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Robot-assisted feeding requires reliable bite acquisition, a challenging task due to the complex interactions between utensils and food with diverse physical properties. These interactions are further complicated by the temporal variability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhanxin Wu , Bo Ai , Tom Silver , Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

Most active learning research has focused on methods which perform well when many labels are available, but can be dramatically worse than random selection when label budgets are small. Other methods have focused on the low-budget regime,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Wonho Bae , Gabriel L. Oliveira , Danica J. Sutherland

Graphical user interface (GUI) agents powered by large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable potential in automating digital tasks, highlighting the need for high-quality trajectory data to support effective agent training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Rui Shao , Ruize Gao , Bin Xie , Yixing Li , Kaiwen Zhou , Shuai Wang , Weili Guan , Gongwei Chen

We present a readiness harness for LLM and RAG applications that turns evaluation into a deployment decision workflow. The system combines automated benchmarks, OpenTelemetry observability, and CI quality gates under a minimal API contract,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Alexandre Cristovão Maiorano

Understanding 3D scene-level affordances from natural language instructions is essential for enabling embodied agents to interact meaningfully in complex environments. However, this task remains challenging due to the need for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lian He , Meng Liu , Qilang Ye , Yu Zhou , Xiang Deng , Gangyi Ding

While many quality metrics exist to evaluate the quality of a grasp by itself, no clear quantification of the quality of a grasp relatively to the task the grasp is used for has been defined yet. In this paper we propose a framework to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Luca Cavalli , Gianpaolo Di Pietro , Matteo Matteucci

Planning with a learned model is arguably a key component of intelligence. There are several challenges in realizing such a component in large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) problems. One such challenge is dealing effectively with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Vivek Veeriah , Zeyu Zheng , Richard Lewis , Satinder Singh

Recent progress in multimodal reasoning has enabled agents that interpret imagery, connect it with language, and execute structured analytical tasks. Extending these capabilities to remote sensing remains challenging, as models must reason…

Human affordance learning investigates contextually relevant novel pose prediction such that the estimated pose represents a valid human action within the scene. While the task is fundamental to machine perception and automated interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Subhankar Ghosh , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

A long-term goal of language agents is to learn and improve through their own experience, ultimately outperforming humans in complex, real-world tasks. However, training agents from experience data with reinforcement learning remains…

When an AI system interacts with multiple users, it frequently needs to make allocation decisions. For instance, a virtual agent decides whom to pay attention to in a group setting, or a factory robot selects a worker to deliver a part.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Yifang Chen , Alex Cuellar , Haipeng Luo , Jignesh Modi , Heramb Nemlekar , Stefanos Nikolaidis

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the simulation of believable interactive agents. However, the substantial cost on maintaining the prolonged agent interactions poses challenge over the deployment of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yangbin Yu , Qin Zhang , Junyou Li , Qiang Fu , Deheng Ye

Recent development in autonomous driving involves high-level computer vision and detailed road scene understanding. Today, most autonomous vehicles are using mediated perception approach for path planning and control, which highly rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Chen Sun , Jean M. Uwabeza Vianney , Dongpu Cao

Agentic AI systems plan, use tools, maintain state, and act across multi-step workflows with external effects, meaning trustworthy deployment can no longer be judged by task completion alone. The current literature remains fragmented across…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Christopher Koch , Joshua Andreas Wellbrock

AI web agents use Internet resources at far greater speed, scale, and complexity -- changing how users and services interact. Deployed maliciously or erroneously, these agents could overload content providers. At the same time, web agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Abhinav Kumar , Jaechul Roh , Ali Naseh , Amir Houmansadr , Eugene Bagdasarian

The central challenge in robotic manipulation of deformable objects lies in aligning high-level semantic instructions with physical interaction points under complex appearance and texture variations. Due to near-infinite degrees of freedom,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Wanjun Jia , Kang Li , Fan Yang , Mengfei Duan , Wenrui Chen , Yiming Jiang , Hui Zhang , Kailun Yang , Zhiyong Li , Yaonan Wang

The next generation of autonomous agents must not only learn efficiently but also act reliably and adapt their behavior in open worlds. Standard approaches typically assume fixed tasks and environments with little or no novelty, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Florent Delgrange

This paper studies line planning for urban bus networks that face multiple resource limits such as budget, labor, and emission caps while using heterogeneous fleets. The objective is to maximize total reward from serving passengers by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Hongyi Jiang , Igor Averbakh , Samitha Samaranayake

LLM agents increasingly run inside execution harnesses that dispatch tools, allocate resources, and route messages between specialized components. However, a harness can return a correct, benign answer over a trajectory that accesses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chengzhi Liu , Yichen Guo , Yepeng Liu , Yuzhe Yang , Qianqi Yan , Xuandong Zhao , Wenyue Hua , Sheng Liu , Sharon Li , Yuheng Bu , Xin Eric Wang

Federated learning promises significant sample-efficiency gains by pooling data across multiple agents, yet incentive misalignment is an obstacle: each update is costly to the contributor but boosts every participant. We introduce a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ariel D. Procaccia , Han Shao , Itai Shapira