automatic Identification System (AIS)โ€ฆ

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SA-VLA: Spatially-Aware Flow-Matching for Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning

Xu Pan, Zhenglin Wan, Xingrui Yu, Xianwei Zheng, Youkai Ke, Ming Sun, Rui Wang, Ziwei Wang, Ivor Tsang ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models exhibit strong generalization in robotic manipulation, yet reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning often degrades robustness under spatial distribution shifts. For โ€ฆ

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Beyond Static Instruction: A Multi-agent AI Framework for Adaptive Augmented Reality Robot Training

Nicolas Leins, Jana Gonnermann-Muller, Malte Teichmann, Sebastian Pokutta ยท 2026

Augmented Reality (AR) offers powerful visualization capabilities for industrial robot training, yet current interfaces remain predominantly static, failing to account for learners' diverse cognitive โ€ฆ

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Learning to Accelerate Vision-Language-Action Models through Adaptive Visual Token Caching

Yujie Wei, Jiahan Fan, Jiyu Guo, Ruichen Zhen, Rui Shao, Xiu Su, Zeke Xie, Shuo Yang ยท 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities in robotic manipulation tasks, yet their substantial computational overhead remains a critical obstacle to โ€ฆ

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Toward Reliable Sim-to-Real Predictability for MoE-based Robust Quadrupedal Locomotion

Tianyang Wu, Hanwei Guo, Yuhang Wang, Junshu Yang, Xinyang Sui, Jiayi Xie, Xingyu Chen, Zeyang Liu, Xuguang Lan ยท 2026

Reinforcement learning has shown strong promise for quadrupedal agile locomotion, even with proprioception-only sensing. In practice, however, sim-to-real gap and reward overfitting in complex terrainโ€ฆ

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