Assistive agents in shared-control settings face a dual challenge: acting proactively to align with the human's intentions while remaining legible enough for the human to comprehend and fluently respond in real time. We present Dream2Assist, a model-based reinforcement learning framework for tightly-coupled shared deci...
Jonathan A. DeCastro, T. Balch, Emily Sumner et al.· 0 citations
Multimodal models have demonstrated strong capabilities in web, desktop, and mobile GUI environments, but their performance in automotive cockpit systems remains largely unexplored. In-vehicle GUIs introduce unique challenges beyond traditional GUI interaction, including vehicle-state reasoning, implicit intent underst...
Junfeng Yan, Biao Wu, Meng Fang et al.· 0 citations
This work turns demonstration-free scene adaptation for language-guided navigation from an aspiration into a working reality, and replaces human demonstration with a single brief iPhone scan.
Zhuo-Yuan Yu, Yu-Xing Long, Du Wang et al.· 0 citations
Realistic and diverse traffic simulation is essential to autonomous driving development. Yet prevailing benchmarks predominantly reward realism, and recent methods have optimized accordingly, leaving diversity underexplored. We introduce Flow-ERD, a multi-agent simulator that pursues realism and diversity jointly. Its...
Seulbin Hwang, Kiyoung Om, Dae Jung Kim et al.· 0 citations
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models perform well on robotic manipulation, yet remain brittle once their own actions carry them into states their training data barely covers. Recovering from such failures usually requires recovery demonstrations, policy retraining, or a separate model at inference time. We introduce Bac...
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies can adapt to local human intervention, while federated learning can combine distributed robot experience without pooling raw records. We examine their prospective intersection: sharing adaptations derived from diverse human corrections across tasks, environments, people, and robot...
Recent robot manipulation policies commonly predict continuous action chunks directly from observations, without explicitly modeling reusable structure in the action space. However, manipulation demonstrations often contain recurring short-horizon motion patterns that are shared across tasks. We introduce \textsc{RoboC...
Xianyue Peng, Devi Amarsaikhan, Iman Soltani· 0 citations
In traditional Gaussian process (GP) regression, the inputs are typically assumed to be known, and uncertainty enters only through the measurements. When scalar fields are mapped using GP regression with measurements obtained from a mobile sensor, the inputs correspond to the estimated pose of the mobile sensor. The go...
Muzaffar Qureshi, Tochukwu E. Ogri, Trivikram Satharasi et al.· 0 citations
Regularised reinforcement learning (RL) has provable robustness guarantees that should ease the transfer of policies from simulation to robots, known as sim-to-real. Yet, weakly regularised algorithms like Proximal Policy Optimisation (PPO) remain the de facto choice in sim-to-real pipelines, while the practical benefi...
Danilo Vucetic, Mohamad H. Danesh, Florence Clerc et al.· 0 citations
We examine how closely pretrained LeWorldModel (LeWM) reproduces the effects of small action changes. Using matched simulator and model responses, we measure action sensitivity with Gram matrices at three perturbation scales. Across nearly a thousand states from Reacher and OGBench Cube, the most sensitive action direc...
Steering robot foundation models (RFMs) toward new task variants or user-preferred behaviors remains challenging, often requiring additional robot demonstrations, task-specific fine-tuning, or long-context conditioning. We present WAM-TTT, a test-time training framework for steering world action models from raw human v...
Yusen Feng, Bingchen Han, Jiangran Lyu et al.· 0 citations
Safe human--robot collaboration requires more than visual description: a monitor must determine whether the robot body is safely separated, already colliding with the scene or a person, or about to collide. We call this capability collision grounding: binding visual observations to robot body geometry, camera viewpoint...
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.