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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Training-Free Diffusion Planning with Analytical Local Scores

Path finding and multi-robot motion planning require trajectories that are smooth, goal-directed, and collision-free in environments with complex geometric constraints. Recent diffusion-based planners have shown that trajectory generation can be cast as iterative denoising which has opened the doors to learning-based a...

Michael Y. Fatemi, Jin-Hao Liang, Ferdinando Fioretto · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

End-to-End Learning vs. Modular Architectures: Comparative Insights into Autonomous Driving Systems

Autonomous driving systems have become a central focus of intelligent transportation research, with End-to-End Learning and Modular Architectures offering two prominent design paradigms for their implementation. E2E Learning uses deep learning algorithms to map raw sensory inputs directly to driving actuators, providin...

Kartik B. Kapse · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Continual Learning for 6-DoF Grasp Synthesis via Experience and Demonstrations

Most current grasp synthesis systems are trained offline and remain fixed during deployment. While this works well when deployment conditions resemble the training data, performance can degrade when robots encounter conditions they have not seen before, such as unfamiliar objects. In this work, we present a continual-l...

Giulio Schiavi, Andrei Cramariuc, Michael Pantic et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

MASkillBlender: Decentralized Whole-Body Coordination for Multi-Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via Skill Blending

Coordinated multi-humanoid loco-manipulation is promising yet challenging due to high-dimensional whole-body control, decentralized decision making, and scalability. While recent reinforcement learning methods have improved single-humanoid whole-body control, extending them to the multi-humanoid setting remains nontriv...

Yi-Fan Hu, Lu-Hang Hong, Ming-Kang Long et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Review Open access Oct 2026

A Survey on End-to-End Autonomous Driving Training From the Perspectives of Data, Strategy, and Platform

A Data-Strategy-Platform taxonomy is introduced that conceptualizes training as an interdependent system and surveys recent advances across data-centric pipelines, learning paradigms, and training infrastructures, and analyze their interplay in shaping model performance, robustness, and deployability.

Cheng-Kai Xu, Yi-Ming Cui, Jia-Qi Liu et al. · 5 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

CF-JEPA: Improving Robustness of JEPA World Models via Controllability Factorization

Controlling an agent with vision requires being able to separate useful information from irrelevant background information. JEPA-style latent world models seem like a natural approach for this, as they do not perform pixel-level reconstruction; however, they are still sensitive to these distractor signals and experienc...

Morgan Byrd, Robert Wright, Sehoon Ha · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Same Scene, Different Task: Skill Alignment for Compositional Generalization in VLAs

Vision-language-action (VLA) models often struggle to generalize to skill combinations absent from their fine-tuning demonstrations, even when every constituent skill has been demonstrated. We focus on a vision shortcut as one failure mode: during fine-tuning, visual observations can serve as a proxy for the instructio...

Taegeun Yang, Youngju Na, Yoonki Cho et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

ScaffoldM3C: A Multimodal Sequential Monte Carlo Framework for Generative Stable Construction Planning

Autonomously constructing physically realizable 3D structures remains a significant challenge due to combinatorial action spaces, interchangeable components, equifinal assembly sequences, and strict stability requirements during construction. State-of-the-art methods fine-tune large language models for text-based gener...

Gadiel Sznaier Camps, Cheng-Yang He, G. Sartoretti et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Supervise What Decides Success: Criterion-Aligned Auxiliary Losses for Latent World-Model Planning

Latent world models plan by scoring candidate action sequences with distances in latent space. However, task success is judged by physical quantities, which we call the success-criterion quantities. In all four latent world models we examine, the end-effector position is encoded in the latent state with an error larger...

Takumi Hara, Kanata Suzuki · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

In CEM, a World Model Is Also a Proposal Mechanism

The cross-entropy method (CEM) uses world-model scores to select action sequences and fit the distribution sampled in its next iteration. A scoring error can therefore change both the present decision and the candidates considered later. We evaluate these two roles separately. Four types of predictive model generate CE...

Oliver Obst, Frieder Stolzenburg · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Reward as Observation: Learning Reward-Based Policies for Rapid Adaptation

This paper explores a reward-based policy to achieve zero-shot transfer between source and target environments with completely different observation spaces. While humans can demonstrate impressive adaptation capabilities, deep neural network policies often struggle to adapt to a new environment and require a considerab...

Morgan Byrd, Jacob Blevins, Maks Sorokin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FuncBridge: Towards Functional Tool-Use Generalization via Keypoint Trajectory Reasoning

While humans readily repurpose a book, a stone, or a shoe to drive a nail, robots trained on specific tools fail to transfer the same function to novel ones -- a gap we formalize as functional generalization. Functionally equivalent tools share visually recognizable functional intent, such as where contact can occur an...

Chuhao Zhou, Liquan Wang, Shuxin Cao et al. · 0 citations

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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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