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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Constrained Flow Policy Updates: A Generalized Schr\"odinger Bridge View

This work builds on the density-free kinetic-energy regularizer of FLAC, a recent reward-only method, and proposes Reparameterized Augmented-Lagrangian Flow Actor with Least Energy (RAFALE), an off-policy actor-critic method for safe RL.

Bo-Yan Li, Matthew Kim, Sylvia L. Herbert · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

SAMBAR: Selective Anchoring via Method of Multipliers for Balanced Knowledge Acquisition and Retention in Vision-Language-Action Models

SMBAR is a continual learning algorithm that prevents catastrophic forgetting during VLA finetuning without requiring access to the demonstrations of any previously learned task, and is cast as a constrained optimization problem and solved with the method of multipliers.

Aayushi Shrivastava, Xunlan Zhou, Hong-Ru Zhao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Grounding Vision-Language Models in Driving Semantics: A Multi-Dataset Predicate Framework for Explainable Reasoning

A deterministic multi-dataset predicate framework that derives driving-scene semantics from measurable geometric, kinematic, temporal, map, and traffic-control evidence is introduced and deterministic predicates provide a consistent and traceable semantic representation and, under oracle grounding, can reduce visual de...

Mohamed Chouai, Fazli Faruk Okumus, Stefan Kugele · 0 citations

OneCanvas: 3D Scene Understanding via Panoramic Reprojection

This work aggregates patch features from all views onto a single equirectangular panoramic canvas, and introduces a spatial pretraining curriculum by procedurally placing patch features of objects at chosen 3D world positions on an otherwise empty canvas, generating on-the-fly supervision spanning a broad range of spat...

Bartłomiej Baranowski, Dave Zhenyu Chen, Matthias Nießner · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Guava: Distilling Frontier VLM Agents into a Compact Model with a Manipulation Harness

Language models trained on large-scale vision-language data have demonstrated strong potential for embodied agents. Harnessing models through embodied tools use offers a promising alternative to end-to-end vision-language-action systems by combining high-level reasoning with external modules for perception, planning, a...

Haowen Liu, Xirui Li, Shaoxiong Yao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Jun 2026

Vault: One-Step Latent Generation with Positive-Anchored Rewards for Autonomous Driving

Vault is a framework that couples one-step latent generation with sample-based reinforcement learning guidance, and achieves state-of-the-art performance at real-time inference cost, reaching state-of-the-art performance at real-time inference cost.

Yi-Ning Xing, Ze-Hong Ke, Zhi-Yuan Liu et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Dual Advantage Fields

Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning requires both long-horizon reachability estimates and local action comparisons. Dual goal representations provide value fields that capture global goal reachability, but they do not directly specify which action should be preferred at a given state. We propose Dual Advant...

Alexey Zemtsov, Maxim Bobrin, Alexander Nikulin et al. · 0 citations

Can Predicted Dynamics Exist in the Physical World?

This work formalizes this prediction-control interface, separate the scalar trigger from its channel-wise diagnostic log, and establishes that an all-pairs displacement term is redundant within a maximum that already contains the corresponding one-step term.

Barak Or · 0 citations

When to Trust Imagination: Adaptive Action Execution for World Action Models

Future Forward Dynamics Causal Attention (FFDC), a lightweight verifier that reasons over predicted actions, predicted visual dynamics, real observations, and instruction-conditioned semantics, is proposed that allows continued execution when a plan remains reliable and triggers replanning when its validity deteriorate...

Rui Wang, Yue Zhang, Jie-Hong Lin et al. · 22 citations · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

RoboAlign-R1: Distilled Multimodal Reward Alignment for Robot Video World Models

Existing robot video world models are typically trained with low-level objectives such as reconstruction and perceptual similarity, which are poorly aligned with the capabilities that matter most for robot decision making, including instruction following, manipulation success, and physical plausibility. They also suffe...

Hao Wu, Yuqi Li, Yuan Gao 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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