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Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a powerful language for specifying temporally structured robotic tasks. Planning executable trajectories under STL constraints remains difficult when system dynamics and environment structure are not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Xiao Yu , Xiang Yin

Advances in robotic skill acquisition have made it possible to build general-purpose libraries of learned skills for downstream manipulation tasks. However, naively executing these skills one after the other is unlikely to succeed without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Christopher Agia , Toki Migimatsu , Jiajun Wu , Jeannette Bohg

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) play a pivotal role in advancing the quest for general artificial intelligence. However, achieving unified target for multimodal understanding and generation remains challenging due to optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jie Qin , Jiancheng Huang , Limeng Qiao , Lin Ma

In this paper, we present Stratified Topological Autonomy for Long-Range Coordination (STALC), a hierarchical planning approach for multi-robot coordination in real-world environments with significant inter-robot spatial and temporal…

In real-world settings, robots are expected to assist humans across diverse tasks and still continuously adapt to dynamic changes over time. For example, in domestic environments, robots can proactively help users by fetching needed objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ermanno Bartoli , Fethiye Irmak Dogan , Iolanda Leite

Traffic prediction is a cornerstone of modern intelligent transportation systems and a critical task in spatio-temporal forecasting. Although advanced Spatio-temporal Graph Neural Networks (STGNNs) and pre-trained models have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Weilin Ruan , Xilin Dang , Ziyu Zhou , Sisuo Lyu , Yuxuan Liang

Modeling ultra-long user behavior sequences is pivotal for capturing evolving and lifelong interests in modern recommendation systems. However, deploying such models in real-time industrial environments faces a strict "Latency Wall",…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Tianhe Lin , Ziwei Xiong , Baoyuan Ou , Yingjie Qin , Lai Xu , Xiaocheng Zhong , Yao Hu , Zhiyong Wang , Tao Zhou , Yubin Xu , Di Wu

Aerial outdoor semantic navigation requires robots to explore large, unstructured environments to locate target objects. Recent advances in semantic navigation have demonstrated open-set object-goal navigation in indoor settings, but these…

We study multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in a stochastic network of agents. The objective is to find localized policies that maximize the (discounted) global reward. In general, scalability is a challenge in this setting because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yiheng Lin , Guannan Qu , Longbo Huang , Adam Wierman

Enabling reliable long-horizon robotic manipulation is a crucial step toward open-world embodied intelligence. However, VLM-based planners treat each step as an isolated observation-to-action mapping, forcing them to reinfer scene geometry…

Many autonomous robotic applications require object-level understanding when deployed. Actively reconstructing objects of interest, i.e. objects with specific semantic meanings, is therefore relevant for a robot to perform downstream tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Liren Jin , Haofei Kuang , Yue Pan , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

We introduce compute-grounded reasoning (CGR), a design paradigm for spatial-aware research agents in which every answerable sub-problem is resolved by deterministic computation before a language model is asked to generate. Spatial Atlas…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Arun Sharma

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a pivotal component of large language model (LLM) post-training, and agentic RL extends this paradigm to operate as agents through multi-turn interaction and tool use. Scaling such systems exposes two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zheyue Tan , Mustapha Abdullahi , Tuo Shi , Huining Yuan , Zelai Xu , Chao Yu , Boxun Li , Bo Zhao

Sequential decision-making in high-dimensional continuous action spaces, particularly in stochastic environments, faces significant computational challenges. We explore this challenge in the traditional offline RL setting, where an agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Baiting Luo , Ava Pettet , Aron Laszka , Abhishek Dubey , Ayan Mukhopadhyay

Owing to recent advancements, Large Language Models (LLMs) can now be deployed as agents for increasingly complex decision-making applications in areas including robotics, gaming, and API integration. However, reflecting past experiences in…

As robots are expected to perform increasingly diverse tasks, they must understand not only low-level actions but also the higher-level structure that determines how a task should unfold. Existing vision-language-action (VLA) models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jingyi Hou , Leyu Zhou , Chenchen Jing , Jinghan Yang , Xinbo Yu , Wei He

Large language models (LLMs) rely on self-attention for contextual understanding, demanding high-throughput inference and large-scale token parallelism (LTPP). Existing dynamic sparsity accelerators falter under LTPP scenarios due to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Huizheng Wang , Taiquan Wei , Hongbin Wang , Zichuan Wang , Xinru Tang , Zhiheng Yue , Shaojun Wei , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin

Structured spatial navigation is a core benchmark for Large Language Models (LLMs) spatial reasoning. Existing paradigms like Visualization-of-Thought (VoT) are prone to cascading errors in complex topologies. To solve this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Pukun Zhao , Longxiang Wang , Chen Chen , Peicheng Wang , Fanqing Zhou , Runze Li , Haojian Huang

Navigating and understanding complex environments over extended periods of time is a significant challenge for robots. People interacting with the robot may want to ask questions like where something happened, when it occurred, or how long…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Abrar Anwar , John Welsh , Joydeep Biswas , Soha Pouya , Yan Chang

As comprehensive large model evaluation becomes prohibitively expensive, predicting model performance from limited observations has become essential. However, existing statistical methods struggle with pattern shifts, data sparsity, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xiaoxiao Wang , Chunxiao Li , Junying Wang , Yijin Guo , Zijian Chen , Chunyi Li , Xiaohong Liu , Zicheng Zhang , Guangtao Zhai