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Amid growing efforts to leverage advances in large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) for robotics, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently gained significant attention. By unifying vision, language, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Kento Kawaharazuka , Jihoon Oh , Jun Yamada , Ingmar Posner , Yuke Zhu

Chaotic convective flows arise in many real-world systems, such as microfluidic devices and chemical reactors. Stabilizing these flows is highly desirable but remains challenging, particularly in chaotic regimes where conventional control…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Michiel Straat , Thorben Markmann , Sebastian Peitz , Barbara Hammer

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models rely on fixed computational depth, expending the same amount of compute on simple adjustments and complex multi-step manipulation. While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enables variable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yalcin Tur , Jalal Naghiyev , Haoquan Fang , Wei-Chuan Tsai , Jiafei Duan , Dieter Fox , Ranjay Krishna

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show strong promise for generalist robot control, it remains unclear whether -- and under what conditions -- the standard "scale data" recipe translates to robotics, where training data is…

The emergence of vision-language-action (VLA) models has given rise to foundation models for robot manipulation. Although these models have achieved significant improvements, their generalization in multi-task manipulation remains limited.…

Machine learning offers potential solutions to current issues in industrial systems in areas such as quality control and predictive maintenance, but also faces unique barriers in industrial applications. An ongoing challenge is extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lesley Wheat , Martin v. Mohrenschildt , Saeid Habibi

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models typically treat the deepest representation of a vision-language backbone as universally optimal for action prediction. However, robotic manipulation is composed of many frequent closed-loop…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Boyang Shen , Kaixiang Yang , Hao Wang , Qiuyu Yu , Qiang Xie , Qiang Li , Zhiwei Wang

Reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing interest for adaptive traffic signal control due to its model-free ability to learn control policies directly from interaction with the traffic environment. However, several challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dickens Kwesiga , Angshuman Guin , Khaled Abdelghany , Michael Hunter

Mobility-on-demand (MoD) systems represent a rapidly developing mode of transportation wherein travel requests are dynamically handled by a coordinated fleet of vehicles. Crucially, the efficiency of an MoD system highly depends on how well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-05 Daniele Gammelli , Filipe Rodrigues

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown substantial potential in real-world robotic manipulation. However, fine-tuning these models through supervised learning struggles to achieve robust performance due to limited, inconsistent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yuhui Chen , Shuai Tian , Shugao Liu , Yingting Zhou , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

This paper addresses video anomaly detection problem for videosurveillance. Due to the inherent rarity and heterogeneity of abnormal events, the problem is viewed as a normality modeling strategy, in which our model learns object-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Khalil Bergaoui , Yassine Naji , Aleksandr Setkov , Angélique Loesch , Michèle Gouiffès , Romaric Audigier

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables learning control policies by utilizing only prior experience, without any online interaction. This can allow robots to acquire generalizable skills from large and diverse datasets, without any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Aviral Kumar , Anikait Singh , Stephen Tian , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models represent a paradigm shift in embodied AI, yet existing frameworks often struggle with imprecise spatial perception, suboptimal multimodal fusion, and instability in reinforcement learning. To bridge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Haoxiang Jie , Yaoyuan Yan , Xiangyu Wei , Kailin Wang , Hongjie Yan , Zhiyou Heng , Daocheng Chen

Current language-guided robotic manipulation systems often require low-level action-labeled datasets for imitation learning. While object-centric flow prediction methods mitigate this issue, they remain limited to scenarios involving rigid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yixiang Chen , Peiyan Li , Yan Huang , Jiabing Yang , Kehan Chen , Liang Wang

Anomaly detection is vital in various industrial scenarios, including the identification of unusual patterns in production lines and the detection of manufacturing defects for quality control. Existing techniques tend to be specialized in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xiaohao Xu , Yunkang Cao , Huaxin Zhang , Nong Sang , Xiaonan Huang

Manipulating unseen objects is challenging without a 3D representation, as objects generally have occluded surfaces. This requires physical interaction with objects to build their internal representations. This paper presents an approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Saptarshi Dasgupta , Akshat Gupta , Shreshth Tuli , Rohan Paul

Robot safety has been a prominent research topic in recent years since robots are more involved in daily tasks. It is crucial to devise the required safety mechanisms to enable service robots to be aware of and react to anomalies (i.e.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dogan Altan , Sanem Sariel

In this paper, we investigate algorithms for anomaly detection. Previous anomaly detection methods focus on modeling the distribution of non-anomalous data provided during training. However, this does not necessarily ensure the correct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Ziyi Yang , Iman Soltani Bozchalooi , Eric Darve

Local navigation in cluttered environments often suffers from dense obstacles and frequent local minima. Conventional local planners rely on heuristics and are prone to failure, while deep reinforcement learning(DRL)based approaches provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jiwon Park , Dongkyu Lee , I Made Aswin Nahrendra , Jaeyoung Lim , Hyun Myung

Robotic foundation models achieve strong generalization by leveraging internet-scale vision-language representations, but their massive computational cost creates a fundamental bottleneck: high inference latency. In dynamic environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Noriaki Hirose , Catherine Glossop , Dhruv Shah , Sergey Levine