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Sparse2Act is a pretraining framework that uses task-space end-effector actions as geometric supervision to align sparse point-cloud encoders with observations. It achieves 86.9% success on LIBERO-10, 73.4% cross-domain on Meta-World-5, and 72.5% on real-world tasks.

EquiDexFlow is an SE(3)-equivariant flow-matching model that jointly predicts wrist pose, joint angles, fingertip contacts, surface normals, and contact forces from an object point cloud. By projecting contacts onto the object surface and forces into the Coulomb friction cone by construction, it ensures placement and friction compliance without loss penalties. Experiments show wrist residuals below 0.04° over 200 rotations, zero joint deviation, zero friction violations, and the best composite score among ablations. On a physical robot, retargeted grasps successfully complete open-loop pick-and-hold trials on all six test objects.

EWAM is a closed-loop online adaptation architecture built on a frozen Cosmos3 backbone. It uses four lightweight neural layers for inference-time co-reasoning, enabling zero-shot task adaptation without fine-tuning or extra demonstration data, significantly reducing the amount of deployment data needed for new task layouts.

A new arXiv paper introduces DARRMS, an algorithm that reduces computational resource demands by allowing agents to limit their attention radius dynamically, improving coordination and scalability in uncertain environments while maintaining decision-making robustness.

EgoEngine is a scalable framework that transforms egocentric human manipulation videos into high-fidelity robot observation videos and executable action trajectories, bridging the visual and action gaps between human and robot. It enables zero-shot dexterous policy learning without real-robot demonstrations.

FlowPilot is a mapless navigation policy for long-horizon sidewalk navigation using only a monocular RGB camera. It employs anchored flow matching for pre-training on large-scale robot fleet data and a human-in-the-loop preference learning scheme to improve social compliance and counterfactual reasoning. In simulation, it achieves 42% success rate and 66% route completion; real-world experiments show a 40.0% reduction in intervention rate and 52.1% reduction in non-intervention rate over the base model.

This paper presents G-MAPP, a GPU-accelerated framework for reactive motion generation that achieves up to 5x speedup by parallelizing world modeling and planning on GPU, enabling real-time perception-action coupling in dynamic environments.

Foresight is a test-time framework that uses a finetuned Vision-Language Model to iteratively propose and critique motion plans for mapless navigation from sparse language instructions. It learns a reward model from human feedback and post-trains the VLM with reinforcement learning, achieving 37% higher task success and 52% fewer interventions in real-world environments.

A new pretraining framework called AEM learns compact temporal representations from vision-action history for robot manipulation, outperforming baselines in simulation and real-world tasks.

This work shows that end-to-end imitation learning with vision-language-action (VLA) models can support collaborative manipulation. It identifies demonstration action leakage as a failure mode causing premature assistive behavior, and proposes an inference-time steering method. A 16-participant user study on a long-horizon assembly task demonstrates that steering enables longer execution horizons, faster collaboration, and fewer failures.

VLADriveBench is a new framework to evaluate whether chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning in vision-language-action (VLA) models is relevant, consistent, and causally connected to driving trajectories. It combines observational metrics (mentioning, hallucination, contradiction, action alignment) with a CoT intervention protocol. Applied to three models across two architectures, it reveals that observational and causal analyses can diverge sharply: ORION scores high on observational alignment but its CoT is epiphenomenal, while Alpamayo v1.5 scores lower yet its CoT is strongly causal, with visual salience gating the extent of CoT influence.

SalArt-VQA is a diagnostic benchmark for evaluating fine-grained understanding of artifacts in AI-generated images by vision-language models (VLMs). It includes 950 images and 3,681 multiple-choice questions covering presence detection, semantic localization, spatial grounding, and evidence-grounded defect identification. Testing 20 VLMs revealed that even the best model, with 99.37% detection recall, answered all four artifact questions correctly on only 53.26% of images, highlighting a sensitivity-calibration tradeoff.

This paper proposes Efficient Continual Alignment (ECA) for incremental learning in open-ended image-to-text generation. By introducing continual alignment and three core mechanisms (Mixture of Query, Fisher Dynamic Expansion, Dictionary Replay), ECA mitigates catastrophic forgetting without accessing old data, achieving superior performance on new benchmarks.

Proposes a novel framework called Context-Centric Feature Fusion (CCFF) to handle co-occurring object detection in autonomous driving, using Local Context Fusion Module (LCFM) and Global Context Attention Module (GCAM). Achieves Category-level Consistency Strategy (CCS) of 0.973 and 0.969 on Cityscapes and BDD100K, respectively, with a 14.1% improvement in small object detection AP_S and successful recovery of rare classes like 'Train'. The framework processes images in real-time with only 0.2 FPS overhead.

Existing slot-based video object-centric learning methods suffer from slot swapping due to encoding appearance and identity in a single slot vector. Dual-State Slot Attention (DSSA) separates these aspects into a local state (appearance) and an identity state, updated via a recurrent transition and competition-modulated aggregation. DSSA improves segmentation quality and temporal consistency on MOVi-C, MOVi-D, and YouTube-VIS.

Medical LVLMs are prone to factual inconsistencies and poor visual grounding. Existing alignment methods have three key limitations in the medical domain: sequence-level rewards treat clinically critical tokens equally, reliance on static SFT references causes off-policy shift, and alignment lacks visual grounding constraints. The proposed method uses a bidirectional token-wise KL regularizer and a visual-contrastive grounding objective, forming a fine-grained on-policy alignment framework that constructs preference pairs by minimally editing model outputs. Experiments validate its effectiveness.

Few-step diffusion distillation has become increasingly mature for 4-8-step generation, yet pushing further to 2 steps remains challenging. This paper introduces Z-Image Turbo++, a high-quality 2-step image generation model distilled from the 8-step Z-Image Turbo teacher using three key design choices: Distribution-Aligned Adversarial Learning, Step-Decoupled Parameterization, and End-to-End Training with Iterative Regularization. These designs substantially narrow the quality gap between 2-step and 8-step generation.

A 3D-aware framework for hairstyle transfer between images that handles large pose and scale differences using a Bald Converter and a 3D-Aware Transfer Pipeline.